{"id":599,"date":"2006-08-21T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T05:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=599"},"modified":"2007-01-24T23:16:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T23:16:29","slug":"back-in-london-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2006\/08\/back-in-london-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived back in London on Sunday, after an entire but expected day&#8217;s worth of travelling from Australia. The flight to Singapore went extremely smoothly, made even faster by the on-demand entertainment system &#8211; the first time I&#8217;ve ever flown with one. I watched the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0427944\/\">Thank You For Smoking<\/a> as well most of the second series of the great English series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/theoffice\">The Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The flight from Singapore to London was a little less enjoyable after sitting next to one of those people that overflow into your personal space every way possible (out reaching legs, over stretching elbows, not to mention the countless number of times he unintentional pressed buttons on my remote with his elbow) but at least I had a window seat to which I could lean to and get some sleep. The trip went uneventfully and disappointingly this British Airways craft lacked the much more preferred on-demand system I had on the previous Qantas flight. <\/p>\n<p>London, like most times, welcomed the flight with overcast skies and gentle rain but the arrival and proceeding through the usual immigration points went smoothly. My new project is a .Net one and I&#8217;m already enjoying with a great bunch of people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived back in London on Sunday, after an entire but expected day&#8217;s worth of travelling from Australia. The flight to Singapore went extremely smoothly, made even faster by the on-demand entertainment system &#8211; the first time I&#8217;ve ever flown with one. 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