Monday, November 03, 2008
Back in Singapore!
Wakey wakey in the morning to move our booty to Narita Airport!
Last night wasn't a great night. We had ourselves (2 Singaporeans), A Japanese girl, a Belgian girl, a Taiwanese girl and a girl who came in so late, I didn't get a chance to speak to her so she will be unknown girl.
So my friend and I were enjoying a rather empty dorm till the evening when the Japanese girl came in. She's nice and friendly and we started chatting. The Belgian girl came in later and we all were happily chatting away.
Next came the Taiwanese girl. Somehow, she gave me some bad vibes. Anyway she was mostly off in her corner typing away on her laptop MSNing her friends. My friend later told me that she didn't like this girl as well.
Anyway, we were all chatting and stuff, the four of us, the only part where I remember the Taiwanese girl chiming in was when the Japanese girl asked us why we seemed to speak English rather well and this is where she butted in by saying that English is our official language.
Oh ho ho ho ho. So how come SELENA and that engrish teacher were so happily slamming us leh?? Huh? Trying to slam us that even though English is our official language, it's still so lousy in Singapore is it??
Anyway, I just had to show her up and said that we have four official languages in Singapore.
After like 3 hours of chatting, we decided to starting getting to sleep. So we were all pretty much settled in when this girl decides to use the ensuite bathroom. All the time I've been in the room, I've not seen anyone use that bathroom. I've only used it once the first time I was in the room cos I didn't know there was a bathroom outside.
I don't use that bathroom because it is really small and the frigging door is super noisy. So I use the bathroom outside so as not to wake the room up.
She then decides to close the sliding door... which is also noisy.
She goes on with some more MSNing and then after sometime finally decides to make her bed up. More noise.
Climbs up and down the bed, cos she was sleeping on the upper deck above me. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that when she came in, she had asked which beds were available and we told her which two were available. Unfortunately, only 2 upper deck beds were available. She looked around and started pointing to the lower deck beds asking if those were taken. Just to let you readers know, the lower deck beds were all made up and we were all sitting at the respective beds. Kinda a huge clue to anyone that the beds were not available... even if one does not understand English and thus could not understand what we said when we told them which beds were available right?
Anyway, amongst the stuff she did, while she was using her laptop while sitting on the floor, she was comfortably leaning on her backpack which was leaning my gymbag full of food! Which was dangerously close to my Final Fantasy stuff!! Had she touched them she would be minced meat I tell you.
So, because of that I was already quite unhappy. Plus all the preparatory work she could have done (all the noisy stuff) when we were all chatting away, but she didn't... all these made me so mad I almost couldn't sleep. Grr, I only slept at 0300 hrs JPT and I needed to be awake by 0630hrs.
Oh the weather was actually quite cool and it's the kind where you snuggle into futons. I don't think the aircon was on, but she switched it on to 28 degrees. I didn't realise that actually, I was concerned that she made it colder. The Belgian girl noticed it and asked her whether she was really cold. The aircon was set to 25.
Later on, there was some really weird thumping sound which sounded like it came from the direction of the ensuite bathroom. It was seriously disturbing. Like someone pounding on the wall. Guess who was in the bathroom?? No prizes!
Somehow made it to 0300.... I tell you, if it were not for the other girls in the room, I would have made it a point that she will suffer!
The next morning over tea, the Japanese girl and us were discussing the late night antics. OMG. It was just exasperating.
After saying our goodbyes, it was time to head off to Narita. We didn't take the Narita Express, as the hostel staff advised us that the local train takes just about the same length of time to reach Narita and is much cheaper.
We got to Narita and we needed to get to the 4th floor for internation departures. I think my friend was cursing and swearing by then lol. Checkin was a little crowded, but I had done internet check in so halfway through the queue, I spotted a line for internet check in. My friend wanted to remain in the queue so we did for a while, then I pointed out to her that the internet check in line was empty whereas the line we were in was still a ways to go, so we scuttled over.
