For my former classmate’s case it’s less about academic results - we’re from a quite a reputable high school after all - but more on that they were not the best behaving student in class. Though nothing bad and more of middle-schooler antics, but I remember them as quite a mischievous person, loud, and always ready for a prank. But I guess that was a way of them showcasing their leadership quality even back then.

But still it’s indeed a good encouragement for young people to not base their self-value on results, also to be less anxious about their future directions, but that they’ll also find their strengths and passion one day.

One of the little joys of going back home to vote - it’s like a mini reunion, ha!

Also just discovered one of my former classmates was standing for election. Won by a large margin too. Never expected that, wasn’t the best student in school, ha! But really glad for them, looking up some news and they seemed to be doing quite some work in their area.

Hey, some good news! Doulos Hope will be extending their stay in Penang for another 2 weeks, and the booking has just opened, so should have quite some slots still.

Yeah unfortunately the slots are extremely limited this time, apparently the only allow 200 visitors per hour slot so I have many friends who also failed to get a pass. Didn’t get to visit them myself. I have some friends who signed up as volunteers though so did hear them sharing about the experience.

Imo they did suffer a bit from some bad planning and communication. They were planning to visit Penang much earlier but was delayed, while the delay was not their fault the subsequent communications were not really done well, many people were unaware of their latest schedule and by the time we got to know about their visit most of the slots were already been taken up by those who got the news earlier. Quite unfair like this la haha.

Sorry that you didn’t get to visit them this time. Maybe next time (hopefully with better management haha!)

Glad you enjoyed the story and learned something interesting!

Thanks! Yeah it’s so interesting isn’t it? I love these kind of stories too haha. I first heard about the story from a friend, but did went on to look for more information and compiled the information I could find, and came up with this post.

Haha, hey!!! X2

But the taste is not actually the same or even similar. But the main ingredients and way of preparing have a lot of similarities, hence the inferred influence.

Thanks! I was really interested when I first heard of the story as well, and thought I must look more into it and share the story!

Haha, hey!!!

But this part is actually the hardest to establish in the whole story, we could only infer the influence from the historical interactions.

And mohinga is really good in its own too!

I believe she was scheduled to visit more ports in Malaysia, but had to cut short her visit because the ship had to undergo some repairs. But I’m sure she’ll be back (or her sister ship the Logos Hope), hopefully will get a chance to visit then!

Don’t forget to self care!