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Bali Deli: A place to shop, eat and get online.

Bali Deli is the Seminyak expats choice for a place to pick up food and drink items. There used to be an inside sandwich bar that has been deleted in favor of Le Cafe, a re-branded eating place that has wi-fi internet access. Sean had only 1 day left in Bali and asked if I had any other interesting ideas for breakfast. We bought a login card for Bali Deli a week ago and still had 2 hours left so Bali Deli it was.

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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.

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Photo update from Kuta Bali

In the last 4 days Sean Keener (president of BootsnAll.com) has been with me here in Bali.

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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.

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Coming Back to Bali

and testing this new trickle program...hope all is well.

Bali Pictures from December 2003

Now that Christmas and Boxing Day is over...I am settling in Australia and found a bunch of pictures that we never shared. Look for Nick to Return around Jan 4 to Bali....Yahooo!!!

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Status Report

I had hoped to post more often, but as it happens time online is limited and we have been super busy.

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First Impressions: Again

As I mentioned before, I was here earlier this year. In the 9 months or so since I left, some changes/growth has occurred in Bali's main tourism area.

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Old/New Yankee Writer

G'Day Folks. My name is Sean Keener and I will be a guest blogger/writer for the next few weeks on BaliBlog. Nick O'Neill is my mate and colleague and I am out here in Bali for almost 3 weeks.

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Leaving our place in Seminyak Bali

After a several weeks in Indonesia Sean's final day has come and we are getting things taken care of. He gave me a bank card in order to pay bills and we swapped Palm devices, his one has a backlight which is really handy and rechargeable.

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Final "in Bali" thoughts

It is time for me to say good-bye to Bali. Nick and I have been preparing like mad the past few days and have not put much into posting on the Blog. Nick is ready to go.

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Tiger Woods on Overseas Travel

Woods decided to skip the Dubai Desert Classic and $2 million in appearance money, saying it was too close to Iraq and not safe enough for him to travel.

"Going overseas in this particular year, right now, especially in that part of the world, is a little tough for me,'' he said.

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Getting ready to leave Bali and random thoughts

Nick and are are pounding away at Internet Outpost. You may be wondering what kind of pounding. Well, both on the keyboards and Bintangs. Since we need to continue on the more creative work today and we had already been at it for 8 hours, a few beers while working away actually helps. When I suggested a beer at 3:30 p.m., Nick said,

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Sean arrived in Bali

Sean arrived at the house around 3pm this afternoon as I was typing up some interviews out back.

It was great to have him back and we joked that just like a married couple, I had stopped going to our local bar as I always went with him.

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CEOs: The same everywhere

In the past week or so, there have been a few stories in the Oz news about CEOs that leave the company with huge benefit packages. In the case of the CEO leaving Commonwealth Bank, he received $33 million while the Shareholders' stock is losing value etc. It reminded me of all the big company scandals in the US the past year or so...

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US Embassy in Sydney finally answers the phone

Well, I am getting an emergency passport replacement. I shipped the docs down today and should have them back by Thursday. Next plane to Bali after that is Saturday. So as long as my Yankee buddies in Sydney take care of my passport, I'll be having dinner with Nick on Saturday night. I will also look into extending my time in Bali so that Nick and I can finish our todo list...not sure if it will happen. In the meantime, I finished two more entries and backdated them so they reflect the correct dates...here they are if you're interested.

1. Peregian: Meeting Jay and Debbie on the Sunshine Coast
2. An original BootBoy: Brendan Hunter

President's Day in Oz?

Being so far from the US, I never would have expected that President's Day would delay me. But it has.

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An original BootBoy: Brendan Hunter

As I mentioned in this previous post, I was hoping to meet up with Brendan and Euan. The night before I was supposed to leave, I was able to arrange our meeting.

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Peregian: on the Sunshine Coast with Jay and Debbie

Jay is the gentleman referred to in Nick's profile. For years we had heard about him and finally in September 2001 he visited the BootBoyz in Eugene OR. So the myth was put to rest.

I was able to visit Jay and Debbie in Peregian on the Sunshine coast a few days ago...

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Hostage Crisis: Qantas Holds Keener Back

Well, maybe it wasn't quite that dramatic...

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BootsnAll members and friends

I mentioned in a previous post, about how Aussies like to travel and a lot of the folks I have meet here as doing it. Wanna hear more about them?

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Learning to be a Traveller, again

The past few years I have been working so much, and travelling so little. I have to re-learn some things. This 7-week trip is teaching me some lessons all over again.

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Australia is full of Travel Nutters

With the world about to goto war, terrorism on the rise, Australians are traveling.

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Steamy night in BrisVegas

I'm hanging out with Toby, an old mate of Chris's. We are chugging down a few beers and watching some sports and I am showing him our publishing system.

peace

Initial Happenings and Observations in Oz

I arrived yesterday arvo after an all-night flight. I was a bit tired but surprised to see that Brisbane seems to have grown up a lot since my year in 1994. Maybe it was me that grew up or simply got older.

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Sean left for Oz

Myself, I was at Internet Outpost till 7pm waiting for the rain to slacken off. It didn't so I bought a $1.10 rainjacket and jumped on the bike heading home. The rain was so heavy I pulled into a hotel along the beach road for shelter, the water pooling at the sides of the road and bouncing off my glasses. No let up so I continued, worrying that the road might turn into a river like a couple of weeks ago. I drove slowly and made it home after about 20 minutes.

