There is a grown man in a panda suit at the train station. ï¼®obody seems to pay him any attention. He just stands there in the middle of the crowd waiting for his companion. The suit looks to large and he looks like a sickly emaciated panda bear. Very strange for me but probably not that uncommon around these parts. A picture of Aman in a panda suit waiting on a train platform - image generated with the assistance of Dall-E3.
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…
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…
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…
Sunday 30 January 2005 Morning Panic Woke up really late today. I'm leaving for Kuala Lumpur in the afternoon. I'm a bit excited. I haven't left the country for quite some time now and I have always loved traveling. I was timing my departure from the house so that I would arrive 2 hours before my flight. Upon checking my printed itinerary, however, written in smaller font at the very bottom of the page was the advice that I should be there 3 to 4 hours earlier to avoid missing the flight! Must be for the additional security precautions. I pa…
An image of a ferry with cars being transported. Image generated using Opera's Aria AI. In Cat Carrier Originally uploaded by Jepster . The first part of the trip went on smoothly. I took a half day's leave so that we could leave earlier. The starting port is just a few minutes away from the office but our travel agent booked us an earlier trip for the first boat ride so that we would not be in a hurry to catch the next ferry. We left after lunch and arrived at the port 10 minutes later. After processing all the required formalities, (we needed…
My brother, Brat, and I will be taking a road trip to our hometown. It's not such an easy task considering our hometown is not on the same island as where we live. In fact, the trip will take approximately 17 hours, and that's assuming everything goes according to plan. The trip can be divided into four segments. The first leg will be a 2-hour ferry ride, followed by a 3-hour drive, then a 4-hour ferry ride and the last leg will be a leisurely(?) 5-hour drive to our parents' house. The remaining 17 hours are spent waiting for ferries to arri…
