Categories: Friendship, Overseas, Personal life, Pictures, Travel, With my NEX
It’s my first trip to Hong Kong and it was quite an experience.
I got a flu and sinus infection less than a week away from my flight and didn’t manage to recover in time. Then I still took the flight while having partial blocked nose. It was a terrible experience because I basically got blocked ears after that. Luckily it went away in half a day and I was with my friend, Xiao Wei, at that time. Her presence definitely calmed me down and not make me panicked due to blocked ears.
It was a 5-day trip and since I was not feeling well, I wasn’t able to enjoy much.
Just gonna post the photos here for memories sake. 😀
Xiao Wei wanted to get her sneakers so we went to the famous Sneaker Street.
The public transit is also quite interesting. There are some similar/exact names of our stations or roads in Hong Kong. Like Admiralty is in North South (red) line in Singapore and it is also red line in Hong Kong!
I have to say the public transit card is so cute!
Something random I spotted while exploring streets at Hong Kong…
Categories: Insights, Overseas, Personal life, Rants, Travel
I had so much epic-ness in this trip which I think I should blog about before I forget.
(1) The first has got to be me falling sick (runny nose) before all my flights. It got me really worried about the blocked ears from the changes in air pressure during takeoff and landing.
(2) Then I almost missed my flight for the SFO – PHX route which I blogged about it here.
(3) Next is when I forgot to check what time the departmental store is closing and almost couldn’t get to the pick up point for my hotel shuttle bus. I blogged about that in here.
(4) My transit flight for DTW – LGA is like 10 mins after I am expected to land in DTW airport from PHX. Again, I blogged about it in here. Luckily it turned out to be okay.
(5) Then there was an epic deplaning incident for my flight DTW – LGA which I blogged about it in here.
(6) As usual, I had a bit of nose bleed when I was in Scottsdale. Happened on the day 4 or 5. Then it nose bleed more in New York. New York winter is no joke.
(7) My hands became red from the cold exposure within the first day. I went to Uniqlo at Hudson Yards to get the cashmere gloves. However, it might be a bit too late but applying the Kiehls Ultra Facial Cream on my hands help to control redness from getting worse.
(8) I was the last to board the JFK – SFO flight which I blogged in here.
(9) I had to give up my Popcorners and Sulwhasoo skin care bottles due to luggage weight limit and space constraints.
Categories: Overseas, Personal life, Rants, Travel
I didn’t sleep much before my return flights. For flights to and from US, there is a strict criteria of 23kg per checkin luggage. Basically I exceeded the weight and have to keep sorting out the stuff in both luggages in order to hit the weight limit. I also ran out of space and have to give up bringing my Popcorners and some skincare bottles (wth skincare) back. In the end, I am only left with 3hrs of sleep and I only managed to sleep for 1.5hrs. Luckily I couldn’t fall asleep too much as my alarm clock was so soft and I won’t be able to hear it if I am in deep sleep.
Then when we carried the luggage downstairs and when it finally reach outside the apartment gates, one of my luggage flew out and ended up on the road. It was such a funny scene that both Gulabi and I laughed.
I was lucky that there aren’t many people at bag drop and I remembered to print both of my boarding passes because flights outside of US always need physical passes. It would have been tricky if I forgot to print the passes.
I had more than 3hrs of layover at Narita airport this time round and was able to do some shopping and have a good meal (instead of depending on plane food) before I board my second flight back to Singapore. With the weakening of Japanese yen, shopping at Narita airport is really good.
For example, a 75ml Chanel Comete perfume costs S$375 is now about S$255 at the airport. That’s like a S$120 savings!
I also managed to find a store that sells Fancl and managed to bulk buy my cleanser. 😀
I don’t think I ever want to try 8 flights in 2 weeks again. By the 6th flight, I felt so done with flying liao. But I still have 2 flights to go before I can go back home. I wish I can just teleport home at that point. Lol.
Categories: Overseas, Personal life, Rants, Travel
Sigh, I only had 10 mins from arrival time from my first flight to the boarding time of my second flight. Luckily it is not too far away – just 10 gates away.
My second flight is flying off earlier by 5 mins and the first flight was slightly delayed by the time I got out of the plane. So I literally walk straight from gate to gate with no chance to go to the toilet at the airport at all. By the time I walked to the gate, it is already boarding group 3 or 4 while I am boarding group 6.
I feel like I am running around airports in this trip so far. First it was my SFO – PHX journey, now it is my PHX – DTW – LGA journey. It is as though running in my airport is my nee cardio workout.
Now the plane is not moving because there is 1 guy who is like drunk or on drugs. He is like seated 1 row in front of me but on the other side of the plane. He kept talking and disturbing other female passengers. The air stewardess first moved the lady in the same row as him to a different seat. The guy next to him then move to the aisle seat and have a distance away from him.
Then he started disturbing the female passenger in front of him and the air stewardess moved her to another seat and he started shouting. Shrugs. It’s like delayed by 1 hr which is like the total flight duration to New York from Detroit if we had depart on time. Other passengers are filming the commotion as well.
In the end, all of us have to deplane with all our hand carry luggage and let the guy deplane last. I even saw police with guns when I exited the plane. Oh my. What a life drama. Luckily he caused the commotion before we fly. The downside? It’s like 1 hr delay now and I am still in Detroit. The flight time from Detroit to New York is 1 hr. Lol. Luckily it happened before takeoff or I am not sure how it will be during flight…
Categories: Overseas, Personal life, Rants, Travel
I’m now on my first domestic flight to New York. It’s my first time going to New York and I am there for vacation. It’s pretty exciting yet scary for me at the same time.
My flight was at 6am MST and I managed to finish packing earlier and checkout earlier as well. Fortunately my scheduled Uber ride came earlier as well so I ended up reaching at 3:45am. The baggage drop off counter was not even open at that time even though I slowly take my own sweet time to print the baggage tags and join in the queue for baggage drop off point. I heard that someone said the counter will open 2 hrs before the first flight. In the end the counter open close to 4am. I guess I am taking the first flight after all.
No wonder my colleague said that the airport will be quite empty after hearing that my flight is at 6am. No wonder my Uber driver is telling me that the first flight out of the airport is at 5am. No wonder when we drove past Terminal 4, it is nearly empty. I was shocked as I have never seen such an empty domestic airport in US before…
I even had time to finish drinking my fruit juice smoothies (2 packs as I did not want to throw them away) and half a bottle of water before heading to the security checks.
Wow, I just realised that my expected flight landing time in the transit airport is just 10 mins before the boarding start time for my next flight. 😮 Oh my gosh. Do I have to run again? 🙁
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