Greetings from Ireland…

Dublin, it’s been a while. Last August, with great excitement and a degree of anxiety, I left the country bound for an unusual emigration outpost; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over there, I took up what was by all means a quite successful internship for six months, where along with the work at hand, I made contacts and all that good stuff, and wound up with plenty of work on my plate from others. Roll on a few months and March 2011 sees me standing,... Read More

Chicken Chop is not ‘Western Food’.

The view from Sky Bar of a clear evening... After slightly over six months working away in Malaysia, it’s time for us to part ways. That’s not to say I won’t be back for certain, who knows what way things will go from here, but it does mean that for now at least, I won’t be enduring the major sweat-inducing heat on my way to work every morning, nor will my walk home be largely dominated by trying to avoid taxi drivers trying to offer me a... Read More

When a Massage Offer is Five Too Many…

Allow me to show you a little something I like to call...the view... According to my clock, in five minutes I’ll have been in Malaysia for one month to the day. It’s definitely not a case of a month too many, but it’s hard to believe it’s actually only been just the one month. After the whole Penang/Paradiso Guesthouse affair (as in, having a McDonald’s billboard being changed outside my bedroom window overnight), we finally got round to... Read More