Top 5 Misconceptions About Cabin Crew

Sorry I have not been blogging much ( I know, not like I have been missed right), cos I have been real busy with my husband...his Hand Foot Mouth disease is finally gone, and he's just recuperating at home now cos his company says his peeling hands are not fit for work yet.

So that day I went to meet up with Jac to spend some sister-loving time with her over dinner, and also to get away from home for a bit. We decided to have dinner at Sushi Tei (actually it was Jac's decision, she was craving for their Salmon salad, I would never have gone for Sushi Tei otherwise) but then we met her friends outside Sushi Tei and Jac decided to ask them to join us for dinner.

The thing is. I wasn't in a sociable mood, I was badly dressed and I had no make up on...which are all fine. But when one of them went "oh you were a cabin crew?!" which I sensed that there was some kind of shock involved. I couldn't help squirming in my seat hoping that I could MeiTuXiuXiu my dark eye circles, my round pale face and my messy hair.

So here's my list of Top 5 Misconceptions About Cabin Crew:

1) Cabin crew out of uniform and make up also chio (pretty) one lah
I think most people's image of a cabin crew out of uniform is probably like this:

http://vanessajackman.blogspot.sg/2013_06_01_archive.html

 Fashionable, natural beauty...

Or have the bloody same poise and everything in and out of uniform...

 Some people may even imagine cabin crew out of uniform like this...

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UH-UH.
Truth is, most of us are like this...

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2013/04/09/this-is-what-barbie-looks-like-without-makeup/

You know, normal people with no make up.

Of course there are many natural beauty ones, I won't say no. But me, I need make up.

On a good day, I can look like this without make up (and a little filtering haha).

But mostly I have bad days and I look like this without make up.

And I hate it cos my eyes are so boring and my skin isn't perfect and I have got wrinkles on my forehead and dark eye circles!

And even these photos were taken more than a year ago when my face hasn't gone chubby.

If you are not convinced yet, take look at celebrities caught without make up:

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And then some Chinese girls with and without make up:

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Uh huh...pretty much the same with cabin crew! And we can be dressed sloppily too, like big baggy tees with baggy home shorts, hair clipped up messily...

2) All cabin crew are super sociable, outgoing, friendly and they owe you a conversation.

No, no, no and NO!

First of all, if I could dress and meet my passengers on my flights like this:

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I would.

Most of the days, I don't really feel like smiling or saying hi nor am I actually sorry when I say I am, BUT I was paid to. (Hell sometimes I don't even feel like brushing my teeth so that I can scare you with my bad breath!)

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I mean, I'm friendly, but you know, just not outgoing nor super sociable.

I am not very interested in meeting new people and engaging in small talks, but I can be friendly and nice enough to not snap at you for acting bimbo/lecherous.

I will usually shut up or look another direction if you are either.

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And sometimes it is not that we are stuck up or that we only talk to rich guys or you know whatever you think we are when we just aren't friendly with you. We are just tired, jetlagged, sick of smiling, sick of being nice...or simply just feel like being a bitch, you know we are entitled to those days.

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3) We have a lot of time when we are outstation and we love to help you buy that special chocolate that is actually available at Candy Empire so that you can save $3.

So IMO, this is the biggest battle cabin crew has.

Sometimes we really don't mind doing you a favor, cos you know your friendship means something to us, and we don't want to resort to having to hide the countries we are going to from you or changing the privacy of our travel photos on Facebook.

But please don't take it for granted.

We hate it when people treat our house as some storage unit or our wallet as your bank loan.

If we agree to help you buy something, make an effort to come and pick it from our place or a place of OUR convenience. AND always offer to pay beforehand - say your bag costs around $200, pass us $200 before we depart for the trip so that we are sure you won't play us out after we got back with your purchase! (YES THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE THAT!!)

And if we didn't manage to get tax refund or maybe even any item on your shopping list, it isn't our fault.

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Sometimes we just didn't have time to! (Or our hotel location is just too out of the way.)

Or you know, simply buy it online or in Singapore if it is available. Cos the money you do save from asking us to buy your stuff is actually spent on transport fare when we go and buy your stuff - out of our own pockets.

4) All cabin crew sleeps around and are in the high mile club.

