“Wah, ini kad sudah lima tahun wo…(wah, this card is five years old..)” said the Mak Cik Guard  as I handed in my matric card, signifying my last day as a UTP student. I wanted to keep it for memory’s sake but they wouldn’t let me. I had to hand in to get a clearance [...]

“Can you bring your small compact camera tomorrow?” I asked Tania. She looked slightly surprised by my request but agreed anyway. I said I was too lazy to bring mine around, I was already bringing a book. “Oh yeah,” I remembered, “let’s have the Ipoh Chicken Rice tomorrow for lunch!” Having spent five years here, [...]

Who would have thought that the kid who always had her head in the clouds would be able to take on a research title such as “Functionalization and Characterization of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes/Polypropylene Nanocomposites”? She didn’t think she would either. But after one whole year of research and experiments, a gold medal confirmed that the [...]

“I’ve been in this business for 47 years.” His statement was beaming with pride yet slightly cooled with the sips from his iced coffee. He, is Uncle Chow. And Uncle Chow is the owner of Keng Heong, or more affectionately known as The Pink Shop, the coffeeshop that we frequent daily for lunch and sometimes [...]