{"id":220,"date":"2008-03-19T11:19:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T16:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenny-chan.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2011-01-29T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T16:21:38","slug":"on-the-flight-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenny-chan.com\/blog\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"On the Flight to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So seeing as I don&#8217;t have my laptop on me, I don&#8217;t really have appropriate means to type out all my thoughts at the time they were occurring. BUT, based on the few little notes I&#8217;ve managed to scribble here and there, I&#8217;m going to attempt at summarizing some of these thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>To begin, I guess I&#8217;ll have to start with the flight on board AC 001. I left home quite early in the afternoon and headed to Pearson. I checked in already at home, so I was surprised that I was able to bypass the little line that was there and made my way straight to the front. Hehehe&#8230;suckers! (Although it really meant that I now have even <strong><em>more<\/em><\/strong> time to sit in the waiting area and do absolutely <strong>nothing<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Meal onboard 5:30pm T.O time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was actually surprised. The chicken tasted almost exactly that what you&#8217;d expect freshly cooked chicken to taste like. And it was covered in a nice tomato so-su. The rice on the other hand was a bit questionable&#8230;it was in a cream sauce which made it disgustingly yellow in colour. The salad consisted of carrots, which I guess was prepared in Japanese style and there was a nice blueberry cake to finish it off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Halfway through the flight 10:00pm T.O time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;slept for two hours, but there&#8217;s still a long way to go. I&#8217;m feeling alright for the most part, but it&#8217;s hard to say if I&#8217;ll be fine throughout the entire flight. Luckily there&#8217;s not very many people on this flight, so I actually have the entire row to myself to stretch my body across the seats! Sweet!<\/p>\n<p>Oddly now, they&#8217;ve decided to serve a round of cup noodles <strong>AND<\/strong> sandwiches. I guess seeing how hungry passengers were from previous flights (ahem, Hong Kong), they decided to overcompensate and feed us to death. I think this meal only counts as a brunch, which means that there&#8217;ll be another meal shortly before we land. Only six more hours to go!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Almost there! 3:00am T.O time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The last round of drinks and the last meal onboard. I don&#8217;t know if the food has gotten better, or if I&#8217;ve just gotten groggier that I&#8217;m not really paying attention to what I&#8217;m eating anymore. But somehow this terriyaki noodle seems quite yummy. One more hour to go!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jenny-chan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/departure01.jpg\" title=\"Onboard the flight\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jenny-chan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/departure01.jpg\" alt=\"Onboard the flight\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>By the time I got through immigration, it was already getting late. I got my luggage and cell phone sorted, then I bought my ticket for N&#8217;Ex, which would arrive in Shinjuku at 8:40pm. Donna met up with me on the platform, which was a bonus, because I would have gotten helplessly lost on my own. After drowning down a genki drink, we met her friends for dinner at a Taiwanese restaurant in the area. Since I was already exhausted from the flight, my mind was totally not functioning properly when I stepped into the restaurant. First of all, I had to ring this gong three times before this head popped out from behind the door and opened to let us in. Once inside, the entire restaurant was shaped like a birdcage. There was lightning and thunder and apparently the floors also shook. I totally thought I was dreaming by this point, but it was absolutely hilarious thinking back, especially at the toilets inside the washrooms!<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, it was late by the time we got to Donna&#8217;s house. After a quick shower, I rolled out my sleeping bag and called it a night. Until tomorrow!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So seeing as I don&#8217;t have my laptop on me, I don&#8217;t really have appropriate means to type out all my thoughts at the time they were occurring. BUT, based on the few little notes I&#8217;ve managed to scribble here and there, I&#8217;m going to attempt at summarizing some of these thoughts. To begin, I guess I&#8217;ll have to start with the flight on board AC 001. I left home quite early in the afternoon and headed to Pearson. 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