I enjoy the outdoors and always make it a point to do an outdoor activity at least twice a year, and it’s not enough to quench my craving. The more conventional my life became, the more driven I was to shatter the routine as I loathed being restrained by the handcuffs of complacency. Perhaps I [...]
Read moreThis is my first weekend in Jakarta vs my previous 4 trips. I worked on Saturday and will be working every weekend until the tournament ends on 5th May. Thus, I took the opportunity to checkout Jakarta’s famed nightlife. Saturday Night Our local partner, one of the girls, took me out for Korean food in [...]
Read moreDay 2 of my Jakarta sojourn started with an extremely memorable and vivid dream. It must have been ignited by Bon Jovi’s official Facebook Page, when the band greeted “Apa Khabar Malaysia?” last night. I dreamed that I was hanging out with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora shortly before 9pm when they were due [...]
Read moreI’ve been living in a suitcase since last December and clocked up 9 flights since then. A 2 hour flight from KL to Jakarta earlier this morning bought me some time to catch up on the second last episode of Walking Dead and an episode of Family Guy where the highlight was a T Rex [...]
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I found peace in this remote chapel some 2 hours away from Kota Kinabalu through rosary prayer. A blissful place overlooking mountains, valleys and the peak of Mount Kinabalu. With the long and winding road back to Kundasang, I celebrated my Ash Wednesday mass at St Pius X Church Bundu Tuhan singing along certain hymns [...]
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I flew business class to Jakarta recently and it was surreal. The traffic jams are from a different level altogether and the people are generally nicer than Malaysians. The commute between the official hotel (Sari Pan Pacific) to the Royale Jakarta Golf Club is approximately 20km – between 45 minutes to 1.5 hours depending on [...]
Read moreArmed with memories of a week in Kota Kinabalu, a few books in my hand and my own songs being hummed in my mind, I boarded the flight to Perth with family members despite not how I thought it would be. I was at the cusp of an inevitable life-changing decision. The thought of it [...]
Read moreIt’s as original as they come, I spent a good 2 hours of Christmas Eve in an Irish pub called Durty Nelly’s in the city of Perth, 3:30pm onwards, with a Guinness and a book I just bought off a store. It was a much-needed time alone for soul-searching and the most contented feeling I [...]
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