One from the Barrel

Reading through my "Favorites Mail" archive, found few of them very very enticing. And a few quite mushy-mushy for public viewing..hehehehe

This one has to be one of my most cherished mails. My first trip abroad way back in Jul - 04. The enthu and pleasure, I had in writing it for my friends back home was so intense. And yeah you can feel my pleasure in very small things those days. To be frank, I miss those moments. Burden of growing old ? Hope Not :-) .. anyways small is relative :-)

One of those write-ups, which calls for many reads' for thyself.

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Hey all..

my transcrips of the trip

Bangalore International Airport: International Immigration - 8.40 PM -
17 Jul 2004

Baggage Checkin went smooth as none of the visitors had more than 60
kgs. Then, the Immigration Section, we need to fill in a Immigration
Departure Record. After presenting the same to the Immigration
Officers, some questions are asked, such as, Why are you going ? Do
you have the Invite letter from the client? how long you will stay?
etc.. on the same lines.

Then the Customs and the security Check, which as smooth as eating
butter, provided you are not a member of Al-Qaeda :-D.

Finally in the Boarding Lobby at around 10.45 PM.

Singapore Airlines SQ-429 bound to Singapore departed at 12 midnight.
Facilities in the Aircraft is quite in the standards of the AMERICAN..
not sure.. juss kidding :D. Supper was quite good. And another good
thing the aerial view of Bangalore, my City looks good. We can view a
Queens Lace due to the lighting of the Ring Road.

Thanks to the STAR Alliance, passengers can choose Movies of their
choice from the list of On-Demand Movies On-Flight. Likes of HellBoy,
Hidalgo, 50 First Dates, AI, MunnaBhai MBBS, Baghban to name a few.
Choice for On-Demand TV Programs, On-Demand Audios are also available.

We reached Singapore, Changi International Airport at 7 Am -18 Jul 2004.

Changi International Airport: Arrival - 7 AM - 18 Jul 2004

Singapore - SINGAA + Pura - East Asia's Door to the Globe looks awesum
aerially, especially when the aircraft is over Singapore River.The
AeroBridge from SQ-429 led us to a world of fantasy... thats
exaggeration, but yes, a world of its own. We landed in Terminal 2, of
the two terminals in the airport. Not sure of the perimeter or area of
the Airport, but the Boeings, airecrafts stood like BMTC buses in
Majestic.

We then had to reach "RainForest" Lounge which was in the other end of
the Airport Terminal. So take a walk... Sorrry.. you have the
SkyTrain. Just Sit in the SKyTrain, within 60 seconds you are in the
other terminal. Refreshed ourselves in the RainForest Lounge, Browsed
the Net, Breakfast.

We then landed in Terminal 1 to book tickets for the Free 2 hour
Tourism Trip organised by Deapartment of Tourism, Singapore. We got
the tickets for 1 PM slot. So still 1 hour left, walk through the
airport terminals, viewing the American, United, Lufthansa, Qantas,
Virgin Atlantic.

Come, 12.25 PM, we had Queu up for the free trip. We need to surrender
our passport. At sharp 1, the bus leaves the Changi International
Airport, to take us a ride of the Singapore. The ex-British Colony is
just a ride away from Indonesia and MAlaysia. A person can view
Indonesia and Malaysia when he steps into a overbridge on the main
highway.The guide, who claimed himself to be a friend of next PM of
Singapore was quite articulate in explaining about Singapore. But I
remember only about apartments, Car, Death Sentence words from him.
Unluckily, we missed the boat trip on River Singapore due to light
showers.As usual, the concrete structures looks good, rather very
good. Many of us almost slept due to lack of sleep, last night. We are
back to the airport at 2.30 PM. Diligently, the passports are handed
over to the respective individuals. So some more time to go for the
SFO bound Singapore Airliner. So, once again Window-Shop the Pierce
Brosnan, Cindy Crawford in OMEGA, Aishwarya rai in Longines, Anna
Kournikova in NIKE, Pierre Cardin's, TagHeur, HEINZ. We can even
browse the Internet in the Free Internet Shoppe.

At 5 PM, Singapore Airlines SQ 002 was ready to Take-off from the
Changi IA. Not a very good aerial Take-off view, due to the
backwaters, and due to the abscence of Lights. Once again the bliss of
Window Seat. After around 210 minutes, the aircraft passes on a
ex-British Colony, Hong-Kong. Refuelling Stopover is for around 75
minutes, during which SFO pbound passengers can also alight the craft.
The newly built Hong-Kong International airport, is funky in the
Design of the Roof structure. One of our Client Manager who was in the
same flight, led us through the viewing of the Airport.

Hong-Kong International Airport 9.55 PM Local Time, deaparture to San
Francisco Airport.

San Francisco:

Aerially, SFO provides the best view for any passenger in the
aircraft. The Golden Gate Bridge, the salt extraction processes, the
skyscrapers looks awesumm.

San FranCisco International Airport :

Finally, in the port of Entry to the Sammy's Land, The United States
of America. Any non-resident American visitng the country has to
undergo the Immigration Process. Nothing but, I-94 form to be filled.
i GOT the i 94 for three months. Baggage Claim and Securrity was cool
and easy

--paks