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Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:23 am**

Onyx,
Have a good and safe trip, work and enjoying hard! post heap of photos while you're in the region, remember coming back after your TDY and we'll will have a welcome home "lunch" for you as promised.

We will miss you at all the meets in the next 12 weeks :cry:

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:26 am**

Onyx, have a great and safe trip. Looking forward to seeing your fingerprints on future purchases

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:28 am**

Onyx,

Have a safe and pleasant trip, but enjoy every moment while you're there.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:35 am**

Onyx,

Enjoy your trip, take care and see you in 3 months time at the next meet! :wink:

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:49 am**

Thank you all. I was hoping I could discreetly sneak past the fanfare.

I'll still be online - posting as usual. If not, you can assume Mr Poon is pushing me too hard and it's time for the D70 convoy to come rescue me. :lol:

I'll miss you all! You're like a second family to me, I've grown attached to this place.

Catch y'all later!

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:52 am**

Onyx - we will definately miss you (both here and at the meets) but you make sure you stay present on the forums. Have an awesome time and may it be full of great adventures and lots of learning! Have an excellent experience!!

Geoff.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:58 am**

Stay safe and have a good time

MATT

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:16 am**

Onyx,

Have a great time in Honkers... I'm sure you will find lots of photo ops there... Looking forward to seeing a few images on Pixspot...

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:18 am**

Bring us back something nice!!!
Erm.. by which I mean.. Have a great trip

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:27 am**

I trust you will have a safe trimp - and look forward to catching up when you return to Oz

Cheers,

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:29 am**

Cheers Onyx! Have a great time (awesome!)

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:42 am**

Onyx

Hope you get the opportunity to have an awesome time. It's probably good you're there for so long since, with Mr Poon taking up much of your time, you won't be able to get out and about as much as someone who's there on hols. Up side is you'll get to great places that are a little more out of the way and have a chance to better capture the local colour.

Have a great time. I look forward to seeing your shots.

Cheers

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:27 am**

Hey onyx, ok maybe i have missed something,uhm oh well but off to Hk mate, well you have a good time stay outa trouble and enjoy it. Well will be looking forward to the pics from such a bright light city as seen in other pics, so have a good trip mate.
Cheers
John

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:38 am**

Onyx - have a great time - HK is one of my favourite cities - vibrant, great food and lots of photo opportunities - enjoy

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:48 am**

Have fun mate! Should be a great experience for you, be sure to report in if you get the time.

If you stay on for another 3 months I might see you there: HK micro-meet.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:52 am**

I've only been a member here since last year. I think I can safely say you are welcome to bring me back in your suitcase a 300VR, a 200 - 400 F2.8, and 85 F1.4 if you can squeeze it in there. :-p

Have a great time, take lots of photos and please ignore the sentance above (it's all in good humour)

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:29 pm**

Have a great and safe trip, dude.

Enjoy seeing... touching... feeling... caressing... and maybe even molesting all of the gear we'll never get to see.

Well, everyone besides Birddog, that is.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:36 pm**

Can we hope for weekly updates from HK?

How about these topics as a suggestion:

I'm sure it would be an interesting post each time.

Hope you have a wonderful time.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:37 pm**

He's now sitting comfy inside the 747-400 of Singapore Airlines with some beauti hostesses serving him meal and drinks, he'll be in HKG at midnight HKG time, transit at Changi, Singapore, he may lurking the forum with Inflight Services.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:45 pm**

Hope he's got a wireless-capable laptop with him, Changi airport has free wireless internet access (well it did a year ago at least).

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:47 pm**

I think he does.
We were trying to get on Birddog's network at one of the last meets.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:59 pm**

MCWB wrote:Hope he's got a wireless-capable laptop with him, Changi airport has free wireless internet access (well it did a year ago at least).

Yes, he may! but I don't think he has enough time in transit, between his landing time and boarding another flight to HKG is 1 hour gap in between, you guys travelled a lot and knew what I meant!

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:25 pm**

I love flying singapore...

Awesome in-flight...

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:27 pm**

MHD wrote:I love flying singapore...

Awesome in-flight...

I second that one aswell

Lots of good oportunity to :shock:

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:33 pm**

huynhie wrote:
MHD wrote:I love flying singapore...

Awesome in-flight...

I second that one aswell

Lots of good oportunity to

Guess what? If the Govt. allows Singapore flies from here to the US mainland, I bet you Qantas & UA or Air NZ will :cry:

hard.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:35 pm**

I dont think that would be a good idea!

7 Hours of this :shock:

is already too much for my heart and eyes!

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:41 pm**

UA is already in enough trouble as it is, adding SQ is really going to hurt them.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:41 pm**

hehehe...

Seriously though that is good news..
Will be awesome if they do the straight (not via HNL) Sydney to LAX trip... thats where the inflight (and :shock:

) will be nice

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:54 pm**

huynhie wrote:I dont think that would be a good idea!

