Woke this morning thinking damn, time flies…I’m heading to LA today already…the whole conference has concluded…and I’ll be back in SG in no time again!!
Didn’t really buy much stuff in Mexico...just some small souvenirs here and there. Did a small calculation. Think I’ll be close to $2.5K poorer after all these. And the company will officially owe me more than $3K by the end of the whole trip.
Mexico Airport 200pm (SG 6am)
Am waiting in the MEX airport now. Bought some cookies and some small magnets at one of the souvenir shops earlier on…Darn expensive. Had a BK burger for a quick lunch, the burger was huge haha…
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zzz…OMG. There’s a delay for the flight to LA. Very inefficient system. They called us up to board the plane. Everyone was queue-ing for at least 40 minutes. And then they suddenly had an announcement that the flight would be delayed due to a technical fault..
(1) Wah lau, you could have made the announcement earlier right??? Damn inefficient.
(2) Wah lau, technical fault??? *freaking out*
After a bout of snoozing on the airport seats (I call it a power nap of about 40 minutes)...they finally called us for boarding again. By the time the plane left Mexico, it was about 2 hours delayed.
Los Angeles 1000pm (SG 4pm 7 March)
Reached LA at 10pm at night…The queues were quite long for the immigration but when it was finally my turn, I was glad my clearance was quite smooth & fast. J Maybe cos it was a Chinese guy who was doing my clearance.
Collected our luggages at our terminal, the Tom Bradley Terminal and then hopped on a shuttle bus to head to Terminal 1 to collect our rental car. Wah, after all the hassle, we managed to get a grey Mazda 6, equipped with a GPS hahah…HC was quite power to be driving quite smoothly despite it being the first time he was driving on the opposite side of the road…
Reached the hotel in about 40mins and voila…the hotel was grand. Absolutely grand! I think that was where the very first Oscars was held back in the 1930s.. haha..of course there were some refurbishments here and there…but the general feel of opulence is there.
Thick carpets, huge chandeliers, things in gold and ornaments in porcelain...haha…can’t say the same for the rooms though.
Even the light switches were super retro…much like those in the 1950s and 1960s…
Dumped our bags and went outside searching for food and 7-11. Food came by in the form of Domino’s Pizza aha…that was the only thing we could find within walking distance…We ordered a Beef/Bacon/Cheese small pizza, carted it back to the hotel and bunked in my room to have a late dinner..
Wow, it was the best pizza I’d ever ever ever tasted!! Rich, generous with toppings, warm and lovely to the palate! It cost about $12 and I thought it was very very worth the money spent hahah…
HC went back to his room after that…I showered, unpacked a little…and then slept like a pig that night…
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