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Nicholas Lai'

His name is Nicholas Lai Zhi Wen, a 17-year-old Malaysian student who recently moved to Australia and is still learning how to exist between two very different versions of everyday life.

Born 21 December 2008.

He lives with his Mother, Father, two sisters and his brother, who are all adjusting to the Australian lifestyle. Nicholas has gained a small sponsorship from tacos and has become a weatherman aswell. He works on film pieces with his creative imagination

Before leaving Malaysia, Nicolas was known at school for being a loud mouth. He had a habit of speaking words before thinking of them.

Now at his new school, Nico Chan is adjusting to a different rhythm of life. People here speak with unfamiliar slang, move through conversations quickly, and treat sarcasm like a normal language feature. He once replied “good on you” in class and had to explain that it wasn’t him being rude—it was just how he talked at home. That moment somehow became memorable enough that a few classmates still imitate it jokingly.

He’s also working on a personal project he calls “Sky Mapping.” Every evening, he takes a photo of the Adelaide sky and compares it mentally with photos his father sends from Penang. He tries to classify them based on colour, cloud layering, and what he describes as “emotional density.” According to him, Malaysian skies feel “closer, heavier, like they’re part of the ground,” while Australian skies feel “wide, clean, and slightly detached.”

At school, Nicholas hasn’t fully settled socially yet, but he’s found small points of stability. A quiet corner in the library where he studies during breaks. A local bakery that sells curry puffs that are “not identical, but emotionally acceptable.” And a friend named Nitish Khanal, who he has made silly jokes with, but Nitish accepts them openly.

At night, he sometimes reopens We Chat[1] just to read the chaotic mix of languages, jokes, and familiarity. Then he looks out at the unfamiliar southern stars and writes in his log:

“Same sky. Different way of noticing it.”

He also enjoys watching Italian Brainrot like Tung Tung sahur,[2]

  1. Lai, Nicholas. "We Chat". We Chat. Retrieved 29/04/2026. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. https://nicklai.com.au/