The night the jungle pressed back
The man at the rental counter in Jerantut had a patient way of explaining things I hadn’t asked about. He…
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The gearbox complained long before I did
The road from Kuala Kubu Bharu to Fraser’s Hill is forty-one kilometres long, and the first thirty are uneventful in…
The morning the fog didn’t lift
The first thing I noticed was the cold. Not the kind that bites, but the kind that seeps — damp…
The Gearbox Made a Sound I Didn’t Trust, and the Road Kept Going Up
The afternoon I picked up the Proton Saga from the lot in Tanah Rata, the man behind the counter told…
Before the Paint Faded, Someone Had to Find Them First
The first thing I noticed about the mural on Lebuh Muntri wasn’t the paint itself but the way the morning…
Pasir Tengkorak at low tide
We were on the 7:15 ferry out of George Town, which is later than it sounds because the sun was…
The morning the river took over
We hadn’t planned on the boat breaking down. That wasn’t in any of the forum posts we’d read, and certainly…
Mei’s Rambutans and the Fuel Filter That Lied
The first sound we heard in the Cameron Highlands wasn’t the forest, or birdsong, or the diesel grumble of a…
When the Sky Becomes a Canvas
The wind came up an hour before sunset, carrying the smell of frying fish and the low thrum of a…
The Hour Between Dark and Green
The alarm went off at 4:15. Not the phone’s gentle chime — the kind of alarm that sounds like a…