My Good Friend's Wedding

for those not in the know, i spent a year and a half of my life as a Singapore Girl.

some of us close mates would talk about our job in hushed tones, not wanting to seem like we're bragging about our "glamorous" and literally high-flying jobs.

we also kept it down because the SIA Girl is usually stereotyped to be a ditsy schoolgirl dream slapped on with a ton of make-up.

i took to my job as a flight stewardess with the company with gusto, swearing to defy the stereotype.

unfortunately for me, in being me, i never did quite get along with my batch mates that well, or most of the people i flew with.

i was best trainee from my batch and scored plenty of compliment letters, but i wasn't quite the hit with some crew.

until i met the girls from 71A (did i get it right this time? =P).

jenny and i became fast friends because she's so REAL.

she defies the stereotype of the ditsy SIA girl to the max.

jenny's still in the airline and constantly feeds us with the goss because she's bloody well-informed.

another girl who integrated rather naturally into our merry little gang was tracy.

she was our then junior, together with nancy, and was perpetually paranoid of going on flight.

she was like me, always stressed just before the flight because of some ridiculous crew we would meet who would give us junior girls a hard time.

it was during a london flight when tracy and i grew closer as team girls.

she was undergoing some rather stressful stuff at home and i was the only other team girl on that flight with her.

we spent most of our stay in london huddled in our rooms, just talking.

she even wrote me a really sweet note, thanking me for being her listening ear.

it'd be a pleasure to have both tracy and jenny present at our wedding later this year.

and the last quarter of our party is nancy, whose wedding dinner was last saturday.

that's where we all caught up and took these photographs.

nancy wasn't just my team mate in 71A.

she was also my junior in my mass communication course (although i really didn't know her then).

she relocated to atlanta with her hubby soon after her church wedding last year, came back for her wedding dinner last week, and will be flying back to atlanta next friday.

it would be fun to have all three of them girls at our wedding but alas, i guess knowing she's happy and that she's happy for me is enough. =)

nancy had arranged for jenny and me to sit with the rest of her batch girls (including tracy), who were all still flying (excluding tracy).

through the whole duration of dinner, jenny and i would exchange glances, smile at each other and she'd say...

"what would i do without you beside me this evening?"

i guess that's a compliment. =P

to this day, i defend my take on the SIA girl.

but i guess it really takes someone who's been in, and out, to actually see through the perfect hair and make-up.

she may not be a bimbo after all.