There was a asshole boss whom we had to work under. He was an old fashioned school teacher type of boss. I don't want to mention what position he was holding because in the firstplace he did not even deserved to be our superior. Ho got his promotion by default.
We buggers were more cultured people having served dignitaries and accompany VIPs and we knew the finer side of dealing with our subordinates. That MF boss was mainly confined to box in the office all the umpteens years that he did not know what is outside of his box (office la stupid..hehehe).
He had this bad and rude habit of shouting at his subordinates and chided them,me included.Well well I don't wanna talk about him cos he makes me sick even now as I talk about him in my blog....aiya better tok abt something else hor.....hehehe.
The other nite I dreamt of "soaring" in the sky but not ina SIA's plane. It was another airline I was with. I was the chief purser (equivalent of IFS in SQ la ah gong gong...hehehe). Then I saw all those stewardesses in our cabin NAKED serving the paseengers. I can't believed what I saw and started to rub my eyes. I knew I was somewhere but not in reality realm.
One of the stewardesses then called me saying "hey boh tong don't just stand there and look at us, help us ok?" "Touch my tits and see whether they are firmed or not cos our company insist that all gals must have big firmed boobs.." I proceeded to gently feel her breasts and they felt warm and spongy. I told her she passed the co's test and all of a sudden she took me by my hand and led me to the Suite that was "beyond first class"...u know like the one on SQ A380. She pinnd me down on the bed and started to strip her uniform. Now I remember her uniform looked like the ones SQ gals wear. But it was different bcos the designer was a China man by the name of How Lian. Mind, I was so confused bcos I don't know where I was.....u know like in most dreams...
The next thing I realised when I wanted to strip myself and have that stewardess, I was in a cafe in London. It was strange because I have not been to London for the last 2 years. I was with a lady passenger of mine. She was a blond with blue eyes, about 30 years old and she was rubbing my thigh under our table. I felt sexually aroused and I ......
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
SIA cabin crew interviews in August 2008
Wah lau SIA so short of cabin crew ah? Just completed one on 19 July at S"pore and then on 27/7 in Kuching and one this coming 16 August in KL.
And as tho not enough of interviews there will be two in August at STC (SIA Training Center) and Sheraton Tower Hotel. Press here for details.
And as tho not enough of interviews there will be two in August at STC (SIA Training Center) and Sheraton Tower Hotel. Press here for details.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Balls carriers got the upper hand
There were crew and cces (cabin crew executive)who made it to the "top" posts in cabin crew not by merits nor their work performances but licking their superiors' asses. An example would be one who used to bring his bosses to his durian plantation in Malaysia (he owns land there)during the durian seasons to feast on the fruits. As though it was not enough, he would "tar pow" them for those superiors who could not join them.
Another one frequently made onigiri ( Japanese sushi roll) and brought them to the office for her manger's lunch. Some would make it a point to buy children's clothing and toys from Mothercare for their superiors' children whenever they flew to the UK.
Buying stuff from overseas for the superiors were a common thing in cabin crew. Some of the crew applied the soft skills they learnt to perfection.
Frankly, I don't want to brand those actions as "bribery". It was more of the "amicablity" " factor than anything else. Cabin crew were taught from day 1 that they must make people love them and in so doing, they could even "get away with blue murder", so to speak.
Another one frequently made onigiri ( Japanese sushi roll) and brought them to the office for her manger's lunch. Some would make it a point to buy children's clothing and toys from Mothercare for their superiors' children whenever they flew to the UK.
Buying stuff from overseas for the superiors were a common thing in cabin crew. Some of the crew applied the soft skills they learnt to perfection.
Frankly, I don't want to brand those actions as "bribery". It was more of the "amicablity" " factor than anything else. Cabin crew were taught from day 1 that they must make people love them and in so doing, they could even "get away with blue murder", so to speak.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Now it is NOT Freeeeeee
Workshop for SIA senior cabin crew ..... Now the 3 wise men are going charge the senior cabin crew a huge fee for attending their Advanced Interviewing Skills program......hahaha,that's way huh,huh.....Why free in the first place??
Good on you mate!
Good on you mate!
The evil crew.
HG was a senior male crew who had been with the airlines for three decades. All of his promotions came smoothly for him. It didn't mean HG was an efficient nor conscientious crew. He was promoted because of his shrewdness and his ability to kiss his superiors' asses. He was the champion ass kisser in cabin crew.
The junior crew hated HG because they knew what he was made of.They didn't mind if HG curry favoured his superiors but they couldn't stand his "bicycle management" technique. "Bicycle management" is a term loosely used in cabin crew to mean that one steps on the heads of the juniors and look up to the superior. Simply put, HG was a person who bullied and slave drive his juniors and at the same time licked his bosses' balls.
