Her father Tuanku Abdul Rahman was often at King’s House (now Seri Negara) before and during his reign as the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong

Repost from @tz.n9 – 21/10/18 A lovely morning showing my great-aunt Tunku Shahariah around @jalanmerdeka

7-10. Also extended at Seri Negara are @raja_ihsan’s Photographs of August 1957 by the fourth Agong Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah and @thehumansofkl, which features the chauffeur of both Tuanku Abdul Rahman and Sultan Ismail, the grandfather of @thehumansofkl founder @mushamir.mustafa

Here’s a great story of the Negeri Sembilan Prince Tunku Zain who came over the Humans of KL exhibition. Humans of KL founder Mushamir Mustafa found out that the Tunku’s grandfather (the 1st King of Malaysia) and Mushamir’s grandfather (the personal driver for the first 4 Kings of Malaysia) were together 60 years ago during his reign, after reading a Humans of KL story I wrote about my grandfather’s past. It’s great to see that 60 years on, their grandchilds meet again! What a circumstance!

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(This post was first published on October 21st 2018)

Self-taught caricature artist Jon Tham shared his story on why he quit his corporate job to be a full-time father at our Stories of Malaysia Photostory Exhibition

He proudly says that he has been with his children through all the little growing up milestones. He has also learned to build an income from setting up booths at fairs and freelance jobs. We are grateful to have you over and conducting the caricature 101 workshop.

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(This post was first published on October 12th 2018)

Film director, producer, founder of a few NGOs, mother and also our advisor Low Ngai Yuen of Kakiseni took time off her busy schedule to share with the young people what has she been up to recently

We are fortunate to have you constantly supporting our storytelling endeavours, especially for this Humans of KL ‘Stories from Malaysia’ Photostory Exhibition. Thank you for your helping hand in making this exhibition and workshop a success!

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(This post was first published on October 3rd 2018)

‘Let’s take a flight that I’d never thought I’d be on’, that’s what I thought when I signed up for my working holiday in US…’

“My working holiday experience in US is the greatest adventure of my life so far.

There was this random night, I came across this ‘working holiday’ thing on the Internet and I was like ‘oh US?’, a country that has never be on my list and I just signed up for it because I want to experience the so called ‘US culture’. 

One of the US cultures I’ve experienced is that they are a proud nation to the extend that they think they are the best. 

I remember I went to US during Christmas, so my boss wanted me to help with the Christmas tree decoration and she asked me ‘do you celebrate Christmas in Malaysia? Have you ever seen evergreen?’ 

I know she wasn’t being mean but at the beginning, I felt like ‘oh she is looking down at us, she thinks that Malaysia is a very kampong place, very rural’. 

I was working as a housekeeper in a ski resort in Peru, Vermont and it was an unforgettable experience for me. It was very tough at the beginning because I overestimated myself, the physical work was beyond my limit – I’m small in size and not that strong. 

Also, during winter, the temperature reached -20°C, and I was under the weather for almost 2 months.

It was very tiring for me. My parents were forcing me to quit and come back to Malaysia. 

I felt like giving up but I didn’t want to, I had a feeling that I will look down at myself if I gave up. Now, I feel like it is an achievement, I learned a lot of things, not only about US but about myself.

I remember there was this old man, he was my co-worker as a mechanic in the resort. He told me one should always have a ‘student’ mentality: to always be willing to learn, regardless of what positions you hold, your age, your wealth – and that’s been the wisest thing that I have heard along the journey. 

Despite I can talk so much about travelling, I do feel lost and depress sometimes. It’s because I don’t have a job now, I don’t have an income and I still living on allowance. 

I tried very hard to get a job in UK after I finished my degree in Liverpool because I really love the city so much. 

It’s about the lifestyle and the people I met, all the experiences made me grow so much and so quick. In the end, I didn’t get any. 

I believe that good things take time and things happened for a reason. These simple quotes and beliefs hold me every time I’m on the edge of breaking down”. 

– Humans of Kuala Lumpur

Photostory by Samantha Siow
Edited by Mushamir Mustafa

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(This post was first published on October 27th 2018)