A frantic work day, with several different edits running in parallel, juggling a rainbow of track changes. I didn’t even bother changing into day clothes, putting on a kaftan instead as I knew there was no chance I’d make it out of the flat. Yesterday, Sunday, went on two excursions for similar meals, but a […]
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Dance dance dance
We went to see Ramli Ibrahim at KL Pac last night, accompanied by a couple of friends, a Malaysian Chinese woman and her Finnish husband. The place itself, an old railway yard I think, was lovely. Peaceful and green, speckled with lakes. It had rained earlier so it was very cool and damp, with yellow […]
Still tired
After yesterday, and a bad night with interrupted sleep, I woke tired. Mentally and physically; my legs feel as though I’ve been walking for hours. It’s Saturday so though I had work to finish I tried to nap after lunch, to no avail. A strange, bone-tiredness. I hope it passes soon.
Tired
Three taxing tasks today and I have just finished up (minus the usual faffing and stopping to make and have dinner) at 11. It was not the amount of work, though, so much as that it was all taxing – a financial analysis, a strategy analysis and finally a simple communication task but one based […]
Resolved
The decision was made – I’ve accepted in principle an extension to one of my editing contracts, but will not have to travel for it. Normally I like travelling for these things, but this time it would have been a little too close to the gentleman friend’s return after three weeks away, and come soon […]
Roller coaster Wednesday
An eventful day, with ups and downs and ending on a down and, perhaps, a decision to make.
Another country
Now reading: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Nigeria feels like a different world to anything I know. Strange to think that it’s set (I assume) around the time that I was growing up in Pakistan. There is no lack of striving and wheeling/dealing in Pakistan, but it feels less blatant there, though we are a nation […]
Ticket to Scotland
I went online to buy tickets to an Odissi dance performance at KLPac and saw that Nicola Sturgeon has announced a new Scottish referendum. My first thought was: not another referendum. My second: I wonder, if we must move back to the UK, could it be to Scotland? Trump’s election is an outrage and I […]
Quiet Sunday
Most of today was spent either working or procrastinating. There was a brief post-thunderstorm excursion to withdraw cash for the washing machine repair tomorrow, during which I made the error of buying a red bean croissant taiyaki to try later. This turned out to be hot so I had to eat it on the spot, […]
One page down
Slightly less interested by the Alderman book. The journalist is the most interesting character to me but far more time is spent ( so far, halfway through) with Mother Eve and Roxy, neither of whom feel like real people. Well,let’s see. I completed the first page of the comic. Played around with layers and discovered […]