HG would send gifts and hampers on auspiscious days like Chinese New Year, Christmas etc to his bosses' houses. He would buy gifts for them and their children from overseas. At the same time he also licked the union leaders' balls.
The union guys held considerable power especially in deciding who would get promoted. If you look around, the dead woods who kissed the union leaders' asses usually got their promotions and extention of contracts. Never mind about how they worked on board the flights.
The mf HG worked out his strategy to perfection. He was a skilled tactician in pleasing both the mangement and union. Hence, his promotion beyond the crews' rank.
How did HG bully his crew? Well he demanded them kissed his ass on all his flights. On board the flight,he made it the duty of his juniors to serve him food and drinks every time he was hungry. He would be extremely "loving" (I call it being chee-hong)to the sexy pretty stewardesses. To the "batangs" (male crew)he was a slave drive and a terror.
During his night stops,he would make the stewards pay for his meals and beers. They would not dare refused him if he asked them out for a meal or drink. To defy his orders means one would not be promoted. The gals gave in to his demands too by going to bed with him. Of course,he wouldn't dare mess around with the some of the stewardesses who had higher connections in the office.
His wife was a stewardesses who were forced to go to bed with him. She was married to him after he stole her virginity. They had a divorce after she left the airline.
Now he is married to a stewardess 20 years his junior and it is only a matter of time before she will boot him out of her life for a younger crew. By then, he would be a toothless old useless cock!
Monday, July 21, 2008
So you want to be a flight attendant?
Go to a resale store and find an old, navy suit that an army sergeant might have worn. Add a white shirt and a tie. Wear that same outfit for three consecutive days.
Go to an airport and watch airplanes take off for several hours. Pretend you are standing by for them and they are all full. Go home. Return to the airport the very next day and do the same thing again.
Fill several large boxes with rocks. Lift them over your head and place them on the top shelf of a closet. Slam the door shut until the boxes fit. Do this until you feel a disc slip in your back.
Turn on a radio. Be sure to set it between stations so there is plenty of static. Turn on the vacuum cleaner and garbage disposal. Run them all night.
Remove the covers from several T.V entrees. Place them in a hot oven. Leave the food in the oven until it's completely dried out. Remove the hot trays with your bare hands. Serve to your family. Don't include anything for yourself. Serve your family a beverage one hour after they've received their meal. Make them remain in their seats during this time.
Ask them to scream at you and complain about the service. Scrounge uneaten rolls off the plates for you to eat 6 hours later when you're really hungry. Place a straight-backed chair in a closet facing a blank wall. Use a belt to strap yourself into it. Eat the rolls you saved from your family's meal.
Ask your family to use the bathroom as frequently as possible. Tell them to remove their shoes and socks before entering, and see who can make the most disgusting mess. Clean the bathroom every hour throughout the night.
Make a narrow aisle between several dining room chairs and randomly scatter your husband's runners and loafers along the way. Turn off the lights and spend the night walking up and down the aisle while banging your shins against the chair legs and tripping over the shoes. Drink several cups of cold coffee to keep yourself awake.
Gently wake your family in the morning and serve them a muffin in a package. Don't forget to smile and wish them a nice day when they leave for work and school.
After the family leaves, take a suitcase and go out into the yard. If it's not raining, turn on the sprinkler system and stand in the cold for 30 minutes pretending like your waiting for the crew bus to pick you up. Then go inside and wait by your bedroom door for another 30 minutes for an imaginary maid to make up your room.
Change into street clothes and shop for 5 hours. Pick up carry-outfood from a local deli. Go back home. Sit on your bed and eat your meal. Set your alarm clock for 03:00 am so you'll be ready incase you don't get your wake up call. Repeat the above schedule for three days in a row and you'll be ready to work your first international flight.
REASONS NOT TO BE A FLIGHT ATTENDANT!
1. Spend half the year at home bored because all your friends are at work, it's a weekday!
2. Experience the dread of being stuck in the airport waiting to get on a flight with a standby ticket. Your family/friends/random people you met in the street will harass you to book them cheap tickets for their holidays.
3.Get a lucrative benefits package including healthcare and life insurance (for the severe damage that pressure chang/atmospheric radiation does to your body), employee stock options (your companys way of saying "we go down ur coming with us").
4. Enjoy the unmatched variety of being on standby and not knowing where your going to be going tomorrow at 6am.
5.Get use to maximum flexibility - You're never going to get another weekend off with the rest of the world.
