While You Were In Bali

This blog is actually a sequel of my previous blog ‘A Time To Remember’. After finished our afternoon wines at a place calls Klapa, we were then headed to a restaurant names Kembang Goela. The place is actually not that big but just perfect. This is my first time here but I strongly recommended this restaurant to anyone who is looking for Indonesian food. Yeah, this is an Indonesian Food restaurant that is so perfect and simply delicious. The menu was so simple, it will not confused you in any way. I really hate a restaurant with so many food choices that drive you to confusing state when it comes to pick what to order. And it was probably because we were so starving after what happened in our previous place (check on my previous blog to know what I mean), that made us finished our meal in almost a split second. Everyone like enjoyed the food silently. It was so nice.
If you are planning to go to Bali for holiday and stuffs, I also suggest you guys to try a coffee shop calls Barocco, right at corner of Seminyak road. This coffee shop is own by an Italian so yeah, it’s an Italian coffee shop with a perfect selection of cakes. Well, the cakes are actually a little bit more expensive compares to other normal coffee shop in Bali, but once you taste it, you will not talk about this issue no more. Because honestly they are so delicious makes you forget about how much you should pay for them! Not to mention their cute bartender that makes all of my girlfriends screamed!
If you are a party goers then I should suggest you to check on a club calls Living Room (see the picture above). For some people, they called the place as a snobby place that full of white linen guys. You know, guys who love to wear white linen shirt and white linen see through pants? But, for me and my friends, this place quite nice and civilized since the club itself is not too big and just nice. The most important thing is people there stay with their crowd and not really bother others. Like I said, they are more civilized. But, if you are prefer a more lively place, then you should check on Déjà vu. This place is in the middle of party scene in Seminyak, Bali and the place is more crowded and yeah, more lively, specially on the weekend. And did I mention the DJ here are the best? Well, at least one of them, who is so cool so when he plays on his booth all of the girls went nuts. One of the girl I know said that she doesn’t have to be drunk as a skunk just to be dancing around like one when he played. Crazy? Exactly!

And the party does not end up there, oh no, not yet. Every time you go out at night in Bali, the last stop has to be the old crooner 66 Club. This club so famous, people even said that you haven't been to Bali yet unless you have been there. So yeah, this place is a must! Well, actually I don't really like this place anymore compare to the first time I came to Bali and went in. Recently, there are so many annoying people over there and the atmosphere is not the same anymore. But yeah, what can I say, this place is an old crooner that refused to retired.
So guys, those are some places that you should visit while you were in Bali. See you in the island of God guys!!!
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A Night To Remember

If you are planning to come to Bali, the island of God, then you have to check this place out. It calls Klapa, in English means Coconut. This name is probably has something to do with its location which is at the beach, Dreamland beach that is. First when my friends talked about this place, I was kind of okay. First because of its location is too far away, puts me a little bit off since as a normal girl I am useless when it comes to find a secluded place like this. Yeah, the place is in the middle of nowhere. And it took like almost an hour to get there from my normal hang out place. For me, it means miles away.
But yeah, since this is a new hang out place then of course my friends and I want to check it out. So here we are, luckily we have got a friend who is local guy who understand the place more than us. So yeah, we were there yesterday and it was cool. This place owns by the late Indonesian former dictator’s youngest son so go figure, how beautiful the place is. And it’s not even 100% ready yet. The lounge is already there but the club is still under renovation. The view was fantastic, too bad the weather was not so good yesterday so we could not get the beautiful sunset that we supposed to as everyone told us. But yeah, the place is beautiful and civilized, for sure.
Then we ordered drinks which was a little bit disaster. When we were there, the waiter said that they are having a happy hour so every drink that we order they will give us another drink for free. We were like, cool. So yeah, we were having white wines and just enjoying ourselves. Until half an hour before the happy hour finished, we ordered another drinks then we waited for our drinks with patient. Fifteen minutes passed, still no drinks. Twenty minutes, nope. When we just about canceled our order, then along came the waiter right at the time when they finished their happy hour. What a timing! So yeah, they said we didn’t get any free drinks with this order since the happy hour was finished. We were like, who cares? We were not there for any free things. But their trick was so low. Seriously, we just wanted our drinks and get out of the place since we were planned to have dinner at Kembang Goela restaurant which is another hour drive from that place. So yeah, we don’t care about free drinks but we do care about our belly and we were starving after those wines. But if we allowed to give a little advise, please don’t do that trick on any of your customers, it was so cheap and not cool at all. Specially when someone order wines which only need your bartender to pour it from the bottle to a glass, even an amateur can do it in five minutes. But half an hour? Just to avoid happy hour? It’s pathetic! Come on, not suitable for an exclusive place like yours.
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Las Vegas Vs. Macau (This Ain’t Vegas, Baby!)

