i just emptied my Deuter 30L bag after i came back from US, and i found a big stack of vietnam travel brochures in the backing compartment of the bag! that compartment houses the bag backing that keeps it upright, and i never put anything into it, so i never checked it. i also found a ticket to a sanctuary dated 20 Dec 2007, matching the date angdao went vietnam.
i just carried the bag (plus the big stack) up to one of the waterfalls in yosemite park!
i don’t care if it reports the weather accurately.
Nano-copper-wires that are transparent could make this possible…
finally found the song whose tune is stuck in my head for 3 days.
I almost mistook 以父之名 for this song.
sold my phone. lesson learnt: new phones don’t last. rid them before warranty expires, or maybe get a longer warranty.
was very lucky to be able to do a full backup. now using a no-color simple phone. so far still quite used to it, just that i’ll need some other place to keep my appointments.
most of the time i feel like writing when i’m outside. when i now sit at the computer, i duno what to write.
ANA oversold, and i got free upgrade to business class. this is my first business class flight, and being the suaku i didn’t know how it works. i joined the wrong queues, keep forgetting that economy queues are different from business. i was also lucky to get the upgrade from San Francisco to Narita, which was the longer 10-hour leg of my flight. having hiked up yoshimete the day before it was perfect i am able to stretch my legs on the seat throughout the flight.
the seat can be inclined to any degree, from upright to bed mode, and if you’ve watched mr bean at the dentist, yes, that’s how i look like with the chair going up and down and up and down. it was definitely spacious, and even though i’m in the window seat i could get out pretty easily without disturbing my neighbour. i kept sliding down the bed at first, until i found the leg-rest plus the controls that could accommodate my height. there was even a button for “lumbar refresh” which will massage your lower back. the pillow was bigger, the blanket was of sleeping bag material, and you’re given slippers and a cardigan. meals come at times as you please, and appetizers are served separate from the main course, which comes before dessert.
in the end i watched 3 movies – Did You Hear About the Morgans, Two Weeks Notice, and The Prestige. slept in the pockets in between. surprisingly i didn’t sleep a lot, and i couldn’t really sleep in chair’s bed mode. i mostly fell asleep while in the relax mode, which was somewhere in-between bed and upright.
i slept more during the 2nd leg. they switched the entertainment to the June catalog so i was planning to watch A Beautiful Mind and Invictus, but couldn’t finish even the first one. the check-in lady at the airport was nice to put me on the middle aisle seat for the 2nd leg as i requested, and the bonus was there was nobody in the middle. she look slightly confused why i would switch a front window seat to a back aisle, but i always preferred middle aisle because i could get out anytime, and there is an alternative exit for the only person in the middle. luckily i still felt comfortable in the seat having switched back to economy, less the pillow that feels pretty small now…