27 April 2017 // Thursday
So its KL again today and I got a shock when I saw the going up load of 145 and what's more shocking is that coming back was only 28! So we all expected a battle going up.
As we commenced boarding about half the aircraft cabin was filled with Sri Lankans who wore the same t-shirt and are prolly going on some mission in Malaysia. We were joking about how we are doing a semi-Colombo (CMB) flight.
Going up was already crazy enough (as usual) and what's worse was that some passengers even asked for milo (wtf?) my crew just stared at me in disbelief lol.
Sadly we gotta clean the entire cabin for coming back sector even though it was a super light load. When cic made announcement to commence boarding, my S3 thanked me for boarding in advance claiming that I would be able to handle 28 pax alone haha.
Upon boarding, my S3 stood at 5D and coincidentally, passenger who boarded was seated at 5D so she had to step out. She stepped to 14D and I followed suit, only to have her chased out by the second passenger who was seated at 14D too. This happened for the third time when she stepped to 17D. The next passenger who boarded was seated at 18D. Just as she thought she managed to "escape" this time, the forth passenger seated at 17D came by, and all of us were having such a great laugh that despite the super light load our S3 is so unlucky to keep stepping into passengers' seats.
That's all for KL today! Gotta pack for CNS tomorrow lo~~
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Best KL
26 April 2017 // Wednesday
So I am on amsby today and just came back from leave so I originally wanted to call in to request for a China flight. Got to know from my batch girl that she is gonna mc for her Kathmandu (KTM) so I was really afraid I'd get called up for KTM. Just as I was pondering my next step, I received the call from OCC and activated me for first KL. KL two days in a row before CNS; I got no complains man.
What's even luckier is the load! 59 and 48... what on earth? Super light load!
But the ground staff must be crazy to assign almost everyone at the back of the aircraft like full at each row.. even the passenger questioned me and I couldn't answer.
Other than that, this is the smoothest and bestest KL ever so far... I've got no comments xD
P.S. Kudos to my man who sends me to work everyday without fail even at the oddest hours like today :)
So I am on amsby today and just came back from leave so I originally wanted to call in to request for a China flight. Got to know from my batch girl that she is gonna mc for her Kathmandu (KTM) so I was really afraid I'd get called up for KTM. Just as I was pondering my next step, I received the call from OCC and activated me for first KL. KL two days in a row before CNS; I got no complains man.
What's even luckier is the load! 59 and 48... what on earth? Super light load!
But the ground staff must be crazy to assign almost everyone at the back of the aircraft like full at each row.. even the passenger questioned me and I couldn't answer.
Other than that, this is the smoothest and bestest KL ever so far... I've got no comments xD
P.S. Kudos to my man who sends me to work everyday without fail even at the oddest hours like today :)
Hyd... Hyderabad... Holiday!!!
19 April 2017 // Wednesday
Yay last flight before leave! India overnight always leaves me with nothing to look forward to.
Gonna keep it simple... Having passengers who can't decided whether they wanna eat... And passengers who asks for beer one and again even though they haven't touched the first one.
Haiz... Tidy up my tired feelings and off I go for my long awaited holiday!
Yay last flight before leave! India overnight always leaves me with nothing to look forward to.
Gonna keep it simple... Having passengers who can't decided whether they wanna eat... And passengers who asks for beer one and again even though they haven't touched the first one.
Haiz... Tidy up my tired feelings and off I go for my long awaited holiday!
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Happening HKT
17 April 2017 // Monday
Been some time since I did HKT and I must say its a killer to do this flight during Songkran because both ways are full! To add on to this horror, there's more of those one-kind passengers (OKP) which I mentioned before.
Here's one at Row 5.
Upon boarding she was seated in jcl and her mother seated in ey, but she decided to swop so her elderly mother could enjoy jcl. We had no problem with that.
Next she pressed call bell to ask me for a toy for her nephew. "Is it still the green spongebob and the plane plushie?" She probably was trying to show she knows our stuff very well but I am not impressed at all. So I told her yes its still those two in which she replied, "ee, so leychey," (sorry I can't explain the meaning of that) "but never mind la, give me one each." she continued. *roll eyes*
When I was pushing down my cart to Row 5 and serving special meals along the way, I reached Row 5 and was about to serve the baby meal at 5ABC, this OKP at 5DEF interrupted me by asking, "Come, tell me what's the entree choice today?" She totally caught me by surprise because (1) I wasn't ready to serve her yet and (2) who the hell uses the word entree? I managed to blabber to her "just give me a moment please" where's she perfectly fine with it.
When I finally reached her I offered the fish or chicken to her and she asked to see both meals! I rolled my eyes a hundred times inside and unwrapped the foil to show her. She was taking her own sweet time to pick and choose by weighing the healthiness of the choices and finally opted for the fish because "there was more greens". After picking the fish she asked for the chicken too and I told her I can't give her extra unless all passengers have been served. She agreed and carried on with her meal. *phew finally*
Then the second challenge came when I was serving this young Indian couple. They don't look local, so when I offered the meals, he stared at me for a few seconds before asking me for vegetarian meal. I told him it was only by request basis and offered him biscuits. He waited a few seconds while staring at me and asked for orange juice. I repeated my question to know whether they wanted biscuits and he stared at me AGAIN, waited and waited and waited... "ya of course" he said.
..........
First sector closed. Here comes the second sector's first OKP. Row 5 AGAIN.
I stood at 5ABC for boarding and since I was pretty tall I usually close the compartment above so I can stand straight. When this family boarded, this lady who seems like the MIL started putting all their bags in the compartments across. I was worried the passengers at 5DEF will not have space for their bags later on so I asked the MIL if she wanted to put it in the compartment above but she ignored me and continued. *rages inside*
After they settled down, I opened the empty compartment above them and this MIL started standing up and transferring all her bags and blocking all the boarding passengers. Why are there such stubborn passengers!
