lumumba
Hi,I said in my first post I will elaborate on the electricity meter.The price of the house included the meter. The developer told us that the PLN don't have any in stock (bull sh** another way to make money) :roll: and they can't give us the electricity for another 6/8 weeks. If we need to move in now PLN will install a "provisional" one for 500.000rp per month including electricity or we can have the "real" meter today if we pay an extra 2.000.000. Remember the house was supposed to be ready in December 2008 with electricity.You can guess my answer to all this.Today they will install a provisional one at 500,000 x months and the developer will pay for it. This is the end of the story regarding the meter. :wink: L.
DorisDazed
At first, I thought this thread was going to be about the game of cricket, (in Bali), or the Bali Geckos' football team and some kind of fusion of the two. Anyway, got some unexpected laughs. ...cricket fighting as a Balinese tradition, but in all the time I've spent in Bali I've never heard boo about it. All my Balinese friends have looked at me like I've got three heads when I've quizzed them about the practice - anybody seen or heard about cricket fighting or is it just another long dead practice in favour of playing with their long-legged feathered rats?...[/quote]I haven't seen one for years but am sure they still go on, somewhere. It's a version of "poor man's gambling". Some people used to go to extraordinary lengths to beef up their fighting crickets, like tying up one of their legs to a string on a pole and making them fly around in circles. Bets on a fight could easily exceed a couple of million rupiah (probably more, these days)....([i]Toke[/i] - large geckos))...they bring luck if you have one...[/quote]Not sure about that, but if one poops on your head, [b]that's[/b] supposed to be lucky....My family hates them (just the big ones, for what reason, god only knows)...[/quote] Maybe because they're big, strong and can bite (hard)![b]lumumba's[/b] trials and tribulations assured me that many building practices in Bali, (especially when a foreigner is involved), haven't changed all that much over the years....They have installed to indoor doors instead of outdoors. Under the sun they got deformed...[/quote]Nothing new about that! In time, everything will fall into place, more or less.I hope you haven't built on top of old rice paddy land, ("shifting sands", so to speak). If so, I hope the foundations are secure. :roll:
