Attack at the beach

Last Sunday I went to the beach again with my surfing friends. The weather hasn’t been friendly the past week so we went to a tame beach also. Tame in a sense it doesn’t have big crazy waves, just fun for swimming.

Of course my friends brought their dogs, so there were 4 dogs we had to tend to. The beasts were handful, we had to take turn walking them, playing with them and swim with them. Two of them, Paco and River were just enemies, so they had to be far away from each other.

I was walking toward the water with Paco, T was with Bernard, when out of nowhere this enormous German Shepherd walked slowly toward them and bitten Bernard. T was shocked, tried to pull the dog, but this GS dog was so huge and strong she couldn’t get hold of the leash. I stood there trying to hold Paco from attacking the dog, watched as Bernard was swinging left-right like a flag in the GS's jaw.

We had no idea who the owner was but finally she ran screaming at the dog and hitting it to let Bernard go. She kept yelling in some foreign language.

The beach was quite full with tourists and their dogs, so everybody got tensed upon watching what just happened. A guy yelled at the lady to watch her dog, and put a leash on the dog so it doesn’t attack other dogs. She yelled back defending her dog. Well, Bernard wasn’t provoking the GS, so we had no idea what did.

My friend was shocked so she decided to just leave. Good thing there was a nice lady who happened to bring emergency meds, so she put antiseptic cream on it. The wound was not really deep, and didn’t bleed much so we just hope Bernard’s ok.

miss my sis..

Sis just left after 3 day visit. Always nice to have guest visiting, especially guest from far.

So we hang out as much as we can, she has stuff to take care of too, managing that wasn’t very hard, especially there are many places to hang out in Bali.

Good catching up time, sharing what her life’s been, and plans for the future. It’s also a reminder of how I was not to take things for granted, be grateful of what I have at present and enjoy it.

hail to our airline(s)!

So my sis is here, visiting from the US.

Her port of entry was Bali, so I was honored to be her 1st host, before she catches a flight to Jakarta to meet the rest of the family.

Getting ticket was a no brainer task, taking her to the airport isn't either. But as Murphy's law came to realize, the unexpected happen. I lent her a spare celly, but I failed to get her local number, figured it's easier for her to get a Jakarta number since she'll be there longer.

Then on that fateful flight, the weather was unbelievably bad, her flight was rerouted. For a couple of hours we couldn't get confirmation whether it was rerouted to Surabaya, Palembang or even back to Bali. I called all numbers that's available for the airline (LION), even the hotline number, but most of the numbers were unanswered, the ones that answered couldn't give any answer. So much for hotline!

I was worried sick all afternoon, frustrated too. I decided if this calling isn't going to work the only left is just go to the airport and get the news there. Luckily when I was only half way, my dad finally informed sis has just landed and on the way home. Thank God!

Well, I'm relieved, but still p**sed with the fact that the airline, which is in the serving business can't serve the tiniest request. Total crap. Guess the only thing we can do is to make sure your phone works! (If the signal is not troubled by bad weather either).