The year ahead

I'm back at last from my first around the world trip with my wonderful family. Yay! There's no place like home. However, I'm home one day late, due to our getting pushed onto the next flight back from Vancouver. Let me explain what happened. In Singapore, just before leaving, the check-in person said that our e-tickets had some problem, and said to go to the british airways counter at heathrow, so there we went, and the guy there said that he would issue us new tickets, so he did, but forgot to include the return flight on it, so as a result, our confirmed status got dropped. Knowing that cx889 is almost always overbooked at christmas since it comes from new york, we got pushed to the next flight. My dad tried to inquire, but by then it was too late, and that was how we found out. I feel like slapping that guy at heathrow for screwing up the bookings:( As a result, I couldn't make it back in time for mel's party and the bb sharing session on ns. I feel really terrible about missing both.
I saw the beginning of 2006 on the plane, and in a really unconventional way over the international date line on the way back from Vancouver. Imagine 2005 on one side of the line, and 2006 on the other, and the plane flies into the new year at 900km/h. How did the other passengers welcome back the new year? By sleeping! And it was daytime!
Ok, so we got put up in Hong Kong since there was no connecting flight to Singapore for CX838. That part was ok. Oh yes, the flight schedule showed that we would get an A340 back to Singapore, which I was looking forward to since it would be the first time for me. That is, until we got to the airport, and saw just another A330 sitting at the boarding gate. boo. Ok, I know I'm being fussy here, because normal people don't mind what plane they get as long as it takes them where they want to go, right? even if it means 2 engines over the pacific in the case of SIA. But well, I'm fussy. That's just me.
And I got to catch Love Actually on the way back to Singapore. Only after that did I really appreciate how censored the Singapore version in the cinemas really was. The foreign media is really much more liberal than i thought.
I hope to see you soon:)