Animal Welfare

May 29, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, May 27, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Comedy of Horrors The head of animal husbandry in Badung regency, Made Badra, is reported (by the Jawa Pos newspaper) to have come up with a brilliantly cunning Baldrick-style plan to solve the rabies problem in Bali. These guys must be watching bootleg DVDs of the Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Bali, Charity, Economic Development, Economy, Music, Public Administration, Rabies, Social Development, Tourism, Ubud

Bali Asli, Black Adder, Ceremco, Chaos Theory (Bali Traffic variety), Eva Scolaro, Hog Wild, Hotel Squeeze, Jemme Restaurant, Penelope Williams, rabies, SoleMen, Ubud Food Festival
April 29, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Apr. 29, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences An Orwellian Travesty Putu Sumantra, who is head of Bali’s animal husbandry and livestock service but who keeps providing evidence that he would be better not allowed out with a broom and instructions to sweep the steps, would like the public not to oppose the Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Art, Bali, Festivals, Public Administration, Rabies, Social Development, Ubud

Alice in Wonderland, Dog Culling, Flash Riding, Four Seasons, Ganesha Gallery, George Orwell, Janet DeNeefe, Made Mangku Pastika, Marian Carroll, Muhammad Arwani Thomafi, Putu Sumantra, rabies, Sundara, Ubud Food Festival, Uday Rao, Yoga
April 14, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY, Bali Advertiser, Apr. 15, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Line in Their Sand Developer tycoon Tomy Winata, who rose from street ice-pop seller to become one of Indonesia’s richest men and whose substantial and rightly recognized philanthropic ventures include helping the poor and saving Sumatran tigers (and protecting mangroves; we kid you not) is Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Art, Australia, Bali, Economic Development, Environment, Indonesia, Rabies

Bali Animal Welfare Association, Benoa mangroves, BioFarma, Cafe Cous Cous, Diana Shearin, Kim Cattrall, Lombok Guide, Moazzam Malik, Paul Grigson, Power Cuts, Rabies crisis, Sex and the City, Susi Pudjiastuti, Tomy Winata, Women in Global Business
March 17, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Mar. 18, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Gone to the Dogs The resurgence of rabies in Bali is yet another of those avoidable things that the chaps in charge of the asylum could have avoided if they could have been bothered, or if they hadn’t blown the budget on lots of other things. Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Bali, Capital Punishment, Charity, Environment, Indonesia, Public Administration, Rabies

Christina Iskandar, Divas, Dog culls, Duke of Plaza-Toro, Eco Kids Program, Elizabeth Pisani, Eva Scolaro, Governor Pastika, Joe Cochrane, New York Times, Nyepi, rabies, ROLE Foundation Bali, Slippery Stone, Tim Hannigan, Waste Management
February 18, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Feb. 18, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences No Time and High Tide It’s always fun to read stories in the local press that relate to statistical information. The power of presentational representation (some people call that PR) is a skill that should never be undervalued in Indonesia. Thus we had a little smile Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Australia, Bali, Economic Development, Labor Party, Tourism

BAWA, Five Star Garuda, Four Play, HIV/AIDS, Ignorance, Janet DeNeefe, Paris Hilton, Putri Wedasari, Queensland bikie laws, Seaweed Farmers, Smoking, Ubud Food Festival, Zumba
February 3, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Feb. 4, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Tale of Two Statues The new style of Bali’s fixation with monumental ornamentation, as seen in the grossly huge and garishly illuminated nightly by circus-style flashing lights “monkey mountain” that has been erected at the junction of Prof Ida Bagus Mantra Bypass and I Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Art, Australia, Bali, Indonesia, Lombok, Tourism

Barbara Cahyadi, BAWA, Brazilian Lemon, Coffee, Hannah Black, Humane Society International, IFAW, Indroyono Soesilo, Lombok Guide, Monkey business, Ongky Wijana, Peter Duncan, Taman Restaurant Senggigi, Visa on Arrival, Vyt Karazija, Welcome to Bali, Wiwik Pusparini
January 20, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 21, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Guys, Get Serious! A photo taken on Dec. 21 and displayed on Facebook this month of a 500-metre wide by unknown kilometres long stretch of garbage floating offshore from around Tanah Lot (it’s an important temple: might that resonate with any of the stumblebums officially Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Bali, Indonesia

AMRRIC, Bali Animal Welfare Association, Christian Vanneque, Darwin, dining demographic, get unconnected, Governor Made Pastika, Greta Garbo, IFAW, killer packaging, Kim McCreanor, Maxwell Maltz, Ocean rubbish, poor Balinese, religious ceremonies, Sip wine bar, Sophie Digby, Tanah Lot, threatened mangroves, Yak Magazine
January 6, 2015

HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 7, 2015

His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences BAWA with a Bang BAWA, the pre-eminent animal welfare organization on the island because of focused effort and the seminal role played by founder Janice Girardi in dealing with rabies when it broke out in Bali in 2008 – the disease is now Continue reading

Animal Welfare, Art, Bali, Indonesia

Adopt-Learn-Chat With a Vet, BAWA, jade richardson, Janice Girardi, Kecak Dance, Kuta Beachwalk, Legian Beach Hotel, Moazzam Malik, Plato, rabies, Scooby-Do dogfood, Sukiyaki, Taksu Restaurant, Ubud, Vyt Karazija, Writing Classes

About Me

Former journalist now confined by age and indolence to blogging about this and that, now from Western Australia, previously from Indonesia (that’s the 8 degrees in the title) and before that, Queensland. I don’t do a newsletter so ignore that prompt below.