Perak seems to be a state of so much interest to me of late ever since I went to Taiping and later Lenggong and finally Ipoh where I discovered so many amazing things whose existence I had had no idea of before. I had long heard about rafting and caving activities in Perak but I didn’t really give them a serious thought probably because I knew I was going to be here in the Malaysian peninsular for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong long…
One of the things that I did in Manila when I went there earlier this year was to find Barong Tagalog, the Filipino’s formal costume for men. It was actually a colleague of mine who asked if I could buy a pair of it for him and I readily agreed thinking that I was going to spend 5 days in Manila. When you are spending that long in a city like Manila, anything that creates a little bit of activity…
So, I finally did it. After sticking to HM for 4 damn years, I finally did something that I thought I could or would never do. I really thought running for 21KM was already crazy enough so I thought I would never go crazier by doubling that distance and saying to myself that I’m ready to do it. Somehow after doing 21KMs for quite so many times, I suddenly felt like the thrill was no longer there. You know, it’s…