Did any of you see this - personally I will be brushing up on my skittles game and looking for bamboo bedpans. [url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/bali-daily/2012-10-09/plans-laid-welcome-foreign-retirees.html]Plans laid to welcome foreign retirees | The Jakarta Post[/url]
Did any of you see this - personally I will be brushing up on my skittles game and looking for bamboo bedpans. [url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/bali-daily/2012-10-09/plans-laid-welcome-foreign-retirees.html]Plans laid to welcome foreign retirees | The Jakarta Post[/url][/QUOTE]The article was actually in the Bali Daily version of the Jakarta Post.......so not available to all JP readers. I also thought it a little amusing so posted on another Indonesian Expat Forum but got an underwhelming response...seems some expats are NOT enthusiastic about spending time in a retirement home in Bulelang or Bangli!!!
Borborigmus wrote an amusing article on this subject, earlier this year.[url=http://borborigmus.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/attracting-the-elderly-tourist/]Attracting The Elderly Tourist Borborigmus in Bali[/url]
Ha I reckon that the lack of response was probably to due more with their feeling part of the problem and not the solution. I went to a party the other week and was surprised to be about the youngest person there (excluding the locals, sorry). The mean ("mean", as in nasty) age there was about 72 physically. Mental age ranged from about 5 to 500. But it was fun once we got going - all of you who were there will now recognise me, if you didn't before. I was the guy who kept saying "It's all going to end badly". Haha to which I would further add, just to lighten the atmosphere a bit more, "and probably ignored by the care staff in a pool of our own urine". I find that this age group reacts well to such motivational reparte, don't you? The alternative is to endlessly discuss sicknesses, symptoms and dogs. So make hay while the sun shines and have a fecking good time while man's best friend (hint: it aint a dog) and you still can stand. Oh and if you find your next party getting a bit long in the tooth call your friendly neighbourhood Markit. I work for cheese and Bintang.