the journey - 26 May 2007

On the way to the airport i spoke to my mom, she told me that we will be arriving in dubai at 5:35 p.m. local time. Funny i calculated the hours of the journey, we should be arriving earlier at 2:30 p.m. We were rather puzzled. She called me back in 5 minutes telling me that the agent had made a mistake of booking us the flight which had a transit in karachi!

Goodness gracious! Well i was kind of oblivious to this, it was my fault. I just informed the agent to book the ticket to dubai by hook or by crook on the 26th! Hah! Spoke to hubs and apologized, well i was looking at the bright side, i have never been to karachi, although we weren’t allowed to leave the airport, the least i could say was that, “hey we made a pit stop at the jinnah airport. Haha. Yes, pathetic i know... but you have to make the best of it.

After 6 hours we finally arrived, and were rather excited... well at least we could go for a quick ciggy! Just as we were about to get down, the steward announced that the authority at the airport will not permit us leaving the plane! Damn! So we sat down, hoping that we will be able to... 15 minutes has passed, still no good news. Oh well, we just sat read magazines and listen to music. However, there was this rather impatient passenger. He was pissing the living hell out of me! There was a lot of profanity from him, and he was getting all pissed at the crew. By the way, mind you it has nothing to do with them, he should have taken it up to the local authority, and i shall wish him all the best!

Well a bloke who was sitting with us managed to walk around the airport, according to him only limited numbers were allowed to walk out of the plane. Yeah that made me feel better! We were rather insignificant. Haha. But he said we didn’t miss anything, for they had nothing interesting to offer... so yeah, not regretting walking under the hot weather. Just to inform you it was 40 degrees.

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Finally after 1 hour and forty minutes, we arrived in dubai! Hooray! As the plane was on the runway, we were rather stunned that the new wing of the airport to accomodate for the new A380 was almost complete. I was impressed, and excited.
Walked in, and the first thing we noticed was the scent in the airport, no it wasn’t the smell of their famous oud, it was the ciggarette smoke smell. Haha, we thought we would be fortunate enough to find the smoking zone, but unfortunately on the arrival section there’s none. Oh well, boo hoo. As we got to the immigration counter, the officer had asked, “so where are you from?” HELLO! It was written on the passport, what are you blind? But of course we didn’t say that! We looked at him smiling to our disbelief he had asked that and answered, “Malaysia” and we’re here for a vacation.

We walked quickly to pick up our bags, and laughing on the inside.
As we got out of the airport, i was looking for a familiar face... and there he was, my uncle! We were rather happy to see him, he’s extremely cool and chatty, just like me! Haha, not! I’m just chatty. The ride to our apartment took at least 30 minutes, he was just telling us that the traffic jam in dubai has trippled compared to last year! Damn.

As soon as we settled in the apartment, i felt extremely exhausted! We were suppose to meet him for dinner, but i had to cancel. I just wanted to shower and watch the telly, yes the tv channel here is rather interesting! Loads of cooking show, talk show by Tyra, Oprah, Rachel Rays, Ellen, and the series were all updated too! Grey’s, everybody hates chris, and more.

Walked along the street of the apartment, and bought some food from SFC (southern fried chicken), the tagline wasn’t it’s finger licking good, it was “lip licking... something” can’t remember what it was. Haha. Thought it was pretty cute!
Had dinner, watched telly and fell asleep...