It had been 17 years since my last good bye to MRSM Kuantan, the boarding school that I attended for 2 years, a school that had literally shaped me into how I am today (ehem!). The school means so much to me personally may be because I remember how hard it was for me in the beginning to deal with the fact that I was thousands miles away from my family – something that I had never done in my…
My job had required me to drive across the peninsular of Malaysia recently, from my adopted hometown Kuala Lumpur all the way to Kuantan on the east coast. The town of Kuantan is very significant to me personally since it was in this town that I became independent and away from my family for the first time at the very young age of 16. It would be my very first visit after my last goodbye to this town about 17…
The first thing that amazed me when I first arrived in Ipoh was the beautiful hills with peculiar shapes. They are scattered all over, giving Ipoh such an amazing landscape that is hardly found anywhere else in Malaysia. If the whole of Ipoh was flooded down in seawater, it’d look like the Halong Bay in Vietnam. The hills really are beautiful. We actually arrived in Ipoh from Lenggong Valley when it was already dark. Being totally disoriented, we had to…