The madness all started on Wednesday morning, when I had to wake up at 3.30am to catch my 6.25am flight. I slept a grand total of 1 hour (more like a nap la), so was really really tired and blur. Luckily, someone fetched me to the airport, if not I would have had to start earlier. Anyway, checked in smoothly (though the huge luggages were giving me a bit of a problem) and went for the security check. I was chosen randomly for the additional security check, where they blast air at you to check if you've explosives. By the time I was done, it was time for boarding. Sat and waited until the plane was about to take off, and then they said something was wrong with the plane, so they spent another 30min trying to fix the problem. In the end, they decided they would "de-plane" (that's the word they used haha) everyone and we all had to find another flight somehow cos they just basically cancelled the flight. I was getting slightly panicky cos I had never experienced a flight being cancelled before and I was worried I would miss the connecting flights (which are like only once a day) cos the line at the ticketing agent was just so long. Well, it turned out that I couldn't make the connecting flights, but fortunately, they managed to find flights back for me the next morning, but different route and different plane. And then they had to print the dates on the booking slip wrong also. Luckily I spotted the error; if not I wouldn't have been able to fly home the next day.
So basically I had to stay another night in Pittsburgh. My dorm was closed for winter break, but luckily there were friends over in Morewood (which is open for winter housing), so I stayed with them. After a nap, went to Waterfront in the afternoon/evening, and I actually enjoyed myself.
On hindsight, I guess it might have been better for me to stay back another day. I had quite a smooth trip back (with the exception of having to go through another random additional security check in Pittsburgh..seriously how random can they get??) , via Chicago and HK, and I was upgraded to business class! And the airport in HK is nicer than that in Tokyo. And my friend said that there was a snowstorm in Tokyo, so all flights were cancelled. Who knows I might have gotten stuck in Tokyo had I made Wednesday's flight.
Arrived in Singapore on Friday night. And the moment I got home, in typical CMU fashion, I straightaway went online haha. Forgot to connect to the Internet too..guess I'm just too used to the wireless huh. Went to check my grades and got what I expected. I guess I was a bit jet-lagged so couldn't sleep much anyway, even though it was already very late (or early in the morning).
And this morning, went back to Indo. After 3 days of flying, I'm really really tired, but perhaps not so jet-lagged anymore. Just glad to be back home, in this type of weather, and the food!!! But ugh..I must watch those pounds..
And yes, I really miss the 4 (sometimes 5) of you. I really miss those dinners we had, those lame and corny one-liners/passing comments/jokes/stories/Russel Peter's spoofs etc etc you all said haha, and also not forgetting the crazy mass MSN conversations. I just miss us hanging out together. It was already weird when it was down to the 3 of us..but oh well. Guess I'll really see you all next year! It's really strange huh..that when I'm back home, I miss all the people over there, and yet when I'm there, I get really homesick and miss everyone back home.
Anyway, just want to say Merry Christmas to everyone. Enjoy your holidays!