Tag Archives: Penang

Morning prayers 5:37am. The house is quiet and I can sleep no more. I want to wrap my Christmas presents before anyone noses around my luggage, so I tiptoe downstairs to where Mum keeps the recycled Christmas wrappers and tiptoe up to my room again. The Muslim prayers come on at ten to six. ThisContinue reading “Home Day 2”

Tanah tumpah darahku As the plane neared KLIA in Sepang my stomach gets butterflies because I am excited by what I see. Coconut trees, palm oil trees, rubber trees. Blue roofs on Malay houses, the snakey, muddy river delta among the dense rainforest. How I long to bathe in them! The mud, the soil, tanahContinue reading “Home Day 1”

This is an attempt to tell you funny stories from my holidays in Malaysia. Yoga retreat in Kerala So on the flight out from Manchester to Abu Dhabi, I sit next to Mr C from Cheshire who tells me he is on his way to a yoga centre in Kerala, India. The 2-month retreat isContinue reading “Home Day 0”

This is a photo of my mum, watching the sunset at Beach Front Cafe. It is next to Park Royal Hotel along Batu Ferringhi beach in Penang, Malaysia. This post is dedicated to my mum, whose birthday is round the bend. One of the things I love most about mum is her wisdom, which comesContinue reading “Cafe del Mum”