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Read more: 144. Shanghai, you magnificent overachiever.144. Shanghai, you magnificent overachiever.
If cities were supermodels, Shanghai would be the impossibly tall, other-worldly beauty, all height, confidence and angles, with silky molasses-coloured hair, improbably bright blue eyes, flawless skin. The kind of presence you simply can’t look away from. I was struck by her scale and shine. There’s a palpable sense of pride in what’s been built.…
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42. The makeup free holiday.
Read more: 42. The makeup free holiday.I had great plans of this being a makeup free holiday. But when I was out with the boy yesterday, every time I looked in a plate glass window, this was staring back at me. I don’t know if it’s my impending dotage breathing on the back of my neck, or the natural state of…
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41. The new face of Asia
Read more: 41. The new face of AsiaI went to Kuala Lumpur today and I saw this.
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40. Hate flying. Love flying.
Read more: 40. Hate flying. Love flying.Here I am at 30 000 feet, looking at my soft white navel again. I have drunk perhaps half a bottle of champagne. I have dissolved the crumbs of maybe three quarters of a Lorazipan under my tongue. The cut of the little white pill at the kitchen bar of Malaysia Airline’s Emerald Lounge wasn’t…
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37. Upside down logic
Read more: 37. Upside down logicIf you buy shoes in the Northern Hemisphere, is the best place for them above your head?
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36. Relief all round
Read more: 36. Relief all roundThe boys were all pretty happy to see me home safely. They were at the airport at midnight; Cody vaulted the barriers everyone was standing so neatly behind and threw his arms around me . I think there were a couple of hundred people who enjoyed the reunion. I am happy to have taught my…
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35. Altered reality
Read more: 35. Altered realityWe are holed up in the transit area in KL. Half way through our journey home, we are also between time zones, as is everyone else. We had muesli for dinner; I guess we’ll have dinner for breakfast. Heading to the lift, on the way to the lounge, a British man said Good Morning to…
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