Nano comes out of hibernation

There are times in my life when I need my iPod Nano.
I think the time has come for it to serve its mistress again. Hardly used, it's normally chucked in a place that renders it completely forgotten, easily for months to years at a time. Its small storage does not make it useful enough for me to use it on a daily basis. But when the occasion calls for it, the 8GB storage is still good enough.

Don't judge! This cable is my old iPod's, making it approximately 9 years old
hence the discoloration. 

Don't you love the yellow colour? It is so pop!

Looking now to buy an iPod Touch since my iPod 5th Gen has seen better days. If only the Touch comes in yellow, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately not a fan of any of the colours currently on retail.

Edit: Listening to songs on the Nano now reminds me of something I had concluded before - the Nano produces much better sound than the iPod (the old ones at least) and iPhone. So much ooomph on the Nano, like a cili padi. 

Poor boy

His mum would be very surprised later at how her child got wet. 

Back from Axxxxxxxx. 

Thank goodness it's a flight I only do once a few years. 

Bunch of monkeys. 

What I really really really dislike about my rank

Being promoted means I've to assess other crew PFFFFT.
I really hate it.
Firstly I don't like to assess people (other than in my head). Secondly I love this job because there's no homework! But of course that has now changed. Now I'm still awake at 4.24 am (Indian time) because I'm writing a check report which isn't the easiest in the world. It's easy to give good appraisals. Bad appraisals, really tough.

Don't give me anymore assessment reports to do for the rest of the year, please.
I just wanna relax in my Marriott bed. 

Panic is kicking in

AHHHHH!!!!!

I haven't got enough time.
Panic panic panic.

Almost two months left to the BP banquet. TWO MONTHS! Where did all the time go to!! T___T *wails*

Less than 3 months to the Singapore banquet. A tonne of things that I've yet to do.
And I've not much time in Singapore and BP to get them done.
This is crazy. *pulls hair*

Life of a cabin crew - no time in base!

Off days are packed as f**k!

I love my time overseas as it is indeed the only time to R&R and switch my mind off. Every time I come back I've errands to run and chores to do. Ugh.

All colleagues share the same sentiments. We all lead very relaxed life overseas but the moment we come back to Singapore, we are really just too pressed for time. More so for crew with children, they normally catch up with sleep overseas.

I'm currently blogging this on my maiden trip to JB Larkin from Rochor on CW2.
I really dislike taking bus - too much hassle (I guess there are some people in the world who also complain about taking commercial planes for flights when they normally fly on private jets pfft) and stress.... I've to do this because I need to get my curtains sorted asap. Don't have time to wait till noon for the private cab.
Let's see how many more of such trips I've to make before the big day. 

Photo choosing

Less than a month ago was my pre-wedding photoshoot.

Yesterday, Markus and I went down to select our photos.
Out of the more than 400 photos taken, 199 were selected by the photographer to be edited and then presented to us.

We were very very worried after the photoshoot that the photos will turn out bad. The poses were awkward, and we felt forced to pose all the time. We didn't feel there was any chemistry or any chance for us to be natural in the photos.
Well, guess what. Leave it to the professionals.
Our worries were unfounded, and we were presented with a new set of problems - too many photos that we like.

Our package comes with only 30 photos, and no matter how hard we tried, we just couldn't throw out 150 photos. I had somewhat mentally prepared myself to pay for excess 30 photos (which are at $115++ each) but NOTHING prepared us to pay for 110 photos.
I think as hard as we tried, we still had about 80 photos left.


As I was trying to pick out the photos in the very final round (desperately trying to bring down the number), the consultant was like, "Ah, stop picking them out!! You're going to spoil the flow of the album!!" and then she made a deal with us.
It was not easy financially settling even for the deal. I hope though the albums (yup, from one album it has become two now) will turn out beautifully.


The consultant placed a great deal of importance on the feel of the photos. Turns out that the colour scheme in which the backdrops were chosen in the studio all had some kind of sequence. Then there are the outdoor photos which the consultant said the colours don't blend very well with our indoor set. If we were to make it into one album, the the overall feel wouldn't be nice thus she recommended us to split our photos to two albums.


It's not easy to throw out photos you love.
I can understand now why people feel sad when they're down to that (but it's a better problem to have than to have no good photos to choose from). I've read in forums and heard from the photo consultant that people have even cried as they had to force themselves to leave out photos they love due to financial burden.


It's almost done. 3 months to the big day. I'm glad to have a wonderful photography team behind me!

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Overheard in a K-pop song:

"I got that body, you got that body, now you and me let's make somebody." WHAT? 

In Frankfurt, the crew hotel is located just opposite a congress center. When I walk back to the hotel from shopping, I usually bump into people who are there to attend conventions and whatnots.  This time there were many Chinese. And I saw on a quieter side of the Messer Turm, a man just standing around and then...he spit. UGH!  

Tried Magnolia Bakery in Dubai, finally tried the original Magnolia Bakery in New York. I'm signing it off. I probably used up my monthly sugar quota over ONE cupcake. That banana pudding that I had in Dubai probably gave me mild diabetes. 

First class passengers are indeed the nicest. 

Uncle Rick and Auntie Lin are back. Was shocked to find out this is only the second time dad has met Father Ricky. C'mon..... it's not as though Father Ricky doesn't come back to BP....

