Take The Path Less Ordinary

The Tokeley siblings family memoir reads like a Malaysian history book.

When their father first set foot on the shores of Penang, he was only a kid. Malaya, then it was known, became home since. The Englishman toiled together with the multi-ethnic population in nation building and even suffered the brunt of Japanese invasion that saw [...]

In history, there are always two sides, maybe more, of the story. Everyone knows history written earlier is often bias, half guesswork and peppered with inconsistencies, like spelling mistakes in a document few zillion letters long. Corrections are inevitable. History taught in school nowadays is rather watered down and outdated. At the dawn of 21st [...]

Ipoh is a town smacked in between capital Kuala Lumpur and Penang. So, if you’re thinking of winging any interesting sites in this region, Medan Gopeng bus station should be the epicenter of your public transport muse. The first thing that strikes one about Medan Gopeng is its locality which is slightly on the outskirt [...]

Modernity is a sword that slices both ways – its wielder sometime gets cut too.
On 2000’s New Year’s Day, streets like Penang’s Lebuh Chulia saw rental shot from RM300 to RM4000 overnight, pulling the rugs under tenants’ feet causing them to flee by the thousands, leaving old buildings and shop houses unattended till today. What [...]