Tag: Bali
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Silence is No Longer Golden
BOOK REVIEW: GODS AND DEMONS A foreign correspondent’s memoir | Deborah Cassrels It’s certainly not Scoop, and Deborah Cassrels is hardly Evelyn Waugh. But there are enough fanciful echoes of imagined distant drums in Cassrels’ book, and there’s sufficient colourful reportage, to prompt consideration of the demerits of figjamery. According to the book cover, it…
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Shibboleths Revealed
HECTOR’S DIARY His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Aug. 31. 2016 Expatria, the spreading collection of dots that peppers the map of Bali like kibbutzim, as if it were the beginnings of an overbearing expropriation, had an unpleasant frisson of ferment recently over the tragic death of a policeman in an…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 13, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Skulduggery and Other Local Habits The benefits that accompany living in Bali – or anywhere in Indonesia – far outweigh the demerits of doing so. The culture is inclusive, at least on a superficial level that satisfies most tastes; the people readily return a smile to…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser Sept. 4, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Ugly and Over It Australian tourists get a bad rap in Bali. In some ways that’s understandable. The appalling behaviour of some of them in the more licentious parts of the tourist strip and (to be brutally honest) the astonishingly gauche naivety of a…
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HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser Aug. 21, 2013
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Dancing on an Ethereal Stage It is always tragic when someone young and full of life is taken from us by that inevitable final caller, death. It is doubly so when the person concerned has been among the brightest talents around. So it is with…
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HECTOR’S DIARY (in the Bali Advertiser, Aug. 7, 2013)
His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Jam Session The Ubud Jazz Festival (Friday and Saturday, Aug. 9-10 at ARMA) is one among many annual events that crowd the calendar there. And since jazz is among the more useful creations of human ingenuity, it’s well worth the trouble. Jazz is a fundamentally anarchic…
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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…
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