I try very hard to avoid the topic of Malaysia and its politics and policies. Not because I don’t care – because I do – but because I never know how to begin writing about Malaysia without bringing up the immense complexities of Malaysian society and history. To truly understand the hows and the whys [...]

Few things are ghastlier than reading essays, blog posts, e-mails or instant messages from people who don’t deem themselves worthy of a capital I when referring to themselves. It makes me wonder – do they not think of themselves as a special-and-unique-snowflake-of-a-human-being or do they just find the practice of holding down the shift button [...]

If anyone who reads this knows me, they know this; I love food. And I especially love Malaysian food. So it should come as no surprise that from the minute I’ve landed, I have been planning a month-long menu in my head. Nasi lemak, rendang, roti prata telur, mee hoon kuay, bak kut teh, kueh [...]

This is a quick update for my friends who want to know what life is like in sunny (read: hot and wet) Malaysia. First of all, it’s humid. When I stepped onto the terminal at Singapore airport, I felt a blast of hot mist splash onto my face. It was actually quite a shock to [...]

Gosh, has it been 10 days since Christmas already?! I’ve been tonnes busy lately, and am dearly sorry for the lack of updates. However, to make up for it, I’m going to do a special giveaway to celebrate my birthday. Leave a comment below to stand a chance to win a super special ultra fantabulous [...]

Okay, so I was talking to a friend about how beauty-centric our society still is even after all these years. You’d think that in 2009, we’d be a lot more forward-thinking, mature and less superficial about the issue but really, at the end of the day, we are still the homo sapiens (sans sapiens) that [...]