I'M JADED, NO MORE. ☆

This is the most torturing 4 hours ever. Time checked. It's 7:32am here in Dubai and I am currently at the standby lounge at HQ. I was here since 5:50am already. And am currently on standby till 10am. Please do not activate me for any flights because I want to go home so badly. My flight back home is tomorrow, 30th May, 7am. Which also means that I have to report at 5am tomorrow. So I really really really cannot be activated for any flights that come back after 5pm today. There's this company policy that we need to have at least 10-12 hours rest (minimum) before the next reporting time.. SO SERIOUSLY, I DON'T WANT TO BE ACTIVATED. Cos' if I am, I can say byebye to my flight back home tomorrow.

I don't mind just sitting down here in the lounge with my laptop and Iphone. I wanna be that idiot that woke up at 3:45am this morning, slapped on make-up on my face and reported to this lounge with my huge Samsonite luggage and cabin bag at 5:50am ... and then go back home. REALLY, I WANNA BE THAT IDIOT.

Even if scheduling side rosters me for a flight now to Rome, Seychelles, Venice or even Maldives, I don't want. I just want to go home to my family, boyf and friends. I need the flight back home so badly. I've already bought presents for my love ones, and in fact, have already packed them all into my luggage two days ago. I had to fucking remove them from my luggage last night and re-pack it for this airport standby. How upsetting is that you tell me??! I have never pack a luggage till this way before and it was really saddening. Having to unpack the presents and putting them aside when they are supposed to be in there for my flight back home tomorrow.

Please oh please, don't do this to me. Don't activate me and don't don't don't pulled me out from the Colombo-Singapore flight tomorrow morning. You've already given me hopes since last month when I checked my roster. Please don't take it away from me now. I don't have any flights back home next month, please don't take it away from me. Okay, the only flight that I can be activated from is the Singapore-Melbourne-Singapore flight. That's the only one please. I feel as though I'm a stalker now. Stalking the flights that are upcoming and scheduled from 6am-12pm. I am also refreshing webpage that has my roster like every 5 minutes to see if it is updated and if my Colombo-Singapore flight is taken away.

OHMYGOD, this is so torturing. I have been here typing so much and it's only 7:50am??! And I'm sorry to sound really absurd but I hate this woman here at the standby lounge. I know she is just doing her job but whenever she opens her mouth means she got nothing good to say! She will go, "ATTENTION GUYS, XXXXXXXXXXX, Staff number XXXXXX you are activated...." WTF. I so wanna type her mouth! I will seriously cry if she calls my name! Okay not really physically cry but I swear in my heart I will be crying so hard so hard.

Okay enough of rants. I will now sit here, pray really really hard that I'm not activated. Please pray for me as well k, God will bless you.

XOXO.

Visited the fairy tale land, Czech Republic, Prague on 14th May and I swear it was the nicest, most amazing, and prettiest place that I've been!

I know Madrid has been really awesome, but Prague's even better!

The hotel staff were realy friendly, (as usual) and the incentives were really good! They gave each and everyone of us a laminated card whereby it will act as a pass for us to take public transport! HOW COOL IS THAT??!

The hotel rooms were really nice too, just that hmmmm I hated the pillows. Because they were really flat and I had to stack up all four of them together before sleeping. But other then that, all was good!

Free wifi thoughout the whole hotel as well, yay!




Walked into the room and I saw this. HAHAHAHA.


Bathroom.


Grey, black and white concept.


Bathed, and was refreshed! Ready to rock the city!


The hotel from the outside.


Took the metro.


Got out of the underground metro station and was greeted by these.


How pretty is that??!

Went into a random shop and they people there are really friendly.


I ♥ PRAGUE! :D

P/S. If you are observant, you'll realise that the shopkeeper is on his way to come take a photo with me. HAHAHHAHAHA. I didn't know it till like prolly 5 seconds ago.


The very very very superly over friendly shopkeeper.








I swear every single building in Prague is so pretty and special in their own way.




The famous Old Town Square!


Every hour the apostles will come out and say hello!


Yixin and I.

We were hungry and so we settled for this little shop and had our early dinner.


Imma happy kid with PORK.


As we were seated outside, we could see trams passing by us while having dinner.


:D

Continued walking in search of the famous Charles Bridge which people say is a MUST-SEE when you are in Prague!


Spotted sailors at work.


TADAH!

Found the Charles Bridge!


Booths on the Charles Bridge.



The people in Prague area seriously toooo artistic.


Emokid.

The background seems too perfect. It feels like a post card and it feels as though it's photoshopped. BUT NO, NO PHOTOSHOPPING DONE AT ALL.

More awesome pix for y'all to see k? It's really way too pretty and I'm speechless.








