La Verita
I am a half kuwaiti/half american girl living in Kuwait.
I am perpetually suspended in the granite hollow that fills the space between two worlds...
Not quite who I am, not quite who I want to be... Cat-lover, poet, music-nut.
I currently hold a PHD in both BS and Smartass. In short, I pitch my tent in the median of life..
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
The Krispy Klan returns....
So, FB and I are back in Kuwait. After two days of flying, endless miles and multiple time-zone crossing, we finally made it home. I, for one, am elated that I am back. What I am not elated over, however, is the endless amount of sh*t that has been dumped on me not even twenty-four hours into coming home. Over the next two weeks, I have:
-Job Interviews
-Reports to write
-Presentation to prepare
-Unpacking of .... um..... 6 (?) suitcases
-Tracking of shipment from the states
-Various family/friends obligations
-My birthday and subsequent party....
ufff... il list ma ikhali9.... :/
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You'd think that somewhere in their pilot training, the Kuwait Airways pilots would have learned a thing or two about how time zones work. This is a true story...
So, I'm sitting in the plane right? and we're about.. oh, I don't know.. maybe three or four hours from landing in Kuwait. And the screen (you know the communal one at the front of the cabin?), so that screen is showing the flight stats. The miles covered, miles left, temprature.. etc etc... Anywho, so I'm looking at the stats and they show the time stats. The screen showed:
Time at origin: 7:56
Time at destination: 15:07
........... Do you see the problem here?..........
You would think that at some point during pilot training, those fly-boys would have learned that if it's 7:56 somewhere then it's 15:56 or 19:56 or whatever:56 everywhere else!
So, I decide to give the guys the benefit of the doubt, thinking that maybe, maybe, it was a glitch in the programming or clock setting or whatever. So, I ignore it and go about my business of position shifting.... but, nooooo. Five minutes later, the pilot comes on with this announcement....
Ladies and gentlemen, we are currently cruising at blah, blah thousand feet and at a speed of yada yada knots travelling in a gooba di gooly direction. The time at the destination is 3:25 pm. (!!!!!!)
So, I look down to my watch (which is still set to New York time) and it reads 8:05 am..... It is at this point that I seriously begin to ponder the qualifications of our quasi-pilot.....
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And we're gonna weep in between this sleep
until we float away....
-Layla
-Job Interviews
-Reports to write
-Presentation to prepare
-Unpacking of .... um..... 6 (?) suitcases
-Tracking of shipment from the states
-Various family/friends obligations
-My birthday and subsequent party....
ufff... il list ma ikhali9.... :/
...................................................................
You'd think that somewhere in their pilot training, the Kuwait Airways pilots would have learned a thing or two about how time zones work. This is a true story...
So, I'm sitting in the plane right? and we're about.. oh, I don't know.. maybe three or four hours from landing in Kuwait. And the screen (you know the communal one at the front of the cabin?), so that screen is showing the flight stats. The miles covered, miles left, temprature.. etc etc... Anywho, so I'm looking at the stats and they show the time stats. The screen showed:
Time at origin: 7:56
Time at destination: 15:07
........... Do you see the problem here?..........
You would think that at some point during pilot training, those fly-boys would have learned that if it's 7:56 somewhere then it's 15:56 or 19:56 or whatever:56 everywhere else!
So, I decide to give the guys the benefit of the doubt, thinking that maybe, maybe, it was a glitch in the programming or clock setting or whatever. So, I ignore it and go about my business of position shifting.... but, nooooo. Five minutes later, the pilot comes on with this announcement....
Ladies and gentlemen, we are currently cruising at blah, blah thousand feet and at a speed of yada yada knots travelling in a gooba di gooly direction. The time at the destination is 3:25 pm. (!!!!!!)
So, I look down to my watch (which is still set to New York time) and it reads 8:05 am..... It is at this point that I seriously begin to ponder the qualifications of our quasi-pilot.....
_____________________________________________________________________________
And we're gonna weep in between this sleep
until we float away....
-Layla
17:46
Comments:
there are some places in the world where the minutes arent the same for example right now the time where iam at is 9:10 (usa central time same time as chicago) but the time in new foundland canada is 11:40 am. i didnt know about this time thing until fairly recently myself. i always thought the minutes around the world were the same.
Yeah it was a direct flight from NY to Kuwait... That flight wasn't so bad. It was about 10 hours long... The flight from Kuwait to NY was 14 hours or something like that.... That flight was excrutiating! The return flight isn't so bad though...
we saw that...> hmmm.... sounds fishy to me... I mean what's the reason for that happening.... is it a longitude or latitude type thing... I don't think anyone's ever heard of that.... thanx for the info though... but i still maintain that the pilot was mistaken...
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there are some places in the world where the minutes arent the same for example right now the time where iam at is 9:10 (usa central time same time as chicago) but the time in new foundland canada is 11:40 am. i didnt know about this time thing until fairly recently myself. i always thought the minutes around the world were the same.
Yeah it was a direct flight from NY to Kuwait... That flight wasn't so bad. It was about 10 hours long... The flight from Kuwait to NY was 14 hours or something like that.... That flight was excrutiating! The return flight isn't so bad though...
we saw that...> hmmm.... sounds fishy to me... I mean what's the reason for that happening.... is it a longitude or latitude type thing... I don't think anyone's ever heard of that.... thanx for the info though... but i still maintain that the pilot was mistaken...