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Twenty-Eight Hours in Singapore

I awoke in the middle of the warm night with a sudden revelation: I wanted to go visit a friend in Singapore. The clock hit midnight, and I packed everything in a speed of light, brought only small backpack and a big bottle of water.  I arrived in KL Sentral within an hour, only to find that the KTM counters were closed. I...

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What I Did This Summer

Celebrating every birthdays since I was a teenager until my early 20s in a new place certainly did not start out intentionally. I spent my childhood in a few different places, thus many foreign places that I had been. Starting in my nineteenth birthday, I spent the day in Cairo with my first year medical school friends, thousand miles away from home. Fast...

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Bienvenue a Paris

"How many hours from Dover to Calais, Mira?" "Two hours, maybe. I don't quite remember." That was amongst my first attempt of bringing friends to explore Europe after being a lone wolf for so long. I only brought my sibling and Kak Mira before on my journey, I didn't know well on how to react when Farah and Dheeno asked me to bring...

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Past, Present & Future

The weirdest thing was the weather.  For two weeks, I had been in colder temperature: building snowmen as we were singing a song out of Frozen, side-stepping heavy snows on the stony stairs and icy roads, pressing my boots into the snow. Sipping piping hot black coffee before the drive to Tbilisi International Airport and flight to Istanbul and Cairo was an eerie...

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Beneath The Underwater : Blue Hole

The cold February morning air woke me up from deep slumber. I scratched my bedside before got up and looked for my timepiece on the tiny brown table. "Damn it. It's only four in the morning." The sun hasn't even come out yet. I tried to get back to sleep but it was no use. I sat still on my soft bed and...

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