Take The Path Less Ordinary

The boys looked like future champions. But they need a proper soccer ball to make their dream come true.

On Merdeka holiday, we stumbled on a hidden Orang Asli village in Sahom, eastern Perak, and watched children mused themselves with a game of soccer. It was indeed a welcoming sight after a tiring 4×4 drive in [...]

THE DANES are people we’d gladly go on a retreat over and over with, anytime.

After spotting our blog a few months ago followed by a bout of email correspondence, last week, Louise, Lene, Martin and Jonas wiggled their way to Malaysia to enjoy an overnight romp. Coincidently Ken Yeh, founder of the famed Marrayeh Architects, [...]

We made news again.

OO’s community work was singled out by writer Sheila Rahman last week and after a short ping pong of emails, our blog “Take The Path Less Ordinary” is featured in Malay Mail today.

Started out as a simple four-page newspaper with light news and advertisements for Europeans in Kuala Lumpur in 1896, today, [...]

If you ask around long enough, you’ll realise that camping isn’t common in Malaysia. There’s a good reason.

At night, when everyone is fast asleep, it’s time when 90% of rainforest inhabitant come out to play, eat and sometimes cause trouble. Snakes, poisonous insects, army ants, scorpions, hungry mammals, they all roam the forest floor at [...]

“Yet another continent of life remains to be discovered, not upon the earth, but one or two hundred feet above it, extending over thousands of square miles … There awaits a rich harvest for the naturalist who overcomes the obstacles — gravitation, ants, thorns, rotten trunks — and mounts to the summits of the … [...]

Every jungle has its hobbits. If you dipped in the rainforest long enough, you’re bound to bump into an Orang Asli or two who are as warm as the year-round sunshine.
When prehistoric man first left Africa, he came to Malaysia.
In 2005 May, Glasgow and Leeds University’s researchers found that the Orang Asli has mitocondria DNA [...]

Volunteering work in jungle fringed villages takes a lot of dedication - and pure grit.

Hosted by Outskirt Outreach, on 12th April 2008, a group of teachers from Mont Kiara International School, Kuala Lumpur, did their part for the less fortunate by hauling stacks of clothes on backpacks to donate to poor Orang Asli families in [...]

On 10th Jan 2008, on OO’s invitation, David Lavoie and his lovely wife Miriam drove in from KL to catch a glimpse of Orang Asli’s way of life.
David is a regular columnist for local English daily New Straits Times and his ponderings are also published in The Expat, a favourite magazine for expatriate community living [...]