Jul 2023. Guangzhou Upon arriving at the Guangzhou airport, I had to use WeChat to document my covid test result taken 24 hour earlier to enter customs. I lived in China for ten years and relocated to Australia in June 2018. Covid started 1.5 years later. If I was still there, I would have faced... Continue Reading →
Jul 2023. Guangzhou My China Southern Airlines flight flew me from Melbourne to the Guangzhou Airport for my short trip to China. It has been one of the top 15 busiest airports in the world for the past few years. It is also the hub for China Southern Airlines as well as for FedEx Express... Continue Reading →
Jul 2023. Guangzhou I stepped out of my eleven-hour flight from Melbourne into Guangzhou Airport. The air was warm and dry. The airport was lit up but deserted. It was unlike the bustling mini-city I was used to before. But it was 4.30am. Early morning passengers were going about their business quietly. In China, the... Continue Reading →
July 2023. Guangzhou Other than my cabin seat, which was too hard for me, I had a pleasant experience flying from Melbourne to Guangzhou six weeks ago. Everything was clean, food was as great as airlines food can be, flight crew was amazing, and the co-passengers were orderly. The movie options were a little outdated,... Continue Reading →
July 2023. Melbourne It looked like China Southern Airlines had fielded its most experienced flight crew for the international flights. The flight crew onboard the flight from Melbourne to Guangzhou that night switched between Mandarin and English effortlessly. One of them even spoke Japanese. They didn't rush the passengers nor ignore them. They kept very... Continue Reading →
Jul 2023. Melbourne "Boonie Bears" is about two bears Briar and Bramble and their ongoing feud with a logger called Vick who threatens to destroy their forest home. It was screened from 2012 to 2022 and was distributed to 82 countries and also with Netflix, Sony and Disney. I had never actually seen a proper... Continue Reading →
Jul 2023. Melbourne I hadn't flown for five years. I was in an eleven hours' overnight flight from Melbourne to Guangzhou and I couldn't sleep. The seat was uncomfortable and I could feel the metal framework of the seat. I kept shifting my weight and looked at the flight path. It was 3.00am. I browsed... Continue Reading →
Jul 2023. Melbourne I hate flying more than one or two hours and long-distance flights are a nightmare for me. Being strapped to a seat for hours is mentally exhausting. As such a movie screen on a seat is a welcome distraction, especially for a movie fan like me. But movies and television waste a... Continue Reading →
Jul 2023. Melbourne I read people for a living in my work as a change manager and almost without realising it, in my day life too. I was doing exactly that, while seated in a China Southern Airlines flight from Melbourne to Guangzhou. Definitely a lot of seasoned travellers. Not too many people looking for... Continue Reading →
Jul 2023. Melbourne As my China Southern Airline flight was taxiing in the Melbourne runway, I was filling curious. Has China changed in any ways since I left in 2018? I will land there in less than 12 hours and will have two weeks to figure that out. The flight passenger safety video, probably an... Continue Reading →