Frequent travelers do get their dates mixed up…
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006“Why is this flight delayed I asked the Royal Brunei checkin staff?” I enquired. “No sir,we are not delayed but your flight was yesterday”..Hah..I got the dates wrong. Another time at the Emirates counter..”Your connecting flight is tomorrow sir and you have a 24 hour transit”..No no no..I got mixed up as I was departing at 1am and I wanted a connecting flight which is 2pm the same day,but had booked one a day later. However all the problems were solved by the helpful airline staff..at no extra cost..these are some experience at the check in counter,
In the air I had some nerving experience..Once the DC 10 that I was on blew an engine..I was seated at the window and could see the flame coming out of the engine..cooly the captain said, “One of our engine had blown but we have three more….”. We landed safely in Bangkok. Another time after about 30minutes out of Dubai..I felt the plane turning around..The captain explained that we have some cabin pressure problem and we are turning around..Then I saw vapour coming out of the engine..The captain was dumping fuel to make the plane lighter and safe to land.
Frequent travelling do make you more Tawakalalallah..(Put your trust in Allah)..Anything and many thing could go wrong from the checking in to collecting the baggage at the other end. So a traveller has always to pray that everthing will be all right and take things in his stride whatever happen. Flight delays; lost luggage etc. Once I had the experienced of almost being off loaded because I argued too insistantly..I wanted to be upgraded as I had given up my original seat to a lady with a baby…why was there a need to argue..I do get upgraded to business class every so often..once four of my family members were upgraded..
Air turbulance and air pockets are common..It will make one closer to Allah. A beer drinking man sitting next to me were praying when we hit an air pocket..but when its over he ordered his Heineken. This has been the story of men over time. It is also mentioned in the Quran. When men are hit by calamities (such as thunderstorm in the ocean; or air turbulance in this case), he will pray to Allah for safety. But when he touches ground he will forget Him.. Let us not be of this kind.
This time I had some difficulty in getting my radionic computer through the security at Damascus and Dubai.I had to carry around my radionic machine following the security man at Damascus airport looking for a electrical point. At last he took me to the sweet shop to plug it in. Having satisfy him that it’s indeed working and not a dummy for a bomb,I was free to check in. However I was allowed to take my Habba Barakah Oil through without much ado, although oils are not allowed on board..as written on the notice board nearby. Alhamdulillah. So you lose some you gain some.
