I have been very lax indeed about updating this blog for the last week or more. A new leaf shall be turned, and I’ll catch up on June, without relying on frontpage fury posts. This is my mid-year resolution. I have also been lax about getting a haircut and doing my accounts, neither of which […]
Setback
I was convinced yesterday that today I would be well again, and it started out promisingly, as I slept well through most of the night till around 4.30. Since then I’ve felt under the weather again, and even more so because I was so sure I was well. I haven’t had such a sustained bout […]
Out into the world
I made my first real trip out into the world today, as I had a doctor’s appointment at a hospital near Taksim Square. I took the Metro which was, happily, not too crowded (though on the escalator at Taksim someone kept crowding against me, and I felt too feeble to walk up to begin with, […]
Fire and fury
The situation in Palestine is hard to look away from. So ugly, and so clear what the major source of ugliness is. Funny how some outrage or other occupies me these days, intensely, and then disappears as though it’s too tiring to sustain. When there is so much horror and injustice, it takes someone with […]
As usual
As usual, another rubbish Eid. Last year I enjoyed the day at least, as for the first time in more than a decade it felt like a day that was marked as special. This year at least it was noticed as Eid, but between the lockdown and the usual hollowness of making a celebration for […]
Tedious slate
I was sent an email to vote in my university alumni elections, and what a tedious slate it was. Quite dispiritng. This was for the board of overseers and the governors of the alumni association, and almost all were excruciating. As usual, the only non-Americans were investment bankers and the like, no wonder I’ve almost […]
Wrong kind of fury
Tyson Fury does not count.
Locked out
I have been locked out of my Facebook account. It’s actually been several days now but I only just tried to log back in, to no avail. Well, I’m not going to send them a copy of my passport, so I suppose that is that, at least for now. My only concern is if someone […]
Unexpected waves
Funny how waves of sadness can continue to break even years later and for no apparent reason. I was reminded by nothing at all of a November in 2014, before dawn, arriving in Lahore to see my family – save one who was also on the way from another city, and one who lay inside […]
For great justice
Twenty years ago, give or take a few days, one of the original memes spread across college computers. It was everywhere for a while, partly it was novelty as there were not so many other memes competing with it. Strange to think this was before even 9/11. In honour of the days when a meme […]