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21 February 2007
My brother Ben took me from my apartment to Kuching airport around 1730. I have a flight to Kuala Lumpur and onwards to Dubai and Sana’a in Yemen. It will be my second time in Yemen, a country that I enjoyed very much less than a year ago. The Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuching to […]
11 February 2007
After a short but delicious flight from Johor Bahru, I landed in my hometown of Kuching. I have ten days with family in Kuching, including the Chinese New Year period. It’s always nice to be with family during the festive period. And it gets better as many friends working in other cities return to Kuching […]
11 February 2007
A wrap and fruit was offered prior to landing in Singapore at 0130. Obviously the crew knew that very few people were disembarking in Singapore. They came round with immigration cards only during final descent, handing them only to people who put their hands out. It didn’t give passengers much time to complete the cards. […]
10 February 2007
Today I fly to Singapore on Emirates. There was a little hiccup on the 1800 departure of the first leg to Brisbane. There had been a horrendous rainstorm on my way to the airport and the weather was very unsettled. The wind changed direction as our aircraft was making its way to the runway. We […]
21 November 2006
It was an early start for my 0850 Singapore Airlines flight to Auckland. The queue at check-in was long but I lucked out scoring a seat seat in a group of two rather than three, making it a tad more private. I still had to share it though with an IT guy who made good […]
20 November 2006
Today I travel back to Singapore via Johor Bahru, in preparation for travel home to New Zealand tomorrow morning. This time I was flying in relative luxury on Malaysia Airlines rather than the budget carrier, departing Kuching at 1755. Malaysia Airlines normally has buses that connect Johor’s Senai Airport to Singapore but there was no […]
15 November 2006
Above: Magenta Restaurant looks like something out of a magazine. I had heard about a nice restaurant called Magenta. It’s not often that we get to go out for a nice dinner in Kuching beyond just street or coffee shop fare. So my brother and Benny dragged Mum and step-dad along. The ambience of the […]
14 November 2006
Above: Satay at the compound of Arif Hotel. Singaporean as a Malaysian Last night I was helping step-dad with his application for “Malaysia My Second Home” visa. One of the forms asked for the date of his first arrival in Sarawak. That would probably be in the 1950s and had to flick through all the […]
12 November 2006
Today I travel with Mum and step-dad to Kuching. As usual, we do it on the cheap by crossing the border into Johor and flying from the airport there across the South China Sea to Kuching. That saves on the hefty Singaporean airport tax and the higher airfare as well. Jacob picked us up around […]
9 November 2006
With angry people while in transit I landed at Kuala Lumpur on time at 0805 for 55 min connection to Singapore departing at 0900. My connection turned out to be at the same gate on the same aircraft 9M-MKR. I only had to disembark and re-enter the gate via the security screening. While at the […]