Disgruntled.

I departed warm and cozy America at about 2:15 pm on Wednesday August 19th.

It is now 6:30 am Friday August 21st and I have yet to reach my destination of Delhi India.

I had an 11 hour flight from San Francisco to Seoul, Korea where I spent two hours meandering. The Korean airport has a museum, which of course I explored. I learned about some really great musical instruments of which I have no idea how to pronounce the name. I also visited the prayer room, which was great considering we don't find those necessary in American airports. I bought a blended mocha by default since the kind Korean woman didn't understand my bid for a blended chai. My receipt is entirely in Korean and I plan on putting it in my scrapbook. Apparently swine flu is rampant in Korea as well because everyone was wearing masks and they scanned this little thing behind my ear before they would let me loose in the airport.

After two hours of wandering I got back on another plane, this time to Singapore. The flight was about five hours long and I arrived in Singapore at 12:30 am this morning. I wandered around what is rated the best airport in the world, of which I can definitely testify to, aside from the rancid urine smell, which you get used to rather quickly.

This airport is MASSIVE! There are gardens in all the terminals ranging from sunflowers to bamboo. There are lounges fully equipped with massage and spa relaxation, of which you have to pay for of course. There's a 7-11 which won my heart. There's an entertainment deck where you can watch movies and play xbox and hey guess what, there's free internet! Only 15 minute time allotments but whatevs, can't be too picky.

So I have a 17 hour layover here in Singapore.

I wandered the airport for a couple hours and bought some peach pocca tea at 7-11 and then ended up in one of the free lounges where all the nice sleeping chairs where taken. I waited around and finally one opened up...the only reason why it opened up was because there was an incredibly obnoxious snoring man sleeping on the chair next to it. Awesome. I lay there trying to fall asleep but to no avail. I took some sleeping pills that Taylor had given me but those failed as well.

Finally, I got up and went to sleep on the other side of the lounge in a chair that was definitely not created for sleeping in. I think I got about an hour of fitful rest and then I woke up freezing. I re-located back to the sleeping chairs and founf one far enough away so that I couldn't hear the snoring but turns out the same man has ridiculousy loud flatulating issues. Every few minutes he would let a huge fart loose and I almost busted up laughing but contained myself due to the 20 other sleeping people around me.

I finally got another 2-3 hours of fitful rest when I woke up freezing again. This time I looked to my right and there was an airport provided blanket lying on the bed next to mine. So of course, I swooped it.

I fell back asleep only to be awoken by a middle aged Indian woman ripping the blanket off my shivering body. Apparently the blanket was hers and she had gone off on an adventure of sorts and had come back to retrieve it..even though it wasn't really hers, it belonged to the airport...gives whole new meaning to the term Indian giver.

So at this time it's about 6am and I can't sleep because I'm so cold. I get up to change clothes and brush my teeth, reapply a little anti-perspirant and them I'm off to scavenge for food again, in a relatively bad mood due to the angry Indian woman.

There's nothing like a dirty chicken sandwich from Burger King at 6:30 in the morning ay?

Yup, that was my breakfast. And now I'm pondering what I'm going to do with this whole day that I have in Singapore. I might try the botanic gardens and maybe try to get downtown. This is my first real experience traveling alone...like alone alone. I have no one here with me to tell me which bus/train/taxi to get into or where to go when I find one. I'm a little nervous but I'm sure I'll make it out ok.

Wish me luck.

P.S. I found the most amazing Transformers watch here at the Singapore Airport 7-11. Pretty much the highlight of my trip so far.