CANCELED

I hereby officially announce the cancellation of my 6-day trip to Singapore in May. And now begin the rants ...

This trip was planned way back in January 2009 but it was not until November 2009 that we finalized everything. Initially it was all talk with no concrete intention or plan to go but then, one morning in early November 2009, i received a call from Nyet Yung telling me that she is going to buy a ticket to Hong Kong for travel in June or July 2010. Apparently the annual Air Asia RM0 fare sales was back again !

Nyet Yung was planning to go there with a group of friends from her workplace and that includes our friend and now her ex-boss, Paul Chee. However, while we were having drinks at Starbucks Warisan Square that night, she received a bad news that the trip is cancelled. Then, all of a sudden, we just decided we wanted to go Singapore. We managed to get Corinne onboard. So basically we just have to buy the tickets now.

It's been a few days since the Air Asia's crazy sales started but we were lucky. We managed to secure the RM0 seats both ways. After adding up all the applicable taxes, luggage fees and meals, each of us had to pay only RM141.

But then ... someone selfish *ahmm* simply decided she doesn't want to go. Frustrated and disgruntled, i decided to carry on with my plan anyway. I've been checking the hotel room rate almost everyday since. Since it means that i will now be going alone instead, the expenses would be much higher than initially budgeted. I've had my second thoughts all this while but i really could use some vacation now, so i was pretty serious about doing it all alone.

It was part of my plan to meet up with Ah Lai, Law Lee Hui and someone while in Singapore. However, i got a call from her and she told me that she'll be coming to Kota Kinabalu instead on either 20th or 21st of May. It totally clashes with my outbound flight which is due to leave on the 20th. I guess she just did me a favor and now i really had no choice but to forgo the ticket to Singapore/Changi. At least i do not have to worry about where to stay or where to get the funding to fund my trip to Singapore anymore.

Anyway, it wasn't cool at all that someone simply back out from something he or she has already committed to. It's really irresponsible and selfish. You do not just abandon ship. That is not how we should live our lives.