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Side trip.
So I woke up on friday morning, after a somewhat sleepless night. I couldn't tell if I was getting sick, was exhausted from all the travel, or if the headache, the chills and everything else I had been experiencing were just because of somthing else. I hadn't slept too well all night, had chills. And I had to keep getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.
In the morning could barely wake up, let alone get all my stuff together to pack for my trip. I was dragging. But I had to pack up all my stuff, and then check the big bag in at the conciere, so I would only have to travel with the backpack which I'd specially bought for the trip. I put the legos in a bag, and then called the bell desk to help me with my bags.
Only
after I'd gotten to Cambodia did I realize there was a logical explanation
to all of the illness I think I'd had the previous night.
I was hung over. (revelation!)
The previous night, I'd drunk a whole lot of Carlsberg beer. Then my coworker decidedes to take me (just me, not the other two co-workers mind you) So much I couldn't drink anymore. The kind of thing where because it's a beer hangover, you're not dehydrated, because the beer's so weak, but definatley somthing is impaired because of all the alcohol metabolism
So I did get to the Low Cost terminal in Kuala Lumpur, it was actually pretty impressive and smooth. The TSA could learn a thing or two, and although definaly designed not to be the "impressive showcase to the world" that the main international airport, which Singapore Airlines, Malaysian, Thai and the other flag carriers fly into. It's an economy airport, it's functional, no frills, and works. Except that instead of being some small airport in the middle of nowhere, it shares the runways, and flight patterns with the rest of the airport. It's just that the terminal is on the other side. Since this is an airport, the drive from the main airport to the low cost carrier terminal, has to go around the long way, past the Sepang F1 race track, and
I picked up two books leaving the airport at the bookstore. Strangely enough, both were on basic principals of the Koran and the beief system of Islam. Think of it as "40 days of purpose" for Muslims. I was also tempted to purchase a real cheap book noted "Christian inconsistancies in the Bible, and the Koran" reminded me of those tracks that people hand out to get people to become Christian.
After
skimming the track I laughed and bought a little bit more substanital
book explaining a little bit about key ideas behind Muslim thought.
But then you realize that knowing about someone else's religion academically is pretty useless. Because how many christians in the united states understand the nuances of american religion, or would be prepared to explain santification, or of how the idea of the trinity, does not make christians polytheistic.