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Heat Escape: Cameron Highland (Part 1)

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Greetings!! Before my semester starts, I decided to go to Cameron Highland to escape the heat. It was a very short trip of 2 days 1 night with my family. It was supposed to be a longer trip but due to accommodate everyone's schedule, it became this short. Nonetheless, a short trip is still a trip and there is always fun in a trip.  We started our journey at about 5.45 am and we pulled over at Teluk Intan for a breakfast. As I had my breakfast at house, I wasn't able to throw in anymore food into my stomach. So, only my parents ordered the food. They ordered duck drumstick wan tan mee and the usual wan tan mee from the store below as that's the only store that is opened.  After the very short breakfast, we continued our journey up the hill. As usual, it was a very dizzy and nauseous journey due to the hilly and curvy road. As it was a very short trip, we stopped in any tourist place we saw and wanted to visit. The first would be this beautiful waterfall.  ...

Interracial marriage and Batu Caves

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Last Sunday, I attended a very special wedding. It's an interracial marriage between a Chinese and Indian. It's a once in a lifetime experience to attend this kind of wedding, not to mention, it's happening in our family.  To be more precise, it's my mother's cousin but since they are my grandmother's neighbour as well, we are quite close. So, in this post, I'm going to share with you photos and my thoughts about this wedding. Since I have zero knowledge about Indian wedding, I will only share those that I can look up in the net (Therefore, the information here may not be accurate, so don't use it for any educational or research purposes) . For others that I couldn't look up, there will be photos and a brief description. Hope you don't mind this shallow post.  Early in the morning, as in 3 am from what I heard from my aunt, the bride's husband's family (the ladies only, let's call them “bridesmaids") went to the bride...