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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

One year later, the story so far (flashback)

I have been in Malaysia since one year, exactly one year ago today.
It's been a great adventure and really the time has flown by.
So far it has been a completely different experience compared to the melbournian one and the dublinian quickie. The only common things concern the wrong driving side, the standing nights in front of the tv to support my soccer team and another anglo-saxons colonized culture to get use to (well, i haven't considered the 7 eleven shops managed by lazy indians).
I arrived on Sunday and the next Monday at 9am i was on my desk for the handover with a malaysian chinese who spoke a fast manglish, not even the time to realize where i was landed.
After 5 days i moved into an apartment and in few weeks i started driving a car, a beautiful (euphemism) perodua myvi, the hidden outcome of stressed designer committed by stingy CFOs i guess. In a while i got my working visa and it actually took 6 months to start realizing i wasn't in Italy anymore.
That's pretty much the result of a fast paced working life.
Anyway the day by day tasks kept me quite busy but it didn't prevent me to take few trips to Australia for a friend's wedding, Thailand, Singapore and some walkabout in Malacca. Few friends visited me as well as my family just after xmas. I started going to gym often and playing futsal quite regularly. Thanks to that i have also experienced the private medical treatment in Malaysia due to a microfracture of the malleolus.
I've become addicted to malls already, seldom if ever clubbing, i haven't experienced golf and badmington yet.  That's my ability to adapt to the malaysian laziness. 
Let's see how it goes lah!

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