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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2021-12-02 07:47 pm
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Nice as it would have been to be carted off to a rehab place where people brought me meals in bed, I reflect that most of the pain of the last ten days was muscle aches, and nothing worked for those but Robaxacet and hot beanbags. Which I wouldn't have had, or had so conveniently, anywhere but at home. So all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

Have so far reverted to my wonted ways as to order in food. Wanted to try Malaysian stuff, since Indonesian is hard to come by, got mie goreng, thought it had no flavour to speak of. Wonder if nasi goreng tastes different? Had it ohhh fifty years ago in Holland, but will probably not be able to reduplicate *that* experience, any more than the Vietnamese food here tastes anything like the divine Vietnamese food in France.

One forgets names at my age, but when the name in question belongs to a clerk at the Kimi Ryokan back in 1991 perhaps no wonder. She came from an island in Indonesia and said it was the name for November in her mother's dialect. Since there seem to be as many dialects in Indonesia as native languages here, that's not much help. And if I'm remembering correctly, her parents came from different islands and on her mother's island there was a female form of the language quite distinct from the male. One wonders how her parents communicated, though I think by then Bahasa Indonesia had been declared the standard. Anyway, she married a Scots guy and mentioned how her mother-in-law called her Rrrita. From which I deduced that her name was Nofrita, which is a real Indonesian surname, 'origin unknown'. I know the origin: it's November in an obscure women's dialect on some island in the archipelago.
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[personal profile] incandescens 2021-12-03 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Very glad to know things are under control and manageable!
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[personal profile] incandescens 2021-12-04 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
I think the logical counter-argument to "everything's bound to go wrong at some point" is "if it's totally random, then sometimes everything goes right".