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Between two horizons - stuff for 2015
This post ends a rather mixed year. I won't be doing a lot of the traditional things I normally do on new year's eve - the midnight run, a watchnight service - because, well, it's been a tiring and draining holiday season. But as usual, I present my summary of 2015, reflecting on all the crazy things that have passed, with my yearly soundtrack ( Read more... ) -
Sustain
One of my colleagues left for her maternity leave yesterday. It's 4 months of me taking over her job as a web administrator. Everyone says, though, that "it's just four months". "It'll be over quick," is the consensus, "nothing in the grand scheme of things ( Read more... ) -
Some things for 2014
On a New Year's eve, as I prepare for the traditional midnight run I have with some friends, here's the traditional summary post for 2014, in no particular order.
Milestones:
1. The Turkiye trip - Acheivement unlocked! 16 days backpacking with one bag, eating with the Turks, attempting to speak Turkish, visiting Muslim and Christian shrines. All ( Read more... ) -
Jalan dunia 2014 - in photos
I'm going to do something different. In addition to traditional summary post at the end of each year, I've compiled a quick run-through of the places I've been in 2014 - which is really just two places in Malaysia and a lot of city-jumping in Turkiye (Turkey ( Read more... ) -
Wake up, we're here!
It's been 4 months since my last post. And yes, it's awful that I've lapsed from procrastinating about what to post to not posting at all. So, to whoever is still reading, here's evidence that I'm still alive ( Read more... ) -
The usefulness of paper
So a lot of things happened over the last month or so. I had a bit of a falling out with my boss, thought of quitting (then decided against it), and dove straight back to work. A second project for a new writers' anthology is in the works. Because of these two big things, I've never worked so much overtime in my life ( Read more... ) -
On backpacking and travelling
Before the post-holiday afterglow dies away, I need to pen some down some observations on the people I met in Sungai Lembing and Kuantan. These observations come because I had the privilege and fortune of staying in a local guest house in the kampung itself, and with a bunch of Canadian, European and Malaysian guys and girls at a backpackers' in ( Read more... ) -
EyeEmming Sungai Lembing/ Kuantan
I took a short holiday over the weekend to burn off the stress of work. So on 21 May, I braved a six-hour bus ride to get to Kuantan, in the state of Pahang, on Malaysia's east coast. Malaysia has been receiving a lot of bad press lately - a missing commercial jet, kidnapped tourists in Borneo, supposedly incompetent politicians and an out-of- ( Read more... ) -
Epinikion
"In seasons of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief
And oft escaped the tempter’s snare
By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!"- Sweet Hour of Prayer, words by William Walford ( Read more... )
