Helloooooooo NRT

Today is about shopping at my favourite supermarket, having my favourite tempura and then my favourite chicken katsu. 

Today is also about buying back those freaking sweet summer fruits. 

Today is the day I will look like a China tourist because Imma go shopping with my luggage >.<

What to do, need to buy honey melons. 

NARITA, I'VE WAITED A LONG TIME TO BE BACK!

Sunset glow

Totally framed the husband in my latest Facebook post. 

I won't talk about the movie but rather what happened at the movie.

One woman who sat behind me took phone calls TWICE during the movie, and happily chatted through them. 

It's 2016. This kinda basic courtesy at the cinemas she doesn't know??

I'm not kidding that this woman chatted for the next two minutes or so prompting many people, even those from MANY MANY MANY rows in front, to turn around. 

Another embarrassing moment

On the mother of all turnarounds, on the second leg, I had these men who didn't look very decent. 2 of them young, another 2 probably in their 40s. They have the "rusty-face" (Hokkien). The older men wore tight t-shirts, whereas the younger ones wore loose designer t-shirts. 

The younger ones took the first middle row of the cabin. One of the them was more Ah Beng than the other. He's the one I wanna talk about. On ground his two feet were up against the wall at my eye level. The aisle is only that small so when I walked past his seat, I was greeted by his feet. 

He chose not to eat so right after take off, he called me, "Hey! HEYYY!!" Pfft. 

He wanted his bed done so I did it for him. After I had done his bed I caught sight of his diamond-studded RM watch. S$500k maybe? 

I was shocked. I went back to tell my chief if he saw and he said he did. He said they look like dodgy people. 

About 15 minutes after captain made the preparation for landing announcement, I went to the toilet in the front of the cabin. There were no more paper hand towels and I was reluctant to use the disposable hand towels. My hands were maybe only half dry from using facial tissue papers when I stepped out and saw that this dude was still comfortably watching a movie in bed! 

I immediately told him his bed must be converted back to a seat and as I gestured, he wiped something off his forehead. Then I realized it must be a water droplet from my hand that fell on his face. 

I WANTED TO DIE. 

I apologized profusely and assured him it's clean water even though that is bad enough. In that moment I was more afraid of him thinking it's saliva! 

He kept saying it's alright but T____T 

If this had happened in the back streets of Mongkok I think I would lose my hands... 

Depressing

I had a course recently where the trainer, who didn't look more than 50, said that's she's at the age where she attends more funerals than weddings. 

It's so sad to think that one day I'll come to that stage too. I didn't realize how lucky I am to be at the age where I get to attend weddings until now. Weddings over funerals any time. 

Never more willing

Got called up to do the most dreaded turnaround tomorrow. Mother of all turnarounds. But I've never been more willing! Never more willing to take a turnaround than a long flight because FRIDAYYYY is movie day!!! 

Need a black t-shirt with five stripes, pronto!

World domination

The concert - well, I guess I never stood a chance against those hardcore fans. Besides there's an audit flight that coincides with that concert so I can't change away the flight. 

The movie, my ticket is for this Friday. 

I'm really keeping my fingers crossed. I bought the tickets (for Markus and I) even though I'm on standby on Thursday. 

Too much

Really. Too much. 

:(

I had such a bad flight today. 

Every damn problem that could happen on a plane happened to me/my galley. 

Defects/Shit I faced today: 

Galley ✔️

Toilets ✔️

Cabin ✔️

Pax ✔️

Meals ✔️

Special meal ✔️

Inflight Entertainment ✔️

CREW ✔️

Isn't it everything already that encompasses the whole flight? 

I felt so weighed down that I'm glad my senior partner told me to take the first rest period to sleep it off. 

The moment I drew the bunk curtain shut, tears just flowed. 

There were a few moments that I saw kindness in people behind all that ugliness and unfortunate events. 

I'm thankful for those moments and support.

While it was a terrible flight, the beauty of this job is, the 12.5 hour flight ends. 

The flight is over. Those people who made me upset today are people I won't (likely) see again. 

O.M.G. my memory

Hg4.com/boyzone 

Wtf. 

Suddenly this part of my memory came back to me just like that. 

Pfft

Know-it-all guy from know-it-all country refused to bring down the window shade on my last overnight flight. 

He asked why. I said we are flying into daybreak. 

His smug reply: "What daybreak? We are landing at 6.30 a.m."

Wow. I think the souls of my eyes rolled until they left my head momentarily. 

At 4.30 a.m., my partner colleague asked if we should wake the pax up to see the bright sky outside. 

When I went to serve the pilots a meal at about that time, Captain also asked me to wake the pax up to show him what it looks like outside. 

Seriously. Why would he wanna act smart over such things with a cabin crew??? He wanna act smart over economics or physics it's fine. But this?!

Gave my colleagues something good to laugh about. 

The new leading stewardess

Edit: I learned there are 11 Pokemon Centers in Japan. But the Pokemon Outbreak is in Yokohama every summer. 

CHARMANDER!

Super adorable. 

Was in Yokohama. Yokohama is like Pokemon HQ (not quite HQ but a Pokemon Center is there) and there's a Pokemon festival every year. It's coming this summer in two weeks' time. Children at the Minato Mirai area were wearing Pikachu paper hats. Landmark Plaza also has a Pikachu chandelier. In fact, the Sakuragicho station has Pikachus plastered on the facade above the station name. 

