Happy New Year everyone! January roster has come...

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!!!!

I just got off from Vienna flight and have been busy flying and sleeping...so almost no time to update my blog. Sorry for my followers and all public audience! hehehehe...I promise you guys to update pictures and journey as soon as possible. I went on vacation to London, Strasbourg and Paris. Then I missed my Hamburg flight...instead they gave me a Dhaka turn around...however I kept my Vienna! Ok...let's see my January roster, is not too bad but i am still trying to swap to trasnform my roster...hehehehe

Changes have been included after swaps...

1.1-1.3 OFF
1.4-1.7 Houston USA (Wow...going for shopping in A&F!!)
1.10-1.11 OFF
1.12-1.14 Beijing, China (After 5 months, PEK has come back to my roster...but now is freezing)
1.16-1.17 Vienna, Austria! (Oh yeah~i need this trip so bad to go on a Friday~)
1.19 Bahrain turn around
1.20-1.22 OFF
1.23-1.25 Perth, Australia (You are more than welcome to my roster! the only aussie destination i havent been to)
1.26-1.28 Casablanca, Moroco (Morocan bath again!)
1.29-1.30 OFF
1.31 Athens (Turn around!!! cant believe it...)

Keep discovering...

Warm regards,

On holidays in London and Paris!!!

I will update my journey soon...had a fabulous time in London!!! now getting start my Paris trip! stay tunned!!!

São Paulo, Brazil...Obrigado!

Oh yeah~São Paulo Brazil!!! I always want to go there and now finally I overcame my dream! Let's talk about ultra long haul flight...15 hours going to Sao Paulo and 13.30 coming back to Dubai~OMG...my first long haul flight and indeed was really tiring and exhausted! As per my friend's advice I took the second break which was only 4 hours and 30 minutes ...lol... huh....thanks god i managed to sleep and after woke up we had to set up the carts and prepare meals, was a different experience. Anyway, passengers were fine not so demanding however they enjoy gathering in our galley talking and talking, okay, I completely understand that because is a long flight and was FULL cabin in economy...i wouldn't have sit there throughout the flight.

We landed in Sao Paulo Guarulhos International Airport at 7:45pm, temperature was 17degrees C. Quite chilling though...we live in a great hotel! wow~the room was BIG and GORGEOUS...there is a hall walking to the bathroom and i got a nice view to Sao Paulo city, besides the entire room was just like a suite, best of all! Dunno why I felt soooo damn tired and sleepy, because I already made some plans to go out to experience brazilian night life...however, after having a drink with CA/FO/crews I FALLED ASLEEP~~~~couldn't wake up to catch a taxi...so I said to myself...28 hours layover in Sao Paulo is INSANE! I couldn't go many places specially night clubs since we arrived late and after 15 hours flight...so I am not a superman not even batman to do such crazy things. Hence, i decided to wake up early next day to go sightseeing and walk around in Sao Paulo.



Portugues is their official language, however you can still find some people who can somehow understand Spanish...I think they can understand more spanish better than spanish speakers understand portugues! Indeed, i could catch some words during a conversation, portugues sounds to me like a completely different language and probably Italian for me is easier to learn...well I guess...

I like Brazil, and brazilians are friendly, travelling by subway is a great deal instead of taxis. Whenever i got lost, I approached to people and asked them the direction to go, they could always show me the right way to get there. After having breakfast in the hotel, I took a taxi heading to PARQUE DE IBIRAPUERA, very green and fresh, people jogging and runng around the park, very healthy lifestyle! I forgot my tennis otherwise i would have gotten changed then join them! I felt the fresh air coming from every single leaf....ummmmm I need such pure oxygen to my lungs!!! In Dubai you rarely see those natural trees other than palms and sands...lol...

After visiting IBIRAPUERA park, I took a long walk about 20 minutes to catch subway...well this is the way to get around the city. No previous plan was made, I had a buffet lunch in Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant, so familiar to me and i loved it sooo much...delicious meal and for my surprise was crowded in lunch time! People in Brazil also love vegetarian meal hey~not only churrasqueria! (which means roasted beef in a metal stick then they cut it on your table). Walking in Consolação district I could really feel Sao Paulo, the financial center in Brazil and one of the most important in South America. Paulinista Avenue full of enterprises, business and shopps, next to it Rua Augusta, one of the famous night life areas where I should have gone to the night before. Next time...

