| Monday, August 21, 2006 |
| 14 Days and 13 Nights |
Today, I took my first and last flight for the year, with the whole HMA (Hospital Management Asia, our event) team, to Singapore. I would have been excited because I've been so close to Singapore a couple of times before, but I've never actually been here. First close call was in 2004, when our team went to Kuala Lumpur. On our last day in KL, we planned to take a bus to Singapore and spend a day there. Unfortunately, something came up and I had to go back to Manila a day earlier than the rest of the staff. The second close call was in 2005, when we had an event in Jakarta. We took a budget airline in Clark, and since there are no direct flights there from Manila to Jkt, we had to make an 8 hour or so stopover at Singapore. We spent the night at the Changi Airport and I remember staring longingly out the glass doors leading to the city, ala Tom Hanks in The Terminal hehe =D Technically I could've gone out but it was 12 midnight and we had nowhere to go except walk around the city, which was probably unsafe, and my friends wanted to rest already.
Anyway, I didn't feel that excitement anymore this time around. Maybe I'm just thinking too much about the work. Maybe I've just been so stressed out recently. Maybe the implications of my premature (but long-awaited) decision to quit my job is finally sinking in. After all, this will be my last trip as a conference coordinator with my officemates and friends, my barkada for a good three years. I sure am going to miss them. I look forward to the day I'll be traveling with them for leisure. But I will be lying if I don't say that these conference trips have also been leisure for us, at least for the last few days we are left alone to go around and do our 'thang' =P
So even though this is the last, even though this trip has been (a bit) tainted, I'll make the most out of my stay here in Singapura, city of the Merlion (I am not a mermaid, I am a merLION... a merLION!!! growl! fwt fwt fwt... hahaha =P) Joke, its actually cute =D
And so begins my 14 Days and 13 Nights of fun*. ^_^
*PS. Joke lang yung fun hehehe =) I know its not all going to be fun, I'm just making pa-cute ;p But there's no harm in thinking positive ayt? =D AJA! |
posted by Tami @ 1:40 AM
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ingat and enjoy your Singapura =)
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ingat and enjoy your Singapura =)