7 Hours of this is already too much for my heart and eyes!

I'm talking direct fly from SYD-LAX with SQ not transit Singapore.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:02 pm**

Birddog114 wrote:
huynhie wrote:I dont think that would be a good idea!

7 Hours of this is already too much for my heart and eyes!

I'm talking direct fly from SYD-LAX with SQ not transit Singapore.

I know exactly what you mean! A direct SYD-LAX will be over 16hours and 16 hours of this :shock:

is not good for my body. Where as ATM it's only SYD-SIN which is approximately 7 hours.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:07 pm**

huynhie wrote:
Birddog114 wrote:
huynhie wrote:I dont think that would be a good idea!

7 Hours of this is already too much for my heart and eyes!

I'm talking direct fly from SYD-LAX with SQ not transit Singapore.

I know exactly what you mean! A direct SYD-LAX will be over 16hours and 16 hours of this is not good for my body. Where as ATM it's only SYD-SIN which is approximately 7 hours.

But whatever you do from Syd-LAX, you have to gain at least 13-16 hrs non stop.
What's happened on your next trip from Syd to Europe? Syd- SIN 7 hours and SIN-Europe will be anothor 13 - 14 hours?

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:08 pm**

Personally I try to

as much as possible on long flights...

But when the wife is

i might get a chance to do a bit of :shock:

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:12 pm**

My next trip to London is going to be very difficult. I'll be flying SQ but this time around my wife will be sitting next to me, so instead of doing this :shock:

, I'll be doing this

.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:23 pm**

huynhie wrote:My next trip to London is going to be very difficult. I'll be flying SQ but this time around my wife will be sitting next to me, so instead of doing this , I'll be doing this .

Great minds think alike huynhie :lol:

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:27 pm**

Leek,

It's not great minds, it's more like dirty minds

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:26 pm**

huynhie wrote:I know exactly what you mean! A direct SYD-LAX will be over 16hours

SYD-LAX is 13.5 hours. LAX-SYD is 14.5 hours.

All direct.

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:39 pm**

Shouldn't they each be the same length of time?

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:45 pm**

nope... prevailing westerlies

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:46 pm**

You'd think so, but the winds bugger things up. Same with SYD-LHR and LHR-SYD, the new fangled Boeing aeroplane can do SYD-LHR non-stop but not LHR-SYD because of the headwind on the way back.

leek wrote:Personally I try to as much as possible on long flights...

But when the wife is i might get a chance to do a bit of

Quoted for truth!

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:23 pm**

Onyx,

Chryssine and I wish you a great stay in Honkers. As you know, she loves the place and your departure means the pressure is on me to take her back :lol:

We'll all miss you so have fun and we'll see you soon

Posted: **Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:04 pm**

Chi, i know you've already gone, but enjoy your time over there, stay safe and don't go out late at night by yourself. I've seen some of the HK movies and it looks a really dangerous place, with samurai warriors, Mafia, Yakuza and Triad gangs all over the place and bent cops on the streets dealing in bad justice.

make sure you come back in one piece and on your own feet. See if you can pick up a wife for yourself too. There's lots of pretty Chinese girls over there.

See ya soon, three months ain't that long.

(Don't forget to mention to Mr Poon that he should open a Paris or London office with you as manager)

Posted: **Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:34 pm**

Thanx for your kind remarks everyone. I am having a ball. The language barrier I'm encountering is a bit awkward, as I look like I should be able to speak Cantonese like the rest of em.

Singapore airlines rule! Anyone who's flown post 9/11 might appreciate this: on the Sng to HK segment, I got issued a metal knife with the cutlery set!!! I couldn't believe it!

Posted: **Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:45 pm**

Onyx wrote:Thanx for your kind remarks everyone. I am having a ball. The language barrier I'm encountering is a bit awkward, as I look like I should be able to speak Cantonese like the rest of em.

Singapore airlines rule! Anyone who's flown post 9/11 might appreciate this: on the Sng to HK segment, I got issued a metal knife with the cutlery set!!! I couldn't believe it!

Within Asia, all airlines don't care and the bad guy didn't pick any of these countries, flying into North America or Europe or Australia, there're problems. You'll never heard any terrosist in HKG or China mainland and I wish Australia go back its golden age without many enemies.

Posted: **Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:07 pm**

Onyx wrote:Singapore airlines rule! Anyone who's flown post 9/11 might appreciate this: on the Sng to HK segment, I got issued a metal knife with the cutlery set!!! I couldn't believe it!

A metal knife ...

A metal knife ...

A metal knife ...

A metal knife ...

A metal knife ...

Posted: **Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:18 pm**

Birddog114 wrote:.... and I wish Australia go back its golden age without many enemies.

Here, here...

Cheers

Matt

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Onyx is leaving for HKG today for 3 months

Onyx is leaving for HKG today for 3 months