I am blessed by God's amazing grace;

Monday, January 26, 2009

And I've FINALLY arrived in Melbourne.
First impression of Melbourne? It's so brown!

The trip was extremely extremely exhausting.
Pretty dramatic and the rest of it, just God's blessing.
Let's see, where should I begin?

Okay, from KK side, my luggage was overweight by 6kg.
For every excess kg, there's a charge of RM 73 per kg.
Which meant, mom had to pay about RM438? CRAZY O.O
So I called dad to come pick up the excess luggage but then,
the lady changed her mind and said she won't charge us!
(Truly God's grace)

Well, I had like 14kg worth of stuff on me, hand carried!
I was pretty worried they'd like stop me and weigh my stuff
cause the limit's actually 7kg. But wow, by God's grace again,
no one checked and they just let me passed by. Everyone was just
so nice and friendly! :)

Arrived in Singapore in Terminal 2 and killed time by going to
the airport's cinema, surfing the net, playing PS3 and xbox games,
did Chinese origami folding and key chain knotting, and ate!
Well, went to a bookstore and bought a few postcards to post to friends.
Was walking on the way to the post office when something prompted
me to look at my watch. O.O My heart almost fell to the ground.

5 minutes to 9. My flight was at 9. I had missed my flight.
The worst thing was that the next flight (which was my mom's flight
since my flight was over booked), was also fully fully overbooked by
like 20+ people pending to board that flight. And we were in the wrong
terminal! We frantically caught the sky train and inquired whether I
could get on the next flight. On the way, I prayed so hard that I could
get on the same flight as mom, without having to pay any fine or something.

Anyway, the airline staff said that she'd book me on the same flight as
mom's as well as the next morning's flight since the flights were really
fully booked. And she said that we had to pay S$150. So mom wanted
to pay by credit card, and the lady had to inquire whether she could pay
by credit card and somehow along the line, the person on the other line
said don't charge me though they usually would. (God's grace!)
Then I was asked to come back at 11pm to see if I could board with mom.

Waited for 2 hours, and during that period, wrote on and mailed my
post cards on this post office on wheels! Super cute red car which is a
post office. After 2 hours, went to the counter.

*um, excuse me. i want to..
the lady interrupts: You're Angela Lu waiting to see if you got the
11 50 flight right?
Me: Uh yeah :S
The lady: One person didn't turn up so you can board on the flight now.
Me: Thank you so much (THANK YOU GOD THANK YOU GOD!!)
(God's grace again)

Arrived in Melbourne and somehow my bolster and a box
was apparently left behind in Singapore. After mom filled the forms,
I was just staring at the LONG LONG queue. Already, we had to wait
for like 1/2 hour to see if our baggage was really not around and
then fill up the forms. Now there was the long queue which would
definitely take at least a 1/2 hour wait.

Then suddenly a man approached us to check out our immigration
cards. Mom has some dry stuff which meant she definitely had
to go through one of the check up gates but by God's grace,
the man asked mom what the dry stuff were, mom answered and
he was like (stamping a green stamp on our cards) "okay, just
walk straight out. You don't have to get a bag check up or wait"

Thank you God :)
Just ate lunch. Going out later!
This year's Chinese New Year is truly, different?
Made a new friend on board; Michelle from Vietnam.
Early morning on Chinese New Year, instead of being in Kudat,
I was in the air watching Max Payne and eating supper.
Spent the morning/noon in the airport.
Afternoon- cooking western food. LOL.
Later grocery shopping and dinner with mom's sister.
Hopefully there's Chinese Food!

Happy Chinese New Year peeps and God bless ;)
xoxo.