Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Short Getaway

Last month I was connecting my days off with July to make it longer days off,in total I’ve 13 days off. I went back to Malaysia. July,a very special month to me because its third years together with JS. Connecting days off is not easy to get as my seniority is not senior enough but I must make it no matter what. JS is having one month semester break and we planned for a short getaway to Redang island.

From my hometown Ipoh à Terengganu is not an easy journey (I never thought of it). Every thing was planned by Mr.JS and he did some mistake on our transportation and it caused that we had missed out the marine park visit. But it’s fine, travelling should be happy ^_^ as long as I’m with him.

Lets see how did I get there.
We took bus from IpohàKLIA 2 (4hrs)
Waited 3hrs for our flight from KLIA 2àTerengganu (1hr)

At Terengganu airport someone picked us from there and took 30min journey to the pier. Again waited for 2hrs for the ferry and 1hrs45min to the island we choose. In total we took almost 13hrs to reached our destination.   
Now,enjoy my photos ^_^

 Heading to the Kalong Island.









 Wooden house that we stayed.

 We went snorkeling twice per day and as you see the water is as clear as crystal. Super enjoyed.
 It was selected as "The Best Resort 2012" by Tripadvisor. No doubt,although there's not thing else except the wooden resort we stayed. Food was very delicious prepared by their chef everyday,JS ate too much without controlled. Many foreigners here like tourists from China and Australia.

Finally,Happy 3Years Anniversary my dear JS. <3 nbsp="" p="">

Monday, July 21, 2014

No body listen to my story

Hi is M3 Dom here. Today let’s talk about my current working airline. Why working here and Why not.
Recently we had changed new uniform,what do you think? Hmmm…
The old one was better OR the current one?

Old uniform
New uniform


Some people they would join the airline is because of their uniform ,are you one of them too? Its ok,there’s no right or wrong with it as long as you like it. I still remember when I went for interview I asked some of the candidates around me why they choose this airline,their answer is… “ Owhh,this is the only airline which allow crew member to put on hijab (is a veil that covers the head and chest,which is particularly worn by a Muslim woman). My dream is to become a flight attendant and I’m a Muslim so I’m so happy they are hiring Malaysian again after many years.” See,an airline’s uniform could makes people dream comes true.So there’s not thing wrong by choosing an airline by the uniform design.
When I had been hired I was told to be based in Kuala Lumpur,but last month had announced about me? Let me tell you the reasons of making me to stay.

Long night stop. Comparing to others airlines this airlines having more hours layover. Mean you have more time to go out during layover. For example, flying to New York is 13 hours. Here I got minimum layover 33hrs but my friend from other airlines with similar flying time but layover for 26hrs only. Some other destinations could up to 50hrs or more.  

Hotel. For internationals layover company providing good location (normally in city center) 4 or 5 stars hotels.

Work load. We don’t have many services like others 5 stars airline. For me,its an easy job.

Tax Free. One of the biggest benefit. I enjoy tax free salary and the pay is similar with 5 stars airlines.

Days Off. The only airline giving 5-6 days off consecutive every month. If I make some swapping I could even get more. I did combined two months of days off and after did some swapping I got 17 days off.

Annual Leave.Every year we got 30 days annual leaves without separating. So you can enjoy one month leave with pay.

Accommodation and transportation are provided by company. It helps me to save a lot of money.
Of course,there’s some thing good and also there’s bad too.
Jeddah-Kula Lumpur flight is always full load. If you are not with the luck,sorry you have to be in standby for the flight. So going home is not an easy task. It could make you disappointed any time.
Passengers profile and background here is the biggest challenges I have to face. There’s a culture male and female beyond of family member are not allow to sit together. Always headache during boarding. And most of the local passengers they couldn’t read their seat number correctly. It’s a hard time for crew members.

Some thing you might not know~
Weather :
Maybe you will only know that Middle East  is only HOT HOT HOT for whole year. But actually there’s two seasons here,winter and summer. From March to October is summer,September to February is winter. Summer could up to 45 degree centigrade,that’s really crazy. I will just stay at home and blog,like now =D Lollll During winter its great. Average temperature is around 20 degree centigrade everyday and some places like Riyadh will cold like London. I’m serious. 

Any topic you wish me to write about you are always welcome. 

Any question you may email to dominiquechoe@hotmail.com