I landed yesterday morning overwhelmed by a feeling of complete bliss.

Though my arms felt sore and back summons a good, maternal massage from MaMa and my temples throb with every pulsating rhythm of my heart...

I am so so glad to be Hommmme!

HHHHHooooooooRRRRRRRah!

It was a fun flight to *LAX and back, though it wasn't with my team. It's undeniable that *Guest-Starring can be pretty daunting sometimes, but I guess I was lucky cos I wasn't really expected to join the team during their *drinking sessions. I have already, at the beginning of the flight been *signed-off by the *IFS when he asked if I drink. So I played the *lone-ranger outstation, consequential to being "the non-drinker", "the saint", "the antisocial". And I'm not saying that like I'm complaining or anything. Infact, I found myself trascending into a whole new experience of lone-shopping as a curative, therapeutic indulgence, that stimulates the mind, body, soul and bank balances, making the digits roll, lower, as adrenaline concentration distillate in little abrupt shots. And it does help that no one is there to remind me of how much damage is TOO much damage. His habitual boozies aside, he is actually a really nice man and for whatever reason, albeit not joining him for his *Togok sessions, the IFS maintained my work positions and I had to work with him both ways, which means, I worked where there were lesser passengers as the aircraft configures as such,in the forward section of the business class. And I was glad he did that cos the *LS, who also kept his position, kinda kept us in a quirky mood throughout that long airborne hours with his unwitting, off-colour humour. It does help cos acclimatising to recycled air and with *people who have inhaled too much of those can be a cantankerous lot. Well though he can quite pass off, to some as a big time *trier, I guess it was just in his plain naughty nature that he had more yellow substance in his brain where the grey matter should have been instead.

Haven't you heard of oxidisation of the brain cells?!?

So he proposed with a coke tab,

"With this ring, would u be mine, to have, to hold and to shag...?"

Audacious as it seems and for his lack of social ethos, I bestow upon him...

Sir jester-in-a-box!

At least there was no *zapping around.

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*LAX - Abbreviation for Los Angeles International Airport.

*Guest-Starring - Being the only crew rostered for another Team's flight.

*Drinking Sessions - A get-together for crew members to chill-out. Doesn't usually involve alcohol. (yeah rite!)...but u can bring ur own sodas...

*Lone-ranger - Going solo.

*Togok sessions - see Drinking sessions.

*People who have inhaled too much of those - Air heads/Kepala angins.

*Trier - A stud (usually derogatory).

*Zapping - An act of oppression or totalitarian usually aimed at non-ranking crew, which is not so rampantlah these days!

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So I brought to you, The Story of My Life, all summarised in one flight. I hope you'll have fun untangling the terminology and familiarising yourself with the Crew Culture and our Lingo!

Please note that this is not aimed to villify or insult anyone in particular.

To be read just blithely and not intended for anyone who takes offence.