Orlando Official Day 1

Woke up rather early i think... is Sunday meaning i will be quite free to explore on my own... first thought that came to me was to get change and look around and see if i can get to a church somewhere. im sure God will something in store for me. ya..im always quite sure God will look after me when im overseas... :) got changed. rather casually and went out. look around at the lobby and i saw there's a church having their service there.. oh.. yes, mayb i can attend, i said to myself. went to take a look at their stuff in case it is a cult..haha... hmm.. not bad. at least the books they sell there are authors i know...ok.. after looking at their service time, i reckon i could grab my breakfast before coming down again... well, i can explore further after i finished the svc i thought. so, ya..back to my hotel room...

ordered my room svc... [in case u thought why i ordered room svc instead of eating out, well, it will be charged to the card u see... not that i cant claimed, but cos i didnt change a lot of USD..so is wiser..haha]


my breakfast or lunch? couldnt remember. think is the only food i taken when i was there. i only remember to take it after finishing one piece of it. nice...






photos of the various parts of my hotel room...

my king size bed! all by myself! i tried to roll around but got tired after awhile..haha.. i still prefer sleeping one side of it.


the dressing area...


the most spacious bathroom i ever had... regardless is hotel or my own house...


the welcome titbit basket from my beloved company...


a look outside from the window...

note: u can see the photos better by double clicking them.

anyway, i went for the service... i think i was a little late. they were around the end of their worship already. they were rather charismatic and free flow i think... worship leader sang spontaneously... 2 or 3 adults went on stage and jump up and down... well, the worship leader was singing something on jump into the river of God.. so i guess thats it... they were doing that prophetically i guessed. then the pastor came on the pulpit and preached something on being a "river walker" as like Peter who got out of the boat and walked on water. "Get out of the boat", "Be courageous"... it did speak something to me... :) not a bad svc i thought.

after the svc, i went to take a walk round the mall thats attached to the hotel. a very very big mall. after walking for abt 2h, i realised i have only finished 2 wings of the mall! it still has another 2 wings!! and that 2h was that i only stroll around, i did not even walk into the shops! well, i thought the mall will be enough for me to explore since it is so BIG. i went back to my hotel room... rather tired after walking around for 2h...

i think i went to the gym after that... and work out on the treadmill.. cldnt remember much after that... think nothing special happened then.. haha...

tomorrow will be my 1st day at work in the headquarter... looking forward to wats in store for me and visit the "original" office of my work place :)

Trip to Orlando

Singapore - Japan - Minneapolis - Orlando

[this entry will be one without photos as i did not take any that day... busy transiting and travelling... might be boring with all the details.. but who cares, this is for me! haha]

slept at 2am that day. have to wake up at 4.30am to go to the airport. my flight was 7am. was staying overnite at nathanael's home that day cos is nearer to the airport. is wiser that i go from there since cell group is till 11plus... than to having go all the way back to my dear old Jurong where birds dun lay eggs... haha... and Ezel offered to drive me to the airport too as she will staying overnite at nat's hse too...so why not??

anyway, i was really daring to plan to check-in only 1h before the flight... cos usually have to be at least 1.5h and nat was saying that going to the States need at least 2h cos of all the safety check and procedures... well, but i have to say i started to panic when i thought i really might be too late to check in only 1h before that :P

i woke Ezel up at around 4plus, 5am... and she said i should hv woke her earlier cos she still has to bathe and all... well, since we only slept like 2am, i reali would feel quite embarassed to wake her at such unearthly hour...

anyway, we reached at 6am at changi airport... to tell u the truth, i was reali praying all the way, hoping 1h is reali not too late... anyhow, i was the last to check in, the person said that the counter was closing about 5 min time, so im reali "lucky"..haha... and i even had time to have a quick breakfast with Ezel. she said she's going back to brag to nat that we only check-in 1h before and even have time to have breakfast..haha...well, she prayed for me before we departed. i was reali touched at her gesture and service. a true friend indeed. :)

tis was my 1st time travelling alone... and travelling to a country thats so far away... to the States... i was anxious, tired and excited all at the same time... i din really sleep from Singapore to Japan... suppose to transit there before taking another flight to Minneapolis to transit to a domestic flight... i was watching movies i think... i cld not reali remember wat i watched... i was a little restless...

