Malcolm in the FRONT

Dear Ah Ma,

Thank you for the occasional jokes despite your sufferings. I like them. Your have great smile even while you were being warded last month. And I will always remember the morning we woke up last week to send you for change of dressing at the Air Itam government clinic. We were both excited that we reached the gate when it just opened at 7.30am. We were given number “1″ and we left within an hour. The feeling was good.

But I guess I never thought you will leave so early - a day earlier than my scheduled arrival. :(

“You are a good Muslim”, she said last night.

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Since last Thursday, I was in Penang to visit my grandparents who are not well. Grandma’s foot hasn’t indicate any sign of recovery. She has diabetes. Grandpa who fell and fractured his leg is still in pain whenever he moves his right leg. He is unable to walk around - almost bedridden. Read more »

I was very happy on Monday night. Happy because I am finally self-employed and they sky is now the limit. Unlike when I was an employee, now the thoughts of how to generate income just keep flowing. It just feel different. A sense of liberation, a taste of freedom…

A lot of encouragement… Friends and Read more »

It feels great to start the morning talking to a best friend whom you have not shared/giggled/laughed with etc etc for a long, long, long time…

Thanks for the chat despite your hectic schedule :) Read more »

I am excited! Read this email from my mum.

Dearest Malcolm,
Hello son how is everything? I hope everything is fine and rosy.
I can say i can surf the net with ease. Thanks to you for guidance. He,he,he

Now i want to learn how to communicate on line. May be you can give a step by step guide in the mail.

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Thats about all for now.Goodnight  and God bless.

I wrote a blog post in other blog on teaching my parents to type correctly on the keyboard. Check it out here.

I am close to most of my relatives, near and distant, despite difference of religion and opinion. Among them are Taoists, agnostics, atheists and also Christians. It is common among them to equate Malays as Muslims and Muslims as Malays just like almost every Malaysians in the country do. Being a Chinese by race and a Muslim by faith, I am like their punching bag - quite used to it now. A lot of testing of patience Read more »

No, you don’t get to see paddy fields near city centres like Kuala Lumpur. This is what I see when I am back home near Thailand.

Not too long ago, a friend asked how long I have left home. My thoughts ran deep. I reminisce the day I left home seven years ago to join Multimedia University in a quiet town of Ayer Keroh, Malacca. Despite not being the first time leaving home, I did Read more »

Dear friends….

Happy Eid Mubarak to you and family. I seek your forgiveness if I had in anyway cause displeasure in you. ;)