Here I am, in Sydney. I arrived last night, after a flight from Singapore in which a chorus of children cried throughout all eight hours. I particularly felt for a man with a long-suffering expression who had, in the seat behind him, a screaming toddler, and in the seat in front of him, a shouting […]
A walk in the park
This morning I rose fairly early and went to the Botanic Garden to meet someone from Metafilter. It’s always odd meeting someone one has only ever seen online, at least partly as one can’t really judge their size. One person I mey last year, whom I’d known for years but only online, turned out to […]
Too much snacking
Another very pleasant day, albeit another one in which I didn’t do nearly as much work as I needed to. In the morning, the Bodhisattva and I went off for kaya toast and soft boiled egg, followed by coffee. All extremely nice. The cafe was one the GF and I had been to on our […]
Unwanted visitor
Much as I love coming to Singapore, it doesn’t much love me back – I always get hauled aside for extra screening for some reason. Anyway, I was eventually let through. The day was spent travelling – it started well, with a tuktuk journey to the airport, followed by an easy flight to KLIA2 where […]
Dawn at the mountain temple
Tomorrow I leave Cambodia. This morning, the GF and I woke up in the dark and padded down to where the tuktuk awaited us. We made the 20 minute drive in the dark – not even the ticket collectors were around – and stopped at Phnom Bakheng, the mountain temple. There was no one else […]
To the capital
We’re in Phnom Penh. I of course have been working frantically, with no end in sight. I was working and in meetings till past midnight last night, then woke at 5.30 as usual, had a shower and started working, worked in the car except when I felt car sick (exacerbated by the driver’s repellently fruity […]
Desolation
Today we took a car first to Kampot for breakfast and then up to Bogor, the French hill resort. It was a surprisingly gentle ascent, though perhaps comparing it to Murree etc is silly (speaking of which I learned recently that Murree Brewery used to be run by the family of General Dyer of Jallianwala […]
Nursery rhyme
Another fleeting dream, this time of an online conversation (as are so many conversations now, but still disoncerting in a dream) and one of the participants was Elon Musk. We all rolled our eyes when we saw his user name (I know others did too, though it was all text based) and then he started […]
Today, outside
Today I feel I have nothing to write, as nothing much happened other than desultory work late into the night. The GF and his mother went to Rabbit Island and enjoyed their trip, I enjoyed having things to myself though would have preferred it to be without work. It’s been a breezy day, a little […]
The past
This morning, or rather early afternoon, we rented a car to take us to a pepper farm. In the morning I woke up early as usual, bought some rice and assorted meats from the breakfast woman along with a steamed dumping containing coconut. and then read for a couple of hours. At some point the […]