i dream of tana

it's ironic when something you've been waiting for finally comes, you wish that it have not.

i've been counting down for this madagascar trip. but since last friday, time seems to speed up and before i knew it, the flight will finally be tomorrow.

unlike previous trips, this trip is pretty challenging.

first, we'll have only about 3 hours after arriving bangkok for the next flight to antananarivo takes off. that is, without any delay of course.

which means we better not have check-in luggage. which also means, we have to pack less than 7 kilos. 7 kilos for a week! it gets tricky to fit in the luggage bangkok party clothes among those meant for jungle trekking in africa. you know i cannot swap them with each other.

then, all this uncertainty in the foreign land there but i'll worry about that once we arrive. i just have to crack my brain now to make sure i don't miss any important things to bring.

sun block. check. diarrhea pills. check. US dollar. not check. i have to change some at the airport tomorrow. should be a 5 minutes event. no worry. ok my powershot G7. check. battery charger. shit, i should have bought that plug adaptor at challenger yesterday. oh well, guess i can stop by on my way home tomorrow.

i'll be on half day work tomorrow so that i'll have enough time to get to changi by 6pm. i'd take a whole day off if not because my boss showed such a shocked and unbelievable face when i mentioned i want to take days off, you know, on top of a week long festive breaks i took two weeks ago.

i don't know what the fuss is all about. not that apple will miss shipments of flash memories for their ipods if i take another week off. i believe i got all things already covered. plus, what's the purpose of this engineer assistant whom they put reporting to me? exactly.

anyway it's good too that i'm still going to work tomorrow morning. i could print at work all those online travel tips and read it on the plane. they have whole bunch of infos at virtualtourist.com, which i'm all grateful for, considering borders singapore doesn't even carry any madagascar travel books.

now that i think about it, i'm getting a bit excited. i'll be in another continent in 48 hrs time! tuesday to friday is to venture madagascar wild life as well as the capital antananarivo city. then, a flight back to bangkok and enjoy the city life there till sunday before coming back to singapore.

and that, right now, is something that i'm definitely not looking forward to.



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