Traveling

My friend, Neny is traveling around Europe (I think?) with her family and she did very good job writing about it in her blog. Similar to Azma, who stayed in Dubai since last year and she has been a wonderful friend describing her journey to Holy places at Saudi Arabia. How I missed the fun of traveling, just like the old days when I was in UK for couple of years and my short stint in the US. Am I bored with my job now? Day in, day out. Write papers and following orders that I don’t fancy but I have to. I received my monthly subscription of Reader’s Digest today and the Editor wrote about her story of taking a year-off after being laid off to travel around the world. Yes, around the world. With some money of course, gaining experiences on the road. For the past 5 years after I came back from USA, I vividly remembered only 4 holiday trips (3 of them are paid trips as conference paper presenter) that I went to: Singapore (2008), Penang (2009), Penang and Langkawi (2010). Each trips only take me 2-3 days off the work and some were combined with work (Bakun trip is not considered a holiday, mind you). DH and I love to travel and see other places. That was the main reason that we cannot stay back home (whether in Johor or Terengganu) because there is not much of things to do there. We settled in Nilai, the suburb but fairly close to the city center and the airport. I will retire coming age of 45 years old, but life is so short. What if today is my last day, and there is no tomorrow. I can just pray and hope for the best to come from Allah, for longevity and happiness with my family. Realising this, we have decided that coming end of May, we will take a week off from work and travel to Redang Island, whether the bosses like it or not.

 

I am trying hard to upload our Langkawi pictures to this blog. Although dah basi, still I am (and want to) coping up with my traveling photos.