Our local friends, the Goh family, took us to Genting amusement park and casino up in the cool hills
You take a tram up
Aletheia, the 9 year old daughter, and Alice are friends
Atticus, the 1 year old son -- Boom and Atticus are very affectionate with each other
Holding hands. A true cross-cultural reaching out and taking each others' hands
The hotel with the most rooms in the world, as of a few years ago. 13,000 rooms the size of jail cells. Sometimes they offer a nightly special of only 33cents per night.
Abraham just barely made it onto some of the rides, size-wise.
Boom's first bumper car
See that? Black sesame gelato.
That's dark chocolate, for Grif
Pei Shee, Chee Leong, and us at their house a couple months ago. We first met because Chee Leong is the dean of the psychology department and via his wife Pei Shee, she introduced me to World Vision heads in Malaysia, where she works. The World Vision leaders introduced me to the NGO I work with now, a refugee training center and school.
They have a little pool/fountain inside their house! It's so hot out, no one would use it much outside, probably. And, they have an lcd projector showing thousands of movies in their database.
Chee Leong's parents who live a walk away and take care of Atticus while Pei Shee works part-time during the week. Mr. Goh was head of World Vision Malaysia and is now a consultant to the opposition party in Malaysia, representing Chinese and Indian-Malaysians, mostly, in their attempt to stop discrimination and have a more fair system for all racial groups in Malaysia. He discussed US real estate, not politics, with Ken.
Ken, enjoying having people talk to him about his area of expertise - no adults ask him about real estate here! The grandmother told me she'd heard about me -- I'm the wife who was lucky enough to have a husband willing to leave his job for a year to come here. I always wonder, would they say that to a husband whose wife was willing to move here for a year?
They had a piano, great drum set, guitar, and limitless choice in kids movies.
Atticus love -- Abraham is very protective and loving of Atticus too.
April, 2011
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