Tzuo Hann is in NST

Quoting from NST

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Fundraising through pedal power
Law Tzuo Hann, who calls himself ’crazy guy on bike’, showing the crowd in 1 Utama Shopping Centre, Petaling Jaya, the winter jacket that he uses to keep warm while cycling through snowstorms.

The 23-year-old Duke University student cycled 28,571km from the United States to Taiping. He crossed three continents, including Europe, in 293 days with the hope of raising RM1.5 million for the National Cancer Society of Malaysia, MAA-MEDIcare Kidney Charity Fund and his alma mater, St George’s Institution, in Taiping. So far, he has raised about RM200,000. He hopes to reach his target by May 28 to commemorate the first anniversary of his journey.

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Support Tzuo Hann at 1 Utama (4th to 6th April 2008)

Go to 1 Utama this weekend (Friday to Sunday) 4th to 6th April 2008, to support Law Tzuo Hann, a fellow Malaysian (alumni of Duke University) who has cycled over 28,371km from US back to Malaysia, to raise fund for charity:-

St. Georges Institution
National Cancer Society of Malaysia
MAA-MEDIcare Kidney Charity Fund

He would be there at 1 Utama to showcase his bicycles, apparatus, photos, and also speak to anyone there. So, do go to 1 Utama New Wing Ground Floor. It is just next to 1 Utama New Wing Main Entrance, in front of Bakerzin.

Please help to spread the words.

For more info of his charity ride, go to LongWayHomeFundRaiser.com .

There would be limited edition of his CD of Photos, as well as T-Shirts available. So, do go to 1 Utama for it. Please blog about it too, to bring greater crowd.

On Sunday 6th April 2008, YB Datuk Liow Tiong Lai (Health Minister), YB Elizabeth Wong (Selangor State EXCO), YB Tony Pua (MP for PJ Utara) and others will be there at 2pm for the launching ceremony.

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Help to Translate from English to Mandarin

Tzuo Hann, whom I have blogged several times here, have cycled back from US to Malaysia over 28,371km in 293 days. And he would be having an exhibition at 1 Utama New Wing (Ground Floor, below MPH) from 4th to 6th April 2008 (10am to 10pm).

He would have a lot of his interesting photos, bicycle, hammock and other apparatus shown there. It would be a good way for you to donate to charity too! His charity website is LongWayHomeFundRaiser.com .

Would need some help to translate the following from English to Mandarin. Please go to ReCom.org here to reply that you are helping translating a certain point, so that it won't be double work.

Thanks for all your help.

