 | 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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| On a slow van to Ubud
2005-07-30, Ubud, Indonesia. By: gvyong | | DAY FOUR (Sat)
We check out of the Stana Puri Gopa Hotel in the morning and board Hero’s van (Toyota 7-seater, white, unmarked – quite a no. of drivers have these; probably belong to some tour guid... |
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 | Thieves with tails
2006-06-14, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | The monkeys were wreaking havoc again this time stealing things off my table on my patio right in front of me. First he stole my Namok (mosquito) lotion and ran off to tast it one another roof, I was... |
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 | 90 year old yogi Dadi Janki
2006-06-13, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I woke up early and listened to the monkeys wreaking havoc in the back yard. I walked about a half an hour to Arma arriving quite early for the event. The world famous Yogi is 90 year old Dadi Janki... |
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 | From Kiwi to Bali
2005-02-02, Ubud, Indonesia. By: savster | | Well its about that time for another entry,we last wrote we were in wanaka,and from there we headed over to tea anu,a starting point before driving to the milford sounds,it is meant to be one of the m... |
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 | Another Long Ride to Elephant Safari Park
2004-07-03, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Jon and I went on another long ride this time on new country rides. Each village you pass is interesting because they all have unique skills, some are woodworkers and they all work outside so you can ... |
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 | Sangeh Holy Monkey Forest
2004-07-01, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Jon came by today and I was felling a little meloncoly after a call back home. He said lets go for a ride. I had such a nice ride the day before that I decided it sounded nice. I did not know or care ... |
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 | Country Roads and Peaceful Scenes
2004-06-30, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I decided to be brave and go exploring with Jon on the motorbike. I say brave because even though I drove my own motorcycle for years all over busy Los Angeles highways; the roads in Bali are filled w... |
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 | Making Friends
2004-06-29, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I have made many friends on this trip. I met a French couple that invited me to go to the art museum with them. I had never gone so I joined them. They were nice so later that night I invited them to ... |
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 | Many Days Have Passed
2004-06-28, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Many days have passed since I last posted a journal entry. Sorry. I have been lost in thoughts of issues from home. On one of the days past I rented a car with Jon as my driver and we visited each of ... |
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 | Today’s Uninvited Guest Has No Legs
2004-06-24, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | In my travels I have come to expect entertaining a certain number of uninvited guests ranging from mice, crabs, cockroaches (prevalent), geckos (cute) and my least favorite of the eight-legged variety... |
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 | Nursing a cold
2004-06-22, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I woke up with a cold so I spent the day reading swimming and getting pampered, massage and manicure. I just learned that the cremation ceremony now has ten people instead of five. More people from th... |
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 | Shopping
2004-06-21, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I visited the tailor for a fitting for my two new dresses. I purchased two sarongs for the cremation ceremony and I’m happy to find out that I paid what the locals pay. I also unfortunately found out ... |
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 | Monkey friends a little too happy to see me
2004-06-20, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I started the day with another crème bath for my hair. I had always said if I was rich I would pay someone to wash my hair everyday and give me a scalp massage. It is only $1 here so I have got two si... |
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 | Waging war with mosquitoes
2004-06-19, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I continue to wage war with the mosquitoes in my room. Mosquito spray on body, incense coils burning and spray in the room they seem undeterred. I’m not getting devoured I’m just amazed to still see t... |
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 | Busy with Jewelry Business
2004-06-18, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | A very busy day for my jewelry business. Right after breakfast I Ketut Maruta (Jon) and I went to visit a friend in a small village about the village making my jewelry for me. We talked about my needs... |
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 | Invited to Cremation Ceremony
2004-06-17, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Today I met with Wayan the Manager of the Puri Gong Hotel, he remembered me well and was willing to work out a deal on the price of my room. We also had a nice long conversation about the importance o... |
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 | Sleepless in Bali
2004-06-16, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I’m now sitting on my porch at 6:00 am writing this I have been awake for several hours because I went to sleep too early last night. The roosters are crowing, the bats are flying their morning breakf... |
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 | If I Could Bottle What I Can't Capture in Photos
2004-06-15, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | On my flight to Denpassar I sat next to a nice gentleman named Jon from the town of Solo, on the island of Java, Indonesia. Jon told me all about the sights out the window and also about some of the r... |
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 | The mountain trek
2002-10-07, Ubud, Indonesia. By: richard | | One of the best bits about the time we had in Ubud (apart from getting some bargains at the market - I can't believe the prices they start at when haggling...) was when we went on a day trip to trek u... |
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 | Island Hopping to Bali
2002-08-23, Ubud, Indonesia. By: djsproule | | Well, it’s been a very busy couple of weeks since making our journey west from Flores to Lombok. Our first order of business was to find a relaxing beach location for a couple of days. We checked in... |
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| Sven and Spiders
2002-06-04, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I got talking to another guest Sven… a skinny Antonio Bandaras look alike… we ended up going to dinner together and then to a Jazz Bar. We closed it down and walked back home. When I got back to my ro... |
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 | Cremation Ceremony and Thoughts
2002-05-31, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | On my drive back to Ubud I witnessed another cremation ceremony in progress. One advantage of spending a long time in one place is you get to understand the culture and people vs. just seeing the site... |
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 | I could live here... I'll be back
2002-05-14, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I arrived at 3:00am, got money out of the ATM and then went directly to Ubud, Bali’s cultural center in the mountains. Driving at night it was eerie to see all of the temples, statues, and lots of tal... |
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 | Ubud
2001-12-12, Ubud, Indonesia. By: betty_mike | | Hi Gang,
We made our way up to Ubud yesterday. Ubud is a very artsie town, more laid-back than Sanur. Went to the Ramanyanan Ballet (Balanies Folk Dance) last night .... it was pretty interesting... |
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