“I miss my family a lot and the last Eid-ul-Adha was my first Eid without my family. I know I have to sacrifice many things to get to my destination and this is part of the journey to get there.”
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“I’ve been working here since 1999 and it doesn’t affect my work at all. Its all fine.”
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(This post was first published on March 30th 2016)
“Money for me is, well if you can put money aside, you will actually see what the world is about. There are other things that are so much better than money and my happiest memory was the day when I realized that a human being can grow – and has limitless potential. “
“The day that I realized that, that made me happy. We have free will and should be able to pursue whatever we want to pursue. The day that I realized that, was the day my course of life changed. I became free. Yes we are still dependent on money today, but maybe one day money will be obsolete, and that will be a fun thing to see.”
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(This post was first published on March 4th 2016)
– Humans of Kuala Lumpur
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“I’ve been working out a lot every week and I’m really excited because this whole time is a preparation period for Miss Universe, almost 11 months to prep for it, it’s not too long but not too short.
“Beauty to me is being able to be yourself, accept yourself for who you are and allow everyone around you to enjoy that.
“To represent Malaysia, as Miss Universe Malaysia and appear for Malaysia is something I’m really excited about. I’m thankful for many people who has helped me out all along and the support has been overwhelming.
“So far, I haven’t had much time to do all my outdoor hobbies, but I can’t wait to start hiking again. I’ve had time before this but not in the last month because I’ve been busy with Miss Universe, it’s been taking my whole day.
“But the last outdoor sport I did was white water rafting at Sungai Slim at Perak. It was so much fun!
“Once I touch down in Las Vegas for the Miss Universe pageant there will not be any leisure time but I will be traveling after that with my family because I cannot wait and Vegas is near to Arizona and that’s where I used to work before.
“It was there that I really got into outdoor events and I can’t wait to go hiking there. I love nature and it’s definitely in my traveling list”.
– Miss Universe Malaysia 2015
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(This post was first published on December 2nd 2015)
“She couldn’t visit her grandmother who was living on the other side (East Germany). But she could fly and go anywhere else from her side (West Germany) so when the Wall came down, she could finally go back to where her grandmother was – and then she flew here to Malaysia to work.
“Surprisingly she found a better job here than in Germany. She’s a physiotherapist for a Malaysian sports team and she’s married to an Australian, and they’ve been here in Malaysia since my older sister was born. They met here 16, 17 years ago. I grew up here and I’ve never lived at anywhere else but Malaysia.
“I consider myself more Malaysian, than German or Australian because I’ve never lived there, I can speak a little bit of Malay when I was younger but now I’ve forgotten everything. Maybe I’ll probably work here in Malaysia in the future because in Australia and Germany it’s harder and more expensive to work and live there.
“What I like most about Malaysia is mostly that there’s a lot of plants here, you can go the rain forests here which you cannot go back in Australia or Germany, and how the Malaysian people here and those that come here are a mix of everything – Malays, Chinese, Australians.
“I think it’s even a little safer here a little bit because in Germany there are a lot of kids who go their own paths like drink alcohol, and taking drugs but here it’s very safe because the kids can’t meet somewhere and buy some alcohol just like that. So it’s much better to live here than in Germany”.
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“I started from Xi’an all the way up to Beijing and the number of people who speak English is very rare, and they all speak Mandarin, like China Mandarin, very different from the Malaysian Mandarin. I can speak basic Mandarin and communicating was very hard there. So on my way back I was alone and the plane that I was boarding was Air Asia right, so when I heard the conversation between the stewardesses – I teared up. They were just having a simple conversation you know, but in Malay. It was a bit of Malay and English – Manglish. I don’t know why I teared up, like it felt so nice to hear something familiar after so long. And then once I got seated inside the plane, the first thing I did was order Nasi Lemak”.
– Humans of Kuala Lumpur — with Nadia Zamri.
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(This post was first published on September 23rd 2015)
“I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come home,
I don’t care what you say anymore, this is my life,
Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.”
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(This post was first published on September 21st 2015)
“My passion for art got strengthened when I met the folk art group. I love how folk art’s simplicity and versatility allows you to express yourself in ways that other forms of art can’t. We aim to introduce folk art into our country and appreciate the sheer beauty of this art form.”
Story by Ummeesh Kumar.
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(This post was first published on September 22nd 2015)
