My family went for a 1 day trip to Pulau Jerejak, a small island opposite of Penang. It used to be an Alcatraz of Malaysia, with an ex prison there. Now it has become a Resort & SPA. There are only a limited activities you can do there like jungle tracking – enjoying the flora and fauna, Abseiling, flying fox, suspension bridge, cycling, paintball, volleyball, netball and swimming. They have a nice swimming pool. You are not allowed to swim at the seaside as the jellyfish will kill you. Oh you can camp there too.

You may ask why are we doing there? My children loves to play sand and we hate to drive up to Batu Ferringhi so we though to go across to let them play some sand. They enjoyed the boat ride across and have an hour fun of sand playing.

By the way, food in the island is not cheap, so if you are going for a day trip, do pack some lunch with you. The adult fare for the ferry ride is RM20 with a bottle of mineral water and sandwich. If you are staying there, the ferry ride is RM10 per adult.

More info here: http://www.jerejakresort.com/

Need I say more?

Service still not advancing here. I dragged going the Pos Office. I had no choice, my car insurance reminder didn’t come and I was late in renewing my road tax. Usually, my insurance company will renew my road tax but I need it today. I went to JPJ, bumma, the network was down. I had to resort to Pos Office. Usually I pay all my bills and whatever through Internet. However I cannot pay my road tax through Internet. How I wish I can. Can the government do something about this?

Anyway, while waiting for my turn, I saw many still paying bills through Pos Office. I mean I can setup a counter with Internet connection and process their bills with a fee without the wait. Hahaha..side job for anyone who wants to get a quick buck. The staff there as usual took their own sweet time. By the way, only some Pos Office provides the road tax renewal service, not all. Talk about consistency. Now do you know which Pos Office delivered this service? I don’t know too.

Yesterday at church I had a Watch Night service. It is a gathering of the church at New Year’s eve thanking God for safely bringing us to yet another year. We thank God on what he has done for us in 2006 and what the church done for him, also think what we will be doing in 2007. Usually the service is hear from 10pm to 12:30 midnight to watch the night and approached 2007 with the Lord.

Often I am given a year-end evaluation to fill in my accomplishments at my work place, for a salary increment or a promotion next year. I have no problem doing that as I had achieved a lot for my company in 2006. However yesterday when I was putting up a list in my mind of what I done for God in 2006, I had difficulty in figuring it out. Year 2006 wasn’t a good year I must say for the Lord. I think I can do better than this for God. Oh yeah, I learn in my work place that doing thing as expected is our job. We have to do above expectation and give our excellence. I wish same time next year I can do excellence for God for year 2007. That is my new year’s resolution.

By the way, I also am starting a parents bay project for you. I will have some news for you in the next few days. I do need your participation to make this work.

Happy New Year!!!