Zombified and doing stupid things

Posted by GilaChess

November 2, 2008

Today was the most embarrassing incident I had in Vietnam and it happened on the last day of my visit. I thought my flight was tonight at 9:40pm and I followed the rest of the Malaysian junior team to the airport who were catching the 7:00pm plane. It turned out my flight was for tomorrow. What a stupid thing to overlook. I knew my return date was 1st Nov before coming to Vietnam. However since everyone was leaving on the 31st, I had just forgotten the date and thought today was already the 1st.

The past few nights I had little sleep and I was a little proud of the fact I can go without sleep and not feel sleepy. However clearly it looks like my brain functions have dropped to almost nought at times. For example - today’s mixup of the flight date.

Second accident

The other incident was when I deleted ChessASIA.net first page by accident when I was uploading some files. I am sure under normal circumstances I would never have done such stupid thing. To make matters worse I didn’t have a backup of the main page. I panicked. Luckily, Google came to the rescue as I remembered that the search engine often keeps a copy or cache of the front page of website it indexes. I managed to restore the first page and the site was only down for a few minutes.

Bye-bye Malaysia

The Malaysian team have caught their 7pm flight but I’m still here at the airport trying to figure what to do. I could go out and get a cheap hotel in Ho Chin Minh city for the night. The second choice is to brave it out and stay overnight to catch my flight tomorrow.

Staying the night at airport

After hearing some horror stories from Encik Azman about getting fleeced by cab drivers here I think I’ll stick around at the airport and save the hassle of finding a hotel for the night. All I need is 10-20 minutes naps every 4-5 hours. I’m grateful for the fact that the airport has many powerpoints so I can plug in and use my notebook. Too bad there’s no Internet though

Bread, water, kacang and sambal.

Also thanks to Camilia’s mom for leaving me with the above food to munch on while I wait at the airport. Since mineral water bottels cannot be taken on flights, the team have given me thiers and I have 10 new mineral bottle of water. No problem with dehidration here. Ha ha.. it’s like the game of ‘Survivor’ but in the airport.

Travels

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