While checking in, we did what the air steward advised us to do on our way to Osaka, place our meal request with the check in staff. Since it was not 24 hours before the flight (I had wondered about whether there was sufficient time to prepare the food if we only told them at the airport, but we were only following SIA air steward instructions), they told us that they could not guarantee the meals but would do their best.
Our meal requests turned out fine, my friend ended up having to take Oriental Vegetarian because she requested for a non beef and non seafood meal. I asked for non beef only and I got a fish meal. My main course was Poached White Fish, entree was Smoked Salmon, there was a bun and butter to go with it and a cracker with yummy cheese to go with it. OOOh. Food's great. Once you can get it in your mouth that is.
So once we were airborne, we were rather bored since Krisworld was not available.... they had system problems with Krisworld. On an A380. New plane. WTH. It took about 20 mins before they had it settled. Krisworld is great, once they get it working.
The pilot didn't seem to know his crew well as during the introductions he couldn't name his chief steward (or was it stewardess, I have no clue since he was hemming and hawwing). I guess as long as he can fly the plane it's fine. I think the weather might have been a little bad, the initial take off part was so smooth I was pretty impressed, but then it started getting jerky. >.> Kinda like in a mini rodeo.
After hours of watching movies, we landed in Singapore and taxied to the aerobridge. Once the plane systems shut down, the whole plane was dark since the ground supply didn't cut in. I was happily seated in my chair and everyone else was standing around waiting. Come on guys, if the plane has no power, the doors are not gonna open!
The pilot was funny while trying to explain the loss of power, he also requested our understanding I think. I'm not sure really. He said "I understand that you bear with us while we get this sorted out."
I'm still trying to decipher that.
Back home.
Yay.
Now on to deal with SIA.
Oh, dinner was at T3 Dian Xiao Er. Weird people there wanted the 3 numbers on the back of my credit card and had me signo n the receipt. I was using VISA Paywave for goodness sake.
Weirdos. Never had to do that in other Dian Xiao Er restaurants and obviously the cashier could not answer why when questioned.
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Wakey wakey in the morning to move our booty to Narita Airport!
Last night wasn't a great night. We had ourselves (2 Singaporeans), A Japanese girl, a Belgian girl, a Taiwanese girl and a girl who came in so late, I didn't get a chance to speak to her so she will be unknown girl.
So my friend and I were enjoying a rather empty dorm till the evening when the Japanese girl came in. She's nice and friendly and we started chatting. The Belgian girl came in later and we all were happily chatting away.
Next came the Taiwanese girl. Somehow, she gave me some bad vibes. Anyway she was mostly off in her corner typing away on her laptop MSNing her friends. My friend later told me that she didn't like this girl as well.
Anyway, we were all chatting and stuff, the four of us, the only part where I remember the Taiwanese girl chiming in was when the Japanese girl asked us why we seemed to speak English rather well and this is where she butted in by saying that English is our official language.
Oh ho ho ho ho. So how come SELENA and that engrish teacher were so happily slamming us leh?? Huh? Trying to slam us that even though English is our official language, it's still so lousy in Singapore is it??
Anyway, I just had to show her up and said that we have four official languages in Singapore.
After like 3 hours of chatting, we decided to starting getting to sleep. So we were all pretty much settled in when this girl decides to use the ensuite bathroom. All the time I've been in the room, I've not seen anyone use that bathroom. I've only used it once the first time I was in the room cos I didn't know there was a bathroom outside.
I don't use that bathroom because it is really small and the frigging door is super noisy. So I use the bathroom outside so as not to wake the room up.
She then decides to close the sliding door... which is also noisy.
She goes on with some more MSNing and then after sometime finally decides to make her bed up. More noise.
Climbs up and down the bed, cos she was sleeping on the upper deck above me. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that when she came in, she had asked which beds were available and we told her which two were available. Unfortunately, only 2 upper deck beds were available. She looked around and started pointing to the lower deck beds asking if those were taken. Just to let you readers know, the lower deck beds were all made up and we were all sitting at the respective beds. Kinda a huge clue to anyone that the beds were not available... even if one does not understand English and thus could not understand what we said when we told them which beds were available right?
