The Amateur Writer

For Violet Lee, a chance encounter on a darkened street draws her into a world beyond her wildest imaginings, a timeless place of vast elegance and immeasurable wealth – of beautiful mansions and lavish parties – where a decadent group of friends live for pleasure alone. A place from which there is no escape...no matter how hard Violet tries.

Yet all the riches in the world can’t mask the darkness that lies beneath the gilded surface, embodied in the charismatic but dangerous Kaspar Varn.

Violet and Kaspar surrender to a passion that transcends their separate worlds – but it’s a passion that comes at a price...

It was a huge blur. The past two months was a huge GREAT blur. I went through a myriad of emotions and growing processes just to achieve the level where Teach For Malaysia wanted me to be before the start of the new school year. Remember when I was ranting how I did not fit in in the last post? Well I don't need to fit in. I just needed to be myself and do what I got to do to work alongside these brilliant individuals. Boy were these people brilliant. In fact to put it in a greater sense of the word, these people are inspirational. I can't be more blessed to work with great people like them.

I'm not saying that I didn't have a proper life before but it has come to my attention that my real life truly NEEDED my full attention. For some of you who don't know me personally, I just started my job. This is an actual job because this is what I will be doing for the next two years. In fact let me just get it out there that this job will be ALL I talk about for the next two years. Just a fair warning to you.

I'm currently working with a not-for-profit organization called Teach For Malaysia in order to end education inequity in Malaysia. Essentially I will become a teacher and teach at a low-performing school in Malaysia. Where you ask? I still don't know but whatever it is, it will involve me moving out somewhere. And before you think, "Pfssshhh what job? You're just a volunteer." No. Just no. This is a legit job because I'm paid okay. So none of that nonsense of me not having a real job.

Clearly I've been struggling with this throughout the year. It's the nosy relatives I tell you. =_=

So onto an actual update: Currently I'm based in Bentong, Pahang for a teacher training course with Teach For Malaysia. I just completed two weeks worth of training and I have another 6 weeks to go. Honestly it was really nerve-wrecking for me because I am always worried about meeting new people. I kid you not, I felt like this for the first two days at Institute. (FYI: We call the training course Institute.)


And to be honest, I still feel like that after two weeks. Although I have to admit the people are so nice. Maybe their nice-ness makes me feel awkward. Maybe I'm just waiting for someone to reveal their true selves. Or maybe I haven't been revealing my true self.

Training-wise, you can't ask for a more dedicated bunch. So far working with them has been a breeze. Throughout the training there were moments where you want to bawl your eyes out by the sheer incredulity of the challenges these kids go through and there were times where you just want to stop everything that you do and express gratitude to God.

On a different note, Fridays usually meant me driving back to Shah Alam. I would spend my weekends catching up with the loved ones and sleep. Although...I have been noticing that they are new books that I MUST HAVE.

Alas...I have no time and money to own these lovelies.






And here I'll awkwardly end the post. =___=

There are two reasons why I wanted to visit London. Wait...make that three. First off, Shira is there. Second I wanted to see what life would be like in London. I wanted to see whether I could actually live there and see my university of course. Third would be...the shopping.

I feel there are four reasons there but who's counting eh?

Considering that I really wanted to see how life is like here. I skipped most of the tourist attractions and went about with what I wanted to see.
































Coffee Review: (First off, I need to let you guys know that I take my mocha without sugar.)
The mocha is bland and I didn't taste the coffee. A style I noticed here is that they put a chocolate bar to melt in the mocha which is interesting but in this case, the chocolate proved to be overpowering the coffee taste. It can almost be hot chocolate rather than what I ordered.








I wandered some more and somehow reached Convent Garden. It was the weekend and I was lucky enough to catch the market! Assuming that the market only happens during the weekends. =_=































































For some this may come off as slightly controversial but I accidentally came upon a free exhibition on Freemasons. I felt like I had nothing to lose and I was kind of intrigued so I went for it.







































































That's a wrap! This wraps up my overseas adventure for 2013! Now I'm saving up my trip next year. Where should I go next? I'm thinking Asia. #globetrotter