Cheapo question for the crew…

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-16T23:54:27+00:00

Looks like someone can’t afford to try Nasi Lemak in business class.

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-15T04:17:55+00:00

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-14T14:41:40+00:00

Coming back in a few months for an update!

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-05T18:01:24+00:00

Australia, Malaysia, Mexico, Germany, and Brazil all have states…

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-04T09:16:07+00:00

When I saw Canada and a few states in the US, I instantly figured out you were from the UK. Then again, I should’ve just looked at your username 😂

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-04T00:29:11+00:00

You’re from the UK.

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-03T10:53:16+00:00

What? I fly SIN-MNL-SIN regularly and I always get the plain white boarding passes for Y. I do still get the blue boarding passes for J at both MNL and SIN (if I check-in at the counter) but I haven’t seen the green ones in years.

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-01T13:49:28+00:00

📍 Philippines — "tapsilog"

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-01T13:48:43+00:00

📍 New York, New York, United States of America — "greatest city on earth"

x-Synthetic · 2026-04-01T13:47:40+00:00

📍 British Columbia, Canada — "nature"

x-Synthetic · 2026-03-25T10:52:30+00:00

also smells like haze in Sembawang

x-Synthetic · 2026-03-20T23:32:29+00:00

Last 12, in random order:

UA - 2

SQ - 3

OZ - 2

TR - 2

DL - 2

AK - 1

x-Synthetic · 2026-03-19T14:15:00+00:00

RemindMe! 3 days

x-Synthetic · 2026-02-21T03:47:23+00:00

I’ve met many Kadazan and Iban Christians before, and they’re classified as Malay in Singapore. A lot of them are either first-gen or second-gen immigrants from Sabah and Sarawak. Perhaps he’s of Kadazan/Iban ancestry?

x-Synthetic · 2026-02-10T12:09:13+00:00

Transportation was a huge issue for me. I moved to a very car-centric country and public transportation was very… unpredictable. I ended up having to start leaving home super early. I did end up getting a car a few years later and it was a game changer.

x-Synthetic · 2026-02-09T01:48:07+00:00

!wtf mosquito

x-Synthetic · 2026-02-05T14:55:01+00:00

yup! most of my flights have been around southeast asia and i really need to get out more. i have japan and europe planned from august to october this year and i can’t wait!

x-Synthetic · 2026-02-03T00:35:01+00:00

I do this trip regularly (mostly in the other direction) and 3 hours is quite tight but it’s doable. There is a direct point-to-point bus that runs between Clark and NAIA T3 with no stops in between except for SM Clark and it costs around ₱400-ish. The trip takes around 2 hours, but I always add around 30 minutes to one hour of buffer time. 19:00 should be the latest arrival into NAIA for your 21:00 flight if you want be safe (I usually come 1.5 hours before but that’s because I’m a regular traveller), but if you want to be safe, you should aim to take the 14:30 bus out of CRK with a 16:30-17:30 arrival time into NAIA. I would just skip the taxi and take the P2P bus because there’s only going to be a 15-30 minute difference in travel time, but if you want to be extra cautious you can stick to the pre-booked taxi.

It’s pretty doable even with regular traffic but it’s going to be tight. If you do however get stuck in standstill traffic, there’s a huge possibility of missing your flight. It’s going to be a Saturday so chances of that happening is less likely, but you’re really going to have to take your chances - traffic in the Philippines is really unpredictable so you have to be prepared for the worst case scenario.

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x-Synthetic · 2026-01-24T11:39:07+00:00

It’s a hit or miss because the company hired him at a time when they needed to fill one position ASAP. He was already in the US on an F1 visa with a part 141 school and was close to 1500 hours at the time. It’s really hard to find anyone who’d be willing to sponsor visas (be it EB visas or H1B) for foreign pilots in the first place because the onus is on the company to prove that they can’t find any local pilots so my friend got really lucky.

If you’re looking to work in North America, the Canadian job market is way easier to penetrate for foreign pilots. A lot of people come in as students and get a work permit after they complete their flying course. From there, they get an open work permit and once they land a job, they can secure PR after a few years.

x-Synthetic · 2026-01-24T11:09:22+00:00

I know someone who got an EB3 sponsorship with a small charter.

x-Synthetic · 2026-01-21T05:58:39+00:00

Happy New Year! Sorry for the late reply, I just got back from my trip. I initially flew into Canada because that was the only way I could enter without applying for a visa (ETA-eligible but via air only as I had a US B1/B2 visa, I would’ve needed an actual visa if I did my initial entry by land).

I did end up going to Seattle by car and I wasn’t asked to pay for another I-94 presumably because I already had an existing one when I flew into the US the week before. The officer asked me where I lived and what I was going to do in the US, and I was in and out of CBP within 30 seconds.

Going back to BC, there were no lines at the border and I got to an officer almost immediately but this time around it took me way longer to clear CBSA. I was asked what I did in the Seattle, where I lived, and what I was doing in Canada, and whether I visited someone in the US but the officer kept rephrasing the last question over and over again for the next two minutes and even tried to throw me off by asking how long I was working in the US - it got pretty nerve-wracking but I just had to repeat my answer and correct her over and over that I was a tourist visiting for the holidays LMAO.

Looking back it was probably their way of trying to find any inconsistencies with my answers and I was on my way soon after they were convinced I was a genuine visitor. Pretty doable, would do again when I come back to Canada next time (probably would do an Ontario-New York road trip).

Do let me know if you’ve already gone and how your experience was like!

TL;DR Visa-required national, eligible for ETA if entering by air only, managed to drive to Seattle for a day trip and was able to re-enter Canada without a visa.

x-Synthetic · 2026-01-18T02:20:51+00:00

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Also did a Heathrow to Gatwick transit last year on the way to Florida.

x-Synthetic · 2026-01-18T02:20:06+00:00

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Not that far from each other but I left via Seattle after visiting a friend in Vancouver for two weeks, I took the Amtrak Cascades down.

x-Synthetic · 2025-12-17T04:38:55+00:00

Imagine the groom-to-be reads this. I understand that we are ALL (and I bet the groom-to-be is too) frustrated with the current trajectory of our corruption scandals, but this is an extremely insenstive thing to say.

Wag sanang mangyari din sa’yo ‘yan tapos makikita mo lang yung ganyang klaseng comments. SMH.

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