Bright luminescent lights pierce the darkened sky highlighting crowded streets packed with Christmas shoppers. Giant promotional bill boards tower over us swarming like ants protesting their items are unsurpassed. Red and white taxis whizz past ferrying veiled women back to their five star hotel suites before it gets too late. Enthusiastic little faces peer skywards, backwards, forwards trying to capture as many of the thrilling activities encircling them. Their eyes reflect the dazzling lights of those towering billboards promising them an experience they will never forget. Amongst it all, I stand motionless, another onlooker peering upwards lost in a sea of multi-coloured faces, stunned by the luminescence, the excitement, and buying in to empty promises.I’m in Kuala Lumpur and I am enthralled. After four or so months of travelling in
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