Welcome to Cyberbali.com

A new life, a new design. I've had the old pink design which I've been very fond of for the past three or four years, but I want to try some new things, and I want to start working more with css rather than using tables for my sites. So here is the first version of the new site. I may change the photo regularly or not. Now that I have this in css, all that I need to do is change one photo and the whole site has a new photo. Rather cool I think. So on to the introduction of cyberbali and its origins. I will be changing a few pages a day until I have the complete site updated so let me know what you think about the new design.

About cyberbali.com

I originally created the cyberbali site years ago as one of my first web pages. The idea was to write about life in Bali as a guide for tourists. However, Bali has changed and there are so many web sites about Bali now that this one seemed redundant, especially with the changes in my life over the nineteen years that I have been living and teaching overseas.

I first started working overseas in 1989 teaching second grade in the Indonesian province that was, at the time, called Irian Jaya and is now generally referred to as Papua. A year and a half later I married an Indonesia woman, Suhanah, and since then we have had four children.

Over the years, I have taught in two schools in Papua, a school in Lahore, Pakistan, and a school on the island of Sumbawa. I retired ain June and have shifted my family back to Bali, although we still have a house on Sumbawa.

So the new cyberbali.com is focused on education. There are pages here about teaching, and there are pages about life overseas, specifically about those places that I have been living in: Papua, Bali, Pakistan, and Sumbawa. You can contact me at one of the following address: bruce(at)cyberbali.com or sulaiman(at)cyberbali.com. By the way, I converted to Islam in 1999 and regularly use use two names; Bruce Pohlmann and Sulaiman Jamal - just so you don’t get confused as you move through this site

Thanks for visiting and feedback is always welcomed.

Recent news - June 23, 2009

I've been on vacation for almost two weeks now. Pure heaven being away from the madness of school. Life in Bali is lovely as usual.

Updates - June 2009

The major change is that I now have a subdomain for my old sumbawa.org website. The new site is located on the top links. I'll be updating news there over the next six months while I finish my time in Sumbawa. If you are interested in school websites, you might want to take a look here.

The Practicalities of Moving to Bali: A Primer for Life in the Tropics

My eBook on expat life in Bali is now available for purchase. Please click on the link to learn more about this book that you'll want to read if you plan on moving to Bali. Check out the free chapter. Here's what a reader said about this book:

"Bruce Pohlman's e-book has already been a godsend to my wife Elsha and me. He writes in an inviting and colorful way. He covers the GENERAL: culture shock, the wonders and risks of living overseas, to the SPECIFIC - costs of living, housing, medical issues, visas, employment. He even includes much PERSONAL info: what expats are like, why he left a job in San Francisco and ended up in Bali, personal and family relationships. And much more; anything you might want to know is in his e-book, with links to helpful websites throughout. We've used it to guide us countless times; it's like having a trusted uncle who's an expert.This book should become a classic about Bali."

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