After the GF and his mother arose we booked ourselves a car to take us to the Gereja Ayam, a place I have wanted to visit ever since I first heard about it. Many years ago, a man had a vision, telling him to build a church for the lord. The church would be in […]
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Big old thing
We arrived in Jogja last night after circling the airport for what felt like a really long time. Torrential rain had closed the airport. It also closed up the streets, so it was a long, slow drive to Borobudur where we were staying in a hotel attached to the site itself. It was very dark […]
Rush
We leave for Yogyakarta today, earlier than I thought. The flight is at 1500; I had thought we were to leave for the airport then. Of course, some work has come in and I won’t finish before leaving, so my computer accompanies me so I can work on the flight. I am not sure what […]
Class component
I’m troubled about the classist nature of some of Pakistan’s answer to #MeToo – the women (only women that I have seen so far) telling stories about being molested as children. They are all stories of molestation by domestic servants or other lower class individuals. Cooks, drivers, gardeners, qaris. I imagine that there is more […]
While we’re on the subject
A friend of my parents would take me on motorcycle rides around the neighbourhood and make me sit on his penis. He would kiss me goodbye and slip his tongue inside my mouth. When I was eight or nine I had to do something about it. I went and sat on his lap and showed […]
Too much travelling
A long-expected and somewhat dreaded phone call today – nothing disastrous or upsetting, but I have to go to Lahore as soon as possible to sign some documents that must be done in person. I spent the evening trying to work out when I could go. At first it seemed that I would have to […]
Again, get out
Rewatched Get Out. What a fantastic film. This time, of course, I watched it knowing what was to come, having thought about it for many months and read other people’s thoughts, so it was interesting to see how it was all put together. I also noticed the careful, confident ratcheting up of absurdity this time, […]
Tooth drawingly painful
I am trying to complete an application for a consultancy for which I am pre-eminently qualified, for which I have examples and even pre-written text answering to each point, and it still feels like hell.
Mirror view
Last night the GF’s friend and partner arrived from Bali where they spent their time on massages and gluten-free food. In KL they are staying in the hotel attached to our building, directly opposite our’s, so we took a look. It was rather odd, a mirror image of our flat, with grey painted walls and […]
Shit holes
I am amazed at the fuss about Trump calling the non-white world a shit hole. It is not as though the US and Americans generally do not consider us shit holes for not being American, whether or not their own ancestors are originally from those shit holes. Moreover, it is hardly the vilest thing that […]