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I shall start this adventure starting from my longer than expected air journey.
On 23 Dec, I was nice and early and arrived at Changi airport at 10:20am. Checked-in, did some magazine shopping and then grabbed a quick sandwich lunch before heading off to the gate in anticipation (well, maybe not too enthusiastically) of the long flight ahead of me.
Sat at 32A, a nice window seat, just behind the bulkhead seat in the "private" economy section of the plane. The guy next to me was rather cute...I reckon he's an ABC, but seemed a little odd (I only found out towards the end of the 18 hour flight that he had issues with flying, when the flight attendant spoke to him about having not eaten the entire flight except for the cookies and snacks they provided for him).
Anyway, from the moment the plane took off, I did my watching movie spree - watched a total of 5 movies straight! Hairspray, Bourne Supremacy (hadn't seen this second one yet, and wanted to watch it before watching the 3rd instalment), Stardust (I LOVE Robert De Niro in this, nice movie!), High School Musical 2, Ratatoiulle and some of those little dramas and comedies.
The first 10 hours of the flight was pretty decent, the food was excellent - ate the Black Pepper beef with rice and later, the Chicken Teriyaki...was so hungry throughout the flight, so I was pretty happy that they gave me a spicy chicken wrap a few hours before we landed.
The final hours to the flight was really trying...when I was floating in and out of consciousness and trying hard not to snore at the same time. Those were killer moments. When the flight finally landed...I heaved a huge sigh of relief.
Anyway, after clearing the slow immigration, I dragged my luggages down and tried to find out where in the world I was supposed to check-in at. The Continental Airlines line was long, but it was relatively fast.
The damndest thing was that the flight was delayed! It was supposed to take off at 9pm, but ended up taking off at 11:52pm. Kept giving Jeff updates so that he would know what time he had to come pick me up.
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