November roster!

NO TURN AROUNDS!!! wohoooo~i love my roster! top bid and didnt get any turn around flights...because i bid for avoid turn arounds~hahaha...here you are November roster:

11.1 OFF
11.2-4 New York JFK!!!
11.5-6 OFF
11.7-9 Kolkata, India...(my first layover in India)
11.10-12 Moscow, Russia (freezing!!!)
11.13 OFF
11.14 rest day
11.15-17 Osaka Japan!!! (going to Kyoto to see red maple trees~)
11.18-19 OFF
11.20-23 Los Angeles USA!!! (Swapped with my Singapore 50 hrs...i regret a bit now...)
11.24 start my holidays!!! til 12.08

Thanks god, i got all i asked for! this is the first time i got everything i wanted except Kolkata, Moscow and Singapore (now L.A)

Very excited to go to L.A~~~Hollywood land! but i heard the flight itself is a crap! 16 hrs...with 'interesting' & 'demanding' passengers on board...now i regret...i wanna go to Singapore!!! way much better than 16 hrs L.A (Orz///)

Wish me luck!!! ;o)

Octuber roster---revised! I am a swap master~

When i got my Octuber roster...i almost fainted! 5 turn arounds~~~nightmare! 2 Mumbai, 1 Bahrain, 1 Chennai, 1 Tehran! Looks like the worst roster i ever had...only good things is that i got 2 Osaka which i bid for...but again originally i had 3 Osaka...then they removed me and put me to Cape town~~~i am so pissed off with the rostering people...why there are people rarely get turn arounds or maybe 1...but i got 5 in my second top bid position?! Anyway, i used my swap skill and managed to swap away my 2 @#X$%^!* BOM flights and SHORT BAH flight for something else...this is the final result:

Octuber roster:
10.01 in Brisbane (continue my last trip on the 27th)
10.02 Brisbane-Dubai
10.03-05 OFF (maybe going to Rome!)
10.06 Rest day
10.07-09 Osaka, Japan!
10.10-12 OFF (going to Dusseldorf to see mein lieber!)
10.13-15 Hamburg, Germany
10.16 Rest day
10.17-19 Jakarta, Indonesia!
10.20-21 OFF (what to do? mmmm...Athens perhaps?!)
10.22 Rest day
10.23-25 Osaka Japan!
10.26-27 OFF (what to do again? mmmmm...no more money to spend on tickets hahaha!)
10.28-29 Chennai India (long turn around...lol)
10.30-31 Tehran, Iran (havent done it for a while...)

See...my 2 shitty turn arounds to BOM are gone!!! hahahaha~thanks god~sorry Mr Scheduling I am not Indian and i dont speak Hindu! okkkkkkkkkkkkkkk~~~stop giving me hard time loooooooooooool....i have very good performance on board all the time!!! ;o))

Cheers! Have a safe flight to all flight attendants! ;o)

September not so innovative roster...

This is my september roster...it came out on time but i am missing my Osaka flight! As i checked before it came out and i saw i had one Osaka flight...but when the roster was released it was gone!!! Dont understand why they removed me instead of other girls...i am 3rd top bidding position!!! But anyway i got 4 days off and 2 Dusseldorf flights which i bidded for...and now I only need to get rid of Mumbai...for a day off!!!

Sep 1...OFF
Sep 2-3...Vienna, Austria (my 5th Vienna in a year! nice layover~)
Sep 4-5... OFF
Sep 6-8...Dusseldorf, Germany (mein lieber!!! mein Schatz!!!)
Sep 9...OFF
Sep 10-12...Dusseldorf, Germany (yeah another one heheh...)
Sep 13-15 Milan, Italy (trying to swap for Osaka!!!)
Sep 16...Mumbai (noooooooooooooo~~~~~~~~~~~~need day off!!!)
Sep 17-26 On Holiday!!! (yeah going to Sweden!!!)
Sep 27-Oct 2...Brisbane & Auckland trip! (another long journey!)

Overall, this roster doesnt please me much except 2 dusseldorf flights and days off...all other layovers are just repeatitive and not attracting at all. I wonder why they keep giving me the same destinations over and over...please give me new ones next month okay! and i need my osaka flight back~ ;o)))

August Roster~

well...forgot to post this month roster, anyway is not as wonderful as i thought...didnt bid anything and this is what i got...4 layovers and 3 turn arounds...apart from roster was delayed seriously due to short of crew, and many of them are taking unpaid leave~what an awkward thing! very annoying when we couldnt see the roster on the 26th! let's hope next month roster will be out on time!!!

8.1-8.4 Days off
8.5-8.10 Dubai-Brisbane-Auckland! (My first Auckland trip!!! had Q.Q. rice!!! yumy~)
8.11-8.12 Days off
8.13-8.15 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! (good eat and good shops!)
8.16-8.17 Mumbai...X@#$%7 (called sick at the end...thanks god! why always got this flight???)
8.18 OFF
8.19-21 London Heathrow!!! (tried to swap but impossible~)
8.21-23 OFF to see mein lieber in Dusseldorf!!!
8.24-26 Munich but swapped for Dusseldorf
8.27-28 Bangalore India...another unwanted turn around!
8.29 Day off
8.30-31 Beiruit, Lebanon (looooooooool....too many turn arounds!!! are we short of people or what?)

