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I am surprised at the couple of responses my earlier posts attracted. To Roy; I am sorry you found the comment at the end of my post to be "Patronizing". It was my intention to have a light-hearted opening and closing to what seemed a fairly heavy post. If the humour offended you I...

Re: RE: Using endangered species for tourist entertainment. I think the work being done by the Bali Street Dogs Foundation is fantastic and it should be supported by all dog lovers. Perhaps you should check out what they do.

Quick comment to "Leap of Faith" Don't forget that the figures you quote are in addition to expenditure by various governments. If you add charitable plus government expenditure together then the picture will look a bit different since most government do not give such a high priority to...

Re: RE: Using endangered species for tourist entertainment. Have you been eating those rusty nails again Roy? I have read thro this thread twice and to be honest I do not see where Roy's outburst came from. Before I go on I should "declare an interest" - I am a conservationist and hope...

Good to hear such a positive story from you, Mary. Just as a curiosity I wonder how many members of this forum have heard of FNPF? However slight your knowledge of the organisation might be would you do a brief post letting us know if you have heard of them; and, if so, what you know of them.

Re: RE: long time no write!! I am purposefully taking our English mate's quote out of context because I can speak with some authority on beer-swilling :twisted: I was a beer-swilling Pom for years - usually followed by greasy chips and mushy peas :roll: - then I became a beer-swilling...

I share Rein's concern regarding the treatment of animals. For example did anyone see the news item on the Chinese"Animal Olympics"? This included two bears "fighting" in a "boxing match" which I found quite revolting. As far as the morality of keeping animals in captivity is concerned I...

Re: RE: Using endangered species for tourist entertainment. There is a good deal of work being done within Indonesia for example have a look at this website http://www.fnpf.org/about/contact.htm They are taking a wholistic approach of Community Development/re-afforestation/animal...

Thanks Adele for your comment and sympathy. Truth of the matter is that I was offered the assignment but felt unable to accept for two reasons. Since so advising the agency they have now come back with a counter proposal; so we will see what we will see.

Sadly I have to advise that my hoped for move to Ubud did not eventuate; not yet anyway. Ah well there are still a couple of years ahead of me, I hope. Thanks to those of you who responded to my questions. I have enjoyed participating in this forum and may well continue to do so, albeit...

Pre 9/11 we went through Singapore Changi in transit. I cannot imagine it remains so but as we as we approached the customs desks we could see an enormous sign over the exit doors that read words to the effect "Death Penalty for Drug Smugglers". We followed the green line straight under that...

Thanks to all for a very interesting and joyful string; I enjoyed reading and learning.

Part 3 Betelnuts in Timor So at the welcoming meeting in the highlands of Timor there was a group of 15 or so adults sitting around very solemnly. My son-in-law trying to look after me and the wife. One after another the guys kept walking around, bowing and offering nuts from their little...

Part 2 Not humorous - but strange :o We met with daughter and friends at Denpasar airport for flight to Kupang and all 10 of us checked in at the same time. On the plane 8 of us were seated at the very back of the plane then there were a few empty rows of seats, then all the front...

:lol: Just thought I would try to bring a little humour to the forum and embarrass myself at the same time. :oops: Our first trip to Bali was as a single day stop-over on the way to our daughters wedding in Timor. As we collected our bags from the airport carosel (how do you spell carousel?)...

Rafeal, Spot on when you note that Love could never dated Morrison since he died in the very early 1970's. Adele actually said that she "DIDN'T KNOW Courtney Love had been a girlfriend of Jim Morrison" I think she probably mis-read an earlier post. I was trying to be flippant and...

Hi Adele, Yes I did know about Morrison and Love, good couple. BTW I see you are from Bendigo; nice place drive through fairly often from Mount Gambier to Sydney.

Hi "Dawnofjedi", I always feel uncomfortable addressing someone by a pseudonym, its as if you are not communicating with a real person; it acts like a barrier. It seems clear that you are angry about the state of the world vis a vis terrorism and that's understandable, particularly for...

DCC, now you're making some sense here ref Ramones but I am keen on The Clash, but my son was a fan of thiers How do all you DC boys rate grunge and esp Nirvana? Don't know if its the same over there but in Australia one of the radio stations ran a sort of best song of all time poll...

Re: RE: What do you forsee for Bali? Well isn't that easy. :oops: Thanks Bert.