Kuala Lumpur: 12.06.2005
This time it is an official tour with a difference. Twenty of us are travelling to Toyota Motor Corporation’s main plant at Nagoya, Japan, at their invitation. We shall be in Nagoya for 5 days, one of which will be spent in also visiting Kyoto, the earlier capital of Japan.
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We are transiting through Kuala Lumpur, as we are flying by Malayasian Airlines. We left Muscat yesterday at 3.30 pm, flew to Dubai and caught an overnight flight to KL, landing here at 8.00 am local time, which is 4 hours ahead of Muscat. It was almost 10 hours flying, with a stop at Karachi. The airline staff were not very keen to give us a good time either and kept talking throughout the night, kept the lights on and avoided switching on the AC when the plane was on the tarmac at Karachi. Not too much sleep..
This time it is an official tour with a difference. Twenty of us are travelling to Toyota Motor Corporation’s main plant at Nagoya, Japan, at their invitation. We shall be in Nagoya for 5 days, one of which will be spent in also visiting Kyoto, the earlier capital of Japan.
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We are transiting through Kuala Lumpur, as we are flying by Malayasian Airlines. We left Muscat yesterday at 3.30 pm, flew to Dubai and caught an overnight flight to KL, landing here at 8.00 am local time, which is 4 hours ahead of Muscat. It was almost 10 hours flying, with a stop at Karachi. The airline staff were not very keen to give us a good time either and kept talking throughout the night, kept the lights on and avoided switching on the AC when the plane was on the tarmac at Karachi. Not too much sleep..
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.For me, KL was being revisited too soon – we were here on holiday last summer. However, this time the hotel we stayed in, ‘Equatorial Bangi’, was a resort-type hotel with beautiful grounds. We relaxed till lunch and did a bit of sight-seeing again in four cars. One gain for me was that I could go up the KL Tower for a city view, one that we had missed last time. The tower is 420 metres high, but the observation deck was at 270 metres. Still, high enough.......
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Travelling in a group is fun, but also brings its own hitches, like chronic late-latifs who hold everybody up. A couple of chronic cases have already been identified and are being given pep-talks by the others to ensure that they tow the line when in Japan, as Japanese are sticklers for time.
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This time I was not carrying my video camera, only the still one, as it is difficult to handle both. As it is, all our guys are not shooting with their own cameras, as they themselves want to be in the picture! A fair amount of round-robin going on at each photo-able point.
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Apparently, it is raining every day at 4.00 pm, and today was no exception. We had just completed our brief sight-seeing and were about to go shopping. Some people went to Chinatown, but we (Murli, Raj, Ram and I) went to ‘Lot 10’. This was not a good choice as it was mostly branded stuff and had only one shop with T-shirts etc.
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Our flight to Nagoya was at 11.45 pm, but the bus dropped us at the airport a bit early – at 9.00 pm. So we checked in, which took some 40 mins, and pottered around in the duty-free till boarding.
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Travelling in a group is fun, but also brings its own hitches, like chronic late-latifs who hold everybody up. A couple of chronic cases have already been identified and are being given pep-talks by the others to ensure that they tow the line when in Japan, as Japanese are sticklers for time.
.
This time I was not carrying my video camera, only the still one, as it is difficult to handle both. As it is, all our guys are not shooting with their own cameras, as they themselves want to be in the picture! A fair amount of round-robin going on at each photo-able point.
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Apparently, it is raining every day at 4.00 pm, and today was no exception. We had just completed our brief sight-seeing and were about to go shopping. Some people went to Chinatown, but we (Murli, Raj, Ram and I) went to ‘Lot 10’. This was not a good choice as it was mostly branded stuff and had only one shop with T-shirts etc.
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Our flight to Nagoya was at 11.45 pm, but the bus dropped us at the airport a bit early – at 9.00 pm. So we checked in, which took some 40 mins, and pottered around in the duty-free till boarding.
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