Anyway, amongst the stuff she did, while she was using her laptop while sitting on the floor, she was comfortably leaning on her backpack which was leaning my gymbag full of food! Which was dangerously close to my Final Fantasy stuff!! Had she touched them she would be minced meat I tell you.
So, because of that I was already quite unhappy. Plus all the preparatory work she could have done (all the noisy stuff) when we were all chatting away, but she didn't... all these made me so mad I almost couldn't sleep. Grr, I only slept at 0300 hrs JPT and I needed to be awake by 0630hrs.
Oh the weather was actually quite cool and it's the kind where you snuggle into futons. I don't think the aircon was on, but she switched it on to 28 degrees. I didn't realise that actually, I was concerned that she made it colder. The Belgian girl noticed it and asked her whether she was really cold. The aircon was set to 25.
Later on, there was some really weird thumping sound which sounded like it came from the direction of the ensuite bathroom. It was seriously disturbing. Like someone pounding on the wall. Guess who was in the bathroom?? No prizes!
Somehow made it to 0300.... I tell you, if it were not for the other girls in the room, I would have made it a point that she will suffer!
The next morning over tea, the Japanese girl and us were discussing the late night antics. OMG. It was just exasperating.
After saying our goodbyes, it was time to head off to Narita. We didn't take the Narita Express, as the hostel staff advised us that the local train takes just about the same length of time to reach Narita and is much cheaper.
We got to Narita and we needed to get to the 4th floor for internation departures. I think my friend was cursing and swearing by then lol. Checkin was a little crowded, but I had done internet check in so halfway through the queue, I spotted a line for internet check in. My friend wanted to remain in the queue so we did for a while, then I pointed out to her that the internet check in line was empty whereas the line we were in was still a ways to go, so we scuttled over.
While checking in, we did what the air steward advised us to do on our way to Osaka, place our meal request with the check in staff. Since it was not 24 hours before the flight (I had wondered about whether there was sufficient time to prepare the food if we only told them at the airport, but we were only following SIA air steward instructions), they told us that they could not guarantee the meals but would do their best.
Our meal requests turned out fine, my friend ended up having to take Oriental Vegetarian because she requested for a non beef and non seafood meal. I asked for non beef only and I got a fish meal. My main course was Poached White Fish, entree was Smoked Salmon, there was a bun and butter to go with it and a cracker with yummy cheese to go with it. OOOh. Food's great. Once you can get it in your mouth that is.
So once we were airborne, we were rather bored since Krisworld was not available.... they had system problems with Krisworld. On an A380. New plane. WTH. It took about 20 mins before they had it settled. Krisworld is great, once they get it working.
The pilot didn't seem to know his crew well as during the introductions he couldn't name his chief steward (or was it stewardess, I have no clue since he was hemming and hawwing). I guess as long as he can fly the plane it's fine. I think the weather might have been a little bad, the initial take off part was so smooth I was pretty impressed, but then it started getting jerky. >.> Kinda like in a mini rodeo.
After hours of watching movies, we landed in Singapore and taxied to the aerobridge. Once the plane systems shut down, the whole plane was dark since the ground supply didn't cut in. I was happily seated in my chair and everyone else was standing around waiting. Come on guys, if the plane has no power, the doors are not gonna open!
The pilot was funny while trying to explain the loss of power, he also requested our understanding I think. I'm not sure really. He said "I understand that you bear with us while we get this sorted out."
I'm still trying to decipher that.
Back home.
Yay.
Now on to deal with SIA.
Oh, dinner was at T3 Dian Xiao Er. Weird people there wanted the 3 numbers on the back of my credit card and had me signo n the receipt. I was using VISA Paywave for goodness sake.
Weirdos. Never had to do that in other Dian Xiao Er restaurants and obviously the cashier could not answer why when questioned.
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