Protein for my hair

Nicely dressed and hair nicely blown - as I was walking to work, on the arm of the lamp post sit a flock of small birds, and one of the birds had to drop his droppings on my hair! Eeewwwww!

Down Memory Lane

To pick up from the last stop...

Career
Driving to Klang from Mondays to Fridays has stopped... now I am just working close to home. A small company, but big projects, dreams. I am having a challenging position, and stressful because it is results-orientated. Glad that my experience from a German and American company helped me to help this company. With almost zero based, it is easy to do and so acceptable by the MD.

Farewell
Working in a small town like Klang is different. They are very warmth. (Imagine, KW, AT and I left the same time). Because KW was leaving, his gals did all the nice things, like breakfast and i get to eat. These gals with the rest bought us dinner. Company also gave us a farewell lunch at Dragon Garden. I had a thank you slides shown to them and treated them to KFC. The working journey ended with a Bangkok/Pattaya trip.

SMSP
This year, June 22 - 26, the group went to Pulau Perhentian. The highlight of this trip is the snorkeling adventure. Although this time the group was small, but we all had fun.
October 19 - 25.5 people came for a SMSP gathering at A & W. (Juseleen brought her son).
September 18 - met up with Romi who came to Malaysia for a holiday with her newly wed husband. They had a honeymoon in Bali.
October 29 - met up with Erik von Rüsten (my baby) and girlfriend Eva Maria who came back for a holiday.

Melody Choir
2007 - the choir get the opportunity to sing in the main church whenever there is a 5th Sunday. This year we went to Penang, Madras Lane Church to sing and received wonderful feedback. Godmom was very impressed.

Others
Wrikles had to be put to sleep in May. Her hind legs suddenly lost the feeling and she couldn't stand on her legs anymore. Zippy is doing fine and happy to be get all the attention now.

Hello Again!

It feels great to be able to blog again! I would have come back much earlier, but I had trouble getting in and then I was busy to explore further. And today is my lucky day, the internet is moving a bit faster and everything was set-up to go.

About Pulau Kecil, Perhentian Island

Pulau Perhentian Kechil is about 4 kms long and a km wide at its widest and tapering down to a couple of 100 metres at the northern end. It is 21 kms off the northeastern coast of Peninsular Malaysia in the South China Sea. The highest points are about 1000 feet. It is a jungle clad at the back and crystal clear waters in front. Monitors lizards, pit vipers, leaf snakes, phythons, tokay gheckos and red bushy tailed squirrels inhabit these islands. There are aggresive monkeys in the jungle on the northern edge of the island and one must carry a stick for intimidation when hiking here. Huge monitor lizards come right up to people, looking for garbage to eat. During the migration season like now end October, a flock of white egrets and a black egret were spotted feeding on the beach. There are 2 famous beaches are Long Beach and Coral Bay. Long Beach on the eastern seaboard is the most popular tourist haunt with its drinking and music. This is also where the majority of dive shops are located. Coral Bay on the western side is the peaceful and quiet, lovers and family haunt with its spectacular sunsets. Being a Marine Park the Marine Department collects a RM5 levy on every visitor at the Kuala Besut Jetty. Both beaches are not allowed to build jetties to preserve the Marine Park environment as such visitors have to avail themselves of water taxis to get to shore from the speedboats at RM2 per person per way. Or get wet. There are also smaller beaches, some with accomodation. There is all types of accomodation available as well as dive shops. Room rates can range from RM50 (USD17) to RM1,000 (USD250) per night. Fun dives are around RM70 per dive whilst Open Water Courses are around RM700. Monsoon rains are not expected till after mid November. The waves are 1 feet on rough days and flat on good days. The winds are calm (less than 5mph) and variable, changing between southwesterly and northeasterly. The diving is amazing.