Arrived in one piece
January 9th, 2007 by Erik Benerdal
So I got back here yesterday morning, and by morning I mean 9am Singaporean time.. or 2am my time.
I had approximately 1 hour between the flights to and from Kuala lumpur, but of course the flight from sweden had to be late for approximately 1 hour due to some technical problem. So besides the joy of having to fly with a maybe-broken plane, I had to spend the last hour of the flight counting minutes and plan out just how I would make the next flight.
Luckily, Malaysian airlines planned ahead and right inside the terminal there was this guy gathering up all of us who had to connect to singapore. We then quickly rushed to the correct gate, through the security check and into the plane.
But I was still concerned. I knew I had made the flight, by running. But my luggage can’t run, can it? I couldn’t see my luggage making it, unless this flight would wait for it. It turns out it did get delayed for about 20 minutes, which made me feel a bit better.
But yeah. Once I arrived in Singapore it was clear that the luggage didn’t make it. I found some comfort though that this applied to everyone else who flew from sweden, so I wasn’t in it alone. In the end I only had to wait for another 40-ish minutes for my bag.
The rest of the day was super weird. My brain was running on fumes. I felt awake, but I just couldn’t.. do anything. Forming coherent thoughts was a chore. I took a nap later in the day, got up again at around 7pm and didn’t sleep again until midnight.
I woke up 8 this morning, feeling pretty good. Good sign. Currently it’s about noon and the jet lag is catching up with me. Thankfully Cedric knows understands this (probably more than I do) and I’m not really expected to perform to my fullest today.
Once I’m not as tired, I’ll post some pictures from my holiday.