Sunday, February 08, 2009
Time to go Seattle! Woke up at around 4am to get ready the last minute stuff left to prepare before going to the airport. 4.30am went to airport. Reached airport T3 at 5.30am. Flight was on United Airlines. It was awesome to be back again on the plane. Plus i was lucky enough to get a window seat. However, it was kinda boring to fly for the first 6 hours as the movies kinda suck. Watched some movie forgot the title about the first female quarterback for american football based on a true story. Listened to a hell lot of katy perry, akon, rihanna and loads others that kept repeating on the airplane radio coz they were the latest hits. Slept quite a bit...ok not really sleeping rather it was a fading in and out into consciousness kinda thing. Experienced quite a bit of turbulence too. Upon reaching Japan, my mother and i managed to see mount Fuji! Can u believe it that it is so tall that even people on an airplane high up in the air could see it?! It was an awesome sight. Plus we saw ice crystals forming on the airplane window as it was too cold. The japan sea was partially frozen with glaciers floating on the water surface. We got an aerial view of Narita and it was quite dilapitated. The development and infrastructure were similiar to a third world country as the land was mainly agricultural farms and wasteland. Very few vehicles mostly motorbikes. Houses with zinc roofs reflecting off the glare of the sun.
Narita airport was surprisingly quite developed considering the environment we were in. Japanese airstewardesses are one of the hottest babes on earth! Japanese salesgirls selling cosmetics too :D Checked out a couple of shops and japanese goods were really well packaged and attractive enough to appeal to many buyers. Products such as green tea kitkat and japanese sake were tasty. The air was chilly in Narita. About 8 degrees celsius.
Flight to Seattle was 8 hours long. This time is the last row of seats but it was good coz it meant i could incline the chair all the way back without even caring if there are ppl behind who would mind. Listened to the same latest hits for about 6 hours straight whilst reading the social psychology book priya lent to me on board the plane. The book is really intriguing and thought provoking. Dinner was japanese curry with japanese rice! Plus the green salad was hotel standard awesomeness. Breakfast was western sausages with omelette and hashbrown.
Finally at SeaTac airport! It was ok i guess...not as nice as Narita and Changi airports for that matter. The place looks very industrial like and the subway train underneath that connects the terminals is very old dating back till 1960s. Plus its transparent so i could see the condition of the tunnel which was horrible..looked like about to cave in. Met up with auntie poh eng and uncle richard. I could breathe out fumes without smoking a cigerette! No snow on the first day though coz it wasnt cold enough. It was only 4 degrees celsius then. Seattle looked kinda gloomy with the fog and the sun barely peeking out from the snow clouds.The pine trees were beautiful. Some were green and some were greyish. Traffic rules here and so much different compared to singapore plus the vehicles are all left hand drives. Mostly Toyota, Honda and Nissan cars here with a few Mercedes and Cheverolet. Long drive to our home. Home was awesome with a garage housing 2 cars. 2 stories house with loads of room upstairs and downstairs. A whole forest as a backyard and there is a frontyard even. A driveway to the garage is available too. Settled down and unpacked and we went to Redmond town centre to chow down on Claim Jumper! Awesome western restaurant with a bit pricey food but the american portion was huge! I ordered turkey and uncle richard gave me half his beef burger plus i had to eat quite a bit of auntie eng's calamari. Stuffed. Mom didnt eat much as usual. Redmond town centre had a lot of shops. Shops like zumiez and pacsun cater to the needs of teenagers.
We went to REI to look for some ski gear. There is a rockclimbing wall in the shop to test out rockclimbing gears such as boots and toggle ropes. Also went to a couple of other sportshops near Kirkland and Bellevue. We headed home.
InD!gO plunged into darkness 4:40 PM
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