KUL-PEK: MH370

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Flying between Kuala Lumpur (KUL) and Beijing (PEK) is a route I often take.  
I received news of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 the morning of March 8th from the General Manager of The Westin while I was filming in Guangzhou.  I only managed to check my phone hours later and found my phone flooded with missed calls, text messages and Skype calls checking on me, especially since my last log-in time on Whats'app was coincidentally around the time of departure of the flight, the night before.  Despite flying from home - Kuala Lumpur to Beijing exactly a week before the incident, I was shocked and very disturbed by the news as I couldn't help but think that my family or myself, could easily have been on board that flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

I am deeply sorry for the tumultuous journey of shock, worry, hope, disappointment and despair endured over the past 17 days, and the hardest of news yesterday... I doubt any word is big enough to console the magnitude of an aching heart of loss... My heart goes out to all family members and friends who have been waiting for the return of great friends and loved ones on board MH370...

"They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."  

~William Penn

For those of you who are put off from traveling because of this, I'd say we should not be living in fear, for if we do, we won't be living at all.

Peace be with all...

xx,

KayLi