6. Meet some real stuk up assholes, including many celebrities.
7. See the world then get terribly blaze about it i.e. "God not a nighstop new york again".
8. Feel more independant, so you aren't scared to shout at crewing when they call you in the middle of the night.
9. Feel more responsible so you dread the thought that if the idiot who's currently waiting for the toilet while we're in turbulence kills him, you need to revive him.
10. Feel a sense of shame and embarrassment when you get to your destination and the groundstaff totally lets you down (especially when theyre not ready for an unacompanied minor or disabled passenger).
11. Your freinds will hate you for making them jealous of all the places you've been and will eventually stop taking your calls. You will end up not having anymore friends.
Source:http://www.singaporeexpats.com/forum/ftopic7025-0-asc-17880.html
Go to an airport and watch airplanes take off for several hours. Pretend you are standing by for them and they are all full. Go home. Return to the airport the very next day and do the same thing again.
Fill several large boxes with rocks. Lift them over your head and place them on the top shelf of a closet. Slam the door shut until the boxes fit. Do this until you feel a disc slip in your back.
Turn on a radio. Be sure to set it between stations so there is plenty of static. Turn on the vacuum cleaner and garbage disposal. Run them all night.
Remove the covers from several T.V entrees. Place them in a hot oven. Leave the food in the oven until it's completely dried out. Remove the hot trays with your bare hands. Serve to your family. Don't include anything for yourself. Serve your family a beverage one hour after they've received their meal. Make them remain in their seats during this time.
Ask them to scream at you and complain about the service. Scrounge uneaten rolls off the plates for you to eat 6 hours later when you're really hungry. Place a straight-backed chair in a closet facing a blank wall. Use a belt to strap yourself into it. Eat the rolls you saved from your family's meal.
Ask your family to use the bathroom as frequently as possible. Tell them to remove their shoes and socks before entering, and see who can make the most disgusting mess. Clean the bathroom every hour throughout the night.
Make a narrow aisle between several dining room chairs and randomly scatter your husband's runners and loafers along the way. Turn off the lights and spend the night walking up and down the aisle while banging your shins against the chair legs and tripping over the shoes. Drink several cups of cold coffee to keep yourself awake.
Gently wake your family in the morning and serve them a muffin in a package. Don't forget to smile and wish them a nice day when they leave for work and school.
After the family leaves, take a suitcase and go out into the yard. If it's not raining, turn on the sprinkler system and stand in the cold for 30 minutes pretending like your waiting for the crew bus to pick you up. Then go inside and wait by your bedroom door for another 30 minutes for an imaginary maid to make up your room.
Change into street clothes and shop for 5 hours. Pick up carry-outfood from a local deli. Go back home. Sit on your bed and eat your meal. Set your alarm clock for 03:00 am so you'll be ready incase you don't get your wake up call. Repeat the above schedule for three days in a row and you'll be ready to work your first international flight.
REASONS NOT TO BE A FLIGHT ATTENDANT!
1. Spend half the year at home bored because all your friends are at work, it's a weekday!
2. Experience the dread of being stuck in the airport waiting to get on a flight with a standby ticket. Your family/friends/random people you met in the street will harass you to book them cheap tickets for their holidays.
3.Get a lucrative benefits package including healthcare and life insurance (for the severe damage that pressure chang/atmospheric radiation does to your body), employee stock options (your companys way of saying "we go down ur coming with us").
4. Enjoy the unmatched variety of being on standby and not knowing where your going to be going tomorrow at 6am.
5.Get use to maximum flexibility - You're never going to get another weekend off with the rest of the world.
6. Meet some real stuk up assholes, including many celebrities.
7. See the world then get terribly blaze about it i.e. "God not a nighstop new york again".
8. Feel more independant, so you aren't scared to shout at crewing when they call you in the middle of the night.
9. Feel more responsible so you dread the thought that if the idiot who's currently waiting for the toilet while we're in turbulence kills him, you need to revive him.
10. Feel a sense of shame and embarrassment when you get to your destination and the groundstaff totally lets you down (especially when theyre not ready for an unacompanied minor or disabled passenger).
11. Your freinds will hate you for making them jealous of all the places you've been and will eventually stop taking your calls. You will end up not having anymore friends.
Source:http://www.singaporeexpats.com/forum/ftopic7025-0-asc-17880.html
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Another SIA walk-in interview for cabin crew interview
By 8 am this morning,there will certainly be a long queue of a few hundred SIA cabin crew hopefuls at Sheraton Tower Hotel. Registration for the steward and stewardess position begins at 9 am and ends at 3 pm.
Predictably, at the end of the day hundreds will be disappointed. The ratio of success is about 1 to 50.
