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Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi

I still remember my first visit to Malaysia two and half years ago. I stayed there for three nights before I went on my first journey to the UK. It was already ten o’clock in the night when I arrived in central Kuala Lumpur. The hostel I booked should be two blocks away from the metro station but a local showed me a completely wrong direction. I walked around the nearby area alone, desperately wanting to know where I was. I once stepped into a very dark alley way and went passed a crowd of men whose night just began. I was terrified because I never travelled by myself and running into trouble the first night seemed to prove that my mom was right to try to stop me before we said good bye. Finally I located my position on the map and managed to find where I was and luckily a very friendly security guy in a bank read my map carefully and consulted two of his colleagues before showing me directions.