Mar 22 2010
Journal entry: Burnie, 20 January 2010 When I first arrived in Kuala Lumpur two years ago, I could still remember making curry puffs and giving them to my neighbour. That was to enable me to break the ice and to make friends with them. I went round the neighbourhood in Bandar Utama where my home [...]
Mar 21 2010
It was at least 40 years or more ago that I last played hide-and-seek with my brothers and neighbours in the village where I grew up in. In Malaysia, it was called ‘tapuk’, which means ‘to hide’. The same rules apply for this game of hide-and-seek all over the world. One person or more will [...]
Mar 19 2010
It was 16 January, a Saturday. Only Ying Qi and I was at home. Terence was outstation in an island for a week and Edmund was in Burnie. As we had time on our hands we decided to visit a good friend, an artist. We heard from her husband who was away at work with [...]
Mar 12 2010
On 4 January 2010, Edmund vacated his rented apartment. He and I moved into the new home of Terence and Ying Qi. They were so kind to have us stay with them for a few days before Edmund moved to Burnie to take up his new job. Terence was Edmund’s convocation photographer and is a [...]