The quality of candidates are becoming worse. Many think they are god's gift to cabin crew. Some with crooked teeth,ugly drooping eyes and mouth, hostile faces, unfriendly personality etc etc..drop in at Sheraton just to try their lucks.
Many of those who did not make it will try over and over again. SIA holds the interviews almost every month in Singapore and Malaysia. I've heard of wannabes who had tried something like 16 to 18 times unsuccessfully. These poor souls are determined to get the job but without much success. What they need is some kind of help like cosmetic surgery to make them look more appealing to the interviewers. These wannabes are generally cheapos who rather fail umpteenth times than to pay for corrective surgery to help them.
A few got the looks but failed miserably because of their poor performances in front of the interviewers. They can't speak proper English and made a fool of themselves. This kind should enlist themselves in oral English classes.
My heart goes out to the interviewers who have to tolerate those ugly looks and incomprehensible English the candidates used,week in week out.
Since the pool of suitable candidates are drying up in Singapore and Malaysia,SIA should take a look at girls from Vietnam,Thailand and other Asean countries.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Aiya SIA still short of cabin crew lah!
This is taken from the SIA cabin crew union Chairman's message to his cabin crew members(numbering 5,200)last month.This proves I am correct when disputing with Luke SS Tan regarding crew shortage. So all wannabes you still have lots of chances to get your dreams fulfilled:
"Management had informed SIASU that the shortage of crew will be *resolved soon. In the event that the attrition rate is higher then what they have predicted, Market Planners will have to maintain or reduce flights to resolve this shortage which we all know is taking a heavy toll on crews’ health due to fatigue ( wannbes don't be scared of this statement cos no crew ever died of hard work)..." to continue reading press here
*To me it means another a year or so depending on the success of the recruitment.....my 2 cents worth...SQ don't be upset with my statment ok....you know I know lah....hehehe.
"Management had informed SIASU that the shortage of crew will be *resolved soon. In the event that the attrition rate is higher then what they have predicted, Market Planners will have to maintain or reduce flights to resolve this shortage which we all know is taking a heavy toll on crews’ health due to fatigue ( wannbes don't be scared of this statement cos no crew ever died of hard work)..." to continue reading press here
*To me it means another a year or so depending on the success of the recruitment.....my 2 cents worth...SQ don't be upset with my statment ok....you know I know lah....hehehe.
Free coaching for SIA senior cabin crew? Forget about them la!!
I've been scratching my head for the last few days and nights wondering why ex SIA cabin crew executives like SS Tan,Thomas Chia and Edmond Tay volunteered to coach the crew going for their promotion for free.
Why Freeeee ah?? Those guys are well paid by SIA ( average salary=$5,000 to $7,000 ) and should charge each one of them at least $500 if they get promoted or $200 if they don't,after attending the workshop.
The three of them will live to regret if they give free lessons because some of those asses won't be grateful at all. After being promoted to a higher rank, I doubt they wouldn't even keep in touch with their 3 "sifus" let alone buy them coffee. I know them well enough to state my point,ok?.
Anyway its not my business to interfere but remember I am seldom wrong when come this sort of matter.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Interesting video
I stumbled on this video. Although it fired and revived my sexual apetite for China gals the author in poor taste had made fun of Beh.
It is at http://nzjoan.blogspot.com/
It is at http://nzjoan.blogspot.com/
"Thank you for .........John"...continues
"Would you like to join me for a drink?" John asked Christine. "Sure I would love to and by the way my name is Christine" She replied. "Please to meet you,Christine and I am John,a commercial pilot from Singapore"
After the short introduction,John brought Christine to the Gloucester Hotel where he was staying.
They spent an hour having Scotch which John brought from the aircraft,courtesy of the chief purser.
In between drinks, John was trying to kiss Christine but she only allowed to be kissed on her cheeks. John tried harder and by the 5th glass of Scotch,Christine was lying on John's bed. There John stripped Christine and started to make love to her. John gave Christine such a good one until she cum umpteenth times. In return, Christine gave the pilot a splendid blow-job that ended the fucking session.
They next soaked themselves in the large bathtub.Gloucester Hotel characteristically has one of the largest bathtubs even in a single room as compared to most hotels in Europe. They both had another round of sex,this time in the warm water and Christine loved every moment of it.
After satisfying their sexual lust,John brought Christine to the casino,which was at the basement level next to the hotel. They ordered Chinese food and a bottle of Rose wine and enjoyed themselves till late in the night. Best of all,the food and wine were foc.
John had been a vip member of the casino and it was no surprise all the food and wines they had were with compliments of the house.
