A never-ending road to freedom
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They call it PMS because "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken. And as I said before, I never repeat myself.
- Julian Lopez

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
25/8 9:57 PM

So sorry, everybody! I haven't posted for a very long time. I've been rather busy. And even now, I should be busy. I came back from India on Sunday. First we went to Bangalore and on 19/8, we flew to Trivandrum. We surprised everybody in Trivandrum. First, my paternal grandparents and next, my maternal grandparents. Everyone was like stunned. I got this aunt who lives in Singapore but is in India now. Her mother lives next door to my paternal grandparents place. Then, we were supposed to surprise them too but they saw us before that and were wondering whether we were really "us"! My aunt was debating with her mother that we were not "us" but her mother was convinced that we were really "us". Damn funny...

Then we went to lots of miscellaneous places like an accident site where a Toyota Altis was literally racing and crashed into a wall at about 140-160km/h, a dental clinic for my mum, shoe shops, etc. Trivandrum airport is like just a 5 min walk from my paternal grandparents place. We didn't need a car but we did use a car.

Let's talk about flights and airports. We didn't want to but we had to take a Tiger Airways flight from S'pore to B'lore. Tiger Airways is the worst airline in the world. Even a bus is better! So little space for your legs and their in-flight food was scam. $3 for water and $8 for nasi lemak. B'lore to Trivandrum via Chennai, we took Air India. Pretty average, I suppose... But the problem was at the airport. We checked-in at 5.30 while the flight was at 6. The security scanned and found a bottle of juice inside. We had to throw away. When security was finally over, it was 5.50. And on the aerobridge, got another security. They really open everyone's bags.

Then, last day... Trivandrum to Chennai via B'lore. It's pretty weird. Trivandrum to B'lore to Chennai to Trivandrum. Flight at 4.20, we reach at 2.30 when we only need to reach at 3.30. Landed in Chennai at 6.55. Next flight at 11. So fished lor! Camp in the airport for 3 hours? Flight to Singapore was Air India Express which was supposedly a budget airline. If Tiger Airways was a budget airline, AIE should be a normal full-cost airline. Tiger Airways charge you for food, water and got no entertainment. AIE got all! Only thing was that entertainment was a small tv on top for a few people.


That's all about India. Now, school... Yesterday, everything was okay, nothing interesting. Today, we had NAPFA retest. I got GOLD! OMG.... I'm being crazy. Then, Chem got experiment on acids. French, we got back paper. I got 88. Krystin got same as me. DAMN! What was even worse was that... Yinan got 92. WALAU eh! At first, my marks was written as 77 cos the teacher didn't count properly. Then, 87. After that, got some mistake in marking and I got 88.