All I have to say to that is this:

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5) We sincerely think your children are cute and we love to have them on board.

Let me get this straight. I like children, but not on my job. Especially not the ones who...

They don't just cry during take-off. They cry during lull period, when we have finally finished serving lunch, cleared the cabin, checked the toilets, turned off the lights and are preparing to take our meal/rest while the passengers are falling asleep, your child(ren) have to wail at the top of his/her voice and wake the rest of the passengers. Thank you very much, now the call lights will be beeping non-stop cos everyone just woke up and wants a drink/sandwich/cup-noodles.

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And for goodness sake, the aircraft, especially the toilet is very dirty, don't let your toddler walk around bare footed or even crawl on all fours. EWWWW.

Lastly, please try to wash your own milk bottles. Thanks.

(I sometimes gag at the smell of the milk while washing passenger's baby milk bottles while the daddy is too busy watching a movie.)

So that's all I have for Top 5 Misconceptions About Cabin Crew. I shall end it with this:

The moment I am truly sincere with my smiles is when I greet goodbye to passengers(:

What the F is good wife material?!

Hello everyone, I just cried till I vomited and then continuing crying till I have no more strength to and I guess I just really need to rant it off...

It has been a very trying month for me (and my husband), he had a Sinus surgery about 3 and half weeks ago. Post surgery, he was the meanest person I have ever loved. Due to the pain and discomfort from the surgery at such a delicate part of the body, he would often be in tantrum mode. It wouldn't be nice to describe how mean he was, nor is it fair to judge him, given that he was going through a period of pain-racked convalescence.

In the 3 years of knowing my husband, I have never once seen him cry. When my PIL and I visited him at the hospital, he was just sitting on the bed, with the bandage across his nostrils and he was tearing as he stares into space.

Our hearts broke.

He was given 3 weeks of hospitalization leave and was not able to go to work. I tried my very best to take care of him and attend to all his needs as patiently and as empathizing as I could. Sometimes he would get rather unreasonable and nonsensical (as he puts it in his own words), but I just had to ignore the hurt and anger I feel from those episodes and pretend like it was alright. I know deep down he really didn't mean it and he just couldn't control his anger while going through all that pain and misery. There are times where he would apologize helplessly and I would feel heartbroken to see him that way.

He recovered well on the 3rd week and things got better, we started looking forward to him going back to work as we know we both needed a little breather by ourselves and get over what happened the past 3 weeks. He was also looking forward to go back to work as he was supposed to go to New York and it would have been a good break for him.

However someone up there decided to play a joke on us. On the day when he was supposed to depart for New York, he started having fever in the morning. It did not subside through out the day and when he finally went to the clinic, we were shocked to find out that he was having a high fever of 42 degrees Celsius! He was immediately put on drip, given 3 injections to bring the fever down and we had to stay for observations until his fever dropped. Needless to say, he was not able to go back to work that day and had to cancel his New York trip.

The next day we started noticing rashes on his hands and legs and thought that he was having an allergic reaction to the antibiotics that was prescribed to him so we rushed back to the clinic to get things check out. The doctor made a change in the antibiotics and told us that he (the doctor) also has allergy to the same antibiotics and it could get worse than just rashes.

That evening my husband's fever went up again and I feared that it was high fever again (our home thermometer was a little wonky) as he felt as hot as he was the previous night. So I rushed him back to the clinic again. This time the doctor on duty suspected (from the red spots on my husband's limbs and ulcer in his throat) that he was having Hand Foot Mouth Disease (HFMD) and sent him to ANE at Changi Hospital for a proper diagnosis.

The "rash" initial stage.

Our worst fears came true. My husband has got HFMD and was told to be quarantined at home for the next 9 days. My nightmare came back all over again as my husband's mouth and throat started getting infested with painful ulcers, his hands and feet swell with many red blisters and his terrible mood came back again. I mean who can blame him? He just recovered from an agonizing 3 weeks of post-surgery discomfort and he's down all over again!

The red sores multiplying and swelling the day after the diagnosis.

He can't swallow his own saliva without cursing in his sleep and he had problem eating even though he was very hungry and I cooked soft and tasty food for him. He can't walk around much as his feet are covered with painful sores and the skin is all flaky. He can't move his fingers as they felt tight and swollen, and he described them as "riped". He started getting angry with everything, as though someone played a big joke on him and having fun. It does seem that way.