My colleague is a huge Pokemon fan. She brought this home with her. Apparently there's a much larger Pikachu soft toy on sale but she said Pikachu is too mainstream. I guess she's right. Go Charmander! 

In this week's Forbes

'Twas a slow night flight so I picked up a copy of Forbes to see what's interesting... 

I found something very interesting indeed. 

Here's the band that earned $44 million in 2015, and about to stage the largest concert in Korea ever (yes, the one I'm missing). 

Behind those sad eyes

I recently had this prominent businessman on my flight.
His family is massive in both Singapore and Malaysia.
He was the kind who loves to talk to ladies, but he looked sad somehow. I wanted to feel some positive vibes from him but I just couldn't...

Today I googled him and realized that he lost a child in Malaysia to a tragic accident not too long ago.

I guess the pain of losing a child never goes away.

1996

Wannabe and MmmBop were released 20 years ago. 

Conclusion: Summer 1996 produced the catchiest songs ever. 

Bigbang 10

FML. 

When Bigbang announced last month a special 10th year anniversary concert to be held at the Seoul World Cup stadium this August, I was very worried that I will not be able to get my hands on those tickets that will sell out in minutes. I was worried because I would be at the mercy of my roster! 

I thought the tickets would be released a few days after the announcement. 

Much later I found out that tickets would be released only on the 14th of July, I thought, "Hmm my lucky stars are watching me!" After all, rosters are usually released before the 10th of every month. I would by then know if I have the off days to go to Seoul. 

Guess what. THIS MONTH, roster (for August) is released only on the 15th wtf!!! Why like this?!?!?! I'll never be able to get the tickets. 

I'll buy the DVD la :( 

About to check-in my own pillow!

I must sleep on firm pillows. My daily pillow is a contour pillow. Even latex pillows are like hmmm doable but doesn't give me the proper support.

So I dislike hotels that give me dead flat pillows, i.e. those which you can stack 4 pillows on top of one another and it still sinks all the way down. Pisses me off. 

This happened to me in Shanghai. I was there last month and I had such a bad sleep. I folded the pillows in halves and stacked them up. It was during check out that I saw a pillow menu on the side table of the other bed in the room. Told myself I'll use it the next time I come to this hotel. 

So two nights ago, I felt triumphant because I remembered there's a pillow menu. I love this hotel, but it's just the pillows I've a problem with. I rung the front desk and asked for a contour pillow. 

When the housekeeper came with it, the small sack she passed me looked suspiciously small for a CONTOUR PILLOW. 

As you can see, it eventually turned out to be a neck support pillow. 

Once again I couldn't sleep well in such a nice room. 

I'm gonna try the latex pillow next time. Hope it doesn't disappoint otherwise I'll have to pack my own pillow in future. 

One of the embarrassing things that can happen to you in the gym...

You decide to take an old pair of shoes out to use at the gym. After all, you're not running so very little chance the sole is gonna fall off. 

But the shoes decide to fall apart slowly as well while you're just doing stretches...

Except that it isn't happening to you, but me. 

Shit my friends had to do

Listening to Jay Chou now... And I'm reminded of something that came up in a conversation between my friends last week. 

While reminiscing high school days and my dismal competency in the Chinese language, they lamented how I'd pester (force) them to write out full pinyin lyrics. 

I remember among those were An Jing, Gigi Leung's Dan Xiao Gui and Stephen Fung & Kelly's Bei Ji Xue. 

To be honest, it's not just one Jay Chou song. It was probably the entire album! 

<3 my friends. 

Love for Julie's

Last weekend I was in Malacca with Markus. 

Just because I briefly mentioned that Julie's is from Malacca, he made it a point to go straight to the supermarket to clear the shelf of Julie's chocolate love letters. 

It was embarrassing carrying all that to the car. 

And even more embarrassing to carry them all into the hotel. Luckily I had a spare empty check-in luggage in the boot.... 

To the gods, the angels, the ancestors, the deities

Thank you. 

At 31, I still feel very blessed. 

Suicide bomber

I was in London with Dental Girl Evelyn.

I saw this man who was smartly dressed. White shirt, black necktie, black coat but his face was nervous. His actions, suspicious. And he looked Middle Eastern (sorry, don't meant to stereotype!). 

It was so crowded in that shopping area but he just stood out. My gut feelings said RUN. 

I shouted for Evelyn who was not beside me. I said we need to get out of here. Then we ran and ran as fast as we could towards the hotel. I've never run faster in my life. I thought the hotel was the best place because if I was tired I could still have a bed to sleep on in case the city was in a lockdown. Shortly after we started running we heard a very loud blast. We just kept running.As I ran in my dream, my head hurt SO MUCH in real life wtf. I couldn't wake up from the dream. All I know was I was breathing heavily (because I was running damn fast in the dream) and my headache was bad.

I must have been really tired because in my dream, a bed was more important than anything else when considering where to hide in a terrorist attack...  

That's why we are together

Went to the gym today (today is a Sunday, can buy 4D) and realized that we both actually have the same pair of shoes except that his is in red/black combo whilst mine is in red/yellow. 

They're both the Lunarfly 4 - all these while I thought this red pair of mine was a Free. This is the most under-used pair of sports shoes I have had.  

Malacca-bound!

Going to Malacca later. That's my first trip since getting married. 

FML is this considered my honeymoon trip?!!

Parameswara would be proud. 

30 is coming to an end

The awesome year that's being 30 is almost at an end. 

Let's hope 31 will be just an amazing year. 

Hope you're all enjoying life as much as I am.