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1 November 2019
As it was cold outside, the A330 aircraft to Kuala Lumpur appeared to be heated. Perhaps a little too much. We were ready to go but had to wait for connecting passengers who had perhaps been delayed by the rain a couple of hours ago. We left about 15 mins later than the scheduled time […]
28 September 2019
Leaving Kuching Today we fly from Kuching to Chiang Rai. It was booked as an AirAsia Fly –Thru connection via Kuala Lumpur as KCH-KUL-CEI very cheaply. But the new route KUL-CEI was suspended soon after it was introduced so they re-accommodated us via Bangkok Don Mueang , KCH-KUL-DMK-CEI. It added about five hours to the […]
31 August 2019
The Auckland winter ends tonight officially and the weather hasn’t been too wet or windy lately. It isn’t really that cold by many standards in four-season countries. However, I know that the wet and windy misery can stretch on till November (or December) so hence I have another escape from Auckland … even if it’s […]
4 August 2019
Our flight to Auckland with ETA of 0030 on Saturday 03 August, closed up 20 minutes ahead of schedule but couldn’t push back till a few minutes ahead of scheduled time. Another aircraft next door beat us to the pushback and took up the available space. I was lucky to have received my paid upgrade […]
19 July 2019
Tram 28 We have a flight at 1635 to Salvador in Brazil. I wanted to take Greg on Tram 28 to go up the windy hills east of the old town centre. We hopped on just west of Praca Comercio around 0830. As it was still early, the tram was rather empty. I have had […]
26 May 2019
Leaving on a journey of more than two months doesn’t feel exciting when the first leg is domestic or shorthaul to a familiar destination. Today I fly to Sydney for an overnight to pick up my AirAsia X flight to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The weather forecast for Auckland isn’t good and it appears I’ve timed […]
19 April 2019
Having slept around 2200 last night, I woke before 0400. That’s way before my alarm set for 0545. I killed some time before summoning a Grab car. The price started at SGD15 but with no takers around, it went up up up and up to SGD28! Ouch! But a taxi would have cost similar anyway. […]
18 April 2019
This morning I fly to the Lion City with the original intention of taking the evening flight back to Auckland. On a standby ticket, I had little chance as it was nearly full already a few months back. I decided I’d stay the night with my aunt in Singapore and take the one tomorrow morning […]
5 April 2019
My flight to Kuala Lumpur (connecting to my hometown Kuching) departs at 1345. I had planned on leaving for the airport around 0945 to get there 3h+ before departure. But since I was up early, I left at 0900 getting to the airport about 4h before the flight. Check-in wasn’t open yet. I had trouble […]