Aaaand we’re back with another travel post. Drops of water splash onto my sunscreen-layered skin, the wind brushing against my cheeks. We are on a small boat. It’s just me, my family and three boatmen. We’re speeding away along the waves. The water is deep blue, turquoise and jade green. Shades of blue and green…

They say good things happen in short episodes. My last post was written in in early August, from my dorm in Kolej Mara Banting. Two weeks in a college filled with the top students from all over Malaysia seems like an experience that is somewhat thrilling but also intimidating. A month and a half later, I…

Guys, I made it.  I woke up on that Thursday feeling exhausted. Of course I couldn’t get any sleep that night. I was extremely nervous. I performed a Tahajjud prayer that morning, praying and praying to god that he would answer my prayer today, the same thing I have asked for every day for the…