bali

it's been a week since i got back from a short trip to bali and everyday i've been trying to write something about it but i just can't seem to get it out.

overall it was quite alright, just not really my kind of thing. going with this group of friends, we remained in the crowded touristy areas the whole time and i never got to see the real bali.

one thing that i really found shit was the nightlife there, or at least the nightlife in the areas we went to. the patrons and the places were all so thrashy and disturbing, most of the time i just wondered what in the blue hell were we doing there.

on my first night there i thought that the whole of bali was just made up of these disgusting tourists but fortunately i was wrong. it seemed that only these type of people were attracted to the nightlife, and the normal ones were elsewhere.

we spent an afternoon surfing and that was quite fun although the cold water from the southern hemisphere winter nearly killed me. it didn't seem to have any effect on the ang mohs though, and i watched in shame as even their little kids frolicked happily in the water.

another point of shame was that i didn't manage to catch a single wave on my own after the lesson with the surfboard vendor/instructor ended. but the next day i watched some 'real' surfers and noticed that some of them didn't catch any waves too before giving up and heading to shore, and it made me feel slightly better about my [lack of] ability.