31 Oct. 2006, 5.15 am,
Changi Airport, Singapore
After chillin’ at a friend’s place waiting for 4 am to arrive, it was actually funny how we found ourselves chasing after time to catch our 6 am flight to Cambodia. We arrived in Singapore hours before our check-in time and yet, there we were, unpredictably late. As we ran around the airport with zero hours of sleep from the previous night, it seemed like it was just the adrenaline rush we needed to jumpstart our journey.
Admittedly, we left our friend’s place a wee bit later than originally planned, but getting lost in Changi’s web of terminals wasn’t part of the plan either. We finally arrived at the right airport terminal at around 5.15 am, missing the check-in counter’s closing time only by a hairline.
The walk to the boarding gate was another matter. Did we mention that Changi Airport is a massive complex of terminals? To get to our gate we had to walk what seemed like miles and miles of walkalators; and halfway through to our designated gate the last call for our flight was already being made (yikes!), prompting us to make a silly dash for it. It was then 5.30 am.
We obviously made it there on time, in all our sleepless, unbathed, and rather famished glory:
The flight thankfully took off as scheduled, and we slept soundly throughout the one-and-a-half hour flight... well, at least Charlie did, even while the flight was experiencing turbulence. Unfortunately for Nins, she didn’t get much rest during the trip.
Boohoo.
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