Pasar Burung - Bird Market Bali

There is a place in Bali namely Bird Market. This place is like a market for pets. You can find almost all small animals like dogs, cats, birds, fishes, monkeys, turtles, parrots etc.. Also products such as kennels, carriers, cages, foods, traditional cages such as bamboo made cages etc..

 I found Pasar Burung is little bit filthy place and animals condition there is heart wrenching. They put dogs and cats in very small and dirty cages. Most of them probably do not have any vaccine or fake vaccine labels in their books.

So i am not sure if i recommend you to buy pets from there. Because any animal you buy from there will means you support them to continue it. I hope they will fix it soon. Or if you think ok i just save one of them from there yeah go for it.

There are also many cases about foundations and foreigners so i do not want to talk about this more. Because when people read such things they interpret it strangely and generalize things and it cause put a bad reputation on a nation which i do not like. I am personally against to sell animals. It is very deep topic anyway. It is just an option if you looking for an animal to buy.

How to find it? It is inside Denpasar which is not very touristic place if you compare with coasts of Bali. On Jalan Veteran ( jalan means road or street in Indonesian) but let me tell you the roads around that area mostly one way and you can hardly see one way sign.

Kinetic Typography

Motion typography or moving typography we can say too. A kind of visual communication trend. You can create some text animation synchronized with speech. They even use this technique for professional movies.





for some elite samples see below

V For Vendetta
http://vimeo.com/11445422


Batman The Dark Night
http://vimeo.com/4016687

Fight Club
http://vimeo.com/1842983




Software to create Kinetic Typography.

After Effects

Lombok Gili Gede

Lands for sale in Gili Gede, Lombok .

2 Hectares ( 20.000 m2 )
3 Hectares
4 Hectares
46 are  ( 4600 m2 )

Prices 10.000.000 rupiah per are. All beachfront.

Description

After prices rising very high in Bali people try to invest in different areas including local people. And the closest area to Bali is Lombok Island. Prices still 15 to 20 years behind the Bali prices and more affordable. Gili Gede is small isle in Sekotong area and Sengigi area. 

What is SEO

SEO is acronym of Search Engine Optimization or Optimizer. To own a website will not mean much thing if nobody visit it. To make it more visible to your users SEO working for optimize your website to be found on search engines. Especially Google because it is massively using by internet users. There are other engines too like yahoo, bing, altavista etc.. Also there are local ones like in China or Russia and very popular like Baidu and Yandex. But the term SEO especially used for Google. You like or dislike Google is like monopol in search engines.

Search engines are softwares usually work with an algorithm. Of course it is closed code for some reasons. They call it with different names such as robot, bot, spider, ant, crawler,....

How they optimize it? It is wide range term. Including html tags, meta tags, web design, contents, backlinks, ping backs, keywords, ...

How can we optimize our website or blog?

First of all whatever you play or do tricks in your site you will still need a content. It is better than any trick. very natural one. You have to think about why should i visit this website or why should i visit it back again? After you follow this you should also know it takes time especially if you are not a Facebook  like or yahoo like website do not forget they are not one person managed websites and you are alone. After this things you can start to optimize your site or blog.

Many people says your blog or site must be related with your content. Ok what about if it is portal type blog or site? That means you should consider your each entry or post or content whatever you name it as one page. I do not agree with this your site must be related with contents thing.

Anyway I will link here topics about SEO. like this one Robot.txt

Copy Lefts

Copy Lefts 2011- 135463211234564569.... all wrongs reserved

Anti-copyright movement,

With this logic you can freely download any files and programs but you have to be also generous to share it freely. You can also improve that software.

Some famous examples to open source projects;

Firefox
Linux and Unix-like OSs
Android OS ( mobile phone operating system )
Thepiratebay
Eclipse           ( compiler, IDE, text editor for programming )
Tux guitar     ( Guitar Pro alternative )
Open Office ( similar to Microsoft Office )
Blender ( 3d graphic software )
Chromium ( Not Google Chrome, but its brother )
GIMP ( Photoshop alternative )
Notepad ++
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Apache ( web server )
Drupal   ( CMS, Content Management System )
Media wiki (wikipedia server)
Wordpress (Blog software not wordpress itself)
7-zip ( file archiver, file compresser )







See also;

Free Software
Free Software Movement
Free Software Foundation
Open Source
Richard Stallman
GNU
GPL (General Public License)
Linux and Unix-like OS's
SourceForge

On art and music

Conceptual Art
Riaa
Bono-U2

Direct Owners

For Sale by Owner

Direct owners

Why people choose this way?

Everyone has a different reason to sell...

Primarily we have to understand as real estate consultants why sale by direct owners became a direct owners and they choose this way. Why do people sell or lease or rent their real estates themselves? What are the goals in this one? What thoughts or reasons pushing them to sale by direct owner (DO or FSBO).

1)  Thought of "I can sell by myself better"
2)  Have lot of time
3)  No trust
4)  Do not want to give commission
5) Thinks He/she will not get proper service
6) Have wide social environment, well-connected
7) Thinking they can sell for better price
8) Experiences from past
9) They have been always follow this way before

It can be added more reasons there. Generally DOs what makes them like this  "DO" is their thoughts. That is why they mostly will not want to use any consultants or agents.

When DOs are trying to liquidate their real estates they may experience some problems. If we briefly take a look at those;

1. Mistakes in marketing

They may have problems in marketing. For example, each property has a target audiences. If this target can not be identified correctly you can not reach right customer.

2. Problems to reach recipients

To reach the buyers they uses methods like newspaper advertisements, internet advertisements and some times it is only a " for sale " sign on their property. Sometimes also contacting to real estate agents close by. So is it that easy to sell a real estate? It is not like a chewing gum on shop.

