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Time check is 9:25p.m. In 20 minutes, we should be landing at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport after over seven hours in the sky.

Until that scheduled announcement from the captain of the Emirates flight, a Boeing 777-300ER, my nap on the seat-turned-bed was calm and smooth.

But as flight customs demand, my seat needed to be straightened, window blinds opened and the cover cloth returned before the plane could continue with its descent from over 32,000 feet above sea level, land and taxi to a halt for the tens of passengers and crew to exit.

As an avid fan of window seats (and I was fortunate to get one this time), I pulled up the blinds and with a lazy face, gazed at the scene below. The scene that greeted my sleepy eyes was gripping; a collection of skyscrapers littered the city, beautifully interspersed by neatly tarred roads and the entire scenery spiced by multiple colours of street and resident lights.

The beauty of KL, as the locals call