I returned to my mom’s hometown to celebrate the biggest festival of the Chinese culture – the Lunar New Year. My mother was born in a modest family in a town named Bukit Mertajam, which is located at the foot of a mountain. After graduating from secondary school she traveled south of the Malaysian capital [...]
It’s the time of the year again – fire crackers, albeit being condemned by the government as dangerous and illegal, going off in the distance; and fireworks lighting up the dark, clear and moonless night sky. Everybody in my hometown, Penang, is welcoming the Lunar New Year with a huge bang. Afterall, our celebrations are [...]
Sorry for not updating for the past 9 days! It was a really exciting, heart-warming and tiring journey as we left the previous decade behind and embrace the new one ahead. I went on a roadtrip with a handful of close friends I’ve made in university, and I’m still struggling with the 800+ photos I’ve [...]
Here’s a big Merry Christmas to everyone! In fact, Mele Kalikimaka is a Hawaiian greeting, a transliteration from the very familiar phrase because the Hawaiian language simply lacks the matching phonemes equivalent to that of the “R” and “S” of English. I only learned about it after listening to a song from KT Tunstall’s 2007 [...]
I’m finally back in Singapore again! I traveled home with Legend (yea, his self-crowned nickname) on Friday morning so that I could make it in time for my dental appointment on Saturday morning and more importantly, my dearest cousin, Daniel’s wedding on Sunday. It was a really sweet event – nothing big, full of flair [...]
I laughed so hard I nearly wet my pants at 5am in the morning. I was trying to sleep at 2am and in the end what I really accomplished was to waste 3 hours of my time in bed listening to my cranial jukebox (song stuck in my head like a broken record), and thinking [...]
Isn’t it amazing to know what exams could do to a person? I know know what effect has it got on you but to me, well, it’s rather profound.
For the past week or so I’ve been constantly haunted by unrealistic but eerily convincing dreams somewhat related to my upcoming exams – the latest one is [...]