A film a day this weekend! This is very unusual for me. The third was Trainspotting 2, which we had started some weeks ago but there was something wrong with the print. I thought it was very good, the best film of the weekend, despite having reservations during the first 20-minute long watch. The callbacks […]
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Two movies
On Friday it was Dunkirk at the imax. I find Christopher Nolan invariably lets me down. This was better than Inception, but was let down by some sentimentality and dire dialogue. As always some magnificent images though nothing to match the planetary wave in Inception. Nice to see a war film that was neither ‘war […]
Political afternoon
First watching the live blogs on Metafilter on the US ‘skinny repeal’ healthcare bill, with John McCain’s surprise ‘no’ vote killing it. Then, immediately, turning closer to home, to where the Supreme Court of Pakistan gave its verdict on Nawaz Sharif. Sharif is gone. I have mixed feelings about all of this. On one hand […]
You’ve got the power
We were watching Glow last night – excellent show – and came on the episode with the training montage, overlaid by the most familiar song – so familiar that my eyes glazed over and I was eight years old again, watching a video cassette of my favourite cartoon, the Transformers movie. The song was Dare […]
A different league
I collected my new sari blouse today and was in awe. It is not a perfect fit, but what a piece of engineering compared to the blouses we have made in Pakistan. It is basically a brassiere handmade to size. Certainly one can’t wear anything underneath it. I was particularly impressed by the eyes for […]
Post-industrial paradise
I had lunch with a person who recently wrote a white paper on deindustrialisation in Malaysia. Fascinating how this has suddenly become such a hot topic – not just deindustrialisation, at least in developed countries, but the next step, the de-servicing of the economy with AI and automation taking over. I listened to a radio […]
Booked for Lahore
I bought my ticket today, annoyingly the many air miles I accrued flying between London and Lahore during my mother’s illness were still not enough to buy the ticket. I got a decent price anyway and will have to try to pass on the miles to someone else. I have an idea for a new […]
The best shark
The best shark is undoubtedly the tasselled wobbegong, although it would have been even better had it been named the tassellated wobbelong as I originally misread it. However, it is a fine looking creature. Runners up include the porbeagle (well named), the goblin shark (peculiar) and the cookie cutter shark (commendable hunting strategy). The hammerhead […]
More silk
The Gentleman Friend is in Johor Bahru for work, I took today and yesterday to continue preparations for the wedding. Yesterday I went down to Brickfields to a tailor to stitch the blouse. And today I decided (on the tailor’s advice) that instead of a satiny silk I should have a chiffon blouse and went […]
Thickens like roux
The plot thickens re former classfellow Jared Kushner. A friend dug up the old yearbook to find his list of activities as a student included, among other items, ‘Cooking Editor, Current Magazine‘. Cooking editor?