There are other ways than conventional doors to get around my house, Ms Rainn.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly.

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.

She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink.