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watzzup people~!!!
haha~i'm back...its been barely a week and already i'm thick in the midst of OT-ing. Haha~ but i'm loving it. Regular office hours~! woohoo~!! I love waking up at 7 am every weekday, leaving the house at 8, reaching office at 9 and eating breakfast till 9.15am while i grab a cuppa and chat with hana at the pantry..looking forward to my first regular wkend in 14months~!

In case u're wondering y i havent blogged about europe, i'll have u know that silly kuku me took Chris's sd card instead of mine back to SG so i'm still waiting for it to arrive in the mail. Haha~ seem like there's some stewardess blood in me left..wahaha~

Meantime u can all drop by chris's blog http://aveolution.wordpress.com/ to look at the photos we took with our cameras.
Gotta sleep. Its already 2am. Long day ahead.
Weekend is coming~!!!yay~! =)

Just got back to Maastricht from brussels today. Woah i've been in europe for 2 weeks already..i only have another 1 and a half weeks left here..sobs

Europe is great but travelling has been rather tiring. I've visited so many museums, churches and palaces, i'm starting to develop an allergy to it...haha.

Been to Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, Krakow, Cologne, Brugges, Brussels and of course Maastricht in the short 2 weeks i've been here...too many places squeezed into such a tight time frame that i'm feeling a travel overkill.

Been unpacking, doing laundry and packing again constantly. Wish i had more time in Maastricht to enjoy a stroll along the river Maas, or more time to do shopping in H & M.

Speaking of shopping, I LOvE the H and M stores here in europe~!

They have really nice top-shop/mango-y clothes and since its winter now, alot of the clothes are going for 20 euros and below. I managed to score some great buys at under 5 euros per piece. Haha~The sugar waffles here in Maastricht are great too. I've tasted the one in belgium but they are nothing really compared to the ones here in Maastricht.

Gonna go explore maastricht tmr since its one of my rare free days here. I'll be going to Amsterdam the day after tmr on 7th nov and to Paris on 10th nov. Super excited about Paris. Chris's friends just came back from there today and they said its the best city in europe! Haha I'm pretty looking forward to the 5-storeys LV 'castle' and the ultra big Longchamp outlet they have on Champs Elysee...but i'm looking forward to touring the louvre and Musee d orsay, as well as the Arc de triomphe, Notre dame and Eiffel tower more of course...hehe.

I just realised that in the midst of all this touring, I forgot to wish my brother happy birthday. hehe..

Time to do laundry. Bonne nuit~!

A few photos out of the 1000 plus i took so far.Magical Prague

Picturesque Salzburg Old and new in SalzburgSchonbrunn palace garden, ViennaHofburg palace in ViennaFields near Krakow.

# 26

Been re-watching some of my fav jap dramas from long ago.
Brings back lots of good memories.
I personally believe the moving theme songs and ost are the things that make jap drama more successful than k-drama.
i'm a sucker for emo things like that. =)
For all of u out there who used to stay up late into the night watching j-drama, and thus turning up at sch with eyes swollen from crying too much, here's a trip down memory lane.

My fav jap drama theme songs.

101 proposal


long vacation


tokyo cinderella story aka my sister


Our house aka under one roof


love generation


overtime


first love

# 25

The two gawgeous gals on my left are my airline besties aka as my darlings.

Bitching and gossiping with them about people in the airline and our flights are the only things i'm gonna miss when i leave...and i'm gonna miss that sooo much.

Knowing these 2 crazy, fun, pretty and wonderful gals is the singular best thing that happened to me in the airline.

I only wish i've known them sooner.

Its official! My last day will be on the 14th Oct 2007.

Suuuuuper looking forward to a life with:

~ wkends

~ peak hour mrt squeeze

~ datelines, endless talk about architecture and how u can never make big money from it

~ 3d max and vray (yes!)

~ shopping for heels

~ buying clothes and bags after work to relieve work stress

~ public holidays!!! Woooohooo~!

I 'heart' xmas, new year and chi new year and cant wait to celebrate them this hear, after having to work thru them last year. Can u believe i was working all 3 of these holidays?! woohooo~!!

Hey ARCHITECTURE~! Watch out for my return!

