bali high ... E1 : and we are off!

have you been wondering why i haven't gotten down to this earlier? well i've really had no time to put thought to .. er .. keyboard coz since coming back, and having a plate of char kuey teow, i have had the MOTHER of all food poisoning episodes. today is day 4 and i still feel nauseous to the core. i took a preg test today just to be sure it's STILL the food poisoning. breathe people, it still is :P

but that wasn't what i wanted to blog about. so let's get to it.

caffeine induced spree ... like we need an excuse :)
dee and i met at the airport a good 3 hours before the flight purely by technicality and half-deadness. our flight was at 0855hrs but we read 0800hrs; yes, we both read it that way. we were really tired ok. but going early meant that we could sit at starbucks for brekkie and shop duty free. and i'll have you know that 3hrs lead time was not enough!

the seat nazi
we were one of the last 6 people on the plane. when we got to our seats (dee needed aisle and i don't care where i sit as long as it's on the left), we found el groucherina warming it up. dee approached her and told her the obvious. disgruntled, she said, "oh ... i thought the gate closed already. my seat is actually over there" *she does the draggy blink thing and adds* "FINE, i'll move in." dee points to me and the grouch then starts mumbling something under her breath like she's doing US a favour by moving back to HER seat. dee gave her 2 cents and we had our seats and settled in quickly.

this is why i LOVE this woman
dee landed on my left which meant there will be no conversation from me on the flight. (i like standing/ sitting on the left because i prefer to look right when i talk) but just then, dee says without eye contact too, "i'm not into conversations". perfect! and so we sat in comfortable silence till the airline food came.

i'm so easy to please
i lurrrvvveeeee airline food. esp when flying from changi. and when they go "beef or chicken", i find it so hard to choose. i managed to cajole dee to take the chicken and i decided *wink* on beef which came with a kit kat for dessert. brilliant!

it was more than a'ight! it was 100% molten hot lava dawg!
so the chick that sat on my right had the window seat and every time i made the slightest head move to look out the window, she needed to look out too. i had to see the view from my peripheral so that i didn't alarm her least she hogged the little peep hole. but then when the plane flew over mt bantur (i think) with a crater (what looked like) the size of sentosa. the chick couldn't help herself and started slapping my thigh to look out the window. she even shoved her head and body back into her seat so that i too could soak in the awe. and the pilot took the opp to do a sharp turn tilting the plane so that the window was right over the volcano. .... ok i would like to think it was his flying skill and lets not go there.

you call THAT entertainment
the other thing i like abt flying is that i get to watch a movie at the volume i like. Ip Man 2 was showing. i haven't caught it yet so i was happy :) then of course the movie had to be cut with just 20 mins to go coz of the landing. so much for that! found out later that DG has both DVDs and since i was ill and all, i pulled my manja card and she brought the discs over and now i am satisfied.

overall, the flight was good. i have to say, i had the last minute flying jitters. i went thru so many prayers on the plane, i almost said mass. we landed safe and was quickly whisked away to our resort. more abt that soon in episode 2 *yup .. that was the trailer*