all was well for the transition...till i reached Minneapolis... it was 2am (Singapore time) at that time. my flight was 8pm (US time). meaning i still have 6h to kill... and i was beginning to feel drowsy. thoughts of going to explore Minneapolis came, but when the thought of having to go through all the security checks again and also having to lug around a super heavy bag stopped me. i decided to stay in the airport... i smsed Vanessa who will arrange all the details while i will be at Orlando that i have reached Minneapolis safely. she asked me to go and ask the counter if it was possible for me to change my flight to an earlier one... to my dismay, that 8pm flight was the only flight to Orlando that day... sighz.. she informed me that since i will only reach Orlando at 10pm, no one will be there to receive me as it was too late. i was asked take a cab from the airport to the hotel. i agreed.

after walking around with my heavy bag and unable to walk around anymore, i sat down at a bench. after lunch it was only like 3 or 4pm... arrghh! a state of misery came over me. sleepiness and drowsiness grabbed me. but i could not sleep. how can i? there wasnt any place i can sleep in.. i was alone... how? i thought to myself. in the end, i decide to succumb to the Zzz... monster. i fell asleep at one of the couch in the waiting area, not forgetting to set alarm for myself in case i overslept and missed my flight.

at 5.30pm, my alarm rang. i was so irritated. i was in the state of drowsiness... dragging myself to the toilet to wash my face... argghh... i walked around again before settling down to have dinner. afterwards, i checked-in for my domestic flight. and there's no need to guess, the moment i sat in my seat to Orlando, i slept all the way through! i have no awareness of anything around me at all...

reached Orlando finally. woohoo~~! around 10plus i think... went to take a cab to the hotel. it was an hour's journey to the hotel i remebered. checked-in. the ppl at the concierge was friendly. they helped me with my luggage together with the hamper given by my company. was a snack basket with various titbits inside. thats nice of them i thought. haha. that short nap in the flight freshened me up a lot. i wasnt irritable or very tired then. when i got to my room, i was rather pleased. quite a big room with a king size bed. not bad sia.. haha... is like my own home. i settled down. took a bath and went to bed. will post up the photos of my room for the next entry. hohoho!...

it was a looonnngg day for me... but i was glad i reached my destination!

recounting the trips taken so far

this year...

yep. this year i had travelled to a few countries. more than i have taken so far in a single year... have been wanting to blog about my trips but didnt want to do it due to busyness and also i thought not really suitable for my current blog, hence i decide to open another blog, just dedicated for my travels... i will be starting with my trip to US last year...hohoho... quite long hor... since now is already oct liao... another year is coming soon.. anyway, as promised in my first entry, this blog will contain more pictures than words... and is supposed to be more "easy reading".

ok.. recounting my trips in chronological order...

1. Orlando, Florida, USA (Nov 2007)
2. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Batam, Indonesia ( Feb 2008)
3. Kyoto, Osaka, Kawaguchiko, Tokyo, Japan ( March 2008)
3. Cochin, Kerala, India (April 2008)
4. Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India (Jun/July 2008)
5. Bangalore, India ( Sep 2008)
there is supposed to be a trip to Bangalore... but due to some unforeseen circumstances, it was cancelled last min... few hours we flew! ha...

anyway, yesterday i went to Johor Bahru, Malaysia with a few friends... i think i will skip this as going overseas bah...

yes, so i will try to blog each destination as soon as i can... :)

reason for this blog

this blog is specially dedicated to the more "external" part of my life... haha... realised i have been travelling quite a lot this year and believed there will be more to come... so, i decided to start this blog that devotes to my travelling, hence i call it my "travelogue"... a physical travelling on the earth... haha... while the other blog of mine dedicates to the "inner" and "deeper" side of me... with not much photos and illustration but only words, words, words, WORDS!, i have decided to make this one a more "superficial" one peppered with lots of photos... and few words... err... mayb a lot of words too... i duno... haha... anyway... this i think will start with my latest trip to India..again! and then mayb will go back and tok about my other trips this year... and hopefully i will remember! :)