01-12 Life Log: Returning to Singapore & a Birthday Celebration 2026-01-12T22:18:07Z # — Life Log ## Title Returning to Singapore & a Birthday Celebration ## Time Context Evening / Night ## Life Log Narrative Your evening was spent in transit, on a flight from Penang back to Singapore. The captain’s announcements marked the final stages of the journey, noting your approach to Changi Airport and providing details about the landing. You seemed to have dozed off, as you were surprised when the plane landed. Once you disembarked, you and your companion navigated the busy airport, dealing with slow walkers and amusing yourselves on the travelator. After making your way through immigration and finding the taxi stand, you took a cab home. The conversation in the car was lighthearted, touching on the humidity and how much nicer the traffic felt compared to elsewhere. The day, or rather the night, culminated in a warm welcome home and a birthday celebration for a four-year-old. There was cake, singing, and a feeling of relief and happiness to be back, even with the desire for a good shower after a long day of travel. ## Places Visited - Penang (origin of flight) - Singapore Changi Airport (Terminal 2) - Singapore ## Activities - Traveling by plane - Navigating an airport - Taking a taxi - Celebrating a birthday ## Key Moments - The pilot's announcements as you prepared to land in Singapore. - Waking up just as the plane was landing, which seemed to surprise you. - Amusingly navigating the airport, feeling like you were "going so fast" on the travelator and joking about slow people. - An awkward but funny moment when you were smiling at your companion and a stranger thought you were smiling at them. - Finally arriving home and being greeted by a sweet birthday celebration for a four-year-old. ## Conversation Topics - Flight details and landing procedures. - Navigating Changi Airport and finding the taxi stand. - A song that was stuck in your head. - The need to shower after traveling. - A brief mention of a game where a character was told to "Consume!" - The logistics of entering your apartment building using a QR code. ## People - Your travel companion (unnamed, but seemingly not Noel) - "Kuya" (a person you mentioned in conversation) - The four-year-old birthday child ## Follow-Ups - None noted. 00:06:01 Thank you. 00:15:15 Very good evening ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you're on the flight deck. Trust your head, enjoyable flight so far from Penang to Singapore this evening. We're currently cruising at 35,000 feet, still approximately 150 nautical miles, away from Singapore Changi Airport. In approximately 5 minutes or so, we expect to begin our descent into Singapore this evening. We are looking at arrival time, suddenly we are scheduled at 5 minutes past 11 o'clock. There's no sign of difference between Penang and Singapore. 00:15:47 Local time is now 33 minutes past 10 o'clock. For those of you interested, we've got a sign of parking at Changi Terminal 2 today. And upon landing on runway 02L, looking at taxi time of approximately 5 to 10 minutes after that. So a quick update for you, whether it's Singapore is reported to be generally good, surface temperature of 25 Celsius. Once again, on behalf of all the crew aboard, I'd like to thank you for choosing to fly with Singapore Airlines. Wish you a pleasant day ahead and look forward to helping me about one of our future services. 00:16:21 Cabin for arrival, thank you. 00:17:41 Ladies and gentlemen, before arrival in Singapore, passengers entering Singapore and any Singapore citizens must complete the electronic Singapore arrival card with health declaration before proceeding to arrival immigration. Please approach ground staff for more information. All passengers arriving in or departing Singapore are also required to declare if they are carrying more than S$20,000 or is in foreign currency, physical currency or by other means such as traveler's cheque. 00:18:13 Travelers are to submit their declarations electronically in Singapore arrival card or via the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority's website. This flight will be arriving at Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 2. In preparation for arrival, please return to your seat. Put your seat belt upright and fasten your seat belt. Secure your table, handset and footrest. Ensure your window shades are drawn up. For passengers at the old brewing exits, please also ensure your window shades are open. 00:18:45 Please also note that emergency exits are located. Thank you. 00:19:45 Thank you. 00:31:21 Thanks for watching! 00:35:40 Mr. Chairman, all electronic devices must now be put in place in board. 00:41:33 Thank you. 00:43:49 There we go. Do you have landing stations? Ladies and gentlemen, make sure that your seatbelt is securely fastened and draw up your window shade. For passengers at the overwing exits, please also ensure your window shades are open. 00:55:32 Welcome to Singapore, ladies and gentlemen, and to all Singaporeans and residents of Singapore, a warm welcome home. Please remain seated with your seatbelts fastened until the seatbelt sign is off. Please take care in opening the overhead compartments, and remember to take all your belongings with you. It's been our pleasure serving you on this flight. Thank you for flying Singapore Airlines, a member of StarLights. 00:56:45 Thank you. 00:58:24 What do you mean? Thanks for watching! 00:59:29 Okay, we're good. I'll see you soon. Thank you. 01:00:46 I don't. Me too. When we landed. I was like, what? And that's when I woke up. That reminds me. I forgot what that was. Landing. I guess this is like one of the earlier ones. A pilot's career. Like one hour flight. It's like the Sydney to Melbourne. 