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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 26, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Singapore Sling-off It’s been a while since we were in Singapore so we had been quite looking forward to getting back there this month. We had been amusing ourselves with thoughts about minding the platform gap again, but the MRT was full of very pushy people Continue reading
British initiative, Dimbulah Mountain Estate, Edwina Blush, Good Coffee, Great Burgers, Great Panjandrums, Incorrigible Optimists, Indonesian portraiture, Lasalle Investment Management, Napoleone Buonaparte, National Gallery of Indonesia, National Portrait Gallery Canberra, Stamford Raffles, True Autonomy, Yak Awards -
HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 15, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Probability Prabowo People seem to be somewhat exercised over the coalition that failed presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has fashioned in the national legislature. Why this should be so is an interesting question. Indonesia is far from alone in being a democratic entity in which rival political Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Oct. 1, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Zesty Little Soup, Again This year’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival kicks off today without the assistance of V.S. Naipaul, the Tolstoy of Trinidad, who withdrew from the program last month apparently dissatisfied with the quantum of perquisites set to come his way. Never Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Sep. 17, 2014
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences In the Picture Myuran Sukumaran, the British-born Australian who has been on death row in Kerobokan Jail for eight years awaiting a firing squad for his leading part in the infamous 2005 Bali Nine drug smuggling case, has been on show in Melbourne. Well, his art Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser May 29, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Family Time The ties that bind otherwise widely disparate families and characters into a familial network are very apparent in Bali, as in many other cultures. They are decreasingly visible in western societies where the state has long since taken over the role of matriarch (or Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, April 3, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences In the Pink as Always Gaye Warren of Bali Pink Ribbon tells us this year’s fundraising walk – on April 28 at Nusa Dua – will be better than ever, and even more fun. We’re going along for our annual outing in fetching pink and to Continue reading
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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 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, July 11, 2012
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences My Hat, it’s Good to See You A spell in Lombok can do wonders for the jaded soul, and thus it was recently when Diary and Distaff took some lovely Balinese friends from Nusa Dua, a family of five, to the island and to Gili Trawangan 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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