Outstanding effort! You must get super energy from all that bubbly - I'm usually a year or so behind on writing up trips for my journal.
I'll be following in your shoesteps in a couple of weeks. AKL-HKG-SIN-HKG on CX before taking the arvo CX to Heathrow.
CX is my favorite carrier. I love their meal service and those cutesy little salt and pepper rocks. I've had some excellent FAs on CX. Hoping to run into Gina again - she soothed my ruffled nerves NRT-HKG last year when I lost my book of tickets, made sure I had a window seat, kept the spiced tomato juice flowing, posed with my bear etc.
The seats and the goodies and the meals are all very well, but cabin crew who engage with you and satisfy your individual needs make a flight a truly great experience.
I tend to feel a bit self-conscious taking photographs of plates of meat, but I can see that the pix add to the TR, so maybe I'll see if I can unshy myself a bit. Perhaps the champagne will do the trick...