Indonesia
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Aug. 22, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bloody Hell Your diarist is a blood donor. Well, he’d like to be, although it seems a rather difficult function to perform in Bali. He possesses a blood type that is very rare in this part of the world, and so has registered with the Red… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, July 25, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Oh Yes, It’s Paradise Here Some days you just want to sit down and cry. It’s not the crowded crassness of mass tourism that does this, or even the mindless self-absorption of the Rave ‘n’ Groove sector; though both can cause intense irritation if you… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, June 27, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Raking it In The lively Beat Daily, the online news update produced by the chaps behind the bi-weekly entertainment glossy, had an interesting item recently, sourced from the local Bahasa press, though not – read on – the Bali Post: the 2012 Top 10 corporate rich… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, May 30, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Oh Wow! Things Work! Two weeks in Phuket can work wonders for you. Especially when it’s raining, on and off, which it is at this time of the year, the reverse (almost exactly) of Bali’s seasons: Phuket is seven degrees 53 minutes North, Bali eight degrees… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, May 16, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences What Rubbish! When we heard that “the authorities” – the quotation marks are possibly essential – had suddenly demolished a number of rather well known and heavily patronised watering holes favoured by the Bling-and-Bolly and Boys-and-Girls-Behaving-Badly sets on the beach at Batu Belig, a wreck and… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, April 18, 2012
That’s the Spirit Meghan Pappenheim, who will now be enjoying some well-earned downtime after the 2012 BaliSpirit Festival held at Ubud – where else? – from March 28 to April 1, tells us her moment of pure joy at this year’s event was taking part in Indra Widjanarko’s yoga class for kids. “Pure happiness for… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, April 4, 2012
Off With the Pixels Australia Network, the officially funded Asia-Pacific TV satellite channel run by the ABC, is always strapped for cash. It gets its money from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and is tasked with presenting an Australian image to the near abroad, so to speak. It does a lot of good things… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Feb. 8, 2012
Give Me Some Lava Big Apple expat, Nagacia jewellery designer and FOH (Friend of Hector) Tricia Kim has added an enterprising string to her bow. She has designed some specially branded logo charms for a new snip, clip and stick salon in Johannesburg, South Africa. We’ve seen photographs of them and they’re beautiful. The new… Continue reading
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Something in the Air
They’re always at it at Ubud, or so it seems; thinking about navel engagements, that is. A delightful piece by Marie Bee in the latest edition of La Gazette de Bali – the great French language monthly journal for the Francophone community – discusses what one can do when it is the saison des pluies… Continue reading
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