I was attending a seminar at JW Marriott last week. The first session was a bit slow and before I realised it, my mind started wandering and my pencil started sketching. (It’s an unconscious habit I have — doodling or sketching whenever my mind starts to wander.)
I was quite pleased with the outcome of this [...]
There’s a Malay proverb that goes “Lain hulu, lain parang; lain dulu, lain sekarang“ which roughly translates to: just as the handle of the keris is very different from its blade, what’s in the past is very different from the present.
Nowhere is this more evident than in today’s youth: children start schooling at a much [...]
My current stay in the island of Mindanao, Philippines is proving to be quite a challenge because of regularly scheduled (!) power outages or brownouts (as Filipinos refer to them). For instance, in the town where my uncle was laid to rest, brownouts are scheduled every other night for three very long, hot, dark hours [...]
I just realised how Malaysian(ised) I’ve become — I now drink air suam (warm water) with my meals, despite the sweltering heat and high humidity that characterises typical Malaysian weather.
It’s a very Malaysian thing, you see. Warm water, that is. You can actually order it from any restaurant, hotel or roadside food stall. It’s such [...]
To this day, I still hold vivid memories from when I was just a girl of 6.
I remember fishing in this pond.
I remember fishing there with a group of high school students. It began to rain and everyone ran back to the house for cover. I didn’t know what to do with my fishing rod [...]
