Benny and mice, Lost in Bali ini merupakan buku yg isinya semacam kisah perjalanan gitu. diceritakan secara komikal dengan gaya khas mereka. seru nih, cocok aja sih buat yg sering liburan, dan sering ke bali,komik ini cocok lah. Lucu, satir, bodoh, edutainment.

Di bagian awal, diceritakan mereka sebperti layaknya orang kampung yg pertama kali liburan ke bali.Seperti para lelaki pada umumnya kalo jalan2 di pantai,Ngiler ngeliat cewek2 berbaju minim di pantai kuta.Ngeliatin cewek2 bule pake bikini jalan2 di sepanjang jalan legian dan di pantai.Ih waw.hal yang sama juga saya alami waktu dulu pas SMP pertama kali ke Bali.Dan bagian mesumnya saya alami pas iburan SMA ke bali.

jadi waktu itu teman2 kelas 3 sma waktu saya SMA lagi liburan ke Bali gitu.biasalah,para remaja ganteng seperti saya ini jalan2 ke pantai.Pake celana jeans dilinting sampe lutut, terus cuma pake kaos oblong.sandal jepit swallow warna ijo,muka kecapekan belom mandi,tapi pake kacamata item biar keliatan keren.kita Cuci mata di pantai kuta.Ngeliatin keindahan dunia.dan keindahan wanita…hahahha

saya lupa waktu itu sama sapa aja,yg jelas waktu itu kita berbanyak orang 5 ato 6 orang bawa bola ke pantai,jadi biar bisa maen bola gitu.dan pas jalan2 menjelajah pantai,kita melhat sebuah pemandangan indah.seorang bule topless berjemur di pantai. topless disini saya artikan perut ke atas polos.Sumpah,ni bule cewek telanjang dada.Ini pertama kalinya dalam hidup saya *maap banget* melihat dada wanita secara langsung.Kalo liat video di internet mah sering.huhuhu.Karena kita waktu itu para lelaki lagi mupeng semua,jadi kita pada maen bole di deket situ,biar bisa maen bola sambil ngeliatin “bola”.hahahha

itu mupeng versi saya.kalo mupeng versi Benny Mice,mereka mupeng ngliat tukang pijet di pantai kuta yang bebas nggerayangi para bule.hahhahhai,kocak banget lah,kalo pengen tau ceritanya,baca aja sendiri.Bagian yang terpilih oleh saya sebagai bagian favorit itu waktu mereka (si benny ma mice) nyobain flying fish ama sling shot. Sumpah,saya ngakak pas baca.hahhahhai.Ah mending baca sendiri aja dah,gak seru aja kalo saya yg nyeritain disini.

Benny and Mice ini udah terkenal.Mereka wajib dan rutin bikin komik di Kompas Minggu.Komik mereka kebanyakan bertemakan sosial,kritis terhadap trend,dan sindir2an, dan terkadang memancing kita untuk tertawa ngtawain diri sendiri.alhamdulillah,semua seri komik mereka udah saya baca.mulai Lagak Jakarta 1&2,Jakarta atas bawah,Jakarta luar dalem,100 tokoh yg mewarnai jakarta,Benny mice talk about hape,sama Benny mice lost in Bali.Semuanya punya kekuatan masing2.

Suasana Pedesaan di Puri Dewa Bharata Village

Dari awal, hotel ini memang khusus dibangun untuk wisatawan yang membutuhkan sarana akomodasi dengan tarif murah. Meski begitu, bukan berarti hotel ini tergolong murahan. Pelayanan di hotel yang beken dengan sebutan Karthi Inn ini bertaraf internasional. Itu yang menyebabkan hotel melati ini menjadi hotal favorit di kawasan Kuta.

Karthi Hotel terletak di jalan Kartika Plaza Tuban, sebuah area strategis di Kawasan Kuta. Di lokasi ini terdapat beberapa fasilitas wisata seperti Kuta Art Market, Waterbom, Kuta Square, dan Discovery Shopping Mall. Dari Bandar Udara Ngurah Rai, kamu hanya perlu waktu 15 menit untuk menuju hotel ini. Sebaliknya, dari hotel ini kamu hanya memerlukan waktu tak lebih dari tujuh menit dengan berjalan kaki untuk menuju ke Discovery Shopping Mall, pantai Kuta, dan pusat perbelanjaan Kuta Square.
Karthi Hotel mempunyai empat tipe kamar yaitu : Kamar Standard, Deluxe, Super Deluxe, dan Kamar Family. Semua kamar tersebut dilengkapi dengan fasilitas air conditioned, televisi, telepon, hot & cold running water, bathtub atau shower, kulkas, serta marble floor.

