A time once travelled

The trip from Manila to CDO was the longest time ever in my life. As we boarded the plane, David started screaming. SCREAM! He was hungry and tired and the whole chaos was getting into his nerves. As I tried to comfort him, our plane started to take its position in the NAIA runway preparing for take off. I wasn’t aware of the plane’s status with David’s cry piercing right into my eardrums. Then dadi said to me, “the engines are not working!” Total panicked! The next thing I knew we went back to the airport and the door was opened. The pilot said something no one understood as the mic was also broken. 30 minutes of mental torture. FEAR was all that we were feeling. A technician went to the pilot’s pit and as I looked outside my window, I saw other people below. MEGA Takot! By this time David was already snoring!
When apparently all things were checked, we were ready to take off, with the techie coming with us to CDO. I have never prayed so hard in my whole life. The clouds were thick all through out the trip so the ride was bumpy. And every bump, I imagined the engine going to a total halt, and us dropping from the sky like bird’s shits! Gosh, it was terrible! My family waiting in CDO was panicking, my mother never stopped calling all the saints, angels and gods in the heavens!
We landed safely, it was my first time to ride a plane without looking outside the window. I used to love watching our plane landing down, but this time the fear got the better of me and didn’t peek outside.
One and a half hour of flight, it was the longest time of my life.

Ito na po kami, as in exhausted but excited. The trip went well. Super mega bait ni David, ni hindi man lang sya umiyak. Kaya relax kami kahit papaano. Sino ba namang ayaw bumait, apat ang libreng seats namin sa plane kaya ang daming upuan for him at daming tv set na paglalaruan. But all in all from Paris to our hotel in Makati, everything went smooth.

Jetlag, our worst enemy and the aircon sa mall. Pero David adjusted so well, second night palang namin sa Manila, ok na kaagad sya habang kami ni dadou, gising na gising in the middle of dawn. Ito medyo tired pa rin kaya naka ilag litro na ng kape sa starbucks! Putsa kaya pala tinawag na starbucks yan dahil yong cost ng kape nila pang star tagala na nagsusweldo ng big bucks!

Can’t stay long, nanny ko si dadou. At ang bagal kong magtype dahil nasanay na sa french keyboard. Daming nauusog na letra dito sa keyboard ko ah, mahirap ding magtype pagnagmamadali. Kaya ito na lang muna. Tomorrow, we are off to CDO, and finally meet the family.

Shocks: Halloween at Christmas decors dito as in naghalo na. Ang laki-laki ng mga malls, nag-i-snow sa loob. Transpo is cheap pero food is skyhigh expensive. Bakit ganon? Daming food outlets mostly for junkfoods. Very clean toilets with automatic flasher, yon nga lang walang toilet paper supply hah!

Ok folks, sa susunod!