Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Latest Arrival

Call signs:
Eagle - Grandma
Command Centre - PL and PY in Singapore. Latitude: 1"22'0" N Longitude: 103" 48' 0" E
Phoenix - Me

Transmission:
"Phoenix to Command Centre.
The Eagle has landed.
I repeat, the Eagle has landed.
Command Centre do you copy?"

Grandma has safely landed last night at 23:35 hours.

We had a little trouble at immigration as Grandma forgot to bring along a printout of her return e-ticket. The NZ immigration officers of course assumed that every Asian without proof of a ticket flying out of NZ is bound to either 1. over stay, 2. be a refugee, 3. seek asylum. They threatened to not allow her into the country. Someone ought to educate these folks here about Singapore. Yes, we're in Asia but we have it pretty good as compared to most countries around the world. And I'll dare say we've definitely got it much better than in NZ. So all you NZ folks out there, take off your blinders, live a little, travel out of your country (Australia doesn't count) and see what the rest of the world has to offer.

4 comments:

nicole said...

tarts!!! so funny!!!!

Anonymous said...

Over over
...............

Is hard on you lor! haha

Cheers = thank you (my slang)

Enjoy lah

Luv
PL

DoopsieOopsie said...

I'll put up some photos of your beloved grandma/mom soon.

It's summer here but she's dressed like it's the middle of winter with her 3-layers of clothing, scarf and of course, her uber-cool Dior sunglasses. Buey tahan!

Anonymous said...

Take it easy Pretty!

Have fun hah....

Luv
PL

PS. let me know if you need me to stock-up any CNY goodies for you.