Balinese sense of direction

     Being brought up with the way of saying direction using egocentric coordinate ( right-left-straight-behind ) has become my mindset for doing / asking direction wherever i go. And things become quite interesting when i moved to Bali and find out that the peoples here are using cardinal direction like ( south-north-west-east ). From where i come i would say 'go straight from here till you see the first traffic light then turn right after 3blocks turn left ... here you would experienced 'go east till traffic light, go north after 3blocks go east again' *_* seriously ??? First time i got this answer, i think i could hear my own brain has literary jumped out of my head, was thinking i might get Punk but i didn't see Ashton anywhere *wishing*


     So i read this blog about the same problem by Daniel Mcguire .... it wrote 'an orientation system that considers the central mountain, Gunung Agung, to be “north” and the sea to be “south”. When a Balinese tells you to go north, he might be telling you to go “toward Agung Mountain”, even if it is situated to the south, east or west of where you are! 
Confused?? so am i .... no kidding !!


     Therefore after tons of confusion and mind juggling,i decided to get my self a map and the GPS, problem solved !! Well don't try to get a compass, i supposed it wont work the way the trekkers on the mountain does, its a completely different world here .... Not to mention most people here are amazingly lacking the sense of direction, so forget about those what so call 'Cardinal Direction' they probably don't know exactly whereabouts the place you asked them for, hilarious isn't it ??


     Anyway I'm gonna call this off now and i will bend my body towards west then move my feet up north .... get it ?? no ?? well me neither ... good luck i suppose ?? or shall i say ... Welcome to my paradise .....


TS