Our company should arrange the layover time for us! is the way too short for crew to rest after a long flight! Why Houston got 48 hours layover and Sao Paulo only 28!? both have almost the same flight pattern but just 1 hour difference the way back...for me it is an ultra long flight! I talked to other airlines crew in the hotel, such as Delta, they came from Atlanta USA, 10 hours flight and they got 36 hours layover! even more than us! Why why why.... :-(((

Hopefully we open the route to Rio de Janeiro soon~hehehe inchala!

Johannesburg, no sightseeing....

Well, this is my first Johannesburg and can you believe that I did not go for any sightseeing! Anyway, we left from Dubai at 4:20am...and i didn´t manage to sleep at all probably only 1 hour~upon our arrival into Johannesburg the weather was nice and lovely but i felt sooooo damn sleepy and tired, plus exhausted because we had a medical incident on board...

For my surprise I met one taiwanes crew, haven't seen her for ages...she was crew from another flight and we stayed in the same hotel. So Linda insisted me to have a lunch with her which I enjoyed apart from my tireness...after that I went out with 3 crew members to the shopping mall to have something to eat and just walked around, then we headed back to hotel to catch up some sleep zzzzzzzzzzzz............

After 4 hours resting on my bed, I woke up at 8pm and was starving...rather than asking for room service I went back to that shopping mall and found a lot of restaurants, and i ended up having my exotic and fancy dinner at a thai restaurant, cost me 108 rands was a good dinner though. And the next day basically i went back AGAIN to that shopping mall to have breakfast but this time with other 3 different crew who i met at the lobby by coincidence bcz they were about to head out for BF. blablablablabla~my 26 hours Johannesburg was over! and the way back to Dubai i was operating as Business Class crew, sooooo exciting and interesting! I loved it even though we took nearly 4 hours to do the full service, but was a fantastic experience for me and guess what! I finished successfully my 6 months probation!!! Dah....

COFFEE ART...so nice huh~

Edinburgh! You and your castles rock!

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish city after Glasgow. Edinburgh is one of Scotland's 32 loca government council areas. EK we only fly to GLASGOW instead of Edinburgh, personally, I prefer Edingburgh rather than GLA. We stayed in Glasgow downtown for 1 day, a short layover basically, however, I already made the plan to go to Edinburgh as soon as we arrive the hotel. Finally, 3 of us came to agreement and all of us were keen to visit this historical city in Scotland!

Edinburgh is also a busy, noisy place with a spectacular landscape of hills and crags. The buildings of this vibrant capital city, from the historic houses of the Royal Mile to the elegant Georgian terraces and crescents of the New Town, offer the perfect complement to the natural setting. The city's layout is linear, in a pattern set by Castle Rock and Castle Ridge, down which the Royal Mile descends to the palace of Holyroodhouse. North of this lies a shallow valley holding the lovely Princes Street Gardens, with Waverley Station, the city's main railroad station at the eastern end. Above the gardens, and to the north is Edinburgh's main street, Princes Street. This is an ideal vantage point from which to view the castle and Old Edinburgh.

We took the train, 45 minutes later we were in front of those gorgeous contemporaneous arquitectures, just like pictures, I loved them sooo much! Walking on the elegant streets brough me such a feeling as if I were born in the 15th century...The weather was chilling, cold, but not windy...between 1 and 0 degree...freezing! I bought 2 scarf with typical scottish design at only 12 pounds!

Edinburgh's famous castle is especially beautiful. Upon entering the city, it commands immediate attention. The eye of the visitor is drawn to the impressive structure rising high above everything else on its sheer granite cliffs. There are incredible panoramic views from the upper stories of the castle, including a clear view of the distant sea. The castle sits high on the huge rock formation that juts out as if in defiance of any who would seek to invade Edinburgh. Castle Rock, as it is known, is inaccessible on three sides, and has a long, descending ridge on the fourth side.

