Surprise trip

Since there's not that much work at work, I've decided to travel yet again.

I'm leaving Melbourne in two days. How exciting is that?

Going back to Jakarta, will apply for a Chinese visa, yet again, and will be flying to China the coming Sunday. Hopefully it won't be that cold. I heard it goes down to ten degrees below zero. I'm not really scared of that, just afraid that mom can't stand the cold.

I almost had a problem with Singapore Airlines again.

Here's the scoop.

I tried to get a ticket as I knew it's going to be hard to get since it was sort of last minute. Checked their website and it said a seat was available.

Not a problem, I think, but being a lazy person to fill in forms online, I decided to call SIA and wanted to book on the phone.

Had to wait aroudn fifteen minutes on the phone.

Not a problem, it was at work anyway. So after fifteen minutes I spoke to one of the customer service representatives. Goes something like this.

SIA Rep: Hi, how can I help you today?

Me: I'd like to book a return ticket from Melbourne to Jakarta with a stop over in Singapore on the way back.

SIA Rep: certainly, when do you want to fly out to Jakarta?

Me: 12th or 13th of December if possible

SIA Rep: please wait while I check if any seats are available

Me: thanks

SIA Rep: I'm sorry sir, those dates are not available, is there any other dates you'd prefer?

Me: around that date, but it should be after the 13th

SIA Rep: Let me check again... (and after a few seconds pause) I'm sorry sir, the 14th, 15th and 16th is full. In fact, the whole month of December is booked out

At this point, I was thinking to myself, how can that be possible that there's no single seat left for the entire month? That could be true but I refused to believe that.

Me: but the website told me that a seat is still available on the 15th

SIA Rep: then I would recommend you to buy your ticket from the website

Me: OK, thanks a lot

Then I hang up and (sot of) ran as fast as I could to my desk, re-log in to my KrisFlyer account and filled in those online forms I filled in earlier hoping that the same seat was still available.

It was!!!

I was relieved.

So I'll be home in two days and hopefully visa application isn't troublesome.

Tell you all about it later.