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Leaving for Oz and other Bali Thoughts

I leave for Brisbane, Australia tonight.

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My upcoming trip to Australia

I am leaving for Brisbane, Australia on Feb 6th which is less than 1 week away. During this trip, I will meet our accountant down here and do some administrative things.

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Random Thoughts Part II

I haven't blogged in a few days. But it looks like Nick has been keeping you all entertained. Thanks Pal.

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Foreigners, locals, dating and sex

The past 24 hours or so, I have spent some time with Armadi from Captain Haddock's. She is a friendly, ambitious Balinese woman who is a pleasure to talk with. And she is a young, attractive, Indonesian single woman....Hmmmm.

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Control Freak and letting go.

Some people that are close to me (Nick, Chris, Ant, etc) might call me a bit of a control freak sometimes. Well, I am sure that I am sometimes.

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Mystery Woman Update II

(submitted by ebong)
"Well guys ........ it's different person. I spoke to the girl that i thought she was. But she said she hasn't been to global net for awhile, but surely same figure from behind with that pony tail and white top...... sorry though..... but hey Sean...go for it ....!!"

I spoke with ebong on the phone after reading this and he suggested taking the picture from the front next time. Good idea mate.

Mystery Woman Update

From this post, we found out that our new aquaintence/friend, Ebong (very cool guy, hopefully we will be friends), knows the mystery woman, so she is a mystery no more.

Basically, he said that she has a 6'3" Swede boyfriend who is a blackbelt in Karate...in others words, she is off the map. Or.....I can just see it now...

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Clarification - We are in Kuta Beach

I was Yahoo chatting with Chris this morning, and he asked,

"Are you still in Ubud?"

Well, no we are not. In fact, when he asked me (Tuesday morning Bali Time) we had been back for 2 days already. Sorry if we did not make that clear. We spent 1 night (Saturday) in Ubud.

Walking Down Poppies II, I'm crying

Not because I am sad. Nick and I were working our little tits off Saturday morning. We wanted to go to Ubud for a night and escape the heat of Kuta. It depended on a package arriving via global priority mail from Chris at BootsnAll HQ. Nick walked into Internet-Outpost at 12:30 p.m. and slapped the package down on my mouse. We were free, home free. Ubud here we come.

Nick quickly took off for the room to pack and I shut down and got ready to pay. As I waited for Ika to figure out my bill, I opened the package. The CD with the data we needed was there, but so was a folder with a big arse Birthday card on it....

I opened it and started to read it. Personal notes written to me from the likes of Larry Habbegger, Brad Newsham, the gang at BNI, Christian Beck, My Mum and Pops, Ant, JenLeo, Chris, Joe E, Dada Bacudo, folks from softball and others, interspersed with pictures of me and my friends. Happy pictures. Wonderfully inspiring notes.

I started to cry as I paid my bill. It was a great birthday present and some of the stuff people said to/about me just made me break down. So as I walked back, I enjoyed the surprise and moment. It was only a 4 minute walk back to our guesthouse and I didn't want Nick to freak out when he saw a fat, 30 year old dude crying so I wiped it up and got on with it.

Thanks Chris, Ant and Jen and any other folks for putting that together. Memorable for sure and you all get a big hugs and wet kisses on my return.

Ubud - We are tourists

Nick and I pounded away on the keyboard this morning before taking off mid-day on a bus up to Ubud. It is about 12 miles the way the crow flies and up in elevation a little bit.

The cooler temperatures are comforting to us and we already did the biggest tourist spot in Ubud. Monkey Temples, oops, I mean Monkey Forest. For a second, I thought I was back in Kathmandu (that is where the Monkey Temple is). Both are very similiar. Aggressive sex crazed monkeys and photo snapping tourists (including us). These monkeys are feed all day and with all the little babies around, it looks like they are busy at night. No predators as well.

We'll post pictures at another time soon.

May I sit here?

I'm struggling with which category to put this entry...

Nick and I went for a walk down by the Ocean yesterday arvo cuz I wanted to have a few Bintang's near the ocean. We strolled into a Hotel because the sign said, "Happy Hour 25% Off". We were sold.

The place was practically empty as we ordered 2 beers. Before too long, a lady came up to us and was looking me straight in the eye. She said,

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Sean's birthday celebration

This evening Sean and I jumped into a cab and headed out to Jalan Dhyana Pura in Seminyak ( expat alley ) to a place called Santa Fe. It was one of the first places Jason and I went and features a variety of food. We arrived and sat at the bar, immediately cracked open a large Bintang and chatted with the bar staff. On the counter was a pump advertising another beer, Bali Hai. We had one each and thought it was the same as Bintang so carried on with that.

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Palm's Sweaty - Mom's Spaghetti

As Nick just mentioned, I'm here. It's hot as....(you know the rest). First thing is a shower and the cybercafe since it is raining bigtime.

I feel pretty good having slept on the plane so Nick and I are gonna have a few beers tonight and start on our todo lists.

Title of entry is from the Eminem song, "Lose yourself". I always wanted to use it in a blog post, now I have - peace out bunny rabbit)