After dinner, John and Christine went to the roulette table and started to punt on their favourite numbers.
By early morning, they left the casino with a thousand sterling pounds in winnings. John kept hugging and kissing Christine on the way back to his room,telling her she was the lady who had brought him luck.
Back in the room,both of them engaged themselves in their favorite
activities,drinking and screwing the whole early morning. It was almost 4 am when they both fell asleep,contented and glad.
The next thing John knew on waking up at around 10am was that Christine had left the room. It then John realised his money and wallet with his credit cards were all gone. Christine had disappeared with them.
John with a splitting headache from the hangover staggered to the toilet. John was shocked to read the message Christine scribbled with her pink lipstick on the mirror. It said "thank you for sharing the AIDS I am having John".
After the short introduction,John brought Christine to the Gloucester Hotel where he was staying.
They spent an hour having Scotch which John brought from the aircraft,courtesy of the chief purser.
In between drinks, John was trying to kiss Christine but she only allowed to be kissed on her cheeks. John tried harder and by the 5th glass of Scotch,Christine was lying on John's bed. There John stripped Christine and started to make love to her. John gave Christine such a good one until she cum umpteenth times. In return, Christine gave the pilot a splendid blow-job that ended the fucking session.
They next soaked themselves in the large bathtub.Gloucester Hotel characteristically has one of the largest bathtubs even in a single room as compared to most hotels in Europe. They both had another round of sex,this time in the warm water and Christine loved every moment of it.
After satisfying their sexual lust,John brought Christine to the casino,which was at the basement level next to the hotel. They ordered Chinese food and a bottle of Rose wine and enjoyed themselves till late in the night. Best of all,the food and wine were foc.
John had been a vip member of the casino and it was no surprise all the food and wines they had were with compliments of the house.
After dinner, John and Christine went to the roulette table and started to punt on their favourite numbers.
By early morning, they left the casino with a thousand sterling pounds in winnings. John kept hugging and kissing Christine on the way back to his room,telling her she was the lady who had brought him luck.
Back in the room,both of them engaged themselves in their favorite
activities,drinking and screwing the whole early morning. It was almost 4 am when they both fell asleep,contented and glad.
The next thing John knew on waking up at around 10am was that Christine had left the room. It then John realised his money and wallet with his credit cards were all gone. Christine had disappeared with them.
John with a splitting headache from the hangover staggered to the toilet. John was shocked to read the message Christine scribbled with her pink lipstick on the mirror. It said "thank you for sharing the AIDS I am having John".
Monday, July 14, 2008
Three ex SIA cabin crew executives' workshop
Luke has asked me to advertise for him the workshop which he,Thomas Chia and Edmond Tay is going to conduct for cabin crew of SIA who are going for their promotion interviews soon.
So guys if you are interested click here to find out more k?
Sunday, July 13, 2008
"Thank you for .........John"
He was a charming young Senior First Officer who had logged in a couple thousands of flying hour. He was on the way to his big promotion in a matter of months. To be promoted to the rank of a Captain is every co-pilot's dream.
The perks that come with being a Captain are rewarding. Besides, being paid around S$20,000 a month (gross salary) for a start, a Captain has many other perks. He and his family travels first class during their vacation. He is entitled to the generous company's share option, low interest on housing and car loans etc.
For John the SFO, it's a dream that was to be realised. However, besides being happy at the prospect of becoming a Capt., John hadn't forgotten to enjoy his life,particularly during his nightstops at outstation.
John had a weakness for beautiful women. John loved taking blondies to bed. Not that he didn't like Asian women but he much preferred Caucasian women. He had his time with a couple of stewardesses but he was overly suspicious of them. John had the impression that stewardesses wanted long term relationship which he isn't in favour of. As much as he could, he would avoid going to bed with stewardesses.
In one cool autumn night while he was at Gloucester Station,London during his stop over, John befriended a tall voluptous blond by the name of Christine. She had just finished working in a cosmetic shop and on her way home,in the tube when John caught her eye. Which women wouldn't? Afterall, John was a tall dashing handsome young man of mixed races. His mum was European and dad Chinese. He looked like that MediaCorp actor called Utt.
John was unaware that Christine was quietly admiring him in the seat right in front of him. They were both travelling in the direction of Gloucester from Piccadilly. Both disembarked at Gloucester Station and it was at this time when Christine on the pretext of not wearing a watch politely asked John for the time.
All at once, their eyes met and both fell in "love" instantly. There was a strong sexual attraction rather than anything else.
Be back for more please.........
The perks that come with being a Captain are rewarding. Besides, being paid around S$20,000 a month (gross salary) for a start, a Captain has many other perks. He and his family travels first class during their vacation. He is entitled to the generous company's share option, low interest on housing and car loans etc.
