Tag: Ubud

• Peak Effort

  HECTOR’S DIARY Titbits from his regular diet of worms The Cage, Bali | Saturday, Apr. 28, 2018   DIAN Cahyadi, with whom we had the pleasure of working in Lombok more than decade ago, on a little and now extinct monthly newspaper called the Lombok Times, has achieved a new personal best for 2018. Actually, it’s […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  April 28, 2018

  Australia, Bali, General Interest, Indonesia, Lombok, Old Friends, Public Administration

  Boat Turn-backs, Candi Dasa, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Kuta Crawl, Music, Refugees, Safe Ships, Travel, Ubud, VFRs

• Blots on the Landscape

  HECTOR’S DIARY   His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Jul. 20, 2016   Where to start? We’ll leave aside (for the moment) certain segments of the bar scene where duty of care, which shouldn’t be an entirely foreign concept, is spelt WTF, and winks and nods at malfeasant bad behaviour, if […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  July 20, 2016

  Art, Australia, Bali, Books, Environment, Festivals, Food, General Interest, History, Indonesia, Indonesian Law, Ubud

  Adrian Vickers, Australia, Bali, Bar riskers, Dog racing, Made Wijaya, Marian Carroll, NSW Premier Mike Baird, Sand extraction, Sophie Digby, Tim Hannigan, Ubud

• Gaia Waives the Rules

   Hector’s Bali Diary His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences June 22, 2016   This seemed to be the consensus among the worriers, at least, those who observe ephemeral climatic events as a message from someone or other (and of course, themselves) about the dangers of human environmental iniquity. But climate is cyclical […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 21, 2016

  Animal Welfare, Art, Australia, Bali, Charity, Economic Development, Environment, Social Development, Ubud

  Australian election, Australian Sex Party, Bali Arts Festival, BAWA, Garuda, Governor Made Mangku Pastika, Mercy Corps, Miss Mermaid Bali, President Joko Widodo, Ric Shreves, Ross Fitzgerald, Surf2Save, The Melting Pot, Tolak Reklamasi, Tommy Michael Costa Rica, Tomy Winata, Ubud, visas on arrival, Waterman’s Week 2016

• 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 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  January 6, 2015

  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

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser Jun 11, 2014

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   No Place for Mugs Airlines operate on razor-thin financial margins, the virtual space between the cost of operating a flight and the net revenue gained from it. That’s no bad thing, since it is evidence that competition benefits people who want to fly, which is […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  June 10, 2014

  Australia, Bali, Indonesia

  Bali Marathon, Bali Pink Ribbon, Problem Passengers, Street Crime, Ubud

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Apr. 30

    His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences    A Shocking Disgrace Someone made a video of quarantine officials killing 31 dogs by cruelly amateurish injection at Gilimanuk on Apr. 15 (it looked like strychnine from the way the dogs died). It doesn’t matter that the video was made by someone who had […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  April 29, 2014

  General Interest

  Alistair Speirs, Clean-Up Day, Damon Galgut, Dog Killings, E.M. Forster, Jimbaran Beach Club, Lombok Ikat, Made Wijaya, Muggers, rabies, Robin Osborne, Street Security, Ubud, Villa Sayang, West Timor

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Apr. 2, 2014

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   On the Wrong Bus An outbreak of gratuitous and unnecessary angst caught our eye the just before the 2014 Bali Spirit Festival got under way. It was said – by dog lady and artist Linda Buller of all people, on Facebook, the favoured resort of […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  April 1, 2014

  General Interest

  Aravina rose, Artisan wines, Bali Spirit Festival, Bali’s Australian retirees, Chris Salans, Jajan Pasar, Kerobokan, KK9 project, Linda Buller, Lizzie Love, Meghan Pappenheim, Noela Newton, Ubud, water projects, Wise moscato

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Jan. 8, 2014

    His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Beat That! The Beat Magazine edition of Dec. 20 carried a little feature quoting what it said were a few notable people around town on what 2013 was like for them and what they were looking forward to in 2014. Hector, in the person of […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  January 7, 2014

  General Interest

  Beach Rubbish, Byron Bay, Candi Dasa, Four Seasons, Ganesha Fertility Retreats, Hengki Pudjianto, Rabies Threat, The Beat Mag, Ubud, Year of the Monkey

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Nov. 27, 2013

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences   Get Smart! Get Agent 99 It may all have blown over by the time this edition of the Diary appears. (Well, no it won’t, even though it certainly should have.) The piquant sauce de jour these days is the spy scandal that has embroiled Indonesia […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  November 26, 2013

  General Interest

  Amarejeet Singh Takhi, Australia, Bali, Barb McKenzie, Daylight Robbery, Get Smart, Indonesia, Low-Life Grubs, Rotary Club of Bali Seminyak, Santa, Ubud, Warisan

• 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 […]

  8degreesoflatitude

  August 20, 2013

  General Interest

  Bali, Byrning Spears, Dance, Edwina Blush, Lion Air, NIMBYs, Nyoman Sura, ROLE Foundation, Ubud, Villa Kitty, World Internet Forum