In Reply to: Hopefully Juba Anne posted by Colleen on Friday, 7. January 2005 at 12:10 Bali Time:
from our JBR - March 2004 for those who haven't read it. Thanks for reminding me Colleen!! (yes, it's a story you can dine out on)
JBR - Part 11 24/3/04 - a trip to Milano's
We'd had a phone call from Nyoman (Alex) to say he'd picked up some work in the morning and to expect him around 12.30 to take us to Padang Bai. As it wasn't a long trip we weren't concerned as this gave us time to have some ‘beauty' treatments and we were pleased that Alex had picked up a bit of extra work.
So after breakfast we headed off to the Milano salon (20 metres from Monkey Forest Road, near the football field) where I'd had my nails done, as Sam was keen to get some tips put in his hair (aren't 15 yo boys funny sometimes - it's so surprising!) So they started with my pedicure and Sam waited for the hairdresser to arrive. In Paris sweeps on his platform heels and Sam explains what he'd like. Well, my pedicure didn't take that long, lovely job, and the flower painting is the best in Bali in my opinion.
I left Sam in the hairdressing chair and took his cap back to the Villa Rasa Sayang (as he has a habit of leaving it places) - I had to check on Graeme as I'd left him having a leisurely breakfast and with the job of packing our bags. As we did a reasonable amount of shopping in Ubud this may have proven a bit of a chore. Well, he did a great job, the bags were ready and waiting, so was Alex and all we needed now was Sam so we could head off to Padang Bai.
Well, he comes along Monkey Forest Road and you could see his hair from ½ kilometre away! Instead of some semi subtle orange tips he had a full flaming Mohawk ... it was the colour of those iridescent safety jackets they wear down at BHP! Alex was trying to be very polite but he couldn't get the smile off his face, as Graeme & I were just absolutely flabbergasted and astounded at it all! How could we fix it up by the time he had to go back to school in 2 weeks - the whole top part of the head had been bleached back to white and then the bright colour had been applied - heck!! Sam was, I think, in a bit of shock himself and said he wished I hadn't taken his cap back to the hotel; apparently he got calls of ‘hey, red boy' all the way back down Monkey Forest Road.
Anyway, he got over it quickly and over the next couple of days he would raise his cap suddenly, causing a laugh or two from beach sellers, he certainly knew how to draw a crowd as they'd all come and have a look.