Feels like I'm walking in fairytale land really.


My grandfather's road!



I'm really thankful for this amazing job, and though I'm away from home, I still trying to keep in close contact with my family, my mom, my boyf and friends. Please wait for me to be back. I will be back, someday. One day when I've  seen enough, I'll go home. :)

XOXO.

I was blogging earlier on and accidentally hit the back button and everything that I typed was goneeeeeeeeeeeee. Am a little bit pek chek now and I refused to re-type all of it, so the pix shall do the talking k.

SORRY BUT BLAME MY CLUMSINESS AND STUPIDITY. BOO.

Long story short, I flew to Spain, Madrid early this month and it was awesome! It was even better than South Africa, Durban and it was an amazing place to be in!

The hotel was good as usual ....


The hotel lobby.


The corridor outside my room.


My room itself.

As usual, sight seeing and visiting famous places is my number one priority when I visit a country where I've never been to and so, together with 2 seniors, we visited the famous & one of the world's greatest art galleries - The Prado Museum.


From left: Singapore - Philippines - Spain


Interior of the museum.


Adam and Eve.

Not my fav painting k, it just that pix ain't allowed in the museum and that was the last pix I took. HAHA.


My buys from the museum - 2 bookmarks.

Not that I like to read books though, in fact I hate reading them, they only know how to put me to sleep. But I just had feel to buy them! One of them is for my BFF number 1 though - RERTHESEXYPEA. (Inside joke!)

Had afternoon tea in the cafe at the museum and as the weather was chilly and it was drizzling outside, I had hot choco and a choco muffin! Yummeh max! Everything in Madrid is awesome! HAHA.


Imma happy kid.

Spotted this really pretty looking building near the museum! Don't ask me what is that building cos' IDK, I only know I wanted a pix badly with it, heh!


Like some castle right?!! ZOMG. Pretty much!


:D

Went walking around the vicinity before heading back and all the building structures were really nice. They all look so historical and I love it!





No photoshop / editing done! And the pix is perfect! Okay ignore my tourist-y pose.

I woke up really early on Day 2 as I didn't want to waste my day sleeping! Could barely open my eyes but thanks to my eye make up, they looked as though they were open. o.o



Had b/fast at the little tea house or whatever and it was really heart warming to be welcomed by the friendly Spanish people.




Had hot chocolate again and the heart shape thingy!

I think total was only like 3.50 euros? DAMN CHEAP LAH I THINK. Anyway, after breakfast, we to stroll in the area near the hotel and hehehehe shopping was done.





I cannot resist H&M really. In Singapore, the prices are way overpriced and I refused to buy things from there. In Dubai, it's cheaper and in Madrid, it's even cheaper! ZOMG.

HARD TO RESIST LAH, HOW TO RESIST YOU TELL MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

And so I bought a high-waist shorts from there. HOHO. An electric blue one! Totally in love with high-waist shorts/skirts.



OKAYLAHBYEZXXZ. Will blog about Czech Republic next! There is even even even more more more more more more awesome & pretty than Madrid! HOHOHOHOHOHO.

Started flying not long ago and so far it was good. I really really dislike doing turnarounds, but I am really glad that my layovers have been awesome so far. :)

Did my first ever layover to South Africa, Durban!

I was soooooo excited that I couldn't sleep the night before and I was literally shaking while on my way to HQ that morning. I didn't know what exactly to pack into my huge samsonite luggage as well and all I went to Durban was all these.


Prolly the lightest luggage outta everyone who went with me to Durban.

Anyway, the crew on board with me were awesome and the seniors even invited me out to dinner with them! We dined in at Piatto and the food there is awesomeeeeeeee. The portion is extremely huge as well and the prices are affordable! The staff over there were extremely nice and warm hearted as well and they gave us a discount of 10% knowing that we are Emirates crew! Heh!


My very friendly seniors.

From left: South African, Philippines, Philippines, Singapore & Korea.

We went for a walk and then saw this eye catching supermarket trolley and started camwhoring with it! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. We even had a trolley race k!





And that was the first night in Durban. Nothing much to do there really, and so we all then headed back to the hotel to rest for the night.

Day 2 was spent walking around again and my seniors can really shop. They were out with our cabin bags! Can you believe that? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.



The weather was perfect. The sun was out but yet it still felt cooling with our jackets and shawls on.




Had the second meal - Lunch at the same place again! HAHAHAH.

It was really awesome especially with the ingredients so fresh and the 10% discount. Heh!

And some tourist-y shots. Hehehehe. Pardon me lah ok? It's my first layover and I'm excited!




:D

Emirates is everywhere seriously!
And then holiday and fun time is over. Time to head back to work, to fly back to Dubai.



