Posts Tagged ‘Hong Kong’

Its been a while…

Posted: April 11, 2011 by mkritch in Asia, Life, Travel, Words From My Mouth
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I’m guilty, I have not come through with my resolution to blog everyday… I Failed… well hopefully I am back for a bit!  It’s been a while since I have last blogged, well probably like a month! Where has the time gone?

I’m not going to make excuses and say I forgot or anything, but really I have been busy busy busy and wish I would have had so much more time to blog.

At the beginning of March I had a quick stint in Oman, and then was home for a week before heading to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and then took a couple days of well deserved vacation time and spent that in Vietnam with some old friends – It was really fantastic to reconnect!

Other news…it is only a little over a month until i’m getting married!  So that is coming super super quick. Both Aya and I took a quick trip on Friday to Seattle and Bellevue to find some wedding clothes for me. I found some nice Polo by Ralph Lauren and a nice top from some other store (cant remember the name of it), and then another shirt from Tommy Bahama…so I think I am now almost set for the big day.. maybe buy a new belt, some sandals, new shades and perhaps a new flask…cant forget the flask on the wedding day to help take away any nerves that there might be…lol

Other than that not much is new, I am home now for two weeks before going to Turkey to attend a conference, it should be rather interesting, I have yet to visit Turkey so I am kind of excited to eat some Turkish Delights!!!

I have some great stories and pictures from my Asia trip, so I will try to get back on sooner than later and tell you about them!

 

Mk

Weekend Plans & Travel Inspirations – Part 2

Posted: February 12, 2011 by mkritch in Technology, Travel, Words From My Mouth
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Ok, so I had a fairly eventful Friday evening and Saturday!  My brother came over last night and we had some drinks, played video games (Fifa on PS3).  We woke up in the morning and then headed down-town. I went to the Apple Store and had my 64GB iPad replaced…The screen was loose – on the left side everytime I pushed down on it, it would click…really annoying. Actually, the most annoying part of the whole thing is that I need to re-install everything…although everything is backed up, I still have to replay all the games to get to the same levels where I was at.  Boo Hoo :(

After Apple replaced my iPad, we then took a stroll down to Vancouver convention Centre to see the Flight Centre travel show…As I am always looking for a good deal, I was told that there were 15% off Air Canada flights today!!! I was rather quite excited, as I needed to book a flight to Hong Kong in March – I found a smashing deal already at $798cdn + tax, so I was hoping for a 15% off that..which would have been totally killer!!!  I had a coupon code from Air Canada yesterday for 10% off flights but it had to be used by midnight last night, I wanted the best deal possible so I held off for today…in any case, I walk in and speak to a guy and he tells me to go wait for this one lady…cant remember her name…anyways waited about 20-25 minutres for her and told her what I needed and then she said that the flight was not eligible for the 15% off from YVR-HKG, so as you can imagine I was completely pissed off, ohh yes.. and let her know.. pretty damn frustrating when you are told there is something, but then they say its not…grrr get your damn story straight!

Well took a quick look at the rest of the show…Air New Zealand, Malaysia, Fiji, etc… only looked at Star Alliance Partners and then looked at a couple country booths which interested me :) …I may have found some travel inspiration and go to Malaysia at the end of March for a couple days, looks rather interesting.. I have been to KL before but not to Langkawi or Penang…we’ll see. I got 3 days booked off for holiday time at the end of my business trip, so hope I can explore, rest and experience something great!

When I got home, I played around on multiple travel sites, Air Canada, Travelocity, Expedia, PriceLine, etc.. but ended up buying my great deal on Expedia…So I purchased the flights from YVR-HKG-SIN-YVR(via HKG)… the other portion of my trip I have booked on points HKG-TPE, I guess that will save the company a few bills :) . I like to think that I am a good shopper when it comes to travel and find a weird enjoyment playing around with websites to find the best deal..it’s like a game or kind of like a puzzle, you have the trip planed out, but you have to look at every option from one way flights to multi-leg destinations to multiple return flights…luckily this time, I only got 2 sets of tickets to deal with, which is nice.

Well now that it is booked, I will need to start looking at planning my honeymoon with my sweetness…I really want to go to Africa on Safari in January, but I think that may be pushing the $$$$. I have enough points that I would not be worried about flights, but maybe the other option might be the South Pacific or something…not sure!  Time will tell I guess

In any case, today was a good day – Once again, Apple has proved their warranty is fantastic with no hassles (which I appreciate), and flight centre proved that they are definitely beatable…and in my blunt opinion a lame ass travel company…(sorry if you work for them, but after trying so many times to give them business…just always get crappy results from them…) – I like to think, I am smarter when it comes to travel bookings and creative travel approaches to get the best deal ever!!!

Tonight, I will be dreaming happy thoughts and looking forward a a short flight from HKG-SIN on the amazing and most wonderful aircraft ever!!! the Airbus A380…I rode on it twice before and it is in every way amazing and fantastic…really that is probably the most lamest of excitement, but it sure gets me really excited!!! – Airplane rides are fun!

Mk