 3. Difficulties to attract the prospect buyers

DOs can be contacted by phone or e-mails maybe even 40-50 times a day after they gave ads and those contacts mostly also real estate agents. They eagerly answer phones early days. But after a while they can get bored from that and their reaction to calls will be like " key is there or in my maid , take it and see it yourself"

4. Problems in evaluating the real buyers

Each prospective buyer can be different. While it was a balcony to delight to some buyers, at same time in same property the other one choose closed parking and the other one pick garden size and construction to buy it. The only way of knowing it to make a correct buyer analysis.  

5.Price negotiating mistakes

When they have a dept to pay next morning to pay how healthy can be a negotiation? 

6.Price determination

Their criteria mostly setting price of their property usually the house which they will buy new or their dept to pay or projects or future plans budgets, receivables and liabilities. So importance of region, m2 or any unit price around area and price fixing will not effect their price. 

7.Emotional barriers

Woulnt it be heartbreaking  when someone says "this kitchen i will demolish it and renew it. It is made tasteless" which you designed and took care carefully to build. What will be DOs reactions to buyers if they face with this?

8.Time loss

Isnt it a wasting time to struggle to sell your property by yourself while you can use that time with your family and other important things? 

9. Lack of consultancy

Issues like how to overcome bureaucratic obstacles on sale of real estate. What to do if there is mortgage problems, foreclosures, disputes on property. How many of DOs know the solutions of those?

10. Personal security reasons

This one i will write soon deeply. 

On this topic

Finally, How many of DOs knows how to cope with stress likely to live during the sale of real estate ...

Bali' Tropical Fruits

Bali Island is a tropical area and because of this reason it has lots of strange fruits, vegetables, plants and even animals there like entire Indonesia has.It is not only because it is tropical place but geographical condition. Indonesia is archipelago which has thousands of islands and isles. So their species are little bit different than the rest of the world. Well some of them extinct but anyway they still have some of them. I want to list here fruits especially. Maybe you familiar with Ananas, Coconut and Papaya but there are other fruits which probably you never heard or seen in your life. They are very healthy fruits like all other fruits anyway but only lackness maybe fiber because of rain. Rainy areas fruits and vegetables mostly has less fiber they said. Anyway eat fruits and vegetables even they have less fibers.

Fruits of Bali and Indonesia 

Here is list maybe not completed but i can update it later on. 

Snake Fruit - Salak

Local people call it salak. They name it snake fruit because of its armour looks like snake skin i guess. You can find it in Malaysia too. Balinese Salak is different than Jakarta one. Taste and appearance is little bit different. Salak is the maybe most famous one i can say among all fruits in Bali.

Durian

Big melon sized and strange fruit. It has also strange armour with sharp big thorns and it is hard skin. You can not easily open it. Durian also has very strange smell once you open it. Also it has alcohol effect it said. I ate several times but it did not make me anything. The flesh of Durian also like sticky and smelly but not that bad taste.

Luwak Coffee

This is not a fruit maybe technically it is but i wanted to put here. From that animal Luwak and its poo. Yes it is a poo or from poo but maybe the most expensive coffee in the world. Well in Bali it is not that expensive. 

Papaya

Papaya can be found in different areas in the world too. It is not originally from Bali itself but you can find it in Bali a lot too. Probably you familiar with it and its taste anyway.  If not let me tell you it is like melon but orange color and taste slightly different. I like to eat it with lemon. 

Custard Apple

It is hard to eat this one because of hard its hard shell.

Mango

Mango probably you familiar. They call it Manga in local language. There are many kind of Mango in fact. Some of them are really tasty. 

Cashew

They call it something like Kaju in Bali. Cashew uses as a nut in fact and you can find in everywhere in Bali.

Jackfruit

Strange name isn't it? It looks like durian little bit but it is different. Local people dry it and eat it that way mostly.

Lychee

I like its juice  more than its fruit.

Rambutan

Rambutan is also from Malay Archipelago not specially from Bali only. Rambutan means hairy in Malay language. You can see it looks like hairy small ball.  

Duku 

Duku looks like Longan but different. 

Coconut

Maybe it is not Balinese but tropical fruit but that you can find a lot of them in Bali. A coconut can keep you alive without eating anything it said. Because it is water is like natural electrolyte. And its body very nutritious.  

Dragon Fruit

This one also my favorite. Not maybe taste. Taste of it little bit dry to eat it. Dragon fruit also called as Pitaya. 

Star Fruit

It is name come from its shape. Actually it does not look like star much.

Cacao

Cacao is hilly areas of Bali can be found mostly. 

Ananas

Ananas also one of the fruit you are familiar. 

Passion Fruit

It is little bit sour

Wani

It is a kind of mango but inside is white.

Jambu - Red Water Apple - Rose Apple

Jambu is local name but also internationally mostly called with this name. It has not much taste anyway. I can not say it is my favorite at least. It has also white one which name is White Water Apple. 

Balinese Orange

Balinese Orange, Orange Bali or Jeruk Bali is an orange in fact but it is size maybe 4 times bigger than normal orange. It looks like grapefruit actually more than orange but it is different type of orange believe or not.

Manggis

This is my favorite all time. They call it Purple Mangosteen, Manggis, Mangis. It comes from originally Sunda Islands it said.

Kelengkeng - Longan - Lengkeng

A small fruit similar with Duku but its different taste and shape inside. 

Soursop

This one also look like vegetable. Tomato also technically fruit anyway. 

Kacang - Balinese Peanut

Peanut of Bali smaller than normal peanut.

Cassava

Cassava maybe also not fruit. People eat its roots and make chips with it like potato or sweet potato.

Guava

You can eat by peeling it or without peeling it.

You can find all those fruits cheap at night market in Bali. It is not only open at night but day time too.