Dear Pipsqueaks,
Currently, it's 3:35am on Christmas Day. Yes, I know I should be sleeping but I don't know why I'm wide awake. Actually, I slept pretty well last night. Only woke up for an hour and went straight back to sleep, but somehow I just can't tonight, so here I am writing.
I forgot to mention: I'm in Vancouver!
With lots of mixed emotions, I bought my ticket on Monday and hopped on the plane on Saturday. At first, I didn't want to tell anyone about my visit except for those that needed to know - Tams because she so kindly offered me to stay at hers and Ray's place; Carm & Mel because I'll be able to attend their weddings on the 6th & 7th respectively now. There's a very good reason for that. I personally don't like last minute invitations, so I don't like to do that to others. And telling them I'm in town for a couple of weeks especially during the holidays just DAYS before, it puts people on the spot to make time for me. Of course, I know those that want to see me will make time, but I just don't like to make things difficult. Not to mention, most people would have already made plans to spend their holidays with family and friends.
But, I'm lucky. I have some of the best groups of friends.
Mel and Ian came to fetch me from the airport when I arrived. It was one of the longest trips home for me - not only the actual hours of flying (19+ hours with one stop really isn't so bad compared to the travel to Peru), but having had so much time to think because I couldn't sleep at all. From KUL to HKG, I caught a movie that was really close to heart: Heartbeat Shutter 77 or 原諒他77次. It was about a couple who had been together for 10 years, but all the while had issues. At chance, the girl bought a notebook that guided her to write down every incident that she had to forgive the boy. And when she finally reached 77, she left the relationship. It brought back so many emotional tags that I had floating in my heart, and I ended up crying the next hour until we landed in HKG.
Food always cheered me up. I texted the bff and found one of the most busy airport food courts ever to have a quick bite. You wouldn't believe how difficult it was to find a seat! Luckily, as a lone traveler, I didn't need a full table, so when a single seater opened up at the bar, I parked my butt and started to eat before I over-hungered. It's always nice to have some Honger noodles - they're like comfort food for me. Nice and soupy...soupy.
Seeing that the place was so busy, I finished my noodles in 10mins so someone else could have my seat. Upon arriving at my gate, I found a power point and charged my phone while waiting to board. Scheduled boarding time was 3:40pm, which was about another 15mins wait. When time was near, everyone started to line up only to be told by the gate crew to go back to their seats as we won't be boarding yet. Then, the news.
A father came walking back to his family who were standing next to me and told everyone that the flight had been delayed from 4:10pm until 6:10pm. You could hear the sigh loud and clear. Next thing you know, a bunch of people went up to the counter to ask about their connecting flights. It wasn't until I received an email from Cathay about the departure that the gate crew made the announcement about the delay. About bloody time. Oh, did I mention that they had already changed gate once? So I had to run like a mad woman across HKG airport to the new gate only to find out we were delayed. Sigh. AND AND AND - with the announcement, told us that our boarding pass will be able to validate HKD75 worth of food for dinner. Thanks, AFTER I already ate.
Anyway, since I had a load of time, I went to check out a few shops and topped up my number of steps for the day. By boarding time, I had about 9k. Not bad if I must say so myself. It was nice spending about 4hrs with you HKG. Ciao~
Well, we waited for a good hour on the plane before taking off, so technically 5hrs...
The next 11.5hours was so difficult to get through. I couldn't sleep a wink, so I watched about 10 episodes of my drama.
Okay, feeling sleepy at 4:27am. Will continue to write when I have time~
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM VANCOUVER!
Currently, it's 3:35am on Christmas Day. Yes, I know I should be sleeping but I don't know why I'm wide awake. Actually, I slept pretty well last night. Only woke up for an hour and went straight back to sleep, but somehow I just can't tonight, so here I am writing.
I forgot to mention: I'm in Vancouver!
With lots of mixed emotions, I bought my ticket on Monday and hopped on the plane on Saturday. At first, I didn't want to tell anyone about my visit except for those that needed to know - Tams because she so kindly offered me to stay at hers and Ray's place; Carm & Mel because I'll be able to attend their weddings on the 6th & 7th respectively now. There's a very good reason for that. I personally don't like last minute invitations, so I don't like to do that to others. And telling them I'm in town for a couple of weeks especially during the holidays just DAYS before, it puts people on the spot to make time for me. Of course, I know those that want to see me will make time, but I just don't like to make things difficult. Not to mention, most people would have already made plans to spend their holidays with family and friends.
But, I'm lucky. I have some of the best groups of friends.
Mel and Ian came to fetch me from the airport when I arrived. It was one of the longest trips home for me - not only the actual hours of flying (19+ hours with one stop really isn't so bad compared to the travel to Peru), but having had so much time to think because I couldn't sleep at all. From KUL to HKG, I caught a movie that was really close to heart: Heartbeat Shutter 77 or 原諒他77次. It was about a couple who had been together for 10 years, but all the while had issues. At chance, the girl bought a notebook that guided her to write down every incident that she had to forgive the boy. And when she finally reached 77, she left the relationship. It brought back so many emotional tags that I had floating in my heart, and I ended up crying the next hour until we landed in HKG.
Food always cheered me up. I texted the bff and found one of the most busy airport food courts ever to have a quick bite. You wouldn't believe how difficult it was to find a seat! Luckily, as a lone traveler, I didn't need a full table, so when a single seater opened up at the bar, I parked my butt and started to eat before I over-hungered. It's always nice to have some Honger noodles - they're like comfort food for me. Nice and soupy...soupy.
Seeing that the place was so busy, I finished my noodles in 10mins so someone else could have my seat. Upon arriving at my gate, I found a power point and charged my phone while waiting to board. Scheduled boarding time was 3:40pm, which was about another 15mins wait. When time was near, everyone started to line up only to be told by the gate crew to go back to their seats as we won't be boarding yet. Then, the news.
A father came walking back to his family who were standing next to me and told everyone that the flight had been delayed from 4:10pm until 6:10pm. You could hear the sigh loud and clear. Next thing you know, a bunch of people went up to the counter to ask about their connecting flights. It wasn't until I received an email from Cathay about the departure that the gate crew made the announcement about the delay. About bloody time. Oh, did I mention that they had already changed gate once? So I had to run like a mad woman across HKG airport to the new gate only to find out we were delayed. Sigh. AND AND AND - with the announcement, told us that our boarding pass will be able to validate HKD75 worth of food for dinner. Thanks, AFTER I already ate.
Anyway, since I had a load of time, I went to check out a few shops and topped up my number of steps for the day. By boarding time, I had about 9k. Not bad if I must say so myself. It was nice spending about 4hrs with you HKG. Ciao~
Well, we waited for a good hour on the plane before taking off, so technically 5hrs...
The next 11.5hours was so difficult to get through. I couldn't sleep a wink, so I watched about 10 episodes of my drama.
Okay, feeling sleepy at 4:27am. Will continue to write when I have time~
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM VANCOUVER!