life is abstract

The Life Of An Air Defender

*Prologue*



Wah the title is acutally just to butters up my ego and i apologize profusely. For a more down to earth journal of my fantastic trip to Maple Land, carry on reading. Note, the names are entirely distorted due to confidential reasons. For an explanation, kindly contact me.



Thursday 15May: With eager anticipation, i fought on despite a warm pillow, heavy eyelids and the gentle breeze of the air-conditioner. I finally succumbed to the Z-monster after relentess torment from my oh-so-cuddley white seal of a softoywith its huge marble eyes. Damn that thing. Anyway, I struggled to close my oversized luggage bag till 11plus pm. I declined to pack my chargers and electronic accessories;what if my MAPLE FLAG PLAYLIST can't be played during the flight due to lack of battery! Oh the Horror! I finally dragged myself out of bed at 1.30am. Finally. Friday the 16 of May. What a beautiful day. Maple Flag awaits. Took a last snapshot of butterscotch and cassie before going to the T1 Changi International Airport. So ASSCITED MAN!



Said GOODBYE to the parents and said HELLO to the Maple Flag detachment. Checked in at North West Airlines 06 at 3am. The PLAN: Changi to Kawaii desu Narita to Seattle Tacoma to Edmonton Airport Canada. PROBLEM! Only biometric passports are allowed when transiting to the States. For the ignorant few, they are the new Singaporean passports that use retina scanners and finger print identifications. They speed up the process of checking in and checking out due to their self-service option. Thank God mine was biometric. Of the party, about half had to stay in Singapore to re-make their passports! And catch the next flight on SUNDAY!The poor buggers had to make their way back to Lavender later in the day to get it sorted out. After further prodding by the Thai fella, they relented to letting those whose passports have not expired from their original 10yr period to proceed. So those poor sods who unfortunately extended their expiry were booted out unceremoniously out of Changi.



After a Burger King breakfast king breakfast, i was all ready to make my way down to Sushi Land. The flight was roughly around 6hrs plus and when we landed, it was Sunny in Narita International Airport. Of my 3DA unit, only Parmenio, Lacy and me survived. Vicki and Jade got left behind. I swear if they see this, they will probably kill me for using such distastrous names hahahah! The transit flight to Narita was Lacy's first time flying. Poor boy. First time he ever bought winter wear and MADE A PASSPORT too! The guy has never stepped into Malaysia before. See how lucky u buggers are! He kept asking questions on why does your ears pop when flying, what are the oxygen masks for, do they serve food, wheres the toilet and how to get rid of the pressure in your ears. I kindly explained everything to the NOOBASS! hahahahahha.



Finally reached Narita and walked around the explore the DFS and kill the 1 hr transit time. First sign of Japanese Cai. They were holding a signboard advertising for some Ang-more. Morever, it seems the business class of passengers have prettier stewardesses. I should fly business class next time! On the whole, Narita is rather nice. Their McDonalds has something called a Mega Burger! 4 bloody patties of grounded beef! I was literally drooling after the horror of a meal on board NW06. I fought of the grasping arms of the Mac Monster and plodded on, determined to explore more untod treasures in Narita. True enough, stacked in piles where rows of japanese sweet treats, pocky blocks, mocchi and rice crackers. Plenty of them. I told myself, i will finally buy some back! When i get home. They were serving freebies of Japanese Plum Wine and Chivas Regal. I told Parmenio, why not just walk around just sampling enough hahaha! Lacy on the other hand was going crazy. The anime freak was so into all the toys and figures that for the first time in my life, i actually saw him give his boyful grin. We decided that enough was enough and it was all i could do to prevent myself from walking over to the pretty Japanese lady and demand a mouthful of her tempting Chivas Regal.



Finally boarded the flight bound for Sea-Tac airport (Seattle-Tacoma). States at last! Bloody flight was 9 hours long. And i was given a seat right in the middle. Sandwiched by 2 humongous ang-mores! One of them was only 23yrs old( i peeked into his passport) and he had TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLE tatoos! Some thanks. Still, we each had a personal screen to movie viewing and i was enchanted by the movies. Due to the time different, it was tough to catch twenty winks so i proceeded to entertain myself with 4 movies haha! Catwoman, the Negotiater, Tarzan and The Bucket List. I must say The Bucket List was the best of all. It was about two old men who were about to die. One was a rich old fart who had everything in life except family while the other was a poor man who only had his family. Together, they compiled a list on how to spend the last few months of their life; by doing things that they wanted to accomplish but never had the finaces or the time to do it. Like skydiving, or climbing snow mountains, or kissing the most beautiful girl in the world(the old fart did it! He kissed his granddaughter. Sweet tarts sia!)
I must commend Northwest on one thing (little did i know i would change my opinion in the future), the food was decent. But they actually served WHOLE cans of pepsi when asked! This allowed the cherubic old ang-more ladies to gain some brownie points in my book.

When we reached Sea-Tac, i was half dead..*to be continued*

posted by Cave II @ 5:05 PM