‘Virginia is getting a non-promotion promotion. She’s getting added responsibilities but nothing else is changing.’ ‘I….’ – a laugh – ‘I was going to say, typical, that’s fucking typical. But it’s not, is it? It’s really not, just what I would have said once.’ ‘It is a bit typical. This is MegaBig Corp after all.’ […]
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New fan
We have a new fan in the living room and it has made me realise how inferior (though pleasingly colonial in appearance) the previous one was. This is silent and even at medium speed gives a nice gentle breeze across the largish living room. When in England I do miss fans, having grown up with […]
Diverging paths
Perhaps I should have been a hiphop editor. I seem to have the knack.
Back to the Mah Meri
For the third weekend in a row it was dominated by Mah Meri spirit carvings. We went to the Petronas Gallery where there were a few on display and the GF bought some to add to his collection. A couple of the carvers were present and they told us the stories of the spirits we […]
Train drain
Yesterday was Saturday and, aside from working and getting myself some seekh kebabs for lunch, I had decided to go to Midvalley, a mall, where (rumour had it) rashguards can be purchased. Midvalley is located in a sort of island with limited points of access and the traffic is always obscene on weekends. The only […]
Now…
Our neighbours have taken to playing, and singing along to, what seems to be the entire 1990s run of Now That’s What I Call Music between midnight and 3 every night. It’s disconcerting to be woken up a song that was everywhere for a week during my mid-teens, so that the opening bars are instantly […]
Bumdhamaka
We have booked our return to London, on 28 May, a day that will live for me always. It is what I privately call bum dhamaka day, on which twenty years ago when the mountain turned white in Chaghai, when Pakistan tested the bomb some days after India’s test. It felt like such a betrayal. […]
A flashback to an earlier time
Three hundred Ramayanas .
Blight on the world
All Pakistanis, I among them, are in a state of near-apoplexy at the Australian cricket team’s admission of ball tampering and the way it has been presented as a heroic admission of a personal lapse, with a single – a single! – match suspension for the captain who got his most junior player to do […]
Animal dreams
Two vivid animal dreams over the past few nights. In one, I was to ride around a meadow on a horse, but get back inside before the wolf attacked. The horse’s back was very vivid indeed. On one circuit as I was at the far end of the meadow I looked up to see a […]