 | Arty Farty Catch a Monkey
2009-09-16, Ubud, Indonesia. By: aimee | | Ubud is the arts and crafts capital of Bali, a fact made obvious by the countless art and craft shops and endless traditional dance music shows. It’s also a favorite among arty farty and hippy drippy ... |
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 | HARI RAYA KUNINGAN
2009-03-28, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I spent the morning photographing, cropping, editing and cataloging my new rings for the website. Rings are always the most difficult as you have to put them on something to hold them up straight. I d... |
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 | Silent Day
2009-03-26, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | HARI RAYA NYEPI or Nyepi day is the silent day and also their new years day. The airport is shut down, as are all stores, restaurants, government offices… everything really. You are not allowed to dr... |
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 | Before Nyepi
2009-03-25, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | The day before Nyepi day I went to see each of my metal smiths because I was in a rush to get invoices for the export certificate of origins forms. The first metal smith was a real shocker he told us ... |
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 | Decisions
2009-03-24, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I still don’t know if I will mail my jewelry or bring it on the plane. Both have big risks of loss. On the plane I would be forced to put a lot of the jewelry in my checked bags as they only allow 5 k... |
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 | Checking on my jewelry progress
2009-03-20, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Today I visited each silversmith and checked the progress. We also took photos for a newspaper article that is being written on me, and my company, back home in the US; they wanted photos of me workin... |
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 | Wood Peace Signs
2009-03-19, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I drove out to Tampaksiring today to pick up some peace signs I had carved special for me from Sono wood. I was surprised to see so many of the shops still closed and a lot of ceremonies still going o... |
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 | Hari Raya Galungan
2009-03-18, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Today is a special holiday for Balinese of the Hindu religion called Hari Raya Galungan (Holy Day). On Galungan Holy Day, Balinese Hindu people make offerings to Ida Sang Hyang Widhi (Balinese word fo... |
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 | Cement Policeman, driving and fireflies
2009-03-15, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | This morning both my eyes were a little swollen but not bad considering the bee in the eye caper. As I drink my coffee in my hammock I can watch the monkeys playing in the trees and running through my... |
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 | Obama, Symon the artist & afternoon guests
2009-03-14, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Today after a visit to the store I went to Champuan, another village outside of Ubud, where I stopped at Symon’s gallery. He is a low art style of pop artist… Indonesian’s version of Andy Warhol. I ha... |
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 | Lobsters and monkey encounters
2009-03-12, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I spent the morning at the pool at Champlang Sari, the hotel across the street from my bungalows. I pay 10,000 Rupia to use the pool for a day with the current exchange rate this is less than a dollar... |
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 | Days fly by
2009-03-10, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I can’t believe I have already been here 7 days! I haven’t written much because nothing really eventful has happened since my police encounter. I hung a hammock from my balcony and I spend a lot of ti... |
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 | The police will rob you!
2009-01-19, Ubud, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | We've had some fun the last couple of days, in and around Ubud. The other day we found an amazing sushi restaurnt called Ryoshi just around the corner. We ordered enough sushi to feed an army. And the... |
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 | Indonesian ferry diaster :-(
2009-01-16, Ubud, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | Remember the other day when we mentioned a night of unbelievably loud thunder? Well it seems that in the early hours of the morning after the storm had passed over Bali, a passenger ferry in the India... |
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 | Jemma and Taz's scooter adventures
2009-01-15, Ubud, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | Hello, it's Jemma - Taz is sat next to me trying to work facebook out, bless him!
I have been ill for a couple of days. The Bali belly is not a myth :-( Woke up Tuesday morning and couldn't eat br... |
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 | Thunder!!
2009-01-12, Ubud, Indonesia. By: jemandtaz | | The morning after our hellish journey back to Bali we boarded a minibus to Ubud, away from the coast in search of a little more culture.. we are not dissapointed! When we arrived we found an ok hotel ... |
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 | Ubud - Bali
2008-06-14, Ubud, Indonesia. By: gbrownlie | | We left Singapore on 10th June and took a short flight over to Bali where we booked into a quite little bungalow complete with TV and a/c. We spent 2 days chilling on Kuta beach and shopping! The be... |
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 | Bugs in the machine
2008-02-25, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | In Bali there are ants smaller than a grain of salt. I have a brand new digital camera that I brought to Bali. I was looking at my photos of the jewelry that I had taken and noticed one of these mic... |
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 | Happy Birthday Mom
2008-02-24, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | As I sit here in Bali it is already my last week before I go home… I am thinking about my mom and the fact that I am missing her birthday. I don’t get lonely, but I tend to feel disconnected. Every... |
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| Yikes! .... shit, shit, shit, .... whew!
