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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