For John the SFO, it's a dream that was to be realised. However, besides being happy at the prospect of becoming a Capt., John hadn't forgotten to enjoy his life,particularly during his nightstops at outstation.
John had a weakness for beautiful women. John loved taking blondies to bed. Not that he didn't like Asian women but he much preferred Caucasian women. He had his time with a couple of stewardesses but he was overly suspicious of them. John had the impression that stewardesses wanted long term relationship which he isn't in favour of. As much as he could, he would avoid going to bed with stewardesses.
In one cool autumn night while he was at Gloucester Station,London during his stop over, John befriended a tall voluptous blond by the name of Christine. She had just finished working in a cosmetic shop and on her way home,in the tube when John caught her eye. Which women wouldn't? Afterall, John was a tall dashing handsome young man of mixed races. His mum was European and dad Chinese. He looked like that MediaCorp actor called Utt.
John was unaware that Christine was quietly admiring him in the seat right in front of him. They were both travelling in the direction of Gloucester from Piccadilly. Both disembarked at Gloucester Station and it was at this time when Christine on the pretext of not wearing a watch politely asked John for the time.
All at once, their eyes met and both fell in "love" instantly. There was a strong sexual attraction rather than anything else.
Be back for more please.........
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Digital Life talked about this blog but isn't fair to me!
Yes my blog "bohtong.org" was featured in Digital Life, a extended section of the Straits Times on 8 July 2008 (yesterday). In it, writer Stephanie Gwee described me as one who "even gossips about other airlines". She is also of the opinion that my blog gives the "readers the low-down of what the industry is like". Industry here is referred to as "air-stewarding" or the job of a cabin crew.
Come on Stephanie be fair to me. I did give the upside of the cabin crew job too. I have never discouraged anyone who are suitable from applying to be a cabin crew. In fact, I even give strong support to my ex colleague Luke who is helping those cabin crew hopefuls pass their interviews.
Go and read some of my postings on the not so "low-down" of the air stewarding job eg..."Having a stewardess as a wife" ( 25/2/08), "Honesty of SIA cabin crew" (20/12/07), "Don't lose heart cos SIA......"(16/2/08) and many others.
Come on Stephanie be fair to me. I did give the upside of the cabin crew job too. I have never discouraged anyone who are suitable from applying to be a cabin crew. In fact, I even give strong support to my ex colleague Luke who is helping those cabin crew hopefuls pass their interviews.
Go and read some of my postings on the not so "low-down" of the air stewarding job eg..."Having a stewardess as a wife" ( 25/2/08), "Honesty of SIA cabin crew" (20/12/07), "Don't lose heart cos SIA......"(16/2/08) and many others.
The days of flying saucers
I joined the airlines in the 1960s and to be a cabin crew then was more glamorous than it is today. I remember clearly that as a cc we started off with a basic salary of S$255 and together with the meal/nightstop/laundry/jet allowances, we could easily get an average salary of $700 each month.
Hey $700 may not look very much nowadays but back then it was like $7,000 of today's value. Simply put,the pay of a cc back in the 1960s is double that of today.
A bowl of noodles costs from 20 cts to 30 cts. Bus fare started from 5 cts and the highest fare was 20 cts. We had trams plying on the roads and pirate taxis too. Legalised taxis had no meters and one had to agree on a fare before starting the journey.
A cosy single storey semi-detached house of 2,000 sq. ft.(built-in area) with a land area of another 2,000 sq ft in an average district like Katong(East Coast)cost $100k. Today, the same house would cost around $2 million.
Cabin crew in my days drove around in Jaguars,Mercerises, BMWs and Sports cars of Italian and British made. Today, cc travel by MRT and other means of public transport.
The passengers' profile were different too. Men travelled in suits,jackets and ties.Ladies boarded the flights with vanity cases filled with their make-ups paraphernalia and were properly dressed. Nowadays? They come in droves dressed in shorts,tattered and torn jeans,slippers,dirty and unshavened and some even pissed with too much alcohol.
Coming back to my cc days.....we were trained to be tough,humble, unquestioningly loyal,professional,efficient and what have you.
We as juniors were not allowed to question our seniors. We had to obey whatever our senior told us to do.
The inefficient crew who were slow and less energetic in providing service on the flight would get plates thrown at them,hence the term "flying saucers".
Newbie stewardesses were known to have been slapped or got their ears pinched by their seniors counterparts for not wearing sufficeint make-up or being ill disciplined.
