February 17, 2012

Singapore

Here comes to the end 2 months of my stay in Bali. Stuff delivered to friend, passport stamped, overstay penalty paid and here I am in a black and red seat of my budget flight to Hong Kong. New scenes, weather, people and food. Flying still fascinates me. I studied physics and I understand how wings and power work, but what I don’t understand is how this mega ton school bus can fly. I explain it as pure magic, as well as everything associated with it. Arabian nights, genie, magic carpet. That’s what comes into my head when I sit in the airplane. I know that it’s just a few hours and I will see land that would take several months to get to just 100 years ago. I am always thinking about wars back in the day when there was no electricity. How’s the hell do you know if the war is over? Let’s say Brits and Spaniards somewhere in Caribbean? It would take a month just to deliver the message, taking that there’s no storm at sea and many other variables that can arise. I really would like to see how flying/traveling will change in 100 years. I would like to fly HK-SFO in 3 hours or less. That would be cool.

Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen and maybe Beijing within next 4 weeks, get “boring business” (accounting, banking, government officials, bureaucracy etc) done, see my family and then I am back to Bali. As I said before, it’s a magical place. Here I learned a lot about myself. What I can and can’t, what I want and don’t, my weaknesses and strengths. During my trip to HK I made a couple of little observations

Observations:

BUDGET

To fly to HK I had to stop over at Singapore. Because I used Tiger airways (budget airline), my flight to HK actually flew flew from “Budget terminal” They actually named it like that. Terminal 1, Terminal 2, Terminal 3 and “Budget Terminal”. they could just call it “Cheap assholes terminal” . To get there I had to take a bus after immigration surcrifying a half a page in passport. It’s OK, you get what you pay for. What I noticed though, companies in the WEST tend not to call anything “Budget” as budget. They camouflage it with words “Preffered” vs “Executive”, “Silver” vs “Diamond” etc. So you don’t feel bad. You are still cheap asshole, but you feel better now, Our Preferred Silver member, you still have to pay for your food and have little legroom on our plane but you are not a “budget” guest.  In Asia they are blunt in distinguishing classes. I kinda like it.

WIFI

Chiangi airport doesn’t have free WiFi. Bad, but my connection is just an hour long so I don’t suffer, however I think free Wifi is a must in Airports. My observation of hotspots in SE Asia revealed one thing. Hong Kong, Singapore, Sometimes in China and I believe I saw one in Kuala Lampur. has Wifi Hotspot in public places that has a name “Free Public WiFi”. However it NEVER works. Mistery for me. I can connect, but it’s not working. I am really curious what’s up with that. Huge SE Asia Conspiracy network?

Egoistically yours

VP

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