Viva La Timor Loro Sae - 1
2 Comments Published by wengkeong on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 8:41 PM.
Yay! The first issue of my East Timor trip! It shall be an online magazine! Right in the heart of BigFatSmiles.BlogSpot.Com! And I even have a magazine cover for it (courtesy of FlagrantDisregard.com which I took a super long time to do because of the stupid customisations) so please, can I hear the drum roll? *pretends to hear drumroll*
Editor's Note
It is my pleasure to start BFS's first ever online magazine- although it won't be circulating for very long- I hope it shall bring you joy and the very same feelings I have felt when I left for this amazing nation. The other queued up events in these 4 days which the magazine is circulating on will be pushed back to the next 4 days so you won't miss anything out from my no-life life. Please remeber to check out the Flickr cuz not all the photos are here. Meanwhile I hope you would enjoy this wonderful magazine.
Signing out,
The Only Member of this Publication
-The Magazine Shall here Officially Start-
Arriving in Dili
The Flight we took from Singapore- is the first ever flight from Singapore to Dili. In order to go to Dili- you have to take a plane from Bali which flies to East Timor 7 times a week or from Darwin which has a higher frequency of flying. Our flight was chartered from Australian budget Airline Jetstar Asia and it proved to be not so budget except for the meals and boarding passes (did I say boarding passes?). It turns out that the day we flew from Singapore (13th December 2005) was Jetstar Asia's first birthday- so it was quite a fun thing.
After a short nap, reading, looking at boring clouds and talking to lame-pal Wendy, I was desperately hungry. Looking at the Starcafe menu I exclaimed at the exhorbitant prices the budget airline was selling. A nasi goreng "Oriental Meal" had costs 8 Singapore Dollars without any drink, alchohol, water, desert and soup. Still, to satisfy my hunger I purchased it together with a can of Pepsi (there was no Coke) that costs 2 singapore dollars. I quickly devoured the wonderful meal and shared some of my chicken and fish with lame pal Wendy. None of us touched the acah however you spell it because it looked (and probably tasted) absolutely revolting.
Upon arrival after the 4 hour long journey, I was greeted by a flight of steps down the plane. This was a first for me- I had never walked on the runway before- there was always a connection chamber from the plane into the airport. Oh well, life always has it's first times doesn't it? Better to do it whenn 13 and 3/4 rather than 89 and 11/12. (Yes it's another 4 days before I'm 13 and three quarters- if that age seems to remind you of something please drop the thought and continue reading)
Then came the duty free shop. I had no idea such a desolate airport of would have a duty free shop (which is a very bad thing to think). It turns out that...
iPods!
Yes! East Timorese are iPodders too! It really came as a suprise, and the price was suprising too. Owing to my poor photography skills, I shook when I took the photo, thus the unclarity. However, owing to my good guessing skills, if I am not wrong, the price shown is 529 US Dollars! After some checking of the current Forex rates blah blah blah- you would realise that it is about 1.7 times more expensive than the Singaporean iPods! Oh well, I guess I should just blame the stupid DHL/UPS/Fedex for for charging so much.
The rest of the day was spent pespiring loading the boxes of gifts for the wonderful Timorese from the Airport to the Hotel. Oh well, it's a mission EXPOSURE trip ain't it?
Editor's Note
It is my pleasure to start BFS's first ever online magazine- although it won't be circulating for very long- I hope it shall bring you joy and the very same feelings I have felt when I left for this amazing nation. The other queued up events in these 4 days which the magazine is circulating on will be pushed back to the next 4 days so you won't miss anything out from my no-life life. Please remeber to check out the Flickr cuz not all the photos are here. Meanwhile I hope you would enjoy this wonderful magazine.
Signing out,
The Only Member of this Publication
-The Magazine Shall here Officially Start-
Arriving in Dili
The Flight we took from Singapore- is the first ever flight from Singapore to Dili. In order to go to Dili- you have to take a plane from Bali which flies to East Timor 7 times a week or from Darwin which has a higher frequency of flying. Our flight was chartered from Australian budget Airline Jetstar Asia and it proved to be not so budget except for the meals and boarding passes (did I say boarding passes?). It turns out that the day we flew from Singapore (13th December 2005) was Jetstar Asia's first birthday- so it was quite a fun thing.
After a short nap, reading, looking at boring clouds and talking to lame-pal Wendy, I was desperately hungry. Looking at the Starcafe menu I exclaimed at the exhorbitant prices the budget airline was selling. A nasi goreng "Oriental Meal" had costs 8 Singapore Dollars without any drink, alchohol, water, desert and soup. Still, to satisfy my hunger I purchased it together with a can of Pepsi (there was no Coke) that costs 2 singapore dollars. I quickly devoured the wonderful meal and shared some of my chicken and fish with lame pal Wendy. None of us touched the acah however you spell it because it looked (and probably tasted) absolutely revolting.Upon arrival after the 4 hour long journey, I was greeted by a flight of steps down the plane. This was a first for me- I had never walked on the runway before- there was always a connection chamber from the plane into the airport. Oh well, life always has it's first times doesn't it? Better to do it whenn 13 and 3/4 rather than 89 and 11/12. (Yes it's another 4 days before I'm 13 and three quarters- if that age seems to remind you of something please drop the thought and continue reading)
Then came the duty free shop. I had no idea such a desolate airport of would have a duty free shop (which is a very bad thing to think). It turns out that...
iPods!Yes! East Timorese are iPodders too! It really came as a suprise, and the price was suprising too. Owing to my poor photography skills, I shook when I took the photo, thus the unclarity. However, owing to my good guessing skills, if I am not wrong, the price shown is 529 US Dollars! After some checking of the current Forex rates blah blah blah- you would realise that it is about 1.7 times more expensive than the Singaporean iPods! Oh well, I guess I should just blame the stupid DHL/UPS/Fedex for for charging so much.
The rest of the day was spent pespiring loading the boxes of gifts for the wonderful Timorese from the Airport to the Hotel. Oh well, it's a mission EXPOSURE trip ain't it?
Touring the Capital
The second day was breathtaking. Waking up early in the morning and climbing up more than 500 steps is seriously no joke. There was a session of worship on the tourist-attraction Jesus Statue- one of the highest statues in East Timor (there are a lot of Jesus Statues in East Timor). Along the climb was many bronze panels telling the story of how Jesus was crucified. It was in Bahasa Indonesia and English. So it was quite funny to see the story of Jesus in Malay.
The second day was breathtaking. Waking up early in the morning and climbing up more than 500 steps is seriously no joke. There was a session of worship on the tourist-attraction Jesus Statue- one of the highest statues in East Timor (there are a lot of Jesus Statues in East Timor). Along the climb was many bronze panels telling the story of how Jesus was crucified. It was in Bahasa Indonesia and English. So it was quite funny to see the story of Jesus in Malay.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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