Besides sitcoms, my favorite genre of TV shows has to be investigative documentary. NatGeo‘s Air crash investigation and Seconds from disaster are among the top highlights. I have since become more tuned to the aircraft and the people onboard the craft. I pick my seats carefully and look out for unsafe acts. The knowledge from the shows has been a pretty big hit in social conversations as well!

Of course, no one wants to ever encounter what they have shown in the shows. But I cannot contain my excitement!

In my most recent trip back to Singapore (i.e. yesterday) from China, I finally experienced my first missed approach! This is absolutely ahead of the time in Japan when the aircraft’s internal battery went dead or the time when the lady tried to use text messaging at 25,000ft. Oddly enough, I was rather smug when the pilot calmly informed the passengers about the situation as I had sensed that there was a problem when I felt the landing gear extending and retracting. At one point, it even felt jammed.

Now that I’m back on solid ground, I almost want to go back into the air. This is despite ziplocking 100ml bottles 4 times in 2 weeks.

The 8 days, well 6.5 days, trip to South Korea was refreshing. Not because of the scenery but mainly due to the fact that was away from the daily toil of emails and phone calls.

The best part of the itinerary has to be the Duksan Spa Castle! Been pampered and now it’s so hard to adjust to the real life. Haha.

Korean’s national flower – Hibiscus Syriacus

“Ladies and gentleman.. we’re 5th in the queue for take-off.” Words that brought simultaneous inner groans, including lady in green kebaya. Baking on the taxiway, the longest wait began. 30 minutes into the 5 that were promised, the grey drizzle parted and disclosed a fluffy white sky that prepared itself for the arrival of SQ866.

Apparently Hong Kong Park View is an expensive place. Or at least it is in an expensive neighbourhood. The suite is impressive. The smell isn’t. The service is good. The food isn’t. Well who says we can win it all?

Hong Kong is a truly a melting pot. You can’t see 1st world and not-so-like-of-1st-world side by side in Singapore.