motorcylce diaries....

i havent slept much the last few days ( not from partying or lack of trying i just dont know what is wrong with me i lay awake literally for hours tossing and turning and it sucks!) so im grumpy today and feel like if i write anything i might spill too much or sound way too depressing for someone who lives in bali:) so i will just dsiplay the pics of my first motorcylce related injury....i call this one half moons....i blame the bottle of absolute pear, but in its defense, i didnt even know this happened until the next day:) idiot. just so you know, i didnt fall -- this burn is from leaning my leg up against a burning hot exhaust pipe. yeah looks like i really let that one singe!!!!

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by the way its really sad that my blog only has one follower and its a guy dressed as a big penis......

i took pics...two- and they suck. so MAAF! (sorry in bahasa)

yeah i took one pic of me and mel where she is burrying her head into my hair and its pretty creepsauce so negative on that one and then one of this giant ass snake that we saw at some beach carnival...it was just like lying there and peeople were going right up to it and i was almost wetting myself!! maybe i will put that pic up...dont have the camera today though~

hmm what happened this weekend?? friday night we thought we were like high rollers or something and decided that we should get a table and a bottle at skygarden ( we were with some richer peeps and they paid for it..heehe) so a bottle of absolute pear was purchased for 75 us dollars- there was not a sober face left at the end of that night...i received approval from jon to include this in my blog HE MET A GIRL! a cute indo girl - GO TEAM!:) that is all i will say about that..oh and that there is nothing romantic about taking a girl home and then asking her to wait while you drag your mattress down into the room fondly known as the bat cave.....yeah.

that night was madness but so much fun:) we hurt pretty bad saturday but manage to go out for a bit- meg we finally checked out Hu Bar- it is pretty swank-box but definately an older crowd...not like the kuta muck. i like the kuta muck:)

all in all a fun weekend now monday back to work- rie rie you are not behind i think mayvbe i didnt write about the job i got- mels company hired me to put together their newsletter for them and paid me for that. i will be putting together their monthly newsletter ( seeing as they seem to like this one a lot:) YAY! possibly may turn into other things that they neeed and it will be on a freelance kinda basis. mels GM just told me that he has another job for me that is not related to this company but is a friends company so that is cool! somewhere along those lines i started making money as a writeR?!? who woulda thought? i gotta thank my melly mel for being so aweseome and recomendding me:)for a 'writer' i sure cannot spell or type real good.....;)

some updates.....and i swear i will take some pictures this weekend so its not just text:)`

1. our final turtle has disappeared.....we have spotted this mangy cat hanging around , new to the neighborhood according to mel! so we think maybe this kitty is the culprit! it could also be the same one that is in heat, like every night around 8 o clock. i dont know if you have ever heard the sound a cat makes when it is in heat but it is a cross between a baby being killed and a whining dog....or maybe not....buts its horrible!!!

2. im back on coffee...i dont know if it is official exactly just yet- but the other day i totally cracked and after not having a single coffee beverage of any kind in almost two years, i had the most tasty frozen coffee drink EVER at this place by our house. i blamed melissa. i thought it would be a one time thing- an indiscretion that would stay between me, mel and the tasty deliciousness coffee. however, today i am at the sushi place using their wireless to do some 'work' yes, i have actual work to do now:) and i ordered ice coffee...oh crap.........looks like this may not be a one time affair!!!

3. jons friends from canada are really nice and we went to the beach with them today- it was fun watching other people get totally caned by waves and not have it be myself or meg for once:)

3. last night we came back to our house and there was no power- actually there was no power on like the whole block!!! absolute pitch darkness....well you guys know how i feel about that so naturally i say outside the house on my bike, with the lights on waiting for mel to get home a few minute sbehind me and she was like yeahhhhh no power. so we went looking for a wirelss place with lights ( i almost took melissa and my lives on the bike...mel forgot her helmet so she rode with me which made me sooo nervous and we were giggly and delirious and there were no lights and well- on the way home i told her i couldnt drive with her on the bike and she got on anyways, we got down the ramp from the cafe and i was laughing maniaclly and she was about the throw up from laughter. so she got off and walked up until she found job ( who was able to drive her home on his bike while eating an ice cream cone...) yeah im just not that skilled!!! as we were in circle k looking for candles and mosquito coils the lights came back on! yay! good thing cus i was NOT looking forward to makeshift house with no power!! when jon found us at the cafe he didnt have his backpack that he had had at dinner. i was like oh where is his bag? and mel says he probbaly left it at home... and i said ( as she describes) incredulously.... IN THE DARK?? and she looked at me and said kaelen not everyone is scared of the dark... seriously i think i forget that not everyone wants to panic and collapse in the pitch black....it wouldnt have been pretty!!