Something on a lighter mood, I'm surprised a kid below 2 years old can speak and answer questions perfectly. I think its my first time seeing an infant speak so I find it very amusing.
Finally it comes to landing time. This couple asked about their connecting flight to Brisbane (BNE) which is boarding at 8.30pm and we were supposed to land 8.40pm but because of slight delays we're landing at 9pm. They asked, "so what am I gonna do if this plane lands at 9? Is the aircraft gonna hold for us?"
Rule number one; if you are asking a favour, please ask nicely.
The way they asked the question triggered the inner sarcastic me. I asked if they booked the connecting flight themselves and they nodded. "Sir, ma'am, I would suggest you to book a longer transit the next time you book your flights, preferably at least 2 hours. I can't promise the aircraft would hold for you, but the ground staff would assist you in anyway they can."
I ended up checking the seat plan and realized half the plane passengers are heading to BNE.
Such a happening HKT...
Been some time since I did HKT and I must say its a killer to do this flight during Songkran because both ways are full! To add on to this horror, there's more of those one-kind passengers (OKP) which I mentioned before.
Here's one at Row 5.
Upon boarding she was seated in jcl and her mother seated in ey, but she decided to swop so her elderly mother could enjoy jcl. We had no problem with that.
Next she pressed call bell to ask me for a toy for her nephew. "Is it still the green spongebob and the plane plushie?" She probably was trying to show she knows our stuff very well but I am not impressed at all. So I told her yes its still those two in which she replied, "ee, so leychey," (sorry I can't explain the meaning of that) "but never mind la, give me one each." she continued. *roll eyes*
When I was pushing down my cart to Row 5 and serving special meals along the way, I reached Row 5 and was about to serve the baby meal at 5ABC, this OKP at 5DEF interrupted me by asking, "Come, tell me what's the entree choice today?" She totally caught me by surprise because (1) I wasn't ready to serve her yet and (2) who the hell uses the word entree? I managed to blabber to her "just give me a moment please" where's she perfectly fine with it.
When I finally reached her I offered the fish or chicken to her and she asked to see both meals! I rolled my eyes a hundred times inside and unwrapped the foil to show her. She was taking her own sweet time to pick and choose by weighing the healthiness of the choices and finally opted for the fish because "there was more greens". After picking the fish she asked for the chicken too and I told her I can't give her extra unless all passengers have been served. She agreed and carried on with her meal. *phew finally*
Then the second challenge came when I was serving this young Indian couple. They don't look local, so when I offered the meals, he stared at me for a few seconds before asking me for vegetarian meal. I told him it was only by request basis and offered him biscuits. He waited a few seconds while staring at me and asked for orange juice. I repeated my question to know whether they wanted biscuits and he stared at me AGAIN, waited and waited and waited... "ya of course" he said.
..........
First sector closed. Here comes the second sector's first OKP. Row 5 AGAIN.
I stood at 5ABC for boarding and since I was pretty tall I usually close the compartment above so I can stand straight. When this family boarded, this lady who seems like the MIL started putting all their bags in the compartments across. I was worried the passengers at 5DEF will not have space for their bags later on so I asked the MIL if she wanted to put it in the compartment above but she ignored me and continued. *rages inside*
After they settled down, I opened the empty compartment above them and this MIL started standing up and transferring all her bags and blocking all the boarding passengers. Why are there such stubborn passengers!
Something on a lighter mood, I'm surprised a kid below 2 years old can speak and answer questions perfectly. I think its my first time seeing an infant speak so I find it very amusing.
Finally it comes to landing time. This couple asked about their connecting flight to Brisbane (BNE) which is boarding at 8.30pm and we were supposed to land 8.40pm but because of slight delays we're landing at 9pm. They asked, "so what am I gonna do if this plane lands at 9? Is the aircraft gonna hold for us?"
Rule number one; if you are asking a favour, please ask nicely.
The way they asked the question triggered the inner sarcastic me. I asked if they booked the connecting flight themselves and they nodded. "Sir, ma'am, I would suggest you to book a longer transit the next time you book your flights, preferably at least 2 hours. I can't promise the aircraft would hold for you, but the ground staff would assist you in anyway they can."
I ended up checking the seat plan and realized half the plane passengers are heading to BNE.
Such a happening HKT...
Monday, April 17, 2017
DRW isn't that bad after all
16 April 2017 // Sunday
DRW again on a Sunday but this time with a much more comfortable load. I chose S4 for the day because I felt so tired and wanted to catch some rest behind.
Can't recall much from the first sector except for the heavier load and the extremely long flight time. Sadly one lavatory couldn't be locked from inside because the lock broke so we foresee a tough time handling the passengers later.
And this Japanese couple with their extremely small infant. I can't help but worry about bringing kids that young onboard an aircraft. Other than them making a ruckus, the amount of germs and bacteria they're exposed to is also another concern.
Since it was Easter today, each of the passenger trays came with one chocolate Easter egg except the special meals tray. This passenger who ordered Vegan meal asked, "why is it that the whole world has the chocolate egg except me?" Like how we learn in training, choice of words is very important. I explained to her that we do not cater for special meals because of the ingredients of the chocolate egg, but if she'd like to have one I have plenty extra. She took one and continued complaining about how we don't provide jam on the tray for the bread because they don't eat butter. That isn't a valid enough reason for us to cater jam for your personal preference right? I explained to her and she argued, why we provide butter when she's vegan. I took the butter from the normal tray and proved to her, that the "butter" on her tray is actually margarine. She kept quiet and continued eating her chocolate Easter egg.
