a little bit more catchup!

hello! it's christmastime! and i'm not in malaysia! i'm home in america, sick as a bug, catching up on all my terriblewonderful tv, and being lazy. life is almost perfect. but. i forgot to post after my last post! the week of thanksgiving, an old friend happened to be coming through KL. i was so excited because this would be the first time i got do be the tour guide, not just...

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a little bit of catch up.

i know, i know. i've dropped from weekly blogging to.... bi-monthly. i'll make it up. here's a summary of all that's gone on since september! please excuse my photo effects. the new photo editing service in flickr is more fun than the old photo editing service, and now i've gone overboard. we celebrated halloween! it was a spooky time indeed. i learned that tearing a haunted...

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there's no place like home.

in september, approximately six months and some days after i arrived in kuala lumpur, i sat myself on a plane and went right back to where i came. but, you know, not for forever. i had important things. i will get to those later. but first! i ended up with a 13-hour layover in dubai (also flew on emirates' brand new dubai-dc route!). after looking at the airport, my decision...

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merdeka day!

august was full of holidays. aside from my self-imposed pangkor holiday, there was also hari raya (celebrating the end of ramadan) and malaysia's independence (merdeka) day. the last one was on august 31, and paired with u.s. labor day on the following monday, made the final of three four-day weekends in august. pure shenanigans. i went with a friend to watch the merdeka...

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a little island called pangkor

a couple of weeks ago i went to my second malaysian island, pangkor, to celebrate a very special birthday. pangkor has lots to do on it, but we stayed at a slightly secluded resort, pangkor island beach resort, which made it difficult to want to leave the little slice of paradise. the water was not quite as clear as tioman, but it was still clear enough that we could...

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a little hop down south to jakarta!

jakarta is a place (like bangkok and singapore) that is so close to KL that it's way easy to just go down. paired with super cheap airfare, it's crazy dumb to not go if you have the time. for me, i had two main reasons to go down that happened to be two people very dear to me! everyone told me before i went down that i wouldn't like it as much as KL. i can say that is absolutely...

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