Monday, July 09, 2007

Back in da Singapura

Our journey back to Singapore was- surpisingly- more agreeable than the journey to Wellington, though we actually had to wait longer at Sydney airport (where we had to transit on both trips as there isn't a direct flight from Singapore to Wellington or vice versa) this time around. Watched Disney's "Meet the Robinsons" on the flight to Singapore, and I was pleasantly surprised by its quality. 2007's turning out to be a pretty good year for animation, what with this, Surf's Up (a surprisingly great animated film from Sony Imageworks) and of course Pixar's Ratatouille- which was recently released in the USA to near-universal praise but is sadly only coming out in Singapore on the 30th of August (movie distributors of Singapore, why do you torture us so?). Anyway, its back to work for me tomorrow (or rather today!) and I'm still a bit jet-lagged, so I'll have to skip my explanation of why our journey back here was better than the journey to Wellington, and why I generally despise air travel in general, and save it for another post.

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Short Update from NZ

Flying back to Singapore in just a couple of hours. The past two weeks have been amazingly fun- couldn't have asked for a better first vacation, really. We've been staying in Wellington with a few close family friends who are such great company that it would've been fun hanging out with them anywhere. Hanging out with them here in New Zealand, which is basically every bit as beautiful as what you've seen in the Lord of the Rings movies, has been fantastic, to say the least. We've taken tons and tons of photos and I'll post the best of them here once I've had some time to sort through them back in Singapore. I have to say- 2 weeks isn't nearly long enough to see this country (though to be fair, the same can be said of any country). Heck, we haven't even visited Auckland, or South Island (the colder, more mountainous part of NZ)! I'll definitely have to come back here sometime in the future.

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