Category: Jakarta Journal
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Life On A Kampung:The Real Bali
We had to return to the padi field yesterday to shoot some more film. This was not, I hasten to add, part of the original plan as we had both hoped that what I had captured last Sunday would have been good enough to use. Bearing in mind that we had to hire a driver […]
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Tom is a loyal and supportive follower of my blog. He lives on Sulawesi, is a rice farmer and an artist. His experiences of living and working in Indonesia sometimes differ from mine, but then he has been here a long time and I am just a ‘newly wed’. I always appreciate his comments as […]
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Bali Bugs
This little fellow was watching me yesterday as I was reading. I love the face and the sunglasses. I’ve tried to make this picture bigger for you but alas, my technical skills on this computer are so crap that all I can offer you is this pimple sized picture. Maybe if you use a magnifying […]
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My Perfect Sunday: Working And Playing In Bali
Despite things going a little belly up for us last Saturday regarding getting things signed and sealed for the Banana field ( see Best Laid Plans, A Hindu Priest, And Three Blue Thumbprints) everything thankfully turned out just fine on Monday. Wayan was secretly quite pleased that we couldn’t finalise the contract on Saturday, the reason being […]
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Best Laid Plans, A Hindu Priest, And Three Blue Thumbprints
So, after consulting the Oracle, aka Susan Miller Astrology Zone http://www.astrologyzone.com/forecasts/ and then determining that Saturday 21st April, resplendent with it’s New Moon, was an auspicious date to sign the contract for a 5 year lease on a Banana field on Bali, the Irishman and I flew over from Jakarta late last night in preparation […]
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The Pros, And The Cons. Moving To Indonesia.
I have recently started writing posts for a great site called Expat Arrivals http://www.expatarrivals.com/ I owe a lot to websites such as this, as in the time between moving from London to Indonesia last year, I spent hours trawling the internet for any info that I could find that might help me learn something/anything about the new […]
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The Field Of Dreams
Continued from Part Two: Pollux & Castor Since my crushing blow at having to put Mitzi Malone and my bid for movie stardom on hold , I had just one week to make some work if I was going to go for Option 2 which was art school. For the next six days I drew […]
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