Early this year I had the chance to choose between attending conferences in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia or Cairo, Egypt to present my papers. The Dhahran conference is the high profile one, a chance for networking, reunion and also a great opportunity for job hunting. My friends who will be attending have also planned to perform Umrah afterward. However, Egypt is calling, it was hard to say no. The opportunity to visit one of the oldest civilizations in the world was too appealing to pass up. Egypt is magical, and it was started before the trip as well. I was so busy (as usual), and my overseas trip only approved two weeks before. Indonesian must apply an entry visa beforehand, and it is well known that applying Egypt visa from Malaysia is extremely difficult. My friend said it need at least a month! And to make it more complicated, we had a plan to visit Phuket during the CNY holiday, I would definitely need my passport for that trip. And I only back to Kuala Lumpur …