Thursday, April 21, 2005

3 Gals and 4 Pairs of Socks

i live to tell the tale of my recent trip last week....

..another one of those days i guess...what the phuck you expect..afterall i woke up at 5 am...checking in was smooth..btw..did i mention i was there at changi at 6 freaking am !!....I fell asleep on the CX even before the plane started to move; must have been the motion..... as long as the transport mode is moving..i can sleep....hahaha.... the outram institute seniors used to call me Sleeping King [SK]..... nowadays i am known as King of Obscure Music [KOM]....wonder how this came about.....flattered to be conferred..hahaha...hilarious....

on that eventful day of the 13th, SK was taking the flight out of s'pore and heading towards zhu hai (pearl sea) in china for the LAD conference....zzzzzzzzzzz...... was awoken by sound and motion around me... the passengers were standing around, fidgeting, muttering and SK vaguely heard my neighbour cursed.. "knn....si beh sway..take this flight"... KOM realised than that the plane was still on the runway but moving slower than usual....reality eventually hit me...what you expect..KOM am not that young anymore.... the time :926 am.... what the hell...SKOM was suppose to be the early party having taken flight 1/2 an hour ahead of the rest.....to think that SKOM actually sacrificed my SQ flight for this moment...haha... what a irony...


the ang moh captain anounced finally at around 10 that the hydraulics repair was going to last at least 1 1/2 hours and that we would be confined from this aisle to that aisle..the grandiose scheme of fuckup back up plans...the man in the yellow jacket was quite pissed...starting rambling loudly about how Cathay should have allowed us out and and how there should be a spare plane to replace the faulty one..blah blah blah...gosh...then a thought struck me... i was going to take the same plane out...what if the repair job was still not thorough... i mean had the captain not made the call to turn back earlier, i might have been talking to Keeper of Souls already.. and then i was still destined to take the same aircraft to HK... man.... the thought of it frankly did creep me out a little... "any last words before i expire ?"...haha....

after waiting for ages..."last call for mr xxx...blah blah blah.."....we finally took off at about 12.30.. by then i had already informed irene and gang to proceed without me...damn..just hated the thought of having to travel alone to zhu hai... i had to find out about how to get there and all, fortunately i called the csm before take off to get more info...I was hoping to be able to catch the last 530pm ferry at Tsim Tsai Tsui China Ferry terminal but alas...luck was not with me..hahaha..how did i figure that out.... i ended up having to take the 730pm ferry at the HK Island Ferry Terminal where the bigger surprise awaited...i 've been fucking waiting for almost the whole fucking day...man....just trying to catch up...catch the flight ..catch the ms folks...catch the rehersals...catch my sleep...catch the mtr...catch the ferry....catch my last minute preparation...bollocks man !

having purchased my ferry ticket.. i came out of the ticketing office only to catch a glimpse of the MS GM was standing just outside the entrance to the boarding area..he was leaning against the railing and speaking on the mobile phone in...hush tones.. i figured that from him having to put his hand to form a sickle-shaped cover while talking...mistress in zhu hai ? having been caught in many situations where i had to interact with him, i avoided him by fleeting away to the other side of the complex... walked around...bought some bread..walked around again...went to the 1st level...hey the same lady..walked around again... all the while hoping that he would go into the ferry ahead of me... and boy was i caught off guard when i returned to the departure area to see the GM leaning..now against the wall adjacent to the entrance with his full frontal facing me...needless to say, i walked up to him to greet him...and for once i was hopeful that once inside, he would board the ferry and take his No 1 seat and leave me to my No 56 seat..as my luck would have it...we could only board at 715pm..i ended up "chatting" with the GM for almost 20 minutes and here i was trying to engage intelligently....what a horrowshow...this would not be my last meeting..he was to attend the same conference and listen to my incredible pu tong hua presentation..i am pretty sure he was incredulous at the performing "clown" that day...

Botak Chin definition
Intelligence
Often a comparison of stupidity among the obnoxious clever. For the general normal, it is often a remorseless realisation of the lack of superior mental age. For me..I really don't give a toss..


upon arrival at zhu hai..we made our way to the hotel van that was waiting to pick up its' guests periodically...while just before departing from the ferry, i made the mistake of asking if he already had dinner..to which his response was "I ate some snacks earlier"... ok lor... so i extended the courtesy invite of dinner with the rest of the crew; they had called me earlier to ask where i was and we have made arrangements... surprisingly he agreed to dinner and along the way i quickly text the rest to inform them of the "uninvited" presence...lo and behold.. as soon as i had pressed [send]..the van turned into the hotel...hahaha...i felt cursed...what a way to end a 15 hour journey to the pearl sea....

3 gals and 4 pairs of socks is really about the 4 brightly coloured socks which had to be distributed evenly between 3 female colleagues of mine.

The feat of distribution is beyond me..pardon the pun

2 Comments:

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