His hands and feet are painfully swollen and flaky.

The worst is the ulcers in his throat, it makes him get so helplessly frustrated. We have tried everything from gurgling with salt warm water to using watermelon powder spray (TCM) to drinking honey. Nothing seems to alleviate the pain for long.

With my husband down with HFMD, we told our parents not to visit during this period of time as we are afraid that they might get infected. I am fully in-charged of buying groceries, cook every meal while making sure that my husband gets to eat nutritious but soft and appetizing food, do housework around the house, do my own work stuff, attend to my husband's every need as he isn't able to move around much...I even volunteered to clean him up after he took a dump seeing that his fingers can hardly move . And above all, stay strong, patient and abiding for him.

This whole month has been super trying for me as a wife. I prayed for strength and I prayed for help and when I have nothing else to pray for I cry by myself. I wish I could go to my husband for a comforting and empathetic hug but he needs it more than I do and so I need to be strong for him.

This then brings me to why I titled this entry "What the F is good wife material?!" as I saw this on Facebook the other day. (Of cos I wasn't crying cos of this FB post!)

One of my friends posted this.

And one of her friends said "Very good wife material leh.. Ur boyfriend is lucky!"

So according to this guy, a "very good wife material" equates to a girl who:

1) is not a girly girl

2) don't scream and hug friends she bumps into

3) eyes don't light up around Chanel and Hermes

4) not tempted with high teas and desserts

5) hates high heels and owns shoes that are less than $50

6) does not need company to go to the toilet

7) freaks out when an acquaintance acts like they are BFFs

8) is a guy trapped in a woman's body

And according to another guy, he likes to have a wife who will cook and clean for him.

Serious ah? Go www.mailorderbride.com lor.

I am not saying I am a "good wife material" but get this right, WE ARE NOT GOODS. It is not like when you go to a showroom, choose, test drive and go "wah good horse power, buay jiak you (not high consumption on petrol), color sibuey chio (very pretty), eh rims zen a bit jin swee liao (modify for nicer rims)! Price so cheap some more, Ok la buy!"

We all know that a lot of Singaporean men like to say Singaporean women are very materialistic lah, need to have 5Cs then will marry...no money no honey lah. I don't know which planet are these men from...but it's not just Singapore, it is all around the world! (Just like insensitive men who treat women like "objects" are all around the world.)

And don't fucking kid me. Let's put those so called good points to make a good wife on a girl who looks like Mr Bean + Ru Hua + Liang Po Po, would you even give her a second look? Would you even consider her for a wife?

Point is if you truly love someone, it wouldn't matter if she is a girly girl who screams like chicken in public when she bumps into friends, eyes light up like Christmas around Chanel, Hermes and even Porsche, loves high tea, desserts, breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper, loves high heels and owns many pairs of Christian Louboutins, needs the whole village to watch her pee, act like BFF to even the garbage truck men, or even a woman trapped in a man's body.

If you truly love her, you would love her everything-you-used-to-hate-about-girls, forget about every single rule you used to believe in when deciding to marry a girl, you would actually ask yourself are you "good husband material" for her?

And when you do, you are then marriage ready. Or should I say marriage "material" as you put it?

8 Games That Got You/Someone You Know Addicted And It Is Annoying

Annoying yet addictive games, anybody? Sometimes it is not just that the game is annoying, the people around you also gets annoying when they are always playing it!
For example, our mummy is so addicted to all these games that when we were sightseeing in London, she had her face stuck on her phone playing games half the time and claimed that there's nothing to see in London. -.-
Anyway, I am sure there's more than 8 on the list but off-hand I can only think of 8, so here goes:

1) Bejeweled Blitz

Isn't the game only 60 seconds?? How come it's been 2 hours since I last sat down and fiddle with my phone?? This is the game where your life seems to flash past in 60-seconds periods. And wow you finally hit an all time record of 1,346,450 and you are the first in your list of friends but the tournament got renewed the very next day and you are back to "No score yet". WHAT?!

2) Candy Crush Saga

http://play-candy-crush.com/

The popular smartphone game which the maker King applied to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. 