But so far so good! My second layover - Spain, Madrid was even better then this! HOHOHOHOHOHO. If it's not for this job, I would never have been to Spain. It was definitely an eye opener for me. Love the historical buildings so so so much! Am looking forward to my next layover! KTHXBYE!

After being in Dubai for a month plus, we finally went on the Desert Safari half-day trip! Training was awfully tiring and for the past 5 weeks, I was literally studying almost every other day. I didn't even study this hard when I was in school. Omfgggggggg.

Anywayyyyyyyyyy,



All prepared for Desert Safari yo! :D

The weather was awesome, [okay lah, here in Dxb, the weather is awesome almost daily] and surprisingly not very hot! Together with my crazy batch-mates from all over the world, we went to sign up for the tour! Hoho. Very very last minute though!



From top left in clockwise direction - Hassanmia from Cape Town, South Africa, Piotr from Poland, Marcellino from Lebanon, Loretta from Hongkong, Sonia from Hongkong (She's from Cathay Pacific btw), Paula From Singapore and myself!



The desert sand was really really fine and smooooooooooth. And not forgetting, camels! Hehehehehe. They ain't smelly btw!


Hello Mr Camel. Would u look sho sad??


Paula trying to act like a camel, but super fail. HAHAHA.



Don't ask me what am I doing cos' I totally have no idea. HAHHAHAHAHA. It was a candid shot btw, looking kinda glam but unglam here though. Hehe.



Whoooooooooooooooooooopie!

While seated on the camel, I could feel his bones/ribs omgggg. Seriously, I didn't feel safe. I feel safer on an elephant, really. Anyway, these are my lovely ladies!


My favorite girlfs from my batch!


My Po-lish classmate.

And then the guys went on to the Shisha place......


Peer pressure given on Marcellino.

And also to us girls as well.



I was really scared and reluctant seriously, but I gave in to peer pressure. :( All I took was one puff and ....



I STARTED COUGHING & CHOKING! DAMMMMMMN. Sibei noob I know, but whatever! Smoking is bad and I tell you, Shisha's even worse.

IT'S FRIGGING 7 X MORE HARMFUL THEN CIGARETTE SMOKING OK!



Am never ever going to try it again! #Immmmagoodgirl

Shall go and play with the Falcon instead ...





Had a complimentary henna done as well ...




Happy kids with our coconuts! :D

Next up, FERRARI WORLD, maybe??! Hehehehehe. Hopefully!

Okay lah, it's Sunday tomorrow and it's the starting of the week, at least for us all who are in Dubai. Shall have an early night, goodnight world! ♥

6 weeks of training is finally ending. Cannot believe that it's finally going to be all over. And one week from now, I'll prolly be flying on my supernumerary flights already! 

Anyway, here's a random picture of myself in the uniform.



Do I look like a cabin crew to you? Hehe, I hope so! :D

And here's my name tag! Golden in colour and it's super chio! I think I am supposed to learn how to write it in arabic??!



Ok lah, I'm heading to bed, will update soon again I promise! XOXO.

The first two weeks of training is finally over! ONE MODULE DOWN! And it's said to be the hardest module so yay! And I am really happy with my results!



Had a little party in class after the last exam yesterday as we can all finally breathe ... [The past two weeks was really quite torturous with tests/practical assessments/theory examszx almost daily!]


Awesome mini cupcakes from our trainers! :D


Lebanese fooooooood.

We started going a little koo-koo, hence these unglam shots. HAHAHAHAHAH.



I could have done my trademark pose with the centre parting but decided to tone down a little because I know these photos will circulate in Facebook. I still wanna be the demure lady in people's eyes you see. Hehe.


HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

Cannot stop laughing at the girl on the extreme left. She's the crazy Malaysian girl whom is also a chatterbox and we some x cannot stop talking to each other in class. Hehe. That's when the Asianszx unite ...


Look at that extra kia behind.

Classroom sessions are fun but practical sessions are way more fun! But the only thing is that we gotta be dressed in that white overall which is smelly and yucks. :/

But overall, it has been a really fun two weeks. I still miss everyone and everything back home, and am hoping that once training ends, I will get a good roster which will fly me back to Singapore! Have been skyping the boyf and talking to my parents occasionally and I didn't feel that lonely even though I was at home alone studying for my exams last week. :)


#random picture of us skyping

Thanks love! ♥
Cannot wait for the day I fly back home! Please come and fetch me if you can k! *HUGS&KISSES*

It has been about 19 days since I left home for Dubai, and surprisingly, I am doing quite well. I have NEVER left home on my own like this before, and everywhere I go has always been planned nicely for me. Be it my family, my boyf and even my friends, they are always there to plan for and protect me.

