En route now to Sumba and I am writing this in the Bali airport hotel, probably the last chance for Internet access in a few days. I have set up my new computer which is beautiful despite the annoyances of Windows 10 and Microsoft’s efforts to Malaysia one give ones personal information, set up an […]
IT’S HERE
Hallelujah!!! (It’s the one on the right.)
At last, at last
My computer has been released by customs, more than a month after I ordered and over three weeks after I got the email stating it had been shipped. With luck it’ll arrive tomorrow. GMum arrived last night whilst I was dozing on the sofa. I leapt up to open the door to her and to […]
Adventures in e-commerce
A day of rearranging. The GF’s parent arrives tonight for six weeks so I cleared out the room and its wardrobe and had the bed made, and so on. I’m now without a study which would not be a significant hassle had it not been that my computer has still not arrived so my old […]
Peking man
Last night’s theatrical excursion proved a surprise success. We went to see Peking Man, by Cao Yu, performed at KL Pac, knowing nothing about it other than it was supposed to be one of the great Mandarin works, and that it was performed in Mandarin but there might be English surtitles. Fortunately there were, and […]
Bjonk
We went to see The Last Jedi last night. I enjoyed it, though it was too long, highly episodic, poorly paced and lacked the highs of other films. I really liked how it questioned the fantasy tropes of the other Star Wars films – that bloodline isn’t necessarily all, that heroic posturing doesn’t always work, […]
Gift
A late gift arrived this morning, so still technically yesterday in the US, with the Alabama election result. The Democrat narrowly beat the accused child molester and racist Republican. Phew. We went for dinner to Sushi Azabu last night. We’ve been there many times, so I wondered if it was a cop out, but as […]
Sepang stockpile
The delivery company says that the reason my laptop has spent the last 10 days in their warehouse in Sepang is because someone somewhere forgot to pass on the appropriate documentation to customs. This, they say has now been done. I have not received a daily update about the laptop being in the warehouse, so […]
Everyday is somethingday
The past few weeks I’ve written innumerable press materials for various virtuous days – anti-corruption day, youth day, volunteering day, mountain day, etc. I suppose they are as much an internal focusing mechanism as an actual way to increase public awareness. This weekend we went to Shah Alam, the capital of the neighbouring state of […]
LA in the rain
I’ve been binging on Raymond Chandler for the last little while. I read The Big Sleep whilst in Timor-Leste, followed by Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye, and am now most of the way through The High Window. Nothing has had the pyrotechnics of the first yet, though I love them all. They are […]