The 79 captions are:-

1. A relationship between an adventurer and his bicycle. Takes two to travel
2. Germany. Vineyards by the River Rhine.
3. Ireland. An open field in Ireland with lots of sheep. Ireland has many views such as this one.
4. Turkey. A cistern from the time of the Romans when Istanbul was still Constantinople. Eerie, ingenious, calming.
5. Jiangsu. The bike is totally thrashed after going for a few days through snow and rain getting to Nanjing
6. Kyrgyzstan. Jumping for joy. Have been dreaming of today, cycling next to the Pamir Mountains for a long time now. It was beautiful and I stopped many times to admire the view.
7. Kentucky. Started off very early today. It is the longest day of the year today. It was hazy, but that didn’t keep the sun out.
8. Shaanxi. Haven’t showered for nearly 70 days now. Got kicked out of two restaurants today before finding a roadside store willing to serve me some food.
9. Thailand. Nearing the end of the trip now. Very depressed. I fear having to stop cycling and returning to normal life.
10. Xinjiang. This is a picture of Pa riding across the Flaming Mountains. It is the first of his 15 day ride across the Gobi desert with me.
11. Gansu. The end of Pa’s ride with me. Here he is right in front of Jiayuguan gate which is the entrance to China proper in the ancient times.
12. Kyrgyzstan. Putting on a kawpakí just so I could act like a Kyrgyz rock star. It didn’t work quite that well. Still, I got a lot of cheers from the local herdsman
13. California. About 45 degrees (7 Celcius) today and zero percent humidity. I was short of water to cover the distance so I found a bridge and stayed there till night came before I continued riding
14. Turkey. In front of Mount Ararat near the Iranian border. Cycled with a Belgian and a French couple for a few days and were very worried (unduly) about entering Iran.
15. Kyrgyzstan. The worst road of my trip. The rocks in the middle of the road are sometimes as big as watermelons and the ground is covered in fine dust. Hurt my ankle bouncing along on that road.
16. Uzbekistan. A windy and rainy night but there was no place for the hammock. I improvised instead.
17. Holland. Spent the night in one of the tunnels and banged my head as I sat upright to pick up my cell phone. Wake up call they call it.
18. Guangdong. Got out of Fujian today. Passed by a shrimp farm and flies were all over the place. Slept near a graveyard that night.
19. Colorado. I put up this note at the entrance of a post office that I slept in. A security camera looked at me all night.
20. Turkey. Keeps the wolves out. At least, they’ll knock something over and that should wake me up.
21. Ireland. Cliffs of Moher. A little touristy, but a magnificent view. Stayed with an Irish family in a town nearby for the night.
22. Ireland. My first of two days in the Ring of Kerry. This is a lake near Killarney. The sun sets at about 10pm. It was really, really strange, to me at least.
23. Kyrgyzstan. The Pamirs and the Tien Shan meet here. The sky was blue, clear and I was all alone on a very, very bad road. Super.
24. Gansu. Covered 20,000 kms and stopped to take a picture. The hills here are cut up for agriculture but right here, they are bare, dry and cold, much like the weather.
25. Xinjiang. Sunset in the Taklamakan desert near the Gansu border. Pa was riding with me at this time and told me to take a picture.
26. Thailand. This is a sunrise near HuaHin in Thailand. George (travel buddy) and I had a good time last night and still managed to wake up for the sunrise. Good for us.
27. Kyrgyzstan. One of the main highways. The road is frozen. This is the top of Sary Tash pass. Very cold, very tired, just above the oxygen line. Headache and dizziness.
28. Kyrgyzstan. I saw the bluest rivers in my life here. Kyrgyzstan doesn’t have much but its got loads of glacial spring water. A bit too cold for a dip or I would have jumped in.
29. Thailand. The fishermen here fish at night with lights. Here, they are loading up their boats with bait, nets and food ready for the long night ahead.
30. England. Coming down from Shap Summit north of Manchester. Stone hedges in green fields that go on for miles and miles.
31. Ireland. The western most point of the Ring of Kerry. I dunked my rear wheel in the Atlantic in that bay in the right middle portion of the photo and headed East, for the Pacific.
32. Kyrgyzstan. There are villages along the main highway leading from Osh to Kashgar in China. This here is a bridge that connects the main road to a village of herders.
33. Vietnam. Graves here are the most elaborate that I have ever seen. No wonder the people are so poor. They spend so much money on the dead!
34. Gansu. Stopped rather early in a town because the weather was very bad and went for a walk in a temple park. This here is an ancient bell tower.
35. Zhejiang. An ancient bridge near Hangzhou. It was a very hazy day and a little windy. Very friendly locals whom a friend introduced me to showed me around and I stayed with them for the night.
36. Bangkok. A bridge over the Chao Phraya River. I like the colors in the sky.
37. Gansu. A fight for water, even when its almost ice.
38. Guangdong. Is life fair? 25 cents a stick. Our man can hardly walk straight .
39. Vietnam. A woman sells balloons off her bike. The bike is a moving porcupine, literally.
40. Thailand. George and I found a perfect beech and settled for the night. I had my trusty hammock up as usual.
41. Kyrgyzstan. The setting sun casts a shadow and a light on the hills out of Osh.
42. Kyrgyzstan. This road leads to Sary Tash Pass. Gravel with light dust at about 2800 meters above sea level.
43. Kyrgyzstan. Mountains like these go on and on and on. They are so magnificent, they make me forget about the cold.
44. Kansas. Wheat, corn, oats, wheat, corn, corn wheat. Repeat for 1500miles. Its flatter than stale beer here.