Di luar kamar, Hotel Karthi mempunyai fasilitas pendukung seperti bar dan restauran dengan sajian menu China, Eropa, dan Indonesia; safe deposit box; laundry; doctor on call selama 24 jam; kolam renang dengan sunken bar dan kolam anak-anak; drugstore; mail & postage; serta room service selama 24 jam.

Tarif sewa kamar:
Standard: Rp. 325 ribu
Deluxe Double: Rp. 350 ribu
Deluxe Twin: Rp. 425 ribu
Super Deluxe: Rp. 450 ribu
Family: Rp. 650 ribu

High Season Surcharge: Rp. 125 ribu (15 Juni - 18 Augustus)
Peak Season Surcharge: Rp. 150 ribu (20 Desember - 10 Januari)
Jika kamu memerlukan extra bed, kamu akan dikenai tambahan biaya sebesar Rp. 125 ribu per malam. Ini sudah termasuk sarapan pagi.

Semua harga tersebut sudah termasuk pajak (21%) dan service charge. Juga termasuk American Breakfast.Tarif kamar di atas untuk satu atau dua orang per kamar per malam. Tarif Family Room untuk penghuni kamar lebih dari empat orang. Harga tersebut berlaku sejak tanggal 10 Januari 2009 hingga 10 Januari 2010. Waktu check in pukul 14.00 Wita, check out pukul 12.00 Wita.

Oya, pembayaran dapat dengan cara tunai atau menggunakan Credit Card jenis Master atau Visa.

Jika tertarik menginap di sana, datang saja langsung ke Jl. Kartika Plaza, Tuban atau kontak via telepon (0361) 754810 (Hunting). Bisa juga via e-mail: sales@hotelkarthi.com.

Standard Double

Standard Twin

Deluxe Double

]]> http://liburankebali.info/hotel-karthi-murah-tapi-keren.html/feed http://liburankebali.info/bali-to-host-tropical-biology-conference.html http://liburankebali.info/bali-to-host-tropical-biology-conference.html#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:37:36 +0000 admin http://liburankebali.info/?p=532 Hundreds of leading tropical biologists will converge on Bali July 19-23, 2010, to attend the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC).

Founded in 1963, the ATBC promotes and coordinates research and the transfer of knowledge among biologists.

300 to 400 top-notch scientists are expected in Bali for the July 2010 gathering where scientists will consider a number of topics under the declared theme of “Tropical Diversity: Facing the Food and Energy Crisis and Climate Change.” Slated to be discussed in Bali are biodiversity utilization, maritime resources, climate change, carbon-based forestry and the Papuan ecosystem.

The Bali conference will be preceded by the 2009 annual meeting of the ATBC in Germany. The 2008 meeting of the group was held in Suriname.

Last year’s event drew record numbers of audience members who flocked to Ubud to participate in more than 50 events led by more than 100 writers. In all, some 43 intimate venues across Ubud were employed for panel sessions, book launches, performances, readings and literary lunches. Among the more popular events was a filled-to-capacity “conversation session” at the Neka Museum led by Vikram Seth that drew an audience of nearly four hundred readers and writers, who listened ardently to Seth chat jovially about his life growing up in India.

Suka-Duka: Compassion & Solidarity

The 2009 theme Suka-Duka: Compassion & Solidarity is an Indonesian philosophy that translates as the togetherness or mutual help in joy and suffering. In 2009, the enduring power of the human spirit over suffering and hardship will be explored alongside stories that have changed lives and tales of profound wisdom. Environmental issues and the rise of fundamentalism will be further debated with globalization, censorship of media and world poverty. The art of storytelling will be celebrated together with discussions on writing about travel, food, poetry and song.

This year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival will continue its culinary tradition via visiting chefs descending on the kitchens of some of Ubud’s hotels and resorts. They will join forces with leading literary stars to present the kind of languorous lunches and dinners for which the Ubud festival has become famous.

Among those invited to participate this year are Nobel Prize winners J.M. Coetzee and Wole Soyinka; Kate Grenville, Abdourahman Waberi, Mohammed Hanif, Laura Esquivel and Hari Kunzru.

