Yippee!!! The US of America! :)

So I flew off yesterday afternoon to New York. And of course, making sure this time that I didn't miss the flight as I did when I went to Singapore for the summer break. But there are other adventures this time...

1. At the check-in counter, the lady asked me if I have a US Visa, and I gave her the what-you-mean-i-need-a-Visa look and I said, I believe Singapore's on the Visa waiver program. And of course, not trusting me (and probably still thinking that Singapore is somewhere in the middle of China), she goes on to ask her colleague next to her, who promptly asks her to check the list, which was in front of her, and of course, finding out that we ARE on the Visa waiver program. :)

2. We were stuck at stupid Heathrow waiting for planes to land for about 45 minutes. What a waste of time.

3. And as if that wasn't enough, we took the longest possible route to "avoid bad weather" and ended up taking a route that had HEAD winds that were 120mph, when we were flying at 550 +/- 20 mph. Hmm. As the chinese saying goes: "Yi Lu Shun Feng" (translated to be Bon Voyage - but in the sense that your journey will be smooth like the wind). I think my journey was more like "Yi Lu Xiang(4) Feng", i.e. journey always against the wind.

But of course, the delays meant that I had more time to enjoy the inflight entertainment (on Virgin Atlantic) which I never thought I'd be getting, considering how little i paid for my flight... hehe... So I watched Mission Impossible 3 (amazing. loved it. so fast paced and so much action), Always Sanchome no Yuhi... [Sunset on the 3rd street] (this jap movie, which was quite random, but not too bad nonetheless) and finally The Devil Wears Prada, which I thought was really good. Not to mention, I can think of a couple of people i know who actually fit the "Devil"'s character in the movie, about how everything she says IS the law and has to be obeyed. (No names mentioned - i'm not supposed to be a bitch here.. =X )

So anyway, I arrive in New York, take another 1.5 hours on the subway/airtrain to get to my hostel, which I didn't book (forgot to.. haha.. realised that the day i was supposed to fly off), but managed to get a bed nonetheless. And then I'm off to New Haven to visit Pierre in this town of Yale people... ;p (ie. i haven't got to see the sights of NYC yet, except the glimpses of some skyscrapers.. but I will, next week...)

In the meantime, I'm off to have dinner and catch this show called "Black Snow" which Pierre was one of the builders for the set and he's gotten tix for me. Tata for now!

Labels: New York