Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

The countdown has sorta begun.  I bought my tickets for Minneapolis to Singapore segment last night.  Northwest Airlines has a Cash and Miles promotion for roundtrip fares within North America, to Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific.  I paid $781 plus 20,000 miles for this segment.

I had wanted to leave Msp on November 17 and return on December 8 but no such luck with this promotion.  Changed my dates and am leaving a day earlier (November 16) and arriving Singapore on November 18.  From Singapore, I will have to look for a ticket to Kuala Lumpur.  So far, I found flights leaving Singapore at 6:45 a.m. arriving KUL at 7:45 a.m.  That would leave me plenty of time to hunt down transportation to Ipoh.  I have not bought my KUL/SIN/KUL tickets yet.  I’m still trying to hunt down the cheapest fares but I think the cheapest I can find online is around $298+ through Expedia.com, or $278+ through Malaysia Airlines online.  The funny thing about MAS online is the fares are in Singapore dollars.  Before I converted to SGD, it’s $420+.  I might go with MAS online.

From KL, I will most probably take the shuttle bus to Ipoh.  Sounds like a super long day already!!

On my return flights, I will have to leave Ipoh in the afternoon on December 8 to KL.  Flight leaves KL to Singapore (December 8) at 10:45 p.m. arriving at 11:40 p.m.  The flight from Singapore to Minneapolis by Northwest leaves at 6:00 a.m. on December 9.  I wish there are other flights besides this one 6:00 a.m. flight.  Checked United Airlines, the same thing. 

So, you might asked what about DB??  DB is still working on the days he wants to be gone from work.  He is so complicated.  I told him to come on the 2nd week of my stay and if he can, stay for the rest of the 2 weeks, if not a week plus.  He still couldn’t decide!  Oh well, you snooze, you loose!

The Ciy came about an hour ago and Mr. Oak tree is now in pieces and chewed up.  The workers left about 6 or 7 logs, root and the stump on the yard and business was over.  Not sure was it because it was so close to lunch that they had to leave the logs and the rest there and come back later to complete the job.  It might just be it, too  - we need to remove the root and logs ourselves.  There are storms rolling in to our county right now.   Looks like we are going to have another rock and roll evening.

Before I came to the United States, I hated American football.  I considered it a very physical sport.  Now that I have been here for over 10 years, I somehow got to like the sport very much.  I used to watch it every weekend and stayed up late to watch Monday night football when the Minnesota Vikings were playing. 

I have been to Minneapolis Metrodome for a Vikings game and it was a wonderful experience.  But now since the Vikings are going down the drain, I have no desire to watch them.  Instead I am for Washington Redskins or one of the teams in Florida, Miami Dolphins.  I told DB one of these days we should go for at least one Super Bowl game, where it does not matter.  This coming Super Bowl is in Glendale, Arizona, and it can be a vacatin for us.

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Since I have taken the day off, I’m listening to my dozens of CDs but the best is Rachmaninoff.  I can listen to this, this, this and this 24/7.  Horowitz plays it so well.  I think he is one of the best pianist ever and Rachmaninoff is the greatest composer of his time.   Concerto No 2 is still the best.  Listening to all of this composer’s work is mesmerizing.  I set it to replay the whole day and don’t get bored of it with will drive DB out of the house very soon!

This is another of my favorite.  DB said sounds like someone just died.  The piece from Schindler’s List is the one that move me the most. 

Just got done checking my work emails and my boss sent the department an advance notice she will be going on vacation in a couple of weeks to her favorite hotel, Excalibur Las Vegas!  Ain’t she lucky.  Her hubby is actually going for a conference with the company and spouses are invited.  They will be staying at the Excalibur which I heard from her is just a  excellent hotel.  I have not been to Las Vegas, but from listening to her vacation stories in Vegas are enough to make me feel I am already there.  The Excalibur has that King Arthurish feeling.  Who don’t want to be there?  It’s call the kingdom of fun and entertainment.  Viva Las Vegas! :-)