Yes...the title and the picture used for this post sure sums up what's going on in my head in full totality...haiihhhh tak paham aku...or should i say, what have i done to deserve all this...i don't know...sometimes i wonder, why can't my life be much more flexible and rather 'easy' like some people do?...it's not that i'm not greatful or felt blessed with what i have today, but sometimes, as human beings, we always have a desire to do what we want to do or go whenever we dreamt of going, you know, like your wildest ravaries...eventhough they might be too demanding or it might cost a bomb, some people can still depend on somebody provided that it must be returned/paid back when the time's right...simple...yeah, people might be wondering everybody does that, but seriously, it's not happening here on my side...let's straightened out all this twisted mental glitches shall we?...
Here's the situation...a cousin of mine recently told me that she already booked a flight ticket to Italy next year in March to be with her boyfriend, who's there as we speak for some training programme (she'll only be there for 2 weeks before heading back home to Malaysia together)...after hearing that, somehow it strucked my head and wonder how much does it cost her for the flight ticket at that period of time...as for her case, since that she'll be flying with our home grown, world-class Malaysian Airlines, it cost her around 5k...owh well, it's Italy we're talking about, or any European country in that matter, not only the flight ticket cost a bomb, even the currency exchange is unpredictably crazy...so i was like okay, but then she told me that another cousin of mine is planning for a trip to Europe as well to see her friend, and since this second of mine is aware that my first cousin is going to Italy, she decides to tag along...how cool's that right?...and considering that the trip will be in March, i pretty much got plenty of time to stock up my insufficient account balance :P...so yeah, that sure sparked my hopes a little...
So the next morning i called up my second cousin in the office and had a small chat with her about this newly discussed agenda...and of course she's excited about it as well...and as a bonus, she also decide to go to Paris from Italy to meet up with her friend there, while trying to remain in a one country trip budget, for me, that's like the coolest plan ever, imagine going to Italy and Paris all in one travelling period...so without further a due she quickly surfed the net to find the best and cheapest airline ticket price out there for our destination...being a reliable person she is, she found one...Kuwait Airlines...hahaha...and she even surveyed the low-cost carriers in Europe for her trip to Paris from Italy...and she found that one too...it's around RM145...that is like serious bargain...and the best part of it all, she told me if we're going to Italy, we'll be touching down in ROME...ROME...owh hell ROME!!!...i ALWAYS wanted to go to ROME!!!...and of course that sparks a higher level of hope to me...
After all that, let's reveal the ticket pricing...after my second cousin done with her convergence calculation like adding up the ticket price together with the low cost carrier flights from Europe, food and drinks, airport tax and potential public transportation fees (accomodation is not included considering that we have contacts in those 2 countries)...altogether is RM4200...yup...it's INSANELY CHEAP considering that we'll be going off to 2 different countries!!!...owwwhhhhh this sure is the trip for me...and since that we did all this online, we need to book the ticket fast.......here's where the twist of events happened......i asked her like how fast when she meant by 'fast', she said it's better to book the tickets like THAT INSTANT and prepare the money latest a month from now...WHAT???...scooping out RM4k+ in a months time???...whhooahhhh...that's just impossible for me...that trip will be in March for God's sake...can it be slightly later than that?, than my cousin told me that it's best to book now in order to avoid any flight price increment...yup, she has a point...and at that moment...i realised...i don't wanna be the pain in other people's ass...so i decided...i have to pull out from this trip...getting that kind of money so soon it's just not happening for me...i wa shoping maybe i can do the payment by end of December (considering that most probably i'll be getting some bonuses by that time)...but flight tickets are hot stuffs and very unpredictable in terms of price...i guess by December there will be an increase in that flight ticket...as i took a sigh at myself, i told my cousin that i'm not going...after all that hopes and wildest imagination, the final verdict is that...it sure is frustrating...i feel like getting out of here backpacking and just go somewhere unclear and just stayed and wept for myself...hmmmmmm, now i know this late bloomer has never been so lucky either when it comes to things like this...it's painful but i think it's the best step for me to realise it now rather than knowing it later or closer to the trip date right?...so here i am, one again, lefted out from a trip that i truly looking forward to...:((
p/s: Somehow, being a noble lil soul she is, my first cousin (the one who's off to Italy to see her BF) told me that maybe it's not too late just yet, she told me to tell my second cousin to book her tickets soon if she has to, as for me, i just need to find out the ticket pricing again in December...yup there will be some increased pricing, but she told me it won't be so severe, considering that December is still months ahead of the actual trip date...hmmmmm...i don't know, i had enough of installing false hopes to myself...but i guess you'll never know until you try right?...we'll see...:)
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