On the returning sector, this passenger showed me his boarding pass which clearly states 26C as his seat but he told me the ground staff changed it to 12D. I didn't really get it because there was no amendment on the boarding pass so I just brushed it off. The very next moment, this gentleman was clearly upset because his seat "was changed three times" and someone was seated in his 12D. Without much consideration I immediately squeezed my way through the boarding crowd and asked the ground staff to come in to settle this. It eventually turned out that the passenger at 12D was seated wrongly. As this gentleman was waiting for all this to get settled he stepped slightly into the row behind. To my utmost horror, the passenger in that row asked him to move away! Imagine the anger inside.
After everything was sorted out, he got his seat 12D and in fact the entire row is empty but it is non-reclinable since the row behind was an emergency exit row. Although the ground staff told me he was aware and fine about it, I decided to move him forward since Row 6 was empty and reclinable. He was very glad and appreciative about it. Case closed!
One jcl pax also recognized me the last time I did DRW and told me he lost his specs on the last flight and asked me to find it for him. Lolol but I really couldn't!
And... one PPS in EY who was such a nice guy we had a really nice long chat in the cabin and he had lots of drinks too. He thanked me for taking care of him and said how much he loved Singapore!
And guess what? We actually touched down almost an hour earlier than scheduled arrival time!
Such a nice flight to work with and nice crew... DRW isn't that bad after all!
DRW again on a Sunday but this time with a much more comfortable load. I chose S4 for the day because I felt so tired and wanted to catch some rest behind.
Can't recall much from the first sector except for the heavier load and the extremely long flight time. Sadly one lavatory couldn't be locked from inside because the lock broke so we foresee a tough time handling the passengers later.
And this Japanese couple with their extremely small infant. I can't help but worry about bringing kids that young onboard an aircraft. Other than them making a ruckus, the amount of germs and bacteria they're exposed to is also another concern.
Since it was Easter today, each of the passenger trays came with one chocolate Easter egg except the special meals tray. This passenger who ordered Vegan meal asked, "why is it that the whole world has the chocolate egg except me?" Like how we learn in training, choice of words is very important. I explained to her that we do not cater for special meals because of the ingredients of the chocolate egg, but if she'd like to have one I have plenty extra. She took one and continued complaining about how we don't provide jam on the tray for the bread because they don't eat butter. That isn't a valid enough reason for us to cater jam for your personal preference right? I explained to her and she argued, why we provide butter when she's vegan. I took the butter from the normal tray and proved to her, that the "butter" on her tray is actually margarine. She kept quiet and continued eating her chocolate Easter egg.
On the returning sector, this passenger showed me his boarding pass which clearly states 26C as his seat but he told me the ground staff changed it to 12D. I didn't really get it because there was no amendment on the boarding pass so I just brushed it off. The very next moment, this gentleman was clearly upset because his seat "was changed three times" and someone was seated in his 12D. Without much consideration I immediately squeezed my way through the boarding crowd and asked the ground staff to come in to settle this. It eventually turned out that the passenger at 12D was seated wrongly. As this gentleman was waiting for all this to get settled he stepped slightly into the row behind. To my utmost horror, the passenger in that row asked him to move away! Imagine the anger inside.
After everything was sorted out, he got his seat 12D and in fact the entire row is empty but it is non-reclinable since the row behind was an emergency exit row. Although the ground staff told me he was aware and fine about it, I decided to move him forward since Row 6 was empty and reclinable. He was very glad and appreciative about it. Case closed!
One jcl pax also recognized me the last time I did DRW and told me he lost his specs on the last flight and asked me to find it for him. Lolol but I really couldn't!
And... one PPS in EY who was such a nice guy we had a really nice long chat in the cabin and he had lots of drinks too. He thanked me for taking care of him and said how much he loved Singapore!
And guess what? We actually touched down almost an hour earlier than scheduled arrival time!
Such a nice flight to work with and nice crew... DRW isn't that bad after all!
Work on a PH...
14 April 2017 // Friday
So its Good Friday today and sadly I have a mid day PEN and what makes it even more tempting to call in sick is that my roster is OFF PEN OFF so 3 days off do sound tempting right...
But anyway, my extended family have a advanced Mother's Day lunch and in order to accommodate me. We had lunch at Peach Garden at the airport and had to rush off for my flight.
Not to mention how full the flight both ways was and the amount of special meals we had, I was S1 for the day and that meant a load of 3 and 10.
I was basically not in the mood for work since it was PH and being S1 made me feel all the more "left out" hahaha because I'm totally not aware what's going on at the back especially when we have an sny.
Blah Blah Blah this post is rubbish because I forgot what happened. #kthxbye
So its Good Friday today and sadly I have a mid day PEN and what makes it even more tempting to call in sick is that my roster is OFF PEN OFF so 3 days off do sound tempting right...
But anyway, my extended family have a advanced Mother's Day lunch and in order to accommodate me. We had lunch at Peach Garden at the airport and had to rush off for my flight.
Not to mention how full the flight both ways was and the amount of special meals we had, I was S1 for the day and that meant a load of 3 and 10.
I was basically not in the mood for work since it was PH and being S1 made me feel all the more "left out" hahaha because I'm totally not aware what's going on at the back especially when we have an sny.
Blah Blah Blah this post is rubbish because I forgot what happened. #kthxbye
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Series of Events in a Day
12 April 2017 // Wednesday
So today's my one and only 3 sectors for the month! Danang-Siem Reap (DAD-REP) today.
The series of events start as we took the lift to departure hall. As my set of crew was about to exit the lift, a foreign Asian man stepped into the lift hurriedly before we even got out. His face seemed to be puzzled and shocked from seeing us but trust me; we were feeling the same too. He stood right in the middle of the lift as we struggled to get out of the small lift with 7 people inside.
