While i was in Taiwan, Jun went on a fishing trip with the French boys for Matt’s birthday. I was like, “Go you! Have fun,” cos it was a camping trip. He excitedly sent me pictures of a camping tent beforehand, “Which tent should i buy? The one-man one, or the two-man one?”
He went for the 2-man one in case we need it for something together in the future.
I asked him on whatsapped, “Who’s gonna carry all our stuff?”, envisioning the porters we had in Kilimanjaro.
“Me! I’m the porter!”
“Hmm.”
This is gonna be a picture travel log bout my trip to Bali two weeks ago. Am writing this in Tainan with only 20-30 minutes to spare so here’s a quick one!
Before moving to Uluwatu for 4 nights, we picked Neo Hotel in Petitenget to stay in for a night so we could settle into island mode before making our way to Uluwatu the next day instead of rushing straight from the airport.
We arrived in the evening and it was storming like cray. Iman said it had been raining for a full day, and it didn’t stop then. It pretty much rained for two whole days which is unheard of cos even during monsoon season the most i’d experienced in Bali would be random showers throughout the day. Not a constant storm! We observed the weather forecast which said it’d be storming the whole week and were like ‘damn’ but me being ever optimistic about holiday weather said “i’m sure it’ll change and we’ll have sunny days halfway through!!!”
Grabbed an uber (it’s a big hoo ha in Bali as it is in KL) to Merah Putih which Rahul suggested for dinner. Dhanya didn’t feel like going out so it was just me and the 3 boys – Danny, Rahul and Murat.
KinkyBlueFairy’s products and accessories are now physically available at Hippie Hub in Damansara Perdana, also known as YogaOneThatIWant Studios.
The Pink Donut Float first caught my eye at a house party organized by a friend, of a friend, of a friend. You would expect a teenage boy at a pool party to have his eyes focused exclusively on the flood of hot bods parading around the compound, and yet, the only thing that could retain my attention was a pink donut float in the pool filled with people I didn’t know.
Long story short, by the end of the night, fueled by my youthful stupidity and energized by all the ‘non-alcoholic’ beverages, I was in the middle of the pool, holding on to the pink donut float, refusing to let go until my ride told me that we had to go home. Needless to say, that led me on a journey to find out the origin of this magical donut float. After a few failures at procuring this piece of information caused by the hangovers of my fellow party guests, a consultation with Dr. G a.k.a. Google, brought me to discover KinkyBlueFairy. [Joyce: Who would have thought it would have brought you to us! *hearts in eyes*]
Products on the KinkyBlueFairy online store (once the home of the pink donut float) like sunglasses, bags, vintage accessories, festival toys and casual attire, are now available at Hippie Hub, Damansara Perdana. (Sorry, no more donut floats, but trust me, all the other KinkyBlueFairy products are equally as pretty. For enquiries on float purchases, please email faridah@kinkybluefairy.com).
Hippie Hub, the home of YogaOneThatIWant, is a yoga studio cum lifestyle store founded by Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress, Atilia Haron. Aside from a variety of unique and specialized yoga classes, Hippie Hub also occasionally offers classes for Pilates, Zumba, and Box Fit as well as a host of other fitness programs.
When i was in Bali last week, we stayed on Petitenget for a night before moving to Uluwatu the next day.
The boys and i were standing outside our hotel waiting for our uber to take us for dinner, when i spotted a tattoo studio directly across us.
“Hey Rahul, let’s get a tattoo!”
“Sure!”
It was half a joke, but the next day i strode into the studio after we checked out, just to get a gauge of what their artists’ work looked like. The owner Kiara happened to be at the counter, and she told me they have nine resident artists and recommended a guest artist who was in town. I thanked her, said i’ll think about it and try to have one scheduled on the day of my flight home.
This song has to be played while you read the poem cos we would play it on repeat in the office last year 🙄
There once was a baby who got named Faridah
Little did she know, she’d be awesome foreva
She grew up but didn’t grow too much taller
Her heart made up for it by being so much bigger!
As she grew older, everyone called her Baby
Despite being tiny, she was quite loud and crazy.
When she ventured out partying at TAG in Sonic
She met a little fairy holding a gin & tonic
(Baby was obviously an adult by then, or else this poem, wouldn’t make sense!)
They hugged and became party friends because both were excited
And only years later did get properly connected
They spoke over coffee, cocktails and food
About dreams and experiences,
The funny, sad and good.
A work trip to Penang for Levi’s took place
And ever since then are in each others’ face.
Cos not too long after, they couldn’t help it
When Baby wanted a new job, and Fairy said “That’s settled!”
She started on 5th January in 2015
Handling operations and managing a team,
Baby learnt more things than Fairy would realize
like her schedule for eating, and underwear size.
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