“My daughter got married to a German exchange student who was living with us…”

She lives in Melbourne now with 4 kids, and we still take exchange students in. We’ve had people from Japan, our first exchange student was a girl from New Zealand! They come from all over the world – they come here, and when it’s time to leave, they’re crying because this has become a home for them, even with all the little fights that have happened.”

“You have 7 kids. Why did you want more staying at your place?”

“Actually in Malaysia, you go to school and speak malay, and you come back home and speak malay – and in between all that, you’re expected to know English. I wanted my kids to learn more; I wanted them to know about the other cultures because ultimately Malaysia is a cosmopolitan – what is the point of living in such a multicultural place and not learning about each culture? So when the exchange students came, I’d make a deal with them – I’d say I would speak to them in Malay, but they had to speak to my kids in English.” – Humans of Kuala Lumpur

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(This post was first published on May 4th 2015)

“In those really bad day when you put in the hours without accomplishing nothing…”

“If you want to beat yourself up, just remember…you have done your best and you can try harder the next day. Be kind to yourself. “

“As Churchill says, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

– Humans of Kuala Lumpur — with Nurul Li.

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(This post was first published on April 25th 2015)

“Normally, ladies would be surprised to see a Malaysian coming out of the plane

“They would go ‘wow, it’s a Malaysian, I thought it was a Mat Salleh (white man) who flew and did the (aerobatic) stunts on it!

“That’s the kind of reaction that I would normally get from the ladies. But I must say, the ladies do love the planes! And if I have time I would bring them up.

“It surprises me because they don’t mind the age, but they do like anything that is fast, be it airplanes, bikes, or cars. They like it when we do stunts and lands.

“But my wife doesn’t like flying, though.” 

– Humans of Kuala Lumpur — with Halim Othman – Red Bull Air Race Challenger Cup Pilot.

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(This post was first published on April 24th 2015)