travel log

8th June 2004

1100 HRS (Central Time; GMT -0600) - Taxi Scheduled to arrive, but hasn't

1105 - Call to American Taxi

1110 - Taxi arrives

1115 - Departure from Naperville, IL

1200 - Reached Midway Airport, Cicero, IL (travel Time 45 mins; fee US$42; driver was Russian, kinda thought he was but was later confirmed when he asked 'Kash or Kredit Kard?')

1210 - Check in at Southwest Airlines, Flight 339

1215 - Security Check (I forgot we were Muslims and obviously, looked like one)

1230 - Lunch in Lounge area

1330 - Boarded plane

1415 - Take Off from Midway Airport, IL (20 minutes later than scheduled)

1715 HRS (Eastern Time; GMT -0500) - Touch Down at MacArthur Airport, Long Island, NY (travel time 2 approximately 2 hours)

1735 - Baggage Claim

1745 - Rendezvous with sedan

1750 - Departure from Long Island, NY

1905 - Arrived at uncle's place in Woodhaven, Queens, NY (travel time 1 hr 15 mins; fee US$140; driver was Arab, exchanged a kind assalamualaikum from him with walaikumassalam)

2000 - Dinner

2100 - Took a short walk in Queens, NY

9th June 2004

0030 - Went to sleep

1030 - Woke up

1120 - Breakfast (1st cup of coffee)

1200 - Another round of going around in Queens, NY

1400 - Start watching 'Cheaper by the Dozen' with cousins at their place.

1500 - Lunch

1820 - Dinner

1900 - Departure from Woodhaven, Queens, NY

1925 - Reached JFK International Terminal 4 (travel time 25 mins; uncle drove)

1945 - Check in at Singapore Airlines Flight SQ25

1950 - Baggages checked

2050 - Security Check (surprised its not as stringent as compared to earlier flight)

2125 - Boarded plane at Gate A2

2215 - Take off from JFK Int., NY (45 mins later than scheduled)

2235 - Movie marathon starts
50 First Dates (2nd Coffee)
Starsky and Hutch
Dirty Dancing Havana Nights
Girl Next Door (Elisha Cuthbert is just H-O-T)(3rd Coffee)

10th June 2004

1055 HRS Frankfurt Time (GMT +0100) - Touch down at Frankfurt International, Germany (travel time 6 hrs and 40 mins)

1225 - Re-board plane from Gate B45

1315 - Take off from Frankfurt Int., Germany

1345 - Movie marathon resumes
Torque (too unrealistic)
Along Came Polly (4th Coffee)
Swimfan (and Shiri Appleby still remains my favourite actress)
Football Days (Spanish)
Swimming Pool (French/English) (didnt expect so much nudity in a flight movie)
Goodbye, Lenin! (German) (5th Coffee) (Excellent, just excellent. Stregthens my love for European films)

11th June 2004

0610 HRS Singapore Time (GMT +0800) - Touch down at Changi International Airport, Singapore (travel time approximately 11 hrs)

0630 - Baggage Claim

0700 - Departure from Changi Int. Airport

0725 - Reached Tulip Gardens, Singapore (travel time 25 mins)

0955 - Went to sleep for the first time in 35.5 hrs.

1955 - Woke up (after 10 hours)

2015 - Starts Blogging

2035 - Blog entry done