Monday, March 02, 2009

28 February - I'm a Bird

Changi Airport 950am SQ 0012
Okie dokie…Start of the long possibly arduous journey! Hope I can tahan hahaa…
Mum & Dad dropped me off at the airport Terminal 3 earlier on. Am seated now and waiting for the plane to taxi into position on the runway…It’s a 6-hour flight to Tokyo Narita…am scribbling on a plain piece of paper since I can’t turn on my laptop…

Tokyo Narita Airport Japan 530pm (SG 430pm)
Just arrived at Narita Airport for a one hour stopover before the next leg of the hourney…(which happens to be a 10 hours flight to Los Angeles)....But we still need to get out of the plane to do immigration clearance…

I need a plastic bag now. My saliva is drippingGosh, jap guys are just so delectable…all so well-groomed, fashionable and delicious haha…

So far so good and I’ve watched the following movies over the 6 hours:
- Slumdog Millionaire (Interesting..some parts were kinda sad..)
- My Tutor Friend (Korean comedy/drama…Kwon Sang Woo is darn cute…great bod too!)
- Twilight (Interesting love story hmm mm…Robert Pattinson’s eyes are nice enough but errr…too pale for my liking… ahha…)

Los Angeles Airport LA 1130am (SG 330am)
Arrived at LA…Am surprisingly awake even though I only slept intermittently for a max of maybe 2 hours? Couldn’t really get to sleep, don’t know why….Watched the following movies…haha…
- Changeling (Fantastic show, Angelina Jolie was great in this show!!)
- Crush & Blush (Korean show…absolute waste of time…)
- An episode of Project Runway
- An episode of Hell’s Kitchen
- The first hour of Australia (Lovely landscapes and Nicole Kidman was quite hilarious in her Brit pompousness…hope to finish the show on the return leg home)

So far so good. I’m fed really well by SQ…keep eating carbo stuff…bound to put on some weight after this whole trip…All in all from lunch to dinner to breakfast, I had prawn wasabi potato salad, soba, some other cold noodles, beef curry rice, chicken yakitori rice, omelettes, sausages, grilled tomatoes,

Had 7 hours to kill, so took a cab with HC & Nor to a nearby mall called Howard Hughes Promenade…err…nothing much…zzz…Took their public bus back to the airport for our connecting flight to Mexico…

Realised that the LA airport had many Latinos, Asians and African Americans working the frontline and operational duties…hmm mm…

Kind suay. Soles of both my shoes gave way. Had to rip off the rubber soles and just walk around with the body of my shoe…Bopian, vain lor, this is the result of buying pretty but cheap and poorly constructed shoes haha…
And then I lost my pair of earrings when I was clearing immigration…TMD, had to take off all metal stuff on me…and somewhere somehow my earrings got lost…argh. Heng it’s just a $15 pair from Perlini’s and not some diamond stones or what hhaa…

Am waiting for the flight to Mexico now. Getting very tired suddenly. It’s been 22 hours since I last left SG.

Mexico International Airport 28 February MEX 1130pm (SG 1st March 130pm)
Gosh..Finally reached Mexico. After 28 hours on planes and waiting out transits…
Was feeling darn concussed…slept quite a lot on the 3 hours journey from LA to Mexico…Weather’s cold here at night, around 8-10 degrees…

There has been quite a number of helpful people around in both the LAX & MEX airports…giving us directions when they see that we’re a little lost…J

Abit suay again. HC & Nor cleared immigration smoothly. I was called into a small room.
There were 3 other Latino guys in the room and a white guy. It was kinda scary considering the officer actually took all my passports and immigration forms with her. Heng there was another white lady in the room…Was called out again after a few minutes and they cleared me…hmm, I look like criminal meh??


Embassy Suites Hotel 28 Feb MEX 1230am (SG 230pm)
It’s been a long, tiring but in a way “fun” journey so far…

Reached the hotel and
It’s 2am here now early Sunday morning. 4pm late SG afternoon….I just bathed, hair’s wet…gotta dry it before I head to bed…Gotta wake up early tomorrow morning for the 1st day of the conference. Kinda dumb to have a conference starting on a Sunday…zzz….

Oh, there’s porn showing on Channel 19 of their network haha…But MTV is playing on my TV now in case you’re wondering…Red Hot Chilli Peppers singing their classic single “Give It Away”….Saw abit of Southpark in Spanich just now too…hilarious..the language is spoken so fast it’s just a blur of noise to the ears hahha…

Till here…nitez…zzzzz….
(hope I can sleep cos the body’s still on SG time…hope I won’t be too jet-lagged tomorrow)

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