Arrival to Heathrow Airport, London

This second flight is quite good actually, as we were served red and white wine. Nice and tasty.
Just fitting for the beef meal I had. The lunch meal was actually quite heavy so I had to spare a few bits for the garbage bin. Nevertheless, wonderful.



Finally its the afternoon of 9/11 at about 2.30 pm (GMT 0 hours), we touch base at Heathrow Airport. Thinking of all the great things ahead, well not so good after all when we saw this crowd (picture below) at the immigration counters. Massive crowd, and we were no way near the officers. I think its because of 9/11. My advise is not to travel on 9/11.

Its was a horrible wait of 3 hours at the airport, upon reaching the counter we were told to go for medical check up and chest X-Ray, so another 1 hour wasted. After the check, we got back to the immigration counter for an official passport stamping. After that, head off to reclaim baggage, which has long left the conveyor, so we had to look for it from the airline office. So far, at this point we have spent about 24 hours travelling with lack of sleep and water.

Its was all rush and tiring. However, it was all worth the wait and hassle as we got through just fine in the end of it all.

So you think everything should be smooth sailing up to this point? You were wrong! We had to carry the luggage loads all the way from the airport to The Tube(LRT in msia). I am the only guy on this trip, so what do you expect of me? Hahaha....my arms went totally numb after all the load and offload to catch the Tube. It was all a mad rush, as it was the peak hour when we took the Tube, massive crowd leave us little and sometimes no space for the luggage. To make things worse, the tube line we were on was having severe delays due to signal failure.

Everyone was getting real tired and stressed. We had dinner then with my aunt at Leicester Square (Chinatown) before heading our own ways to Belsize (North London) and Brixton (South London). Our group split into 2 then as we have limited accommodation space to fit all 4 in any one location. Thats all the update I have for all of ya, my dear friends!!!

Till the next round....its cold here...and its time to head on to Nottingham. :-)

UK!!! Here I come!!!

Finally, here comes my departure to UK. My parents sent us off to catch the 6pm bus, so we did all the hugging and goodbye kisses before boarding the bus from Bercham. Great bus I would say as all our luggages fits perfectly into the double decker.

Reach airport around 9.45 pm feeling all drowsy. Our flight will depart at 2 am so there were plenty of time to burn. We had a light meal in McD, some did the last minute calling to friends and family members before embarking on this long journey into UK.

Finally around 1.00am we found ourselves boarding the flight to Dubai, 6 hours+, as expected, the seats were tight and not comfortable at all. Even a toilet seat feels better to sit on as i could stretch my legs forward with ample space. So we reach Dubai around 4.45am(GMT +4 hrs). Waited in the airport for 5 hours before boarding another 777-300ER jet to London Heathrow airport. We took the opportunity to freshen up and catch some sleep while roaming around the duty free area.

BBQ party with friends

I took sometime off to barbeque with friends before going for my UK trip..here are some pictures. It was all great. I did the satay sticks BBQ, so it was definitely delicious. There were so much fun and food. We ended up giving out foods to everyone towards the end of it.