The Flight to Singapore

Author: hargunsinghtikku June 10, 2016 0 Comments

The next day we woke up at 7 ‘o’ clock in the morning, excited for our first trip to Singapore, we changed our clothes and I checked every corner of the room to make sure we don’t leave anything behind.

Me and my sister then went to the hotel buffet while our parents got ready. There wasn’t much in the buffet, just Idli-Sambar, sandwiches and omelettes. I just took a plate of idli-sambar. Our parents came for breakfast too and we booked a cab to take us to the international airport. We went to the ground floor and transferred all our luggage into the trunk of the Tata Indigo. In 40 minutes, we reached the airport. We found the Check-in counter for Scoot and came to know that Scoot Airlines is the only airline in the world to have an all-787 fleet, so that meant I was about to sit in a Boeing 787 for the first time in my life. The airport even offered free wifi for travelers, in sessions of 30 minutes each device.

We then went to the immigration counter and from there, to the duty-free area. We wen upstairs, to the area where all the aerobridges were and just played multiple games of Uno! And Guess Who. In an hour, we could see our plane through the windows, it was twice as big as any other plane present at the airport. In another 20 minutes, we boarded the plane and there was a civil war between the four of us as to who would sit on the window seat during take off, in the end, I won because of my stubbornness. The airplane just stood there for the next 20 minutes and then it went to the runway. It started moving really fast and gave me a tickling sensation in my stomach. We just played and chatted away. Then, me and my sister started feeling hungry so we ordered Super chicken Cup noodles for SGD 5.  They weren’t that good, but still filling. The next 5 hours were just whiled away as there wasn’t anything to do and onboard Wifi and in-flight entertainment were paid. Then we could see some bright lights under as at approximately 10 ‘o’ clock, Singapore time. There was an announcement that we were above Singapore and due to some reason the air traffic control couldn’t let the plane land, so we were in the air for another hour. Then we touched down on the runway and it took another 5 minutes for the plane to stop. There were many planes bigger than the Boeing 787 even including an Airbus A-380. In the aerobridge the air-conditioning was very cold so I rolled down my sleeves to make it a full-sleeved shirt, there were big ads of HSBC on the sides of the Aerobridge. We then saw the waiting area where you could wait for your flight while sitting in an air-conditioned room. We then went to the immigration area, the took me and my dad into a closed room with our passports. The room was filled of Punjabis, and they were being taken to a smaller closed part. I got scared as to why we were being taken here, the reason they gave was that there were a lot of people with the surname “Singh”, but it was just because it was the first flight from Amritsar to Singapore and it was filled with Punjabis, after 10 minutes, me and my dad were called, they just took a fingerprint of him and I just stood there, then some airport staff sent me to a corridor and on it’s door was written “Authorized Personnel only, Strictly no Entry unless asked to”, then I was really scared and went through the corridor thinking why they were doing this, when I reached the end of the corridor, it was just the other side from immigration, I went and found my mom and sister and narrated to them the whole incident. We just sat there for 20 minutes and then, the same uncle who was sitting with me on the train was in the airport, he had also come from the same flight in which we were, but he was with his friends this time, they asked me to change their network to roaming and I did so, after another 20 minutes, my dad came and we went out of the airport to find my dad’s friend, Dhiraj chachu in whose home, we would be staying for 2 nights. We sat in his car and went to his home, with the sea on one side of the road and the city on the other, we saw the docks where Dhiraj Chachu worked and we also saw Marina Bay Sands which is one of the best hotels in the world and has an infinity pool on its roof, there were 2 big underpasses on the way to his home, after 20 minutes, we reached there, we went from the lift to the 7^th floor and went inside his house, our parents just chatted away, then we ate dinner which had Scrambled Eggs, rotis, dal and Brinjal. For desserts, we had Ice Cream and Phirni which we got from Amritsar for Dhiraj Chachu and his family. We then slept 5 minutes after we lied down on the bed.

Next Day in the next blog!