45. Iran. I stopped at an abandoned mud hut and as I waited for the sun to set, two shepherds with 500 sheep rolled up and kicked up dust into the otherwise clear evening.
46. Kyrgyzstan. Alcoholism is a problem here. The grocery shops seem to carry more liquor than groceries and here, a boy who is hardly 12 serves at a roadside bar.
47. Kyrgyzstan. Sary Tash pass from a kilometer from the summit. Notice the overturned truck in the valley. The road is covered in 3-4 inches of fine dust. Cycling was very difficult.
48. Uzbekistan. A madrassah in Bukhara. The city is a mud maze with spectacular buildings such as this one in its center.
49. Uzbekistan. Mosaic tiles depicting two birds in Bukhara. Very unsual since Islam forbids the images of living things as decoration.
50. Turkmenistan Karakorum Desert. Walked towards the bushes and stepped right into a snake’s nest. The reptile hissed at me and took a defensive position. I went to bed anyway. Snakes don’t eat humans. Snakes are our friends.
51. Turkmenistan. In between the Turkmen and Uzbek border, a family of stateless people work as porters for cross border traders. Here, they build a tent out of plastic to keep out the freezing cold.
52. Ireland. My second day around the Ring of Kerry. After two attempts to hide in heavily populated areas, I settled for a semi finished house that must have cost the owner millions. I didn’t pay a cent and still got a nice sunset.
53. Uzbekistan. Cotton pickers getting paid at the end of the day. Child labor is employed here and all over Central Asia. Cotton picking is tough work. The bushes are thorny and many Uzbek fingers are torn up.
54. Turkey. I stayed with this family near Agri. Broke fast with them and had a hard time leaving in the morning. They simply wouldn’t let me go. No running water but there is satellite TV and power in there.
55. Xinjiang A hammock and high voltage power lines always do it right.
56. Turkey Sakaltutan Pass. Turned 23 here. Wolves howling all over.
57. Shaanxi. Right before a very dangerous tunnel where I was forced to lean my bike against the tunnel wall to avoid oncoming busses and trucks. The sun must have melted the snow before the cold froze everything over again quickly. Amazing sight.
58. Colorado. Right before Lizard’s Head Pass in the Rockies, a lake surrounded by mountains and pine forests appears out of nowhere. A long downhill follows on the other side of the pass.
59. Xinjiang. Pa and I stopped at a workers quarters after a long day on the road and they gave us food, water and a place to sleep in dugout rooms. We even helped ourselves to some leftover tea and felt great about that too.
60. Thailand. Stayed in this temple in Petchburi. The monks let me stay and I went out the next morning helping them with carrying alms. They got a lot of food for very little effort. Everyone likes monks in Thailand.
61. Laos. Met these kids out to pick firewood in my first hour into Laos. They were a cheerful bunch and didn’t seem to mind my being there. I left them with some candy and peanuts because they cheered me up so much. They made me happy.
62. Turkey. Visited an ancient castle that was built right over the Silk Road. Spent a few hours imagining what it would be like to be a traveler on the Silk Road in the good old days.
63. Fujian This house was abandoned for a good reason. The walls were crumbling and I wondered if I would end up getting buried alive should it collapse. It was a good night’s sleep anyway.
64. Guangdong. This photo tells me a lot. How do we address the recycling problem? How hard is life for some people? What is in this man’s mind?
65. Vietnam. I would never imagine seeing kids on skates in a village in rural Vietnam but the world is a funny place.
66. Vietnam. Where motorcycles rule the streets. Cycling in that stuff was a surreal experience. I rode like a samseng.
67. Germany. Sunflowers grown for oil. These guys look beautiful now but they stay in the fields to dry before harvesting. At that time, they look black, ugly and evil.
68. Fujian. The hotels that I used in China can be quite luxurious, like this one for about RM5.00 to RM7.50. Sometimes, complete strangers share the room.
69. Ireland. A very beautiful night on Molls Gap. Slept overlooking a valley with horses and sheep moving about in the hills nearby. A magic moment.
70. Iran. I slept here for the night. Built a fire inside without realizing that the chimney was clogged up and smoked myself silly before realizing how dumb I had been.
71. Kyrgyzstan. Coldest night of the trip. -15 degrees at least. I told myself two things before trying to sleep. “You asked for an adventure, deal with it.” “I think I’ve been a good boy.”
72. Iran. Near Azerbaijan, I found this place to sleep. Tunnels under the road like this one are made for shepherds to move their herd around without crossing the roads.
73. Guangxi. Cold, rainy and windy. I slept in one of the pigeon holes for this last night in China. Found out late at night that I had one day instead of two left on my Chinese visa.
74. Xinjiang. After some begging, some workmen let me sleep on the cardboard in a tent in their factory. At least it wasn’t freezing cold with a stove going at full blast.
75. Turkmenistan. Had dinner with Turkish-Kurd truckers and made bed under one of their trucks. I made the man promise not to drive off without checking in the morning.
76. Vietnam. Two days before Chinese New Year and I was feeling very generous so I paid for this shack in someone orchard. I paid 4 stat prices for this shack and felt great about it.
77. Iran. Slept here in this roofless shack after breaking fast with a busload of travelers at a service station.
78. Iran. Nomadic shepherds move a flock down a hill. Half the herd is still on top out of sight here.
79. Fujian. Upstream on one of China’s many great rivers, a pair of boatmen work on an early morning’s catch.

