Killarney, Ireland

The company's destination for our global meeting and working session was at Ireland. The nearest airport to this little town called Killarney is Cork.

It seems we took days to reach there, and indeed it took us almost 24 hours to reach Killarney.

Here'e the journey.

I left home at 9 pm as we arranged to meet at 9.30 pm at T3. Our flight is scheduled to depart at 11.30 pm. The flight was delayed for almost 1 hour and we finally took off at 12.30am. We sat in the jumbo airplane A380 enjoying the big personal tv screen with nice supper and pipping hot carrot cake for breakfast. 13 hours later, we arrived into London heathrow airport to catch our connection flight to Cork. There were supposed to be 3 hours of layover but the delayed flight in SIN took away an hour and so we left with 2 hours. We walked through many corridors and queue for almost 30 minutes to clear the British immigration before we made our way to terminal 1 for our connecting flight. The flight took us 1 hour to Cork and we had to travel by coach for another 1 hour and 15 minutes to Killarney. By the time we reach Killarney, it was almost 2 pm in Europe and 9 pm in SIN.

4 days of meeting, working sessions, sightseeing, networking and catching up with colleagues, passed quickly. And before you realise and trying to get over the jetlag, you are supposed to fly home....

A Rare Sight, 11,000 feet above the ground

It was a rare sight as I have never seen this on any of my flights before. about 2 hours into our flight from London back to Singapore. I caught sight of an aircraft, flying beneath the giant wings of the super jumbo plane, A380. I peered longer to ensure I was right. It was really an aircraft !


On closer look, it is a Qantas aircraft. It must also be flying towards Singapore, I believe. I used to work for a Qantas Airways subsidary company and was pretty familiar with Qanatas flight timings. You can make out the white kangaroo in the red background at the fin tail of the aircraft.

And it was cruising at a speed so much faster than our jumbo..... Within minutes, it disappeared from the sky.

Irish Tap Dancing

I am now so inspired to learn Irish tap dancing after watching a Live performance in Killarney, Ireland, just last week. Although cannot compared with the world class River Dance, but this is still fanatstic and global class.





And I believe such dancing is also good exercise for my thunderous thighs. It will definitely tone down my lower body as well as a good standing posture. The music played by the famous fastest fingers recorded in Book of Guiness, Liam O'Connor, is so 'springy' and 'jpyous' to the ears.




Also, the coordination between Liam O'Connor and this male tap dancer, coupled with live band in the background, makes this traditional instrument (played by Liam) so pleasing and entertaining. He is such a performer with great showsmanship.




Quick find me a dancing school....