So I was doing jcl today and our Captain is a "top 3" I would say so I was really on my toes the whole time. Jcl load was 12, 7 and 10 so it wasn't going to be an easy day for me. Its never easy when there's 12 in jcl so my cic and I were working our ass off. Thank god we had a few minutes to munch on our food before preparing for landing in Danang.
Transit passengers to REP are requested to disembark as a security sweep needs to be done. When boarding in DAD for REP, a family told us they were not aware that this flight is not direct. My crew told them that multiple announcements have been made by tech crew and cabin crew but they said they didn't know until they disembarked and realized it wasn't REP.
The middle sector only lasted 1 hour but the weather got really bumpy that my stomach was kinda churning so I'd really rate it a 8 of 10. After the seatbelt sign was turned off, a passenger feedback that she hated turbulence and hated taking flights and asked us to do something abut the weather. Let me summon the gods then?
As we were landing into REP, Captain announced that Angkor Wat can be seen from the left side of the plane so almost instantly you could see all the heads turning to look out. My jcl passenger decided to unfasten his seatbelt just to see the view ad what's worse was that we were very close to ground. The little fuming me inside was very tempted to yell at him but my cic said to ignore. Even on ground, I was tempted to be sarcastic towards him but I held back.
On the last sector, it was already almost 8pm as we departed so just as I guessed, most of them had their dinner already so they decided to skip the onboard meals. They had a good sleep and my cic and I had a good rest too. Just can't wait to land.
After arrival in SIN, as we were walking out into Arrival Hall, this middle aged uncle was slowly pushing his trolley of luggage after collecting his luggage from the conveyor belt. We could foresee a collision between our set of crew and him since we crew have to head for the red channel (which is further) and the uncle only has to go through green channel (which is in our way). But as the circumstances looked we seemed to be able to walk past him before colliding, which actually also mean he gotta kind of let us pass first. But I think since its in a crew's blood to give way, our set of 6 cabin crew and 2 tech crew eventually stopped and let this uncle walk first.
And so, his friend shouted from behind, "walao eh brother! what you doing!"
Hahaha and we all secretly laughed inside.
Anyway here's a picture of the sunset in Siem Reap.
#offdaytomorrow #likefinally
So today's my one and only 3 sectors for the month! Danang-Siem Reap (DAD-REP) today.
The series of events start as we took the lift to departure hall. As my set of crew was about to exit the lift, a foreign Asian man stepped into the lift hurriedly before we even got out. His face seemed to be puzzled and shocked from seeing us but trust me; we were feeling the same too. He stood right in the middle of the lift as we struggled to get out of the small lift with 7 people inside.
So I was doing jcl today and our Captain is a "top 3" I would say so I was really on my toes the whole time. Jcl load was 12, 7 and 10 so it wasn't going to be an easy day for me. Its never easy when there's 12 in jcl so my cic and I were working our ass off. Thank god we had a few minutes to munch on our food before preparing for landing in Danang.
Transit passengers to REP are requested to disembark as a security sweep needs to be done. When boarding in DAD for REP, a family told us they were not aware that this flight is not direct. My crew told them that multiple announcements have been made by tech crew and cabin crew but they said they didn't know until they disembarked and realized it wasn't REP.
The middle sector only lasted 1 hour but the weather got really bumpy that my stomach was kinda churning so I'd really rate it a 8 of 10. After the seatbelt sign was turned off, a passenger feedback that she hated turbulence and hated taking flights and asked us to do something abut the weather. Let me summon the gods then?
As we were landing into REP, Captain announced that Angkor Wat can be seen from the left side of the plane so almost instantly you could see all the heads turning to look out. My jcl passenger decided to unfasten his seatbelt just to see the view ad what's worse was that we were very close to ground. The little fuming me inside was very tempted to yell at him but my cic said to ignore. Even on ground, I was tempted to be sarcastic towards him but I held back.
On the last sector, it was already almost 8pm as we departed so just as I guessed, most of them had their dinner already so they decided to skip the onboard meals. They had a good sleep and my cic and I had a good rest too. Just can't wait to land.
After arrival in SIN, as we were walking out into Arrival Hall, this middle aged uncle was slowly pushing his trolley of luggage after collecting his luggage from the conveyor belt. We could foresee a collision between our set of crew and him since we crew have to head for the red channel (which is further) and the uncle only has to go through green channel (which is in our way). But as the circumstances looked we seemed to be able to walk past him before colliding, which actually also mean he gotta kind of let us pass first. But I think since its in a crew's blood to give way, our set of 6 cabin crew and 2 tech crew eventually stopped and let this uncle walk first.
And so, his friend shouted from behind, "walao eh brother! what you doing!"
Hahaha and we all secretly laughed inside.
Anyway here's a picture of the sunset in Siem Reap.
#offdaytomorrow #likefinally
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
PNH Problems
11 April 2017 // Tuesday
PNH again today!!!!! The load is really so unforgiving... 127 and 150 haiz.
I have come to realize that no PNH flights is ever good to do. Firstly most of them ar enon-English speakers, second... I have no idea too. Its just so hard and frustrating to do. You can tell by every crew's face after meal service and collection.
On the second sector, the final load was 148 although it was originally overbooked. Our cic asked the ground staff for help to tag the bigger bags so we wouldn't have baggage/space problem.
One of the first few passengers boarded and tried to fit their luggage in the overhead compartment. Obviously he realized it couldn't fit in so he asked me for help (count me unlucky since I was the nearest crew to him). We usually fit luggage vertically in to save space but if the bags get too bulky, fitting it horizontally usually does the trick. However for this case, despite my efforts, the luggage refuse to fit in. After I gave it one hard push, it fit just in. But the moment I turned my back to help the next passenger, I realized his wife was carrying the exact same luggage. Which based on my one year flying experience judgement, it will not fit.
So we made the ultimate decision: to offload the luggage.
