Life is Colourful

An interesting but mind-boggling conversation i had with a friend. Her name, obviously has been changed to just “friend” for the sake of anonymity and privacy.
friend: The Heart could have a brain but The Brain seemed not really pleased.<
friend: <<<<<<>>>>>>>
friend: mtDNA..
friend: kucin..
friend: strawberi..
friend: soul…
friend: whatever it is…
friend: really come from my mind now…
friend: i dot [...]

Batang what?

It’s Batang Ai folks. Ai, ok? Not Batang Air, as some of you might read in the papers, or hear on the tv and radio. And definitely not Batang Ayak, Batang Ayer or Batang Water, or whatever u wanna fancy calling it. Case for example. If a place is called Ayer Keroh, you wouldn’t suddenly [...]

Grrrrr….

Would you not be pissed if somebody took a paper that you wrote, and that you intend to publish, and added to it. Be it just a little abstract. An abstract that you initially wrote in English and was translated without your prior consent or knowlegde, and then was added to your paper, again without your [...]

Moment of disgrace

I am back early from the fieldwork. I was supposed to work in the field until the end of the month, but yesterday, i was involved in a fight with two kids (or more appropriately, brats) who worked as local labours for the excavation.  No kicks or punches were thrown, it was more of a [...]