"WELCOME TO BALI"

Agatha picked a new place she wanted to try, this building wasn’t even here last year . She was late . I was facing the wall, not the entrance, so my back was turned when she arrived . Putting her arms around my shoulders and chest, and her cheek against mine, it was such a lovely greeting . She looks beautiful and is wearing the Vivienne Westwood orb necklace I got for her, but one of the pearls is missing, it looks so silly .

Agatha was catching me up on life . But the fish was undercooked and gooey, I sent it back . The owner came and offered anything to replace it - “yeah no shit” I thought, that is not a gift, it’s an expectation ? Too many new restaurants, not enough quality control . The waiter put the replacement item on the bill, can you believe ? Ghetto Bali shit right here . Agatha gave me a ride home on her little Scoopy, I miss this bike, we fell in love on this little piece of shit . I’ll see her tomorrow for breakfast and to see this new gym she goes to .

I asked her where the man who named me “Mr Boom Boom” works now, and after breakfast she took me to surprise him . He remembered me but not the nickname, I thought Mr Boom Boom was a thing of legend but I guess not :/

Diana met me at the Alonzo's dinner, an Italian place called Gente, all filled w/ his friends I haven’t met before . He did invite Nelle and Junny, and I loved that . Diana was 30 minutes late but it was okay . I go over to meet her at her bike as she requested, I approached smiling, then said hello before landing a BIG ONE on her . Muah ! Take that Xx She was giggling and so was I . I walked her to the table of Alonzo’s friends and introduced her to everyone, then spent most of my time getting to know her since I was mostly talking to her blonde friend the night we met . My mood went up immediately by having her there .

The dinner starts to fade and everyone has their own plan on what to do next . I turn to her, “Want to go to a rave ? My friend is DJ’ing” 

“Sure” she said . She has this soft light hearted go-w/-the-flow attitude that I like

“Well, it’s not for a while should we go back to mine ? I also want to change….” I ask

- “Yeah” :)

After an hour and a half at my house we go to Mejan to the techno party . I see so many people from the last trip, including my old neighbor . We dance and drink and take photos . She eventually tells me that she’s tired .

“Let’s go home”

When we arrive she lets me know that she’s hungry . “Then let’s order - anything is fine” . 30 minutes later we are eating cheeseburgers and fries at 2am before we go to sleep . We are so comfortable w/ each other and it hasn’t even been 12 hours . She’s great . I loved every second of last night . She was so fun to be w/ .

I wake up and she’s still sleeping, I do the exact same thing I did the night before and give her the Alonzo treatment w/ two morning smoothies .

She’s half Ukrainian and Israeli, and such a talented jewelry maker . So sweet, and so fun . We spend time together in the living room and a snail pooped in her hand . She leaves in a week but we will see each other many more times 

I go off to see Nelle at the Deus Ex Machina miniramp where we drink and she watches me skate . I ask her for a ride to see Daniel, my old friend . Then she takes me to his new gym he goes to in Pererenan, it’s not like the other gyms here, it’s crappy and old . No influencers here, no hot girls, no filming, feels romantic . Like a shitty may Thai gym in Bangkok . I love it, and I want to sign up

Alonzo and Regina are ready for dinner at Il Salotto but I tell him I want to see Akira alone first to see where we are at, what the vibe is .

I ask Akira to come to our old Jungle hotel we always used to stay at, Sanyas . "My room is Number 4, don’t even knock" . I’m sitting on my big old wood bed, in the middle of this room, it takes up 80% of the space - under this bad hotel lighting, anxiously waiting .

She comes in, I can’t hide my smile . We small talk for 3 minutes and I ask her to kiss me, she thinks I’m joking, sure, but only halfway .

In a tongue and cheek way I said to her, “I want to see if the magic is still there”

She kisses me . It wasn’t . But that doesn’t change anything, because there is still a rush of just being in this exact place again w/ her next to me .

Akira suggests we go back to the hotel and all swim in the pool . One of the reasons I always like to stay at Sanyas is because you can stumble there on foot from Il Salotto in 1 minute exactly . We swim and swim and I take pictures . Eventually everyone wants to call it a night .

“Stay w/ me” I ask Akira, expecting her to say no .

“Ok, but I want to eat” - no emotion, no joy or flirtation .

“Okay let’s order what do you want ?”

“McDonalds” - of course she does