Sadly both of them are Cambodians so they don't really understand what I was trying to get across to them. Before tagging the bags into the cargo, we gotta make sure that all valuables, medication, important documents, laptops or portable charger. But of course they couldn't understand me. As I was trying my best to understand where their final destination was, they just kept telling me Singapore and it shows the same on the boarding pass too. After communicating to the ground staff, another crew informed me that they were actually transiting to Brisbane. Oh my gosh. Big hooha on ground.
Meal service was crazily fast and that's when I realize how efficient we are when it comes to short flights. The load was 148 so we really had no time to spare and we were grabbing every minute we have to do everything.
A slight delay of 10 minutes but what was more memorable was the super hard landing that the crew seated beside me screamed "wtf" and grabbed me and same goes to the other two crew. I guess it was raining really heavily so it had to be a hard and firm landing else the aircraft would skid.
Anyway it feels good to be home and this weather is perfect for a good night's sleep zzz...
PNH again today!!!!! The load is really so unforgiving... 127 and 150 haiz.
I have come to realize that no PNH flights is ever good to do. Firstly most of them ar enon-English speakers, second... I have no idea too. Its just so hard and frustrating to do. You can tell by every crew's face after meal service and collection.
On the second sector, the final load was 148 although it was originally overbooked. Our cic asked the ground staff for help to tag the bigger bags so we wouldn't have baggage/space problem.
One of the first few passengers boarded and tried to fit their luggage in the overhead compartment. Obviously he realized it couldn't fit in so he asked me for help (count me unlucky since I was the nearest crew to him). We usually fit luggage vertically in to save space but if the bags get too bulky, fitting it horizontally usually does the trick. However for this case, despite my efforts, the luggage refuse to fit in. After I gave it one hard push, it fit just in. But the moment I turned my back to help the next passenger, I realized his wife was carrying the exact same luggage. Which based on my one year flying experience judgement, it will not fit.
So we made the ultimate decision: to offload the luggage.
Sadly both of them are Cambodians so they don't really understand what I was trying to get across to them. Before tagging the bags into the cargo, we gotta make sure that all valuables, medication, important documents, laptops or portable charger. But of course they couldn't understand me. As I was trying my best to understand where their final destination was, they just kept telling me Singapore and it shows the same on the boarding pass too. After communicating to the ground staff, another crew informed me that they were actually transiting to Brisbane. Oh my gosh. Big hooha on ground.
Meal service was crazily fast and that's when I realize how efficient we are when it comes to short flights. The load was 148 so we really had no time to spare and we were grabbing every minute we have to do everything.
A slight delay of 10 minutes but what was more memorable was the super hard landing that the crew seated beside me screamed "wtf" and grabbed me and same goes to the other two crew. I guess it was raining really heavily so it had to be a hard and firm landing else the aircraft would skid.
Anyway it feels good to be home and this weather is perfect for a good night's sleep zzz...
Crazy-Fun!
09 April 2017 / Sunday
Last day of 3 days! PEN today and we were down by one crew with the horrible full load of 145 and 150. On the second sector the ground staff in PEN gave us the wrong seat plan and we all thought out load dropped to 108 but it was a misunderstanding. Anyways crew was nice and seatbelt sign was on all the way too since weather was bad.
But for the second sector Captain decided to play tricks again by turning off the seatbelt sign, this time just as we started collection. The moment we realized the seatbelt sign was off, the face of the crew manning cart with me and my own expression was like "wtf..." we bent down and conversed in the cart and was complaining about why Captain turned off the seatbelt sign and then we stood up and continued smiling to all our passengers.
It was a super crazy-rush flight but like one of the crew said "crazy-fun". I was practically like throwing everything to the passengers haha (kidding la, how can I possibly throw anything) but everything was really so fast paced that I couldn't catch up with myself. My crew and I were practically laughing as we were doing service as we couldn't help but laugh at us being so crazily in service.
Such short flight are good once in a while, but I'd rather have a lighter load :)
Last day of 3 days! PEN today and we were down by one crew with the horrible full load of 145 and 150. On the second sector the ground staff in PEN gave us the wrong seat plan and we all thought out load dropped to 108 but it was a misunderstanding. Anyways crew was nice and seatbelt sign was on all the way too since weather was bad.
But for the second sector Captain decided to play tricks again by turning off the seatbelt sign, this time just as we started collection. The moment we realized the seatbelt sign was off, the face of the crew manning cart with me and my own expression was like "wtf..." we bent down and conversed in the cart and was complaining about why Captain turned off the seatbelt sign and then we stood up and continued smiling to all our passengers.
It was a super crazy-rush flight but like one of the crew said "crazy-fun". I was practically like throwing everything to the passengers haha (kidding la, how can I possibly throw anything) but everything was really so fast paced that I couldn't catch up with myself. My crew and I were practically laughing as we were doing service as we couldn't help but laugh at us being so crazily in service.
Such short flight are good once in a while, but I'd rather have a lighter load :)
Happening KL
08 April 2017 // Saturday
Day 2 of 3. This 4 sectors KL is one that I have been trying to give away but no one wants to take because nobody likes 4 sector KL.
1) Its super draggy because of the transit time.
2) You gotta clean the aircraft twice because there's no cleaners for KL.
3) We all hate the feeling of reaching SIN yet still having to do another 2 sectors.
So... I went for the flight. Weather was really bad for the first two sectors... So seatbelt sign was on throughout. EXCEPT for the second sector. Captain happily decided to turn off the seatbelt sign just as we finished service so we ended u having to serve coffee/tea orders to passengers who asked earlier.
