What A Lazy, Lazy Blogger!

Thursday, May 18, 2017

airline

4 months!!! (--and I said I was gonna blog more this year!) 

 What has happened... 
- I went home to the Philippines 
- I got back to Qatar (too much for a list, LOL)

 Between those moments, I had a lot to blog about, and yet not one single post. Partly because the internet connection in the Philippines is too bad. (nah-just kidding, it's better now, actually, I am just really lazy!)

 So February this year, my little sister turned 18 (just in numbers heehee). I felt sorry that I did not get to be there for her, as I had been for my three cousins when they each celebrated theirs. I am really into organizing parties and events, and I had many plans for my sister's debut. Anyway, I was there "in the spirit" ^_^

 I decided to come home a month after. Through Etihad which had one stop-over in Abu Dhabi. At first, of course, I was excited, coz I was gonna see one new place. I posted  TripAdvisor review, please disregard the grammar errors I think I did that half-awake, just the same, here's some more info:


At Hamad International Airport, there was a long line at the check-in counters which made me regret why I forgot to do an online check-in the night before (I made a mental note to ALWAYS check-in online at least 4 hours before the flight as I look at the empty bag-drop counter).

I once forfeited a flight because the plane left... and I was busy reading a book at the airport's upper level --well that's a different story. Anyway, I always made sure I find the boarding gates immediately after check-in, and wait there, no matter how long the delay would be. Luckily, this time, I was not left behind :)

 The flight from Doha to Abu Dhabi took only an hour. Just enough for a light snack, and I always loved eating in-flight. I love traveling by air planes. Anyway, I'm getting distracted by the thought of dried fruits and nuts. As soon as the plane started its descend, I looked outside the window to see how Abu Dhabi looks like. At first it was all sea and sand. It was a pretty sight, but I hoped to see buildings. I finally saw one, and it had the Ferrari logo on top, and that was it. That's the largest building I saw from the top, and the rest were like houses and small buildings. I was a bit disappointed, especially when the plane landed. I looked around (tried to look around when the plane was heading to the main airport building), and the tallest building I saw was the airport control tower. (Later on, I found out from a friend that the airport was a bit far away from the city.)

 At Abu Dhabi airport, I was surprised to find out that we had to take a shuttle to the main building. This is like one of the domestic flights I had back in Manila, so this is not new to me but it came as a surprise because this was an International flight. Most passengers uttered their disbelief-- they were expecting to pass through a tube. We also got through security gates again, which was again, surprising--we just got off a plane, we went no where between the plane and the airport? So after going around, exploring Abu Dhabi Duty Free, I decided to eat. I got tired and so hungry (I couldn't wait for another set of plane food haha!) I chose this cool-looking cafe (Bricco Café) only to get disappointed with the serving. I paid 32 Dirhams for two small cutlets of chicken and a heap of undercooked rice. It was unjust. It was unfair for my hungry tummy.  

 So to cut it short, I boarded the plane to Manila, arrived in the early morning, got a Grab (local transport provider) and got welcomed by our dog, Mimi (yep, no one else but her --on their defense, only my mom knew I was going home and it was really waaay too early!)
I'll write again about the Philippines stay.... when I want to. HAHA. Off to lunch!

1235

Sunday, July 04, 2010

airplane

that was the number of visits my dark and twisty blog has got... had i checked a little sooner i would have been too happy for myself for being the 1234th.


so anyway, it surprised me that at least 1234 times, some people got this feeling of boredom which made them just click on some links. like mine. :)

flight ticket at P2.60... unbelievable right? but i got them :) special thanks to my sister, who's ever a spoiler. (will tell more come october)

i have a crush... (*kilig*) but i am of course, as ever, in control of my emotions so after 2 weeks or so (sometimes even less), wala na naman yun. hehe. so as of now, i love listening to the song "we could be in love" because the singers sounds like they're soo in love. and i'll just be contented listening. meaning: i don't want to feel what they're feeling. if you want to ask me why, come on --ask me WHY. i won't mind.

