Cambridge @ Friday, Singapore @ Sunday

My last day in Cambridge, Massachusetts was on Friday, and the morning went almost slowly. All the bags had been packed the night before, so I took my time for breakfast, and pictures around the house and with Blue:

The cab fare from home to Boston’s Logan International Airport was more expensive at USD47 than what the trip planner had estimated though at USD39. Oh well.

I was going back the same way as I’d come in; three legs comprising Boston to Detroit (2 hours), Detroit to Tokyo (12.5 hours), Tokyo to Singapore (7.5 hours). The weather during the Boston to Detroit leg amazing for pictures, and I took a very large number of great pictures. Just two here, and the rest in the Flickr album:

Above: Flying over Broad Sound bay (I think)

Above: After reaching a safe attitude, the plane made a sharp left turn to head westwards towards Detroit.

A good segment of the flight was a little nerve-wrecking. The first two legs of the flight were very close: I’d have exactly 45 minutes to make the connecting flight in Detroit, and by the time the plane taxied properly into the gate, I had just 25 minutes! I was the first one out of the gate – I ran ahead of the gate attendant in fact and got yelled at to slow down so she could catch up and open the gate for me to run through haha.:)

The Detroit to Tokyo was mind numbingly long. I had the misfortune of sitting next to a naturalized Korean-American who couldn’t keep still. I think she had attention deficit disorder. She said she had just divorced, and was leaving the US for good and returning to Korea to begin anew; and throughout the flight, she fidgeted, was maddeningly restless, kept sighing, and broke in nervous giggles at even the smallest remarks. She downed four cups of coffee, then complained that she couldn’t sleep and kept changing sleeping positions. Gaaah. And there I was either trying to read (will blog separately about this great book I bought in Boston and finished on the plane), or get some sleep myself.

The returning plane taxied back in Changi at 12:50 AM, and by the time I reached back home at The Rivervale, it was 1:35 AM – about 28 hours after leaving Blue’s. As in the outbound trip to Boston, there was minimal waiting in-between flights.

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It’s past noon now and I think I squeezed in just 2 hours of sleep last night. Mega groggy. But it was great to see Hannah as perky as ever, and recognizing me still. She’s able to say “Daddy” on demand now – hooray! Went for brunch at Hougang Mall, with the E-PL1 in tow, taking a lot of pictures to makeup for the nearly 3.5 weeks in which I didn’t take any pictures of Hannah.

But first, I have to post up the below for Matt: it’s from a new Laksa (!!) stall at Hougang Mall that dishes up six different kinds of Laksa.:)

Hannah taking an interest in a wallet I picked up at the MIT Coop.

I got her a string of beads spelling her name too from the Museum of Science. She’s already chewing on them quick.:)

She was trying to help carry a pack of toilet paper at NTUC, and was fascinated by the whole experience.:)

OK; that’s it for me. Got to get some more sleep – not too much though as it’s back to work on Tuesday. Just a day for me to get readjusted to Singapore’s time zone.:)