I think this also makes some of you wanting to go 1U to visit Tzuo Hann's exhibition. Do come in full force! It is certainly interesting reading even just the caption!



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Meet Up With Tzuo Hann

I blogged about Tzuo Hann's Long Way Home here and several other posts earlier.

Tzuo Hann will be meeting with a bunch of youth at Teluk Pulai Bak Kut Teh in Klang this Sunday, 23rd March 2008. We would meet at 11am at A&W Taman Jaya, before car pooling to go.

If you are interested to meet Tzuo Hann, to listen about his experience cycling across 20+ countries over 28,371km, then do come! If you are interested to help out in his charity plan, to come too!

A sneak preview:- Tzuo Hann would be present at 1Utama between 4th April to 6th April. If you are willing to help out to solicit for donation for him, do let me know!

Please help to blog to publicize about Tzuo Hann's fund raising. The website is at here

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Tzuo Hann Made it Back!

I have blogged about Tzuo Hann's Long Way Home Fund Raiser at here , here and here

Congratulations, Tzuo Hann!!!!!!!

You have definitely done all of us proud!!! Tzuo Hann Boleh!!! You have done it!!!

It is definitely not an easy task! Cycling back from US to Malaysia, is something that no one from Malaysia, or for that matter, anyone in the world, has done. And Tzuo Hann has made it happen in a truly Malaysia Boleh spirit!

With a kind heart to give back to the people of Malaysia, after he got a full scholarship to study abroad, he embarked on this journey of 293 days to cycle back a total of 28,371km to Malaysia. That's a huge achievements!!!

He even initiated Bike4Malaysia, to motivate a bunch of young Malaysians, from as young as 13 years old, to as old as 63 years old, to cycle from Padang Besar all the way to his home town in Taiping. That is fantastic!!!

Syabas, Tzuo Hann!!!

Now that he has done his part. I would like to strongly urge everyone who read this post, to take a proactive step to donate to charity that Tzuo Hann has selected. He made this trip throughout on his own pocket money. All the donation is going to charity, benefitting:-
a) St. Georges Institution
b) National Cancer Society Malaysia
c) MAA-MEDIcare Kidney Charity Fund

To donate, go to here

Full details of donation are:-
Method 1: Bank Transfer

Bank: Public Bank
Account Number: 3142757623
Account Name: OGA-LONGWAYHOME CHARITYRIDE
Make a cheque payable to
OGA-LONGWAYHOME CHARITYRIDE
and send it to

c/o No.36, 1st Floor, Jalan Pasar
34000 Taiping, Perak, Malaysia

Please refer the donation form for details. Click here to download the donation form.

For donations from abroad, credit into
Public Bank Berhad account 3142757623
with address No. 29-35 Jalan Kota, 34000 Taiping, Perak, Malaysia.
Swift Code No: PBBEMYKLXXX

To read his full journal, go to here



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Tzuo Hann Cycling Back to Malaysia

I have blogged about Tzuo Hann's Long Way Home from US to Malaysia several times.

Right now, Tzuo Hann has reached back to the land of Malaysia and he is scheduled to reach back to Taiping on 15th March 2008, after a long 293 days cycling around the world. There would be 55 cyclists cycling together with him on his journey back to Taiping. It would be an exciting affair! Syabas, Tzuo Hann.

I would hope that everyone would not be stingy to chip in to Tzuo Hann's Long Way Home Fund Raising Program for Charity. You can get full details at LongWayHomeFundRaiser.com .

