I flew from Hong Kong to London last Thursday with Oasis. The flight was very pleasant indeed. We left Hong Kong’s wonderful airport, with free wifi throughout, around 1am, and landed early in London about 6:30am. The flight was about 13 hours, so you get a chance to sleep while arriving early in the morning. It’s pretty painless.
The airline itself was very impressive for a budget carrier. The flight cost £105. They served a light evening meal before turning off the cabin lights and a light breakfast shortly before we arrived in London. I hadn’t expected any food at all. Additional refreshments were available, and seemed reasonably priced. A can of beer was £2, most snacks were £1.
Overall, I was impressed, I’d definitely fly with Oasis again. Now they also fly to Vancouver from Hong Kong.
YouTube is an amazing source of entertainment. I’m just loving it. The internet here in Hong Kong is actually fast enough that you don’t have to wait for the video to load, and it’s uncensored, which is a breath of fresh air!
Goodbye Thailand, hello freedom of speech. Now to watch that controversial video of the King again…
I’ve found a social bookmarking system I like, it’s called Scuttle. I’ve installed my very own copy here so my bookmarks will be online. Wonderful!
I went water shopping this morning. It’s 4 or 5 flights of stairs to the ground, so we drew straws as to who would make the trip. I got to the supermarket and began comparing the $9 bottles of water with the $5 bottles (Hong Kong dollars that is, otherwise that’s just crazy expensive!).
To my delight, the $9 bottle said “Product of Scotland”. So in preparation for going home I bought two six-packs of 2L bottles for the great value price of only $66. A little taste of home in preparation for my return on Friday!
I’m about to jump in the shower for the last time in Bangkok (at least for the foreseeable future) and then it’s off to the airport to begin my long journey home. It’s Monday morning here in Bangkok, I’ll get home on Friday night. Adios Bangkok, it’s been … an adventure!
While cruising Dave Jones’s blog (he’s a Fedora kernel dude) I happened upon Rockbox, an alternative firmware for a whole bunch of digital audio players (iPods and the like). Check out the Rockbox Screenshot on Wikipedia, it looks awesome. I’ll install it when I get home in a little over 10 days.
Finally my iPod will work as I want it to. It’ll play anything you dump onto it, it’ll play formats other than just MP4, I can install my own themes and do all sorts of other cool stuff. Best of all, it’s GPL code, yay for freedom!
I saw Ocean’s Thirteen this evening. If I had to summarise the film in one word it would be “predictable”. I don’t want to say it wasn’t a good movie, because I enjoyed it, but it was nothing compared to the first two. There was nothing unexpected about the whole film. The idea is great, the gig is funny, there are some good parts, but overall, it was just predictable.
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