My 2008 out of the country trip treat

SINGAPORE DAY 1: February 02, 2008

The day before our departure for Singapore, i was going gaga over my “mantika segment.” It was already Friday, yet my researcher was still shooting bulk of my segment. Two crews were deployed for me that day to complete the surveillance, the inspection and other elements I needed to complete my story.
In short, I was still at GMA until 8 pm!!
Anyweis, I was only able to pack on the day of my flight! M not really a light packer, so i just put all the stuffs I think i would need for the trip, including a gimik attire, winter clothes for Genting, and summer clothes! Name it, i have it!
So all in all, Iv one big trolley, and four more bags hehe.. (well, i put the pasalubongs for Armie and friends).
So at 4pm, we were ready to go!

FIRST TIME AT NAIA AIRPORT

The trip was my third out of the country getaway. And my first time to arrive and depart at NAIA airport! Call it weird , but I was looking forward to seeing the interior of our oldest International airport. Well, I would always remember walking my OFW titos and tita there .. FINALLY, i had my turn. But it was really a shock when i got inside.. uck, it was soo hot inside, seems like the aircon was zillion years old! The place was a mess.. the check-in counters were crowded! And here’s more, we had to line up three different lines for the Philippine travel tax and for the airport fee and check-in counter. It could have been better if we pay the tax and the airport fee at the same time right? Oh well, the airport is supposedly the first tourist spot of every country.. and it says a lot about that country!
Well, NAIA says a lot about our country huh?
Anyweis, we were able to make it on time at our 8:00 Cebu Pacific flight, then I made it to Singapore for the second time!

BAGGAGE SWITCH AT THE BUDGET TERMINAL

I thought baggage switch at the airport only happens in movies. The usual plot, there is a baggage switch, the other bag either contains a fortune or some “pektus” and the other is of no significance. The owner of the “better” baggage would start tracking the person who got his bag and the story goes on.
We just experienced this at Budget Terminal.

I had about eight bags in total and i was busy picking each of them in the baggage area. And when i thought i had all of the bags, we had a taxi to armie’s.
When we were unloading our bags from the compartment of the taxi, there was one more unfamiliar bag.. and the driver said, “this is yours!” I just screamed when I saw the black bag because in that instance, I knew that I left mom’s trolley bag!

It was weird, cuz aside from they’re both black, mama’ s was a trolley and the one we got was just your regular baggage bag, and they also had different prints! Aggh, call it katangahan. So at 1am, armie, jeco and i went back to the airport to switch bags.

Good thing, the airport had mama’s bag. And we returned the bag we accidentally got.
The airport crew told us smiling, “there was a big difference huh..”