Therefore, I am actually quite surprised that I can do this. The starting phase was hard of course, and I cried at the airport that night as I could not bare to leave my loved ones. Goodbyes are seriously the hardest words to say. I will never forget that particular feeling I had in my heart that night, at the departure gate. I felt as though acid was poured onto my heart and I had this really really sour feeling. It's hard to describe I must say, but I definitely didn't like that feeling at all.

Anyway, Dubai has been nice so far, no bad encounters except for some taxi drivers who ain't very friendly at  the beginning... otherwise everything's fine. Have been grocery/household shopping almost daily but I'm just glad that the groceries and home appliances here ain't that expensive.

My housemates are fine too, and I thank God for that. I have two housemates and they are both Asians! One's from Japan and the other is from China. The Japan girl's called Ayaka and she seems really busy. She has been in this line for about 3 years and she seems to always have flights! The other girl's called Fangfang and she is really nice. I guess she is happy to have me as a housemate because we are of the same age and I can speak Mandarin! I'm closer to her btw and she is really nice. Anyway, I'm just glad that both are nice people, and that they are easy to live with, (hopefully things stay this nice always)!

My first week here has been really relaxed as there wasn't any studying/exams/tests and all we had to do was basically to introduce ourselves, our home country and also learn about people's cultures. In Emirates, there are over 14,000 cabin crew and we come from all over the world, with more then 140 nationalities! AWESOME OR WHATTTTT??!?! And not forgetting, we are still in the midst of growing and expanding!

I think it's really awesome to work in a company like this, but then again, IT IS NOT EASY. This job is not just about service, it's not just about chicken/beef or coffee/tea. We gotta equip ourselves with other skills and knowledge too and I swear it is not easy. I have just gotten past the first week of training (Safety Emergency Procedures training) and it was taxing. Training in this airline is so intensive and we are receiving loads of new information daily. Theory is given to us, and then practical test the next moment/day. Other airlines are given several months to process and digest the information given but yet we are only given 6 weeks here. SIGH OKAY I'M NOT COMPLAINING, JUST WHINING A LITTLE BIT K. PARDON ME. But anyway, I'm doing fine so far  though. I just pray/hope/wish that training will hurry end so that I can start flying, and then go back home! I am homesick but that is under control for now. :)

I AM STRONG AND I CAN DO THIS. I MISS ALL OF YOU BACK HOME AND PLEASE WAIT FOR ME TO BE BACK. I WILL BE BACK. ♥

FEBRUARY 2012 IS ENDING REAL SOON. THIS ALSO MEANS THAT I'LL BE FLYING OFF TO DUBAI REALLLLLLY SOON! I'M REALLY EXCITED BUT AT THE SAME TIME, A HUGE PART OF ME IS NOT WILLING TO SAY GOODBYE TO SINGAPORE. I WILL DEFINITELY MISS MY FAMILY, MY BOYF, MY BFFS, MY FRIENDS. ♥

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT FORGET ME AS I WILL NOT FORGET Y'ALL AS WELL. HOME IS WHERE MY HEART IS, I PROMISE. ♥

MAY MARCH 2012 ONWARDS BE THE AWESOME-ST TIME OF MY LIFE.
GOODBYE SINGAPORE, HELLO DUBAI.

SUPER OVERDUE PHOTOS BUT YAH WHATEVER. LONG TIME NO BLOG, AM GETTING LAZYYYYYY.

X'MAS GATHERING WITH THE FAMILY AND BOYF. :)





MY YOUNGEST COUSIN - COLGAN.


MY VERY YOUNG LOOKING AH-KONG.


THE BOYF TRYING TO SHOW US MAGIC TRICKS.




BRO AND HIS GIRLF.


HAPPY KIDS OPENING PRESENTS.


ZHAN PENG AKA AHPONG. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.


MY VERY CUTE DADDY.




GOLDFISHES WHICH I BOUGHT FOR MY COUSIN.


ALL ADMIRING XIAO HONG - THE LITTLE BIRDIE.


MY LOVES!

P.S AHPONG LOOKS KINDA TALL HERE. HAHAHAHAHAHAA. FOR ONCE.




US AND OUR BOYF / GIRLF. :D

HEHEHEHE. I WILL MISS MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS LIKE MAD SERIOUSLY. I WILL TRY TO BLOG MORE FREQUENTLY SO THAT Y'ALL WILL BE UPDATED ABOUT MY LIFE IN DUBAI K!

P.S IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, I'M FLYING OFF TO DUBAI TO WORK! FLYING OFF ON THE 26/2/12. I LEFT ONLY 8 DAYS IN SINGAPORE. OHMYYYYY.

OKTHXBYE! ♥