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After half an hour of glances, the salesman climbed into his top bunk opposite my own. His name was Albert. I pressed him for his Chinese name, but he said I would forget it and that his English name was easier to remember.
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Walkways, overpasses and billboards are armed with purples, pinks, and greens. The facades of buildings offer constant distractions from its light displays; on one memorable office tower, a Tetris game blinked across 50 stories.
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Most border regions are no-man's lands where countries bleed culture, cuisine and customs into their neighbors. That's what I love about land crossings.
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Trust me, it was funny. Particularly when we both argued in broken Vietnamese, utilizing a hot-pot of accents unintelligible.
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What does that mean? Five months? Such a flippant phrase. Does it give off anything but a dry denotation of time? Five months, twenty weeks, one hundred and forty days, and so on.
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Traveling alone means: times of frenzied activities when your orbit merges with the spins-spuns of other backpackers... and times of silent introspection (and by this I mean the increasing volume that silence brings inside your head until your brain devours itself).
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Some photos from my recent trip are up. Really an amazing time. Met some great people, ate the best food I've had in Asia, and well.. the landscapes can fill up cliches and the Malays are really wonderful hosts. Can't wait for what's coming
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Whenever other people talk about me, I have uncontrollable urge to figure out what the hell the details were. Doesn't matter if they're high school choir girls, or analysts in the next cubicle, or the family on vacation.
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After I've had some time to think about it, there are a lot of scenarios in my head. What ifs scenarios, hindsight projecting Matrixed views, psychological musings that were never there, and not just a little bit of self pity.
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I left Kota Bharu as soon as I got there. Well, not as soon, but like, 6 hours later when the bus for Penang/Pinang left the station. It was just too much.
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The past four days were great. It's always great when you know that you're going to come back to a place. Pulau Perhentian are a couple of islands nudging the northeastern coast of Malaysia.
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When I was in the jungle, I came across a group of Orang-Asli, indigenous Malays who eke out livings in their tribal ways of life.