Miscellaneous Musings

It is deja vu - a stretch maybe but the scene repeats itself. I have a couple of hours to kill so here I am in the first class SIA lounge in my hometown blogging like I did just hours earlier in my namesake city, Hong Kong. I just had some awful cold chicken rice. I saw chicken rice when I went in search of nourishment after calling YY and GG (short for Gu Gu) and went a little beserk. So I scooped quite a few pieces of chicken on top of the rice and looked for ginger and chilli sauce. Alas, the serving lady said, no more. I thought, never mind, it is CHICKEN RICE what. Man, they tasted nothing like the chicken rice even in the humble neighbourhood hawker stall. SIA should be ashamed.

I looked in the Raffles Class lounge for my two colleagues but they don't seem to be there. And I wasn't looking all that hard :). Nice to have some time to myself because it can be tiresome having to talk all the time.

It is incredible when I think about it. That just two (maybe three - this timezone thing is hard on the brain) days ago, I was in downtown Houston at Benihana's having teppanyaki dinner with some colleagues after a hard day's work participating in a company IT conference. Here I am, halfway round the world, trying hard to get the cold chicken taste out of my mouth. Amazing, modern transportation and modern technology. In my children's time, it will be even more incredible. And who knows, in my grandchildren's time, mass transference may actually come to pass and people will be teleported around the globe in mins not hours. That's probably a stretch but a computer with less power than a modern desktop used to occupy a building less than a generation ago.

Did I mentioned that at that self-same IT conference on Day 1 (which was Tuesday), I won a Polaroid 5 megapixel digital camera? Man, I am picking up prizes these days. If only it was the US$370 million mega millions draw just won by two lucky persons, one of whom has yet to show up to claim his/her share. Still better something than nothing. So Nic will get to use the new camera and Ryan inherits YY's Sony that she passed to Nic. The sweet boy was just delighted about it, both for her and for himself.

I had a bath at the lounge in Hong Kong. I am very tempted to take one here in Singapore. But two baths within the space of 6 hours seem a bit excessive. Just like the feeling of tiredness being washed away...