My Bangkok Trip ~ Day 1 - Coolcat

My Bangkok Trip ~ Day 1

Coolcat says:

Wed, 5 April 06

My day began rather early even though my flight was only after 1pm. Bro was kind to drop me off at the airport before work. Bumped into Eugene, Nianci and family at the brand new Air Asia Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT). They were on their way to Indonesia. It was the sign of things to come - for I would bump into Gracie and her gang in Bangkok later on.

LCCT

Since it was a long wait before I could board, I made friends with some of the staff manning the taxi coupon counter. They were a very friendly lot. To my surprise, none of them had ever travelled on an airplane before. Imagine that. Working at the airport day in and day out servicing jet-setting passengers and never being airborne before. It's like working in a candy store and never allowed to dip one's hands into the candy jar. It would have been weird had it not been so sad.

So I took pleasure in narrating to them my first impressions of flying, describing in detail how a plane looks like on the inside and sharing some of travel tales (including my Jakun photo taking sessions) with them. They were all agog and enraptured. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Thus, in their eyes, I was rather like Christopher Columbus. Heh. All too soon, I had to leave and me and my new friends exchanged cheery goodbyes.