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 [...]
After contemplating for ages, I finally decided to get a Tumblr account and start a Tumblelog. I have to admit that I was partially driven by John Grogan’s comment in his best selling book Marley & Me, that how keeping a daily log of his life actually helped a lot in recalling things that he [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The exams are really around the corner. My world will start to boil should I not start to toil now. I’m in my sophomore year and yet I’m still having pre-exam jitters – on some nights, I’d find myself spacing out starting at the ceiling and talking to myself – how am I supposed to [...]
I remember that it was a balmy Friday night. I walked out of my room and headed for the letterbox located down the hallway. Stepping into the dark corridors with flickering lights, I probed the letterbox with my skinny hand sticking right though the hole. I felt something – ah, it’s the monthly bank and [...]
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I just turned 20! Props to Chong Yen for that photo. It was taken during a train ride back to Malaysia on the previous Saturday :)
Thank you everyone who sent me birthday wishes through Facebook, Twitter and in person! My birthday only gets better by each year and I’m sincerely thankful that I have a [...]
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