Globetrotting with Tanay

When people ask me how my summer went, I find myself smiling. This wasn’t a summer filled with airports or new countries. It was something far more important, a season of discovery, healing, and transformation. I indulged in new interests like cooking pasta or making matcha ice cream and I healed myself mentally and physically, and focused more on myself with all the free time For the first time, I truly discovered gardening. It started with a few pots on the balcony, but soon I found myself checking on my plants each morning as if they were old friends. In the quiet moments of watering and transplanting, I found peace. Who knew that something as simple as soil and sunlight could calm a restless mind? This homework blog, oddly enough, introduced me to blogging itself, and I found I had so much to say! I began expressing my thoughts online, and for the first time, I felt heard. Of course, I didn’t stop there. I enrolled in multiple online courses and extracurricular activities, build...

Imagine this: you come home from a tiring summer day at school, yearning for one of those cool popsicles, and your mom approaches you with a smile. It seems weird at first, but then she tells you that you're going to Japan for the holidays! This was an extremely fortunate reality for me, as my mom found the perfect package which would take us there during cherry blossom season. (The cherry (pun intended) on the cake? I would get to skip my checkpoint exams as the flights were fixed and not adjustable!) So, on the 12th of April, many students were focused on their English checkpoint, but not me - I wrote the exam thinking the whole time how I would be in Japan tomorrow by this time, and raced back home to head back to the airport that evening. Middlepoint Malaysia: The Layover Chapter Before we could admire Tokyo, we discovered Kuala Lumpur - the capital of Malaysia, on our layover. This Malaysian Airlines layover flight made our prices cheaper, (although I was scared as we all know...