Bye to:

~ standby callups

~ rude crew shed

~ yaya-papaya CICs

~ mood-swing monsters

~ kanchiong spider seniors

~ waking up at 3.30am for flights

~ serving masala chicken at 3.30am in the morn

~ uncooperative pax

~ counting of meals and trays

~ live safety demo on mondays

~ cleaning up the toilet esp after someone having a bad stomach comes out

~ cleaning up the toilet after some idiot choked the washbasin with his puke

~ matching 30 special meals to 30 passengers who placed an order for it and not being able to locate them because they are travelling in a tour group, and thus is not sitting as per seat plan

~ people incessantly shouting "mee fan mee fan~!", "pu ke pai~!", "whey xiaojie! wo yao mian bao!"

~ people who are in business class even though they didnt buy a business class seat, purely because it is a chartered mono-class flight,which means the whole flight is economy class. They then proceed to think they've been upgraded and act like big shots. The yaya papayas.

~ the tai tais who think everyone is trying to steal their branded bags and refused to put it up in the compartments

~ the tai tais who think their branded bags should be put in a plastic bag before having contact with the cabin floor

oh the list goes on...think i can go on with this the whole day.

As u can see, its alot of crap, but no doubt an interesting job.

Just wish i've started out in other airlines.

Ps. oh yah and that part of janice is REALLI awesome. wahaha

# 24

I miss us playing monopoly and texas holdem, trying to call each other's bluff.

I miss someone to share my food with.

I miss entering bookstores together. You'd head for the non-fiction corner. I'll wander in the fiction books area.

I miss reading the papers together.

I miss leaving my half-drank ribena cups on your desk.

I miss sharing a can of bird nest's drink.

I miss Ikea.

I miss watching a movie.

I miss talking to you.

Do i have to fall asleep with roses in my hands...

would you get them if i did?

# 23

Thanks for injecting colour into my monochrome life even though you are half the globe away.

# 22

The phuket plane crash shocked me cos i was there that fateful day.

Utilised the same runway, on that same windy day.

I guess after flying for 10.5 months, i'm kinda immuned to bad weather and unfazed by strong winds and lashing rains.

We get turbulence all the time, especially at this time of the year, when it is the monsoon season. The turbulence ranged from the mild ones that make u sway from side to side, to the really bad ones that throw u off ur feet and lift u 30cm off the ground.

Phuket's weather has ALWAYS been bad.
Bumpy weather the whole flight from sin-hkt and hkt-sin was usual, but it was especially bad on this particular day.

I remember walking to the opened front door when the plane was parked at the aerobridge, and feeling a strong gush of wind slamming into the aircraft. Trees along the beach, and were visible from the plane, were bent half by the strong winds. My colleagues couldnt even open the doors at the back of the plane to change the waste bins, as per standard ground preparation for the flight back to sin. Two of the girls had to combine their strength to pull the door back in, amidst the raging winds, when one would have been able to close it easily normally.

Paranoid me actually thought there might be an incoming typhoon but since no typhoon alert was raised, i just attributed it to normal bad weather.

I remembered a crew asking captain if it's alright to go and was rightly assured by him.

Which is why i was shocked when flight OG 269 crashed.

This incident served to remind us that emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere and we have to be clear-minded and vigilant all the time.

As a crew, we ought to place safety as the top priority.
So many a times, we chit chat with fellow crew and our minds are a thousand miles away during take-off and landing , when we should be silently reviewing our standard evacuation procedures. Some crew dont bother to ask passengers to place the bags underneath their seat cos they want to spare the trouble of explaining the reason to them. Briefing of passengers at emergency exits were sloppily done when it should be clear and precise.

As a passenger, we ought to adhere to the safety procedures set out by ICAO and listen to the crew.
Many a times, passengers seated at emergency exits dont bother to listen when the crew is briefing them on how to open the exits in case of emergency. Putting down the papers for half a min to listen carefully can save their own life and that of so many others. Many passengers also find it a nuisance to stow their baggage properly underneath their seat. They complain and "show face" when it's all for their own safety. I've had ridiculous passengers telling me "This is prada/dior/chanel/lv u know?" Tucking their bags right underneath the seat properly will actually enable them to escape efficiently in case of emergency, and not cause them to trip and fall over their bags, and be trampled over in a stampede. No mercy will be shown when everyone's fighting for survival. Having ur beloved prada or chanel bag on ur lap is NOT going to save you.

You never know when an emergency evacuation will happen.

Sad as i was over the phuket crash, i was still heartened up by the swift evacuation of passengers from the china airlines plane recently.

It is incidents like this that remind us cabin crew the importance of our role in ensuring a safe flight for everyone.

I hope more people will see us less as their porter or waitress, and more as people who will help save their lives in case of emergency.

My heart goes out to the passengers and crew of the phuket crash, as well as their families.