Material World: Caves to Skyscrapers

(The next paragraph was originally meant for the end of the post, but it is now a precursor to the two overly-long paragraphs below. One may not be interested in "Descriptions by Prashant"!)

I seem to have gone fairly overboard with these descriptions, especially as I am reading about renouncing sense gratification! This material world certainly does have some magical natural and man-made features (including people) - big love for the Higgs' Field - but I guess the key is not to depend on them for happiness since they only provide temporally-finite happiness.

Today included two of the major icons of Kuala Lumpur and even Malaysia as a whole. Both lived up to expectations! First to get to Batu Caves I braved the KL monorail, which behaves roughly like a slow rollercoaster! It works well and costs almost nothing so no complaints. On arrival at the Batu Caves you are struck by a massive and impressive Hanuman statue. Alongside the caves are a couple of intricate and colourful temples including a Ganesh temple. Then a 43-metre Lord Murugan (a.k.a. Subramanium) commits theft on your attention for quite some time. This stands against the vast set of steps leading into Temple Cave. This must be the most interesting location of a temple I have seen, and it does feel like a very spiritual place. Whilst in the cave the heavens opened up and a huge monsoon downpour made the setting even more epic. (All this being said, I currently don't understand where the rituals that are widely seen as synonymous with Hinduism fit in with the spiritualism.)

I got home to set back out for my appointment with the Petronas Twin Towers. People are obsessed with taking photos there! Write-ups of the towers even talk about the best way to capture the towers! I went in hard and took about a million photos. At first, "yes quite impressive." But whilst in the building, darkness appeared, the towers lit and that was when they really showed their decorative side. Spectacular! The external glass and steel panelling does make the Petronas Twin Towers a special set of buildings.The view from the 370-metre high observation deck in the towers does not compare to that from the Empire State Building however. New York, New York. At the base of the towers lies KLCC park. Now you look from a distance, and you think "oh right, a fountain." But then the water show starts and this is no ordinary fountain! Apparently it can make 150 different movements, and between this, the lighting and the music, it does make for a pretty nice show. 

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