Musings of a Frequent Flying Scientist

Tag: frequentflyer

  • Defined by Flight – a Mini Life Update. 

    Defined by Flight – a Mini Life Update. 

    I feel like I have been defined by flight. By Qantas. That Platinum card (actually it’s down to Gold now). I’ve been traveling for work since 2005. I left my job in the lab on a Wednesday morning and flew to Singapore that afternoon for sales training. And I haven’t really stopped flying since. To…

  • Sometimes it’s the Journey (WPC)

    Sometimes it’s the Journey (WPC)

    To travel is to take a journey into yourself. – Danny Kaye. When I saw today’s prompt for the Weekly Photo Challenge (On The Way), where we are to present photos “of something you saw, did, or experienced on the way: photo not of your destination, but of an interesting thing along the way”, I…

  • Momentarily Terrified

    There’s a constant drone in an airplane. If you remove your headphones, you can listen to it. But inevitably you will stop hearing it. Until there’s a change in the frequency, the timbre of the sound. Then there’s that feeling in your tummy. Why did the sound change? You steal a few furtive glances at the…

  • 2014 Frequent Flyer (Rehab20)

    2014 Frequent Flyer (Rehab20)

    What a big year 2014 was. I thought it would be interesting to do a quick summary of the year. It wasn’t the worst year in terms of number of trips, but it’s up there. Fingers crossed for a better average in 2015! My first work trip was on January 17th, to our nation’s capital…

  • How do you like your tea?

    How do you like your tea?

    I’m a little late joining Justine’s Tea Time musings, but hopefully she doesn’t mind ☺️ As some of you know, I’m definitely a coffee drinker but coffee on planes is not so nice usually so I began drinking tea. It’s pretty standard – English breakfast. However, I have learnt from my mama and prefer leaf…