mission : kul-cdg... that's Kuala Lumpur to Charles De Gaulle paris you outsiders!!! Lol, don't be so sensitive now i'm just pulling your legs.
let see...
2 hours and more before... packing
7.50pm the day before, get ready,shower,dinner,hugs Bebet whenever i have the chance
8.50pm waiting for my pick up... late as usual
9.00pm bloody pick up still not here, so called the transport department,checked, yes there is a cab for you sir...the usual bla bla bla yada yada yada nevermind,more time for Bebet
9.10pm finally the cab arrived hugs and kisses for Bebet. Gonna miss you Bet, will be back in 3 days
9.15pm picked up another guy, a Captain. He started chatting but halfway started to bash the government and the company... sorry dude not interested. Played with my phone and text Bebet. Now, thats better.
10.00pm checked in my huge pink luggage
10.05pm in the Technical Crew lounge checking in for the flight Mh20... oh my partner is here. Says hi to everybody,how are you yada yada yada bla bla bla the whole social cycle you know. You can't force kindness. It's natural. sometime you give, most time you pretend to give. Doesn't apply to everybody. Don't start to compose your hate mail just yet :)
10.20pm reporting for the flight,checking the flight plan,checking the weather yada 3x bla 3x "pretend to be interested but i'm not mode" i'm doing the relieve crew anyways so you know...
10.35pm going to the aircraft,we are looking for a huge pink Boeing 777 200 series anybody know where it is? come on guys,i'm not that disinterested till i don't know where it is. It's in... let see C14 or if you want to be cool saying it, say it like this...repeat after me... Charlie one four. cool isn't it? and now i certify you, officially, aviator... wannabe lol
10.50pm stopped by the money changer my partner and my captain wants to change some Euro. Come on guys! Chop! Chop!
11.15pm in the aircraft, please note you aviator wannabe,do say AIRCRAFT instead of THE PLANE.. you sounds like one of those guys in fantasy Island if you mentioned the latter a big no no
1120pm check the aircraft documentation,service records,the whole yada3x bla 3x process. trust me, you don't wanna know. It's boring
I forgot to mention it to you, usually if we flies to Europe there will be more often than not a so called slot time given. We are flying the Northern Route to Paris so due to this very high 'hill' called Himalaya, there will be a bottleneck of aircraft wanting to go on the same route and level ( that's thousands of feet that we cruise). To avoid this and save everybody the time and fuel,we were given a designated time to cross a certain waypoint so that everybody will be happy and would not fight over the route and level. Do you even understand what i'm saying? it's a mouthful i know read it back,slowly
1135pm since i'm doing the relieve team,i have to do the 'walk around' it is literally that. walking around the aircraft to have a look at the landing gear ( that's the wheels,say landing gear if you wanna be cool) the fuselage ( the body of the aircraft ) and engines. But not limited to that i'm just cutting it short so you would not stop reading and starts clicking your farmville tab
5 minutes later in back in my aircraft. Our slot for tonight is 0009 the next day, thats 1209am.
The plan is starts boarding at 1135pm and push back ( thats the term for pushing back the aircraft from the bay for the start ) at 1155pm
somehow I knew it's gonna happen. Murphy smile on us tonight and 3 passengers missing. Went to look for them and boarding only completed at 1203am. Now we only have 6 minutes to start,taxy and take off. Like how Freddie Mercury say it "Under pressure!"
1210am Yeeehawww!! airbourne. We made it! What if we miss the slot time ? The departure will be reschedule for another hour. Bad idea. Like how the Chinaman say it... die die must airbourne
flight time for tonight is 12hours and 25 minutes and i will be resting for half of those.
to cut the story short we arrived at 650 am Paris sunday morning. Time difference is minus 6 hours so that's 1250pm afternoon in Kuala Lumpur
but i will quote everything in malaysian time so you won't be confused :)
reached my room at 1330pm ( 730am paris ) chat with Bebet,checked my Airlines Manager and My pet. plan is to go out at 2pm paris. I hardly had any sleep in the aircraft just now so i just might have to take a short nap later
630pm KL nappy time
thing about having a nap in a hotel with your body clock still maintaining KL time is you tend to over do it heheheh
I woke up at 6 am the next day.Yup i slept for 12 hours
and now it's 2am in Paris,nothing good on tv and nowhere to go. My wake up call is 7 hours from now and pick up is in 8 hours
and you think we are having fun? :)
of course we are...NOT!
till then ciao :)
