Sunday

Balivillashotels.com domain name for sale?

I'm getting an email today offering to buy my domain name Balivillashotels.com, IF I got it appraised. After googled i've found several other people with the same word for word but with different names. So this spam email is definitely a DOMAIN APPRAISAL SCAM, here's the email:
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Subject : Offer to buy your domain name: BALIVILLASHOTELS.COM
From : Kevin Parker [kevinparker65@gmail.com]

Dear Sir or Madam,
We are interested to buy your domain name BALIVILLASHOTELS.COM and offer to buy it from you for 65% of the appraised market value.
As of now we accept appraisals from either one of the following leading appraisal companies:

sedo.com
flyappraisals.com
accuratedomains.com

If you already have an appraisal please forward it to us.
As soon as we have received your appraisal we will send you our payment (we use Paypal for amounts less than $2,000 and escrow.com for amounts above $2,000) as well as further instructions on how to complete the transfer of the domain name.

We appreciate your business,

Yours truly,
Mr. Parker
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Read others experience
http://www.dynamoo.com/blog/2009/03/pedmacom-domain-appraisals.html

http://lisaschuyler.com/index.php/2009/03/domain-name-scams-2-just-this-week

Friday

Barong Dance (Ratu Gde mesolah)

Barong or usually Balinese called "Ratu Gde" are made and believed to protect their accompanist in a various scope like village or Banjar. It is definitely different with Barong that performed for tourists amusement. 
For example the mask for Barong Ket, although look the same it has maredly difference, the mask for Ratu Gde are made from Pule wood / alstonia scholaris (see previous story) and mostly decorated with gold and gems. There are some production stages in making Ratu Gde which ending with Pasupati ceremony to ask for the certain spirit to descend and reside and endow it with its spirit and powers. Ratu Gde dance only for a temple ceremony event as a devotional dance to God (Ratu Gde mesolah).

There is a story in the past about Ratu Gde that occasionally perform surveillance by walking around village or banjar in the night silently without gamelan and not followed with their accompanist, it is when many of the villagers getting sick or die by unknown causal factor (known as grubug) or on a certain day like Kajeng Kliwon (also known as a good day for practicing black magic). On that time the performer of Ratu Gde are in unconscious condition as the spirit of Ratu Gde have control over them.

If you stay at a village in Bali, it might be happen in the midnight, on the street in front of house, when there's a sound ... a clink sound of a small chimes and tapping sounds of a wooden teeth, be peaceful as that's a sign Ratu Gde are in duty... Guarding you!


Pura Ulun Danu Batur in Kintamani Bali

Pura Ulun Danu Batur ("Head of the Lake") with obvious Indian influences. This is one of the most significant religious complexes on Bali. Lake Batur is the source of dozens of underground springs, which help regulate the flow of water for the farmlands and sacred pools throughout the whole south-central region. Farmers from all over the island pay homage here to Ida Batari Dewi Ulun Danu, the life-sustaining and highly venerated goddess of the lake, who supplies the 37 rivers, tributaries, dams, and irrigation canals between here and the sea with water.

The nine-temple complex, with its impressive tall gateway, contains a maze of 285 shrines and pavilions dedicated to the deities of water, agriculture, holy springs, and arts and crafts. The largest temple, Pura Penataran Agung Batur, consists of five spacious well-swept black-gravel courtyards filled with rows of thatched-roof meru towers. The 11-roofed meru in the inner courtyard is dedicated to Dewi Danu, the goddes of the lake.