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English, dislocated

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I f some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. ~Kin Hubbard Recently, to commemorate the week-long Chinese New Year break-cum-mid-term break, a friend and I decided to go to Fraser’s Hill, nestled quietly in the Titiwangsa mountain range, slightly to the north of Genting Highlands. Named after an Englishman, Louis James Fraser, I have never been to Fraser’s Hill but since my friend said her company does have a few units of apartments up there which we can rent for RM 50 each per night, I said, why not!! So, on a quiet Friday afternoon, we embarked on our journey. I wasn’t really sure how to get there, but I had read the directions on a website, so armed with only the memory of those directions, I headed to Karak and took the Bentong exit. I had read that after Bentong, we should look out for signs of Tranum but since the toll-gate guy was totally clueless about where Tranum is, and very adamant about us taking the route to Raub, we took th