9 days home - Family Trip

Took a week off work and headed home just to spend some time with my family, since my bro is back and my sis can take off from school... its a rare opportunity for all of us siblings to be back at the same time. my parents must have been quite stressed with all the noise around hahaha! the house is so peaceful when my sis and i are away.
Anyway, after much persuasion, i manage to get everyone to agree that we go Genting Highlands for a 3 day trip. Reasons -
1. I wanted to feel the adrenaline rush of roller coasters and free fall before my age catches up on me and before I feel intimidated by them!
2. The last time I was there, I was only 18. Underaged to enter casino. Now I am an adult :p
3. Weather is super hot. So nice to enjoy the temperature of 20deg Cel... and of course the cold weather reminds me of the kind of cool spring I had in Japan a year ago
4. Can't see the next time (in near future) where all five of us will be able to go for a holiday
Yup, so of we went. My first time driving a car other than the kelisa (which my sis calls as Bumble Bee... after Transformers) in KL. It was quite an experince to drive in KL!

The famous Genting sign... 6000ft above sea... which can also be seen from the aeroplane and from afar

Back to our childhood days. (indoor theme park)
First time trying my hands on go-cart
And the 100m free fall on space shot and roller coaster! and another - pirate ship, which i vote the 3 best rides there... The cool weather... and when the clouds come over Genting... visiblity drops to 10m only

Overall, it was quite worth the RM38. We were there from 10am to 7pm (the full opening time haha), and managed to cover all the rides, including some family rides.

The overall view of Genting and the beautiful sceneray from the top... the wonder of God's creation

Been reading a book written by a doctor who served among the leprosy patients in India for 19 years. It is interesting how He likens the physical body to the spiritual body, the Church in so many ways. And it is really giving me a fresh understanding of the Church as a body.

Like to share an extract of the book -

Consider the world as if it were shrunk down to a village of 100 persons:

In our town of 100 -
There would be 60 Asians, 12 Eueopeans, 13 Africans and 14 from the entire Western Hemisphere

25 live in standard housing, 20 suffer from malnutrition, 26 of adults are unable to read

20 people possess 90% of the town's wealth. Of the rest, almost half get by on less that $2 a day

2 have college education and 4 own a computer

Qouted from In The Likeness of God, by Philip Yancey & Dr Paul Brand

Make your own conclusion... but personally, I feel a burden God has given me, has something to do with the quote above.
And it really saddens me to see unequal distribution of wealth. Just look at Myanmar now.
Many people in other places of the world need help. And I pray that the we, Christians, would learn how to release the resources & talents God has given us to help them... and not be like tumour fat cells who would just store the nutrients but to learn to release when the time comes.