Sui Generis

It is with great sadness that I write this post about the recent plane crash tragedy of MH17. I first got wind of this piece of news last night at about before midnight Malaysian Local Time. I had just gotten home from supper (for those whose cultures are different, supper here meaning anything eaten after dinner) with some friends at Nasmir and was looking forward to sleeping. However, I decided to check my facebook newsfeed and to my surprise, news about another MAS plane crashing started flooding my newsfeed. I’ve got to be completely honest with you; when I first saw the news, I didn’t even bother to read it. In my mind, I was telling myself, ‘Here we go again.’ There was not much empathy in me at that moment. I told my dad, who was about to retire for the night and he shook his head, feeling sad at such grave news. I did the same. It was a shame that so many lives were lost just like that. I then chucked that into a little dusty corner of my mind and went to bed. How many o...

What better way to start a new blog than to dedicate the first post to food? Anyway, my friends and I (more like my friend who decided to go eat chee cheong fun, and I + others just went along with it) went to Pasir Pinji to have ourselves some yummeh local delicacies. Two of my other friends and I were surprised when we arrived at our destination. The stall was located in the porch of a house! There were cars parked along the sides of the already narrow road, which made it somewhat difficult to navigate through, but it was worth it. We dropped a friend off to get a NUMBER (like whoa, a number?!) for the food. Apparently this place is reaaalllyyy popular for chee cheong fun /ccf (I didn't know, okay). There were a few people standing -- waiting for their turn to order and a few tables with happy people with their food. Thanks to the friend for getting a number, our turn was just about 4 numbers away from being served. Chee Cheong Fun is rice noodle roll and the way it is serv...