{"id":927,"date":"2012-04-17T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T03:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2012-04-17T19:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T03:14:40","slug":"going-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/going-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Going back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29916605@N03\/6014401052\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Over Hong Kong\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6147\/6014401052_276b949e10_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Over Hong Kong\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over Hong Kong (Photo credit: thewamphyri)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;to Hong Kong and Singapore in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Although I&#8217;m there semi-regularly, it feels like I&#8217;m returning to what should be &#8220;home&#8221;.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s the people I know there and the food we eat.\u00a0 Also, both cities have a lot more happening than the boring, provincial town of San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, 4 days in Singapore and 3 days in Hong Kong is just barely a visit.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just enough time to land, eat and sleep.\u00a0 But I&#8217;ll be landing, eating and sleeping in Hong Kong and Singapore and that&#8217;s worth it for me!\u00a0 Also it means 16800 EQM that I desperately need to hit Million Miler this year.<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m still a 1K on UA, I have some SWUs that can be used.\u00a0 Because of that, I&#8217;m flying UA from SFO-NRT-SIN, despite arriving just before midnight and departing (Singapore) at dark o&#8217;clock (0710).\u00a0 So far, my outbound legs have cleared but am waitlisted on the return (Bah!).\u00a0 After this flight, subsequent trips will probably be on NH since I will be out of SWUs for the year.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a mixed bag because I will be on NH (yay, great service and food and AVOD) but in Y (with a very small chance of an op-up, though it has happened before).<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=525\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to Hong Kong and Singapore in a few weeks. Although I&#8217;m there semi-regularly, it feels like I&#8217;m returning to what should be &#8220;home&#8221;.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s the people I know there and the food we eat.\u00a0 Also, both cities have a lot more happening than the boring, provincial town of San Francisco. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/going-back\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going back&#8230;&#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":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-hk-stuff","category-misc-singapore-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-eX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}