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I Volunteer!
Nah, please don’t expect me to say it loudly like Katniss Everdeen when she found out that her sister, Primrose, was the one being reaped for the Hunger Games from their district—I am NOT that brave. However, if it is just a simple volunteering activity that doesn’t require me to kill anyone with the possibility of getting myself killed, then you can always count me in! I love cats—and dogs, too, sometimes. Although if I have to compare the two, I can say that my affection towards the domesticated felines is slightly bigger than that towards the domesticated canines. Not that I don’t want to get to know dogs better—I’d love…
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Ipoh, Again
The first time I went to Ipoh was at the end of October 2021. Since then, I haven’t been there again. At least until October 2023. After almost two years of not coming to the British colonial city, I finally decided to pay it a second visit. Firstly because I needed to finish my annual leave as I still had a lot of them—eight before the year ended; and secondly because in October I was distressed and I think I needed to somehow distract myself from the sadness. Not that I didn’t acknowledge my feelings, no, but I think it is better to just being sad somewhere else far away…
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Port Dickson, Finally!
Is it “Teluk” or “Telok”? When I came to Malaysia for the first time back in January 2019, one of my bucket lists here is to visit every Malaysian states. Until earlier this year, in chronological order, I have been to KL, Selangor (these two are like “automatic entry”. YKWIM), Melaka, Penang, Pahang, Perak, and Johor. Among these states, however, there was one that is “pretty near” and yet I hadn’t been able to visit; and that was Negeri Sembilan. One of the reasons is that—or it is maybe just my excuse—unlike Melaka, Penang, or Johor, which are relatively farther from KL, Negeri Sembilan does not have as much as…
