Seeing Penang from the Outside – and from Above
By Julia Tan
October 2019 PENANG PROFILE
Stories abound of Penang’s talents leaving for greener pastures, be it for KL or farther abroad. It would seem we are a lot of adventurers, folks who have drunk from some fount that inspires wanderlust. We all know of someone who has left. We could even be the ones who have done the leaving.Some return; most don’t.It might sound bleak, but there are also positive stories of those who have come back wanting to make a change, to inject colour...
Julia Tan
went to primary and secondary school at Convent Pulau Tikus before continuing sixth form at St. Xavier’s Institution; any other school was out of the question. She misses the fried rice at the school canteen, and laments the passing of the wan tan mee lady.
