BLOGS

Reflections, conversations, stories, and field notes from an outsider learning, questioning, and documenting life in Malaysia and beyond.

This is where the writing lives.

Here you’ll find observations, essays, interviews, encounters, commentary, humour, questions, contradictions, and moments that insisted on being written before they slipped away.

Some pieces are light. Some are sharp.

Some are reflective, some are irreverent, and many are all of those things at once.

These entries are not travel notes, nor nostalgia, nor memoir in sequence.

They are a living record of:
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● the people shaping change and creativity here
● the gaps, tensions, and systems that hold things back
● communities, hospitality, culture, and identity
● faith, belonging, and displacement
● the strange beauty and absurdity of everyday life

Told from the vantage point of someone who is both inside, and firmly outside, at the same time.

If you’ve been reading for years, you already know this space evolves as I do.

If you’re new, start anywhere.

Each entry stands on its own, and together, they form an ongoing conversation about place, people, courage, constraint, and possibility.
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Scroll down to read the latest pieces. The rest live below, a timeline of thoughts, stories, encounters, and reflections gathered along the way.