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02/07/10 - Spent the weekend continuing my outreach for the Taman Wahyu church, this time visiting Shanti and her five children all the way out in Saujana Utama. They'd also stopped coming to church, mainly due to transportation issues, and though they had started going to a closer church, they wanted to go back to Taman Wahyu as that's where they were baptised. The other church, Cornerstone Ministries, was a nice church, of similar size and number as Taman Wahyu, and a number of people between each us seem to know each other too.

It was nice spending the weekend with Shanti, as it was nice spending time with Piriya, who's very attached to me, but also Shanti showed a huge deal of gratitude for what I did for her. She was really pleased just for me to come out and visit her, but after taking her in my car to KL and back, and to church on Sunday, I could tell she really appreciated what I did for her and her family.

Despite having an automatic, driving round KL all of last weekend was extremely tiring. But from my experiences of driving in Malaysia, if trying to drive on the roads themselves isn't enough of a challenge, simply trying to contend with the other drivers is even worse. Basic things like courtesy, or at times even safety, simply do not exist in some drivers mentality. Try to let someone out of a junction, they won't go for it; don't try and let someone out of a junction, they'll go for it. It just doesn't make sense sometimes, it's just better to not give way at all.

My last days in Malaysia seemed to be the most eventful. I went to see Deepa and Tharani on Monday, to find the family have a new puppy, but with the kids' attitudes towards the previous dog, it seems like just another victim for Deepa to 'affectionately' torture. My last hours in Malaysia were most eventful of all, as literally in my last hours, I received a call from Ashwini, who managed to get a hold of my phone number, and has even been calling me in UK. Also, on the day I left, Pastor Paul's father passed away. I didn't know till I called Malaysia from UK, and Pastor didn't know till after he dropped me; I did meet him a couple of times on this trip. Now I'm back in UK and it's... boring...

09/07/10 - After four months of waiting, I've finally started doing volunteer teaching at a local school with the VRH charity, where I've been assigned to teach two boys and a girl. It'll be nice to get the extra teaching practice and experience, though the summer holidays are only a few weeks away, so there'll be a long hiatus before I really pick up the pace with teaching. As for my paid job at Tesco, the place is still as bad as it was before, if not worse.

Now with my Malaysia move potentially just months away, I've been sorting through everything in my room, and have sorted a pile of things to sell at a bootfair on Sunday. The sad thing about emigrating is it's almost literally down to just taking what you can carry, so a lot of stuff has to go...

16/07/10 - Did a bootfair with my brother and sister-in-law in Hythe on Sunday, where I made about £20 selling some of my old stuff. It was nice to get some things cleared out, though there'll still be plenty more to sell next time. Since my several days of driving round Malaysia last month, I'm now much more confident on British roads, and it's nice to be back driving with more courteous drivers and less randomly structured roads and highways.

I'm getting pretty sick of the sinister, low life culture in this country now. I renewed my rail card at Ashford International station this past week, only to find my card wasn't there when I got home. Apparently I had 'dropped it by the ticket gates', which I never went near, but I knew the sinister individual at the counter decided to not bother putting my card in the blue plastic wallet; and it's not the first time people at that station have tried to give me problems. I'd expect it a little in Asia, but it's just so low for people to do it in UK.

But is it any suprise that the mentality of people in this country is so low now? Having been in such dire social poverty the past decade, and with the country slowly looming into financial poverty, it seems the British way to solving your problems when life gets too tough is to just go out and murder people. With Derrick Bird in May, and Raoul Moat this month, I have to wonder how many of the 30,000 Moat worshippers on Facebook will be next to go on a selfish killing spree. This is the life I'll happily leave behind at the end of the year...

23/07/10 - Returned to Palmers Green for the first time in two months this past Sunday; it was nice to see my friends there again, but all else is the same there, though we have a church outing next week. Did my last week of volunteer teaching before the summer break; it was a nice way to occupy my mornings, as I've had quite a lack of hours since returning from Malaysia. Yet another reason to want to emigrate, my now appalling number of work hours and income...