Singapore Changi Airport

I was fired.
We were fired.
Heeheeheeheehee.
It feels better than I had expected it to.
Possibly becuase I now know that it was not any of our doings that led DFS and Eileen to 'terminate (our) contracts'.

I used to dread going to work everyday.
But everyday at the end of the day, I'm glad I went because several things that happen that day would have touched my life.

I've learnt a lot the past weeks.

Terminal 2 of Singapore Changi Airport is brilliantly architected(is that a word)..
It all flows from the moment we enter the building.
Cars/taxis drop passengers off on the 2nd level.
Passengers check in baggage at the counters, then walk through immigration which is in the middle of the building.
The departure/transit lounge is particularly self contained.
Passengers are greeted with a vast array of duty shops selling everything from snacks to books to liquor to medicine.
You name it and they'll probably have it.
Toilets are situated not more than 1 minute apart from each other.
Outside every toilet is a water point - where ya push the button and drink chilled H2O to your heart's content.
Other facilities include huge plasma screens telecasting BBC, CNA, CNN to sit around and be mentally simulated, computers and internet points to access the internet for personal and coporate purposes, Xbox-es to entertain yourself with...

With facilities like that, who needs to take business class to use the lounges, which by the way are located in obscure places such that you only find em if you're actually looking for them...

The parallel end of the building is the viewing gallery of massive wall of clear floor to ceiling glass planes, offering a magnificent view of the Boeings taxiing to and from the runway.
The cheerful sunshine that streams in seems to have the uncanny effect of freshening up the airport and it makes me smile.
In thunderstorms, raindrops crash against the glass and spill down the panes. The sky all the way to the horizon is marred by black stormclouds. The view of the occasional blue-white streaks of lightning racing through the clouds is not compromised.
The thunderstorm from the viewing gallery of Terminal 2 of Singapore Changi Airport is, if anything, invigorating.

(I need to go to church. Finish this off the next time I do.)

+ Flisha spoke @ 1:47 pm

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