My enlightening journeys, personal stories and life experiences—hope it helps in yours.
Almost every evening, whether I worked late into the night, or right before I left the office, I've always waited, every chance I got, to experience this beautiful view of the sunset.
Among the many, these were the most beautiful ones I got the opportunity to capture on my mobile phone camera in my area at Petaling Jaya (PJ), Malaysia.
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It was March 4, 2009, when I first walked in as a full-time employee to serve in Malaysiakini. Little did I expect, I was going to stick around for the next... more than a decade of almost 12 years. I worked with a team of driven people before I somewhat retired from my last position as its Deputy Chief Membership Officer in September 2020.
It was all worth the time spent, the experience gained, and the lessons learned from one of the best bosses in all of my career journey. He was not only my boss but was a mentor, a brotherly friend, and a fatherly figure to many within the company. He was... Premesh Chandran.
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Back in the old days when I was active in my humanitarian, animal welfare & environmental activism, I joined Care2, a social network with millions of people from around the globe dedicated to building a better world.
Well, that was about more or less 20 years ago. And among the many friends I met and worked together in Care2 activism back then, one person, in particular, Dale Husband and I kept in touch with each other till this very day.
At night the body of clouds advancing higher up the sky smothers the whole quiet gulf below with an impenetrable darkness, in which the sound of the falling showers can be heard beginning and ceasing abruptly—now here, now there.
Indeed, these cloudy nights are proverbial with the seamen along the whole west coast of a great continent. Sky, land, and sea disappear together out of the world when the Placido—as the saying is—goes to sleep under its black poncho.
The dawn breaks high behind the towering and serrated wall of the Cordillera, a clear-cut vision of dark peaks rearing their steep slopes on a lofty pedestal of forest rising from the very edge of the shore.
Amongst them, the white head of Higuerota rises majestically upon the blue. Bare clusters of enormous rocks sprinkle with tiny black dots the smooth dome of snow.
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