Flew back on the night of 4th Jan.
Not the best flight I would have.
"Seems that bad luck
ALWAYS befalls me whenever I am alone"
Then things would happen to make things back as it should be or even better :)
I got a centre aisle seat, and diagonally in front of me was an empty seat by the window because someone puked in the previous flight and the people wanted to move because it wasn't cleaned properly.
le sigh..
I'm not complaining but I
wished she did not actually mention it or spray something so that I started to smell it for awhile and make myself feel a little sick too.
Anyway, I couldn't really stand the people sitting in front of me. If I had that many kids in future I would kill myself if they were so irritating and rude. They were quite noisy from the start of the flight -
fine, I could live with that. Just when I was going to doze off into lala land, they had to spill (i would like to think) water - COLD WATER on my feet. I don't know what they were doing but I know it was an accident. Still, an apology
wouldn't be too much, wouldn't it?
Throughout my whole flight I just had this stomach twisting feeling, like I knew something wasn't going to go well, and it really was true!! :(
No starbus when I arrived. With no Aust number because I decided to cancel mine, I tried to use my SG number to call. While they left me waiting there for ages and so, I decided to take SkyBus. Well SkyBus only sends one to Southern Cross Station. Supposedly smart me thought I could just take a tram back with a 2-hour pass. Smart me could not compete with the transport system in Australia, which decided to change the system to only accept Myki cards from 29 December 2012. I couldn't
believe my luck when I read that flag at the tram station. Deciding to save on that money instead, I walked home. See! Doing this saved me $3 in the end.
I headed to town later in the morning since I arrived at like 8AM at my apartment. With just one thing in my mind - getting the Crazy John prepaid so that I would be able to contact my parents and boyfriend, and friends too. Told to wait 30 min before I could insert the SIM card in, I waited, thinking that all will be fine. And so I bought a few grocery stuffs while waiting. When I tried to put the SIM card in, it could not be read!!! I went back to the shop and asked for help. The salesgirl told me that my phone must be locked. She was not going to refund me. "I wasn't even going to ask for a refund but whatever". She didn't know where to get my phone unlocked. In a state of trauma now, I didn't know what to do and I just subconsciously walked into Vodafone across the road. The guy was so nice! He told me he knew one nearby who could do unlocking of phones and directed me there. After speaking to the girl at the shop, I was beyond distraught to realize that I had to leave my phone there for 2 days. Then the change for the better came. She asked me which carrier was my phone locked to. I said Singapore. She said that was quite impossible because Singapore phones are rarely locked. She let me try out 2 of her SIM cards (SO NICE!!!) and when they both could work she told me it was probably a faulty SIM card. And so, I went back to Crazy Johns AGAIN. The guy helped me do a SIM swap and told me to put the SIM card in after 30 minutes and that the problem might take about 2 hours to be solved. Patient me waited for like 2 over hours at home because my frozen food could not stay in the open for too long. When 2 hours came and there was still no service, I went back down again. He tried and told me it couldn't be done. Thereafter, he said reception could be poor there and I should go out and try. After half hour of trying and an encounter with a begger, I went back in and said it could not be done too. Resigned to fate, I left after he told me to come back on Monday so they could request a refund for me when the manager was there. GUESS WHAT I DID. Yes, I refused to think it was my phone's problem and walked straight into Vodafone as if with some newborn purpose. Imagine my happiness when the salesperson heard my plight and inserted his own microsim into my phone. I have never been happier seeing the whatsapp messages in my phone. I spent over 30minutes in the shop and I left happy with a new plan (postpaid at that). There were no registration charges (YAY!) and although there was lesser data than what I could get with Crazy John, I am
GLAD that everything turned out fine in the end.
Monday came and i went down to the shop again. The manager was busy :( and I was waiting there for awhile. The nice guy that helped me before told me she would take some time and told me to get some lunch before coming back. I decided to walk around a bit before going back again. When i went back the second time it was finally settled and my stomach was not that twisted anymore! (JOYYY )
Well, that twisted feeling could be due to my worry about not being able to finish moving by the time I am supposed to move out too. HAHA.
All's better now! :)