4. tomorrow is friday again ( really???) mel has some friends from thailand in town so that should be fun. today on the beach jon and i tried to revise our typical going out route so that it would be more conducive to cheap drinking and less conducive to what jon coined as "dance floor rape" ( yes, lydia, it is very similar to 'ocean rape' which i also told jon about. its creepy cus i kinda think he likes it!!if you have ever been in any sort of club or bar where it seems that being on the dancefloor = a free for all of grabby hands and men "leading with their pelvis" as jon calls it!! next time we go to paddys i suggested he try leading with pelvis and seeing where it takes him....haha!

Blogging about last night would be pretty much a repeat....

Kuta happened again last night... Jon had a friend in town with two of her friends so we decided to o out with them down thre ( and jon and i decided at like 10 am that loads of arak was the only way to deal with our problems!)

the night went pretty much like it did the other one... skygarden ( only this time they had a deal on margies AND we discovered that they sell big bintangs for 35 thou...that is the best deal!) then we went to espressso bar...that place is sick nasty full of like 18 year old surferes who havent showered in weeks trying to mosh and sing karaoke!

and then of course paddy's happened and jungle juice happened. while dancing amidst the shirtless plethora of drunk australians i made friends with to kiwis and a french girl ( who must have tried to kiss me like five times-- yes-- tried to kiss me!!) haha but they were fun and when jon boned out i stayed out with them and went to bounty ( that part is a little hazy really- was i in a cage??) jk jk then ack to skygarden for more dancy dancy...i slept alllll day today:) hence nothing more interesting to update:)

french target in bali = carrefour

Today Jon was helping do what guru pitka says is the best way to get what you want (or something??) DISTRACTION! So we went on a mission to Carrefour- the target of Bali!
So Carrefour is in this giant westernized mall, that makes you feel like you are right back in Singapore, even down to the little stores with the competing hard core techno blasting out- with ten employees standing around the empty store looking bored out of their minds! Several other things to note about Carrefour:

1. the whole thing smells like an unchanged litter box. No seriously- its massive, like a warehouse full of anything you could ever want but as you browse through racks of cassette types, the likes of Craig David circa the year 2000, you cannot seem to escape the pungent smell of urine/litter box either or really! Jon was so nunplussed about it when I commented on the smell- he was like “yeah like a littler box eh?”haha
2. Several of the eight million employees have benn entrusted the honor of wearing rollerblades. Yes. Rollerblades- so they can more speedily attend to your requests ( speedily has to then account for island time so it pretty much factors into the same omount of time it would take for someone to help you who was NOT wearing rollerblades!)
3. When you check out, if they ring in something you don’t want ( like today when jon vetoed a bag of coffee that costs the equivalent of 2 us dollars) they grab this big wooden stick with flags all over it and wave it furiously until someone in a suit comes to help them VOID. It’s a big process- my advice- just buy it. Its two dollars or a massive display and time consuming affair to not pay the 2 dollars…
4. there is a KFC and an A and W in this mall – these things excite jon very much – we went to the a and w to sample some “ all American food” as is their slogan. All American apparently includes the idil fitri packet- fried chicken wing, ball of rice and a root beer! And to be even further from the American dream, if you don’t want ‘chicken strips’ (‘all white meat’)you can in fact order “chicken chunks” (who knows what meat)

all in all Carrefour is the cheapest place to buy stuff – even though if you want to buy a towel they weigh it and sell it to you per 100grams!!  the best part was they had a bookstore and I got to buy yet another jodi piccoult book! I think I have officially put one of her kids through college ( well at least through some fancy pre-school!!)