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19 December 2015
Before landing, there were no announcements on drugs, mandatory death sentence, prohibition on nunchuks, knuckle dusters etc. It must be optional as some airlines do make these religiously. Leaving the gate area, there was a cordon and staff stationed at various points with an iPad/tablet pointing the direction we’re supposed to head towards. I followed […]
19 December 2015
I fly out to Singapore in the wee hours of Saturday morning 19DEC after a full day in the office on Friday. I managed to get a bit of a lie in after the street Christmas party before getting dropped at the airport at 0015. The Air New Zealand check-in area was deserted 90 mins […]
13 November 2015
I woke at 0530, half hour before my alarm. I let myself out of my aunt’s house and grabbed a taxi to Singapore’s Changi Airport, getting there about 2h30 before my departure to Auckland. The arrival card butt must have fallen out from my passport after check-in and the immigration officer asked me to go […]
11 November 2015
My pre-ordered taxi turned up early so I got to the airport in good time. It allowed me some time in the lounge before boarding my short AirAsia flight to Singapore (the Garden City, Island State or Breakaway Republic). In the airline’s usual fashion, we left early an arrived even earlier, around 20 minutes before […]
31 October 2015
I arrive at klia2 around 0500 (a few minutes late) before connecting to Kuching a couple of hours later. The time here is meant to be with family but I managed to get a good deal to Mulu National Park (in a few days time). Ah well, I’ve only been here with family recently and […]
30 October 2015
Nothing much of a day I was still grateful for the good sleep now that I’m away from altitude. I woke at 0840 without an alarm. It was dark outside due to cloudy weather and being in an internal courtyard of my Langzghong guesthouse. I took things easy and chilled in my room before checking […]
12 October 2015
Tonight at 23:59, we depart for Shanghai to begin another journey in the Middle Kingdom. At the airport, the kiosks wouldn’t issue our boarding passes as we were on standby. A staff member checked us in immediately; we didn’t have to wait till flight close-off 45 minutes prior to departure. That allowed us to check […]
7 September 2015
Home time today! I fly back to Auckland after just over 24h stop in Sydney. I took the shuttle from the hostel to the airport instead of the train as it was AUD7 cheaper (AUD12 instead of nearly AUD18). It takes just a little bit longer; both modes have their overhead times (eg walking to/from […]
6 September 2015
Scoot check-in for my 0145 flight to Sydney was swift without any queue as I turned up early. I stayed landside till I got hungry so I could have a snack of McDonald’s prawn burger and sweet potato chips. On board the aircraft, the doors closed and I was surprised to see so many spare […]
3 September 2015
Quite unusually the queue for my AirAsia flight bagdrop was quite long at Kuching. My flight to Singapore left a few minutes early, which is quite usual for the airline. Prior to arrival, the “death sentence for drugs” recorded PA was made (quite normal). But there was a new PA this time about the prohibition […]