In the Banker’s Club, Kuala Lumpur.

This is the view from the window, an unusual look at Times Square (where you can still find a Borders Bookshop!) and the monorail down the middle of Imbi Road.

We were there at a reception given by the University of Western Australia (which is — with the Australian National University in Canberra — jointly considered to be Australia’s top varsity). Below is the Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Robson giving his speech to the UWA Alumni Association.

And below is Prof. Robson presenting a Distinguished Alumnus Award To my husband.

 And here below is a group photograph of all the recipients.

The recipients were a real cross-section of UWA alumni representing ( from the left) politics, the social sciences, medicine, pure science and the arts.

Above is Ramli Ibrahim, dancer, choreographer and artistic director — whom I first saw dance when he was a student in Perth — and his sister, whom I met when she came to do engineering at UWA, and stayed in our house more years ago than I care to count — with the two of us. 

It was lovely to see old friends from student days…