November roster! Magic works~~~

Well, this is the new roster! With my expertise on swapping flights...this is what I got finally!

Nov 1-12 RESERVE (i went on leave for 2 weeks...that's why my reserve has been extended..)
Nov 13-14 OFF
Nov 15 Dubai-Casablanca, Marruecos (Oh yeah~Northen africa! Exotic)
Nov 17 Casablanca-Dubai
Nov 18 Cochin, India (lol...again! trying to swap it out)
Nov 19 Rest Day
Nov 20 Dubai-London Heathrow (Layover 24hrs...trying to swap it out)
Nov 21 London-Dubai
Nov 22.23 OFF
Nov 24 Dubai-Glasgow, Scotland (Lovely city but will be very cold!)
Nov 26 Glasgow-Dubai
Nov 27 Rest Day
Nov 28 Dubai-Johannesburg, South Africa
Nov 30 J.burg-Dubai

How nice is now my roster! hahahaha~~~ :-)

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania! FIRST AFRICA!

I was on standby 5 which means from 04:00 to 12:00 and i had a bad sleep after 4am i couldn´t sleep anymore so i kept checking my roster but nothing had come up...after 1 hour finally i falled asleep thinking that they might not pull me out for any flight! uhhh~7:15 in the morning the phone rang! since i was very sleepy so whatever the scheduling said i only heard i was pulled out for xxxxx salam or sort of eran...suddenly i understood Tehran (Iran, turn around flight...) so i woke up so mad and asked him again..excuse me! where i am going again? So he cleared his throat and said to Dar es Salaam! OH THANKS GOD! Now i am happy!!! hahaha~because is one of the best hotel we stay, so i said to myself this is another 24 hours hotel vacation!

Fair enough, I stayed with the crew in the Kempinski Kilimanjaro Hotel which is located close to the sea port from there you can see the boats and local people walking in front of the hotel...swimming pool is so cool, such as gym, spa and guest room everything is great! except the restaurant in the looby where we had our dinner and had the worst experience ever, it took nearly 1 hour to delever our meal and drinks and some of the meals specially lamb was not cooked perfectly upon request, so including the purser Andrea and another egyptian girl requested the lamb to be cooked again only for "couple minutes" but they redid the entire dish...so it took another 30 minutes, which was absolutely ridiculous and not acceptable at all! Finally the purser went to talk to the waiter and told him she didn't want her meal anymore, she had lost her appetise and no longer hungry (but angry...) however the waiter kept apologizing and saying he had stayed in the kitchen to ensure the meat was cooked perfectly but Andrea and the other girl were very pissed off and rejected the meal. well...after the that fight we went to the bar to have a drink and this time was quick though!

Breakfast buffet was really amazing and was free for the guest! After having a good breakfast i rested a bit and headed to gym to work out some muscles and burn out some excess fat! Just before our next flight back to Dubai I had 1 hour nap which was really helpful to keep me enegized for the next flight eh~

Another thing to mention about this African trip is the flight condition, both flights were very bumpy and windy....specially the way going to Dar es Salaam, was my first time felt air sickness! not only me but other crews felt the same as well...such a bad experience and for the return flight we were doing the bar service while the captain requested us to take our seat inmediately due to the unexpected turbulance was soooo bad! I felt sick again~lol~ I said if every DAR flight is this bad, I will not do this flight anymore! But apart from this, the entire crew was lovely and people were not demanding (only couple of them...) I remember one passenger was touching the damn call bell every 3 minutes, and that drove my nut and insane! We told him and explained him not to touch the call bell unless he really needs something!! GUESS WHAT! He started to ask drinks and drinks...i mean very weired passenger!

Pax A: Coffee and Pepsi!

Me: I am sorry did you say Coffee and Pepsi???!!!

Pax A: Yes! (But I thought he only said pepsi, because his english was so poor and didn't mean to say coffee, because i never heard of coffee and pepsi before!)

After 2 minutes, I went to his seat to give him his pepsi then he found out there was no COFFEE so very deseperately asked me WHERE IS THE COFFEE? And I said, Sir give me one moment i will bring it to you! Ok~

Sir, here you go! bastard!...well i said bastard in my mind...hahahaha~

As a flight attendant, there are times you can encounter weird and unfriendly passengers with abnormal requests...don't be surprised! For this kind of flight, everything could happen really!

Time to return to Dubai...desert!?

Time really flies! 2 weeks is over and finally got on the plane and flew back to Dubai (another long hours trip)...such a long flight~3 hours and 20 minutes from San Jose to Houston, then 6 hours boring transit at the airport...at last, 14 hours and 20 minutes from Houston to Dubai NON STOP! Thanks god this time I managed to sleep 9 hours because no people were sitting next to me, so 3 seats became my bed! then only woke up to eat then went back to sleep...until we landed into Dubai. As I figured out already, we were parked to the brand new terminal 3 in Dubai International Airport, which is stunning and well organized plus its brand new design made me feel really special for this welcome back home~! The whole process to go through immigration and baggage claim was smooth and easy to find the way out...caught a taxi and here I am...in my flat, 21st Century Tower on the Sheikh Zayed Road.

Hard to describe what I am feeling now here, at a sudden i was in Costa Rica...20 hours later i am here in Middle East...what a big change! No time to feel strange at anything...everything is normal, I can feel Dubai seems to be my second home town now! yes i know, but you won't believe me...I still miss Costa Rica a lot, my family and my friends! See you guys next year!

Cahuita beach! Costa Rica, my sweet home!

I had the best vacation ever in Costa Rica, my sweet home! After spending 2 weeks with my family and my dear friends (even though some of them I couldn't see bcz i had no car!...please don't hate me those who are reading my blog now~~~) Basically I arranged a weekend to go to the beach and having fun with my best friend Josue! We had so much fun, originally our plan was going to Pacific coast but unfortunately it had been raining tremendously so roads were being covered by floods...sadly we had to change our destination to caribbean coast where the weather was fabulous and sunny! BIG CONSTRAST WITH PACIFIC COAST.

