I’ve had vivid, yet uninteresting, dreams for the past two nights. First I dreamt that the gentleman friend had backed very gently into a parked car, but fortunately had a traffic policewoman in the back seat who got out and dealt with the matter. The most notable and memorable thing about this dream was the […]
blog
Today
Article 50 will be triggered today. I have felt sad all day, not like the disbelieving anger on the day after the referendum, just sad and despairing. Another hope for cooperation and peace gone. The EU is certainly not perfect, but if only the Brexit movement could have been used for reform, not to gouge […]
No aam baat
The Japanese appear to have a variety of mango called ‘egg of the sun’ that can go for as much as 300,000 yen a pair. As a proud Pakistani I find it hard to believe that it outmatches a good southern Punjab mango, but who’s got 300k yen to test this? One article online described […]
Twentieth century women
We watched Twentieth Century Women over the weekend. I was completely blown away by it, and have since read a number of reviews and been irritated by those who missed the point completely. The New Yorker‘s film reviews, as always, being the most rage-inducing. It’s a film about three women, a boy and a man, […]
Missed yesterday
I missed yesterday’s post due to not remembering till I was well on my way to sleep, and think I must have fallen asleep minutes or seconds after remembering. So two posts today! Yesterday’s first excursion was to two slightly disappointing places. One was to a well-reviewed restaurant called Table and Apron in Damansara Kim. […]
Rays I have known
This is the first day in months that I don’t have a pile of work to do or think about. Not that there’s no work this weekend, but it’s not urgent. A strange feeling, hanging in between. Physically tired whilst mentally racing and feeling that there is something I should be doing. This is not […]
Placeholder
Comic finished. Next up is the longer one, this time on paper. More tomorrow.
Garlic presses I have known
1. Garlic wheel. Requires brute strength and strong wrists. Doesn’t actually crush. Cloves need to be pre-chopped. Difficult to get garlic out. Difficult to clean. Plastic retains smell of stale garlic. 2. Garlic wheel. Actual wheel containing blades. Very small, doesn’t take more than a pre-chopped clove. More of a chopper than anything. Chunks of […]
A bore
This is clearly the world’s most boring blog. It lacks even the hypnotic charm of those journals that record every detail of daily life over decades. A definite issue when one works from home, edits confidential documents, lives in a place where there are few friends, and has decided to limit discussion of politics and […]
Tryst with destiny
The date for Article 50, starting the Brexit process, has been announced. How dark these times feel, at least for the West. For Pakistan there were far darker days before this, but then at least there were bright uplands just out of sight, where others lived. Now a sludge engulfs the world, with much that […]