18th June 2025
Wahh....it will surely be difficult on my head 😆
Met up with 美女 girlfriend, my batchgirl to pass her the things she needs. Funny right? She flies more often than me, supposedly I should tompang her to help me buy things not the other way round. But such is life as a cabin crew, you never know when is your next flight to a certain station. Anyway, it's alright I didn't mind helping her out since I'm already there.
When I was in Japan, we messaged rubbish to each other and then this helpful girl had to recommend me more things for cleaning. She started her recommendation since last year when I was told crew bring luggage even for 1N flights to Japan station.
Yup! She was the one who was on the same flight as che-che n I in 2024, and the person who said "torlong lah Lily..." I still feel I was overdoing it with the bags for our short trip. I feel she's my buddy when it comes to buying cleaning stuffs. Her house must be cleaner and tidier than mine. But she's only tempting me to buy more things, luckily she stopped recommending after that. If not, I would have to block all her messages 😂.
It was a lovely meetup for 4hrs, so nice to chat with her from hotels ghost stories to rubbish to fengshui.
We talked alot! Still at some point in time we had to part ways. Till the next time we meet, safe flights always Ho T Xuan. If I bump into you onboard, please pass me satay and pralines. Thank you 😜.
What a trip it has been! Finally my long overdue had-been-harping-over-20plus-years solo trip. For a person who loves travelling (ok who doesn't), who had been held back for so many years, a solo trip has to be done sooner or later.
It has been a fruitful trip, did what I wanted to do, ate what I wanted to eat, took 3003 pictures with nobody stopping me or me chasing after the family who kept walking ahead, can rest properly in hotels (normally I'm still a mother and a maid during our family hols.
Yah! While Everyone's resting I'm always the one washing undergarments n socks after being the last to shower. It truly sucks to be the only one busy while the rest of them can lay down on bed fiddling their phones. After that i still need to look thru next day's itinerary leh!)
I've never felt so liberated like this before! As one vlogger I met during one of my hikes told me "you truly deserve this coz you've put in alot for the family over the years. I'm single and I can't imagine how you must have neglected yourself over the years." Wah... ah nia heard what she said and it truly resonates how I felt, really want to cry and hug her. Altho I had done small bits of pampering here and there with facials these years, there's something mentally that I did neglect myself all these years, I had forgotten what i had loved to do not what I loved to do for the girls.
Weeks before : Friends who knew I was going on solo trip either asked me "you can meh?" (Ah-nia has always been the one planning our holiday itineraries, of course I can. And l've done majority of my sightseeing when flying on solo) OR "nobody to talk to" (I don't need to talk to anyone. All I need is music. likely I'm quite the anti-social person. I messaged a friend while I was there. If she or anyone had talked to me during our hike when I'm breathless, I would have kicked her down the slope before the bear got to her/us.)
Special mention - the funny interesting videocall with Nanette Zehnder I had when I was there.... Maybe I'II do that in another post
The trip started with meeting my favourite CS onboard. Meeting funny Japanese people along the way. The people who announced I was from SIN to their kampong ppl 😂.My conversation with a small cafe owner who rolled his eyes when he mentioned the homestay owner (where i was putting up) and his wife can talk in the morning, then in the afternoon then at night. I got what he meant and said "ゴシップ ? His body language was hilarious. The 4 cute old ladies who mistook the place where they stood was the 📸 place until i brought them to the correct one and offered to take photos for them. They shouted a loud sayonara from afar, waving to me excitedly, when they saw me walking away. Quite shocking behaviour of the soft spoken Japanese we all know 🤣. But I guess they were in a group so they kindda let themselves loose. Kindda makes me wonder if we had a bunch of old ladies KC girls, will we be rowdier than them? Still I admire their care for each other when they helped each other out of the car. Met a volunteer who pointed out the area to me at the observatory deck and then gifted me a paper ball. He thought I didn't know what it was and demonstrated from a distance that I had to pull it out and inflate it. But in the process he donated his saliva on my hand 😂, I dare not say anything. Lots of chicken and duck talks with Japanese in the country + small chats with fellow tourists. All the way until my trip ended with meeting my batchboy onboard. Wow!
Back home ystd and had to quickly unpack and wipe luggage, ready for next usage. Tmrw the girls will fly for their siblings trip. Had I intended to follow them, I would be packing again 😂, but then it wouldn't be called siblings trip. I need to recuperate.
EX-SIN : When Cpt announced IFM name, I was wondering if it could be him. Because there's not so many xxx in the airline when I was there, unless this IFM is super fast-tracked. And when he walked past me, I was so excited. I've totally lost contact with him after I changed my phone. Obviously must talk to him right?
A photo of us for keepsake. Me and my messy hair
On return sector : I didn't know he was onboard until I heard a familiar voice over the PA "cabin crew door closed" and until he walked past me I confirmed it's him.
But prepping cabin for take-off so I didn't reach out to him.
Mid flight, he came back to me beaming after I asked the JFSS to help me convey a message to him. I bet he would have looked into the PIS to figure out who wanted to see him 🤣 . We started out as batchmates back in 1995, he's the only one that fast-tracked his ranks.
When I was LSS, he was already a CS. He must be the youngest IFM.
I went with my white hair coloured, and came home with whites growing. Haha! (Nvr mind grow out more and I'm still holidaying I don't mind.)
Came home tanned and messy hair again, as shown in this photo.
18th June 2017
The day our fire started so slow.....that the
'neighbours' who came after us had theirs 🔥 🔥 started so quickly, came to our help.
#airfryerisbetterright#
Just when we got the fire going...it started to drizzle...
Don't ask me why but Father had this in his car and came to our rescue
Craving for durian.
18th June 2013
Where to run to? Where to run to?
Got haze, I stay at home.
Next door neighbour renovating their place. Now the drilling noise is too much to bear. Ear plugs! Ear plugs!
But speaking of which. I thought contractors were suppose to paste a piece of paper stating renovation work duration on the door
18th June 2012
Simply love the nice crisp sound coming from a tuned piano.
18th June 2012
Overlapping of maid duties now.
Handing over n on the job training
18th June 2012
Today's Aminah #2 duty. She's one of the 2 helpers I've hired! No need to pay levy n salary somemore.
1st session using her own card. The youngest customer for ear candling.
