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kuala lumpur waktu pagi

Let’s take a walk.. Happy Monday everyone.. ? #malaysia #brunika #amiranas cc. @kurapak @mriguana @brusurf @wandirajali (Taken with Instagram at Bukit Bintang)

I’m visiting friends in Kuala Lumpur and the new Malaysian word that resonates with me while looking at street signs and billboards is JAYA.

Jaya means victory, success or glory in Sanskrit. Pronounced as jha-ya.

Jaya!

I think Jaya is how you define it to be for yourself, not how others define it for you.

the channel of melaka.

"The Malay peninsula was colonised exactly 500 years ago this year, and its significance in our history should be marked in some way by universities and scholars...":

via The Nut Graph

A lost girl, remembered By Deborah Blum

A lost girl, remembered By Deborah Blum :

Brings me back again to the ahistorical nature of much of American life. We do need to make these connections, in order to make meaning of both our private lives and of our current affairs. Both represented marvelously in this piece.