We watched the first episode of the new season of Better Call Saul last night. Very promising, particularly as I found the last season a bit flat. I was pleased in particular that I could follow much of the Spanish – I had thought I’d forgotten all of it.
Otherwise it was a quiet sort of day with plenty of work. The Boddhisattva is off to Vietnam for work and is rather nervous about coronavirus leaving her stranded. It does seem to be at a rather worrying stage, popping up in Italy and Iran and South Korea suddenly and in high numbers. Iran worries me as there are so many connections to countries with weak healthcare systems and concern with maintaining face. I would be very surprised if the virus has not reached Pakistan yet, but our reporting and so on is so poor that it’s under the radar.
Today is another quiet day of work. the Boddhisattva has successfully left the country but it remains to be seen if she’ll be able to return.
In the meantime, Malaysian politics took a turn for the interesting over the weekend and the first couple of weekdays, but things seem to have calmed down for now, with Mahathir – still – looking like the canny winner (again, for now) of the game of thrones they call politics there. He is a remarkable man. When the election result came in a couple of years ago it was evident what a different league he operated in compared to the pygmies surrounding him. A man to admire, however one disagrees with him. Moments of purely Malaysian farce also occurred as on one day there was a headline and news coverage that the agong had personally delivered KFC to the reporters camped outside his palace for hours and then the next day, new reports (as though in a vacuum) that the agong had personally delivered McDonalds to the reporters camped outside his palace for hours.