Tag: Travel
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Colour Temperature Temperament.
I’ve been privileged enough to have lived in multiple parts of the world, Far East Asia, South Asia, the Middle east, and now South Africa. As far as I can work out, one of the most determining factors affecting one’s mood, is environmental factors, and the way the world looks where you are right now.…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 6: Coup de grâce
Part 5. Desperate times, right. I’ve been lucky to travel often for school, and through the years I’ve amassed a small amount of airline miles, hoping to one day buy myself an upgrade in class division; to travel business class home from my graduation, a special treat for myself. This was not to be predestined. …
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Traveling in Troubled Times 5: Ruminate.
Part 4 Dubai International Airport. I’ve been several times over the years, and so have you. I’ve stayed for 1 hour, I’ve waited for 5. Once I missed my transit, but with a temp visa to leave, I saw pretty much all of Dubai in 12 hours. This time, no such saving grace. 15 hours,…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 4: Windscreen.
Part 3. All this, and I still beat the plane to the gate. They were delayed in Dubai, probably also due to the rigorous checks that had to be done. Hey, I’m not complaining, the more they check, the safer I am anyways, so why complain about someone trying to guarantee your safety? That’s why…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 3: Grounded
Part 2. We reached the airport precisely at 06:45. I had made sure to be prepared- At this point, I was fully kitted out in my mask(s) and PPE, and all my bags were tightly zipped up. We got our temps checked even before we entered the airport, and were given forms to fill, with…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 2: Isolate.
So by now, you realise that I was forced to travel during a time where everyone has to stay put. “I fear no man, but this, it scares me.” Or something along those lines. I was legitimately fearful- not for me, but for the family members back home, who had been heeding the instruction to…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 1: Sanitize.
Prologue. Travel. We love to travel. We cover great distances in a minuscule amount of time. We take our bags and passports, and we’re off. To infinity and beyond. Not any more. We now face a new kind of challenge. At first we feared the flying. What was this new fan-dangled metal tube? Dangerous right?…
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Dancing man.
The character in front of that perfectly sculptured cloud is (京) or jing, the Chinese character meaning capital (city). It looks different to the typed out character, because it’s styled, calligraphy esque. It’s beautiful, because of how weird it actually is. You see, a character in Mandarin, is unlike that of any other language, where…
