I (TP) today got a chance to meet with an author, Karim Raslan, who writes a column that you can find a lot of places here in Southeast Asia. Just in Malaysia he writes for the Star, Berita Harian, and…
I (jm) had a consultation with a guy today while he was waiting for a document to be certified, and it started out just like normal. He wasn’t Malaysian, that was clear, and his English was better than mine, but…
(Nota Bene: This post will not be particularly gross or anything, but it will discuss toilets. So, avert your eyes if you sensitive.) The traditional toilet in Southeast Asia is not the kind that Americans are used to. Rather, the…
I (TP) had a nice experience at the library today. I have become buddy-buddy with some of the security guards there, since they see me often and I’m tough to miss. They love to ask me questions like "do you…
Of the 7 hours I (jm) spent at the office today, 6.5 were spent talking with Malaysians. This is actually quite a lot, usually I get some time to take phone calls, answer emails, and surf the web. So maybe…
It has been obvious to us that since we moved to Malaysian from Indonesia, stuff has been more likely to go our way. The way that we like to describe it is that while in the US, things normally work,…
For some reason, Typepad has decided to change our fonts for posting. We’re trying to figure out what the deal is. Nothing is more frustrating than inconsistency in design. UPDATE: Things seem to be fixed. While we were at it,…
We have remarked in the past that one of the best parts of living in Southeast Asia is the vast proliferation of holidays that you get to celebrate. From Islam we get Idul Fitri, Idul Adha, and the Muslim New…
We’ve been delinquent in our posting of pictures lately. So we’ve been working on remedying this. As a first installment, you can check out all of the pictures of food that we promised to post in the past couple months. …
Today at MACEE, there was an orientation for the outgoing Malaysian Fulbrighters who will be leaving for the US shortly. So TP came to work with me, and he and the other current American Fulbrighters gave some advice to the…