01:01:25 What? Hello. 01:03:39 Thank you. 01:04:43 Good evening ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please, passengers on SQ616 bound for Busan, SQ26 bound for Frankfurt, New York, and SQ324 bound for Amsterdam, please push the ground staff outside the gate once you disembark from the aircraft, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please take note at the middle boarding for the flight, LX177 bound for Zurich, your departure gate F59, terminal 2, SQ312 bound for London gateway, your gate is A1, terminal 3, SQ... 01:05:54 Thank you. 01:07:43 behind thank you. 01:09:08 Bye bye. That song is stuck in my head. 01:09:58 See, it's not as smooth when you do it on a carpet. 01:10:46 What's that? 01:11:35 Thank you. 01:12:24 Only old people have that excuse, or like disabled people. 01:13:09 I hope I don't still have that song stuck in my head. Slow people. 01:13:48 yeah but danger nope oh my god so slow. 01:14:44 I stop and take a selfie too. Seriously? Oh my god. 01:15:26 Oh wait, look at me on the travelator. We're going so fast! We're changing direction here. We're just going straight. Like, we're not hard to spot. No, it takes a long time for the spatial awareness to kick in. Airports are the worst for that. 01:15:58 Pardon? Airports are the worst for that. Oh, now we get to figure out where the taxis are. 01:16:53 Yeah! Yeah! You did it! You did it with my hand! Oh no! Ah! So much! Your print on glasses! My ear print! 01:17:25 Bye bye! There's only one we couldn't see! 01:18:55 I'll proceed to do a 5 for you, ma'am. 01:19:30 I was smiling with you and this girl here in green was like in front of you and she thought I was smiling at her and she's like, like, no, this is more confusion, like, huh? Oh my god. Maybe that your music is out of control. 01:20:08 In your brain? Yes. No, don't. You probably don't even remember it anymore, but I do. Bit dear. No I don't. Huh? I still need to declare. No I don't. You would? I still need to declare. No I don't. No I don't. I don't declare anything. You keep your mouth shut. 01:20:42 Okay. Taxi lift. Let's take that one. Oh yeah! Ah! Shut up! Hiya! No song! 01:21:15 Out! Out! Damn spot! Not! 2A. It's over there. That's the stand. No, I see the stand. It's inside. This is why you get lost. You get us lost. This is how we can find the taxi. No, to get the taxi we end up traipsing through half the bloody mall. I don't think that was B. 01:21:47 Yes. He's telling us. Two years out. Yay! No rat race. I hate to. Number seven. Thank you. Yeah, people are so much nicer and traffic is better. 01:22:53 Hello, they go to 29 Lauren Julian postal code. Yes. Ah! 01:23:24 okay uh five three six four seven one yes. 01:27:13 Because it's baloney too. Oh, nice. Baloon-y, baloney. Let's shower for Kuya. Oh, right. 01:27:43 What? I'm purring. No, you smell. You stink, baby. No. So, next time. No. 01:28:38 Every time I'm sad, when we go, when we're going home to Queens, and we should shower. Yeah, I'm okay. You're okay? Don't feel, that don't feel sweaty or sticky or anything? Yeah. No, this one's not for me. What? 01:29:09 Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God, don't. You're not my kindred, no. Pokémon is the name of this one. Oh, no. That's totally not what I heard. What are you? I am, I am, I am. Yeah. Oh. 01:30:22 The riskiest thing that Kuya has, like the most risky thing to his health is us traveling and bringing it all home. Haha, I love her. 01:37:45 What is sport for? It's supposed to consume. In the game, the DM kept going, like, Consume! Consume! And he's like, I eat it? I mean, consume! I guess they didn't do that. I guess it reduces the gravity of the moment. But, I mean, yeah, it doesn't say consume. 01:38:16 It doesn't say put it to your chest and press until you push it into your chest cavity. It doesn't happen to him. It's weird, right? That was just in his dream. 01:39:02 Subtitles by the Amara.org community. 01:40:39 This one. We're already here at the bottom. 01:41:12 Can you, like, buzz us in? I gave you a QR code, right? Oh, okay. That's right. Walk in. Drive in. Okay, thank you! See you soon! Bye! I forgot he gave me a QR code. 01:42:11 just straight straight through right here right here right yeah and this is good enough right here it's okay here thank you confusing here payback card i'll get the bags up all good one more time okay thank you too have a good night. 01:43:27 Yeah, not as hot, but much more humid. They're much more organized. It's your birthday! Happy birthday! Happy birthday, four-year-old kid. Love you. 01:43:58 I'll be celebrating this with you. 01:44:45 My heart is blue with you. Ah! One more. I need so many more. Hey! Get this guy! Oh, okay. Now. Oh. Later. Well, only I'm just in time. Like a minute to spare. 01:45:22 You go ahead. Bye bye. Bye. How many times can one person burp? Yeah, I don't know why I do that myself. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Yay! Exactly the right. 01:45:52 That's right. Thank you. It's delicious. Thank you. Wow. Happy birthday. You're now four? Four. Yay, four years old. That's heavy. That's right. So pretty. 01:46:23 Thank you everyone. Virtual hugs. Good, but we've been out the whole day, so I want to shower before I hug you first. Are you okay? Okay, we're going to shower with the airplane stuff Birthday baby. 01:47:06 Birthday present to me ever, but here's the best birthday present to me ever. What happened? Do you want to go first? Yeah.