Another OKP on this flight. Before takeoff as I'm checking the cabin I would turn on the reading lights for passengers who are reading because we would dim the cabin lights for take off and it is pretty dark outside already. I turned on the lights for this lady and as I walked back I realized she turned it off. So I politely asked if she would need the lights since we would be dimming the cabin lights. She looked at me and gave that kind of look and nodded reluctantly. What did I do wrong man?
So I saw how she turned off the lights once we were in the air after the cabin lights were on again so when I checked cabin for landing I did not turn on her lights for her. When the cabin lights dimmed, she looked up, looked back at me and closed her book, seemingly annoyed. #OKP
On our last sector back a family with a kid boarded first and Captain allowed him to enter the cockpit and he was so excited. Kids never fail to feel amazed at the cockpit haha.
And... We noticed this same lady who took our first flight from SIN-KUL coming back with us on our last KUL-SIN flight... still clad in her skin tight dress and branded handbag and nude heels. Wondering what she did in KL in just that few hours? Haha
As quoted by my cic... "After a thousand years we finally landed..." That's how it feels doing 4 sectors.
Day 2 of 3. This 4 sectors KL is one that I have been trying to give away but no one wants to take because nobody likes 4 sector KL.
1) Its super draggy because of the transit time.
2) You gotta clean the aircraft twice because there's no cleaners for KL.
3) We all hate the feeling of reaching SIN yet still having to do another 2 sectors.
So... I went for the flight. Weather was really bad for the first two sectors... So seatbelt sign was on throughout. EXCEPT for the second sector. Captain happily decided to turn off the seatbelt sign just as we finished service so we ended u having to serve coffee/tea orders to passengers who asked earlier.
Another OKP on this flight. Before takeoff as I'm checking the cabin I would turn on the reading lights for passengers who are reading because we would dim the cabin lights for take off and it is pretty dark outside already. I turned on the lights for this lady and as I walked back I realized she turned it off. So I politely asked if she would need the lights since we would be dimming the cabin lights. She looked at me and gave that kind of look and nodded reluctantly. What did I do wrong man?
So I saw how she turned off the lights once we were in the air after the cabin lights were on again so when I checked cabin for landing I did not turn on her lights for her. When the cabin lights dimmed, she looked up, looked back at me and closed her book, seemingly annoyed. #OKP
On our last sector back a family with a kid boarded first and Captain allowed him to enter the cockpit and he was so excited. Kids never fail to feel amazed at the cockpit haha.
And... We noticed this same lady who took our first flight from SIN-KUL coming back with us on our last KUL-SIN flight... still clad in her skin tight dress and branded handbag and nude heels. Wondering what she did in KL in just that few hours? Haha
As quoted by my cic... "After a thousand years we finally landed..." That's how it feels doing 4 sectors.
VVIPs vs. OKP
07 April 2017 // Friday
So its the start of my three day work pattern today. Short and sweet last PNH for the day and when I reported to the briefing room was surprised to find out am flying with three stewards!
The load for both ways was pretty full and what's more there's VVIP on the first sector in jcl so I kinda saw it coming that cic would put me in front. Call it sexism or whatsoever, there is this tendency of human belief that girls can actually do better in jcl than guys.
Well bad news before we even got on the plane; our incoming aircraft was delayed. Our flight departs at 1635h, so we are supposed to be in the aircraft at least an hour before, but our aircraft only arrived from Shenzhen at 1555h. Another set of MI crew was at the same gate as us, had their flight delayed too. We were all at the last gate F60 because we all had VVIPs on flight. They had the Crown Prince of Johor, while we had the wife of PNH's prime minister.
When we finally commenced boarding for passengers after god knows how long, the VVIPs came in last and the first thing I spotted was the three Hermes bag they were carrying; all crocodile skin. As expected they refused to put their bags up for take off so they asked us to keep it somewhere secure for them.
But after take off they're really nice since they asked for nothing except a glass of water. Going up load was only 9 and despite not all eating me and cic were busy like mad till we had to sit down to catch our breath.
Not looking forward to the full 12 in jcl coming back.
Anyways the station manager of PNH was going to be on our flight back and he told us how a PPS in EY was supposed to get an upgrade to JCL since it was his birthday today but was denied because JCL was full. We all felt bad for him but thankfully one passenger in JCL didn't turn up eventually so this PPS was really lucky.
There were a whole family of about 8 locals with three kids who are exactly the "one kind" passengers (gonna call them OKP from now on) I always mention. When I first took order from Row 1DF, the father and son both said they didn't want to have any food and only asked for two drinks from me. When I was serving Row 2DF their food (mind you they are one family), the father from 1F turned to tell me he "wants one too" while pointing to the beef choice I was serving. I clarified with him again whether he wants the beef choice or the chicken and he told me "same one" so I assumed it was beef. I double confirmed is it one or two sets because his child was there but he said one.
When I prepared another set of beef and was serving him he asked for one more for his son.
......
SO.... I took another set for the son. And guess what? On collection, they never touched the meals the littlest bit. So why waste my time?
And not to mention how one of my jcl lady brought me to EY JUST to tell me 5ABC and 6ABC are all her children.
VVIPs vs. OKPs... You decide.
So its the start of my three day work pattern today. Short and sweet last PNH for the day and when I reported to the briefing room was surprised to find out am flying with three stewards!
The load for both ways was pretty full and what's more there's VVIP on the first sector in jcl so I kinda saw it coming that cic would put me in front. Call it sexism or whatsoever, there is this tendency of human belief that girls can actually do better in jcl than guys.
Well bad news before we even got on the plane; our incoming aircraft was delayed. Our flight departs at 1635h, so we are supposed to be in the aircraft at least an hour before, but our aircraft only arrived from Shenzhen at 1555h. Another set of MI crew was at the same gate as us, had their flight delayed too. We were all at the last gate F60 because we all had VVIPs on flight. They had the Crown Prince of Johor, while we had the wife of PNH's prime minister.
