For the moment, life has largely descended into the banal.

Buying towels, rearranging furniture, filling in insurance forms, that kind of thing...

But luckily, there are new cats to discover:





Furthermore, there are cinemas that show movies for MYR 9, so you feel you can take a punt on a picture without risking too much money. (This week we watched Makmum, an Indonesian ghost story. As is so often the case with this genre, it overplayed its hand, moving from the quietly creepy to the wildly melodramatic. But it was nice to hear Indonesian again.)

And -- as readers of this blog will already be well aware -- there is no end to Kuching's cafes... So a change of scene is very easy to come by.

Jing-Si Books and Cafe was a recent discovery. It's run by the Tzu Chi Foundation, a Buddhist NGO based in Taiwan. It's a tranquil place, with lots of space, soothing music, and a trickly water feature. Their red-bean-and-soya drink is well worth a try.


Feast and Furious, which we tried last week for coffee, also produces a pretty nice Sunday breakfast. This place is the very reverse of tranquil, but it's certainly entertaining. I wouldn't describe myself as a bike-stunt fan, but many of the videos that roll round on the four big screens are little works of art in their own way, using cool props to create little scenarios, and turning the bike-rider into an almost balletic figure.




More generally, Kuching continues to excel at being picturesque:






It's good here...