I'm heading to Singapore tomorrow for visa renewal. My visa has been renewed three times in-country and that is the limit. So I must go out of the country.

My fellow teammates rant about how wonderful Singapore is. They say it is clean, efficient, safe, has great shopping, plenty of sight-seeing and good food. But I always get a little nervous when traveling to a new place. It's the fear of the unknown I guess. I will probably be there all next week. I should consider it an all expenses paid vacation. :o)

During my Christmas break I've had time to read some books. Three that I read took place in and around Borneo and Sulawesi (the island to the east of Borneo). Two were about missionary ladies in the 1940's and the other one was about American World War II airmen. They were good books. You might enjoy reading them. Here are the titles: The Airmen and the Headhunters, Evidence Not Seen, A White Lady Doing Nothing in the Tropics. After reading the things these people endured, my New Year's resolution is to try to never complain about the insignificant annoyances of life in Tarakan. I was about to list the things about which I am determined not to complain but stopped myself. That would just be a round-about way of complaining, right? Life is good because God is good. That really is the bottom line, isn't it?