Ban these people from flying!

On my way back from Newark, the mad German woman beside me stood up when the plane was taking off and grabbed her digital camera from the overhead compartment. Apparently, the night view of Manhattan was beautiful enough to risk her life and ours!!

She turned on her huge SLR digital camera to take photos! I was rather horrified, the captain had just announce the usual safety things just minutes ago. I was like, "hey, i don't think you can use a digital equipment when the flight is ascending". She still insisted, pushed me aside (since I had the window seat), and still snapped!!! The idiot used the flash, and of course, she could not capture anything, because of the reflections! She looked at me angrily, screamed "too late", cursed, and said "Bitch!".

Bitch!??? What a bitch!! She should be grounded! How can we have people like that happily flying here and there, and risk the lives of other people? The Americans were so angry with the TB guy, who still flew despite being told that that is a significant risk to others. How about this woman? Who happily did what she wanted, even when it is told that it could interfere with the flight safety?? Is there a fine for a bitch like her?

Home- tired

I am home, after an "exciting" flight. Manhattan night view was beautiful enough to have someone risk the lives of a plane full of people! That selfish woman used a digital equipment when she should not! Ban her from flying!
Photo: Manhattan view from my hotel

I really hope that people like her will be banned from flying!!

That was the exciting part. Other than that, I was so tired, and drugged with dyphenyramine, that I slept soundly until breakfast was served. As I always take low fat meal on flights, I was only given a banana and juice by BA.

If you take a night flight and hope to sleep as soon as you get on board, take any "special meal". That means you get your food first, and then you can go to sleep. Naughty trick, but useful when you really need to sleep. But beware, if you have a b*tch sitting next to you, she may grumble and grumble because you get your food first.

Finally- the best hotel so far!!

I stayed in 4 different US hotels in about 15 days??

There was a Marriot, a super expensive Sheraton, and a posh posh Hyatt.But finally, it is this "airport hotel" that I LOVE! Sheraton 4 Points at NEwark Airport!

for USD 110, I got a nice room, free internet access, and i just bought a nice supper for 5.35USD!!! I must say it is the most satisfying meal so far (and the cheapest!). Arghhh.. soup with rice and vege! it is so so so good! And I am told that the soup was made by the restaurant, but sell it in the "cafe"- not your canned soup, ok! That was only USD3! They also sell lots of really yummy food-ranging from NY cheesecake to HUGE cookies which are the size of my big face, to salads, sandwiches and oatmeal porridge. Woah.... Staff super nice too!

And the best thing? YOu need anything? Slippers? razors? Needles? shoe mitt?? No prob. Give us a call and we will give to you. Compared that to 4 days of walking around in my work shoes in the room when the stupid hotels told me to get slippers from the souvenir shops (>10 USD for some ugly cheapo things). Compare that to the hotels which tell you to buy the toothpaste -- 3or 4 usd for a small tube when you dont have toothpaste!

My complain of those hotels have been

• No water given to you in your room!!!- except the super ex Sheraton.
• TOTALLY EMPTY mini fridge! And .... nothing for you to eat after 10pm most of the time. That means going down to their "souvenir" shop to buy a super sweet muffin if you have midnight pangs.
• No slippers!- all. even that sheraton and hyatt. Cant even get it if you call. 5 star??
• Got headache? BUY a USD9/box aspirin sold at the souvenir shop.
  
• INTERNET access is 9,99 "per day". The "day" ends at 12 pm, usually even when you bought your "air time " at 10 am. Today, I was disconnected while sending out an impt email at 830 am and was fuming mad when the reception told me that i was lucky, usually it disconnects at 7 am if you check out that day. I was like ^%&^ " I have not checked out!!!I still need to work!". Then she was like, o"hhh, what time you buy your air time? Maybe lapse?"12 am. 12 am, because i only came back at 12 am. ok??

weird New York shopping list

I will have a weird shopping list later, upon the "discovery" of a couple of things

• - the "taxi" driver dressed much better than me. And yes, we blew 80USD taking a ride in a Town Car, just like Andrea (because the rich kid thought that the taxi queue, 50 m away was BLOODY FAR). Just like Andrea, that is not exactly that FUN, or COOL, after a few moments of Uhhh "Town Car, Just like AAAA-dreah". It is miserable knowing that it is a hole up few days. I need to buy CLOTHES & SHOES & BAG!!!
  
• -I dress horribly badly. Horribly badly that I suspect that people do not take me seriously. I am just in a cheap T-shirt and equally cheap jeans. Haha.... Buy JEANS
  
• - I need to buy nail varnish! My nails chipped while I was typing!! Grrrrr....... Manicure is NOT for me! But I got to fix it. NYkers are nail crazy. Even the bell boy had better nails than me !!! get NAIL VARNISH & VARNISH REMOVER - get cheapo ones dont think can take back flammables!
  
• -I need to buy a teeth whitener & tooth paste. SHessshhhh. should have done it last week. The drug stores are full of teeth whitener. Why the hell does everyone have perfect white pearlies here? FAKE!!! Bloody hotels here dont provide you with tooth paste, when everyone is so MO and teeth conscious. Instead they make a bomb selling it at the "souvenir shop" - full of things which should have been provided, but are not!
  
• - Need to buy new blusher/"radiance" powder. My Estee Lauder thing was shattered in transit. :( .................. but then.............:) perfect excuse to buy the Benefit ones!!! hehehehe
• I must buy the posh looking "Hint Mint" haha...
• The cosmetics for my colleague- allocation: 1 kg
• The cosmetics for myself: 1kg
  

Taxi aka limousine chauffeur told me that his wife look in Manhattan but buy in NJ, cause the tax is a diffrence of more than 10%. WOW!!> Hot tip. I will look in 5th Avenue, but buy it 5 minutes away across the river. hehehehe..............

OK.... back to my dreadful analysis.

My room has a "Manhattan view"- would have been perfect if it is not so foggy!


I think I am not thinking/writing coherently. Lack of sleep. Jet lagged. Slept only 4 hours, for the 4th day???