When we finally commenced boarding for passengers after god knows how long, the VVIPs came in last and the first thing I spotted was the three Hermes bag they were carrying; all crocodile skin. As expected they refused to put their bags up for take off so they asked us to keep it somewhere secure for them.
But after take off they're really nice since they asked for nothing except a glass of water. Going up load was only 9 and despite not all eating me and cic were busy like mad till we had to sit down to catch our breath.
Not looking forward to the full 12 in jcl coming back.
Anyways the station manager of PNH was going to be on our flight back and he told us how a PPS in EY was supposed to get an upgrade to JCL since it was his birthday today but was denied because JCL was full. We all felt bad for him but thankfully one passenger in JCL didn't turn up eventually so this PPS was really lucky.
There were a whole family of about 8 locals with three kids who are exactly the "one kind" passengers (gonna call them OKP from now on) I always mention. When I first took order from Row 1DF, the father and son both said they didn't want to have any food and only asked for two drinks from me. When I was serving Row 2DF their food (mind you they are one family), the father from 1F turned to tell me he "wants one too" while pointing to the beef choice I was serving. I clarified with him again whether he wants the beef choice or the chicken and he told me "same one" so I assumed it was beef. I double confirmed is it one or two sets because his child was there but he said one.
When I prepared another set of beef and was serving him he asked for one more for his son.
......
SO.... I took another set for the son. And guess what? On collection, they never touched the meals the littlest bit. So why waste my time?
And not to mention how one of my jcl lady brought me to EY JUST to tell me 5ABC and 6ABC are all her children.
VVIPs vs. OKPs... You decide.
Friday, April 7, 2017
Laughter all in a Day's Work
05 April 2017 // Wednesday
Hi guys! April has been really boring for me so far. Nothing much in my roster to look forward to except for Cairns at the end of the month. Today was a Darwin (DRW) for me; another long ass flight.
My Captain for today is someone whom I know quite well; he added me on Facebook since the first time we flew together. He was a First Officer (FO) then, but today is my first time flying with him after he has been promoted. When left with S1 and S3 to choose my position, I chose to work in Business Class since the tech crew are pretty nice to get along.
Load in Business Class was 5 and 12 and in EY was 73 and 149. I chose S1 also because I really was too tired to face 149 passengers at the back haha.
When the caterers bought in the carts and meals in the oven rungs, he told us that everything fell on the way here so I was to check if everything was intact. The entire oven rung was slanted to one side and one of the meals spilled all over the oven rung so there was food everywhere. Everything on my jcl trays were gathered at one side of each tray and I had to rearrange everything but most was fine except for a chipped plate or two. The caterer had to re-uplift few food items since they were destroyed beyond recognition haha,
When the caterers bought in the carts and meals in the oven rungs, he told us that everything fell on the way here so I was to check if everything was intact. The entire oven rung was slanted to one side and one of the meals spilled all over the oven rung so there was food everywhere. Everything on my jcl trays were gathered at one side of each tray and I had to rearrange everything but most was fine except for a chipped plate or two. The caterer had to re-uplift few food items since they were destroyed beyond recognition haha,
Anyway nothing much on the first sector except the intriguing conversation between me and tech crew about life and marriage and such. On the way back, I was so flustered in JCL with the 1 passengers "chasing" me for food and drinks. I ran out of meal choice for the last four passengers and I felt really bad. Especially for 3A, who asked for Cider and Coke Zero which we both do not cater.
I eventually asked the aft crew if they were okay to give up the crew meals so I could offer to passengers and they were okay. But when I went back to offer them, they were no longer keen. But their faces still seemed pretty unhappy. I was on my toes the whole time.
When I headed into EY to get some stuff, I was shocked by the scene I saw. A full flight of big bulky Caucasians! Our passengers are usually quite small built so this was a different scene.
The aft crew shared a story to us how this Indian passenger drank beer thinking that it was apple juice and she stared into blank space there after.
On disembarkation, one passenger was so flustered looking for his glasses. Just as I was searching for him, his wife told him, "aren't you wearing your glasses?" Then I looked at him; and he laughed and walked away.
When we exited the aircraft back in Singapore, the ground staff mentioned one passenger left her passport so we all went back in to find the passport, to no avail but we found a scarf. One of the freelance crew bet with us that the passport is surely in the passenger;s bag because this is what always happen. When she went out to check with the passenger again, she came back telling us a joke.
The passenger didn't lose her passport, she lost her scarf.
Laughter all in a day's work.
Sandwich Yums
04 April 2017 // Tuesday
So it's a KNO for me today again!
We were down by one crew but had 2 cics because one of them just came back from maternity.
The load was pretty comfortable and it was a short flight so all was good.
Did I mention of the new sandwich menu was chicken rendang? Not spicy but full of lemongrass flavour.
#nothingelsetoblogabout
So it's a KNO for me today again!
We were down by one crew but had 2 cics because one of them just came back from maternity.
The load was pretty comfortable and it was a short flight so all was good.
Did I mention of the new sandwich menu was chicken rendang? Not spicy but full of lemongrass flavour.
#nothingelsetoblogabout
Monday, April 3, 2017
Overnights
01 April 2017 // Saturday
You know you've grown up when 1st April is just another Saturday.
Peaceful day for me. Took a nap before I went for the later COK today which departs near 11pm and arrives Singapore 8.20am. This is gonna be super shag flight because of the timing so I took a nap before going to work.
As people said, load was extremely light and comfortable and although I took a nap in the afternoon, still couldn't resist my closing eyelids especially when its so dark at night.
The morning sun was extremely bright and we landed at 8.10am. Headed for breakfast with Hubby's family before becoming a zombie and headed to bed. Sadly only managed to replenish 3 hours' of sleep and woke up feeling not right.
That's what one overnight does to my body.
