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Short Nightstop

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. […]

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Leaving home

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 […]

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Home sweet home

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 […]

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Singapore nighstsop

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 […]

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To my hometown

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 […]

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To the Lion City

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 […]

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Killing part of a day

We have an evening flight from Kuala Lumpur to Mumbai, so it made sense to take it easy in the morning and utilise the hotel room to the max before checking out at 1200.  We basically had to kill a large part of the day.  We left our luggage at the hotel and went wandering […]

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Meeting up

Above:  View of Kuala Lumpur from the Capital Hotel. Today I leave for Kuala Lumpur at 1800, giving me some time to kill during the day.  I went out for a hair cut and spent some time at home with Mum and step-dad. I went to the airport late afternoon to check in for my […]

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Back to Singapore

Above:  View of Gulangyu from my hotel room.  We left the hotel for Xiamen airport around 0900 for our 1220 Silkair flight to Singapore.  We couldn’t enter the check-in area for a while and when we were, it was another wait till the counter opened 2h prior to the flight. The counter staff kept an […]

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Leaving home

The core part of this trip is to go to northern India with Kim and family, as his father was born in India.  My first leg takes me to Singapore where I’ll spend some time with my Mum and take them on side-trips to Xiamen and Bintan. Kim’s parents too me to the airport for […]

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