Life is a short path and it has many decision junctions. One decision may have significant influence on the rest of the life. The decision that I made recently was leaving Japan and move to work in Malaysia. I canceled my contract in NIES "National institute of Environmental studies" in Japan to move to "University Malaysia Pahang". I moved from a world wide known national institute to work in a new established university. For many people including my wife it is a crazy decision. She always repeats: "I told you! It is a wrong decision." But for me it was more than a decision. It was a hope. In this post I will try to explain why I love being in Malaysia although I am living in the university Campus which is close only to a small village called Gambang. I live in a place which is about half an hour by car from the nearest city "Kuantan" which is a very small city. It is - for us - a very small city even when compared with the very small cit...