| BALI: New Years Eve the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation started a new Television service called ABC ASIA
PACIFIC. The service is broadcast on 2 channels, (the second
2 hours delayed) in the MPEG 2 digital system on Pansat 8 satellite east
of Australia. The old Howard scrapped Australia Tv was in analogue PAL
on the Palapa C2 satellite. There are only 4 hours programing each day
repeated for 24 hours. Weekends Rugby, Soccer & AFL will be covered. |
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TYPICAL PROGRAMME
01:00 Asia Pacific News 01:30 Business
Daily with Robert Gottleibson 01:35 Under Southern Skies - natural
history 02:00 Good Medicine 02:30 Bush Tucker Man 03:00 National ABC News
03:30 Nexus - English language learning |
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KHO BALI: We have up dated
our satellite receiver. Before we had a fixed 2 meter dish and an analogue
receiver. It was locked on to the Palapa C/Koreasat satellite. Originally
it had 5 channels including Australia Tv. Over the last year all
but 2 including Aus Tv. have disappeared so it was pretty useless. Recently
we had a man and his assistant over from Rudy Electronic to install a new
digital receiver, new LNB, an actuator and a splitter so we
can still use the analogue receiver. The dish can now swing from east
to about the same azimuth west. We now receive the new ABC
Australia.
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Actuator & new
LNB Installation
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Pacific channel which
started operating on New Years Eve. The station is on Panamsat 8, which
is way out in the Pacific.
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Top down: the receivers and
actuator control
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We also receive Radio Australia 1 &
2, Triple J & PNN radio. Other channels of interest Deutsche Wella,
Fox News, BBC World, CNBC, Bloomberg, Channel News Asia, NHK, The
Catholic Channel & Muslim TV.
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Nifty Box
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The engineering dept. also made up a
nifty switching box to switch between our now many video sources. |
| BALI: The KHO
has just purchased a new 2 door LG brand refrigerator and a LG computerized
fully automatic washing machine. Our friends Yanto and Rebut installed
the necessary plumbing for the washer. The public may view both on KHO
open days every Friday for 4-5pm and are welcome to join us for Friday
wrap drinks. |
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BALI: The second
Kerobokan Home Office film night was held on Sunday February 3 in the KHO
auditorium. We ran the classic film “CASABLANCA” there were 22 people
in attendance. We had an international audience with guests from Belgium,
Holland, & Australian.
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a “Lucky Draw” hosted by the now retired International Tv personality Mr
Johhny Jalan |
 Mr
Jalan
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and a moving rendition of “As Time Goes
Bye” from Jamal on our grand theatrette plastic Yamaha organ. After
the film everyone adjourned to Warung Sobat where Pak Made had prepared
a special menu for the evening. |
 
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| Last month Andi (inset) took us
down to Benoa harbour to see the tourist cruise sailing ship “Ombak Putih”
(White Wave) He used to work on the ship as assistant chief The ship
does weekly cruises down to Sumbawa, Komodo Isles via Lombok and the Gili
Isl. His uncle is the captain and he seemed to be related to half the crew.
The ship is a 35 meter traditional wooden Sulewesi (motorized) sailing
ship. Has 14 cabins, 12 with double bunks and a couple with double
beds. They have a web site at http://balicruises.com/op/ is you wish to
know more. |
 OMBAK
PUTIH IN FULL SAIL
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NEW JOB for DEWA
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| Dewa the honorary
KHO pur- chasing office has a new job at the new Lemon Grass, Thai
restaurant, Seminyak. |
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DEWA OKA
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| Dewa was forced
to leave his old job at the Coffee Palace, Legian after the landlord
in- creased the rent 400% and the restaurant had to close. Our friend Wiwin
was instrumental in getting him the job as the owners are old friends of
Wiwin & Robert. We have been to the Lemon Grass restaurant it is highly
recommended by the KHO. |
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| Trenton & Carolyn are on a 6
week treck in South America. To read the emails of their travels.
CLICK
HERE |
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MegaNet DOWN FOR A WEEK
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| Without notice
the KHO ISP MegaNet went down on Fri Jan, 25 Mon we received email
notice. “Dear Customers, We want to inform you that since 26-01-2002
the international link at Jakarta has been down. That impact the internet
access and all outgoing and incoming mail stack at Jakarta. We still in
progress to fix this problem. We will inform you again when the problem
fixed. We are really sorry for our service these days. Thank You. What
a way to run a business! Service resumed Mon Feb 4. |
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JACKY HAIRCUT
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THE NEW LOOK
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| Jacky the builder
featured in our New Year edition has had his hair cut. Not sure it
is for the better. (inset original long hair) |
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Bear....
I assume you had an uneventful return to paradise. I now know of a website
which has all the info you want (and more!) about the re-vamped ABC TV
& RA SATELLITE SERVICE. All you need is a digital satellite receiver.
