Looking back on 2007, it’s been an interesting year. New school, a few trips abroad as well as quite a bit of work. Thinking back, there are some things I’m not entirely satisfied with but they’re counterbalanced by some very cool events.
In January, I took a much needed vacation with a group of friends to the Canary Islands — as a sort of “let’s get the hell outta here for a week”-vacation. It was a rather interesting yet necessary experience (meaning I’ll probably never ever be returning to those islands). So after returning, school started. Haaga-Helia’s Computer Science Department was a step in the right direction in terms of what I wanted to study and maybe a better choice on the whole; the other being the Helsinki University’s Computer Science Department. And despite a few setbacks during the year (screwing up a few courses due to lack of motivation) it’s been a good experience.
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Published on December 3, 2007
in Journal.
Just hanging out in the Traveller’s Lounge at Hong Kong International Airport. Still four more hours until our flight leaves.
Our 2 week long trip to Singapore is coming to a close and the remaining 30 hours we’ll be in transit. We left Singapore’s Changi Airport at 18:30 local time and took a 3 hour flight with Cathay Pacific Airways to the new Hong Kong International Airport. We were looking forward to flying with Cathay since they’ve been rated along side Singapore Airlines as one of the best airlines in the world; unfortunately we weren’t that impressed. The aircraft was a B747, one of those bubble-backed big Boeings. The service was great but we were disappointed as apparently we were supposed to fly in a brand new Airbus A340.
Our Cathay Pacific B747 at the Singapore Airport
Up ’til now, the Finnair flight to Mumbai made the biggest impression on me. But unfortunately our connecting flight back to Helsinki from here in Hong Kong is on a
McDonnell Douglas MD-11; the oldest, most horrible aircraft in the Finnair fleet. So it’ll be over 10 hours of pure pain and suffering. I’m keeping my fingers crossed Finnair have swapped our plane for an Airbus.
But until then, we’ve got 9 hours left to kill here (from our original 12) at the Hong Kong Airport. We checked into a Traveller’s Lounge with Ville, paying a little under $50 (USD) for a 10 hour stay. The good thing is that there’s food and drink, and very comfortable sofas. We weren’t sure whether we wanted to go into town and have a look at Hong Kong, but since we got here at ten o’clock in the evening, we can’t be bothered.
I think I’ll put a movie on or something like that. This is Hong Kong, signing out.