This year’s festival will introduce an inaugural keynote address, sponsored by the Australia-Indonesia Institute, launching four days of panel sessions, debates, readings and in-conversations with the world’s greatest exponents of their craft. Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive a Nobel Prize for literature, will discuss his lifetime of work and activism. Fatima Bhutto, an outspoken poet, journalist and novelist from Pakistan will speak on her country. The brilliant women poets of “Not A Muse,” explore Lloyd Jones’ heart-wrenching empathy in the Bougainville-set fable “Mr Pip.” The unpredictable and eccentric Dany Laferriere will also be in Ubud together with Mohammed Hanif’s bearing “A Case of Exploding Mangoes.”

This year’s festival will also pay special tribute to the Southeast Asian experience, gathering emerging and established writers from the region including Seno Gumira Ajidarma, Ng Yi Sheng, Amir Muhammad, NH Dini, Thant Myint-U, Shamini Flint, Wena Poon, Woon Tai Ho, Lee Su Kim and Dede Oetomo.

From neighboring Australia, Julia Leigh, Tom Cho, Alison Lester, Sonya Hartnett, Michelle Cahill, Mungo McCallum and Antony Loewenstein are all slated to grace this year’s event.

In what has become a tradition, writers will also be at play via a program packed full of performance, play readings, music and song, film, humor and food.

Reflective of the founder Janet de Neefe’s deep passion for cooking, this year’s rendition of “Master Chefs of Prose and Poetry” will showcase award-winning authors, poets and playwrights and their favorite recipes featuring dishes from Burma to Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka to Pakistan. Family secrets and stories will be shared or rather, revealed, on the edge of the rice-fields in a three-course global extravaganza.

The works displayed in his current exhibition of works on canvas are dominated by the human figure and profile, each portraying a specific emotional state. Interaction with others and symbolic peripheral images are used to create virtual allegories. As in reality, these are often muddled. Ostensibly “Mother and Child Reunion 3″ is a joyous picture of a baby girl and her mother, yet the imposing rigidity of the mom’s bouffant hairdo and the generic doll-like child in a pink polka dot dress give pause for thought. Other figures are humorously estranged, such as the frizzy-haired man in an agitated state seen in “Travel to Hyper-Reality,” a work dedicated to a songwriter.

Ipong’s technique is strongly influenced by graphic art sensibilities with extensive use of black outlines over bright colors. As drawn, the lines are not solid but imbued with nervous energy that causes the image to vibrate. Notably his subjects prefer stripes and polka dots.

A developed artist, Ipong has also played an important role as a curator at Bentara Budaya, one of the most important exhibition spaces in Yogyakarta’s bustling art scene.

Emotional Allegories

An Exhibition of Paintings by Ipong Purnama Sidhi

Ganesha Gallery at the Four Seasons Resort Jimbaran
September 4 – October 5, 2009

Open Daily 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Ayam/Bebek Betutu Bali
Ayam Betutu merupakan salah satu makanan khas Bali yang terbuat dari ayam atau bebek dan proses pembuatanya sendiri memakan waktu yang cukup lama sehingga bumbunya sangat meresap hingga kedalam dan dimasak hingga lunak dengan sedikit rasa pedas. selain ayam atau bebek betutu penyajiannya juga sering dilengkapi dengan sayur kangkung khas bali atau sering disebut dengan pelecing kangkung. masalah rasa ngak usah ragu karna ayam atau bebek betutu ini sanggat terkenal di seluruh bali.

Nasi Babi Guling
Salah satu makanan khas Bali, nasi guling ato babi guling, sajian yang berbahan dasar daging babi panggang. Beberapa lauk khas yang umunya terdapat di nasi guling adalah : lawar, sosis babi ( urutan ), krupuk kulit babi, kulit babi yang dipanggang, dan kadang – kadang disertai dengan kuah sayur nangka. Di pulau bali babi guling sangat terkenal bukan hanya bagi masyarakat bali tetapi wisatawan mancanegara pun berlomba-lomba untuk mencicipi masakan bali yang satu ini.

Sate Lilit Bali
Makanan berupa sate tidak selalu daging yang disayat atau dipotong-potong lalu ditusuk sebelum dibakar. Begitu pula untuk sate lilit yang merupakan santapan khas pulau Dewata. Bahan dasar sate ini adalah ikan laut berukuran besar, seperti tuna. Daging ikan ini dilembutkan dan diberi bumbu, santan, serta parutan kelapa. Ketika bumbu sudah menyatu dengan ikan, sate mulai bisa dibentuk dengan mengepal daging ikan memanjang di tusuk sate. Sate lilit dibakar dan siap dinikmati bersama sepiring tupat, semangkuk sup ikan, dan plecing kangkung.
Rasanya sedikit pedas dan aroma khasnya ketika dibakar dijamin bikin ngiler. Apalagi bagi penikmat makanan dan penggemar pedas.