When returning from LA to Nadi on 8th, the Air Pacific route seems to be taken up by United Airlines. Review on the United Airlines especially on long flights.
The Boeing 747 was really old and no inseat tv set.
catering service is really crap
especially some of the germans who were vegie’s ended up with either Beef [...]
I have not updated my website for a while, finally i managed to find some time to update my blog. Well i got married in May 28 and moved with my wife in Sacramento, California. I have been traveling back and forth to Fiji and USA since my folks are currently staying in Fiji. My [...]
Posted in General, Travel, Vanuatu 2007 on Jan 28th, 2007
On Saturday’s and Sunday Vanuatu is pretty much dead, we managed to checkout the City, which has some nice Duty Free shops. This was the first time i tried Vietnamese Food, i had Chicken & Prawn with Rice and salad. The sauce was really nice. Vanuatu is really really expensive to live in. Food prices [...]
Posted in General, Travel, Vanuatu 2007 on Jan 26th, 2007
We reached Port Vila around 10pm on 25th and Vanuatu is 1hr behined Fiji. It is very hot hia and humidity is very high. Managed to get some decent sleep and we walked to the Emalus Campus from Le Meridien, which seemed like a very tiring walk. We managed to setup the Emalus Campus server [...]
Posted in General, Samoa 2006, Travel on Dec 21st, 2006
Last night we went out to Hotel Millenia Samoa for dinner, Sia also accompanied us for dinner. I had Pan-fried Masi Masi with mashed potato and steamed veggies. We had few Vailima’s and later on guys from IRETA also joined us for few drinks. I had lovely time. Around 11pm we came to the hotel [...]
Posted in General, Samoa 2006, Travel on Dec 20th, 2006
Our fifth day in Samoa started really well. Breakfast was same old same old. To our surprise when we came to the Campus, the n/w connectivity was still down. Sanjeet managed to call guys in Laucala Campus and put some sense into them. After 1hr, n/w connectivity become stable.
We also got invited to the Alafua [...]
Posted in General, Samoa 2006, Travel on Dec 19th, 2006
Last night Mac and i had dinner at Seaview Restaurant, we had Kaki Fried Oyster as Entree, Chicken Teriyaki and Sweet & Sour Pork, Sanjeet went to another Restaurant since he was veggie. So mac and i had a nice dinner, after we managed to finish 3/4 bottle of Jack Daniels. Slept like a baby [...]
Posted in General, Samoa 2006, Travel on Dec 18th, 2006
Today is the first day we came to the Alafua Campus and it was good to see that our server and switch was there for us to work on. Before coming to Samoa, we made sure that the customs has pasted “FRAGILE” sticker all over the server and switch boxes. The server box was a [...]
Posted in General, Samoa 2006, Travel on Dec 17th, 2006
I woke up after Mac (Vijesh) knocked on my door, after shower we had breakfast, which was very nice, we had toast, eggs and coffee. After chatting with Shiney (Sanjeet) and Mac (Vijesh), Sia gave us a call and we wanted to pick us up and take us to show us Hotel Kitano, since one [...]
Posted in General, Samoa 2006 on Dec 16th, 2006
We arrived in Samoa around 12:50am Samoa time, and it is Saturday early morning, so we have gained a day over hia. It is pretty hot hia compared to Fiji. Foreign passport holders line took a lot of time. Finally when we came to pick out luggage, our CISCO Switch was nowhere to be seen, [...]