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Okay so lets see.

I moved to Malaysia. Didn't get killed. Started working at this fancy international school.

Malaysia is sort of odd. It's not so much what I expected. I'm in Kuala Lumpur, but I'm kind of out in the suburbs in this place called Subang, which is sort of an affluent Chinese area. Most of the people I interact with out here are middle to upper class Chinese Malaysians, many of whom don't speak Chinese at all (they call them bananas. They're yellow on the outside and white on the inside, ha!)

On top of this, the part of Subang that I'm in is this entirely new area. Most of the buildings where I live are only about a year old. So everything is brand new and fancy and expensive, and a lot of it isn't actually populated yet. There's abandoned buildings and construction zones all over the place, and many of the construction zones are also abandoned because Malaysia is famously bad at city planning.

So it's odd in that it doesn't really feel like Asia any more. It's completely different from Chiang Mai. It feels more like Daly City or north county San Diego or something like that. There's even a good mexican restaurant in my building. The chef is Indian, it's pretty lol. It's also a little creepy, it feels like one of those pre-planned cities in China where the entire area is owned by the same person and they set it up so that you never leave the area and just work like a bee in a cushioned hive until you die having accomplished little more than making a rich person richer. I'd probably prefer to live in a place more old and dilapidated like Chiang Mai was, more homely. But there's advantages here, internet is pretty good at least.

It's also very expensive, and moving expenses were much higher than anticipated. I went through my savings pretty quick and was officially poor and living off 7/11 food for a few weeks. We're also sort of far away from everything and there's no public transportation out here, they're building a metro station but it isn't going to be finished for half a year. So for a while I was poor and stranded and it was kind of depressing.

But my job is preti gud and I've gotten a couple paychecks now, and stuff is finally normalizing. My apartment is finally resembling an apartment, I got a new motorbike this weekend, I've got money in savings again, work is stressful right now because it's the end of the schoolyear and I was sort of brought in for a teacher who was resigning midway through the year while the students were doing exams, but I'm getting the hang of it and there's a 6 week term break coming up soon, which will give me time to explore Kuala Lumpur and have a good time. I haven't done much actual exploring at all, my free time has been spent getting settled into the new area first.

The other thing I've been doing here is dating a lot. Apparently Chinese Malaysians really like white boys. My dating life here is literally the opposite of what it was like in Thailand. I've told a few stories on Discord. But moving on.

So, it was a rough move, and I've been busy, I'm still busy, but things are settling down now and it's pretty great. I am in love with my apartment, I don't deserve to live somewhere this nice.

Anyway, I miss you guys. I miss Wave streaming and people arguing and Scip talking about rape and circumcision. I miss JonGalt and Ghandi.

So, <3. If anybody finds themselves in Kuala Lumpur in the next couple years, I've got an extra mattress upstairs.


Also pictures! These are basically entirely bragpost pictures, so don't get grumpy for looking at them k
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