Flat

We were about to set off for a wedding at Gombak in the early afternoon, involving a relative of one of Noi's sisters-in-law, when the car decided most emphatically not to start. The diagnosis was straightforward - a flat battery - and we managed to get ourselves on the road just an hour and a half later than expected. Quite a minor drama really since we were lucky enough to go flat at home as opposed to the middle of kampung nowhere, so contacting the AA here was reasonably simple. But it certainly raised a doubt or two concerning our vulnerability in this further place considering just how completely necessary a car is to life on Bukit Antarabangsa - indeed, in this metropolis. In contrast, going without in our usual place of residence is not terribly difficult considering the excellence of public transport down south.

I suspect my own batteries are also somewhat flat. For a moment or two earlier I had that odd sense of hardly being able to bother getting things fixed that sometimes descends upon me, especially at the end of a long first semester. As ever, the important thing is to keep going, especially in those moments when you're really not going anywhere at all.

The wedding was most enjoyable, by the way, as was the rest of the day, now in the company of niece Azirah and one of her friends, staying over for the weekend.