Its thursday,4th of Nov, I am at Changi Airport at 11.40am.En-route to Bali,my transit will be a total of 5 hours. WTF will I do?
number one: buy a notebook and write random thoughts down.
* A bad holiday starts when you discover that you already went through your stack of reading material on the flight over, and you re only half way there!
* It gets worse when you try and use the ATM to withdraw money and find that your card does not work. You do not have a credit card for fear of losing control and running wild with it.
* The total amount of cash you have on you is 400 rm.for the whole trip.
This is what I wrote once I bought my notebook.
1. Will change 100rm into sing Ds.and convincing self that can beg, borrow and steal in Bali and that have no need to shop.
2. A bad day- my reading materials have run out before holiday has started. Must buy magazine...and charge it to company!
3. Changi is ultra convenient! have just found indoor, smoking bar. also free online hubs and local calls(handy if one has friends in the lion city)what more could one ask for?
4. Penang Food Oddysey does not have Char Koay Teow History( FYI- PFO is a book i spent 2 weeks tracking down in penang, checked online found out it was out of print and only 2 copies left in singapore.got someone from singapore to buy and fedex to penang, it arrived day before i left. and now when i finlly open it, while i am in singapore, i find it doesnt have the info that
i need!)
i need!)
5. Feeling of utter loss without laptop, actually had to buy a bloody notebook(paper).
6. Should take some pics at the STD. Charted Build. in Penang.
7. Am talking to self at bar-supposed to be on hols but work spread out over bar top-at least can smoke and there is alcohol present no?even if it is noon. People starting to think is crazy-animated convo with self.
8. Need to buy a rhyming dictionary.
9. AM really on a roll with this talking to self business, cant seem to stop.
10. LWS is setting in, in a bad way.(Laptop Withdrawal Syndrome) solution? Drink More!
11. I have something against writing on the flipside pages of my notebook(read:back) guess it works out if i flip notebook over in the end and start from the back?
12. Geez...how on earth will I write and not type my Bali piece while I am there?
13. How can I deny am alcoholic?its 1 pm.
14. Am really bored now. hand hurts from writing. flight in 3 hrs.
15. Have taught bartender to make Lychee MArtini to my specs.
16. Am now supervising drink making process. Mmmmm....delicious! am complete utter genius!
17. Have just been to toilet. Definately prefer squatting pans to seats, since i never let cheeks touch seat anyway.
18. Realised pee smelled funky, like asparagus and corned beef. Dehydration!
19. Already feeling buzzed?will i meet friends, family and clients in bali pissed out of my skull?...should i ?hee hee
20. Girl beside me(sporean) wearing wonderful chic flowery vintagey jacket. must make one out of my sari silk.
As you can see I was really bored. After that I staggered from the bar to Oasis, my favorite hangout in Changi, though its a long walk from the main part of Changi, the free massage chairs are almost always free, the place is deserted, there are big screen TVs, internet..etc. Lolled there til flight to Denpasar. I know the airport so well I can be Changi guide and spokesperson!
