I arrived yesterday morning after a slightly ineptly managed but reasonably comfortable journey – PIA is clearly still working out how to do transit passengers and have decided that immigration must take place at the final destination, so there was some low level chaos as they tried to sort out passengers flying on from Karachi […]
Back from Phuket
Phuket was pleasant and I’m glad it’s all over. I don’t do well at luxury resorts at the best of times and, thanks to my work, am acutely sensitive at this time to the ways in which tourism development affects local populations, evicting them from homes and traditional lands, and overlaying their culture with that […]
GLOW
Finished the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling TV series last night. What a great series. I almost don’t want to watch the next season, this was so good. So refreshing to have a really high quality and intelligent series that was also good hearted and funny. It’s set in the 1980s and is a fictionalised account […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Silk shopping
I went to Masjid India yesterday to buy some silk for a sari blouse for a wedding in Phuket. It was rather embarrassing to realise that at this advanced age I still have no real sense of fabric. I don’t think it’s particularly good silk. Ah well. I’ve found a tailor online, and if she […]
Shit restaurants of KL
Just back from lunch and thinking dreamily of a website concept: Shit Restaurants of KL. This would focus particularly on restaurants which have superb reviews – in the first case because they have clearly paid off a reviewer, and in the second because they are instagrammable but the food and experience isn’t up to the […]
Track changes
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 […]