2-7 Feb. 12 a little like a mockingbird, I caught a glimpse of a slender brown bird with buff face. Perhaps it was the sugar. Left airport at 9:00 a.m. We will gain ½ hr. on trip to Hong Kong. Enroute we stop at Bangkok. Many coconut groves around Singapore. Cathay Pacific jet Flight # 724. Beautiful new plane. 9:20 a.m. Flying along coast over apple green water stained brown opposite river mouths, where silt pours out. Much wild growth, here and there cut out for farms. Cotton planting of rubber trees (?) noted as around K.L. 9:30 a.m. Over mountainous section grown extensively to jungle. Tremendous uncut wild area. The N-S mountainous ribs of the central Peninsula are on the horizon to the W. Scattered "cotton tuff" clouds below us, a high thin series above. 9:47 a.m. Leaving Malay coast for flight across Bay of Siam. Water near shore blue-green changing to cerulean blue further out. Extensive coastal plain with patches of pines. Cloud puffin now! Altitude 36,100 feet, ground speed 600 mi. per hr. Arrival time Bangkok 10:20 a.m. (time now in Bangkok 9:22 a.m.). 8 passengers (24 seats) in 1st class. Flight to Hong Kong at 37000 ft., 620 mi/ per hr. Arrived Hong Kong about 2:30 p.m. Came down through cloud layer but good visibility below.