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6 February 2020
Flying visit to Singapore Today I travel to Singapore for a nightstop with my aunt before flying to Bali tomorrow. It’s quite funny domestically in Indonesia with a Singapore layover. I left the hotel around 0900 by Grab and had a chatty driver (again, being Indonesia). I learnt that while he is Malay, the Minang […]
21 January 2020
Leaving Bali Today I make my way from Bali to hometown Kuching for Chinese New Year and family time, via Singapore. Normally it is far more convenient to connect via Kuala Lumpur but with the festive season ahead, the fares worked out better through Singapore. Neither choice was that cheap but I still think I […]
19 January 2020
Getting stuck … or unstuck? I had hurriedly googled a few possibilities for handling my nearly 7h18 delay in Sydney, before proceeding to the gate. I got to gate later than I normally would have. It was actually a perfectly-timed boarding onto Virgin Australia’s 737-800 to Sydney. It was a pleasant flight with a light […]
19 January 2020
Cheap way home Today I slowly make my way towards my family in hometown Kuching for Chinese New Year. At this time of year flights there are expensive, but I found a special deal to Bali for NZD544 return, on Virgin Australia with great connections. Allowing for nightstops and the shorthaul flights to Kuching, it […]
3 January 2020
I thought it would be nice to go see friends and relatives in Christchurch. It combined well with an invite to go camping with Kim’s friends at Lake Benmore. Despite being on a standby ticket, I managed to get to Christchurch without too many hassles during the holiday period.
12 November 2019
I leave Melbourne after experiencing the craziness of their weather. It was 9 degC when I arrived and went to a max of around 18 degC before having a day of 30 degC! Then it turned cold again. Talk about extremes! I had had too much sleep the night before last and suffered last night […]
8 November 2019
Today I leave Kuching for Melbourne via Kuala Lumpur. The flight leaves in the late afternoon, but I wanted to do as much as I could for Mum and my brother who recently had a knee operation. So I started the day at 0800 with getting their groceries, not entirely missing the rush-hour traffic. After […]
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 […]