{"id":249,"date":"2006-07-03T22:58:36","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackiris.fakedevil.com\/wp\/?p=249"},"modified":"2006-07-03T23:03:08","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T15:03:08","slug":"something-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"something stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>let me tell you smthn stupid. last Fri i was in sch until 11pm!! tryin to book the hostels and trains\/planes for my travel trip before sch starts. machiam like rushin project lydat. noone was in sch at such a late hour lor. at least we managed to finish bookin all the stuff for the trip. <\/p>\n<p>anw let me tell u smthn more stupid. while bookin the plane tix online, HY was askin me, &#8220;eh last name is our name ah? first name is surname?&#8221; i dug out my registration form which stated very plainly that last name is surname but i dunno why i stupidly told her yes. i remembered i was quite tired at that time. i guess most prob it was me, unless i said otherwise and she was the blur one but i doubt. anw by the time we realised the mistake, the bookin was already confirmed. then we started panicking. like what if they are so ngiao and don&#8217;t let us board the plane? then sure kns. then i was lookin at the confirmation slip which says that &#8220;changes to flight\/date\/name are subject to a fee&#8221; i was like omg. then i saw that changes made within 2 hrs aft the bookin would be free of charge. so i kan cheong spider alrdy. i looked at the confirmation slip and saw the Danish, Norwegian, and i think Swedish numbers on it. so i actually took my HANDPHONE and called the Danish number, seeing as my flight would be departing from Denmark. like i have no f-king idea how much they are gonna charge me, and on a handphone some more. but i was panicking like mad lah!! :noshake:<\/p>\n<p>then the automated voice was speakin in Danish!! like wth. i dunno what she was sayin; i could juz barely make out the &#8220;press 1, press 2, press 3&#8221; thing. but i couldn&#8217;t mk out the options. so u knw normally when u call these hotlines, the last option is normally &#8220;press 0 (or sm other number) to speak to the operator&#8221;. well it could prolly be different in Denmark, but i just pressed 0. then the woman started talkin dunno wat rubbish again, and i just pressed 0 again. then i got disconnected! haha must be cos i anyhow pressed the wrong button. i think the call took 2 mins max? how much would that cost? :shake:<\/p>\n<p>anw, i just suddenly remembered abt Rob aft i got off the phone; dunno why i didn&#8217;t think abt him earlier, i could have saved the money from makin the call!! thank goodness he was online, and i got got him to help me call the Norwegian number. he got it changed in the end, and apparently the operator said there&#8217;s no charge for changing names!! :what: anw he was tryin to calm me down while i was frantically tryin to explain the whole mess to him thru MSN and thinkin abt all the horrible scenarios that could happen if we couldn&#8217;t change our names. he said it doesn&#8217;t really matter becos our names are still the same, just the order is switched but it shldn&#8217;t mk much of a difference anw. i was worried that they would be stickler for rules but he said that&#8217;s only in Singapore!! :tongue1 <\/p>\n<p>anw yea i was just so grateful that he was online at that time; that he was on MSN even while he was at work; that he was free to call for me (even if he had to do it during worktime + thru lunch time cos he had to wait on the line and he got disconnected as well!);  that he was willing to help me.  i think i would have been worried sick if we couldn&#8217;t change it and HY would have killed me if we had to pay extra charges.<\/p>\n<p>i guess i would really have to drop by and see him when i get to Denmark. hope i really can squeeze in the time to visit all the non-major cities where all my friends are. he&#8217;s in Stavanger now, shld be heading to Trondheim aft the summer hols. ZH&#8217;s friend is in Maastrich in Netherlands; Yvonne would be in Amsterdam. Amsterdam shldnt be a problem &#8211; i&#8217;m so lookin foward to going there and hopefully meetin up with her! (tho she didn&#8217;t sound very enthu abt it haha) YX wld be in Brugge; YL would be in Lund; Isa in Bath. and not forgettin Ig in London! confirm must stop there while he&#8217;s there. i just hope i have the money to do so!! <\/p>\n<p>well anw more abt my travel trip next time. feelin quite tired now. :shroom:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>let me tell you smthn stupid. last Fri i was in sch until 11pm!! tryin to book the hostels and trains\/planes for my travel trip before sch starts. machiam like rushin project lydat. noone was in sch at such a late hour lor. at least we managed to finish bookin all the stuff for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caryn.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}