will you respect us when we invite you to our home?

As a hotelier over the years I have heard (and thank God I was spared from witnessing) my fair share of foreign tourists behaving in ways that are simply unacceptable in the eyes of the locals and disrespectful to the local customs and culture. When certain antics are seen as common and allowed in one…

in solidarity we stand

5 June 2015, 7:17am 6.0-magnitude earthquake, 30 seconds West coast of Sabah, a place outside the Ring of Fire Trauma on Mt. Kinabalu, 18 deaths We mourn… We mourn for those who have lost their lives far too soon, most of them far too young, so unexpectedly and so tragically. To the families who have…