December Roster!

For my surprise...my december roster is not bad at all! Only 1 turn around flight to Male, Maldives.

12.01-12.02 OFF
12.03-12.05 Sao Paulo, Brazil!!! Oh yeah...party!
12.06-12.10 OFF
12.11-12.15 Singapore & Melbourne (Only 17 hours in Melbourne...WTH~~~)
12.16-12.23 VACATION IN LONDON AND PARIS!!!
12.24 Rest Day
12.25 Dubai-Male-Dubai (hellooooooo~why give me a turn around for Christmas!!)
12.26-12.28 Hamburg, Germany!!!
12.29-12.30 Vienna, Austria!!! (2nd Vienna~loving it)
12.31 OFF...Okay no flight then my first New Year will be celebrated in Dubai!

In general, this is not a bad roster!!! compare to others...lol

Sunny Cape Town, quick sightseeing!

Cape Town, is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Cape Town. It is the provincial capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislative capital of South Africa, where the National Parliament and many government offices are located. Cape Town is famous for its harbour as well as its natural setting in the Cape floral kingdom, including such well-known landmarks as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Cape Town is one of the most popular South African destinations for tourism.

This flight most of the times is full of tourists and local people and the way back to Dubai was demanding as hell...don't know why? Drinking the way tooooo much and almost ran out of our wine stocks!!! By far this is the most demanding flight ever...Ok, back to the beautiful Cape Town, since we only have 24 hours layover for a 9 hours flight...uhhhhh~so annoying! I was damn tired after that sector and still had to meet up the crew in the lobby after getting changed in my room. Felt so sleepy and exhausted but couldn't waste my time on the bed...so yeah we took the shuttle bus to Water Front in which you can visit the harbour, shopping centre and nice restaurants...of course you gotta taste the authentic South African wines! Semi-sweet wine...which a lot of passengers had asked me for it on board~I am not a wine lover, so whatever~heee hee...

After clubbing the whole night, believe me~on Wednesday night everywhere was dead...not much to see plus we had a silly crew only brough his basketball short and one T-shirt to this beautiful city...I felt so unconfortable because most of the bars don't allow you in with shorts and tennis...but 3 of us went to have some drinks and he specially had his HOT TEA, because he was not feeling well and had sore throat...lol...plus his dress and hot tea...can you picture it???!!!

The next day one of the crew woke me up and convinced me to do a quick sightseeing with HOP ON & HOP OFF bus which I have never done before...and I definitely loved it! Only cost me 120 rands, so we left the hotel around 9:20am to catch the bus heading to the Table mountain and Camps bay beach!!! As shown on my photos below, as of a sudden, i falled in love with Cape Town, such a beautiful and charming city I have ever seen! Blue sky, blue water, white sands, table mountain, lion head, plus lovely people...there is a antique quote in China saying that: The perfect place always comes with mountain and water! which is true! no doubt! Hopefully I can visit Cape Town on my own in the near future!!!

Serious statement-cross cultural

For those who had read my "Flatmate moved out" post and felt upset and angry specially regarding to such phrase "screening, no brazilian nor philipino" I would like to apologize and clearly state my position here again oficially:

Personally, I am not racist nor selective with any specific nationality. What I meant before was because my current flatmate he had certain issue and instances with their previous flatmate and I don't even know the history! What can I say about this? He said to me he doesn't want any of them...and for me I was shocked whatever he said...that's was definitely not what I wanted. He overreacted but still I am okay with ANYONE, ANY NATIONALITY. Tell you why?? My best friend is from Brazil, and I have couple friends from Philipine as well...so why would I say such stupid and impolite thing about those nationalities??? I think you (I really don't know who you are) misunderstood what I meant and never ever meant to hurt or damage any reputation of your people, however, the comments you left in my blog is absolutely unacceptable and absurd regarding to ME, all those words you used were even 10000000 times worse than being a racist! Who is racist now??? Costa Rica is famouse of picking pockets??? etc... PLEASE, you must reflect on the language and words you used here in my blog and at least respect the people who are reading them. My apologize to you that i didn't explain myself and you had misunderstood my post and the entire instance. Now, if there is anything you don't like about me PLEASE just ignore me, by the way I deeply love brazilian people and proud of being a costa rican! Be smart and open minded next time while reading my blog and leaving your comments in my blog. Hopefully you reflect on those bad words against me, and meditate your own action before criticize others.

