I’m mulling it while the GF is in London. My father would be delighted to have me back, and of course I can work anywhere in the world where I have an internet connection. Tickets aren’t cheap at the moment, though and it’s not impossible I’ll also go to London, whether from Lahore or here. […]
No aam baat
The Japanese appear to have a variety of mango called ‘egg of the sun’ that can go for as much as 300,000 yen a pair. As a proud Pakistani I find it hard to believe that it outmatches a good southern Punjab mango, but who’s got 300k yen to test this? One article online described […]
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 […]