It started with ICE in full combat gear and gas masks rounding up staff of a neighborhood Italian restaurant in LA.

Then the citizens fought back.

Trump wants chaos and calls in the national guard. The world watches in disbelief as rhe US collapses on itself. .

My cousin had to bring my mentally retarded uncle back to the Philippines last week. We cannot risk ICE hurting my defenseless uncle. ICE doesn’t care whether you have proper papers or not—as long as you’re not white, you’re vulnerable.

Waiting to board flight to Kuala Lumpur. The trip I dread the most. The minutes tick and my trepidation grows.

Flight got delayed because the plane had come from Indonesia before landing in Manila. It got held up in Jakarta. I got out of the airport at around 1 pm, jumped into KLIA Express, which only took 28 mins to reach KL Sentral. I was hungry so I took a bite at the central station.

I browsed in some of the shops a bit, just to see if it’s cheaper here or in Manila.

Yep, it is. The Garnier Sakura Glow Ceramide serum cream that I had been searching for in every Watsons branch I encountered back home is only around PHP 395 (MYR 30) at Guardian here in KL. In Manila it’s around PHP 500+. Of course I had to grab one jar.

Then there were books. Lots of books for only MYR 10.

I think these are local reprints that’s why they’re cheap.

I was intrigued and I was tempted to buy. However, I knew I wouldn’t read it so I just left the thing in peace.

We discussed this in our Literature class in second year high school (Asian Lit). Aside from Mahabharata and Ramayana, we also tackled Rabindranath Tagore, Kalidasa, Matsuo Bashō, etc.