Day one of my trip to Malaysia: The whole trip started really impressively with both Kat and i losing our wallets. Fortunately i only left mine on the bus to the airport and ran back to get it and Kat only thought she had lost it; nothing like a bit of anxiety to start a trip.
Maybe it's just me but i always find Dubai quite magical to fly into. Last time, in transit to Cape Town, the sun was just rising over the desert dunes as we landed but i wasn't near enough to a window to see this time until we were leaving again. It wasn't sunrise but ten in the morning but the roads and mountains had a beautiful stillness. There are so few landmarks or perceptible objects in the desert that the two roads running parallel looked like tentacles reaching endlessly or ink spills traipsing down a pine desk. The small patches of grass as green as green can be are always fun too just for their sheer unnaturalness. I cannot have idea of Man conquering Nature and the elements to make the grass grow without thinking of Burkean theories on the sublime and the beautiful as that which inspires the belief in God being swept away by the denial of the natural order (maybe that's why Dubai is secular in comparison to Abu Dhabi, the capital). It is so strange to have so many thoughts about a place i have only ever transited through! The flights were fine but the fact that the plane went West-East and the sun East-West not only confused my sleep patterns but my eating ones, i missed two breakfasts as it was never the right time for where i was flying to. I no longer knew whether i should be hungry or should be tired, it's strange how quickly you can lose control of the most normal things.
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