home sweet home

yeah! finally home after the great shopping trip in manila:):) the feeling of being home is terrific! but this holiday is not trouble-free! i shall try to give an account of the problems for the past five days. but not word for word! haha! i will go crazy trying to recall. shall state the major events:)

day one
our flight was 1410 and we reached changi airport at 1045. very early right folks? haha! we wanted to check in and shop at the duty-free shops. but, henceforth the first problem appears. my youngest sister px was travelling with us but not with our parents. so, in accordance to some Philippines weird rules and regulations, children under 15 have to be accompanied by a parent so as to enter the country. luckily and sadly for us, i am her blood-related sister so it was easier to allow her to enter the Philippines. sadly, i am under 21. so not a legal guardian. in the end, the whole check-in process took about 1.5 hours. *faint* the longest check-in i have ever experienced.

okay. finally checked in and boarded the airplane. SQ916. i just love taking Singapore airlines. terrific plane food and movies. watched and on the flight over to manila. enjoyed them very much:)

the second problem arrived when we landed in manila at 1735. because of px being under 15, we have to pay a fine of P3125 to get her into the country. that is S$100 approximately. waste of money in my opinion. by the time we checked out, it was 1810. took such a long time for the administration works to process. inefficiency of the airport staff. but since we had a prior experience 5 years ago, we sort of expected the waiting time to be long.

the third and major problem. our largest luggage went missing!!! shock and disbelief. how could a luggage go missing at an airport??? *rewind* i forgot. not all airports are our changi airport. it was ridiculous. when we checked out, the luggages were just being chugged out onto the conveyor belt. i totally could not believe it. we spent another half hour trying to locate the missing luggage. finally, the staff told us that it may have been left back in changi airport. in other words, it was not loaded onto the plane. my goodness! i have never seen such inefficiency from the Singapore airlines crew before. pushing the blame back to changi. we were told to leave and will be contacted when they located our luggage. so by the time we left the airport, it was 1915. we reached uncle j's house at 2000. such a long journey.

it was after dinner that SIA called and told us they could not find our luggage back in singapore. they gave us multiple choice answers, 1)loaded onto the wrong plane (i think it is ridiculous that the luggage could be touring Europe while we were getting no answers here). 2)missing somewhere on the plane (another ridiculous option). 3) somebody took the wrong luggage (this sounded more plausible but that means we are never going to see it again). uncle j was very angry and demanded that if the luggage was still left in singapore, it would have to be sent to us at the earliest flight next day.

so we went to sleep not knowing the fate of the luggage. both my aunts' and maat's clothings were inside.

day two
early in the morning, SIA called again and told us that it was confirmed that the luggage was loaded onto our plane and departed for Philippines with us. so we could not blame the SIA staff in changi. but the infuriating thing was they gave us the hope that the luggage was left back in Singapore. now, we had to deal with the fact that it was stolen. it was really irresponsible of the SIA ground crew in the Philippines. of course uncle j was angry and demanded compensation. which the SIA had to give us i guess. no one could hide from uncle j's wrath. *grins* i love it.

we all had to go shopping out of necessity rather than leisure because the three of them realy needed clothes. this incident really put a mark on our vacation.

the rest of the the 3 days were used for shopping, eating and shopping. shoemart and landmark are great shopping centres:) great bargains and cheap clothes! we also went to the Mall of Asia on the 4th day. it is a really HUGE shopping mall with lots of terrific shops! i would love to go back there again! xoxo

we came home today (which i suppose is considered yesterday since it is already past midnight) on the 1850 flight SQ921 which arrived in singapore at 2200. now here i am, sitting comfortably at home , reflecting on my vacation. bad experience. totally. irresponsible people exist everywhere.what goes around comes around. people who steal are going to get theirs some day. soon. suffer the wrath of all the victims!

let us hope that my trip to redang(hopefully we are still going) will be trouble-free. *pray hard and cross fingers*

tsubasa^^ i need wings to fly