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Day 3 synopsis:

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Pretty much like Day 2, except (1) sunshine, and (2) teh Internets works fine now. I’m guessing this is no coincidence. (In fact, I’m sure of it. I’m assuming they use a microwave or satellite link to get to the Internet backbone – both are susceptible to rain fade, a common problem in Southeast Asia. You can tell I have to write about this stuff for a living, can’t you?)

We finished up around 3pm. I got through it okay, though I did find my brain zoning out occasionally and dreaming up pirate scenarios. Which is what I get for staying up until 3am watching Mythbusters.

Here’s how I spent the rest of the day (transcribed direct from my notebook):


Well, it was something like that. Rum tends to give me delusions of grandeur.

Not much more to tell. Wrapped up the day with dinner – a nice Malaysian oxtail soup and some good old fashioned Nasi Goreng Kampung – and filing my report. There probably won’t be much action tomorrow – I might go for another swim after breakfast, but then it’s packing and off to the airport. And the swim will depend if the weather holds out.

During the above soliloquy, a waiter struck up a conversation. I asked him if was the rainy season. He said not really, but with climate change rewriting the rules, who could say?

BEST STORY OF THE DAY: In the ballroom they had twin projection screens on either side of the stage. The one on the left was faulty – it wasn’t projecting any red color. So some of the AV guys prepared a sacrificial plate of food and placed it behind the screen as an offering to the Rear Projection Gods. Half an hour later, the projector worked fine.

Final words tomorrow.

In the lap of the gods,

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