Sydney Trip Diaries: Sydney Leg, Chilly Mornings

The business seats on the flight to Sydney was much nicer. My seat was on the second floor on the first row just at the back of the cockpit which is cool because of two things: You get to catch glimpses of what they do in there whenever a crewmember would speak to the pilots (I could actually hear some of the navigation instruments when we were landing - it was a digital voice counting down presumably the altitude reading) and more importantly you get to be served first - haha! I watched a couple of movies before sleep overcame me (I haven't had mu…

Sydney Trip Diaries: Singapore leg, Free food!

The trip from the house to the airport was uneventful although the taxi driver kept asking questions on which route to take implying that he was not familiar with the way to the airport (very suspicious!, I think it's just a ploy to use a circuitous route by taking the wrong turns on purpose). Going through the NAIA airport is always stressful for me. I arrived before the check-in counter was open so I had a few minutes to spare. The immigration queue was unusually long. I think I spent more than half an hour. A lot of passengers were being sent bac…

Sydney Trip Diaries: Pre travel jitters

Friday night. Hardly slept. I spent a lot of time deciding what stuff to bring. I wanted to travel as light as possible so I had to reduce the amount of clothes from a huge pile into a reasonable size that can fit into a standard sized carry-on luggage. It's currently wintertime in Australia and I hope I could survive with just a sweater and a jacket on top of that. The temperature forecast on weather.com for Sydney has lows of up to 5 degrees but the average temperature is 10 to 15 degrees. I ended up with just a small trolley luggage and a knapsac…