There's no such thing as a free lunch...Or is there?

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It's official. The next president of Indonesia is former army general Prabowo Subianto. Quite how the next five years will pan out is anyone's guess but hopefully the foreign pundits who always bring up his dodgy human rights record will be proven wrong. Nonetheless, on policy making, Prabowo's popularist move to literally offer the poor 'a free lunch' every day of the week does not augur well for the future. Such a policy - if it ever came to fruition - would cost a phenomenal amount of money and likely lead to huge inefficiencies (food waste) and poor incentives (make people lazy). Another concern is Prabowo's strong nationalist bent. Thus, in the possible event that he finds himself with his back against the proverbial wall in the face of stern economic challenges, there is a big chance that he will simply scapegoat foreigners. But he will have to be careful. Construction of the new capital city, Nusantara, for example, is highly dependent on foreign in

Julia Roberts: 'Eat, Pray, Love' in Bali

I’d like to "valet park" them into a new life.
> Elizabeth Gilbert in writing about a destitute family in India

You live in New York, your life is crap and you’ve just gone through a divorce.

But never mind. You’ve stacks of cash, so you buy plane tickets to a few countries that you’ve always wanted to visit.

Your final port of call is Bali and you have so much sex there with an exotic Brazilian that you get a bladder infection (certainly enough to take your mind of the depressing divorce).

To get cured you visit a medicine woman who gives you a foul-smelling concoction of roots, leaves, berries, turmeric and – just for good measure - a “shaggy mass of something that looks like witches’ hair”.

And then it’s back to the States, a completely revitalized women...

And that, in a nutshell, is the synopsis of the film (based on the best selling autobiographical book 'Eat, Pray, Love' by Elizabeth Gilbert) that Julie Roberts is now filming in Bali.

Crikes – I would have rather had Japanese AV star Miyabi come over to Bali!

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  1. Thanks, now I won't have to read the book. Glad I'm in Sumbawa while they're doing the film.

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