A Whiff of Lemongrass

When I was growing up in Klang, Bukit Tinggi didn’t even exist.   Now, it’s a bustling hub with several major hypermarket stores and eateries that have established a name for themselves within the Klang community.   My parents moved to Bukit Tinggi this year after an increase in the crime rate in their previous [...]

I feel a pimple erupting like Krakatoa (Eyjafjallajokull is so last week already) on my face, and it bothers me.   Why I’m so affected, I have no idea, because ten pimples could embed themselves on my face and they would still blend in with my leathery middle-aged skin.  It’s like going to the gym, [...]

The lure of seafood is too good to resist.  Its location is in the middle of a kampung, surrounded by wooden houses, lush greenery, enveloped in a billow of exhaust fumes from passing vehicles and shadowed by an ancient power plant at Connaught Bridge.   As children, my brothers and I would visit this plant [...]