flying for a living

i think it'd be interesting to fly the friendly skies. i met an air stewardess yesterday, who has been flying for 7 years already!!! she started when she was only 18...just after her 'o' levels. she told me that at first, she wasn't really used to having all the weird hours and flying around all the different places, but after a while, she got used to it. she's been to almost every part of the world (excluding south america cuz SIA doesn't fly there), experienced many different cultures and food...so much so that now she just stays in the hotel rooms and watches tv. what a pity. i guess she's been there and done that, but if i were her, everytime i go to a city, i'd really wanna find out more about it...like even if i go to bangkok or kl a million times a year, i'd wanna find out where the locals go...the non-touristy places.

there's this time i went to chiangmai to visit a friend (singaporean guy) who was studying there, and we happened to go out with these two thai girls (local chiangmai girls) that we met there. they brought us (on our motorbikes) to this place that was on the outskirts of chiangmai. it was an outdoor bamboo shelter kinda place, where you sit on the ground kinda concept (think japan style), and it was on the banks of a lake. on the other side of the lake was a horse farm, where they rear race horses. so as we were sitting there talking (my friend acting as the translator), the horses were being led into the lake to be bathed. wow! we ordered sea clams with THAILAND chili (fucking hot shit), tom yum soup and beer. superb. =) we sat there for quite some time, just absorbing the scenery, learning each other's lauguages, being bathed in the serenity of thai nature. it was a big change from the tourist-ridden elephant camps and night markets, which are always full of stupid angmohs and their lousy bargaining skills.

so anyway, if you ever read this post, sam (the SIA girl's name), remember that you have the privilege of travelling for a living. make full use of it!