You know you've grown up when 1st April is just another Saturday.
Peaceful day for me. Took a nap before I went for the later COK today which departs near 11pm and arrives Singapore 8.20am. This is gonna be super shag flight because of the timing so I took a nap before going to work.
As people said, load was extremely light and comfortable and although I took a nap in the afternoon, still couldn't resist my closing eyelids especially when its so dark at night.
The morning sun was extremely bright and we landed at 8.10am. Headed for breakfast with Hubby's family before becoming a zombie and headed to bed. Sadly only managed to replenish 3 hours' of sleep and woke up feeling not right.
That's what one overnight does to my body.
Chit-Chat Session
31 March 2017 // Friday
My first Semarang (SRG) flight since I started flying about more than a year ago!
Its a medium flight but with the full load and down by one crew its never an easy flight. Flying with the cic who went Cairns (CNS) with me so she put me S1 to work with her in Business Class. My load was 11 going up and 4 coming back but there's three air marshals (we call them star 5) so my actual passenger load is lesser.
My going up load consists of one whole group of 8 and the three star 5. They boarded together (4 adults and 4 kids) and they changed seats so I have no idea who is who. While taking orders I figured out the kids' names but have no idea about the adults. My cic and I were basically trying to figure out who is who but were extremely confused because they bore different surnames. I ended up giving in and went to ask the passenger for her name. *faints*
Anyway on the second sector I wanted to help the aft crew but got rejected by them so I continued chatting with my cic happily about everything under the sun.
Flights like this are the best~
My first Semarang (SRG) flight since I started flying about more than a year ago!
Its a medium flight but with the full load and down by one crew its never an easy flight. Flying with the cic who went Cairns (CNS) with me so she put me S1 to work with her in Business Class. My load was 11 going up and 4 coming back but there's three air marshals (we call them star 5) so my actual passenger load is lesser.
My going up load consists of one whole group of 8 and the three star 5. They boarded together (4 adults and 4 kids) and they changed seats so I have no idea who is who. While taking orders I figured out the kids' names but have no idea about the adults. My cic and I were basically trying to figure out who is who but were extremely confused because they bore different surnames. I ended up giving in and went to ask the passenger for her name. *faints*
Anyway on the second sector I wanted to help the aft crew but got rejected by them so I continued chatting with my cic happily about everything under the sun.
Flights like this are the best~
Weirdest Passengers
29 March 2017 // Wednesday
So I'm flying with my batchgirl today! It is our second flight since we graduated and it has been more than a year! Flights with batchies are always nice and hard to come by. So despite it being a short flight we never want to give it away!
It was just a short short Medan (KNO) today and both my batchgirl and I wanted to swap it away for longer flights (to earn more money) but changed our minds after we checked the crew! I wanted to swap it away because I was off yesterday and tomorrow so I feel a little "wasted" to do such a short flight with so much rest.
As mentioned we went for the flight and we got to work together! I'm S3 and she chose S5 because she had two more flights after this so wanted to do "less work" hahaha. One of the senior crew wasn't feeling well so she chose S2.
Since boarding we could already sense the weirdness in the passengers that was very different from people on all other flights. One passenger put all his bags into the overhead compartment, sat down and then took everything out and brought with him to the toilet.
Another one seated at 20C, was directed to his seat by my crew. My crew showed him to his seat and said, "sir, your seat," and he replied, "20C".
"Yes sir, this is your seat."
"Yes, 20C"
"Sir, this is 20C."
"My seat is 20C."
*facepalm*
Then on the second sector there's people rejecting me serving food to them but asking for food just as I left their row AND returning me the untouched food as I am doing collection. *rolleyes*
A passenger had a huge mole on his left cheek with extra long and curly hair on the mole.
Not forgetting that moment when 5 call bells went off one by one and my crew and I were scrambling to find pens and immigration cards for almost every passenger.
And that Row 5 mother, who at one moment wanted me to let her kid pass through my cart so he could go to the washroom, yet blame me for not clearing her tray AS I was letting her kid pass through, maybe you should tell me how to do my job.
This flight left all of us bewildered. All in a day's work~
So I'm flying with my batchgirl today! It is our second flight since we graduated and it has been more than a year! Flights with batchies are always nice and hard to come by. So despite it being a short flight we never want to give it away!
It was just a short short Medan (KNO) today and both my batchgirl and I wanted to swap it away for longer flights (to earn more money) but changed our minds after we checked the crew! I wanted to swap it away because I was off yesterday and tomorrow so I feel a little "wasted" to do such a short flight with so much rest.
As mentioned we went for the flight and we got to work together! I'm S3 and she chose S5 because she had two more flights after this so wanted to do "less work" hahaha. One of the senior crew wasn't feeling well so she chose S2.
Since boarding we could already sense the weirdness in the passengers that was very different from people on all other flights. One passenger put all his bags into the overhead compartment, sat down and then took everything out and brought with him to the toilet.
Another one seated at 20C, was directed to his seat by my crew. My crew showed him to his seat and said, "sir, your seat," and he replied, "20C".
"Yes sir, this is your seat."
"Yes, 20C"
"Sir, this is 20C."
"My seat is 20C."
*facepalm*
Then on the second sector there's people rejecting me serving food to them but asking for food just as I left their row AND returning me the untouched food as I am doing collection. *rolleyes*
A passenger had a huge mole on his left cheek with extra long and curly hair on the mole.
Not forgetting that moment when 5 call bells went off one by one and my crew and I were scrambling to find pens and immigration cards for almost every passenger.
And that Row 5 mother, who at one moment wanted me to let her kid pass through my cart so he could go to the washroom, yet blame me for not clearing her tray AS I was letting her kid pass through, maybe you should tell me how to do my job.
This flight left all of us bewildered. All in a day's work~
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