i think i'll be blogging again tomorrow same time -so i have to go sleep now. :)

friends and grey's

Saturday, May 08, 2010

airplane

i have 137 friends and it makes me sad :( i was browsing through my friend's list and i didn't know where to start deleting...


i just don't want to be like one of those people who has, like, 200 friends --half of which she hasn't even met. and you call it friends list??

i mean, i don't want to miss out on the rants and ramblings of the people who matter to me posts about, and in facebook, you will be opening a feed crowded by people you don't even know, because they were on your list.

i know. i have these lists: acquaintances, bahrain friends, church family, kins and clans, formers and interests. i know i can just click on my list so their feed will be loaded on my page, BUT still ---can't i just open my homepage and see what i want to see?

and besides, you will be opening your page to those people --or i mean, I will be opening MY page to those people i haven't even met?... i know people who are judgmental, they tend to judge on others' post or comment, or page. and i'm not fond of being judged by people who haven't even met me. i don't care about what they say, i just don't want to give them the chance.

and if you are reading this... do not talk to me about my blog. it embarrasses me. seriously. there was this one time (at band camp --jk) when somebody mentioned my blog to me, and we aren't even friends. i know him and yet him talking to me about my rants here, is really not a thing i would want to stay for a chat with.

so, today i went halfway season 2 of grey's anatomy (for the 5th time i guess) it started last week when i didn't have much to do in the house. because i finished all the other things i had to. and now, i'm super bored. because i got up to eat and don't feel like going back to bed to watch again.

i took off the jalousies of the bedroom window and i saw the stars (*smiley here*) i missed them when i was in Bahrain. and i saw a distant airplane. and i was nostalgic. i thought i was back in BH and the loneliness just engulfed me, i really thought I was back in BH! because those are the kinds of plane i would see from the car on the way home. they are that far away that i had to drive around the airport, which is on a separate island, just to see them close. my friend, jonathan, would ask why. of course, he was wondering why... and i just told him i needed to check if they were okay, coz they were my link to the Philippines, they would take me back home. he just knew airplanes mean a lot to me.

so even here, in the phils., i still see planes like a vessel of hope :) i already mentioned one time that one of my friends caught me staring pensively at an airplane passing by. i'm just really wondering if the passengers inside are happy, coz they were traveling, or are going to meet someone special on their destination. or sad, because they have been taken away from their home.

so... grey's infected me. meredith said... in the absence of hope, i need to stay in bed and feel like i might die today. which brings me back to -- me being rejected!

who --in their right mind-- would apply in a call center with a hoarse voice?... of course, i didn't apply. they re-scheduled me for an interview which i didn't show up on months ago. i didn't know there was gonna be a voice/speech recognition exam. i heard my own voice on the headset --it sounded like someone was gasping for air! so it went until the interview, and i forgot to mention, i had so much use of my voice last week, it was on short supply this week. i was so confident! grrrr!

so they called me --and said "hey, guess what? you aced the exams, you got high scores on the computer simulation, and english literacy, and your typing skill's above average, but you just don't have a clear voice. sorry, try again after three months."

which got me singing --it's my first broken heart... my dreams have dimmed and ended, it's my first broken heart... i don't know how to mend it, tell me where do i start?...

what to do. send me a message and tell me what to do! don't post on my page, i WILL kill you.

BIA

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

airplane

here now at the Bahrain International Airport. waiting for the boarding time. some of the people are sleeping. it's 11 pm, so i hope also i can sleep on the plane. 


i'm sure we'll be running after the sun AGAIN like my plane had last time. it was 9 pm already on my watch, and the sun was still up. 11 pm i checked outside again, and the sun was still up! although it was setting, it just went out of our sight when we were descending.

so now, i'm sure in a matter of an hour, there'll be sunlight outside.

i can see the plane from here. i hope i can sit now so i'll start to sleep. it's a direct flight so no hassle.