The decision was made – I’ve accepted in principle an extension to one of my editing contracts, but will not have to travel for it. Normally I like travelling for these things, but this time it would have been a little too close to the gentleman friend’s return after three weeks away, and come soon […]
Roller coaster Wednesday
An eventful day, with ups and downs and ending on a down and, perhaps, a decision to make.
Another country
Now reading: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Nigeria feels like a different world to anything I know. Strange to think that it’s set (I assume) around the time that I was growing up in Pakistan. There is no lack of striving and wheeling/dealing in Pakistan, but it feels less blatant there, though we are a nation […]
Ticket to Scotland
I went online to buy tickets to an Odissi dance performance at KLPac and saw that Nicola Sturgeon has announced a new Scottish referendum. My first thought was: not another referendum. My second: I wonder, if we must move back to the UK, could it be to Scotland? Trump’s election is an outrage and I […]
Quiet Sunday
Most of today was spent either working or procrastinating. There was a brief post-thunderstorm excursion to withdraw cash for the washing machine repair tomorrow, during which I made the error of buying a red bean croissant taiyaki to try later. This turned out to be hot so I had to eat it on the spot, […]
One page down
Slightly less interested by the Alderman book. The journalist is the most interesting character to me but far more time is spent ( so far, halfway through) with Mother Eve and Roxy, neither of whom feel like real people. Well,let’s see. I completed the first page of the comic. Played around with layers and discovered […]
Oh but the important thing
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 […]
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 […]