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Originally posted by itchme at 15-7-2007 04:39 PM 
hi kawan2
thanks for sharing all the info on bali. baru je balik last week, spent 10 days kat sana. seronok sangat, nice place, nice people. 10 hari rasa kejap je, pastu dah nak kena balik. next ...
Waah , seronoknyer 10 hari di Bali..Ceritalah skit.. |
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Magic of metal: Spiritual and physical powers of the kris
Garrett Kam, Contributor, Ubud, Bali
Watch out, dangerous curves!
No, this is not a traffic sign warning drivers of a narrow winding road, but a rather inadequate description of the kris, the traditional Indonesian dagger.
Whether created by human hands or of supernatural origin, krises are believed to be physical manifestations of invisible forces. Forged in fire but symbolic of water, a kris represents a powerful union of cosmic complementary forces.
A distinctive feature of many krises is their odd number of curves, but they also have straight blades. Krises are like naga water-serpents that are associated with irrigation canals, rivers, springs, wells, spouts, waterfalls and rainbows.
Some krises have a naga head carved near their base with the body and tail following the curves of the blade to the tip. A wavy kris is a naga in motion, aggressive and alive; a straight blade is one at rest, its power dormant but ready to come into action.
Different types of whetstones, acidic juice of citrus fruits and poisonous arsenic, bring out the contrast between the dark black iron and the light-colored silvery nickel layers that together form pamor, damascene patterns on the blade.
These motifs have specific names that indicate their special powers: udan mas (golden rain) is good for prosperity, wos wetah (unbroken rice grains) brings well-being.
Three fingers remaining helps in making decisions; two fingers left are good for spiritual purposes. One-and-a-half fingers left repel disaster and black magic; one finger remaining is suitable for agricultural prosperity.
Half a finger left is useful for thieves; no finger remaining is good for making proposals. What's going on here? Cutting off fingers for punishment?
No, by measuring a kris from base to tip with four fingers of each hand alternating, the remaining length indicates how the kris is beneficial.
The kris is an important family possession and considered to be an ancestral deity, as weapons often play critical roles in the rise and fall of families and fortunes in history.
Heirloom krises have proper names that describe their power: Ki Sudamala is Venerable Exorcist and repels negative forces, Ki Baju Rante is Venerable Coat of Armor and spiritually protects one wearing it.
In Bali, an heirloom kris and other such metal objects are presented offerings every 210 days on the day known as Tumpek Landep, which means "sharp".
They are cleaned, displayed in temple shrines, and presented with incense, holy water, and red-colored food and flowers to honor Hindu god of fire Brahma.
This is followed by prayers for a sharp mind to Sanghyang Pasupati, the deity who empowers sacred objects and defeats ignorance.
Motorbikes and cars, modern metallic symbols of power and status, are also presented with offerings because they can bring fortune or mishap.
Some Balinese jokingly call this day Tumpek Honda or Tumpek BMW, depending on what they can afford to own. With palm-leaf ornaments flying up against windshields and rear-view mirrors, however, one wonders about the safety of this practice.
While the scabbard and hilt of the sheath may be made of rare wood or ivory and adorned with precious metals and fine gemstones, the most important part is the blade.
Forces emanating from the dagger are kept under control by the sheath, which also protects the blade. A cloth bag roughly in the form of a large kris in its sheath, sometimes made of magically protective black-and-white checkered kain poleng cloth, further shields against dust and damage.
A blacksmith is known as a pande, the same as the Indonesian word pandai meaning "skilled and clever", as anyone who works with metals must be. The word empu is used for someone with a very high level of knowledge: sri empu is a high priest, empu keris is a highly skilled person who makes daggers.
More than just weapons, in November 2005 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared the Indonesian kris a great cultural achievement of world humanity.
In September 2006, the Pura Penataran Pande Peliatan blacksmith clan temple south of Ubud held a huge rededication ceremony. For this, its members had a new Balinese kris made.
During a ritual forging of the blade in June, men took turns hammering the red-hot metal at the home of the temple's priest. Around this time Suteja Neka, the senior person overseeing the ceremonies, became fascinated by krises and began learning as much as he could about them.
But things did not stop there, for Neka soon started to collect krises. He went to antique shops, visited collectors, attended exhibitions and contacted organizations.
When the news spread, people from Bali, Java and Madura brought old and new krises to Neka for him to examine and perhaps add to his collection.
He also sought out handles, scabbards and sheaths along with those who made them, becoming a full patron of all the arts connected with the kris.
The exhibition, Keris in Culture: Traditional Daggers in the Arts, featuring Suteja Neka's personal collection, will be officially opened and recognized as a permanent part of the Neka Art Museum by State Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik on July 22 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the museum, which was founded by Suteja Neka.
Paintings with krises in them will also be displayed along with photographs of krises in Balinese rituals, dances and costumes.
The krises will be housed in a new two-story room at the Neka Art Museum to complement the artworks on display. |
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Saka, a full moon celebration
People wait in line to present their offerings. (JP/ID Nugroho)
Thousands of Hindus from places across Indonesia and overseas assembled at Mandara Giri Temple in Lumajang, East Java, to celebrate Purnama Saka, an annual ceremony to observe the full moon.
