May travel diary

Once again, I used the instaweather app to record the places I'd been to  .

Here's what went .

Because I flew with ANA , I caught the connecting flight in Narita Airport

The subject of tipping

The itinerary has been finalised ...air tickets too . Phew !

There's more planning involved but for now , I can say I've passed this 2nd major hurdle . There's more headache to come . No , I don't find planning ahead of a trip whoopeedoodahay fun in the least .

Now, as I'm looking through the schedule , there seems to be an awful lot of tipping involved and if you didn't know already , we Asians really hate tipping . 

However , as I discovered throughout the years , it does get things moving, opens doors and sometimes ups the service . 

When they least expect it and I get that 

" You are so kind ma'am " like they really mean it and the next day , that very same man is just eagerly waiting to assist you in any way that he possibly can , protect you like a bodyguard even , you tell me if that tip is worth it or not .

One visa less

Got my new 5 year passport done today. 

If you notice, the new one has a little gold chip in front, just under the word " Passport".

Old news actually , but this basically means.....

...I can now travel with one less visa headache.

Glad to be a Malaysian

:)

Ten airports before getting fixed

Don't usually wrap my bag but this time I did. Call it sixth sense or what may you but perhaps it would have been more damaged if I had not done that because it arrived minus 3 working legs when I landed on the 18th afternoon in Istanbul.

Took time out , filed a report at the airline office

and was advised to take it back to KL-Penang for repairs seeing how there simply wasn't enough time for it to be done in Turkey.

I could have taken it as a bad sign but nothing was going to get in the way of me enjoying Istanbul to the max. No.

So let's count how many airports it has been through....

KLIA 3 times

  

Penang - thrice

Flight must haves

The bane of flying for me is a bawling infant. 

Try flying long haul with one or worse three or four of them at once within piercing earshot and you'll know what I mean.

Four horrible flight experiences with them, grew into a lifetime aversion on sight once on board. To me, they're NOT adorable one bit until we land.

Meet my lifesaver. The thing that keeps me from going insane when their tear engine starts up. Got these from Qatar Airways. 

Hitting the transit lanes again

From what I gather, 

"Yalla, yalla, yalla, yalla" roughly  means

" Come on, hurry up "

 "lai, lai , kia , kia"  

" mari, mari, cepat, cepat" 

or something to that effect if  I'm not wrong. 

( Man , I've now progressed to guessing an Arabic

term and translating that into a dialect and 2 languages . Chronic )