Last night I figured out how to use Mediabang on my iPad. Right now I’m practicing with a 5 pager I did a couple of years ago, which was inked and coloured etc, but not particularly well. It seems a good thing to practice with, and once it’s done I’ll put it online. Either here […]
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The washing machine conked out today. Very tedious but a benefit of living in a rented flat that I am only inconvenienced but the landlord has to arrange for the repair. I say landlord but I’ve only ever met the landlady, a Chinese lady who owns several properties. I had for the past year pictured […]
At some point
At some point in the last couple of years I became an old school feminist. Never noticed it happen, but it did. Strange to have spent all of one’s life marching along, to one day realise the vanguard has marched right past you.
A different kind of char kway teow
This is what I learned today: that Taiping style char kway teow is wet, the regular kind (the Penang kind) is dry. I prefer Penang style, I think; wet noodles here in Malaysia tend to be rather gloopy and feel as though some sort of thickener might be involved. What an inglorious first post. But […]