Doug’s World

The colonel is watching

I got up this morning at 3:00AM, looked out the window of my hotel room here in Kuala Lumpur (at the spectacular Mandarin Oriental) and was greeted by Colonel Sanders smiling back from the top of a 20-story building nearby.

Here are a few other shots from the last 24 hours:

The “escape chute” at my gate in Taipei
The new capital of Malaysia
The longan in my room (remember longan from Vietnam, Mom?)

Oh, and a few selected headlines from this morning’s issue of the New Straits Times (Malaysia’s leading newspaper, established 1845):

• Page 4: “Not all Indonesians are maids, many are tourists”
• Page 6: “Danger of Malaysia losing out in medial tourism”
• Page 10: “Cement shortage to end soon”
• Page 16: “Postal worker who liked working under strict bosses”
• Page 18: “OPEN XML: Let market decide on technology”
• Page 23: “Massage for bigger manhood ‘dangerous’” (first sentence: “Fisherman Wan Mai (not his
• real name) is worried stiff.”)
• Page 29: “Cook with gas and save the kerosene for jets”
• Page C3: “Setback for OOXML”

Based on a couple of those articles, I must be in the right place. Have to run for now …

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