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Our Bali escapades, continued...

DAY 2 - SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2005

Breakfast and beach towels...

8.50am: Woke up refreshed and raring to go... Especially with the prospect of the resort's buffet breakfast awaiting us. I have a known weakness for buffet breakfasts, 1 that I only indulge when I'm on holiday. Bacon and scrambled eggs... French toast and waffles... Danishes and hashbrowns... Yum yum yummmmmm...
10.20am: Slicked myself down with tanning oil and stretched out next to the fattest woman I could find by the pool. (I figured I'd look skinnier, especially after that humongous breakfast, if I was lying next to a pseudo-hippo. Heh heh... :P) Spent the next hour doing absolutely nothing except soak up the sun.

Bali shopping and bargaining...

12.30pm: A quick shower later, Jas and I met my favorite Art Director-cum-Shang Hai Tan guru, Andrew, for lunch. Despite having had tons to eat for brekkie, I still managed a small portion of pasta, fruits and mandarin orange sherbet. The perfect meal to have with the hot weather we were experiencing.
2.35pm - 5pm: The much-anticipated shopping trip to Kuta... Jas and I managed, in that short 2.5-hour expedition, to buy our way through Mooks and all our favorite surf shops. We also amazed Andrew with our stony expressions while we haggled and bargained with the merchants and left Kuta with 2 tube tops, 1 jacket, 4 bags, 6 earrings, 1 necklace, 1 sarong and 1 pair of board shorts between us. (All together now... FWAH!)

Brilliant massages and body scrubs...

5.15pm: Dropped Andrew back at the hotel, after having decided on the spur of the moment to check out 1 of Bali's local spas. Our very nice cabbie then circled back and dropped Jas and me off at this place called Adi Spa...
5.30pm - 7.20pm: Groaned and whimpered in pleasure as I indulged in the spa's Javanese Lulur package, which included a traditional full body massage, a full body scrub, a moisturizing yoghurt treatment and a soak in a flower bath. (Ok... The disposable granny underwear and plastic shower caps they made us wear were highly unsexy... And the yoghurt treatment was bloody cold, seeing that we were practically naked in the air conditioned room... But hey, overall, it was all good... Especially since it only cost us S$80 each! *beams*)
7.30pm: Ran like mad back to our hotel room. Dinner had already started and we hadn't changed into our sarongs. Yes, there was an SPG theme... A "Sarong Party Gala". Sheesh. Ad agencies... Whaddya expect? :P I couldn't help but gawk a bit at the flowery wrap that had been provided, together with the "Dicky Sipping Straw" I'd received as a gag gift from the night before. (Yes, yes, photos will follow soon, I promise!)

Ah damn... Time to run off to work. Our MD was nice enough to give the entire agency half a day off today, so we only need to be at the office by 2pm. More details on the remainder of day 2 and all the crazy boozing we did coming up... Scandalous lah I tell you! Heh...