The game comes with stages that leads a path on a map that seems to promise you something very exciting if you cross the 3 big question marks/ mountains/ train tracks. So you spend all your time trying to clear the stages so you can reach there, but when you do successfully clear the stages and reached the top, it takes a very long while for the game to update with new stages. (And you probably won't admit the times when you actually paid 0.99usd just for that 3 more moves.)

On the bright side, if you play it while taking a dump and blast your speakers, you have someone complimenting your poo with "Delicious!" "Tasty!" and "Sweet!"

3) Monster World

http://www.bbgsite.com/socialgames/content/2013-03-21/monster-world-ios.shtml

"Build your dream garden!" it says. Except everyone's garden looks almost the same - all the plantations hogging up one big part of the farm in neat rows and the rest of the space is used to "store" your buildings and items. You will get around to decorate and make it all nice and stylish once you earn more coins.

Oh no I need friends to play so I can get certain quests done, okay I shall spam every friend on my Facebook with invites to play Monster World, I'm sure they will love it! (My mom used my brother's, my sister's, my aunt's and my Facebook account to play Monster World.)

4) Farmville

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In case you didn't get what I mean when I mentioned above that a big part of the farm will be hogged up with rows of plantation...Farmville is pretty much the same thing.

And my mom is so addicted to this we contemplated to bring her to see a therapist.

The classic Farmville joke:

A dying granny tells her granddaughter, "I want to leave you my farm. That includes the villa, the tractor and other equipment, the farmhouse and $22,452,294.58 in cash." 

The granddaughter, about to be rich, says "Oh my granny, you are so generous. I didn't even know you had a farm. Where is it?"

With her last breath, her granny whispered, "Facebook..."

5) Angry Birds

http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/angry-birds-big-setup-3-star-walkthrough-level-11-10/

You started this game with a very good vibe - it is interactive, there is a story-line and even the music and sound are catchy! It is also such a stress reliever to seemingly hurl fat birds at pigs and stuff.

Until it gets frigging everywhere. Angry Bird plush toys, Angry Bird pencil case, Angry Birds car decals, Angry Bird handphone cover, Angry Bird event at Changi Airport...AND how many variations and seasons of Angry Birds are there now?!

http://joyreactor.com/post/336828

6) Left 4 Dead

http://talkingaboutgames.com/2012/08/review-left-4-dead-2-cold-stream-dlc/

"Eh go play LAN, 5 of us enough for Dota tonight."

"Okok, we play a bit of L4D first then play Dota."

"Walao don't want la my girlfriend cannot play L4D she gets giddy leh...Dota straight"

( #truestory. I can't play L4D or CS for nuts. )

"Ok la tell her she watch us play awhile, just nice what 4 players lor.."

"Ok lor, but I don't want Zoey ah!"

"See who first lor..."

Anyway, IMO...he's definitely a rightie.

7) Clash of Clans

You actually love this game until you are taken advantage of when your game went offline in the mid of setting your layout and the number of times the game actually "hang"pr you lose cos you have bad reception when fighting a war.
Here's to bad connection.

http://2p.com/5121f1b661fcf3436f8df37c_1/Clash-of-Clans-Finally-I-End-the-Discussion-of-Layout.htm

8) Flappy Bird

http://thefusejoplin.com/2014/10/flappy-bird-download-high-score-tricks-tips-cheats/

Oh God this game. I nearly threw my phone away after 4223985738292 tries. My mood is usually bad after Flappy Bird, like this:

http://jokeallucan.blogspot.sg/2014/01/everytime-i-die-playing-mario-game.html

I am currently only playing Hotel Story and Mall Story by Happylabs, Minesweeper and Bejeweled Blitz. Please don't recommend me any new games, thanks!

Honeymoon Part 48; Frankfurt / New York 25-31 August 2013

This was an impromptu trip with my hubby last year when I found out I was preggy and had to quit my job as a cabin crew. I had an un-utilized free air ticket in 2013 (cabin crew are entitled a free economy class air ticket per year) so I decided to quickly utilize it (cabin crew who quit due to pregnancy can utilize the unused free ticket within 6 months after quitting).