Do spread the words around to your friends. It is a good deed, for a very young Malaysian to do such a good deed.

Tzuo Hann, your spirit would be a great inspiration for fellow Malaysians!

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Tzuo Hann's Bike For Malaysia

Blogged about Tzuo Hann's Long Way Home Adventure here .

The details for Bike For Malaysia is now out!

Do read it at here

Hope to see many would sign up!

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Tzuo Hann's Cycling Home

As blogged earlier, Tzuo Hann, a fellow Malaysian from Duke who is cycling back from U.S. to Malaysia is now on his journey to cycle back home. Today, is his exact 200 days anniversary of his cycling and I would like to strongly urge every reader of my blog to fully support Tzuo Hann. He intends to raise RM1 Million for St.Georges' Institution, National Cancer Society and MAA-Medicare Kidney Charity Fund.

For more info of his fund raising, go to Longwayhomefundraiser.com , and for his journal go to here .

Tzuo Hann has written an article on his reasons behind fund raising a couple of weeks back. It is at here

His spirits are definitely very high and definitely a role model for many of us, as Malaysians.

Do read it in full here
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At the point of writing this, I've met up with the old man in Turpan and have talked to him face to face about how the charity is progressing. I figure, its time to write something about its progress from my perspective.

This will be long. There are a lot thoughts worth entertaining and too many people to thank.

>>>>>>Some background, personal motivation.

A friend from Duke once related to me a philosophical viewpoint that basically says that the physical consequence of action when given the oppurtunity to act is the same regardless of the moral cost of the situation.

A little twisty for the head to wrap about. Take the following example.

The moral cost of not feeding a child about to die of malnourishment is much lower than that of ignoring an organization collecting the funds to feed the same starving kid. The physical consequence is the same. The kid dies.

Philantrophy, charity and community service is addictive and is a trait that needs nurturing. I read this from somewhere respectable, not BS.

Ignorance is bliss. With awareness however, it would be a moral crime to not do anything about it. It would be minimally acceptable to engage in some form of charity but as the saying goes, "Better do it with a bang."

>>>>>>The idea is formed and we write down some goals.

The fundraising website has material that was hastily put together by a group of people, myself included who have absolutely no experience with fundraising, have little time and have minimal support from the powers that be. A lot of it is under construction and being developed as time goes by. What I write here and the contents of the fundraising website might be mutually exclusive tho not contradictory.

After cycling across America and knowing damn well that I can complete the journey home, the old man with the generous assistance of many friends and wellwishers, some of which I have never met before joined me in this ambitious project to

- fundraise for 3 worthy organizations

- develop an awareness among Malaysians, particularly the younger generation, that ventures like these are possible and well worth the effort.

- to damn well have a good time and to have some fun and excitement of our own doing something for our beloved country and its people.

Also, I owe the Malaysian people a big one for funding my tertiary education. Although I am 'giving' it back by reaching into as many pockets as possible, I still think this counts towards the neverending debt.

>>>>>>The old man steps in, and few more folks hop on.

My initial idea was a simple website interface to collect funds but I talked to the old man about it and he seemed to think it wasn't too bad an idea. He even offered to 'run' the effort from Malaysia so that I could concentrate on the cycling. Personally, I think he just wants something to do for the law firm is ever so quiet. :0

We have a few conversations (and arguments) over the phone. We argued over who the beneficiaries should be, how non-political, non-racial and non-religious the effort should be and so on and so forth. I personally wanted the effort to be one of the 'rakyat''s (people) and the rakyat's alone without any influence from anyone with any political affiliation. It is true by and large in the real world that invariably, such efforts do require some political big shot presense to be a success but I am young, stupid and still think one completed without such influed is purer, truer to its ideals and one worth pursuing. But the old man slaps some sense into me and we have proceeded smoothly so far with some deviations from my Utopian fundraiser.

Dad also makes a few phone calls and talks to a few other folks around. Again, I think its just an excuse to order a few more rounds of beers most of the time, but hey, its for charity. The Old Georgians Association (OGA) steps in. Well, I am an Old Georgian too by virtue of graduating from a LaSallian school in hometown Taiping by the name of St George's Institution. Having the OGA on board is great for it not only means a more eager (I hope) hands but it also eliminates the need for the effort to form a new organization or society just to fundraise.