At the ceremony, held from June 29 through July 10, the faithful solemnly followed the ritual.
It began with the collection of holy water from a well on Mount Semeru. Then, the faithful put offerings in front of the temple.
A procession as part of the Purnama Saka ritual was held in the central hall of the temple, located at the foot of Mount Semeru, a volcano that regularly puffs out clouds of smoke and ash.
Apart from praying and making offerings, the ceremonies were further enhanced by dancing. |
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Reply #2104 itchme's post
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wahhh sure best kan lepak sana 10 days.. last time rara pegi cume 4d3n.. tu pon sbb sampai dah mlm.. mcm 3d3n laa sebenanye.. punye laa terkejar2 sbb nak cover sume tpt.. penat pulak jadinye.. hehe |
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Celestial visitors the norm for Balinese
The Galungan and Kuningan festivities have just come to pass, and we Balinese have done our best to be good hosts.
There are many religious, cultural and spiritual reasons for our devotion at these two festivals that fall on Bali's 210-day rice-growing calendar.
My favorite is the one I have prepared for my grandchildren. I came up with it when being asked to explain why we have this festival by a tourist with a two-minute attention span:
"We host celestial visitors from the heavens for 10 days every Balinese year. They come down with the rays of the morning sun on an auspicious Wednesday, the day of Galungan, and rise up after a brunch feast on the Saturday-week, 10 days later, which is Kuningan.
"In preparation for this, every Balinese Hindu householder prepares a decorated bamboo pole penjor, which stands tall at the entrance to the home, curving elegantly toward the road above the electricity poles and power lines.
"The curve of the penjor signifies a mountain, which the spirits of light call home. It is decorated to be lush and beautiful to be welcoming to a passing celestial visitor.
Should they decide to stop by, a drink of holy water is prepared in an earthenware jug. Snacks are also provided in the form of cakes, fruit and little pockets of rice, nuts and spiced fine-grated coconut.
"Every day we would replenish the snacks and drinks, and in respect we don't place them on the ground like offerings for the earth spirits. We would make a little bamboo platform with a roof at least a meter off the ground should our visitors feel like lounging around for a while. Hopefully, they like the view of the mountain we erected in memory of their home.
"Just in case (and this is very likely) our ancestors decide to come along for the hoy-day, we provide Galungan-to-Kuningan snacks at the family temple too. Besides the traditional offerings, there are the favorite kretek cigarettes my grandmother puts in place for my grandfather.
And of course, if I feel like having a yarn with Dad, I'd bring some arak-brem, a rice-whisky and palm wine cocktail that he favored.
"Yes, the family temple is like a traditional satellite phone to call family members who have gone on their ultimate journey beyond. It's very handy to have within the family compound, but when the family grows bigger and bigger the temples branch out too.
"On Galungan I would try to go back at least three branches to visit my extended family temples as well. It's always a bonus catching up with some distant emigrated cousin.
"Mind you, if it weren't for the temples we belong to, we'd be hard pressed to remember all our relatives because not many of us have a written genealogy, and hardly anyone has a family name. We trace our ancestry through temples."
By this point, I've waffled. Eyes would start glazing to tell me my two-minutes is up.
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This is pure conjecture, but perhaps visitors to Bali find it so welcoming because we believe we are constantly entertaining hordes of celestial visitors. We also know how to deal with the riff-raff so they don't spoil the party.
When we are entertaining spirits of light who come as deities of the thousands of temples in every place of natural splendor on the island, we make sure the lower spirits don't get jealous by offering a sacrifice. Depending on what kind of impression we need to make, the sacrifices can get bloody.
There's an acknowledged balance: for entertaining highs there must be sacrifices.
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While there are the rare cases of sensitive human visitors to Bali who totally freak and jump on the next plane home, most of our Homo sapiens visitors (who are not too sapient) are completely oblivious to the bustling spiritual traffic.
The portly Dutch retirees on their budget holiday that I pass on my walk home from the office, for example.
Staying at the bungalows attached to the Grand Bali Beach in Sanur, they are for the most part oblivious about the garden villa-supplied incense and offerings daily for the mythical ruler of Java and Bali's south sea.
She, the lady in green, even reserved a room in the high-rise when it first was built as Bali Beach with Japanese war reparation money.
In 1991, careless painters ignorant of invisible thinner fumes left a cigarette stub smoldering in the ground-floor Qantas office. Unobstructed ventilation shafts quickly distributed the flames throughout the high-rise, reducing the modern palace to a black lump of cinder-dressed concrete.
It was quite a spectacle for mum, sitting with a late breakfast and watching Rambo-like scenes of helicopter evacuations form our house one kilometer up the beach.
One room was spared by the blaze. I've seen it. Some smoke-damage was evident, as well as singed corners around the doorway, but otherwise the room was unscathed.
Seasoned and wannabe politicians come from far and wide to light incense and meditate there, seeking support from the Goddess.