Today,the slightest heightened of voice volume by senior crew towards the junior would result in getting a warning from the office or worst still a demotion in rank. No senior dares to scold,let alone touch the stewardesses.
Well can't blame anybody, can we? Afterall,Singapore has advanced from a third world country in the 60s to a more sophisticated nation now.
We can go on and on but changes are everywhere. The army,police,civil service etc etc have gone through tremendous transformation over the last 40 years or so.
Overall, the changes are for the betterment of our society and I am glad that our national airlines is still as good as its predeccesor MSA or even better.
Hey $700 may not look very much nowadays but back then it was like $7,000 of today's value. Simply put,the pay of a cc back in the 1960s is double that of today.
A bowl of noodles costs from 20 cts to 30 cts. Bus fare started from 5 cts and the highest fare was 20 cts. We had trams plying on the roads and pirate taxis too. Legalised taxis had no meters and one had to agree on a fare before starting the journey.
A cosy single storey semi-detached house of 2,000 sq. ft.(built-in area) with a land area of another 2,000 sq ft in an average district like Katong(East Coast)cost $100k. Today, the same house would cost around $2 million.
Cabin crew in my days drove around in Jaguars,Mercerises, BMWs and Sports cars of Italian and British made. Today, cc travel by MRT and other means of public transport.
The passengers' profile were different too. Men travelled in suits,jackets and ties.Ladies boarded the flights with vanity cases filled with their make-ups paraphernalia and were properly dressed. Nowadays? They come in droves dressed in shorts,tattered and torn jeans,slippers,dirty and unshavened and some even pissed with too much alcohol.
Coming back to my cc days.....we were trained to be tough,humble, unquestioningly loyal,professional,efficient and what have you.
We as juniors were not allowed to question our seniors. We had to obey whatever our senior told us to do.
The inefficient crew who were slow and less energetic in providing service on the flight would get plates thrown at them,hence the term "flying saucers".
Newbie stewardesses were known to have been slapped or got their ears pinched by their seniors counterparts for not wearing sufficeint make-up or being ill disciplined.
Today,the slightest heightened of voice volume by senior crew towards the junior would result in getting a warning from the office or worst still a demotion in rank. No senior dares to scold,let alone touch the stewardesses.
Well can't blame anybody, can we? Afterall,Singapore has advanced from a third world country in the 60s to a more sophisticated nation now.
We can go on and on but changes are everywhere. The army,police,civil service etc etc have gone through tremendous transformation over the last 40 years or so.
Overall, the changes are for the betterment of our society and I am glad that our national airlines is still as good as its predeccesor MSA or even better.
Sudden influx of visitors to my blog
Sudden influx of visitors to my blog is due to yesterday Strait Times Digital Life section page 2 which talk about this blog. Partly also because MediaCorp FM 93.3 DJ said this blog is interesting and cabin crew wannabe should visit.
Any other explanation anyone?
Any other explanation anyone?
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
MediaCorp 93.3FM
Heard that 93.3 Fm DJ mentioned cabin crew wannabe should visit my blog ( there was a sudden surge in the number of visitors this morning). My suggestion is,visit my colleague Luke Tan's blog as his is more useful for those cabin crew wannabe.Luke can teach them how to get into the airlines whereas my blog is about juicy stories of crew and passengers.
Anyway arigato MediaCorp 93.3FM.
Anyway arigato MediaCorp 93.3FM.
The Hijacking of SQ117 in 1991.
The leader of the hijacking group took a liking to SIA stewardess Nora. To him, Nora looked and reminded him of his sister. There were times,during the 9 hours of the hijack ordeal that the leader had to deal with his own comrades regarding Nora. One of the hijackers was almost beaten up by the leader when he tried to get "fresh" with Nora.
It was mistake number one for the hijackers to be so distracted and disunited because of one stewardess. I supposed the hijackers were under tremendous pressure and this could have led them to behave irrationally.They even poured alcohol along the ailse and threatened to blow the aircraft.
Mistake number two was when the terrorists threw the two stewards out of the aircraft. These two stewards provided vital information to the authorities regarding the terrorists.
When the commandos killed the 4 hijackers, Nora broke down and cried over the body of the leader. Nora had developed the so called Stockholm syndrome.
I don't think anyone outside of the crew ( selected ones) and the higher management of SIA knew much about the hidden wireless mini microphones that were installed at designated doors of the aircrafts. In a situation like this, the trained cabin crew would whenever convenient,speak into these microphones and relay information about the hijackers to the authorities. We dubbed this action as "saying prayers".