I wished I had a longer stay in New York cos there is so much to see/do/eat there (and it's only my 3rd time in my 6 years of flying career going to New York). But I had to follow my hubby's trip plans and as he was only going Frankfurt for 1.5 days and then to New York for just 2 days, our time in both cities were really short!

SIN - FRA 25 August 2013 1355 - 2040

FRA - JFK 27 August 2013 0830 - 1100

JFK - FRA 29 August 2013 2055 - 30 August 2013 1045

FRA - SIN 30 August 2013 1235 - 31 August 2013 0650

So the reason why I have only gone to New York 3 times in my flying career is because I was not trained for the 2 fleets of aircraft that used to go to New York. They are:

1. direct flight by 345 extra long range aircraft to EWR airport
2. transit flight in Frankfurt by 744 jumbo to JFK airport

It was until 2012 when the 744 aircraft was phased out, that the Frankfurt - New York route was taken over by the 380 airbus that I got rostered my first flight to New York end of 2012.

We stayed in Marriott when we were in Frankfurt and we used to call it the "Christmas that came too early" hotel as the room's carpet was red and the armchair was green and the design was really out-dated. But I head they have renovated the hotel and the rooms no longer look that awful.

There is a dinosaurs museum within walking distance from Marriott: Senckenberg Natural History Museum (Naturmuseum Senckenberg). We only took photos outside as our time in Frankfurt was really short.

And we needed more time to EAT! ;p

Freshly grilled German sausages are a must-try though we love the ones we had at the top of Zurich more than these.

Shopping in Frankfurt.

Preggy and craving for coke so hubby bought me this that read "caffeine-free" cola...

Worst cola I ever had.

This is the cheapest Tiramisu we have ever had, 3 euros for such a big box and taste great too!

OK, I don't have much for Frankfurt as you can see, I was only there for 1.5 days, I touched down on the night of  25th and headed to New York in the early morning of 27th. 

So here's New York and the many yummies we had in New York!

My crew friend Joanna bought me a box of mini cupcakes from Melissa when we met up with her in New York! #SOMUCHLOVE

Joanna brought us to a famous Ramen joint in New York and me likeyyy!

My hubby's Soyu Ramen.

There was some kind of event in town that day and people were painting their naked bodies in public.

Sorry I just  couldn't stop taking photo of that woman, she had some pretty intricate designs on her body... ;D

But ya'know it's a free country man!

Time past really quickly in New York with all that shopping and before we knew it it was nightfall and we stopped for a light dinner.

Naughty hubby smoking outside the restaurant...

Then back to the streets of New York to shop!

This is why we had a light dinner, we were saving our tummy space for - Shake Shack!

IMO, Shake Shack has the best burgers in the entire world. It is only available in New York, Dubai and London.

Xiang ka pager?

 We tapao (packed) burgers back to hotel to munch.

I was 8 weeks here and was told that I'm "big" for just 8 weeks. I think it was mostly bloating and I felt very gassy all the time.

We had breakast at Stardust the next morning.

Ellen's Stardust Diner is a retro 1950s theme restaurant located on the southeast corner of 51st Street. The diner has singing waitstaff who would sing while waiting on tables!

My eggs with corned beef and potatoes.

My hubby's eggs and bacon.

Our friend's overloaded plate.

Went shopping for baby stuff after breakfast... #ootd

We had lunch at the rather disappointing Japanese restaurant...the place was run by Japanese but the Sashimi...just was't good. :C

Even the deep fried prawn head was badly done.

On the early morning of the 3rd day: I love breakfast in the States and I never ever miss breakfast in the States cos it'd be dinner time in Singapore.

So it makes complete sense to order steak for breakfast!

We had lunch at Azusa to make up for the bad Japanese food we had the day before, where the Sashimi was wayyyy better and was around the same price.

I just crave for Japanese food all the time when I was pregnant...actually my friends and family will say I crave for Japanese food even when I am not.

But anyway in case you want to know Azusa's address...

I don't have much photos as I usually shop too much in the states. So I shall end the post with my 2 favorite buys in the States:

 1) Super pretty,cute and comfy undies from American Eagle!

2) Super fragrant bathgels and handsanitizers from Bath&Bodyworks!

2 days in New York is really not enough! I hope I will get to see New York again... :'(