Edinburgh is as old as it is young, as dark as it is brilliantly vibrant, as cold as it is warm. You can be having a fantastic culinary experience or you can find yourself face to face with the most obnoxious, purposefully god-awful looking muck on your plate. But in the end, under dark skies…
Category: Off the Island
Off the Island : 14 day Photo Journal under Quarantine from an Extra-Extrovert, and humble tips from inside a box
Never could I have imaged 2 or 5 years ago or ever, that a virus in our time , could cause an illness so powerful , so deadly that its changed the whole world and our way of thinking in a matter of months , days and even seconds. “…The COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through…
Ramadan weekend activities: Riuh in the city KL Raya edition June 2018 in collaboration with good vibes festival.
Ramadan weekend activities: It’s Ramadan and why not learn how to fold local ketupats in preparation for Raya celebrations. We popped over to KL for the weekend and discovered this fun and creative workshop by Riuh and went Raya shopping at the pop up bazaar at APW in bangsar, KL. Riuh is a curated creative…
Road Trippin’: In Between the City and the Island , there is X Camp, in Tambun, Ipoh, Perak
A long stretch of the North-South highway , on the way home to my beautiful island of Penang, from KL, is Perak. Perak is one of the 13 states of Malaysia, and being the fourth largest state in the country , ironically, not much is shouted out about this green span of lush. Perak to me…
Sea games Highlights KL2017
We have popped over to support the 29th SEA (South East Games) in Kuala Lumpur. Yes sometimes we do leave our little island of Penang. It isn’t so far from the capital after all. That is the beauty of living here. Today we went to watch Badminton, Swimming and Athletics at the state of the…
The Bentook Journey : Pieces of Phuket
The last leg til we met took forever. My heart was bursting to see my best friend. I hugged him tightly, and we were back just like that, bickering, shoulder punching, I had forgotten how comfortable it was to be with him. My eccentric friend, he can quote every diologue in Seinfeild, yup, and he’s…
The Bentook Journey : Boredom rules at Penang International Airport , Day 01/14
We live on one of the most quirkiest island in the world, our islanders are nuts, our food out of this world, our buildings are in pink, purple and lime green, our old streets are loud, and our skies dramatic. Why is our airport so boring? It’s a terminal, terminal is death. It’s the looming…
The Bentook Journey: Taking My Name with Me , Day 0/14
Day 0 : The night before I am about to embark on a personal journey and I’m taking my name with me. I am going to finally meet my childhood bestfriend , who was at times the worst friend, a school friend who will always be my life friend, at times he infuriated me ,…
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