The Craft Complex has its big annual shindig today so we strolled down after a bowl of Hong Kong style prawn wonton noodles en route. The KKK fair, as it is unfortunately known, had craft stalls from all over the country set up in big tents. There was furniture, machetes, abayas, basketry (lots of basketry), […]
Relief
A relief to be back in KL with our next guest to come in a fortnight but only for a couple of days, and then perhaps a family visit in May. It is very nice indeed to be back with the GF without others around. We went to Sarang and had a delicious Nyonya laksa […]
Done
Did what I had come to Lahore to do, some dealings with banks and lawyers. It took about 50 signatures and thumb prints, both rather tedious. My signature is variable at the best of times. The ink stain on my thumb, on the other hand, is the opposite of variable.as it has not shifted despite […]
More success
This morning we went to Brahma Tirta, an art studio I had, after some really vigorous sleuthing, as the place where a batik wall hanging originated. I had seen this wall hanging in a shop in Bali, lusted after it, but then said nothing as I was not in the market for wall hangings. When […]
Great success
A highly successful morning. After a great deal of research and mulling I had found that a good place to buy batik was Bima Sakti, a women’s collective near the new royal cemetary of Imogiri. So we went there this morning and found ourselves in a really lovely village amidst the hills, with rice fields […]
IT’S HERE
Hallelujah!!! (It’s the one on the right.)
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 […]
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 […]
Cecilia must die
Having just trawled through the Amazon’s December deals for Kindle books I ask again why I was born in this cursed month. Amazon UK, full of the sort of rubbish books people give each other as presents, with the prize perhaps being ‘The Dinosaur that Pooped Christmas’. Amazon US with an even greater proportion of […]
Quick note
From a Singapore church cafe. My earlier post, written en route to Singapore, is on my iPad and is yet to be sent so the updates will be out of order. This is the second full day, third partial day in Singapore. Once again I got stopped at immigration and quizzed – my name must […]