cellphone and slippers

Our Cebu Pacific flight takes approximately three hours. No complimentary food and/or drinks are served. If you want one while on air, you’d have to fork over a ridiculous amount of money. So after checking in, we decided to get dinner. And that was when our friend KG realized that her cellphone is missing. While she was frantically searching her bag, I was trying to ring her cellphone. The voice prompt said, “Cannot be reached.” This would only mean one thing; somebody has taken it and turned it off. Still, we tried our luck and asked the check-in counter: it wasn’t there. I distinctly remember two ladies behind us at the counter. They must have taken it. Only I couldn’t remember their faces. The good news was that they were in the same flight. But the bad news is that they might not give it back. I was praying the whole time that it would somehow find its way back but it didn’t.

Upon arriving at Changi Airport’s Budget Terminal (which specifically caters to budget airlines like Cebu Pacific and Tiger Airways; all other flights are at Changi Airport’s Terminal 2) at about 12 midnight, we lined up to get our luggage. It was when our friend J. took her luggage that she noted the missing slippers tucked in one of the side pockets. This day isn’t turning out so good. After waiting until the last luggage was claimed did she check inside her bag. It was there all along! The good people handling the bags must have thought is safer to put the slippers inside the bag.

And with just one mishap so far and our hope somehow restored, we tried figuring out how to call R.’s house using my cellphone. R. is KG’s friend who’s taken employment in Singapore. R. graciously took us in to save on hotel expenses. After several attempts, we finally figured it out and inform R. that we were on our way. We actually had no choice but to take a cab since the LRT already closed at 11:30PM. Good thing R.’s house is near the airport.

After a brief introduction, we prepared to recharge ourselves for a big busy day tomorrow.