I have been trying to regain some fitness lately after recovering from a dismal marathon in Kotakinabalu. I had a couple of nice highlights recently including the Asian Track and Field Masters where I won a Gold Medal for Brunei in the 500om! Also over the holidays we went to Miri in Malaysia where I raced in a Sprint and Olympic triathlon with loads of prize money for age groups which was nice. Then it was time for a family holiday so we drove to Kotakinabalu, also in Malaysia, which is about 8 hours from where we live in Brunei. We stayed at the Borneo 1 shopping center Novotel Hotel with some friends from Brunei. We also went to a terrific wildlife park which was home to lots of animals including.
When we returned we had a visit from Andrew and Amy from Shanghai and got to do the tourist thing showing them around. We went to a Mosque, to the beach, showed them church at Christmas and also took them to Temberong National Park where we climbed on a canopy walk and rafted down the river. Although one of the biggest highlights for them was the Roti, which is one of the local meals here.
Christmas was pretty different here in Brunei, but the Brunei people were lovely and wished us Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everywhere we went, which was nice. We even saw Santa at the local beach which was a bit of a hoot, especially for the locals!
