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Meeting Fauzi & Siti in Singapore
Meeting up with my friends Fauzi and Siti, we sat at a streetside place in the Bugis area and caught up. Fauzi suggested a Chinese style soup containing seaweed, green vegetables, fried fish, tomato and milk. Add some red hot chilis and that thing was the
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Thoughts after travelling in SE Asia
People talk about globalization and say we are becoming more homogenous. You really have to see it to believe it. Coming to Singapore via Batam, I was next to a party of Korean tourists. The old guy in front of me had a Pierre Cardin suitcase and a small b
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Lucky Plaza Singapore
Singapore is a shopper’s paradise, partly because of the choice and partly because food places are never far away. After picking up my new plastic umbrella at a local pharmacy for S$5.50, I strolled down Orchard Rd. the main street and entered Lucky
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Ferry to Batam Indonesia
Yesterday afternoon I picked up my passport from my ‘agent’ who showed up with a stack of about 30 passports, dishing them out to a group of people who gathered at the McDonalds at the Forum Galeria in Singapore. All I had left to do was get to
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Hotels in Batam Indonesia
Batam is a bit of a mystery to me. Its a special economic zone with close access to Singapore, other than that it still seems like a place that is figuring itself out. Without a real cultural center, choosing a hotel is a really guess work. Looking online
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Eating out in Batam Indonesia
Batam is popular with Singaporeans, so its no surprise there is a food court. The desk staff at my hotel advised me to go to Windsor Food Court, which was a bit of an adventure. In Batam the taxis do not have meters. If you take a taxi from your hotel the
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Batam: Why go there?
After spending a day in Batam my opinion is I didn’t see enough of the place to give it much of a review. Arriving after dark and heading to the airport at midday the next day, was not a big window of opportunity.
•Batam feel:
Batam is part of
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Terrorist bomb in Ambon Indonesia
A terrorist bomb has exploded in Ambon, in eastern Indonesia. Ambon is in the Maluku islands, once known as the Spice Islands. As the Jakarta Post reports, a bomb with nails exploded at the port, injuring many people. Terror groups, whether in the Middle E
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Losing your cell phone in Bali
Sitting here in an internet cafe in Seminyak, a lady just ran in and asked if her cell phone was found. I know that feeling having lost one myself, its not fun and she is in for a few frustrating hours.
Everyone in Bali has a cell phone, that’s how
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Important people in Bali: Arie Smit
Arie Smit is one of Bali’s most well known foreign born artists. Born is Holland in 1916, he became an Indonesian citizen in 1950 and still lives in Bali. Arie Smit’s painting style using oil on canvas, incorportates vivid color and celebrates
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Rainy weather in Bali
Rain is part of the equation for Bali right now. Today in Kuta the sun was blazing, people were out in t-shirts, tank tops and beach wear. Around 5.30pm over came the dark clouds and boom, down came the rain.
Back in Seminyak I dashed for an internet cafe
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Responsible tourism in Bali
Bali attracts a wide variety of people, with entirely different interests and cultural backgrounds. Its hard to write a set of rules everyone should abide by, because something simple like being outgoing, or being upfront, things appreciated in the US and
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Trip with Laura in Bali
As most Baliblog readers will know, Laura (Australia, former N.Ireland) is here in Bali with her husband Mickey. They have kidnapped me and taken me on a trip to Candi Kuning market, in central Bali near Bedugal.
It should be fun and I’ll post photo
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Stinky water in Kuta Bali
Kuta Beach is a little stinky right now. On Sunday Ika and I took Jevon to the windblown Blue Ocean beach at the end of Jl. Double Six. There’s a kid’s playground there and its good for him to meet new children. While there we noticed the stron
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Baliblog readers join us for a good time
Laura from Australia (with a strong N. Ireland twang) is in Bali and not doubt will be creating havoc in the Legian area by now. I will see Laura and her husband Mickey besok (that’s tomorrow in Indo) for a road trip. Ika almost did a backflip when s
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Long shot for bombers does not help Bali Nine
Like 40 year old hookers who insist on heading out to the club, Amrozi, Ali Gufron and Imam Samudra, the Bali bombers, will launch another appeal at Indonesia’s Constitutional Court later this month. After murdering over 200 people, including fellow
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Earthquake hits Sumatra
What do you get when you live in an earthquake zone? Earthquakes!!! Indonesia had a big one today in west Sumatra and according to the BBC, 70 people are dead. Its kind of like when people who live in a flood plain, complain about getting flooded, its only
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Day Trip to Candi Kuning Bali
Years ago in Australia I had a weird experience. Hitchhiking on the Sunshine Coast, my friend and I were picked up by a tour bus driver who had no customers. Instead he stopped by the mental health institute and picked up a dozen or so friends and relative
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Garuda airline explodes on landing in Yogyakarta
A Garuda Airlines plane has exploded upon landing in Yogyakarta this morning. Of the 140 passengers, 95 have been conformed as survivors. According to news reports something may have ruptured before landing, that caused the plane to explode after it landed
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Kuta Beach Bali
Living in the city as I call it, one often forgets that natural beauty is just around the corner. The longer I spend in Kuta and Seminyak, the more cement I see and the less of everything else. Heading home via Pantai Kuta offers a great view of Kuta Beach
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