I have just woken up in a house on Jalan Pimping which, despite its name, is a quiet, wealthy street in Ampang, with largish houses set along the lines of one of KL’s many low hills. It is the home of a friend and we are staying here after having moved out from our KLCC […]
Shadows ahead
The Gentleman Friend’s farewell party was yesterday, at the large and empty home of Green Thumb. Only a few people were invited: the Woodland Creature and Maitreyi, and Instagirl and her techie spouse. It went on too long for my taste as social events invariably do, but it was pleasant. There was one fine moment […]
Discharged
He was discharged this morning, after 2 days without a reaction. Quite weak and full of pinpricks, poor fellow, and it’s not a great time to feel feeble what with our move in 10 days. Anyhow, it’s done. And for less than I feared; I had misunderstood the billing and prepared myself to pay thrice […]
Carrot blender
On Monday night I was dreaming of an ad, the ad was the whole dream. It was like a web ad (something I see rarely thanks to ad blockers), with white space and strong colours and Helvetica script. It was an ad for a blender for carrots. In the midst of the ad, I became […]
Troubling weekend
Well, troubling is not quite the right word. It was a bit restless, I think I’m now close enough to the move to be both overwhelmed by what needs to be done and it’s still too early to take any action on it. Today I was very restless indeed. First we met the Woodland Creature […]
Shoplifter
I had probably my final char kway teow today – no longer my favourite Malaysian food, but still very delicious. On the way back I went to Pavilion to get groceries as the GF returns from his working week in London today, and first went upstairs to Daiso to look for specialised cleaning supplies that […]
Recapturing the castle
I reread after a long time I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and was struck by just how sensual the book is. Every single sense, and a lot of sex, sex everywhere. Cassandra, the narrator, is one of the great voices in 20th century literature, the grandmother in some ways of the teenaged Alison […]
Morning mee
Another breakfast excursion today, this time to Pudu, one of the old Chinese parts of town known for especially delicious Chinese food. It’s about a 40 minute walk but I decided to take the trundling old monorail to Imbi and walk 10 minutes from there. It was around 9 on a Sunday so very quiet […]
Brunch
A pleasant morning, having brunch with Maitreyi and the Woodland Creature, the two people I shall most miss in KL. We talked about Chinese and I tried to understand something I’ve long wondered about, ie whether to a native Chinese speaker fán sounds more similar to fàn or to fén, but couldn’t really get a […]
Myanmar breakfast
I had to go to the GF’s office near the Petaling Street area to collect some documents today, so decided to leave a bit early and go to one of the many anonymous Burmese cafes dotted around the area. I went to Gantawin, perhaps the safest option as it actually has a marker on Google […]