GUEST BLOG SPOT: Taipei, or not Taipei: that is the question

By Ian Hayes, Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia






Taipei, or not Taipei: that is the question.
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The lack of airline lounge at the stopover point,
Or to take the lengthy Atlantic route in comfort,
And by opposing end them? To drink: to relax;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the many thousand miles
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To drink, to relax;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of business class comfort what dreams may come
When we have shuffled through the Taipei terminal,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long a journey;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of lounge comfort, the dream's delay,
The insolence of duty free and the masses
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare i-Pod? who would entertainment bear,
To grunt and sweat under a humid heat,
But that the dread of something after passport control,
The undiscover'd lounge from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make snobery of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!

The fair Air Malaysia! Naff, in thy orisons
Be all your sins remember'd.

posted by Sam @ 9:39 PM