Musings From Here and There Part I

I started this article at the NAIA in Manila. Continued to write and think about it at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. Edited it in the busy and buzzy streets of Phnom Penh. And now, I am posting it via the wi-fi connection at a cafe here in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Traveling has always been exhilarating and at the same time tiring. Exciting yet stressful in many ways too. When you are so far from home for too long however, you start to miss home and dream of the comforts it provides. Families. Friends. Love ones. I am getting ready to leave for Cambodia and Thailand and yet I am longing to go back home. Weird, surprising, truly uncharacteristic in many ways but real.

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A Tale of Two Airlines: PAL and Singapore Airlines

Some things never change. And some things just never fail to surprise you.

Here at the Centennial Airport, the kind of service Philippine Airlines (PAL) has been known for since time immemorial has remained pretty much the same. Unchanged throughout the years, it is still horrible, completely detestable at many times, and truly regrettable always.

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