I woule like to thank you for bringing me attention about my previous posts, and again no racist comment nor impolite comments will be accepted in this blog. Thank you and safe flying everyone!

Casablanca! Morrocan tea and bath~

Instead of going to Seychellez 4.5 hrs going and coming back as a regular turn around flight, I swapped it out for a never been destination...CASABLANCA, MORROCO!!! I have been told that Casablanca is a really bad flights, passengers are demaning etc...well but for me i found this flight sooo much easier than UK or other Indian flights...really, even they are demanding but still I managed to answer all the call bells and meet their requests...as a team in Y/C we worked so hard but we kept the work load equally fair!

Upon our arrival to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Casablanca, was a nice hotel but small room...anyway, cost saving for the airlines! Three of us (one from brazil and one from UK) we went to have a typical morrocan bath which means they scrub your skin and remove all dead skins we got for yearrrrrs...was quite weird though...they asked us to remove all cloth except underwear and then send us to the steam room to open our poles for about 10 minutes then one guy for each one...(not sexual thing hey~man to man and woman to woman, we were in a male only area and the other girl she was sent to female area alone...poor her~) the morrocan asked me to lay down so he could start with his technique scrubbing my skin with some tough and raugh cloth...here and there...without touching my prohibited area! of course not!!! Sometimes i felt painful and but relaxing since someone is washing me away those dirts! hahahaha~the other brazilian crew he felt the same, but was his idea to come to do this exceptional bath, if something bad happened here, he would be in trouble with me! hahaha~thanks god we came out from Le Pacha Spa with a new skin and fresh touch...feeling like a baby hey~

At night we went to have a typical morrocan tea which is made of mint, taste sweet but refreshing at the same time~! Unfortunately people in morroco don't speak much english, only arabic and french...sometimes italian...anyway, none of us speak their language therefore body language was applied once again to get our meal choice! This is the funny thing travelling around the world meeting different culture and people. That's how I like being a steward!

When you go to Casablanca, you can't skip without visiting the biggiest mosque in the world called "Hassan II". The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca was completed in 1993 after great expense and artistic labor, and the result is one of the largest and most beautiful mosques in the world. Its gleaming newness and tremendous wealth is a stark contrast against the rest of Casablanca. Designed by French architect Michel Pinseau, construction of the Hassan II Mosque began in July 1986 on land reclaimed (without compensation to the former residents) from a run-down area near the sea. The goal for completion of the mosque was King Hassan II's 60th birthday in 1989, but it ended up not being finished until August 30, 1993.

It is really amazing also a big wide square where you have to aross to approach the mosque, marvellous construction along with the arabic and north african belief, come to a big picture in front of me, this is just a moment to feel their pride in Morroco!

Flatmate moved out...

Have been living here in 21st Century Tower for 2 months...suddenly one of my flatmates got a memo from accomodation dept saying that he has been offered a single accomodation since he is SFS (Senior Flight Steward), but the new building is located in Al Qusais, close to Sharjah...Stefan didn`t like the place at all but he couldn't say NO to the memo, otherwise he would be taken off from the waiting list for single apt application!! How ironic...anyway he moved out and me...as a good flatmate...i helped him move stuffs from 33rd floor to the ground then send them to his friends car...back and forth...we did at least 5 trips...up and down...finally he got everything on the car except himself....hahahahahahahahaha~~~ all his friends left with all the stuffs without him...i was in the kitchen preparing my dinner, he knocked the door and i was like...hey~what's wrong?? He said...oh my god! my friends left, 3 cars, and none of them took me!!! Now I am here and my stuffs are on the way to my new apartment! hahahahahaha~~~i couldn't stop laughing...was so ridiculous but hilarious enough!!! How comes people left him and only took his stuffs??!! I would have killed them alllllll....

well, he rang one of his friend to come back and pick him up! This is end of the story with this crazy and funny flatemate Stefan from Serbia. Now we are getting a lot of visits from other crew who want to move in...but my other flatmate is rigurous on picking and screening our future flatmate...since i am junior here i can't really decide anything though. He had couple issues and instances with previous flatmates before...that's why he has to be picky a bit.

