So my job had required me to go on a very long road trip recently, from KL to Mersing via Kluang, then from Mersing to the island of Tioman by ferry. Most of the country was still on CMCO, so I had to get a cross-border permit from the police. It would be my second road trip to Mersing, so I literally already knew what to expect, except that I had a companion last time, while this time I had…
So my job required me to go to Penang recently. It would be my very first outstation trip since the MCO (then CMCO, or whatever it was called later and later, it just kept changing I had stopped trying to memorize them all) was reinstated when the number of Covid-19 positive cases sky-rocketed to new record high sometime in October last year. The excitement was there, but I knew Penang – like the rest of the world – is still…
Traveling alone can be both fun and lonely. But the beauty actually lies in the loneliness itself. There is something about the loneliness that makes and gives you the chance to think a lot about lots of things, things that you don’t really get to think and ponder upon when you are traveling with a friend. I started off with traveling alone to England and France, and I did it again on my second trip which was to Vietnam if…