Two Days to FlyDay

The last time I posted, it was two weeks to Flyday. Now, it's two days to FlyDay and boy am I excited. I have been doing a lot of packing, scampering in and out, up and down. Joyce only bought 30kg of baggage for her flight and considering I have to share the space with her, there's not much for me left.

Anyway, as usual with Joyce, big drama ensued her luggage and she was faced with baggage woes. Initially, Joyce was using a 25-inch soft-case no-brand zipper luggage and really trying to squeeze everything in to no avail. After a Lunar New Year visit to her boyfriend's house in Johor Bahru and chatting with her boyfriend's mother, she realised that she couldn't squeeze in 6 months worth of clothes because her luggage was too small! Thus, being the insistent (not spoilt, just insistent) only child that she is, Joyce managed to persuade her parents to buy her a bigger luggage bag.

Since she was probably only going to be away for so long just once, her parents decided to buy another no-brand bag, just that this time, it was 28-inch hard case, pearly purple and 2 clasped, much to Joyce's dismay because she kept insisting that there was such a thing called... 一分钱，一分货... or something along those lines. I thought she was just being a brand concious brat, but hey, guess what, that night when she went back to pack her luggage, the clasp broke.

Sigh. So she dragged her parents back to exchange the faulty bag and bought another bag. This time, 26-inch hard case, hot pink and 3 clasped (apparently, the more clasps there are, the better and stronger) and the renowned Japanese Lojel brand! End of story. Thank goodness. Girls and their luggage dramas. Never could understand it.

Me and the Lojel 26-Inch Luggage

This episode however, made me understand a little more about the aviation rulings for checked in baggage. Most international airlines accept up to 41-inch luggage, although I would really not venture beyond 30-inch check-in luggage (especially if you are traveling via budget airlines) because Joyce's mum saw someone's luggage being rejected for check in by the airline staff at Changi Airport because it was apparently bigger that 30 inches.

Anyway, she's done packing her luggage (couldn't believe that the bag could fit everything in!) with 1kg to spare for me to stuff my things in so yup, here I go scampering to squeeze my cheese into whatever available space there is! Wish me luck! And oh dear, hope I don't make her baggage overweight!

This feels like I'm going to open Pandora's Box!

Tikus, Out!