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I went to my favorite dentist today again, and she wanted to give only one crown but I wanted two. She messed a bit bit my teeth (painless), and finally made a mold and will order the porcelain / titanium (!) crowns in Jakarta. Next week they will be fitted...

For time in between she made some temporary Acryl crowns, very very white, so for one week I look like a rabbit

I told her about the post I made about her on the forum, and googled a bit for Bali Dentists.

I came across this site:

http://www.balidentalreferral.com/

Its just one page, and she asks 100 USD for referrals to a good dentist in Bali, recommending a driver, picking restaurants, villas etc. (Probably gets some commission on the side)

So here is my free business idea

Hmmm job ideas for future expats. I am a dental therapists/Hygienist does she have a job for me ha ha? My surgery has just been bought by Chinese and Vietnamese dentists who are interested in comming to Bali to do free dental work next July to the Seririt orphanage I visit Benih Kasih and the surrounding village.

She doesn't have a job for you, she created her own. Just a one page site.

Now your job idea would be to help a good dentist, maybe Drg Hilda, to get some clients from Oz. work out their treatment and travel plans.

Since you are involved in charity, donate some of the income, and trips like the Chinese and Vietnamese dentists would be a good "event" to get some attention.

Help yourself, Help Bali, and Help people to a cheap dental treatment.

Yes I was only joking about her giving me a job. I realise you create your own future and your destiny. My dentist is involved in something new on the computers for online dentists doing job swaps as a holiday between countries maybe ahe would like to swap surgerys with us?. I see she is up near where we will be staying the possibilities are endless. I do know I am attracting people into my life who feel the same about my charity work so thats a positive. I will be in Queensland in 3 weeks Bert any good tips of places to visit?.

I don't know Queensland so well

interesting,,,,, Guess It would be nice if she actually lived in Bali!!! But what do you expect for $100 bucks?

Hey Bert, you looks 10 years younger!! Handsom pic (in a completly heterosexual way),,,,, I have a friend in Costa Rica Thats trying to sell his Hotel, check out his site.. http://www.fenixhotel.com as you can see the pics are way below your quality... he has it listed with a few agents, but I have no idea how its presented, you may want to drop him a line? Sure could use a PRO to handle his pics... those look terrible... Frog

froggy wrote: ... I have a friend in Costa Rica Thats trying to sell his Hotel, check out his site.. http://www.fenixhotel.com ... Frog

Your friend has a most unfortunate surname, Frog. Or maybe this word is not used in the same context in American English? I'm not sure.

Tinkerbelle wrote: I will be in Queensland in 3 weeks Bert any good tips of places to visit?.

Bert wrote: I don't know Queensland so well

Tinkerbelle, if you are coming to North Queensland, make sure to not just visit the tourist town of Cairns (like Bert did!).

Sure Cairns is beautiful, but Townsville is more interesting I think. From here you can enjoy the coral reef, the beautiful Magnetic Island, a tropical dry tropic savanna, even wet rain forest if you like and maybe even a visit to historical gold rush town of Charters Towers and plenty more options.

Oh if you are going to the Whitsundays, don't forget to take a trip to White Heaven Beach, with its perfectly white and fine silica sands. Just beautiful!

Here are some links for you to browse. In any case, I guess you already know where you are going or??

http://www.townsvilleholidays.info/places-to-visit/places-to-visit_home.cfm

http://www.visitmagneticisland.com.au/
http://www.queenslandholidays.com.au/destinations/townsville/experience-magnetic-island/

http://www.whitsundaytourism.com/
http://www.whitsundaytourism.com/

Anyway, hope your holiday will be a great one.

BWT, we have perfect weather at the moment!

Ooops, this is nothing to do with Bali, but hey I am Balinese so I am excused right Bert??

Regards
Kadek

Hi Tink

Being a Queenslander for many years I have to disagree with Kadek (only on this matter) that Cairns is far more beautiful than Townsville. I have lived in Cairns on several ocassions and even help build the International Speedways in Cairns and Mareeba in the 80's.

There has always been a rival between Cairns and Townsville for many years similar to the rival between Queensland and New South Wales in the State of Origin.

In Cairns do

Green Island
Lizard Island
Port Douglas
Tablelands Tour
Kuranda Markets
Baron Falls
Crystal Cascades
Lake Eacham and Barine
Northern Beaches, Trinity etc
Daintree
and many man more

Maybe spend a week in each but I feel that is not enough time to do either justice.

