Its been few days after I arrived Kuching, a place which I’ll prefer to call it HOMETOWN. As usual, after the long tiring trip one need to take a rest and unpack the stuff (that explain why this post come in so late).
Edinburgh Chaos
Well the sub heading of CHAOS really mean disaster to me. Once arrived at the airport, I realized that my total check in baggage weight around 40Kg which is 100% extra more than I was allowed. The excess baggage charge is £58/Kg (£8/Kg for domestic route + £50/Kg for international route), a simple math had given me the idea of how much I need to pay (£1160). The recourse for it, I need to repack my baggage at the airport and ask my friend to sell any heavy item i.e. my lcd monitor. I managed to reduce my total baggage weight down to 33Kg and luckily the counter lady was kind enough to let me through without paying excess baggage charge.
London Heathrow
I just can’t believed that my flight arrived London 30 minutes earlier than schedule. The captain says this is because the sky is clear and they are permitted to increase SPEED. Despite the early arrival to London Heathrow, I’m still need to walk long way to my next departure gate which is from Terminal 1 to Terminal 3. The duration for it including the transit bus is around 30 minutes. Yes, 30 minutes!! So imagine how big is for the busiest airport in the world. (Too bad I do not have the time to had my Japanese dinner at the airport which I initially plan for.)
Singapore Airlines A380
Yes, the A380 is one of the carrier in my journey back home. The experience in the world largest commercial aircraft is just simply marvellous. I started to think that the character A may resemble the word AWESOME. It’s all started from the take off and landing experience, I am totally shock to found out that I already in the air or on the ground as I seat in the aisle area. Imagine how quiet and smooth the take off and landing for this jumbo. Moreover everything is huge, even in the economy class there is plenty of leg room to spare with (even for long leg person like me).
The in-flight entertainment (KrisWorld) is totally drooling. It can let you spend hours without feeling bored. KrisWorld include a 10” Widescreen LCD, a controller which act as handset as well, tonnes of latest movie, drama, music, games and news. The best part of all you can plug in your ipod, iphone or USB drive and work with whatever data inside.
Apart from the entertainment area, the service provided is world class. There is a variety of food and beverages as well which fit for all types of customer either you like the western cuisine or the hometown flavour. They really earned their award for the world best airlines.
Kuching International Airport
The first feeling when stepping down the plane is HOT!!! Well I used to the cold weather back in UK and started to miss it already. Next is MASK, I saw every people wearing mask in the airport including the officer on duty. This is something really different or contrast. In the UK none of the officer or passenger wear any mask but things are totally contrast in Malaysia. Should I take that Malaysian are more paranoid in some way?! LOL …I’ll leave you to do the judgement.
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