Let's meet at the park! 
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I have spent enough days living out of hotel rooms and luggage bags. Every airport looks the same, the check-in gates, the customs, the conveyor belts that spit our baggage and our burdens. It’s been a week now since I last saw your face, held it in my hands, drawing you in close for a kiss, a forever embrace though our hugs and our tears could only have lasted minutes. These cold sheets do not hold your scent, these mirrors do not hold your smile in the morning. I eat take-out, the contents do not matter. I miss your cooking. I miss shopping for the ingredients with you. I miss just walking past you and leaning forward simply to smell you. You smell so good. You are a wonder, baby; how did I ever get this lucky?
My suitcase is packed. The plane ticket snug in my pocket. There is a taxi waiting to take me to the airport. I’m coming home, baby, even if I have to fly all through the night. I’m coming home.
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Photograph by A. Carlos Herrera. Design by Kenny Mah.
welcome home, dude!!
no place like home, eh?!
Just landed at KLIA! Yup — there’s truly no place like home: in the arms of my baby, that is.
M. Gandhi was right when he said “Where there is love, there is life.”
*imagines Kenny serenading to his love*
“Baby, its good to be back, so good to be back
Baby, its good to be back in your arms again
Baby, its good to be back, so good to be back
Honey, its good to be back with you, oh yeah ”
Serenading? Oh but I do. Alas! my better half thinks my efforts at Malaysia Idol-ing is more akin to the croaking of an inebriated amphibian than anything else.
Eee~ so lovely…
Im waiting u to come back too~ ha ha
I’m back, I’m back! Lil Godbrother, have you been well-behaved while I was gone?
Awww…welcome home!!!
Thanks!
i bet ur baby can’t wait for u to come home either. so romantic…
Hehe, that you gotta check with my dearest. Tee hee.
Haha, naturally this post reminds me of Michael Buble’s “Home”.
Now, if I could sing like that fler, then we’re talking…
Never mind lah, your occasional haiku’s also boleh lah… Hahahah!
How could my haikus compare to his voice? Aiks!
“we are the wisest in our own world”.
A wise friend told me that.
So in your world, Buble doesn’t stand a chance.
Haha, someone should tell Mr. Bublé.
ur haikus are in a league of their own.
20,000 leagues beneath the sea, is it?
more like an outer space league! lol
Space Ball!
I love the song.
That makes you and just about every reader of this blog, dear.
wow! makes me wanna leave, just so I can fly back and feel like that !. hehe.. so sweet.. melt melt
Hahaha… so farnie. Wait till you do it as regularly as I do, then you might just wanna change your mind. Heh.
you’re coming home from where? ……
sorry been off the blogosphere for some time now ….
safe journey home anyway.
I’m coming back to KL from Kuching + Miri, Sarawak. Next up is Sabah, JB, Singapore, Malacca, Perlis, Perak… It’s almost like I’m doing a tour of the whole nation!
(All I need is my own rockband and I’m set!)
….tour of the whole nation!
The last I checked, Singapore has not gone back to be part of Malaysia yet. LOL…
Well, most of us just treat it as the recalcitrant 15th state that has yet to return to our fold… Kiddin’! I knew the moment I posted that comment someone is gonna point this out.
Why ARE you touring the whole nation?
Hehe, that’s a Top Secret.
I am ready to go home when I step into the plane even though it is the 1st leg of my trip. Miss the warmth of my loved one. I loved this to point of being tempted to use it as my own.
You know how I feel, you do. Terrible thing, missing your loved one, yes?
only one word for this post… awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
~sighs longingly~
That sure is one long “awww”, eh? Hehe.
well….deservedly so mah…such a sweet post!
and how can you tour the whole nation and miss out penang??!!!!!
I’m not missing out Penang lah… Just not this month, maybe in April, before I head off to UK?
*fingers crossed*
yaaaayyyyy!!!!! if you really do come to penang…remember to drop me an email ok? then we can go makan!!!!!!
Yes, sure thing. It looks like I’ll only be able to do Penang after UK though cos next month I’m heading down south instead — the Ninth State, Malacca and New Johore… (Ain’t it funny when we translate the names into English?)
lol thats true! no worries la…once you in penang you email me la. must one ah!
Sure thing, will will will one lah!
*Sigh*
such love. such longing. such description … LOL … it makes me all tingly.
i absolutely ADORE your prose and ability to … describe your emotions, thoughts and situations … and look forward to reading more and more …
All tingly? You mean, like an electric shock? Hehe. I kid, I kid. Thanks for reading, and I’ll be sure to keep writing.
And on the opposite end of the spectrum, there’s me. So I call up Bald Eagle one day. I say, “Hey, what shall we eat for dinner today?” And he replies, “Darling, you do realise that I’m not coming home tonight coz I’m not in KL, don’t you?” Ouch. Talk about losing track.
He came back last night, farted a bit, and went to sleep. 
