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I'm safe people, you don't have to worry! I'm in Melbourne and in ONE piece! XD

I haven't gotten on the internet till today, (wait, the first time I went on here was yesterday night. Hehe..) and I just got my mobile number. I was kind of busy with Ee Can and David, got briefed about how different the lifestyle and road signs are here (I'll most likely be driving, depends on all our schedules and if Uncle G and Ee Dol will send their other car over from Perth! =D) and I had body ache for the past few days, probably because of the long distance journey which I am not used to. That kind of explains why I'm a bit of out of touch with those of you who have been asking about me. =P

But now, I have my own number and you can contact me easily! It took us (Ee Can, David and I) quite some time to figure out which network we'll use as mobile services are killer expensive!

You know how Digi has a flat rate of 15 sen per minute to your FnF numbers? Or how Celcom has their 1+3 plan which enables you to call and text certain numbers for free but with a monthly charge? I don't really know about Maxis but anyway, some phone companies here in Australia charge approximately 30-40 cents per 30 seconds for calls, and that is excluding the connecting fee of 20 cents or more. That means they'll earn close to $1 from you just for a minute's call! It's crazy! Oh and text messages are also expensive! =S

After comparing plans, we think that Virgin prepaid has better deals and that they have a wider coverage. I was told to use Three but if I'm not mistaken, their "free" minutes are only 160 minutes whereas Virgin has about 2500 "free" minutes, Virgin to Virgin! =P

Anyway, some of you might be wondering how my flight was. It was alright, pretty smooth most of the time and of course, there were a few bumps during turbulence. The great thing was that I never felt uncomfortable or uneasy at all, I guess I'm a good flier! =D The journey was about 8 hours long and I brought some things to keep me occupied: a book of super hard Sudoku puzzles so I'll end up killing more time to solve one puzzle, my iPod nano and another book which is on unsolved crimes. There was another form of entertainment for me as the plane actually has personal screens for each seat (I did not know if there were any in Airasia X's planes until I got on board) but it costs RM30 or RM28 by credit card to use them. I only had RM30 with me so I could not try it out. =( I did not want to spend it on movies and games because I was saving them for food just in case I get hungry or thirsty.

I travelled the KL-Melbourne flight alone and I was a bit worried about who the person next to me would be. Could it be a mother with a noisy and puky baby? Or maybe a hyperactive kid who'll be so restless and climb up and down his seat and pull my hair or disturb me while I dozed off? Or an old man who will sleep throughout the flight, making me unable to get up from my seat for toilet visits or maybe he'll snore as loud as an elephant and drool on my shoulder?

Who's going to sit at seat 28J right next to me? The possibilities of weird characters sitting next to me are too great! Ok.. Maybe that's a bit too dramatic? (>.<)

But anyway, thankfully, it was a girl my age who is going to Monash University in Melbourne for her second year! Hallelujah, Hallelujah! XD We chatted for quite a bit and it turns out that she was very uncomfortable throughout the flight, so she snoozed for about 60% of the time. Her mom, who was sitting next to her, was a bit restless though. She told me that she could not sleep on plane rides but that's okay I suppose, once in a while we would talk about casual stuff and these conversations kept me quite occupied! I'm so glad that I had good company next to me! =)

There's more to add on but I'm kinda lazy to organize my thoughts right now as I can smell fried chicken cooking in the kitchen! Hungry...

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Labels: Craziness, It's My Life