Lights, Camera, Action..and The Path

I'm surrounded by good people, great food, a demanding but progressively exciting work environment, a melting cauldron of cultures & and a more proactively optimistic outlook on life. The Path has never been more exciting.

1.5 months after making the big move to KL - Malaysia, this old e-junkyard of random tales, images, thoughts and reflections needed to be dusted up *cough cough splutter splutter* and updated. Consider it done.

There's too much to put up in one post. Guess a summary will suffice for now. And more consistent ramblings to follow over the weeks to come.

Surrounded by a great bunch of people who have been supportive, helpful, annoying, loving, hilarious, random, fun....all at the same time. For having me on their couches & mattresses, to showing me the nightspots and great food spots, to supporting me in moving into my new crib, to being my new, cool apartment-mates, to random shisha sessions (with conversations ranging from Darfur to Islamic banking to fictitious YouTube videos of 4000 cockroaches moving a car & PopRoaches...), to whiling away on Sunday evenings watching the funniest movies, to staying up till 2 am at the movies clueless while watching "Pirates 3"...I may not scream it out from the mountain tops or say it out loud or wear a t.shirt to proclaim this, but I appreciate each and everyone of you. No doubt, y'all.

Work's awesome too: Working in a diverse team of some exceptionally smart people, working insanely hard to make our project a success. Will get to travel for work quite a bit across the Asia-Pacific region, which is definitely sweet. An massively great opportunity to grow and pack a plethora of experience & exposure as I get to work in an area that I am getting more & more passionate about as I walk in it each day.

The city and the country: There is still soooo much that needs to be seen and done in this hectic yet friendly and maybe sometimes puzzling city. The highlight is definitely the amazingly endless choice of food, available at pretty much any hour of the day. Why this amazes me is because where I come from (especially the Kenyan urban setup), we do not have a food culture. None. At least not compared to Malaysia and even to, say, a greater part of West Africa. Guess what I'm trying to say is....If eating was an Olympic sport, Malaysia would totally dominate it. Completely sweep the Gold, Silver, Bronze, Titanium medals. Hope to capture more of this in future posts, including visuals :-)

The Path: This adventure is continually teaching me a lot about me..the me that was, the me that is and the me that I want to be. As I continually walk through this excursion called life, I am becoming a greater believer in The Path. That which we walk, run, jog, sleep or just saunter through to get to where we don't necessarily know, but somehow want to get to. Making the most of our engagement within The Path defines where it takes us.

Only we can define what The Path will make of us, given all the factors that it presents. Good & sad times, tears & laughter, sleepless nights & conscious moments of daylight. Anthill-esque efforts at work & moments of just chilling. Friends & disappointments, music, noise and silence.

Lights, camera, action...