Hong Kong! The Oriental Pearl

Swap system really helped! I swapped my 3 days off with Hong Kong flight just right after my Jakarta...i came back from Jakarta on the 15th and the next day I did HKG flight! How crazy is that...I want Hong Kong so bad, and now i want it i got it!

Such a beautiful and amazing city...so tiny but so brilliant! Is too small to believe it is one of the busiest community and bring millions and millons visitors every year to this fabulous place. Now they have Disney too!! I had no time to visit evey single place, only did some sight seeing and hanging around the shopping area...25 hrs layover @X%$#^! what happened to my company...they always give us such a short layover in a big city! why they don't give us 72 hours layover in HKG instead of Jakarta...lol

Anyway, can't really do many things in HKG...great food, great buildings, great people...I am first time so close to Taiwan after 13 years away from him...i was thinking 45 mins i could have taken a flight to Kaohsiung...sadly I couldn't since this is a 25 hrs layover not 72...otherwise i would have done that...hahaha.

Asian Big Apple...see ya soon~!

Jakarta!

So tiring after flying 1 month from the desert to Jakarta, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Sydney, Moscow, Singapore, Brisbane and Osaka...finally I have 4 days OFFFFF to blogging a bit and update my journey with EK.

Back to 1 month ago I went to Jakarta for 3 days layover which was quite long for Jakarta! Why? Because there is not much to see in there, besides animal wild safari and shopping, there is really not much to do though! The traffic is horrible and mosquitos attack in the hotel was a night mare... plus the ghosty and spooky stories with that hotel really scared me! To be honest someone knocked my door at the second night...was midnight and i heard it!!! Really weird noise from the bathroom as well, however, i was quite calm and did not want to check the origin of those NOISE @%$#X Animal Safari was amazing, the first time being so close to those wild animal such as tiger, lion and panther...there was a malteese crew he wanted us to keep the window open...what the fuck!? if he wanted to be eaten then nobody cares, but we were all fresh meat for them!!! i tried to keep my window close but kept a 5 cms gap to take photos of them.

Here comes my photos!

September Roster!

Nice roster!!!

Sep 1 DXB-DME (Moscow 24 hrs!!!)
Sep 2 DME-DXB
Sep 3 OFF
Sep 4 OFF
Sep 5 DXB-SIN-BNE-AKL-BNE-SIN-DXB (Singapore & Brisbane 9 days trip!!!)
Sep 13 Back to Dubai...
Sep 17 DXB-KIX (Osaka Japan!!!)
XX (4 days off from 20-23, Jeddah was removed from my roster!!! yeahaaaa )
Sep 24 DXB-ICN (Seoul Korea!!!)
Sep 29 DXB-IKA-DXB (Tehran...again...)

It is such a great roster...i got Japan and Korea in the same month...not ususal! hahaha i am such a lucky crew... :-)))

Vienna! City of Music and Art...

I was rostered to fly to Moscow on Aug 3rd but Mr Scheduling called me at 6:00 told me my flight has changed now i am going to Vienna, Austria!!! Which was awesome...
Despite of the aircraft techical failure upon our arrival into Vienna, severe cross wind and lost of hydralic...was kind of scary! But really loved Vienna! What a charming city but yes it is quite expensive everywhere and everything thing...i.e a Capucchino cost me 4 Euros...a simple breakfast cost me $12 Euros...
Captain and some crew we got changed and headed to Vienna downtown to have a drink, then I decided to take a long walk in Vienna, was amazing! saw a lot of arquitectures and museums...oh my gosh! the Saint Stephen Church so huge and antique aged with all religious decorations, people are cute and friendly even they speak German but most of them can speak English though. Bought some good stuffs in Zara, and ate good food...bought famous chocolates...
Mozart´s natal city so glamourous and full of enegy and beauty! Music and Art are all around...

Climbing Great Wall...

Fabulous trip to Beijing! Did not expect to get PEK flight so quickly...since couple days before that 2 days Kuala Lumpur trip was removed from my roster I was pulled out for London Heathrow 24 hrs layover...then Sheduling found out i was very sad hahahaa....so he gave me Beijing flight to recompesate my sadness!

From Dubai to Beijing was full of chinese people and students also Malta team to Olympic games were on board. We had unexpected severe turbulance on the way to PEK... "Cabin Crew take your seat!" immediately I took the nearest jump seat and weged my cart...was kind of scary experience!

As soon as we arrived Beijing Capitol International Airport, the new terminal 3 was huuuge! Those chinese people invested money and money to improve their airport to receive 2008 Olympic Games! People said they have been waiting for this chance for more than 100 years and now they got it, hence, they got to do the best to welcome people around the world!

Afterward we went to Silk Market to bargain price on our shops! believe me it was an awesome experience i ever had on shopping...the price could drop down from 1000 yuan to 100 yuan only! hahahaha such a FAKE thing selling around the market...D&C, Tommy, Abercrombie, Gucci, Lacoste, Swatch, Fossil, etc. They look pretty much similar to a real brand but yes they are all copies!

Here comes teh Great Wall, one of the 7 wonders in the world, the only human made construction can be seen from the NASA space! It was amazing such a LONG wall built over 3000 years old...the tour guide explained to us all its history on the way to Mu Tian Yu entrance, we paid 250 yuan for the trip, 2 hrs trip going and 2 hrs coming back...really exciting on getting on the Great Wall...never dreamed of this before...thanks for Emirates I made it~! We climbed 1000 steps to get to the top of the wall, and now i can say i did reach the top of the world...sounds weird but it is true saying this in ths trip! I had the best crew ever in this short Beijing trip 31 hrs layover, missing you all people!

Update my roster

8.1 OFF
8.2 OFF
8.3 Dubai-Vienna (It was Moscow...but scheduling changed it to Vienna! Better even)
8.4 Vienna-Dubai
8.5 OFF
8.6 Dubai-Jedha
8.7 Jedha-Dubai (a shitty flight...)
8.8 OFF
8.9 OFF
8.10 OFF
8.11 Dubai-Jakarta (spa, massage, safari !!!)
8.12
8.13
8.14
8.15 Jakarta-Singapore-Dubai
8.16 Dubai-Hong Kong-Dubai (shopping and disney!)
8.17
8.18 Hong Kong-Dubai
8.19 US VISA
8.20 VISA PICK UP
8.21 OFF
8.22 OFF
8.23 OFF
8.24 Dubai-Bangkok
8.25 Bangkok-Sydney
8.26 Sydney-Auckland-Sydney
8.27
8.28
8.29 Sydney-Bangkok
8.30
8.31 Bangkok-Dubai

Good roster! But i will update it with more detail...

London! Loving it...

Really enojoyed my 24 hrs stay in London, EVEN THOUGH they changed my Kuala Lumpur...not bad.

Sunny, windy but all sight seeing we did in one day...quite tiring but all worth it. I went out with couple of the crew members, took Underground heading to the London downtown...7 pounds! so expensive, can't complain about it because it was a 45 minutes trip...lol

Mr Scheduling for gods sake, gave me Beijing flight after London to make me happy since I never complained about my 5 turn arounds flights before the first layover...they heard me crying and whining at night hahahaha....

Beijing's Vienna's pictures are coming soon...