FOR ME...As long as the new flatmate is considerable and respect everyone in the apartment despite of his nationality, then I am cool with that! So let's see who is gonna be selected for the new flatmate!

Yeah~another Singapore and Brisbane trip! 9 days...

As I mentioned before, I was pulled out on the 30th of Octuber to Singapore and Brisbane plus shuttle to Auckland, in total 9 days trip! Well, nothing new to me because I did this trip already back in September. A lot of people want it so bad, for me this trip is just perfect to black out my reserve days for 9 days in a row! But also something made me really excited is because I love Australia a lot and Singapore for shopping some chinese veggies and vegan ingridents for my kitchen hey!

When I met the entire crew was nice, the purser was a funny man and he even took one bar cart during our service in economy! such a nice man~I haven't seen one purser doing this before, well quite nice to see that...okay there's something needing to mention about...@@@@@

From Singapore to Brisbane I volunteered to take the mid galley and that was my second time doing it, in fact, the first time was the same sector as well. So everything was just running smoothly as planned, until just minutes before we started the second meal (continental breakfast) was an easy service though, only had to set up 2 bar carts and 2 meal carts were already done only had to put crossants and yellas~(in arabic...which means go!) So something unusual happened, the captain elevated the aircraft and acelerated to climb more altittud, hence, this action caused the entire aircraft went up and became a bit shaky and then more shaky...okay what I want to say is the bar carts were already set up and being positioned by the LR3 door, basically in front of 3 passengers~! After those shaking moments, the right hand side bar cart with tea and coffee on it FALLED DOWN ON THE PASSENGERS!!!

Yeah~OHHHHHH MYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOD!!! I heard of people screaming and at that moment there were other crew in my galley, inmediately I went out to check what was going on in the cabin? HOLLY SHIIIIIIIIT....two passengers were hit by the cart and tea and coffee spreaded all over the seat and of course some of the hot liquid were unfortunately on their hands and legs...this was a complete chaos! The SFS ran to the cabin and tried to help...the purser came, everybody came literally...well the first thing was to remove all the mess and grab the first aid kit to render first aid! Silverdizine and bandage were used, one of the passenger had a slight leg scratch and the other lady had her arm slightly burned by the hot liquid! We did everything possible to avoid further injury, covered their seats with more blankets and offered them recovering service, such as wine and champagne things like that...well, all of us aplogized to them and apologize was accepted by them, both of them were not upset and were calm...therefore we thought they were fine with it and were not going to complain about this incident, since there is no one's fault...probably CAPTAIN'S fault...because he elevated the aircraft without previous notice, he said he was trying to avoid the turbulance...blablabla~he did all the way back too! Anyway...the passenger wrote an email to Emirates asking for an explaination of the incident !!! Such annoying thing ahhhhh...the SFS and the purser have to reply the company about every single detail of that accident on board, could be a serious issue if they want to sue the company for $$$...hopefully not!

Apart from that unfortune thing, the 9 days trip was very pleasant and relaxing, again I went to koala sanctuary with the crew...couldn't go to the gold coast because last day was raining a lot...as a result of it, I stayed my day around the hotel, had something to eat and go back to have a good rest before flying back to Singapore!

Singapore is a heaven for shopping, and for me as a vegetarian, I found a restaurant with tons of vegetarian ingridents such as vegetarian ham, ball, etc...i was sooo happy so i bought a lot! Threating myself with goooooood vegan food!!! Poor me~flying so much and so tiring...of course I deserve some good food, unlike here in Dubai, in the desert, veggies are so freaking expensive and not many options for vegan life...that's why I love Singapore sooooo much! Specially, I met a nice guy in Singapore this time... :-))