Whenever I walk past, I instinctively glance to the buildings and nod in respect, but usually I'm totally absorbed watching the sea.
Maybe I have a lot to learn. I'm more in awe of nature than the shrines we have erected to it.
Kadek Krishna Adidharma is a Bali-based environmental engineer who works as a cultural liaison officer and is an interpreter. |
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Reply #2104 itchme's post
Hai itchime, Pak supir tu, booking dah sampai Bali ke, call dari sini??? Berapa dia charge for 03 days?
[ Last edited by abby_nemo2 at 15-7-2007 10:03 PM ] |
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Reply #2102 rinafarha1709's post
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rina..pak nyomannya tak ada? dia hantar wakil hampeh ke? mana dapat pak suja pulak... hem, mcm mcm yek dia orang ni... kalau tak leh, katalah awal kan.... |
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Reply #2108 cupcakes's post
we spent the first 4 days in kuta area, jalan2 in and out of alleys, saw lots of interesting things, took lots of pics too, more than 2000 pics, gila ke apa 
1 day spent in denpasar, bali museum and pasar, jalan2 as usual.
3 days driven around by Mr Isme, our driver (covered uluwatu, tanah lot, ubud, candidasa, lake bratan etc) more or less 12 hrs a day, puaslah keliling. sempat jugak checked out the shopping areas, like sukawati (the cheapest and the most crowded, sesak nafas!)
last day jalan2 di kuta again, did some last minute souvenir shopping. besoknya flew back to kl 
halal food nothing to worry about, banyak kedai nasi padang, ada yg sangat bersih dan sebaliknya.
hotel pun banyak. we had no hotel bookings and had no problems finding a place, dari yg 5* sampai takde star, pilih ajelah.
all in all we spent about 4M+ Rp, excluding flight. |
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Reply #2111 rara_bella's post
memang seronok sangat rara, nanti kalau ada duit lebih nak pegi lagi dan nak stay lebih lama lagi
Reply #2113 abby_nemo2's post
abby, pak supir tu kitorang jumpa kat sana. puas cari2 dan tanya2 harga, dah tawar menawar dapatlah 1M Rp for 3 days dengan Isme ni. going rate was 400-500K rp/day. nobody quoted less than 400K, tak taulah kenapa tak dapat 250K yg macam forumers lain dapat tu. nonetheless we were very happy with his services, rasa berbaloilah. |
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Reply #2111 rara_bella's post
aku dapat rasakan aku akan jadi cam ko...nape la dulu aku amik flight kul 4.30pm tuh.. ..nak tukar balik difference dlm rm100..hmm belasah je la...sat gi kul 12pm akan bermula my journey ke lcct...hahahaha
balik nanti aku bg. report..tq pd. sesapa yg. bg. info b4 |
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Originally posted by minahleter at 15-7-2007 10:24 PM
rina..pak nyomannya tak ada? dia hantar wakil hampeh ke? mana dapat pak suja pulak... hem, mcm mcm yek dia orang ni... kalau tak leh, katalah awal kan....
pak nyoman tak bg tahu dia takleh.mlm tu siap dia call rina .dia ckp pukul 8 pagi dia dtg......tetiba jer dia antar wakil.........wakil tu kecik jer tubuh badan..........wakil tu lak tak fasih ckp ...
masa time rina pegi tu..ada perayaan apa tah..semua kuil penuh dgn org yg beragama hindu....lawakan cintamani punya gunung berapi.last meletup 2002....
minah strawberry murah giler..5 rupiah satu beg....salak pun 4 rupiah ja sekilo..tp rina tak sempat shopping .. |
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Reply #2118 rinafarha1709's post
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oklah kalo semuanya selamat dlm perjalanan... hah ada sesapa sedang bercuti kat bali... huh, mesti dapat jumpa mek iti dengan atuk k... depa gi bali kan sekarang ni... |
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thanks minah...bg byk info........ |
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aku ngan member aku dapat 300K per day for supir... hehehe... aku ingat nak post gambar tapi maleh nak upload kat sini lagi..
kalau nak tengok dulu can go to my blog first. nnt aku post sini sikit.. |
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kenkawan..saya nak gi minggu depan...
leh tanya sikit x? balik kena bayar airport tax x? baper ? |
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Reply #2122 berasmerah's post
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kena bayar Rp100K, masa balik. |
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you ols yg baru baru balik ni...upload la gambar... tak sabo nak nengok...tak puas-puas nengok gambo kat Bali ni... |
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300rupiah...wow murahnya....rin kena mahal giler
[ Last edited by rinafarha1709 at 17-7-2007 05:55 PM ] |
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Originally posted by rinafarha1709 at 17-7-2007 05:45 PM
300rupiah...wow murahnya....rin kena mahal giler
300 ribu kan(kan ditulis 300 K) hish mana ada 300 rupiah aje Kalo 300 rupiah gamaknya 15 sen!....... rin tak dapat ke 250 ribu rupiah?
selalu pak nyoman ambik 250 ribu ...
[ Last edited by minahleter at 17-7-2007 08:24 PM ] |
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Post time 15-7-2007 08:26 PM