When I planned to go to Macau for holiday, I was almost as excited as I was when I planned my holiday to Las Vegas. Both have casino which mean both must have very nice entertainment facilities, right? So yeah, I was thrilled when I was landed on Macau airport at 6 o’clock in the morning feel knackered after almost 7 hours flight but still, can not compare with my excitement.
Checked in to The Venetian Hotel, only a little problem as my room was not ready yet. Make sense though, since it was very early in the morning. And because of they were run out of non-smoking room, the hotel upgrade our booking. Cool, eh? Yeah, while waiting for them to get our room ready, I tried my luck on slot machines and lose couple hundreds bucks , Hong Kong that was. But who cares? We’re on holiday!
The hotel was not much different than Venetian Las Vegas with Grand Canal and stuffs. Then yeah, we were quiet happy with the room, the facilities, and of course the shopping mall. So, we tried our luck on Blackjack table. I was never gambling on Blackjack table before in my life. But I thought, this is my holiday so what the heck, I know that Blackjack has 50% chance for us to beat the dealer. So I think this is the safest games in gambling. And that was true. Even for me, who never trust my luck on gambling before, I won 3,500 bucks on my first table. Everyone on the table even called me their lucky charm, Cool! Seriously guys, I was nearly wet my knickers.
I remember someone told me before that if you play Blackjack, don’t think about how to win because you will end up losing all. But you have to think how to beat the dealer so that all people who play with you on the table win, then you will continue winning. And that was what I did and it works perfectly. I won, everybody on my table won, and we were enjoyed the games. But one thing I noticed here, unlike in Vegas, the dealers were not so chatty. And they were hardly speak English, even if they do, we could not understand a word they said. And to get a drink from a waitress was almost impossible as there were not many of them, compares with Las Vegas where the waitress offer you a drink almost every minute. But as I said, this ain’t Vegas, Baby!
I was always trust myself to never losing control as I am an OCD person who mostly control freak on anything. So yeah, after won 3,500 bucks I stopped and when back to my room to get some rest. It was 3 o’clock in the morning and we planned to go to Macau Tower the next day and I did not want to miss all of that. But the next day, after came back touring around downtown Macau, I could not help myself. My hands were so itchy to tried my luck again as I got my self confidence on this game already. Now I believe that gambling is addicted as much as drugs, cigarettes, and stuffs. So, that’s it, I was off to Blackjack table again and lose 1,500 bucks. Maybe it was not my night or maybe just one of my unlucky night, or whatever. Luckily, I was not so much a gambler at the end, so I stopped at the right time.
The next day I was not gambling at all as I went to Hong Kong for a day trip and back at night to saw Zaia show from Cirque O Soleil at my hotel. I went to O show from the same Cirque O Soleil at Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, and again, I was like ‘this ain’t Vegas, Baby! The show was almost the same but the quality of the show was way different. Maybe because Zaia was a new show that started only couple days before so maybe the performances were not quiet ready yet. During the show, the catchers were failed to catch the girls and dropped them on the net. Very disappointed. And the stage was way too small and too close to the audiences. So no wonder if they did not get a standing applause from the audiences. What did you expect with disappointed performance like that?
My last night in Macau, I was like, okay since this is my last night so I am going to try my luck once again on the Blackjack table. And guess what, I won 2,500 bucks, yippy kaye…! So in total, I won 4,000 bucks and that was enough to cover all of my shopping. What else could a girl want consider this was my first gambling? So after all, my holiday was fantastic! I love this town, even this ain’t Vegas whatsoever, this is Macau, Baby! And did I mention that I was nearly bought a Gucci mobile phone that looks so cool with gold platted and Gucci leather case on back of the phone and Swarovski Chrystal for the blings. It was so hip-hop style and I was so dying to have it. But when I asked Gucci dealer at the mall, they said they did not know anything about that stuff. So it was definitely fake. I was like, only in China..
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Only In Bali

If someone asked me what is the best place to live in Indonesia, even in the world, the answer is Bali. This Island of Gods is known as one of the best holiday destination in the world. So, don’t blame the people if the atmosphere here feels like holiday everyday. You will not see anyone walks in hurry as seems like they are racing with their time. Nope, ain’t gonna happen here, bro!
People in Bali live in their own different world. Every single person is a friend. Everybody says hello to everyone together their big smiley face. You will not feel any threat or that kind of scary feeling that you have if you go on holiday only by yourself. Nope, ain’t gonna happen here, sista!
Only in Bali, you can go to work wearing your favorite sunny dress, or tank-top, or shorts and flip-flop. Only in Bali, you girls can walk on the street at three o’clock in the morning, drunk as a skunk, looking for an early breakfast without feeling any danger. Only in Bali, you can go out at night seven days a week, like everyday is a weekend day. Only in Bali you can ride your motorbike without any helmet on, just put on your religious outfit as when you go for pray, and the police won’t stop you. Only in Bali you can having a cigarette and sending a text message while riding your motorbike. Only in Bali you can see Balinese offerings on the stage at Rock n Roll concerts with Priests doing prayers for a successful gig. Only in Bali you can wear bikini daytime, nighttime, anytime. Only in Bali you can go shopping in a nice fancy boutique and haggle for a lower price without feeling embarrassed. And I can go on and on for another hundreds ‘only in Bali’ if you want me to.
I live in Bali for more than eight years now and I do not have a plan to move out from this island anytime soon. Why should I? I love to live in this arty-f**ty little place. Since most of the people here are artists, they never work in such kind of tension like in other places. They go to work when they feel like they want to and stay at home if they don’t feel like they want to. So, being not on time is not something that you should avoid of in Bali. And that is a benefit for someone who always late, like myself. Gosh, I love my island!
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