21st June 2008

Long distance flight and me just doesn't seems to click on well. The first time i travel to US 2 years ago, the plane can't land in HK airport because of some taufan going on, in the end, we were diverted to Manila and have to put up a night there. That time, i wasn't very happy with such arrangement because I was anxious to see him again after being seperated for nearly 3 months! Imagine the agony. Don't have much choise then, so just have to follow the arrangement and enjoy the stay in Manila. The next day, when we managed to land in HK airport after some scary turbulance, we were again shocked by the news that there's no more seats for us and will have to wait for few more days before we can go to US... FEW MORE DAYS!??!!! That basically means that i'll be spending my holiday in HK and not in US!! Anyway, that time, the airport is just in pure chaos with many people stranded there, flights canceled and angry people screaming at the counter. Patience is indeed in great need during these time. So after much begging and internal adjustment, we managed to secure 2 seats to US and were forced to run to the terminal which is situated at the other end of the building....That's 2 years ago..

Now, for this UK trip, it didn't start off quite well. Over some silly mistake that i did online, i was rejected by the counter for boarding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The supervisor somemore ask a silly question to DOm :"If she can't go in and board the plane, will u still go?" What in the world??!!!!

The mistake that i did was, somehow, I accidentally put the passenger name as J Ho instead of my IC name. At first, they say they can't change the name in case I'm a fraud case trying to cheat them for a free ticket to UK... which i understand, but the question that the supervisor ask is just way too funny.... Anyway, the girl at the counter is nice enough to do some internal adjustment and change the name and I'm allowed to board. That's the first problem.

The 2nd problem is our luggage are overweight by 2kg. Each KG is charge RM180!!!!!!! Freaking RM180!!!!! 2x180 = RM360!!!!! I can buy lots of stuff with that money! so we ended up, taking out some of the clothes and stuff it into our hand carry.

Then, because of the 1st problem & the 2nd problem, we only have about 10 minutes before they close the boarding gate. There we go, dashing thru the airport, catching the train to the international terminal, queue for the custom check before running again to the boarding gate. Again, the boarding gate is quite towards the end of the building. By the time we sit down in the plane and settle down, we were sweating like we just came back from the gym or something like that....

tension!!

Lesson learnt from 2 trips like this:
1. Don't kepo kepo put ur nickname in when doing your flight bookings.
2. Arrive early in the airport
3. Check in early.
4. Don't carry too much on ur hand carry in case you need to run the whole airport!
5. If u must carry loads of stuff, make sure your hand carry got the little wheels on it so u can run faster without carrying so much weight.
6. keep a spare clothes in ur hand carry. they comes in handy after a jog in the airport! :p
7. If all the above fails, pray hard to God, He's the only that can help you. He has helped me in that 2 occasions! Amen! :)