We went to Sushi Azabu for dinner, my favourite restaurant in KL and on very good form last night, with some entirely new things (firefish with firefish liver), and others that were particularly delicate and delicious (prawns, scallops, fatty tuna etc). A lovely bit of skipjack tuna, which I had not preivously had as sushi. […]
Rush
We leave for Yogyakarta today, earlier than I thought. The flight is at 1500; I had thought we were to leave for the airport then. Of course, some work has come in and I won’t finish before leaving, so my computer accompanies me so I can work on the flight. I am not sure what […]
Settling in again
A few days without posting as I settle back into my life. It’s not quite the usual, as of course the GF’s mother is still here. She is lovely, but having another person is inevitably a bit disruptive. I have made myself a little spot on the floor of the bedroom where I have been […]
Slightly foolish
Of course, html markup will do the job for links and paragraph breaks and so on. The GF has gone to Johor for work and I’m taking the opportunity to explore Netflix. The television is usually his domain – I certainly do not object, having always found it a bit oppressive, but there is certainly […]
Gilead on its way
Finished The Handmaid’s Tale last night. After a circular path towards TV series-dom it ended as the book did. The final episode was very good, a reversion to the earlier ones after a few which did the backstory thing that caused the middle bit to sag. The worst of these was the backstory of how […]
GLOW
Finished the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling TV series last night. What a great series. I almost don’t want to watch the next season, this was so good. So refreshing to have a really high quality and intelligent series that was also good hearted and funny. It’s set in the 1980s and is a fictionalised account […]
Not much to say
This is an even more boring post than others, I am sorry. Let’s see. Another new episode of Game of Thrones last night, I continue my hate-watch of it and wish it would end but can’t look away. I’ve disliked it since the first episode. The acting remains dire, the politics questionable, the writing execrable […]
You’ve got the power
We were watching Glow last night – excellent show – and came on the episode with the training montage, overlaid by the most familiar song – so familiar that my eyes glazed over and I was eight years old again, watching a video cassette of my favourite cartoon, the Transformers movie. The song was Dare […]
Noxious
I learned this morning that a prominent member of the Trump White House was not only in my year at university but belonged to my house. I don’t remember him at all, and none of my university friends do either except for one who knew him personally – there were countless young men of that […]
Off to
To, well, Brunei. We leave tonight. It’s not the most compelling holiday destination so I am afraid I am filling up my Kindle and my iPad with reading material, downloading podcasts and generally expecting not to have much to do. We decided to go for a long weekend, unfortunately it is over the Gentleman Friend’s […]