We went to Klang this morning. A small impressively-named town that is the seat of the Selangor Sultan and now, basically, a suburb of KL. It was a short and pleasant visit amidst quiet streets sleepy because it was a holiday and no one spends their holiday in Klang. At one point a car stopped […]
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Feminist credentials
My feminist credentials suffered a body blow upon watching Melania Trump’s UN speech. That said, I am not sure that one can’t be a staunch feminist and be critical of a bad dress, bad botox job and bad barbie doll style. A rude feminist, perhaps.
Escape! continued
A profound lack of motivation continues, largely around work but also in the ‘what’s the use of it all?’ sort of way. Yesterday the GF was working from home and we decided to go out for lunch. I had found an assam laksa place towards Ampang which was supposed to be good, so we walked […]
Escape!
Work and daily life seems particularly tedious these days to the extent that I was daydreaming today about going to Macau and placing everything I own on 0 in roulette, as that would offer a clear sign of something or the other. Yesterday we met up with a couple of friends for brunch, not the […]
Malaysia Day
Yesterday was Malaysia Day, celebrating the addition to the federation of Sarawak and Sabah and not to be confused with Merdeka (independence) some weeks earlier. I gather Sarawakians and Sabahans get quite irritated by Merdeka. Interesting tensions here. We went to Hojo tea in Midvalley, a huge mall conglomeration surrounded on all sides by large […]
Poor show
An unconscionably long time since my last post and I did not pass a single day (almost) without a pang of guilt. In the past weeks I have spent a few days in Karachi, over a week in Taiwan, and been clobbered by work upon my return to KL. Excuses, excuses, but hopefully this is […]
OMG
I just finished the third volume of NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy. What a way to end. The first volume, The Fifth Season, was fantastic and really ended on a high. The second, The Obelisk Gate, seemed to me to simultaneously flag and to jump the shark. The third volume, The Stone Sky, brought the […]
Birthday
A birthday was celebrated yesterday, not mine. I have arranged for all the servants’ children to start school, and yesterday’s morning excitement was taking photos, buying uniforms and getting them registered. Today they went to school. My nephew was also to start school today but a lingering cold meant it had to be pushed back.
Sheep rump fat
That was the best meal in Islamabd: a trip to a Shinwari restaurant on the Kashmir highway with a Pathan friend who selected the meat himself, chatted up the cooks, and arranged for a delicious platter of namkeen mutton tikkas, a pound of sheep rump fat and some mutton karhai. Westerners – and many Pakistanis […]
Islamabad
Arrived here yesterday after what felt like a very long, hot drive. The evening before I helped deal with servant crises and my nephew’s illness – I have been dealing with a lot of things on this trip.