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North America » United States » California » Milpitas April 22nd 2013

This is it! For the past week John and I have been packing and repacking to make sure we can keep our bags under the max weight that Air Asia allows for a carry on. We're only taking one carry on bag each and one personal bag to facilitate mobility. This would be our 3rd international trip where we've been trying to do this so I think we've gotten it down to the bare minimum. Bags are approx 14lbs (Air Asia allows 7kg a bag). Thanh Clothes Red tunic blue airy dress three cargo pants three quick dri shirts 6 pairs of underwear 1 pair of blue shorts long sleeve green dri- fit neck pillow 5 pairs of socks sneakers flip flops one weekender top two thin layer tanks sarong John Clothes Underwear x 5 Socks ... read more

North America » United States » California » Milpitas March 28th 2013

It's done! I finally booked the remaining flights I needed for this trip. It feels good when you complete something and now can move on to the next steps. So I decided that for our leg in Penang, we will be busing there from Lumut (3hrs) and when we arrive, we will wing it and figure out our lodging when we get there. Then after our 1.5 days and 2 nights there (I'm a little concerned that we may not have enough time in Penang though), we will check out and fly to Singapore by noonish. Then in Singapore, we'll hopefully will be crashing at Wendy's parent's house. I decided to ax the night sleeper train back to KL and just fly back (1 hr vs 9hr ride) so we will be able to stay another ... read more

North America » United States » California » Milpitas June 20th 2012

Arrived in SFO at 9.30. Chithra came to pick us up. Reached home by 11. After good home made lunch took a nap. Evening took Nilan to a park near the house. Sandra came from her office nearby and picked us up at 5.00. It was a long scenic drive to her house at San Ramone and we talked about many things. Reached her house at 6.30. Had hot potato bondas and upma with yummy chutneys and filter coffee. Enjoyed talking about our childhood days. At 8.00 Sandra took us to Shanthi Samuel's place closeby. Sandra discovered that she knew many people whom Shanthi and her daughter Prarthana knew. Vittal came to pick us up at 9.20. Sandra had common contacts with Vittal too. Talked with Vittal on our long drive back home and continued our ... read more
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North America » United States » California » Milpitas June 3rd 2011

Geo: 37.4326, -121.898June 3rd was a very long day. We got up at 4:30am in Dublin, hopped the shuttle to the airport, and drank coffee while reading our books, waiting for our flight to board. Unfortunately, our flight got delayed. An "offending bag" somewhere in the airport grounded the flights, and kept us from taking off for another 40minute. It's okay, though. I just read my book. Plus, we had a four hour layover in London, so the delay killed time we would have just spent sitting at Heathrow anyway. By the time we grabbed lunch, we only had an hour and a half to wait before boarding the next plane. Unfortunately, that one got delayed as well. Another plane had mechanical problems, so some of the passengers from that flight were transferred to our plane. ... read more

North America » United States » California » Milpitas March 2nd 2011

Geo: 37.4326, -121.898I don't even know how I'm going to sleep tonight.. Gonna have to drug myself due to major excitement. lol. Chris and I have been gradually getting up earlier this week since we've both been on a night schedule from all the overnights I did. Today we got up at 8am! So odd... there is just a lot of damn sunlight during the day... who knew...Tomorrow we have to get up at 5:15am. We're gonna get some breakfast and coffee at good 'ol Noah's and Starbucks. Then it's off to my dad's house. At 6am we'll leave for SFO... navigate the morning traffic within an hour hopefully. Our flight leaves at 8:56am (our time). It's a 5.5 hour flight to New Jersey, where we'll have a 1.75 hour layover. Which isn't much of a ... read more
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