Monday, October 17, 2022

Gratitude Journal for 16th October 2022 (Sunday)

 

P and I had a nice dinner at St Marc Cafe (ECP)

What I'm grateful about:

  • On Saturday morning, we woke up to the news of TK screwing up our flight to Oslo, when we are counting down to 40 days to our trip. It was stressful as we could not change our flights with the same airline and we are quite disappointed with them giving us problems when the trip is so near and we actually booked the air tix like 4 months ago. If we stick to TK, the transit time in Istanbul is really long, we can only fly on Sunday night (instead of Friday night) and we'll only reach Oslo on Monday noon. We started looking for alternatives and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise as we paid a total of 4k for our biz class tix and they are actually refunding us 5k. So we earned 1k from there, which is really weird. I looked for alternative flights to Europe (anywhere cheap where we can transit to Oslo) but most of those did not work out. I suddenly remembered it could be much cheaper or easier if we station ourselves at nearby hubs like BKK, KL or Jakarta instead. And voila! We found biz class tix on Qatar at 5.7k, in total we have to top up another $500 each to transit at BKK and get on Qatar but Qatar is way better than TK (or even better than SQ) and we're excited to try their premium product on A380 flight. Soooo looking forward now.  
  • After all the stress and excitement, we finally took our nap and made our way to HHN10. I think I'll do a separate post for that. 
  • We went ECP for our weekly walk and bonding time this evening. It was lovely.
What I'm looking forward to:
  • The trip! The trip! The trip! Although we're financially drained again, I'm really ready to YOLO and just be in the moment. Another 40 days to go.

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