flight booboos & bloopers

while senator trillanes and general lim were in the streets of makati calling out the filipino people to withdraw support from GMA government... there i was desperately trying to find ways so i can catch my flight to cebu which seemed impossible with the terrible traffic that the makati standoff has caused.

since i didn't join the rest of the group who earlier convened at abs to take the service van, and no one was to drive me to the airport, i took a cab and braved the heavy traffic...after about 50 mins of almost- not-moving traffic, the cab driver suggested that i take the mrt instead. okay sounds logical! so he brought me back to the mrt station. ayan, for sure mas mabilis na! pero hello ang pila sa tokens matindi rin! it took me about 20 mins just to purchase a token, what with the long queue of people who also took the alternative ride.

i was already near the magallanes station when my EP called to check where i was, they just got to the airport and there was only little time left before boarding. after a bit, haay finally pasay na! which means malapit na ko sa domestic airport, but the way going to domestic road was even more horrible! my EP called again to inform me that they already checked me in and i should just claim my tickets from the lady guard at the gate. sabi ba naman ng EP ko kung malapit na ko, at hindi nagmo-move ang traffic, lakarin ko na lang! huh? maybe i would do so had it not for the rain.

our flight was at 1:40pm , i arrived about or exactly 1:40, i hurriedly went inside to claim my boarding pass, went through the rigorous baggage check...gosh my toiletries were inside my suitcase which i had to handcarry kasi wala nang oras! i feel guilty nakaligtas ako sa strict security procedures, for a while i was questioned dahil sa liquid toiletries na nasa dala kong maleta... then she just asked me, "ano ba gagawin niyo sa cebu?" and when i said "taping po ng deal or no deal" she goes, "ah kasama ka ba nung group ng abs?", "opo!" ...at the back of my mind what i was really thinking was... "imposible nang makasakay pa ko sa eroplano, late na late na ko!"

but this was one instance na good news ang delayed flight! our 1:40pm flight was moved to 2:20pm hahaha! so i made it! even tp who arrived at the airport at exactly 2 pm. we were earlier texting each other that if we don't make it to our flight, we would just take the next available flight together. good thing we wouldn't have to go through the hassle of having our flights re-booked, what if fully-booked ang succeeding flights?

grabe! lagi na lang ako victim err late sa flight hahaha! i remember 3 yrs back, the game knb? team was headed to davao for a taping at eden nature park. for fear that i'd be late for my flight, i took the mrt by myself for the first time, the instruction to me was i alight at the last station and take a cab going to the domestic airport. when the guard was about to check my suitcase, ewan ko ba kung bakit di ko mahanap-hanap ang susi sa lock...haay 15 minutes din akong na-delay, di ko na maalala kung pano ako nakapasok. aaah i think sinira ko na lang ang lock para lang ma-check ng guard ang maleta ko!

eto ang nakakatawa, pagdating sa pasay station, i was clueless that it was time to get out of the train already...
so there i was, still at my seat while everybody else was moving out...i thought may susunod pang station. another set of passengers came in. after a bit, i noticed, the train was moving towards the opposite direction, as in pabalik na sa makati! oh my god!!! kakaloka! kung pwede lang pumara sa mrt ginawa ko na! i had little time left!

i was able to go down from the mrt in magallanes station, no other choice but to take the ever-reliable cab ride going to the airport...besides that it took me so long to take a ride, again traffic was horrendous! and yes with all the circumstances, there was no way i could make it to my flight. i missed my flight! i made some calls and had my flight re-booked but not after more than another 2 boring hours at the airport. haaay!!

after 3 days of taping in davao, time to head back to manila! from eden nature park, it takes about an hour or so to get to the airport. while inside the service van and we were already near the city, i discovered i had left my ticket in my room. Gahhhd!!! NOT AGAIN! i couldn't ask the van to go back or else male-late ang buong grupo! had to re-book my flight again but the next available flight is after more than 3 hours pa! waaaah! grabe na to! i had no book with me, no ipod, no nothing to entertain myself with while waiting at the airport...wala akong kausap, mainit na ulo ko, wala ako gana kumain, i think nagsulat ako nang nagsulat ng mga angst ko sa aking notebook, not the laptop. di pa ata uso wifi non. kaya actually kinda may trauma na ko mga flight flight na ganyan.

ilan beses na din kasi na kasama ko ang crew para sa out-of-town coverage noon sa balitang k/rated k, at dumarating sa point na pine-page na ang mga pangalan namin kasi late kami...one time naiwan ko ang tickets sa opisina at kinailangan namin bumalik...minsan naman may na-late sa crew, or ako ang late hahaha! haay, usually kasi galing pa work, uwi lang to pack then diretso na airport...laging kulang ang oras! haaay!

pero bakit pag international flight never naman ako na-late, maybe because we allot longer hours prior to departure! at pag personal trips usually pre-planned, there's enough time to do stuffs. oh well...

back to trillanes, because of what transpired, our host almost didn't make it to cebu...they were booked on the 4am flight, but because there was a curfew, kris didn't want to take the risk. all the succeeding flights were fully booked, so our prod heads had to find a private plane for kris and her entourage. wow! kris was supposed to bring josh and baby james to cebu but for security reasons, tita cory had advised against it.

so there...i'll be posting about our cebu trip...and my birthday celebration next time.