Throwback to Wednesday night:
I got to travel business class this time; my 1st ever business class travel. Truth be told, I was really looking forward, not to the trip but to simply fly business class and earn mileage. Woohoo!
The 1st thing that I did was to quickly take a picture and watsapp Daddy Lim to show him how much freaking leg space there is!
I had wanted so much to explore every button and compartment and take selfie of all poses but was afraid to look stupid. Lol. This was the only selfie that I took.
I think I was also the only Asian to be in the business class. So I tried to discreetly peeked at what others were doing and pretended that I am a season business class traveller. Haha.
I had wanted to watch the inflight entertainment but couldn't find the controller. For a moment, I was suspecting that it was touch screen and attempted to "touch screen" by pretending to stretch. Lol. I eventually found it tucked under one of the hand rest. Keep until so secretive, win already. The selection wasn't fantastic but was good enough to keep me entertain until dinner was served. I had to talk about the dinner. Atas ok.
Similar to economy, there was 2 mains to pick from. However, I get to choose starter too and I was served like I was in a restaurant. The food was served in china/ porcelain ware some more. This is the starter. I forgot to take picture of the main bcos I was too eager. Lol.
I am quite sure there are plenty of wine/ alcohol to choose but I don't enjoy alcohol. Daddy Lim would drool over the food and wine. I was actually very full from dinner but I just had to try business class dining lah. I couldn't force myself to take dessert though, way too full.
It was time to sleep after dinner. I know, perfect combination for growing fat, right? I had to sleep though or risked zombiefied the next day. I was tired too; it was 1am Singapore time. At 1 button, the chair stretches out to form a BED! I could almost lie down straight and was blissfully curled up most of the time. I slept fairly well, waking up a couple of times. The next moment, it was almost 9am; I slept for almost a good 8 hours! Woohoo! I usually managed 6 on previous Geneva trips.
I got to watch another movie while I enjoyed bfast, which was a selection of bread, fruits, yoghurt. I opted an addition portion of hot scrambled eggs as well. Yum.
After about 13 hrs, I touched down at Zurich airport. I think I still look quite alive. Hehe.
The transit to Geneva from Zurich went perfectly well. I had enough time to make up and changed into working clothes. It wasn't difficult to find my transiting gate. The domestic plane doesn't really have business class. I basically gets to sit in front and they made sure that there was an empty seat between the business class passengers.
I touched down safety in Geneva at about 9am local time. All ready to go!
I got a cab and headed to office for a full day meeting.
Strangely, with almost 8 hours of sleep, I was still exhausted. Lunch (very heavy lunch) and plenty of chocolates did perk me up. By 5pm, the meeting ended but my battery was also almost flat and there was a dinner with another team at the restaurant acrossed the road at 7.15pm. Can cry.
Luckily, my colleague was kind enough to suggest for me to go to the hotel, which is about 10 mins drive away, to rest. This is the view that greeted me on the way to the room. Lovely.
Of course I fell asleep. I am the almighty can-sleep-anytime-anywhere. I had a hard time waking up from the nap though and hit on the snooze button like 10x but made it to the dinner venue eventually. Uber is a big thing in Geneva and can easily cost less than half of what taxi would have cost.
The dinner ended at about 11pm and it was again a super heavy dinner. I think I can start practicing rolling home. Sleep was so easy. I didn't even wake up much like how I usually would for the 1st night at a new hotel.
This morning, I met my Singapore colleagues, who came earlier for another meeting, for bfast before heading to the office via uber. I was so excited over this automatic pancake machine. Hehe.
I had expected the meeting to be full day and had arranged for the latest possible flight only to have the meeting ended by 3pm. I wanted to cry.
I ended up taking Uber with a colleague to downtown, intending to shop. I wasn't very keen actually but was persuaded to go anyway. At downtown, he didn't find what he wanted and I was too lazy to walk and lug my luggage. We eventually parted ways. It was super easy to take the train from downtown to the airport. I had taken it with ah yee before. I had wanted to take the train but forgotten how to buy the tickets. I tried using the system to buy tickets but it was all in French. Zzzz. The way out? Take taxi lor. Hehe.
I reached the airport at 5pm and spent the last 3 hours waiting. My flight from Geneva to Zurich was at 8.50pm. I thought that I should explore the VIP lounge and was glad that I eventually did bcos I had wifi and I could charge my phone. So happy. After waiting like forever, I finally saw that the departure gate was shown on the screen and waited impatiently for boarding. I was so impatient to go home and so wanted to cry when they announced that the flight will be delayed until 9.40pm.
I was told that if I missed my connecting flight, it will have to be rebooked. The next freaking flight to Singapore is the next morning! I can feel tears in my eyes.
The flight to Zurich finally flew off and the air steward said that the connecting flight should wait for us but will update us when he had more information. I felt my heart dropped when it was posted on the screen that the flight to Singapore had been rebooked. However, it was subsequently informed that the flight would wait for us and asked us to hurry to the gate.... which is very, very far away.
When the door opened, I started running like no tomorrow with the other passengers with connecting flights. Two years back, I was doing likewise with Daddy Lim and the kids in Frankfurt. The connecting flight was like the other end of the airport and even had to take the sky train. I run until I almost suspect I will hyperventilate and was so happy to see the connecting flight waiting. I am so going home.
Finally on the plane, I was so much at ease knowing that I am really going home. This was a newer plane; got touch screen some more.
I am finally back. I can't help smiling when I touched down. Home just feel so good especially after the running ordeal.
Mummy Lim
