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Sooo... I'm sitting in a Brunei airport at the mo, watching a south american telenovela (in Spanish with Malay subtitles) while HBO plays downstairs in English with Malay subtitles, drinking tea from a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (the last time I went to a branch of this, I could swear it was in LA) and trying to work out what in hell possessed me to get on 8 planes in 2 weeks... And this time yesterday, I was still in Sydney airport on the way back to Perth.
Plus, it's 30 degrees here with no AC (but a rather nice fan) and a tad muggy outside. Brunei seems a little confusing, from the fact that we were just watching Ovide Video (childhood saturday morning cartoon flashbacks!) in English with no subtitles... but then, everyone speaks perfect English here anyway, which is nice.
I take back everything I every bitched about having to fly Royal Brunei... man, they make BA look pretty bad. Big seats, VOD, gorgous, friendly, polite staff with beautiful uniforms, and cute little touches like cold towels on take off... Loving them. Of course. we have two more flights still to go today for them to screw up, but that's 4 out of 4 they've managed so far...
Well, hell, my poor battery is hovering slightly low now, and I have 3 different time zones to take into account - Perth, where my parents still are; Brunei is an hour behind; and home is 8 hours behind again... brain hurts! Plus, I only just took my watch off Sydney time, which is 2 hours ahead of Perth....
But basically our flight doesn't take off til 8pm-ish. And that's another... 3 hours? I think.
And I have one of those nice chesty coughs that makes everyone on the plane shuffle a little bit further away everytime I exhale... (but that beats the crippling sore throat I had for 4 days before that. Plus the fact that Aus is apparently one of those crystal meth places like the states where you can't buy decongestants or cold tablets without a long conversation with a nice pharmacist and them taking your driving licence number down...!)
Right, now i just have to shuffle to one of those tables nearer the plug, and try salvaging my battery at some point....