Tuesday, February 15, 2011

I CANT BELIEVE WE ARE IN SINGAPORE


The weekend was amazing in Paris. Old friends, childish parents, fresh pints, sneakers and overdose of japanese food have spiced up the final countdown before the take off to Singapore (that I am now able to point in the map with nearly 96% confidence).

After some tetris level 9 with the luggages - how to fit 96 kg into 40 kg , and with people - how to fit 6 persons in 4 beds, we arrived monday morning at the Aeroport Charles de Gaulle with a deja-vu feeling of "something is gonna go wrong".

Flashback: Singapore airlines is one of the most hated company in the sky and they work hard for it.


So having only a one way ticket and not having the credit card used to buy the tickets was definitely not a good idea from us. Impossible to get a boarding pass without a proof that we will leave Singapore within 30 days.

We had to: run and find an internet point with printer in a French airport (the signalization in France is terrible), buy two tickets to Vietnam (cheap and anyway planned at some point to visit family), failed twice because of 3D mobile secure (no mobile!) and rubbish HSBC Malta (RUBBISH!), run back with the A4-Graal in the hands when they asked: 

"can we see the credit card?"

Semi fail here, on my last days in the rock, I went twice to BOV San Gwan (I knew I would have to come back) to get a letter from the bank stating the card does not exist anymore blablabla. It would have been okay if the 4 digits were matching Singapore Airlines database, which was not the case at the counter.

- "C'mon you can't do that to us"
- "We had to screw up honey moons in the past for the same reason"
- "Please (bitch)"
- "Spanish, French, Asian face, Maltese bank, One way ticket, too dodgy sorry"


It was not looking good at all. Epic fail in my mind. Running bad and no outs.

But God knows how, we managed to talk to BOV Customer Service over the phone and they gave us other last 4 digits, only 10 minutes before boarding. Authorized! I couldn't believe it, the river finally hit me!

We are now in Singapore in a very nice condo of friends of friends, and I just bought a MacBook Pro to evacuate the stress of the morning and have a decent tool to look for a job (lol). We are going to visit a flat now, but Bea is sleeping and snoozing like a pro (30 minutes more already 3 times).

See you later!

5 comments:

Macabeo said...

hahaha, hilarious. Maltese bank will screw you up and at the same time save ur ass.

Thank god u managed to get on board :)

great farewell weekend we had! Now let as know how is it going in ur new destiny.

Ciao Singadudeeeeeeeeee

Unknown said...

Loool, you really had to fight for your seat on that plane...
But it's destiny my friend, you were bound to go. "Que sera sera!"
Sorry I missed your farewell party in Paris but we'll make it up in Sing-ha-poor! Good luck in the meantime especially with the durian.
Fabrice

Macabeo said...

Cmon! we want more stuff!!!

Macabeo said...

Update!!!

Macabeo said...

This blog is dead...

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