I apologize that I revived this blog with a mournful post. However, I felt that it would only be just for me to chronicle what is going on in my life – regardless of joy or sorrow, the mundane or the mythical, the ordinary or the outstanding. George and Charlie Let me start off with [...]
After a long absence from my site, I’m finally back again. Let me give you a brief update of what happened in my life. For the sake of continuity and consistency, all entires about my life in Denmark will be found in my other blog, Adventures in Solitude. Hej, Danmark! That’s “Hello, Denmark!” in Danish. [...]
It just so happen that I was rewatching Ugly Betty Season 4 – yes, in the middle of the exams to destress myself – and I’m now at Episode 11 (Back in Her Place), where various main characters leave the show to pursue the lives they wanted. Owen Connor, the locked up swindler that amassed [...]
It was a sunny Monday morning. Life continued as usual after spending the weekend worried about great grandma’s condition. The entire weekend was spent me making internal mind trips to the happier days when great grandma joked, talked, laughed and hugged. I still could not wrap my heart and mind around the truth that she [...]
Mom recently broke the news to be that greatgrandma will not last much longer. The old, wise and gentle lady that used to lead the family of hundred plus members is no longer the healthy, perky and humourous motherly figure that we can relate to. When my uncle held his wedding in my hometown Malaysia [...]
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 [...]