Hur hur hur. Still romantic ma… in his very own, Bald Eagley way…
songs of “home” are playing in my mind right now. from daughtry to buble to simply red…
yeah, nothing beats the comfort of home, be it a person, a sofa or just a song. ;D
Speaking of sofas, I can’t wait to get my own place (something with my name in the title deed) and then I can shop for the craziest, comfiest sofas ever!
sigh..if only i got someone longing fr me like tat..
OK, *snap back to reality* so did u eat the Kolo mee???
Oh yes, I had plenty of Kolo Mee in Miri… Certainly wonderful wonderful wonderful…
Its comforting to know you are back home.Your next trip seems to cover every state except Penang
Oh, I am gonna cover Penang too, but not this month. Maybe April?
this reminds me of the song by cyndi lauper. a very heart-touching rendition, both hers and urs.
Ah good one! I had two of her songs in my head at the time — “All Through the Night” and “I Drove All Night” — so you’re right on the ball here.
those are the ones! from her greatest hits album, rite?
“Twelve Deadly Cyns… and then some.”
ohhh.. someone is out for work eh? how was the trip?
nothing can beat the bed at home! so seducing… LOL!
Seducing in the bed? Now, now… do tell me what you are talking about, dear?
The monkey scrolls through his iPod playlist and presses “play”
*** Cue song ***
“I’m staring out into the night,
Trying to hide the pain.
I’m going to the place where love
And feeling good don’t ever cost a thing.
And the pain you feel’s a different kind of pain.
Well I’m going home,
Back to the place where I belong,
And where your love has always been enough for me…”
*** Cue Smile ***
Wah, why is everyone emo-ing with me via sing-a-longs?
fitting for a sweet emo guy like you lo. Welcome home.
Me, emo? Where got? LOL
as coming home always heightens memories of almost slipped caresses n mixed touches, filled with lingering heightened expectations of what might not be …so let ambering hopes linger on till the last of time ,once more
Ambering hopes… I like the sound of that. I would indulge in ambering touches tonight… Hehe.
*I feel all warm and fuzzy right now…*
Fuzzy and furry?
*sigh*
I know a spot where you can get nice comfy sofas. Hahaha..Welcome back bro.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen – Samuel Lover
Well, there are other things I’d want to scratch, hehe…
My mind boggles at the thought of what you wanna scratch.
Oh, I’m sure your mind can think of several things…
i was talking about
the bed very seducing la. seduce you to a comfort sleep.
now now… what were you thinking?
Uhm. Ya. That was EXACTLY what I was thinking too. Yeah.
*sniff. how sweet. esp the last 2 sentences. but aren’t u traveling around again this mth? whr to next?
I’m in New Johore now (chuckles). Singapore tomorrow and Malacca on Monday. Sabah and Ipoh the following weeks, and Perlis too, towards the end of the month. Eeks.
The Ninth State next month, Borneo again, and likely Penang too.
(Maybe I should just publish my entire travel itinerary on my blog!
err..who is baby ah??
:p
Hehe, that’s for me to know and ….
ahhh.. let us know in advance when ur in Pg..wil round up for a makan session for u w hard core makan-kakis of Pg ya! h u been to Pg much? u wan road side, high -end, standing, squatting..all also got!
Oooh, that will be great. I am trying my best to plan the Penang trip for next month or May at the very latest. Would love to meet all the hardcore Makan-aholics of the Pearl of the Orient!
what happens after u come home to ur baby?
That, as they say, is another story for another time…
….errr….and for me to find out ??
That’d be a good bet, yes.
aiyah..no lah..some things are better left mysterious..
i just picture this most wonderful, beautiful, sexy, voluptous etc etc..babe waiting for you..
wish everyone could have the same…so unfair this world..grrrr
Ah well. It’s an amazing picture you have in your mind. Whether it’s anything remotely close to reality…
alamak..u mean ur babe is one real ugly, swamp thingy?
it dont matter, in your eyes…is still your babe…yes?
hehehehe
Haha, that’s funny — Me and the Swamp Thing!
You need loved ones at a place to anchor you back, ya?
Oh we do. Our loved ones are our home, after all, yes?
welcome home kenny! craving for some piping hot nasi lemak, or that CKT with wok hei? the choice is urs!
Oooh, I can’t decide… both are so good.. :d
welcome back! don’t you miss us too??
Very, very much, I do.
Awww, this post is just so touching. *Sniff* Hope you caught a few pics of that moment when you see your baby at the airport =D
Just in my mind, dear, just in my mind… where I’ll keep them forever.
Welcome back dude!
Back in KL, yes… but not yet to blogging. Super-busy lah. Let’s hope I get a post out before I fly to Sabah this Sunday…
Kenny, let me know if you are coming to Penang
Haven’t met you in ages!
Yeah, it’s been years and years… will announce my Penang trip here when it happens!
u seem to be travelling a lot these days, kenny. good that u always look forward to coming home. ;-D
It’s the best part of the journey — coming home!
Lucky baby to have you coming home to! Such a romantic! sighs…
Not romantic at all lah… Just ever in lovelovelove… Hahaha….