Wedding!

I'm ending my single hood on 31st December, 2008 :)

I have a mission!

YY sent me an email to ask for a favour. She found this short article in The Straits Time 1958 and she would love to find this girl who should now be 58.

There's no other information we have so far. We only know her name - Golungan, and she is/was a dancer.



My best bet is she is either in Ubud ot Kuta.

I hope YY can get more information about which village she's from, or else it will be difficult. I would love to find her.

Happy Rain

The rain has come for the rice field...

Yet another happy customer left a comment in my box:

Les excursions étaient parfaites et bien choisies ! Pas de soucis pour le téléphone !!!
Le bonjour d'axel.

As: The trips were perfect and well-chosen! No worries for the phone! The hello from Axel

And another one in the chatbox!

Coucou mon amie de Bali. Merci beaucoup pour ce temps inoubliable a Bali avec Toi. J' espere, que on se vera un jour en France.

As: Cuckoo my friend in Bali. Thank you very much for this unforgettable time in Bali with you. I hope that one day we'll meet in France.

I am a very happy driver :)

Life as a Driver on a small island

Most Balinese live in Bali their entire life but hardly been to many parts of Bali.

When I started driving tourists around, I was quite lost. I had no idea how to get to one place and another. So I was always on the phone with my cousin who worked in the hotel, who sometimes driving people around the island to make some extra income.

He knows Bali fairly well so he can direct me to the correct direction without me getting lost… well, even when I was totally lost in the middle of nowhere.

Of course my customers then asked me why I was always on the phone, or maybe they notice that I was lost.

My answers was quite standard, “The road changed.”

Alive and Kicking

It's been awhile since I last updated.

It's peak season and I've been working none stop. It is good though considering that money needs to be saved to complete the house.

Yes. The structure of the house is done. The roof is up! Next thing to do will be the flooring. That would mean later...

Considering the amount of work I'm getting recently, I am proud that Bali is still a paradise...

Baturiti

I've been here many times... and I still like it here. It's just so... peaceful.

Cremation

It's going to be the cremation of some one rich family from the village so they can do the cremation directly even the actual village cremation will be held next year for all of the dead in the village so we can share the cost together.

That's the way of the Balinese people do to reduce the cost of the cremation because it is so expensive. And we can do all things of the tradition and culture.

It's gonna be just one person, so I just come back to the village sometimes, because everybody have to do something else, like… working for a living.

Tomorrow, there will be a very big cremation in Ubud. It’s for the king of Ubud who past away two month ago. It's gonna be the biggest cremation we ever had. It's just great! All the hotel in Ubud are fully booked. Everybody (both local and tourist alike) wants to witness it.

I'll try to take some photo to share with you.