I am home! And it was quite an eventful journey!
First, the flight from Chicago to Hong Kong was delayed for 2 hours because the Captain did not receive any instructions to take off from the Control Tower. And then we were told that they had to add more fuel into the plane because there was a typhoon in Hong Kong, and when we arrive, we might not be able to land immediately (we might have to circle around until it was our turn to land).
And when we finally landed in Hong Kong, we were told that the connecting flight to Singapore (at 8pm) was delayed to 7am the next morning. We were offered a place to spend the night, and some of us were taken to hotel in Hong Kong. I did not take up the offer because I did not quite like the idea of clearing immigration twice (the queue was very long and we have an early flight the next morning) in 6 hours. Anyway, I later found out that there were 21 passengers but only 9 hotel rooms, and the shuttle driver had to drive the remaining passengers around to look for a hotel, and some of them only got to a hotel at 3am!
The 7am flight from Hong Kong to Singapore went on smoothly, but not before the United officers were bombarded with a lot of questions and complaints from grumpy passengers. Many passengers were requesting for an upgrade, some were inquiring about their missed flight as a result of the delayed Hong Kong-Singapore flight (me included), and many were just being themselves — passengers.
Upon arrival in Singapore, I went straight to the Check in/Transfer counter and requested to be put on the next available flight back to Kuala Lumpur, which was easy because I later learned that the flight wasn’t even half full.
Anyway, I arrived in KLIA 3 days ago, after 38 hours on 4 flights in 3 countries.
It felt GREAT to be able to walk past the immigration counter without being harrassed and asked 1,001 questions that revolved around “Why Malaysia?”
Ahh.. Home sweet home 
P/S: Though I’m home, I’m still not done with my journey to the United States and Canada (I think I have at least 3 more posts to go).
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Happy you are home! Get some rest, enjoy being with your family and all that good stuff
Where is the heroic welcoming ceremony for you? =p
Girls care for their skin pretty much, are the weather conditions in US the same / similar to the conditions in Malaysia for the past 10 weeks? If not have you taken any steps to protect your skin?
Take care and selamat kembali ke Malaysia! =)
WELCOME HOME!!!
welcome home, pelf
I hope that your time in America was all that you wanted it to be. I’m sure in many ways it was different from what you expected.
welcome home! so proud of you!
Well sounds like you had a nightmare of a trip, but it was worth it in the end as you got home. right?
Hi Pelf…Glad that u’re home..missing u so much…when are u coming back to terengganu.?
Welcome home. I hope you enjoyed the USA - it seems like you did.
Welcome home Pelf… :-)
Nice to see you back blogging. Good that you are back home. It is always a good feeling to get back home when one has been away for long and modern air travel usually delays the fun of getting home fast.
aawwww…..anyway, u’re home now in ONE piece n that’s all that matters. and in time for merdeka day too!
welcome back to sunny side msia =)
Welcome home….
Still waiting for the three more American related posts Pelf
YAY~! Pelf is back~! Hoot - hoot~! Welcome home…makan lah nasi lemak…
awwww…so sweet
haven’t seen your sis for a while.
it’s always nice to be home!
Sounds like you had a fun and rather eventful trip. I bet you are glad to be home though. I know when I travel it is always nice to go to sleep in your own bed.
heya~! welcome back.
Wow, that sounds like quite a trip (literally and figuratively). Hope you enjoyed your stay in the U.S. and Canada.
Anyway, why not Malaysia
(this visit courtesy of Remarkablogger)
Malaysians tend to get a lot of weird looks wherever we go eh
Welcome back