Back home

[Dec 14th]I’m now sitting in Auckland airport getting quite bored with 5 hours to kill before boarding transfer flight to Perth. Internet is too much of a rip off so I’ll just get through it by doing random things such as blogging (and posting it when I have internet) and browsing at some books and magazines.

6 suns! (sunrise en route LA to Auckland)

I booked my flight such that I’d be sitting on the side by the sun. The sunrise was amazing - as always :) Check out the pic above with 6 suns (shadows casted into the cloud layers)! There was also a time when the sun cast 2 orange shadows, one on the clouds and another in the ocean. And since I’m flying from LA to Auckland ie from east to west while sun rises from the east - this effectively shortened the sunrise! I remember last time when I travelled with Emirates which flew around the other side of the globe across the Middle East, sunrise lasted much longer. As we approached Auckland, there was a lot of cloud cover so during decent we flew through them! The scenery with the rising sun, clouds, islands and the ocean was just awesome.

Islands off Auckland

I’m hungry now. The plane food sucks and the smell of them being heated up is just plain awful. Arghh I hate flying, the only good thing is the view (the side view from the small window) but that’s not enough to compensate for the crowdedness and more importantly the feeling of being out of control for over 12hours. I feel that I’m stuck on the plane without being able to do anything about it. It’s like something just picks you up and drags you to another place (like a puppet being controlled by the puppeteer). I’d be perfectly fine with flying if I was the pilot of course! I guess that’s why I like driving so much!

Okay my stomach is rumbling now. I wonder if they have traditional kiwi food? Shoot, what is traditional kiwi food?!!’

[Dec 16th] I’m now back in Perth. Got up at 5am this morning and went jogging! Of course the kids wanted to come although I’m pretty sure they regretted it half way through! Okay, gotta go to see my littlest brother at his Christmas school play :D