Came in yesterday DAD-SIN-MEL. On the 737-8 from Da Nang, service was really good, with attentive communicative crew. One of the couple in front of me was celebrating a birthday and SQ (clearly pre-arranged by the partner) had
a little birthday treat for her. It was surprisingly cute, and thankfully without singing. A tray was presented with two pieces of some cake, a card, some Christmas-tree-style lights, and a glass of dry-ice to create a disco mood

. The only downside was that once the dry-ice had been dampened, the whole disco mood was a bit more like fog-on-moors, and I wondered if the pax might end up not being able to see each other.
The connection at SIN was a little tighter than I prefer - 1h from disembarkation, given the gates ended up being at pretty much opposite ends of Changi (F35 to C1... could have been worse though, like C26

). It gave me the opportunity to evaluate
the official walking-time estimates between sections of terminals shown on the airport map, and I'm happy to report (I'm sure others have as well in other comments/threads) that at a relatively brisk pace, I'd say the walking times are approx half of the stated times (e.g. the length of T3, from transfer A to transfer B, is stated as 11 mins, but was doable briskly in 5min, and less than that if you have "very brisk" or "jog" functions available.
Meanwhile, on the overnight flight to MEL I had selected the full chicken satay as the meal and it was really nice having a decent portion, even if the rest of catering on these "sleeper service" flights is subpar - only sweet bread/pastry, no dessert, etc, which I think is an insult for flights that ain't no cheaper.
