5th July 2007

The morning of departure saw me rising at 9 am to finish packing. I gave away lots of stuff which I did not need, like tissue paper, squeeze bottles, survival blanket, engineering paper, graph paper, posters, biscuits, soup, etc to Eli and Meat who were the only 2 students remaining on my level.

Thanks to JieYing for giving me a ride around to settle stuff like checking in my lugguage at the airport, lunch, buying souvenirs and closing my bank account. Reaching the airport at 2.30pm for 2.35pm flight was a little worrying but at least I got a good workout running to the departure gate and clearing customs in 5 minutes, something I've never tried before.

Then it was a 2hr 45 min flight to Sydney where I was informed by my sis to buy krispy kreme donuts and darrell lea chocolates. Try as I might, I could not find the krispy kreme outlet and so I asked the salesgirl. She told me the outlet is outside the departure lounge which was confirmed by my sis when I got home.

Boarded the flight from Sydney to Singapore at about half past 5 Australian time. Met the 2nd irishman in 2 days. Prior to this trip, I had never encountered any irishmen. J had just finished his 3 month travel of australia and had to go back to ireland. He was quite sad that his travel visa was finished as he thoroughly enjoyed his time in australia. We were fortunate that there were only 2 of us because this meant that we had a middle seat empty which meant more space to put our stuff and move around. The flight proved to be a turbulent affair and I could not get much shut eye for the 7 hour flight.

Eventually we landed at Changi Airport at 11:40pm and I was glad to be home, after 4.5 months away in Christchurch New Zealand. Got home at about 12.30am and only went to bed at about 3am Singapore time as I checked my email, do the bedsheets, shower and read the Straits Times.