Meeting Sean in Ngurah Rai airport Bali
Sean was due to come back to Bali today on the same flight as I did 3 weeks ago from Sydney.
He’s an organized chap and early in the morning my cell phone went off with the sms message ‘landed in Sydney, on time’. His flight to Sydney from Brisbane on Qantas went well. That made me feel great as I turned over and went back to sleep.
A while later I get another sms telling me he was boarding the plane for Bali, all good so far.
I knew his flight was due to land at 1410HRS and after a quick bread basket at Cafe Moka I did the rest of my errands…tidying up, buying some drinks, picking up Nyoman’s other motorbike.
Internet Outpost wasn’t very busy at all and I dealt with some stuff online, email, message boards and Barrie, then went out to do some promo with my business card holders. I have a locker full of cards and holders and getting these in front of people is an ongoing task.
One of the coolest things I saw today was a kids gamelan troup with a mini Barong (the mythological lion figure). They were from Tabanan and all 14 of them, the oldest looking about 12 carried a huge gong, plus drum, symbols and other instruments asking shop vendors for a contribution for scaring the demons away with their music. They were surprisingly good.
I picked up Sean without a hitch and he’s now taking a short nap…the sushi has to digest.
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It’s all about the SIM card, EB. If your cell phone has a SIM card that can be removed (without locking up the phone), you can buy a local SIM card that’s charged up with an amount of money. In Oz, Sean and Nick used Virgin Mobile (http://tinyurl.com/yu96a ) and in Bali I think it’s called Pulsa or something like that.
Yeah Eric, I borrow Mick’s Phone when I first got here and just exchanged the SIM card when I was in OZ. I was unable to buy a phone in the US that would allow me to take out the SIM card. Everything is proprietary there. Some bloke at Radio Shack said I could order Nokia from Sweden or something, but I did not have time. You can buy decent phone with SIM capabilities here in Bali for about $100 US or so.
Cool. I’ve been surfing for more info. I found a site that seemed to do a good job explaining the various systems and options. This isn’t a product endorsement ’cause I haven’t used them, and because I’m ignorant the info on this page could be crap.
href: http://www.cellularabroad.com/index.html.
I hope I remembered how to html a link…
Good on ya both. I have a question for Sean about the phone — will it work in Bali? Do you think it will work elsewhere is SE Asia? Sorry to be thick, I’m cellphone challenged.
-eb