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[komang dewi]

swastiastu....
sy..baru ikutan dlm forum ini, jadi buat semuanya lam kenal aja!!! dan selamat hari raya galungan dan kuningan bagi yang merayakannya.....

[Roy]

Om swastiastu,

Matur suksma Dewi....sama sama!

(Bert too)

[Kadek]

swastiastu....
sy..baru ikutan dlm forum ini, jadi buat semuanya lam kenal aja!!! dan selamat hari raya galungan dan kuningan bagi yang merayakannya.....

Om Swastiastu Mbak? Dewi,

Hey nongol juga akhirnya Sayang, banyak yang lagi menghilang dari Forum.

Selamat Hari Raya Galungan dan Kuningan juga untuk Mbak Dewi sekeluarga. Saya baru saja habis bantuin Tante bikin banten sedikit - gaya Australi

Ah, tidak terasa 6 bulan lewat sudah, hmm mungkin saatnya untuk pulang lagi

Banyak2 postingnya ya

Salam Kenal

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om
Kadek

[komang dewi]

hey.....lam kenal kadek!!!

sudah berapa lama tinggal di negeri orang???

gimana rasanya klu hari raya gak pulang ke BALI,,,,kadek asli mana

sich????

[komang dewi]

hey....roy!!!

apa kabar semua anak2,,,,SEHAT ???

salam sama nyoman ya!!!

" Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om "

[Roy]

Ma'af Dewi, bahasa Indonesia soket! Saya sediket bodoh! Tiga anak...Bima, Rama, Komang sehat, terma kasia. Nyoman sehat.

[Sanurian]

komang dewi

Aku pikir Pak Roy tidak "sedikit bodoh"...mungkin dia "bodoh sekali", atau sedikit gila. Sing-ken-ken.

Best wishes for Galungan/Kunungan. You look to me like a rainbow in a waterfall.

[Roy]

Hati hati Phil, or the next time I catch you at Nuri's you'll be wearing that beer sitting in front of you....not drinking it!

[Bert Vierstra]

Bapak Roy dan Bapak Sanurian, disini harus bahasa Indonesia !

Bapak Roy, kalau ada orang tulis Anak2, itu tidak artinya dua Anak, tapi "Anak Anak".

Mengerti?

[Roy]

Saya mengerti. Apa anak3? Anak, anak, anak?

[tintin]

Hi Roy,

First, Happy Galungan and Kuningan to you and your family.

I will hope that my few following remarks will not be taken as criticism, as they are just prompted by my curiosity doubled with a dose of skepticism. These last exchanges finally prompted me to ask and comment.

You have shown (as if it had to be shown?) that you are a man with his head on his shoulder (although sometime, that head blows up from atop its shoulders), and with an IQ certainly much higher than your body temperature. By you own account, you have been in Bali for seven years, more integrated into the Balinese society than most expats, by living 24/7 among a village that has accepted you, warts and all. Your wife is Balinese, your family is Balinese, and as a result you spent most of your time submersed in the Balinese culture. You are active in your village’s life. You are most interested in everything Balinese, knowledgeable about the Balinese culture, and are a strong defender of eveything Balinese. But how can you understand the nitty-gritties of your dear Balinese culture if you cannot communicate in the language? According to you, and from what I have seen over the years on different forums, not only you do not speak (and understand little?) Balinese, but neither are you proficient in Indonesian (!?) Are you pulling our “collective leg” or what?

Personally, I am ashamed of my (lack of) proficiency in bahasa Indonesia. My only excuse is that during all the years I was working in Bali, my office colleagues always insisted in speaking English to me, even when I answered them in Indonesian, and this is NOT the way to learn a language. After a while, I went along in abstaining to speak Indonesian to them, which meant most of my day, with dear and lasting consequences. By my standards, by now, I should be able to read any work of Indonesian literature, as I able to do in French, English, and Spanish, but I am not able to. But in your case, I would assume that most of your relatives do not speak English, at least fluently enough to express themselves well enough during important discussions. How do you handle this?

I hope you appreciate my skepticism, which I am sure is shared by many, here, on this forum. I also hope I was not out on bond in raising this subject. Should I be, I owe you one (or two) next time I meet you. But actually, I think you are just pulling our “collective leg.”

[Bert Vierstra]

Om TinTin :

disini harus bahasa Indonesia !

Bodoh !!!

[tintin]

Bert,

Maafkan saya! Aku melupakan kenyataan bahwa disini hal itu tak dilakukan demikian. Bahasa Indonesia aja, ya. Nanti, apakah harus aku menterjemahkan semuanya? Sulit sekali dan terlalu panjang. Selanjutnya, aku tak punya waktu cukup malan ini. Kalau nanti,ya?

[Roy]

Om Bert! Om Daniel tidak Bodoh! Kamu nakal!!!

Om Daniel, lebih baik jadi misteri!

[komang dewi]

hello tintin....

lam kenal aja, jangan dilupakan bhs indonesia ya!!!

emangnya kamu dari mana???

[komang dewi]

roy.....

kamu bisa bahasa indonesia, dan saya mengerti itu...

terima kasih ya!!!

" Om, Santi, Santi, Santi, Om "