Don't Quit Your Day Job

When I got back to KL, I sang at a friend's wedding. To tell you the truth, I wasn't fully prepared to sing. I thought it was gonna be a bunch of friends who will do the whole karaoke thing... turns out I was the only one PERFORMING!! There were no lyrics available! It's a good thing I sort of have the song memorized.

Please forgive the bad singing, as I was totally distracted the whole time with my friends (of which one of them was recording it.)

Enjoy!

Relocating... Relocating... Relocated.

I've got a good excuse for not updating this blog in a very long time... I've been really busy making arrangements to move back to Kuala Lumpur...

That's right... you heard right... I'M BACK, BABY!!

It's something that I've been looking forward to for a while now... it wasn't easy because I had to come home to something which would be a step forward in my career... and that's what they had waiting for me when it finally happened.

I've always thought that I would be 100% happy with leaving Penang. The place and I didn't get along... I'm just the most unluckiest person when I'm there... 3 traffic summonses, 1 surgery, 1 major viral infection, 1 accident, countless number of stomach flu cases, and way too many lonely nights...

But I wasn't 100% happy to leave. I was there for 19 months... during that time I did many things that I wouldn't have done if I was here in KL, busy as a bee. I was in a band, I wrote the lyrics for two songs (which my friend and I plan to record), I joined a gym, I hiked to a secluded beach, I had a barbecue on a beach, I wept when I visited an orphanage, I became a 'brother' in a Chinese wedding, I started to learn Hokkien, I bought my first guitar, I started this blog, and I forged bonds of friendship that will last a lifetime...

I have a group of friends in Penang that helped me get through my time there. Amazingly, we all met because we shared the same bad habit... we all smoked. We met at the smoking corner. It’s amazing how a bunch of people who just made small talk while smoking ended up as close as ‘brothers’... and we were the ‘brothers’ when one of them got married.

My last night there was quite depressing for me... we went out for drinks after work... and that final goodbye wasn’t as I imagined it... I always thought I would be smiling uncontrollably, but instead it was a bunch of sad faces... thank god my farewell party took place the weekend before, and there wasn’t a sad face in the bunch...

Of course, I also had other close friends there in Penang who weren’t in the ‘smoking section’... have to mention them as well, cause they also made my time in Penang memorable...

There are people out there who believe that they can survive on their own... they may be able to survive, but what is the point in achieving anything in life if you’ve got nobody to share it with. It’s not every day that you meet someone that would become your ‘BFF’... but if you’re lucky enough, then you’ll meet the right people when you need them most.

I guess I was lucky in Penang after all...