Singapore Airlines is good. The air hostesses are hospitable, the service is excellent & the food is good. Its hard to get their chinese accented english though. I tanked up on a good dinner, orange juice and saw Shrek-3 in the in-flight entertainment. In 4 hours, I had entered Singapore airspace. At around 6.30 AM, I had filled out a form and was glad to know that the next 8 hrs didn't have to be spent in the visitors lounge. I called up Viren & he came over to the airport, picked me up and we spent the better part of the day talking over breakfast, taking a dip in the pool, praying and having lunch by the sea. Viren lives in a pretty nice apartment with a very nice view from his bedroom. 
Viren even dropped me off at the airport. It was raining heavily by then and the cab we were driving in skidded heavily trying to avoid a car in front. We then tried killing some time before a faux-pas on my part found me running like my arse was on fire to catch a flight which was still an hour away. So when I had finally caught my senses & my breath, I struck a conversation with Peter from Taiwan. Peter, had retired into business from the Chinese naval Academy. He is a sales-rep selling in the middle-east. And he wanted to show-off his hindi/arabic off to me. He kept saying 'Mazbooth' (Strong) after every third sentence. He was bemoaning the fact that his son went to study Russian in Moscow, only to realise that English is the predominant language. DUH!!
Had a pretty short trip to Taipei where we stopped for an hour and I roamed around the deserted airport. Got on the flight again and saw 'Cheeni kum' a sweet hindi movie. Took a good nap after that as the flight was atleast 8 hours long. In all as we taxied into LA airport, I thought the trip was smooth and length of it didn't show on me at all. Little did I know about Jet Lag. :-)
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