before i go on any further abt my grad trip, just like to add tt i won't be uploading e pics here on e blog.. discussions on e grad trip would be in reference to e photos tt i've uploaded on facebook..

Day 1
Time: 1413h
Place: On board flight EK433 to Dubai International Airport
Weather: Fine

currently slacking in my seat 41G, some 20 seats from cw and gang.. just finished watching slumdog millionaire.. anyway the flight info just popped up and we crossed the west coast of india and are now flying over open seas again.. back to the movie, it was ok.. what i'll like to call a honest and decent film.. on another note, my first Emirates flight thus far have been good.. from service standards to in-flight entertainment.. the latter is probably one of the best of its kind i've encountered thus far, and i would even say it's better than KrisWorld (think SIA).. some down sides however included the apparent lack of Straits Times newspaper and a similar lack in the number of chinese songs available.. anyway i think i'll stop here for now..

a very simple paragraph indeed.. and tt's e only post tt i wrote during my trip.. the following are the after thoughts for day 1..

perhaps before i forget, i'll just like to post e amount tt i've spent in all for this grad trip.. this costs include every cost imaginable (paid or payable, from pre-trip to post-trip).. SGD 4,209.05.. quite a reasonable sum.. and very within the pre-trip budget tt we came up with.. major expenses tt make it up include the following (all in SGD):

1.Tour package (and insurance) --> 2,487
2.Optional tour packages (a.Mount Titlis + Kleine Scheidegg round trip with lunch inclusive, b.Palace of Versailles) --> 360.50
3.Swatch watch and Swarovski necklace --> 383.08
4.Budget air ticket from Paris CDG to UK Luton --> 108.93
5.London Generator Hostel (2 nights) --> 107.54

a more detailed breakdown of e expenses is available upon request.. lol..

back to e topic for day 1, i had earlier left my house at 0720h for Changi Airport.. and not to forget, we had 4 crappy guys gathering around the free computer terminals at e airport to catch some mice on fb and look at someone's fb profile.. haha.. geez.. flight was at Gate C20, on a Boeing 777-300ER..

some 6,000km and 6h 44min later, we were at Dubai International Airport (DXB) Terminal 3, which seemed to us to be located in the middle of a desert tt is only sparsely dotted with low lying shrubs.. the weather was a freaking 35 degrees, but thank goodness we were in e air conditioned building.. as u can see from e photos, DXB T3 is generally made up of a clean and long hallway.. a Mac meal costs 22 AED (currency of dubai), which is ~40% more ex than e prices in SG.. e transit was a 3h process and luckily enough, nothing of e mess tt i read abt in my pre-trip research..

e 2nd leg of the flight to Zurich was on a Airbus A340-500, seat 24B, taken from gate 218.. flight number was EK0085..