It was Wednesday, the 20th of October. I had finished work on Friday the 15th, the removal company had come to collect everything on Saturday and I was now waiting to secure my certificate of entry (COE) for travel to Thailand to take up my new job. The night before, I had some very [...]

It was August 2021 and we were still in the tail end of  the pandemic. However it seemed as though the hotel I was managing would be able to re-open again in early September. We had been closed since the 12th of May. The vaccine roll out in Malaysia was taking hold. The government [...]

This is a cautionary tale, but it does have a happy ending. It was early October 2020. In spite of the odds we had just opened the hotel I was managing, mid pandemic in fact. (The picture above is of the first paying guests). People thought we were crazy to try and open, but [...]