Certain toilets were equipped with tiny plastic like bottles and waterproofed paper. In a situation like this,if the crew had the opportunity to use these toilets,they were trained to write in code form all the information they were able to gather regarding the hijackers eg. how many of them,the nationalities,the colour of their clothing,who was the leader and so forth.The crew would then slipped the information into the little bottles and flush them down. Afterward,when the toilets were overused, the ground staff would empty the toilet bowls by using a suction and the bottles were retrieved for the messages.
SIA was well prepared for any eventualities especially a hijacking back then.I think SIA had discontinued the abovementioned practices.They would, by now have newer and more innovative ways to beat any attempts to cause mischief or havocs on their aircrafts. Do you know that the hijackers did not even have a pistol let alone explosives? They wielded SIA cultery knives and threatened to kill the passengers with these blunt so called weapons.If the hijackers had real explosives and guns, it would not have been that easy for our commandos to kill all the four of them in thirty seconds without causing injuries and death among the passengers.
In conclusion, the hijackers were a bunch of amateurs, bickering over a stewardess, throwing out the two stewards,and trying to bluff the whole world with their faked guns and explosives.
It was mistake number one for the hijackers to be so distracted and disunited because of one stewardess. I supposed the hijackers were under tremendous pressure and this could have led them to behave irrationally.They even poured alcohol along the ailse and threatened to blow the aircraft.
Mistake number two was when the terrorists threw the two stewards out of the aircraft. These two stewards provided vital information to the authorities regarding the terrorists.
When the commandos killed the 4 hijackers, Nora broke down and cried over the body of the leader. Nora had developed the so called Stockholm syndrome.
I don't think anyone outside of the crew ( selected ones) and the higher management of SIA knew much about the hidden wireless mini microphones that were installed at designated doors of the aircrafts. In a situation like this, the trained cabin crew would whenever convenient,speak into these microphones and relay information about the hijackers to the authorities. We dubbed this action as "saying prayers".
Certain toilets were equipped with tiny plastic like bottles and waterproofed paper. In a situation like this,if the crew had the opportunity to use these toilets,they were trained to write in code form all the information they were able to gather regarding the hijackers eg. how many of them,the nationalities,the colour of their clothing,who was the leader and so forth.The crew would then slipped the information into the little bottles and flush them down. Afterward,when the toilets were overused, the ground staff would empty the toilet bowls by using a suction and the bottles were retrieved for the messages.
SIA was well prepared for any eventualities especially a hijacking back then.I think SIA had discontinued the abovementioned practices.They would, by now have newer and more innovative ways to beat any attempts to cause mischief or havocs on their aircrafts. Do you know that the hijackers did not even have a pistol let alone explosives? They wielded SIA cultery knives and threatened to kill the passengers with these blunt so called weapons.If the hijackers had real explosives and guns, it would not have been that easy for our commandos to kill all the four of them in thirty seconds without causing injuries and death among the passengers.
In conclusion, the hijackers were a bunch of amateurs, bickering over a stewardess, throwing out the two stewards,and trying to bluff the whole world with their faked guns and explosives.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
SIA intake of cabin crew is dwindling?
I beg to differ from Luke SS Tan that SIA intake of cabin crew is dwindling because they have enough of cabin crew.
Mind you Singapore Airlines pays the full bonuses on 7 July to all its staff and crew. So there would be crew who quit after the payment in July. Frankly the number of crew who left after July 7 is a mystery. My estimate would be around 300 to 500 left after receiving their bonuses and terminating their contracts.
Coming back to my point that SIA is not about to scale down on its cabin crew intake, I think SIA needs at least 1,000 cabin crew to replace those who had left and those who are about to leave for this whole year.
Then how about SIA's expansion plan? Flying to Latin America is only a matter of time . If that be the case plus with the 23 cabin crew on each A380 flight,SIA is short of another 1,000 cabin crew in the next 2 years (barring any setback to the world economy).
So to you SIA cabin crew wannabe, there are still plenty of opportunities to be part of that great airline SIA.
Mind you Singapore Airlines pays the full bonuses on 7 July to all its staff and crew. So there would be crew who quit after the payment in July. Frankly the number of crew who left after July 7 is a mystery. My estimate would be around 300 to 500 left after receiving their bonuses and terminating their contracts.
Coming back to my point that SIA is not about to scale down on its cabin crew intake, I think SIA needs at least 1,000 cabin crew to replace those who had left and those who are about to leave for this whole year.
Then how about SIA's expansion plan? Flying to Latin America is only a matter of time . If that be the case plus with the 23 cabin crew on each A380 flight,SIA is short of another 1,000 cabin crew in the next 2 years (barring any setback to the world economy).
So to you SIA cabin crew wannabe, there are still plenty of opportunities to be part of that great airline SIA.
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