Paradise FM Radio Bali: 100.9
Wednesday night Sean and I were invited to participate in a radio show being broadcast on Paradise FM, the English language radio station here in Bali. The station is located in eastern section of Denpasar and our host was a lady named Gilda who works with many local businesses in Bali.
I had never been to a radio station before and our host Gilda was the DJ as well. We all drove over there in her SUV with about 5 minutes to spare, the show starting at 5pm. The office of Paradise FM is old and the studio we sat in was actually the DJs control room. Gilda gave Sean and I a microphone to share and would play 2 songs in between our short segments.
The subject of the show was business rather than travel and Gilda wanted to know what Baliblog is and how it could help other local businesses. Sean is good with the structure of business and filled the framework of what we are doing. I tried my best not to swallow my tongue and fill in some of the soft facts about the experiences we have had along the way.
When explaining something to a huge audience it is best to paint in broad brush strokes and not try to be too technical.
Many people out there do not know what a blog is and others think a message board is a blog. Hey, I did not know what bling bling was until recently so we are all in the same boat. The show was scheduled for 2 hours which is rather long for an interview. The time moved along and we stayed for about 90 minutes.
Paradise FM is popular with westerners who live outside the main tourist areas, as there is less going on. I mentioned Barrie and Candika, thanking him for his participation over the last couple of years. After the interview was over I got an sms from Mike Hillis who said we were coming in loud and clear in Tampaksiring. Good to know people were listening. During that time 2 people did phone in with questions and hopefully we created some interest locally.
Paradise 100.9FM
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Woo-Hoo, Sean!
Wow!!! Congrats!!! Real Bali celebs!! Good job.
So….. what is a bling bling? Ya can’t leave many of us hanging.
Maybe you need to start to do some “podcasts” from Bali.
-Kore
Bling-Bling: I think Nick was referring to the fact that he had no idea what that term meant up to a few months ago. A mate of our in PDX, OR USA - has big rims on his car ie Bling Bling
Kore: We have been thinking about podcasts for about 6 months now - I want to see the hype die down a bit on them - not sure how to make it sustainable at the moment. I love the idea of it - audio!
Heh I thought that you said that Mike had moved to Sanur or is that just where he has his business, Bali Sierra?
The caste system in Bali does not seem to hold people back from being successful or friendly.
People speak Bahasa Indonesia here as it is the national language, the language of the workplace.
Back in 1939 Covarrubias said that it was considered trendy to speak Bahasa Indonesia instead of Bahasa Bali for the younger generation.
Mike Hillis still lives near Tampaksiring and commutes to Sanur.
I thought your post on Hinduism in Bali was great, very informative. Language as marker of hierarchy is common in India as well. However, there is a more implicit judgment of social position of the addressee rather than direct questions about caste.
Thankfully, social reform has made it possible to disentangle the polite forms of language from any implications of servility or caste hierarchies. So we can still use polite forms of many Indian languages without being self-conscious of any social order being established, which is probably not the case for Javanese and Balinese. Is this why they use Bahasa Indonesia at work?