During World War 2, technically inclined diggers made digital satellite
receivers rom jam tins, razor blades and blunt pencils. I know that's true
because I read it on the internet. www.asiapacific.com Geoff White
... Received both your latest letters, have been up to my bottom lip
in work etc I will be free- lancing again and working with a former client
I did stuff or at Digiline, making learning CD's for motor mechanic apprentices
and similar. Very nice to have a new fridge and a washing machine, you
know I have always said that you are a mad impetuous fool and that just
goes to prove it. Ian Harvey ....Haven't heard for awhile
- we are all well - the guys went back too school last week but I'm still
on holidays - lucky me- we came back from Pambula - the weather was terrible
but that's the way it is we went via Numurkah for some real r &
r and also pick up the dog. This is Dougal -
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he says hello he's 7 months old
and quite well trained - very smart |
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Feb
5, 2002
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Our friend Dewa Bagong plays
guitar.
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| Indonesians love
to sit around at night and play Dangdut music. Not heard by many tourists
in Bali. You have to visit a local village to hear this exciting
music. The many incursions of foreign influence, Hinduism and
Buddhism from the 3rd to 14th century, Islam from the 11th to 15th
century, Portuguese in the 16th century, Dutch from the 17th
century to World War II, and short-term occupations by the
British and Japanese, have all left musical legacies that are
discernible in today's vast spectrum of folk and popular music. Dangdut
developed and is still popular today. It can be heard blaring from the
loudspeakers of bemos, storefront TV and, at night, from karaoke bars.
As in rock music, there is a fairly wide range of music that gets classified
as dangdut , an onomatopoeic word (dang-dut dang dang! ) that refers to
its modern, hard-edged dance rhythm. The instrumentation and song forms
of today's dangdut are obviously influenced by rock music, but it has its
roots in orkes melayu , a syncretic ensemble music that combined Malay
and Western elements, as well as in Indian film music and urban Arab pop. |
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Vale
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| Muma at
Losman Pabean who many of you met over the years passed away on Monday
January 14. She will be fondly remembered by all. |
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| Saturday
Jan 26 our friends Herman & Nini in Jakarta became the proud parents
of a baby boy “Ryan” Congratulations! |
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| JKT: The
Indonesian Government has again raised fuel prices as part of their
plan to eventually get the price up to world parity price. Previously the
price for premium was Rp 1450/L (.29c/L AUD) the price has
now risen to Rp 1550/L (.31c/L AUD). |
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GARUDA
CRASH
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STEWARDESS JUMPS
TO HER DEATH!
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| SOLO,
JAVA
Jan 16, a Garuda Boeing 737, Flight GA-421, from Lombok to
Yogyakarta successfully crash-landed into the Bengawan Solo River.
Of the 54 onboard there was only 1 fatality a stewardess Santi Anggraeni
who opened a door and jumped into the river before the plane hit. The cause
is thought to have been and engine failure. Aren't the stewardess's
suppose to help the passengers out first? ED. |
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VIEW
FROM THE GARDEN
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delightful 3 bedroom vila is situated in Jalan Batu Belig almost opposite
Pak Made’s famous Warung Sobat. |
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VIEW
FROM THE LOUNGE
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5 minutes walk from the beach, has a swimming pool, two excellent Balinese
staff, Sri & Gusti who are always happy to cook for you. It is owned
by our friends Erna and Leo van Leishout from Holland. The vila is very
popular and is usually fully booked, however it is occasionally available
for a week or two between bookings. The prices start at around AU$480 per
week. If you are planning a Bali vacation this could be the place for you. |
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CLICK
HERE Email the KHO for booking requests
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| Harold Aspinal
- You may be interested to know thhat I went to a Channel 7 "old
boys" lunch last week - and met up with a few people I haven't seen for
40 years! Here are some pics |
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HSV7 Veterans Ralph Clarkson
& Colin Stevenson.
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Dan Webb & Peter Bramley
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Peter & Ted Bramley
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| Doug Donaldson....
Your system must be ok as I got the first message. I am in Peru and will
be meeting Trenton and Carolyn in a week Keep well. Ian Davey....
Elizabeth R put together quite an amazing film programme for me
and I tried to send it to you as a zip file but I'm afraid it was to much
for Mega net to handle. They very kindly sent it back to me. Its
in the for of an A4 sheet folded showing my film/DVD programme till the
end of August. She has done a marvellous job of it. She did it over last
week end while Pete, Kay and I were at Seaspray helping a friend with his
roof. She had searched the net for visual info to make it more interesting.
A really nice effort. I will be sending it to everyone Wai-man Lam is constructing
a web site for the programme as well and looks quite good. I will give
you details of it as soon as he has finished with it. |
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