PhotoLog | Week One

Pictures are not always what they seem to convey.

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PhotoLog | The Jean Nouvel Serpentine Pavilion

Serpentine Gallery, London

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Goodnight, Travel Well.

Please note that my 012 mobile number will no longer be active. Please refrain from calling. Thank all, and see you in a bit.

Watch This: Upcoming

Upcoming movies to watch!

What?
The Adjustment Bureau.

Why?
Because I love Emily Blunt. Of course that is besides the fact that the plot itself sounds rather fetching.






What?
Easy A

Why?
Because I love Emma Stone, Lisa Kudrow is in there somewhere and snarky comments make my day.

Movie popularity sure is driven by star power.

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Change

Change is imminent.

Beach Street | Georgetown

A midnight stroll along Georgetown's financial stretch: Beach Street. Otherwise bustling with vehicles and office workers under the scorching sun, Beach St. reveals it's sombre side during the dead of night. Set against the jet-black tarmac, colonial buildings are bathed in the orange-y street lights. And the pavements still present a hint or warmth from the day's activities.

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Lanvin X H&M

Holy-mother-of-all-that-is-good-and-pure-beat-me-over-the-head-with-a-garlic-breadstick-and-stab-me-with-a-fork-in-the-back-OMFG-WTF-rolling-on-the-floor-foaming-at-the-mouth. IS THIS FOR REAL? FO' REAL, FO' REAL?

Can somebody help me locate my jaw? It just dropped onto the floor.

KL-eaving

Three years has gone by. Three. 3. Three years ago, if someone were to ask me where I spent my life, I would say "Penang!" with excitement. Now, I almost feel an obligation to include KL, PJ, Subang, what have you into the list.

Three whole years has gone by. And in those three years, I know I have grown. My tastes, changed; My perceptions, altered; My ideals, rebooted. Old routines abandoned and new habits adopted. There isn't a specific point in time when this change occurred. It was a gradual process that went unnoticed day-to-day, only apparent when reviewed after a year or two.
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Yesterday morning I awoke at 6:15am in my aunt and uncle's home in SS23. My aunt diligently leaves for work at 6:30am. From the room I've been inhabiting for 2 years, I could just make out the noises suggesting my aunt is already awake and leaving soon. As my eyes adjust to the lack of light, I could barely make out the room I've grown to call home. It's the largest room I've had all to myself. Ever. The room seems different now. Boxes piled up next to the bed. My usually cluttered desk on the other side now spotlessly clean. It's just like the day I moved in.

I emerge from my room with a chill creeping down my spine and head downstairs. With the front door already opened, I peeked out at the porch and see that my uncle is backing the car out into the street which was still eerily silent in the pre-dawn sky, waiting for his wife. She comes down, all ready, work case in hand and wonders why I am up so early.

It's my last day in KL. I just wanted to see her off before I leave in a couple hours' time. We both exchanged well wishes and gave each other a hug and bid farewell. In just two years, I have gone from barely recognizing who they were to knowing that my uncle likes his cola and which brand of laundry detergent my aunt buys. I've grown to love them and their lives.

One last hug and my aunt leaves for work. My uncle shuts the door and we climb the stairs up to the bedrooms. I would sleep for another 3 hours before I clean up, load all of my stuff in boxes into the Corolla, bid farewell to my uncle and drive 400 kilometers North to Penang.
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Three years in KL can do alot to you. I'm so happy that I made the decision to study there. There is nothing I would change. The awesome fun times, the mishaps and everything in between are part and parcel of who I am at this point in writing. I want to think I've changed for the better. That my thinking has matured and my ways somehow improved. But what I appreciate most about the experience would be how KL has made me take a good hard look at myself. And I'm beginning to accept my virtues and flaws. I'm a work in progress, so bear with me here.


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