Friday, March 15, 2013

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

From yesterday it's snowing like crazy, changing the almost-spring-like weather that we had to another winter season. If I was not mistaken, I heard Christmas song in a supermarket when I was shopping yesterday. But wait, during the time when we were supposed to have winter, it was not snowing that much. It was actually not snowing at all. Well, spring in winter and winter in spring. Easter and Christmas should be changed ^^

I love you snow, but why are you coming this late????
The next few days will be something that I can call 'the busiest weekend of March'. Starting from an early morning (4:40 am), through 8 hours work, meeting at my new (from April) workplace, visiting my friend at work where I have to write a thank-you card to my dance teacher, as I can call Emiko-san, who teaches us Japanese dane and then I have little time to prepare for Saturday's activities. Then Saturday: morning shift, performance make-up lesson, dance practice, dance group party. Sunday: 12-hour shift at work and then few hours to prepare for Japanese class on Monday noon (yes, it's me who's teaching).

My Emirates future went a bit vague after I discovered that my burn mark, which I got in China still hasn't disappeared. And Emirates doesn't allow any scars or tattoos, so no burn marks allowed either, I assume. So, I started curing my burn mark intensively before the interview, so that it's not visible then. I have to wear a skirt then after all!
My moon-shaped burn mark.
And meanwhile, I'm still preparing for the Big Day, when I will pass interview to became a FA (haha confidence is the basic, right?). I'm watching reality show called 'Flight Attendant School', which shows the harshest of the harshest trainings for Frontier Airlines in USA. Each episodes someone is kicked out of the school be it because they were late, or failed some exams (more than one - OUT!).

.....NOT YET!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

After quite a busy weekend, I decided to take a break during the week. I have no shifts on weekdays, as the other workers from my hotel got angry that I'm taking their shifts away. Okay then, I'm not saying anything, just looking for another job in the meantime. And this week, I decided to cut on the time I'm spending in from of the computer. Well, my mobile broke down, so I'm temporarily using my old old one, which makes me unable to check facebook or gmail all the time, which I used to do. And there are some problems with the wifi at home too (well, ain't I lucky?), so I decided to use this opportunity and forget about computer for a while. Just now, I'm sitting in the library and because I don't want to go home, I decided to write this post.

The weather today is brilliant. The sun is shining and it feels like spring already! When I was waiting on the bus I felt the sunlight on my face and one guy on the bus stop, age around 30-40 years old, was sucking a pink-colored lollipop. It's spring, I thought again. Even if the winter weather comes back again, I feel that something is starting anew. I have a few new things, which I want to try to accomplish to. New possiblities, new opportunities. For now, till 30th of March I'm busy preparing for an important thing (which my friends knows what it is). The Emirates Open Day. I feel that my friends are supporting me and helping me a lot, so I just cannot not try my best!

Well then, I'm going back home to study my 'Air Travel English' book published even before Pan Am bancrupted. By the way, talking about Pan Am, the series called 'Pan Am', realised in 2011 is a great series, which I started watching at my night shift and I love it. The whole action takes places in 60s of XX century and it follows the life of Pan Am crew. It's great! I think not only people interested in the job of cabin/flight crew would be interested in the series!

Friday, March 1, 2013

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I posted just yesterday night, but I have to add new post today. Why? Because once again, I'm surprised how people can be nice! And once again, I understood that I love people!

I decided not to hide my problems at my company, and I talked with a nice HK department lady, who advised me to fight for my rights! She was very understanding and told me not to give up.

One guy who is taking care of repairs in our hotel smiled to me and was so nice! When I first met him he didn't seem to friendly. He was not talking much and he rarely looked at me even when I was talking to him. He seemed to be quite indifferent about anything. But now that I am on the shift, he sat next to me, talked quite nice and I understood how wrong it is to judge people by the first impressions. Maybe it's important on a job interview, but in man-to-man relations, never ever judge a person by their first impressions. Sometimes people are being shy at first, sometimes they just need to get used to you.

I love people~!