A place in the sun

We are in Tioman Island.  Aishah is back and it is Mimi's year end break,  Aishah wants to treat us all to an Island getaway. She needs one during this high pressure housemanship to defuse and rejuvenate. Three hours drive from Muar to Mersing and a one and hour ferry ride, we find ourselves for the first time in Tioman where the water is clear greenish aquamarine, filled with schools of fishes of  many types that scrambled over the pieces of bread thrown into the water as we arrived at the jetty.

I have been to Langkawi, Pangkor and now Tioman.  We went to Perhentian Island long time ago. Unlike Bahiah and family of the well known Kids-Scuba, whose passion for Islands and diving turned into a lucrative family business, my attraction to Islands is lukewarm. But I do enjoy it nevertheless. 

The waters makes me retrospect into our lives. Where we have been. Where we are going. What is happening to us. A bit of muhasabah here and there.  Islands do this to me with the closure of cleansing it all away in the water.

I thought tonight we would sit and have a serious talk, on whatever  concerning our lives. What we are unhappy or worried about.  Get to the bottom of our problems and find a solution.  What we are set out to do as an individual, as a family.

These getaways are good to get away from our day to day  and dream of change.  But as soon as we go back home, we fall back into the same pattern. I really hope this time it is different. May this place in the sun shine some light on our search for a better life.