Whatever you decide have a great holiday.

Tina

Sorry this is not about Bali but felt I had to defend Cairns.

Busy doing nothing in particular right now apart from nursing a slight hangover...a joint venture with another forumite...I ain't gonna say his name.

Last thing I remember is we came close to our own Grand Unified Theory of all the world's problems. It's not really all that hard to do. A pity we didn't write anything down (maybe we were trying to save paper, rain forests...). We did help the economy of some place in the Bahamas.

I'm "writing" this against my better judgment. But, just imagine for a moment...your head is spinning like a scene out of The Exorcist, you take a peek at the latest posts here and voila!, transported to the land of dentistry and money-making ideas for future expats. Hello? And Queensland.

OK, let it rip.

Bert - just wondering: do they have rabbits in Holland? If so, and you think you look like one at the moment, you'd have to be the biggest rabbit over there. Could be (more) famous.

The Linda Spears "site" is bloody awful. I don't care how good her teeth are these days, but come on now - what a blatant attempt at trying to make money from nothing. Really.

I accidentally clicked on a link yesterday about how to make $300,000 in 24 hours without doing any work. We all know bullshit sites like that (don't we?). Money for nothing and teeth for free. I wonder what rain shower Ms Spears fell from? Is she from Queensland?

Oh...Queensland. Australia's red-neck state (the Northern Territory is still that...a territory, not a state...I'm still not sure of the difference). Nice enough place (some of it), but I reckon the Gold Coast, Noosa, Cairns, Port Douglas, etc, were seriously "compromised" many years ago. A bit like what's happening here in Bali.

Does anybody go to Mt Isa? Watch out for crocodiles in that northern rain forest (very big teeth). Box jelly fish. The world's biggest peanut. Where's Bjelke Jo these days and his wife's famous scones? Flo-ing in the wind, perhaps. (Sorry - couldn't resist that.)

If you're not one of this forum's moderators, and have read this far, we are friends for life. Send me a PM - we can talk about anything, see "everything", get down and boogie, you name it. Jangan malu (don't be shy or embarrassed).

Kadek wrote:Ooops, this is nothing to do with Bali, but hey I am Balinese so I am excused right Bert??
Regards
Kadek

I offer as many excuses to Balinese as to other Nationalities, I don't discriminate

But I am sure Tinker wanted to know something about North Bali, and not about Queensland, and I just misused her phrasing a bit

Sanurian wrote:
Oh...Queensland. Australia's red-neck state (the Northern Territory is still that...a territory, not a state...I'm still not sure of the difference).

Here you go Phil. From Wikipedia:

The states originated as separate British colonies prior to Federation (in 1901). Their powers are protected by the Australian constitution, and Commonwealth legislation only applies to the states where permitted by the constitution. The territories, by contrast, are from a constitutional perspective directly subject to the Commonwealth government. The Australian Parliament has powers to legislate in the territories that it does not possess in the states.

Most of the territories are directly administered by the Commonwealth government, while three (the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory and Norfolk Island) administer themselves. In the self-governing territories the Australian Parliament retains the full power to legislate, and can override laws made by the territorial institutions, which it has done on rare occasions. For the purposes of Australian (and joint Australia-New Zealand) intergovernmental bodies, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are treated as states.

Furthermore, the distribution of powers between the Commonwealth and the territories is different from that between the Commonwealth and the states. In the Northern Territory, the Commonwealth retains the power to directly administer uranium mining and Aboriginal lands - powers which it does not possess with respect to the states.

Each state has a Governor, appointed by the Queen, which by convention she does on the advice of the state Premier. The Administrators of the Northern Territory and of Norfolk Island are, by contrast, appointed by the Governor-General. The Australian Capital Territory has neither a Governor nor Administrator, but the Governor-General exercises some powers that in other jurisdictions are exercised by the Governor of a state or Administrator of a territory, such as the power to dissolve the Legislative Assembly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and ... _Australia

Tina, like you we have lived in the Cairns-Tableland area for 18 years. We moved from Cairns to lake Eacham, Cairns to our liking became to touristy. At lake eacham we owned 10 acres of rainforest with over 40species of birds, it was beautiful,but cold as soon as the sun was set, and of course rained very often.
I love Bali, but my heart is still inQueensland and the Outback
As you wrote there is so much to see.