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God is a painter [Updated]

March 14th, 2006

Last night, while I was travelling to India via Dubai, I thought of what I was going to write here today and what the headline would be. And then, on the flight about halfway between Dubai and Hyderabad, 39000 feet above the Arabian Sea, I saw one of the most magnificent sunrises I’ve ever seen. I’m not usually the kind of person who adores the beauty of God’s creation a lot, but at that moment, I knew that God is a painter.

Anyway, I was also going write that I arrived alive and well. The flight was actually great – Emirates is an excellent airline. Although I must say, Dubai International Airport is a bit of a mess at the moment – it feels like a giant building site. I don’t think I’ve ever been driven for 20 minutes from the plane’s parking position to the terminal building anywhere in the world. It looks like they are crash-building at least two new terminal buildings. Inside it was quite funny – the departures terminal is not very complex, but insanely long, the kind of flattened tube structure that seems to be en vogue with airport architects all around the world (London Stansted is like that, Addis Abeba as well). It was kind of hard not to be run over by one of the not so little electric carts that Emirates uses to collect passengers who got lost in the building and need to be brought to their departure gate at breakneck speed.

Here in Hyderabad, it’s around 30 degrees Celsius… quite a change from near freezing temperatures at home. And what is it with the half-hour timezone, who had that weird idea? Anyway, I’ve found the training room to my satisfaction and am being treated almost like royalty. The training starts tomorrow, hopefully it will go well and my participants will really go away after a bit over a week with the feeling that it was worth their while. I’ll see if I can provide updates here while it’s going on or if it’s going to consume me so much that there’s no time for anything else…

Update Mar. 16, 2006: Deepu has taken some pictures that I’ve uploaded, just follow the Gallery link at the top of the page.

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