Well here I am. I arrived yesterday after a surprisingly comfortable flight, with a bulkhead seat by the window so I zoned out/ napped/ dozed/ neither slept nor woke throughout. I wisely didn’t eat anything: PIA’s food has become foul in recent years. I wish they’d stick with their much beloved biryani and Shezan style […]
Gifts
It seems likely I am, after all, going to Lahore this week. My brother suggested the services of his travel agent, I scoffed internally (who ever heard of a travel agent who was useful for anything at all), and twenty minutes later the fellow came back with a seat that was Rs 15,000 less than […]
Drive
Out of curiosity I cracked open an energy drink – one of those narrow macho looking cans with Fast and Furious writing in neon colours. (Looking at the can it is, in fact, called Drive, #DRIVEM7ASPAR, whatever the latter means). Good lord. What a foul thing. I took a single sip and poured it down […]
Jungle fowl
I had my chai this morning and then took the free bus from the Weld to Petaling street for breakfast at Hon Kee Porridge. It was later than ideal, around 10 in the morning, but it was very pleasant nonetheless, to sit at a quiet table with my congee accompanied by a plate of raw […]
Super quail
Missed yesterday as we were out all day. The GF had to participate in a roundtable at the Sunway Convention Centre, so I tagged along, planning to get my waxing and threading done from one of the small 1-room beauty parlours surrounding the Sunway complex. We stopped on the way for a quick lunch of […]
Missed yesterday
I missed yesterday’s post due to not remembering till I was well on my way to sleep, and think I must have fallen asleep minutes or seconds after remembering. So two posts today! Yesterday’s first excursion was to two slightly disappointing places. One was to a well-reviewed restaurant called Table and Apron in Damansara Kim. […]
Rays I have known
This is the first day in months that I don’t have a pile of work to do or think about. Not that there’s no work this weekend, but it’s not urgent. A strange feeling, hanging in between. Physically tired whilst mentally racing and feeling that there is something I should be doing. This is not […]
Dance dance dance
We went to see Ramli Ibrahim at KL Pac last night, accompanied by a couple of friends, a Malaysian Chinese woman and her Finnish husband. The place itself, an old railway yard I think, was lovely. Peaceful and green, speckled with lakes. It had rained earlier so it was very cool and damp, with yellow […]
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, […]