A few calls also go out to friends in Malaysia and in the States. More people hop on the party bus. We are good to go.

No one besides those from Malaysian Cancer Society and MAA-Medicare (Not US Medicare) has any experience fundraising on such a scale. We are shooting for a figure in the region of 1.5million ringgit and to for the message to reach the entire country. In many ways, the whole project is a dive into cold, unknown water for everyone invested in it at this moment. I have no experience cycling and those at home working on the fundraising have no experience with such work. 4 months down, I hope they are enjoying the challenge as much as I am enjoying the ride.

Even more, I hope they continue thinking that I am doing the hard work. Actually, I am out for a holiday, having a good time being jobless while they are running about government offices, in and out of companies, trying to coordinate efforts, so on and so forth. There is no way this project would have developed without the efforts of many of the folks who raised their hands to help. A few individuals, some of whom I don't even know have contributed blood, sweat and tears literally to move things along and I cannot wait to personally thank them back home.

>>>>>>Difficulties

A project of this size, especially when run by an inexperienced bunch naturally has growing pains. Although I personally do not experience first hand any of it, I can almost feel how difficult it is to coordinate an effort that involves many profesionals with little time, government offices, printers, the media, donors, etc etc etc. The frustrations come from both within the organization and from external sources. They range from waiting too long for a phone call to be returned to pulling hair out waiting for an official approval from the government to proceed on matters. Lots and lots to endure and work through.

Another thing that really makes me want to massacre many Malaysians en masse (I'm sorry) is how often the race and language issue is brought up. I bloody know that given our complicated race based political fabric, such issues are unavoidable but it is high time we (learn to) flush it down the toilet and focus on whats important. In this case, what is important is that a bunch of folks who have nothing to gain financially are sticking in time, effort and money for a noble effort that they hold dear. In this case, we are fundraising for a school and two national organizations fighting major killers in Malaysia. Yet, issues such as the racial buildup of the organizing comittee, the language that we use to go about our work are brought up again and again. BAH!

What really hurts me and I will mention it since I am Chinese is that some Chinese who don't speak English even cite the lack of Chinese language as the reason for not chipping in. My poor father took great pains to translate parts of the donation form and also parts of my journal and yet, some say, not enough. Goddamit, it just so happens that I sucked at being Chinese enough to not learn the language, thats why so much is in English.

The list of tough stuff goes on and on and I just want to sound it out to the masses that a whole bunch of dedicated people are working on this project with nothing to gain and trying to please as many people as possible. Not easy at all.

>>>>>>Bike for Malaysia

We are also trying to organize a bike ride from the Thailand-Malaysia border back to Taiping when I get home. Its got a whole load of rules and such attached to it at the moment, but when things get finalized, it will be as simple as show up, bike for 3 days, have a good time on and off the road and having a heckuva meal at the end.

I really hope the event, if it happens, encourages people to ride bikes and also generates enough media coverage to inspire others to give and to believe that such projects can be run with minimal support from the government. Malaysia is getting in a lousy habit, I fear of using the rakyat's hard earned cash for projects like this one. I'll write more on this closer to home.

>>>>>>Lack of youth involvement

I keep reiterating that young Malaysians are the group that really should wake up to the fact that being in a rat race for cash and career advancement is not the only thing important. Its not the only way to expend the energy and vibrance of youth. I've brought this up with friends and on the Internet. Despite receiving many pats on the back and many 'Sweet thing you are doing there', there has been way too few hands shooting up and asking 'What can I do?'

Its funny advocating a message and being supported by a whole bunch of people (I'm sorry) who well qualify as my parents. They too are agreeing with my conviction and wondering where in the hell the younger folks are.

Cummon guys, you can make cash and find time to give as well. You can't take cash to your grave but others can take flowers and memories to it. Thats the truth.

>>>>>>Final thoughts and thanks for now

A huge, huge thank you to the folks who have so generously offered to help and have jumped into mighty unknown waters for a young punk cycling home. Unknown waters because those helping are inexperienced and are learning from many frustrating mistakes. Generous because they are not gaining anything from it.

As the project grows and more and more people get involved, I am gradually learning what it is like to work in Malaysia's complex political climate. I have much to say about how this relates to it, but those thoughts will have to wait for a while as events unfold.
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