We went to Klang this morning. A small impressively-named town that is the seat of the Selangor Sultan and now, basically, a suburb of KL. It was a short and pleasant visit amidst quiet streets sleepy because it was a holiday and no one spends their holiday in Klang. At one point a car stopped […]
Escape! continued
A profound lack of motivation continues, largely around work but also in the ‘what’s the use of it all?’ sort of way. Yesterday the GF was working from home and we decided to go out for lunch. I had found an assam laksa place towards Ampang which was supposed to be good, so we walked […]
Escape!
Work and daily life seems particularly tedious these days to the extent that I was daydreaming today about going to Macau and placing everything I own on 0 in roulette, as that would offer a clear sign of something or the other. Yesterday we met up with a couple of friends for brunch, not the […]
Malaysia Day
Yesterday was Malaysia Day, celebrating the addition to the federation of Sarawak and Sabah and not to be confused with Merdeka (independence) some weeks earlier. I gather Sarawakians and Sabahans get quite irritated by Merdeka. Interesting tensions here. We went to Hojo tea in Midvalley, a huge mall conglomeration surrounded on all sides by large […]
Silk shopping
I went to Masjid India yesterday to buy some silk for a sari blouse for a wedding in Phuket. It was rather embarrassing to realise that at this advanced age I still have no real sense of fabric. I don’t think it’s particularly good silk. Ah well. I’ve found a tailor online, and if she […]
Shit restaurants of KL
Just back from lunch and thinking dreamily of a website concept: Shit Restaurants of KL. This would focus particularly on restaurants which have superb reviews – in the first case because they have clearly paid off a reviewer, and in the second because they are instagrammable but the food and experience isn’t up to the […]
Bug battle
There’s been a strange infestation in the flat while we were out of town. I feel like I’m winning through brute force – collecting and flushing any insects I see – but who knows. They are little cocoons with a worm like creature inside them. We sent a photo to an exterminator who thought they […]
Eid with leeches
We went to Taman Negara over Eid. There was barely any internet there, so no updates. The jungle was beautiful, far more dense than I’ve seen elsewhere, such as Mulu in Sarawak, and filled with gibbon cries, though we never saw one. We did spend some time at a hide and saw deer and what […]
Long awaited day
The ICC Champion’s Trophy final was a long awaited delight yesterday. I used to follow cricket avidly, was even a cricket correspondent for a newspaper for a time. That experience during a historic India-Pakistan series which took much that I found interesting out of the game and replaced it with hype, along with the changes […]
Temple stay
The Gentleman Friend enjoyed the temple stay more than I did, but largely because I have little affinity to anything meditative or spiritual. We had a small room, unfurnished, with a blanket on the floor to sleep on, and had surprisingly comfortable nights. As seems to be universal in South Korea the shower was spectacularly […]