Ah, finally we get to the Pakatan, previously the underdogs and eventual winners. A couple of good ones here, starting with the Eye of Sauron that is the coalition and PKR flag, and the superb rocket. The rocket is one of the best, and had it not been for the fact that it doesn’t look […]
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Heath stop
I had a GP’s appointment in South End Green for my eczema which, annoyingly, has cleared up completely since I made the appointment and apparently the NHS doesn’t prescribe emolients any more anyway, so it was rather frustrating. South End Green is nearer Belsize Park than Hampstead, and I strolled there a good hour early […]
Party flags III
Here we come to the outer circles of the Barisan. Another superhero flag, this time for a Doc Manhattan figure, plus the inexplicable Muslim Congress rose.
Party flags II
Some more Barisan flags here, mostly from East Malaysia where they go in for certain iconography: outline maps, outlines of Mt Kinabalu, and handshakes. I like the MyPPP flag the best on this page; it’s basically a superhero insignia.
Hamilton woes
My birthday present to the GF this year is (or will be next month) a pair of tickets to Hamilton as he is a great fan and has virtually memorised the entire show. I was fortunate to find two quite good seats on Ticketmaster and was full of praise for their anti-scalping measure, ie making […]
Party flags I
I collected images of all the Malaysian party flags before the election, but my snide commentary on them was promptly rendered outdated by the election result. However, the flags are generally of a very high standard (and some of an exceptionally low standard), so I might as well start posting them for posterity’s sake. We’ll […]
Self-preservation
I have another cold. Not a bad one, but enough that I’ve lost my appetite, feel unwell, couldn’t sleep last night, feel unwell, and have had a bad headache all day. I did manage to convince myself for a short preiod that I was going into toxic shock, rather than a mere cold, which suggests […]
Aging
Annihilation is one of the words I find impossible to spell (I wonder which commonly known words are the hardest?), and also the name of the film the GF and I watched last night. I had read the book by Jeff VanderMeer and enjoyed its hallucinogenic lunacy. The image of the upside-down tower stayed with […]
Big sleep
We watched this last night. I’m afraid I dozed through bits of it, but in any case I didn’t find it as engaging as the book. Maybe I just love the book too much as it’s clearly considered a great film. This morning I did some tidying and cleaning and accounting, all very satisfying, then […]
Brexit march
I wish I could have gone to the Brexit march in Central London today. It’s something I feel very strongly about, and also entirely disempowered about, so it would have been good to have made that small gesture. But today was the day that someone’s ashes were to be confined to the ground, in the […]