2008-02-22, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | After a meal and meeting at Barandi restaurant with my laptop I came home to drop off my computer. I don’t like to drive with it any further than necessary because of the risks of damaging it due to ... |
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| Support for Nyoman
2008-02-20, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | My first stop of the day is to support Nyoman as I said I would… I went and got three fresh fruit juices one for Nyoman, Wayan (massage therapist) and myself. We sat and visited for a while and then ... |
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 | A heavy heart :^(
2008-02-19, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Sorry to fill the last two pages with depressing news and hard times but I have one more. While visiting with my good friend Noman and Putu tonight they both had some sad news. Putu used to do my ma... |
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 | Guest in a classroom of kids & philanthropy choices
2008-02-18, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | The morning was hot and stifling, with sweat trickling down my back and running like a small stream down the crack of my butt… not a very nice sensation. I was happy to hop on the motorbike and get a... |
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 | Balancing Black and white magic
2008-02-17, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Every six months each town has a ceremony in order to perform song and dance to insure they keep black magic from bringing harm to their village. I may be totally mucking this description as I got a ... |
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 | Symon’s pop, low-brow art studio
2008-02-12, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Every time I come to Bali I like to check out Symon’s studio I am always inspired to run home and do some low-art. He does these silkscreen acrylic paint combo paintings. I also like to just hang ou... |
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 | New websites and slow connections
2008-02-15, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Last night it poured rain from 5pm all night and I had to quit uploading photos and my website and run home as fast as i could with my laptop. The lightening and thunder were awesome and when the rai... |
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| Valentines Day Bali Style
2008-02-14, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Happy Valentines day! The grocery stores here have big garish displays of red and pink wrapped candy, cards, and banners just like home.
My Valentines Day gift was my first batch of jewelry. To... |
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 | Ghost cats and memories
2008-02-11, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | My grandmother (Nana) once wrote, “memories tell us who we are” as I had my morning breakfast I ran across a bunch of older pictures that I scanned from my life before a digital camera. Photos of me ... |
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 | My little chickadees
2008-02-10, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I spent the morning visiting all of the villages doing my jewelry. One of the villages had done a lot of work; thankfully, because they have a lot to do… the majority of the 1000 pieces. I only had ... |
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 | Two guys I couldn’t shake
2008-02-08, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Ok… now that I have your attention, I should say that one guy had a tail and the other a radical multi-color suit and eight legs. I had the day off yesterday because there was nothing I needed to do ... |
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 | Reflections
2008-02-07, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I find myself thinking about and reflecting on the people in my life and which experiences I would share with each of them. I wish we had the power to instantly transport ourselves, or others. It is... |
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 | Unpredictable uncertainty of customs
2008-02-03, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | The flight the next day from Guam to Bali was 5.5 hours so I arrived at my favorite bungalow in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia around midnight after a little fretting in customs. It is always a little scary a... |
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 | Markets, Monkeys and Fire
2008-01-03, Ubud, Indonesia. By: mala | | We left our peaceful bubble in Sanur and headed to Bali's cultural capital, Ubud. We found it impossible to resist the calls of the market touts and many a conversation went as follows: "How much for ... |
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 | Kecak Fire Dance
2007-10-27, Ubud, Indonesia. By: tonyandbex | | We went to Ubud to see some traditional crafts and had a brilliant time. On the last night we watched a traditional dance which was full of really nice bright costumes.
At the end one guy did a ... |
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| And I find myself in Bali
2007-08-16, Ubud, Indonesia. By: hisern | | Bali is a land of honeymooners, expat surfers, and those on the verge of a life crisis seeking to find truth through coconut drinks and heavy meditation. I, obviously, am the latter although I am hop... |
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 | Ubud
2006-12-17, Ubud, Indonesia. By: hamsouth | | Been here in Ubud for afew days now , it`s so different to Kuta , it is alot more relaxed, and one of the more cultural spots in Bali. We mananged to find a really nice home stay with yet another swim... |
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 | Spa time!
2005-08-01, Ubud, Indonesia. By: gvyong | | DAY SIX (Mon)
This morning, we take stock of the paintings we liked and made plans to revisit the galleries to buy them. We bought an abstract/impressionist 2 x 3 feet painting of a rose by an art... |
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| Art museums!
2005-07-31, Ubud, Indonesia. By: gvyong | | DAY FIVE (Sun)
Today my wifey (O) and I awake bright n early to visit all the museums and galleries we can in Ubud!
Our driver was Putu..We call him ‘Stuart Little’ because of the little pic of ... |
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