Another Sunday

Church is a bit of a drag right now - the last pastor left to go back to the US, and each week we "experience" a different speaker. The quality is very variable, but generally lower than we've been used to. The numbers are also low as most expats are back in the home countries for summer holidays (northen hemisphere).

We're now about 5 weeks away from finishing up in KL! Thinking about what needs to be done to close down - bank accounts, phones, power, rent, etc. And we need to get the movers organised to do the quotations - but before that we need to decide what needs to be thrown away! No point in moving junk from place to place.

We found an easy way to plan out the trip around the world - Star Alliance has a nice little program that you download to your PC. It's got all of the routes and airlines in it. We've ended up planning to go:
KL - Singapore - Seoul - Vancouver
Vancouver - Edmonton
Edmonton - Toronto
Toronto - London
Manchester - Prague
Prague - Milan
Milan - Singapore - Kuala Lumpur
And then back to New Zealand.

It should be a good trip and it will be great not to have to keep thinking about work. It always seems to take a few days to slow down when on holiday - how many times do you find yourself thinking about work and then telling yourself "Stop it, you're on holiday".

Found crumpets in the supermarket the other day. This was the first time in three years that the KL supermarket had them! Bagels are easier to find, but they are almost always NOT real bagels. Instead they tend to be bread rolls that are shaped like bagels. Or if they are real bagels, they're frozen. Once they are defrosted it is inevitably a disappointment. Still, I don't remember finding such nice curries and chinese food in New Zealand, so I guess you need to always recognise both the positives and the negatives. Tonight's dinner becomes soup and crumpets with the air-conditioning going to make it feel like a sunday-night dinner in winter! And now it's ready to eat.