A call from the bank had me spend most of my morning there. One of the transfers to our Sumba hotels had been returned as it was the wrong account type. The bank staff continues to be obliging and well informed. One day I’ll stop being surprised by this. I took the opportunity to go […]
Bank, brie, banana leaf
I had a surprisingly easy visit to the bank to get a proof of account today. If they keep it up the waves of nausea at the mention of the bank’s name might actually stop. Now whether that proof of account is actually accepted is another matter as it looks nothing as official as it […]
Sisters
My sisters are here. Since the last post I have finished my work, had very little sleep, met one at the airport, gone out for a 17 course meal for their birthdays, dropped into one of the city’s best bars, come home, had a little sleep, gone out for lunch, been presented with a lipstick, […]
Hot
I’m sitting right now with the air conditioner on, an unusual circumstance as normally I only use the AC when we have guests. I’ve been feeling hot all day – early menopause? who knows – and then for lunch found that my favourite stall had returned after a month’s break. They sell a prawn noodle […]
Midnight calling
Got caught up at the margins of a situation yesterday – a former colleague whom I barely knew included me in an email shot to people in KL about a Pakistani woman, uneducated, at risk of extreme domestic violence from her husband. The woman herself called me at 2 in the morning and I spent […]
NOOOOOooooooooo………
My hairdresser has disappeared! After a very long search I’d found someone I quite liked, who was silent and just gave me the haircut I wanted without faffing. And now he appears to be gone. Sniff. The hunt begins again. What a disaster. Not quite Brexit proportion but far more immediately inconvenient.
Judex
Watched the truly mystifying Judex last night. The GF put it on saying he wouldn’t tell me what it was but I had expressed an interest in watching it. Even if he had told me it would still have been a surprise as the Criterion case made it sound like a smart, stylish and occasionally […]
Two lost phones
Last week I left my phone on a restaurant table. They phoned the GF who had made the booking but of course couldn’t reach him because he, like me, usually has his phone on silent. Meanwhile we went around the somewhat uninteresting museum and then had to dash back to the restaurant to collect the […]
I deserved it
Decided to go to a ‘healthy fast food’ place nearby for lunch instead of picking up something from the lunch stalls on the street. It was, unsurprisingly, very poor. I had the much-praised beef burger which has a wholewheat bun with minimal wholewheat content – thank heavens – and a baked patty (??? to the […]
Along the dragon’s back
We did go to Bukit Tabur yesterday, rising at 5.30 to be there by 6.30 – too late for the sunrise, which was spectacular even fromground level, but early enough that it never got to too. It was a short, steep hike and had me panting in the early bits as I don’t take too […]