Month: September 2012
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Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl:
I’ve always had this intuitive feeling that ‘going back’ is a path fraught with disappointment, a sure way to lance the boil of regret that grows quietly on the under-side of nostalgia. In love, in career and travel, ‘going back’ risks curdling all that warm milky romance that time so gently… -
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sept. 19, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Tugu Tripping We had a pleasant outing recently, to Hotel Tugu at Batu Bolong where the Rotary Club of Canggu meets and which, on that occasion, was inducting SoleMan Robert Epstone, a fugitive from Seminyak, as a member. It was a horrendous drive to get there […]
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I like the thought of hapless heroes, though I wouldn’t say “been there, done that” 🙂
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WHIMSY Music to Drive By
Everyone knows I like a jam session. That is, I like it when it’s music that’s involved and it’s not just another Bali traffic snarl. South Bali’s traffic is now legendary for all the wrong reasons. Anyone who doubts this from afar, not having actually experienced the joys of eight lanes of traffic in a […]
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sept. 5, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences It’s a Disgrace One morning recently we ventured beyond our usual perambulatory perimeter and out onto the Balangan road. The Distaff, from an earlier vantage point, had spotted someone jogging down a track that leads up a hill on the other side of the road and […]
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On Why Julian Assange is Just a Bloody Nuisance
The Julian Assange saga is a tiresome example of life in the cyber age. He has managed to capture the attention and – more crucially – the support of many in the chatterverse, by parlaying his expertise as a web-dredger into a self-appointed mission as global saviour. Doubtless this serves his ego. It is very […]