Take BOB MARLEY music, close your eyes and you get
the mood of what I living here. I mean what should
I do. Kuta is a tourist place but...but ..but...but
I don t care. Here is music, here is reggae, here
is culture, here is surfing and here are the waves.
I m lazy, so lazy...I just do nothing all the time.
Yes if somebody could be jalous then the people who
work somewhere in an office in the light of a computerscreen.
N est ce pas Laurent ? (chez DURAN). Oh my only work
is waiking up, check the waves, take a surfboard,
try to get on it when the wave is coming. Sometime
it works sometime not...That mean a lot of padeling.
After this physical work, open the menu in a restaurant
with my friends and eat. Cheap good food. My busseness
suit is a short. Hawaiien short. Thats it! Then the
day is free for doing less than nothing. In 2 weeks
I learned 1 song on the guitar...check my emails and
didn t realy move out of Kuta. Why ? Maybie because
of the people. I meet a bunge of Korean surfers, probably
the only one in Korea. Okay South Korea is about 46
millions people and there are 45 999 950 non-surfer
there. That s mean the 5 surfer I met here are part
of an elite of people who are privilegied to ride
the only waves in Korea.
First guy I met was Justin, actualy
he is not Korean but an English teacher in Korea.
This Florida guy introduce me to the world of surf.
He is a realy great person, allways happy, allways
friendly and the surfer in person. He know everything
about surf, he could be surf-guide in Kuta, he look
a surfboard and can describe every ding and dong on
it. He is THE MAN for SURF.
Then we have TIGERBULL (Wanyi). TigerBull
is Korean. TigerBull lost his energy ( he was redBull)
when I met him. He allways wanted to sleep. He was
allways tired, he slept on his room, he slep in the
restaurant, he slep when he was paddeling in the sea,
he slep on the beach...well he slep everywhere, until
until until oneweek ago, he wake up and found his energy back to become TigerBull What
did happend ? Nobody knows.
Who is Nobody ? I m nobody.
 Okay
Nobody meet then Genius. Genius lives
in Korea. Genius hates Korea. Why? Because there are
no waves. If he is serious ? I don t think so. This
guy is funny. He is funny all the time. And the best
is...he love everyplace where the food is good. Here
in Kuta that means that he loves allmost all the places....
Indra. Indra is the friend of Justin.
Indra is not Korean. Indra is not from USA. Indra
is Canadian. But Indra is teacher and guess where?
Of course in Korea. First time I saw him, he tell
me about his surfing experiance on the reef. He show
me his blessure. On his back a kind of red steak....grrr
look bad, and look like it hursts. Until the time
I saw that, I can (allmost) swear, that I don t want
to try to surf on the Reeeffffff. That looks realy
bad !
Adding to all this Korean we have meet Michael.
Michael is guess what ? Not Korean . But Teacher.
Incredible ! There are just Korean or Teacher here.
Well we met in Dreamland and since that time hang
arround together. A realy nice guy that enjoy the
life as well as I do in Kuta ! He inspire me and Wonyi
to go rent a motorbike and see the inland country.
Thx for that Michael !
Everybody surf. And Nobody surf too. Don t forget
, I m Nobody. And Nobody enjoy the
time with this friends. Hanging on the beach, go surfing
and then speak about surf. Of course eating (very
important here ). Everybody knows a good place and
after a day of surf, going to "GoodLuck" to eat Fajitas Mixtas is a big pleasure. Or think
about this little restaurant in front of the beach: "LACABANA".
Good food, the sea and nice Indonesian girls that
allwasys smile (I think specialy about Koman !). My
favorite restaurant is this "Kunti
II" a sushi Bar and Japanese Restaurant
as good as never....with the best fish I ever eat
(as row fish - cooked is not that good): The Faboulous BALI BURI or White Marlin !!! Its
a white flesh that look like squid (but its a fish)
and when you take that delicious thing in your tong....its
a pleasure ...Waaaowww Very Very GGOOOOOD. But naturaly
you have all the other stuff like Sushi Set, Sahimi
Set, Miso Soup, California Roll, Gyoza and and and...Everything
good. And adding to that its cheap. And most of the
time served by the wonderfull Chayen. Her smile is
a gift for all of us too.
So Food as you can see is a very important part of
our time here. It make the stay twice more better
with a happy meal than without.
What is possible to do is also try the local food.
Sometime little bit oily but good. For example go
to the Night Market, a place where most of local people
goes. It looks like a kind of dirt place on the first
regard, but its very very good food (I should not
mention, Cheap to).
Okay after food two possibility. Go sleeping or enter
in the nightlife.
Even after the Bomb attack in Kuta few meters from
there the nightlife is still on going. So did the
terrorist win ! I don t think so. This people are
just blind because they try to give a message by killing
people. But what happend ? The people who suffer are
the family of the victimes and in a bigger mass the
Balinese inhabitant. And the only thing we think about
the terrorist is that this people are ignorant. If
they analyse the real real sence of their action,
and better think about the consequence they will see
that they are manipulated by some people that profit
from ignorance.
Okay lets have a remember on the victim and pass the
chapter Terrorism.
The nightlife so still continue...everybody is in
good mood. Sometime people are just to drunked and
they should be aware about the ladies that sometime
look more like boys than girls, just because their
are boys...well Ladieboys. On the other side you find
here also old mens hanging arround with young girls...the
cliche of Asia and sex tourism. A side I don t realy
appreciate but if we are honest, that exist everywhere
!
But we don t care. We have fun, we dance as crazy
as we want and of course enjoy the mood in our Korean-Team
(2 Korean, 3 Korean Teacher and Michael and me ).
Sometime we take a taxi to go to Deja Vu the place
with the best DJ. Its small, open floor to the sea
and expensive on drinks. But greatttttttt. Naturaly
the Taxi take advantage of the place and the price
to go back home is sometimes 3 times more expensive
than it was on the other way. So we have to bargain
or walk the way to Kamalah Indah (place where we stay
) trough the beach...
rest of the article will come.....
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