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Alhamdulillah, syukur kami selamat sampai Islamabad as scheduled, pada jam 9.15 malam. We were pleasantly surprised with the beautiful night in Islamabad with a temperature of 13 degs C. The air was cool and the night was beautiful. However, all is not too well after all - when we reached our rooms, the whole campus was in total darkness - we have another power failure. I groped around in the dark and luckily managed to locate my emergency light. We decided to go to Jinnah and have some coffee in the hope the power will be restored upon our return. It was not to be the case, as I hit the sack at midnight. The power was however restored this morning at 5.
The flight from KL was smooth but we were delayed in Singapore for about an hour due to some problems with the loading of the cargo. The Captain offered his apology and promised to make up for the loss time. However he came back 5 hours later to let us now on the time of arrival Karachi and again apologized by saying that he tried but can't make up for the loss time due to strong head wind. I was just thinking then about "life". Some of us encountered headwind and some encountered tailwind. Like the advertisement that we saw at KLIA said, "Life is like a journey" - it has its beginning and ending. We may encounter headwinds or tailwinds, but hopefully we do not encounter much turbulence and rough weather.
Now, a bit of on-board story. Seating beside our row, we have a mother with two teenage daughters. They must be one of the most restless of passengers I have encountered. They keep on working through their on-board luggage for their beauty needs. The daughters boarded wearing tight jeans and T-Shirts and left the aircraft wearing typical Pakistani dress. On board (in the toilet, of course) they changed their clothing (including the mum) transforming themselves from a modern tourist to a typical homebound Pakistani. After their transformation, they keep on pouring countless bottles of perfume and skin care lotions. We also bumped into a Pakistani gentlemen and we striked a conversation with him. Quite an interesting fellow. The best quip was from him when he said "all countries in the world has an army but in Pakistan, the army has a country".
We arrived Karachi and rushed to the transfer desk. Alhamdulillah, we were on time to catch our flight to Islamabad. The flight was full and again we encountered restless passengers in the form of two Arab-speaking boys who chatted loudly and in high pitch, throughout the entire flight. What a night ....
This morning my biological clock woke me up at 5 am as power was restored. Today, weather permitting, I plan to catch up with my jogging and to tidy up the room. Signing off..
p/s - No damage to the pineapples and papaya.
The flight from KL was smooth but we were delayed in Singapore for about an hour due to some problems with the loading of the cargo. The Captain offered his apology and promised to make up for the loss time. However he came back 5 hours later to let us now on the time of arrival Karachi and again apologized by saying that he tried but can't make up for the loss time due to strong head wind. I was just thinking then about "life". Some of us encountered headwind and some encountered tailwind. Like the advertisement that we saw at KLIA said, "Life is like a journey" - it has its beginning and ending. We may encounter headwinds or tailwinds, but hopefully we do not encounter much turbulence and rough weather.
Now, a bit of on-board story. Seating beside our row, we have a mother with two teenage daughters. They must be one of the most restless of passengers I have encountered. They keep on working through their on-board luggage for their beauty needs. The daughters boarded wearing tight jeans and T-Shirts and left the aircraft wearing typical Pakistani dress. On board (in the toilet, of course) they changed their clothing (including the mum) transforming themselves from a modern tourist to a typical homebound Pakistani. After their transformation, they keep on pouring countless bottles of perfume and skin care lotions. We also bumped into a Pakistani gentlemen and we striked a conversation with him. Quite an interesting fellow. The best quip was from him when he said "all countries in the world has an army but in Pakistan, the army has a country".
We arrived Karachi and rushed to the transfer desk. Alhamdulillah, we were on time to catch our flight to Islamabad. The flight was full and again we encountered restless passengers in the form of two Arab-speaking boys who chatted loudly and in high pitch, throughout the entire flight. What a night ....
This morning my biological clock woke me up at 5 am as power was restored. Today, weather permitting, I plan to catch up with my jogging and to tidy up the room. Signing off..
p/s - No damage to the pineapples and papaya.
posted by besutian at 5:35 AM
1 Comments:
Dear Arab. Can't recall that wisecrack from TPTU. But I am sure it is funny as ever. Spaseeba for the feedback. Take care, as I heard temperature in Moscow has gone way below human tolerance.
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