Recent content by MadCat

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    What makes bali a paradise??

    I'm probably going to piss off a bunch of people with this; but Blondie, the story about the guy who gets married, builds a lot of things, and then is discarded like so much trash, yes, it happens - but at the same time, this guy in question could have probably seen this coming a mile away...
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    Taxi drivers demand closure of Bali Blue bird taxi

    Ah, good. I did however proceed to contemplate the benefits of lots of coffee early in the morning, and threw "world peace" in there just for good karma.
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    Where to buy Drum Shag at this moment?

    Try a Circle K down the road from Sanur. Most Circle K's I've been to have Drum Shag but it's often in short supply. Especially around Sanur, what with all us Dutch folk ending up there.
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    Taxi drivers demand closure of Bali Blue bird taxi

    I do hope you mean that in a good way :P Otherwise I'll be forced to sit in my corner and contemplate it :D
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    Taxi drivers demand closure of Bali Blue bird taxi

    Like I said Jimbo, I'm used to Jakarta. Even the most shoddy Balinese taxi is a marvel of modern engineering compared to some of the things you see in the big durian. I do admit I like it when the taxi driver knows how to make the taxi go, but I'll tell him to slow down if I get the idea he...
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    An Idiot’s Guide to the One Day Visa Run (to Singapore)

    Yeah, mine didn't :P I usually end up finding some bargain basement hotel which usually means you end up in Geylang, fine for some things, not for others :P
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    best place to open a restaurant in bali?

    Ali, as everyone already mentioned, do your research and do it well :) Business in Indonesia (not just Bali) is not unlike crawling through a cage of hungry tigers with a few choice cuts of meat strapped to your family jewels, or so I heard it described by a friend of mine. But do post here for...
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    Taxi drivers demand closure of Bali Blue bird taxi

    The times I do take a taxi on Bali (I usually just rent a car, easier for me to get around, I'm based in Jakarta and basically got the hang of driving there, so driving in Bali's easy... even the locals are scared of me :P) I avoid Blue Bird for a simple reason; they are freaking expensive. If...
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    Bali - a soft target

    The only talk I hear these days about the bombings is that people seem to be happy that tourism levels are back up to what they were before, other than that I've never met any Balinese who "needs to talk about it"...
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    Forum Technical Problems Questions and Answers

    When viewing a list of threads in a given forum, the next page/prev page buttons don't work. Keep going back to page 1, so seems there's a wacky mod_rewrite rule somewhere not doing what it's supposed to be doing. vbSEO = nasty :)
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    An Idiot’s Guide to the One Day Visa Run (to Singapore)

    Good story MarkIt :) Just to add some more flavor to the pot, I've been using an agent called Wahab, same modus operandi basically, but this guy you meet at the McDonalds near the Atrium mall on Orchard Road. Basically be there at 10, and look for a fat Eddie Murphy looking character. You pass...