So, last month i didnt get any turn arounds...but this month yeah...3!!! I dont like turn around flight at all, doesnt matter is a short one or long one! Please stay away from my monthly roster! Thanks~ ;o)

Prague~a city full of history and art! (unfinished...)

Since i got 5 days off in a row, therefore i planned a trip to Czech Republic which i would say that is one of the best place you can't miss out. However, July is a peak season to travel around and is a tough season for airlines crew to travel on standby tickets. With no exception, i am one of the examples. I had purchased 2 tickets, one to Vienna so i can take a train later on to go to Prague and the other was to Frankfurt which is the second choice if Vienna flight was full...Indeed, it happened exactly what i had forcasted lol...I arrive at Dubai Airport just hour and half for standby luck and along with me there were 2 serbian crew same as me but they were heading back home but via Vienna as well...which means i had nearly no chance to get on the flight as Vienna flight that day was overbooked and as a result we couldn't get on the flight to Vienna...then now comes the second option which is going through Frankfurt and of course no way i will take a train or any land transportation to Prague, as it might take 9-12 hours traveling...lol this will drive me insane! Hence, 3 of us we came back to the airport for the FRA flight and i did check previously and the load was optimist so we had no problem and all went on FRA flight. The only tricky thing we had to do upon our arrival into Frankfurt, we gotta buy a zed fare ticket to go to our different destination. And luckly they issued the ticket for me to go to Prague with Lufthansa but arriving at Prague around midnight...and i had no idea how to go to the city after 00:00 from Prague airport~

Seems like i was pretty lucky when i arrived in Prague, there was still bus running every hour...so i took the bus and head to Prague downtown around 1 am...i ended up so tiring in a budget hotel which was the only option i could find with my budget! hahaha, don't laugh! not all flight attendants are rich hey! :0( anyway i am very impressed that most of the czech people can speak quite good english maybe because it is a very demaning and attracting to tourism so English has become their common language...just guessing.

The history of Prague spans thousands of years, during which time the city grew from a castle known as Vyšehrad to the multicultural capital of a modern European state, the Czech Republic. Check out the photos below which i visited. What an amazing and historical castle!

July amazing roster! ***updated***

For my surprise, July's roster is a stunning one without bidding any flight! Only layovers no turn arounds!!! Check it out:

7.1 back from Vienna
7.2-7.6 Five days off!!!!!!!! (went to Prague, Czech Republic~~~)
7.7 Nujum day (was a very different experience and it actually touched my heart!)
7.8 Dubai-Johannesburg, South Africa
7.10 J'burg-Dubai
7.11 OFF
7.12 Dubai-Dusseldorf, Germany
7.14 Dusseldorf-Dubai
7.15 rest day
7.16 Dubai-Mauritius!!! (36 hrs layover in an all-included system resort!)
7.18 Mauritius-Dubai
7.19-20 OFF
7.21 Dubai-Hamburg, Germany (will fly with Carlo from Costa Rica!!!)
7.23 Hamburg-Dubai
7.24 OFF
7.25 Dubai-Dusseldorf (swapped for it because i have someone there! hehehe...)
7.27 Dusseldorf-Dubai
7.28 rest day
7.29 Dubai-Mauritius (another Mauritus but this time in a different spa&resort!)
7.31 Mauritius-Dubai

i couldnt believe it when i saw my roster, without bidding anything and i got a great roster! compare to last month's!!! the moral behind this is: If you dont bid, scheduling "might" give you a nice roster beyond your expectation!

Enjoying myself in Ticolandia!

Pura vida! Ticolandia is called by all costarican people (Los Ticos), means our own country COSTA RICA! However, we name it in diferent ways such as, La Tiquicia, Ticolandia. Because we are TICOS!!! Oh eh oh eh oh eh oh eh...ticos ticos~~~hahahaha this is so funny! So us! I am very proud of being costarican, our unique identity, our uncomparable tradition. I always recommend my colleagues and friends to come to Costa Rica for tourism, as you can find different patern of joy spending your holiday, either going for mountain side or ocean area, you can always have a big time without enforcing it.

2 days left before going back to Dubai, i have started feeling nostalgic and wish i could stay longer, though i have JED and DEL flights right after my leave and having a hard time to swap it! On the DEL flight i will be the only male crew thus a big barrier to swap flights or days off, because i can only swap with male crew!!! what a rule~anyway, this is flight attendant's life. I cant wait to get over these turn arounds and go to Vienna at the end of month for a short break! Seriously, i am tired of this pathetic roster! Please give me a nice one next time okay! (Voice up! Like me, hard working crew with stunning performance, doesnt deserve this kind of roster!) Ahhhhhhhhhh~~~~~