I arrive

Arrived downtown after a total of 19 hours in the air, about 27 hours total travel time. Here's a first: The Japanese flight crew sprayed the inside of the cabin 45 minutes before landing "under orders of quarantine officials" in Malaysia. We were advised to cover mouths and noses. City is quieter than I thought it would be at 1 a.m., but it's a conservative, religious place, so maybe I shouldn't be. Penalty for smoking on the airport train is two years in prison. Lots  of semi-nicely dressed people sleeping on the sidewalk outside the train station. The humidity is something else. An equatorial, tropical climate at a latitude of 2. Two! Glad I packed shorts and sandals. Walked to the $15 My Hotel in Brickfields (Little India). Thought the lights didn't work, but you have to rest your key card in a little holder to make the electricity go on. A clever money-saving trick, but it means your devices won't get charged when you go out. Channel 9 is just a continuous live shot of pilgrims walking counterclockwise around the Kaaba in Mecca. Good times. My phone's video looks like shit when the image stabilization is on. Sorry about that. Fresh start tomorrow and a train ride to Ipoh.