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 [...]
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 [...]
A big Merry Christmas to everyone… anyone who drops by here and happens to read this line, that is :) 2007 is coming to an end in a week’s time, and I’m completely unprepared for it! I’ll be staying in Penang until the 6th of January, so I won’t be online very often because there’s [...]