This essay focuses more on my school experiences…my next essay focuses on the tuition experiences. As a child, I hated school. I hated doing homework, I hated showing my report card to my parents, I hated having to tell my mum to come to school to meet with my teacher (teacher obviously requested it!). I hated my classes. I hated the ride to my school. I would do anything not to go to...
Every time whenever I visit my hometown, I always tell myself “I am gonna write some stuff about Penang especially my memories of this wonderful hometown of mine” but within hours of just arriving home, I find myself always running here and there, especially frequenting the malls around the island. And it’s in those times when I am in the mall, I will again get the epiphany that I should write...
We are living in an age where we have forgotten the basic premise of what it means to be human. We have lost the idea of cherishing life, of appreciating the gift of the other. We go through life as though it were a set of turnstiles. And I think the reason for this is because we have placed too much hope on this world. We have given too much importance to our earthly needs. That has caused us to...
I am typing this entry now as I await for my flight back home to Kuala Lumpur. I am currently at the departure lounge of the Hong Kong International Airport. My flight is not for another 4 hours – I deliberately chose the last flight out of HK back to KL just so that I have the whole day to tour the city in a satisfying way – and earlier today morning I was at the Big Buddha monument...
Soon after touching down from my business trip, my brother rang me up to tell me that his got stolen. My heart sank because I knew how he loved his prized possession – the effort that he had put to get that car – and how he would often maintain it to the best he could. He didn’t deserve to lose that car. Why did it happen to him? Just last night I had dinner with another sibling...