Here I am the next morning, still in the Bali airport hotel. We checked in yesterday where we learned that the flight had been rescheduled from 1330 to 1530. 1530 rolled by and there was no sign of an aeroplane at the gate. At 1630 an aeroplane arrived and at 1730 we boarded. We sat […]
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In Bali
En route now to Sumba and I am writing this in the Bali airport hotel, probably the last chance for Internet access in a few days. I have set up my new computer which is beautiful despite the annoyances of Windows 10 and Microsoft’s efforts to Malaysia one give ones personal information, set up an […]
News
To think the Guardian is one of the best of the lot.
IT’S HERE
Hallelujah!!! (It’s the one on the right.)
At last, at last
My computer has been released by customs, more than a month after I ordered and over three weeks after I got the email stating it had been shipped. With luck it’ll arrive tomorrow. GMum arrived last night whilst I was dozing on the sofa. I leapt up to open the door to her and to […]
Adventures in e-commerce
A day of rearranging. The GF’s parent arrives tonight for six weeks so I cleared out the room and its wardrobe and had the bed made, and so on. I’m now without a study which would not be a significant hassle had it not been that my computer has still not arrived so my old […]
Peking man
Last night’s theatrical excursion proved a surprise success. We went to see Peking Man, by Cao Yu, performed at KL Pac, knowing nothing about it other than it was supposed to be one of the great Mandarin works, and that it was performed in Mandarin but there might be English surtitles. Fortunately there were, and […]
Bjonk
We went to see The Last Jedi last night. I enjoyed it, though it was too long, highly episodic, poorly paced and lacked the highs of other films. I really liked how it questioned the fantasy tropes of the other Star Wars films – that bloodline isn’t necessarily all, that heroic posturing doesn’t always work, […]
Gift
A late gift arrived this morning, so still technically yesterday in the US, with the Alabama election result. The Democrat narrowly beat the accused child molester and racist Republican. Phew. We went for dinner to Sushi Azabu last night. We’ve been there many times, so I wondered if it was a cop out, but as […]
Sepang stockpile
The delivery company says that the reason my laptop has spent the last 10 days in their warehouse in Sepang is because someone somewhere forgot to pass on the appropriate documentation to customs. This, they say has now been done. I have not received a daily update about the laptop being in the warehouse, so […]