In my previous company, whenever I am travelled - most of the times I have always travelled alone. And the flight has always been a bit boring where I spent in either eating and watching movies or took sleeping pills so I could awake refresh and jetlag free in my destination. My days in foreign country typically spent by all day meetings and tried to fine tune with my foreign colleagues. And if I did not take leave during the journey, the travelling was normally limited to airport – hotel and office. And as you can imagine, I need to keep proper behavior at all hours. Boring.

Therefore, I was ecstatic when I knew that for my upcoming Beijing trip for training and meetings, I will be traveling with a friend who is a happy person by nature. She accompanied me to Offshore for 5 days before and it was hilarious and fun, so I was looking forward traveling with her again.

On the down side, this joyful friend also has weaknesses. She seemed to be followed by a series of bad luck and..ehm..was not quite good in preparation. Realizing that, I took over the leg work. From the itinerary, agenda and initiating formalities, I took the lead in the process so she was only need to piggy-ride me. Safe? No.

A series of unfortunate events seemed to persistently follow her. It begun when she (for God knows why) brought her passport to Bali and lost it there. I mean, Bali is domestic, isn’t it? Why on earth did she bring her passport there in the first place? To make it worst, she realized it only two weeks before we suppose to depart. Whereas to get the invitation letter from Beijing, our China Office will need three weeks to process. Therefore, I had prepared my self to travel alone (again).

Fortunately, due to rigorous praying and persistent calling, the invitation letter finished sooner than usual. So 4 days before we depart, she managed to get her visa sorted. So off we went to Beijing excitedly and I managed to capture some golden moments in following travel notes…

To be continued

Beware: Rambling and hyperbolic comments ahead. Anything wrote below should not be used against me in court, canteen nor office corridor.