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RE: Finally here but need help finding charger for my Canon You might try Electronic City in Discovery Mall, Kuta. They have a service depatrment (?) that will give you the service centers around Denpasar that do repairs and probably have what you are looking for.

RE: Ikan Hiu (Shark) close to Macdonalds on turnoff for Uday About how far down the boulevard? Never tried ikan hiu, might be something I really like. What else does he serve?

Actually, that is good news for me also, because I have some teak (jati) trees planted in North Bali and can always use the extra rain so I don't have to spend as much buying water.

Another thing is that 20% of the interest earned goes to the government.

To continue my story: I went the wrong way around this weird roundabout and there is a police stand right there waiting for someone to do this. I was pulled over and my wife told them she had been driving but go tired so her husband had taken over. She gave them her license and paid 50,000 and...

You can think what you like, but I haven't had a driving license in over 6 years. I used to go through the get an agent every year and pay the 300,000 for each then I started using the tourist and multiple enrty visas so I couldn't go that route anymore. Now I just carry an old license with me...

I tried to open an account at BCA and BII and was told that I needed a KITAS. My indonesian wife opened one up and I deposit in it. If more than 100 million rupiah is deposited at one time, the owner of the account will have to go to the main branch in Denpasar and fill out a form stating where...

To finish my story. I am still not sure if these guys were even with the police department. One was from Papua, one from East Timor and one local. They had name cards but they can be printed anywhere. My point is that there is a law about foreigners staying in any residence. The hotels take...

We had 3 guys, supposedly from the police detectives, come to our house. The house is in my Balinese wife's name. I didn't have the correct papers for staying in our house. So the choice was either give them 500.000 rupiah or go to jail or pay 3 million rupiah fine. They had the copy of the law...

You didn't say if your girlfriend is Indonesian or not. If she is, then I think she can go to the local police for the registration. She will need a copy of your passport identity page and the page with the entry visa stamp. If she is not Indonesian, I think the landlord has to do the...

I enjoyed your discussion on jealousy, Kadek. Komang doesn't speak English and my Indonesian is very basic so sometimes there are some misunderstandings. Plus she doesn't like to "hang out her dirty laundry" so I have to drag out what is bothering her. I have learned to keep my comments to...

This jealousy of her relatives is pretty outrageous to me also and that is what I told her. One of our daughters, and I do consider them my daughters even though no formal papers have been done up, is a child from one of her first cousins so there is a fairly close relationship. But the older...

I had a similar problem to Phil when it comes to intra-village jealousy. I bought my wife a new motorbike and after she went back to her village with it she said that the jealous relatives put a "black magic" spell on her. For a long time afterward, she would borrow a friend's old beat up bike...

With a name like Full Moon you will surely be welcome in Bali because the Balinese Hindus regard the full moon day of the month very holy with many extra offerings. Most of the important events like marriages are arranged around these days.

I have stayed a few times at the Mega which has about 6 or 7 small bungalows and runs a dive school from there. We are local so pay about 60,000 a night. There are lots of small hotels along the road that follows the beach. I am sure you can find what you need. Leave a little early and look...

Hi Full Moon I am a newbie also, trying to get in the swing of things. I am an American who came here to do one job in the oilfields and have lived in Bali ever since. Married to a Balinese woman Komang Sukadiani and have adopted 2 Balinese girls Kadek Sutami and Koming Suriadewi. We stay in...

I am sure the children who are "put on hold" by their parents are certainly not up for adoption without permission from the parent(s). But in Bali there is a lot of family adoptions especially if there is not a boy in the family. According to my wife, if both of us die and there is not a boy in...

I don't have the e-mail address of the woman who told me that the children couldn't be adopted from the orphanage. But my wife (balinese) did call the woman who runs the adoptions from the hospital and she said the same thing.

My balinese wife and I (American) looked into adopting. We were told that the only way was to adopt one of the babies abandoned in the hospitals right after they are born. So this means within about a week because if no one adopts the baby it goes to an orphanage. But no one is allowed to adopt...

Anybody know of any of the hotels in the Jimbaran or Nusa Dua area that let non-guests use their facilities? Due to high security all the ones I called weren't allowing outsiders in. I used to belong to one at the Grand Hilton and the Intercontinental in the good old days (pre-bombings).