Excitement Building Up
October 2nd, 2007 by elfynBernie’s now in Washington DC, he’s gona go see the bloody White House tomorrow and I’m jealous.
I’ve never stepped on the US continents at all. NOPE! Not even when I was flying. I know being in an aircraft for 16 freaking hours and no fag would have killed me then. Doing a direct Perth flight from Dubai is hell enough for me, so I refuse to be trained for the US sector. Now thinking of it, I regretted it. I should have done the bloody flight and could have gone to NY, the place that I’ve always wanted to go to…well I always thought that hey even if I don’t do the bloody flight, I can still go there on my days off or something. But me being such a baby, I run back to home to Singapore every bloody chance I got simply cos I miss my mommy. So I never really fully utilise my cheap travel deals when I was flying…silly billy!!
But I always know, flying isn’t something I’d do for the rest of my life. Sure, the money’s great. Maybe if I’d gotten the job when I was much younger, I’d stay on the job for a little while more. But having gone through the office line fro many years, I still prefer to be in office where I know my nites and day and I have fixed days off. I hate it when I can’t really plan myself properly. So now that I’m grounded back to the normal life, I’m glad that I can plan ahead, I can go off as and when I like. I don’t need to make lame excuses to call sick. Though I must admit the money could be better…it sucks when you have to get 50% pay cut…but Thank God for AWS & Bonuses…haha…but once you get the hang of it, you’ll survive….
But I hate it when I really have to watch waht I spend, be extra careful when I go on trips.
Talking bout trip, I haven’t really travelled far since I’ve been back. The furthest was probably Shanghai when I was 4-months pregnant. In between I’ve only been regionally and almost every year to visit family in the Philippines. I want to travel far but both husband & wife got our own commitment to houses and lands and bills and supporting people and all so we’ve been tight.
Even for a while I had my hand at studying again, then I decide that I am no good at handling and juggling work, family, kids and school pressure. I’m no longer the super capable can handle antyhing and everything all at one go girl…NO WAY JOSE. So I made the decision to cut my losses NOW before I wasted anymore money.
So at least now I’m glad, FINALLY FINALLY I can look forward to a long trip……I’ts been ages and I miss flying and packing. A week after teh Eid my son & I will fly off to Doha to meet up with hubby, then we’ll follow him to Geneva & hopefully New York….so the flight better be empty for me & my son. I’m really excited and the excitement just keeps building. I can’t wait I feel like a child again, like I was gonna go on my first ever trip…haha….I know I have to go Now and maybe after that a couple more years I’ll be grounded cos travelling with 1 child is still managable but when I delivered the 2nd one, hmmmmm I might have to wait a little while more before I fly again or even pop by to KL for a trip cso it’s tough having to watch 2 kids and still try to do some serious shopping.
SO this upcoming trip, I’m psyching myself to really burn some holes in my pockets…there goes my savings again…but it’s ok, it’ll be shopping for the next coupla years..fro the next few Hari Raya stuffs & Christmas stuffs for my kids, haha or so I say!!! I bet you’ll see me shopping again in the neighbourhood soon.