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Finally, dannoisawesome.com is back up again. For the past few weeks it was offline as I did not have the time to renew my domain since I was caught up with moving down to KL and settling in and all (more about this in a sec).But YES! I am finally able to post my first entry of the new decade!

For those of you who didn’t catch me during new year and all, I had been chosen to be seconded down for 3 months to the PwC KL office due to the lack of staff over here. At first I was really apprehensive about moving down and taking the offer as it suddenly occured to me that 2010 would most probably be the last full year that I would be spending my time in Penang. Being a guy who is pretty sentimental, I had all these thoughts flowing through my head about how my last year in Malaysia should be spent in my beloved Isle called Penang. I mean after all, Penang IS my COMFORT ZONE. Even though it is crappy in SO many ways (tukaus, the dying number of ppl speaking english), Penang is where I am the most comfortable in.

And that is when I suddenly realised that, that was the exact same reason why I had to take the offer and start getting out from my comfort zone. You get this feeling that there is this curse that runs in the working adult generation of Penang. No one really strives for change because there is no need to. Everybody is comfortable in their own skin, living the lives that they have always done. Once that happens you become stagnant. Because when you are in your comfort zone, you do not have the motivation or the FEAR that comes from being in some place new and difficult.

I never did like working/living in KL. The traffic is bad. I feel that everyone is too try hard and there are too many pretentious pricks around. But looking back at my 24 plus years of my life, I have realised that everytime I stepped out into doing something that I didn’t like (thanks to my parents who forced me to do it), I have not regretted it and it has made me into a better person with a wider perspective on life. Yes, emotionally I felt like shit. Fear, nervousness and everything shitty feeling combines into one whole gigantic wave of emotion which sweeps over you. But never have I looked back and said that I had regretted taking the step forward.

So folks, I have been down in Kl for 2 weeks now, and it appears to be not too bad after all. I could spend another few hundred words describing what I have been doing, but I will let the pictures do the talking. And Oh, the first picture right up on the top, that’s the view from my room. Jangan jealous.