{"id":521,"date":"2006-08-26T08:13:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T08:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2006-08-26T08:13:38","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T08:13:38","slug":"realization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/realization\/","title":{"rendered":"Realization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came  to a realization early on this trip.  Actually, it was from a copy of the Straits Times that I read on SQ11 (Hey UAL, guess what? You CAN get newspapers and magazines on REAL airlines!) about midway through my flight.<br \/>\nI like the whole idea of staying in clean hostels and mucking about on the ground eating street food.  I like going to local festivals and hanging out where locals do.  Doing local things.  I also luurve Business Class, airport lounges, Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) and the Shinkansen.<br \/>\nBut I hate wasting time.  I hate waiting.  And I like to plan things.  My entire itinerary on JR on this trip?  Planned to the minute 4 weeks prior.  And guess what?  It worked!  I have a list of HSBC and Citibank locations for every destination on this trip.   I can&#8217;t travel anywhere withouth my iPod and MacBook and I try to stay in establishments that provide free broadband or wi-fi.<br \/>\nThese things sound contradictory?  Hostels and Business Class?  Not really the traditional backpacker?  Guess what?  I&#8217;m not a backpacker, I&#8217;m a <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/studenttravel.about.com\/b\/a\/255344.htm\">flashpacker<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.  Yup, <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2006\/06\/21\/flashpack_tra.html?category=travel&#038;guid=20060621103030&#038;dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000\">flashpacker<\/a>, yet another term you get to learn reading this site.  At least it ain&#8217;t Singlish.  Wah Lau!<br \/>\nThe latter exclaimation was Singlish, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to a realization early on this trip. Actually, it was from a copy of the Straits Times that I read on SQ11 (Hey UAL, guess what? You CAN get newspapers and magazines on REAL airlines!) about midway through my flight. I like the whole idea of staying in clean hostels and mucking about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/realization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Realization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2006-08-nrt-kl-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-8p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}