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…
As I am writing this, I am flying on an Air Asia flight, crossing over from my beautiful homeland Sabah to Kuala Lumpur, the place that I have now considered my second home since I moved in from Sandakan about 9 years ago. It was supposed to be a surprise homecoming trip, since I already declared to my family that I was not coming home for Christmas (and I was supposed to mean it, with all the swabbing requirement and…