The never-ending procrastinated post

The usual roundup of updates. Honestly, when things get less crazy, they should come a little more regularly.

• Two articles appeared in the Star. The first, Malaysia, Truly Global was an attempt at a Merdeka Day article that explained how I saw Malaysia in the world. Not the best piece of writing, it was an evolutionary offshoot of an attempt to write Ten Events That Have Defined Malaysia Since Independence (which might still get written), but the guys in the editorial room prefer something frothier. Like cappuccino instead of a strong black.
  
  The next one, Art of Maths, Science of Writing was something that was a good idea, but a little clumsy in execution. For some reason, I changed to a slightly more formal style of writing, which means the words stumble around themselves, but there were gems. I should really try to be cleverer in the words. Also, I forgot to mention that my degree in Maths is a Bachelor of Arts. Now dig that.


• I will be giving a talk on Sunday 11am at MPH Bangsar Village II, on writing for the small screen. I'm still not 100% sure what I'll say, but since Gavin Yap is (a) more talented and (b) more famous, I think I might let him take the lead.


• I am not teaching for a month, so I can get other work out of the way. A series about a girl and a ghost, and an animated series about a 13th Century traveller from Morocco - both are actually good ideas, happy about being involved with them, not happy at how hard I'm finding some of the work. But nothing worth doing is easy, really.