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They continued their opinionated and biased and totally old-fashioned arguments not caring a damn about modern liberal attitudes and political correctness. A lot of it was bravado and letting off steam and deliberate exaggeration but at the same time there was some truth and honesty in many of the opinions expressed. The evening got more boisterous and soon degenerated into the usual mundane banter and general abuse of everybody and everything; and...
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During this rainy season, the rainfall comes almost daily in heavy floods of water. It does not drizzle apologetically for hours on end, rather, the heavens brood darkly and angrily for a while as tension increases and the atmosphere gets heavier and heavier till at last and very suddenly the sky explodes in dramatic and overpowering force. Water then pours onto the landscape in great torrents almost as if the rain Gods are in a fury of bad temper...
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He walked out of the air-conditioned hall with positive thoughts in his mind. His natural optimism had resurfaced and was not even spoilt by the blast of hot and heavy air, which immediately engulfed him. This has not changed he thought pleasantly, almost fondly, nor has the smell of sweaty bodies and diesel fumes and the nauseous and sickly sweet aroma of decaying fruit-durian.
The airport concourse was noisy and chaotic as usual. Squawking loudspeakers...