Articles from this Category
20 June 2026
Above: Pleased to finally arrive in Kuala Lumpur. Bad start It wasn’t a good start to the day, waking up to notification that our 1350 Malaysia Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur had been delayed till 1825. That’s a 4h35 delay. When the flight got upgauged from a B737 to a widebody A330 a few weeks […]
14 June 2026
Today, we fly to my hometown, Kuching, for a 6 day stay. We left the hotel at 0840 for the 0900 KLIA Ekspres train to the airport for our 1225 flight. That gave us over an hour in the landside lounge before going airside for our AirAsia flight to Kuching. The aircraft had left its […]
10 June 2026
Flight cancellation and rebooking Today, we fly to Kuala Lumpur at 0600. It doesn’t sound too bad except that we would need to wake at 0145 to get to the airport. This flight wasn’t our original choice but we had booked a flight 19h later at 0100 (whereby we would leave Wuzhen for the airport […]
4 June 2026
Standby fail Tonight, then plan was for Kim and I fly out to Shanghai separately to commence our big trip of the year. We chose to separately due to maximise the benefit of complex staff standby travel tickets, with me trying for China Eastern at 2100 and him trying for Air New Zealand at 2245. […]
7 March 2026
We landed in Auckland at 0755 with no queues for the biosecurity checks. With only powdered sachets and some compressed peanut blocks (pecel) captured in a photo, I was cleared to exit without an x-ray. It was a short wait for the shuttle to the carpark where we had a swift drive home as there […]
4 March 2026
My stay in Penang was short and sweet, for I leave today for Bali. The price for the Grab price was shockingly high but after a brief wait, it came down to the regular price of about one third. I had a delightful ride to the airport with an Indonesian-born driver who was half Bugis […]
26 February 2026
Departing Dhaka I woke at 0615 after dozing and sleeping since 1915 last night. Quite unbelievable! Today I leave Bangladesh after my short first visit. As with previous days, due to Ramadhan, breakfast was only for non-Muslims and had to be specially prepared to order. So, despite sitting down at 0800, I didn’t finish till […]
23 February 2026
Leaving hometown Today I fly from Kuching to Dhaka via KL, with a 9h25 self-connect. The trip wasn’t planned in one hit but somewhat piecemeal making use of expiring points for the domestic portion and crazily cheap international tickets to the subcontinent that were cheaper than staff prices! I woke at 0520 and left for […]
6 February 2026
Leaving home for hometown Today, I make my way back to hometown, Kuching, for Chinese New Year. Rather than go back through the usual route of Singapore or Kuala Lumpur, I travel through Bali and Jakarta to use the relatively new service on AirAsia from Jakarta to Kuching. I fly Air New Zealand on a […]