I don't know if Americans are full of shit or what. I was at Trader Joe's and I saw organic food for pets. (And right outside TJ was a man begging for small change.)

Jet-lag monologue

Goodnight. Another half an hour before Xavier wakes the world up. 

Downtown

I normally move about NYC on my own. I don't like having to wait for people or having people to wait for me while I do my shopping.

Since yesterday was the last day of Columbus Day sales, I had already done my shopping right after touch down. That leaves my day today clear with nothing to do. The Body World exhibition that I had planned to go for had ended last month :(

When Yen Chi said she was going down to 21st Street to Trader Joe's, I decided to go with her. Along the way we had breakfast and on our way back we stopped at a few shops to shop and to eat (more).
If you asked me to walk to 21st Street on any other day I would say you're crazy. I'm at a hotel between 44th and 45th, on 8th Avenue. The furthest I normally venture to is Koreantown which is on 32nd street between Fifth and 6th Avenue. I would normally be sick of walking by then because it gets boring and very tiresome dealing with the crowd and the noise of car horns. Never did I imagine that I got to 21st and back fairly quickly, and from 21st, we headed to 56th.

Walked a total of 9.9 km on a chilly but sunny day. Couldn't have asked for better company and weather.

And now my standby in New York starts. Can't go out anymore so I've Running Man to keep me company. Let the laughter begin!

*21st is also in the district of Chelsea, which was a target of terrorists with pressure cookers a few weeks ago. 

Everyone's in HK but me!!!

This weekend I see tooooooo many posts of my friends enjoying their time in Hong Kong, before the big day of Chin Shi tomorrow.

Tomorrow will definitely be havoc because it'll be the first time my friends go through the HK style of gate-crashing and attending a HK wedding.

With much regret, I am not there to be a part of giving my dear Noi away T_____T

I don't know why everyone's just getting married within these few months. SO MANY CLOSE FRIENDS' weddings that I have to miss. :(

While it seems like the world is feasting on dim sum and seafood and French toast and yinyong tea, I'll be having wurst (ha, like real) and beer (ha..)... and lobster roll and donuts... :(

Best pax award

I don't know if I mentioned this before...

Some months ago on a flight to Australia, First Class Passenger 2F who is also Mr. Super Polite gave the crew a box of Godiva chocolates at the end of the flight.
He thanked the crew for taking care of him (aw, *blush* but you're at 2F!). I didn't want to take it but he wouldn't take the chocolate back. He told me to share it with all the crew on the flight.

Well, 4 months later, I received an email from The Company conveying an email that Mr. 2F wrote.
I actually didn't remember who Mr. 2F was. I just happened to trace the crew of the flight (whee, it was a flight where I worked with my batch boy) and then recalled that's the flight we had chocolates to eat in the bus!

Mr. 2F is soooooooo humble, so polite, I couldn't have asked for a better pax. He even took time to email the company to compliment the crew T____T.
I have his name. If I have him on my flight again, I'll give him Super VIP treatment man. Maybe a serving of melted cheese on crackers with sugar hahaha. Or a cup of Teh Tarik.

This time last year

I just touched down from Osaka. This time last year, I was also in Osaka. It was a very special trip, and how coincidental that I should be back in the same place exactly a year on!.

Exactly a year ago, Markus and I made a trip all the way to Uehommachi to have dessert at Nakatani. Luck wasn't on our side as it was their off day. This time, the shop was open so I ate dessert for two!

During that trip, Markus packed a knife so that we could eat honey melon every day hahaha! This time I brought the honey melon back. That time too he drank Calpis every day. Again, I have brought Calpis back with me.

Japan is always special!

Post-holiday blues

BACK!!!
Looking at the pile of laundry from photoshoot day + Taipei trip (that is one stinking pile) and these last two days'.... ughhhh.
I've barely been back at my place for more than 5 hours each time for a while now.

Ah, the fanmeet. As I looked at Taeyang whipping his hair side to side, I'm like, "IS THIS REAL, I'm actually seeing this live?" Lol.

I miss the boys already... I think the fanmeet went even better in Singapore. They even picked 4 fans to go onstage to play games with them T__T

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I've not been as furious as I was this morning towards service staff in the longest time.
At 3.30 a.m., I stormed down to the hotel lobby and I demanded to see the duty manager. After 3 calls to them and them being unable to prevent my lights from coming on FULL BLAST on its own, I SHOUTED at him for the next 10 minutes, and I even banged the table. You know, it's really what they say, bang table.
The next morning, I woke up and the hotel pissed me off again, so I called front desk and asked if the duty manager has come in for the morning. This time, instead of making a scene at the lobby, I told her to come to my room. After all, there's good reason because I needed to proof to her what a shit room I got as replacement. You don't give your angry customer another shit room. You just don't do that. I assured her I will be diligently doing a review on my stay at the website where I booked the room.

Don't fucking give me a room with dummy switches/uninvited guests while claiming it's an upgrade. I just want to sleep peacefully in a dark room!

Strangest road trip

This is the most unusual road trip with Markus in the last 4.5 years.

BIGBANG playing on the radio (it's never K-pop), BIGBANG lightstick beside me, and a bag of food basket prepared by his mum.


OFF WE GO TO KL!

ARRIVED.

Arrived safely. See you later!