It’s Selangor Sultan’s birthday.
Morning! If you guys want to see some nice photos of life in Malaysia, here’s Ian Miles Cheong’s old Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stillgray/albums/
Even my HR which have been making sure everyone comes to office everyday by tracking us is now encouraging us to work from home if unwell (there’s a covid outbreak in office though obviously HR won’t let us know). Luckily, I do have some fever/sorethroat/flu going on.
Oh yeah, I’m aware of that. Some say it’s why China fears religious movements so much nowadays.
I’ve been taking a two-week leave to recharge, but as it comes to an end I dread going back to office even more.
I mostly slept.
I’m halfway through the Satanic Verses. Literally starts with a bang by having two characters falling off an exploding plane, assuming 69 position mid-air, and then one of the characters grabbed the balls of the other and forced him to flap his arms like wings and the two miraculously survived (while transforming into… things). It only gets better from there.
The infamous parts are just minor subplots but I can see why they are very incendiary under specific social contexts, though IMO it shouldn’t be. Reminds me a lot of The Master and Margarita, which also contains a subplot about Jesus, and which Rushdie confirmed as his inspiration. The main theme has nothing to do with religion at all however, and mostly about the immigrant experience, racism, changing (and non-changing) identities and so on.
Nice cold rainy morning, perfect for sleeping but here I am in office after braving the storms and floods.
Oh no I tried
I also have no idea, maybe just a subtle nudge and point? A paper slip might also work.
But whichever way it is I’ll thank you for it!
rakyat
joined 1 year ago
Or feel like a movie supervillain!