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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, June 26, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences May the Farce be with You A month in France is a useful reminder of one’s European heritage. That is, specifically European, not “Anglo” as this is understood to encompass English-speaking British-North American-Antipodean culture. French farce, for example, holds great value beyond mere entertainment for Anglos… Continue reading
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Taking the medicine – shock and Awe in the Amazon
Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: If you were sick, I mean really, and happened to be abandoned on a sandbank in the Amazon, would you trust a chain-smoking motorbike mechanic with a fetish for vomit and a blunt machete who turns up out of nowhere, stinking of cigarettes and says, I can be helping you if you drink thess! Deep in the… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, June 12, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences A Quirk a Day The best part about writing a diary is that you can be as quirky as you like. It is thought, or used to be thought before energy drinks laced with high-octane caffeine came along and fried everyone’s brains, that an apple… 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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Voodoo in a Pinstripe – Kingdom of the sick #1
Originally posted on Passionfruitcowgirl: After the announcement last week of Angelina Jolie’s ‘decision’ to remove her healthy breasts because of medical advice, and the trillion-dollar industry that is benefiting from her influence, I decided to publish a little story from Sydney in 2003, when I was told I was terminally ill and would never walk… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, May 15, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences It’s Tough at the Top Governor Made Pastika has faced some tough challenges during his term as Bali’s elected leader (today, May 15, is the gubernatorial election and he’s running again, vying for a second term) which have in some instances not been because… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY, Bali Advertiser, May 1, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences You’ve Got to Have Sole We gate-crashed a good meeting recently at the immensely comfortable – for superannuated diarists it is also immensely unaffordable – Semara Luxury Villa Resort on the Ungasan cliffs. Well gate-crashed is perhaps too strong a term: Robert Epstone of… Continue reading
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Insensitivity, Victimisation and Compassion
Originally posted on Borborigmus in Bali: This is a story of blind bigotry, injustice, denial, and a culture of blaming victims. It is also a story of wonderful compassion and tolerance. In September of 2012, a 14-year-old schoolgirl made an error of judgement that changed her life. She befriended a young man on Facebook, one… Continue reading
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The Dos And Don’ts Of Dating A Princess
Originally posted on Lottie Nevin – The Red House Diaries: Once upon a time there was a stunningly beautiful Princess called Lara Jonggrang. She was so beautiful and lovely that absolutely everybody wanted to get into her knickers. Voluptuous Lara lived with her mum, the Queen, and her dad, King Prabu Boko in the west… Continue reading
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Apr. 17
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences The Joke: 1 One looks for good news, in a diary such as this, so as to record – poorly no doubt in the eyes of many – the little illuminations that lighten one’s days on the Island of the Gods. Occasionally one is rewarded. And… Continue reading
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