We rented a car and spent 2 nights in Cahuita, one of the famous beaches in Costa Rica. Caribbean coast has its particular characteristc and its people bring thousands and thousands tourists to this beautiful site! Cahuita has a very natural beach and forest, being that said, a national park to conserve this god blessed land and avoid being demaged by humans. Therefore, you can see all kinds of wild animals in the park...well I only saw couple of white face monkeys and snake skin...we walked at least hour and falf to reach the farest point of Cahuita, Punta Cahuita. White sands and choral around us, such a paradise! all worth it for walking that long...

I will recommend you guys to visit Costa Rica and don't forget to spend couple days in our natural and gorgeous beaches! TICOS we all love our natural spots such as beaches, volcanos and rivers!

At home! Finally

After 20 hours trip from Dubai to San Jose Costa Rica...uhhhh...I was dead! Such a tiring trip but finally we landed despite of turbulance due to storm in Costa Rica! Really, compared Continental Airline to us...they are far behind us...the aircraft we went on had no entertainment system at all, no music, no headset...such a POOR airline and was cramped! My colleague and I we were being assigned to the last row where seats are not reclinable! Anyhow, I managed to sleep a bit...definitely I love Emirates!


Costa Rica, as now is the rainy season and therefore it is raining everyday! Missing the rain by the way...After woke up the next day I had to go to reactivate my mobile phone since it had been disconnected since August...can't believe I could recover my original number without asking for it...
I really miss a lot my friends here in Costa Rica, I have to organize my 14 days holidays here to visit all of them and of course catch up the old times...hehehe!

Beirut before my leave...

Just checked my roster, and for my surprise they rostered me for Beirut flight on Monday Oct 6th departure time 17:00 coming back on the 7th at 01:00...which means I am not assigned to any home standby or airport standby...and I can change my travel date back home to the 7th too! well could be...I am not sure, Houston flight departs at 9am..so that means also i can still come to me flat and pack my stuffs then get a cab straight down to the airport! Such a rush trip!

At least i gain 1 more day for my vacation! that´s absolutely fine...since i can sleep on the way to Houston! Flight load is very light and that will give me a full row of 4 seats to sleeeeeeeep... I don´t care THIS TIME! I will be a passenger (well...I will be identified as EK STAFF on the PL-PASSENGER LIST) but anyway i am not crew this time. uhhhhh! 16 hours flight is waiting for me...the good thing is that I will be flying with Javier, one of the costarican crew and also my neighbour in CR! YES VIVA COSTA RICA!

My dream is to fly!!

Gosh...my first standby was today from 4am to 12md, couldn´t sleep well because i was thinking about when the phone is gonna ring and where i am going to! Unfortunately...Mr Scheduling missed me and didn´t call me during that long 6 hours! I already have 2 days OFF, now they gave me another 2 days off until Oct 6th...I don´t want so many days off and I don't need them at least you give me 4 days off at a time so I can go home earlier!! scheduling is just joking me!!! If you want me on standby please GIVE ME A FLIGHT! or GIVE ME DAYS OFF to hit my annual leave!!! this reserve month is killing me...

Just went to Mall of the emirates...full of people due to today is weekend and Ramadan holiday...so I couldn´t wait to get home, and while stepping out of the mall and...i found the taxi queue was soooo long... well let's say this is normal in Dubai, why am i surprised for? hahaha...lol

I want to do a short turn around flight or a short layover so I can go home on the 8th! Otherwise this month is gonna be sooooo poooor. :-#

Ramadan is over!

What is Ramadan?
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Every day during this month, Muslims around the world spend the daylight hours in a complete fast.

During the blessed month of Ramadan, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink, and other physical needs during the daylight hours. As a time to purify the soul, refocus attention on God, and practice self-sacrifice, Ramadan is much more than just not eating and drinking.

During Ramadan, every part of the body must be restrained. The tongue must be restrained from backbiting and gossip. The eyes must restrain themselves from look at unlawful things. The hand must not touch or take anything that does not belong to it. The ears must refrain from listening to idle talk or obscene words. The feet must refrain from going to sinful places. In such a way, every part of the body observes the fast.

After introducing this religious tradition in Muslim country such as UAE, we know understand how important it is for us to respect their culture living in this country. Indeed, we shouldn´t be eating or drinking in front of them during the day, it is considered unacceptable even though you are not muslim. To learn how to respect people is a must living here, however, being respected is a challenge I must say!


Yes this is the taxi queue in Deira City Centre! sometimes could be more than that...i gues about 500 meters!


For example, taxi drivers are not always polite and friendly depending on their moods if they want to take you to the place you want to go...they stop the car and ask where are you going? and then you tell them the place name (i.e City Centre mall, is in Deira and close to Sharjah, usually a lot traffic) and some of them could have drove away and left you as an idiot standing there...some of them nicely made some excuses and said my time is over, can´t take you....(so why you stopped then!!?? it is senseless...they work but they choose people and destinations!)

Taking a taxi here in Dubai is insane and crazy sometimes, believe me oftenlyake 1 hour waiting in a shopping centre within a taxi queue...yes i mean queue to wait for a taxi!!! such a drag! Now teh government is enjoying their 4 days holidays after finishing the Ramadan month... Henceforward, all the stores are now open during the day and eating outside is no longer an impossibility! hey, and therefore people start eating as they haven´t eaten for ages...lol

check this out! http://www.videosift.com/video/Nandos-Ramadan-Advert-very-funny

This is true, but once again RESPECT please! Don´t show your teeth while laughing...