it's supposed to be fate... isn't it?

everyone in the team dreads going to mumbai..for me, it's not that it's terrible..i like the food, the people are nice,  though the place is dirtier and messier than manila (but i can tolerate that).. it's more of the feeling when you get there, like you're cut off from civilisation or you hold off living your life for a couple of weeks. communication is expensive (P35 per text, no free internet).. basically it's just so inconvenient (hotel is more than 1 hour away from the city and the hotspots). they also have a different culture and we can't do the normal things we do on weekends (like watching movies, shopping, hanging out with friends, etc).

so when it's time to choose who goes to mumbai for 2 weeks, A and i felt relieved coz we're doing the manila piece while the other two team mates get to go to mumbai (A and I did go to mumbai 4x or 10 weeks last year). but then 1 of those who was supposed to go can only stay for a week and the person who was supposed to substitute him can't go.. and now only 1 is left to do the work by himself. i know he doesn't want to go there..so when he asked me if i wanted to go.. i can't help but feel "awa" for him and since im not doing much in manila, thought it made sense for me to go there and help him out (anyways, 1 week is not bad, the days will just pass by quickly).. so i agreed.

a few hours later, i was chatting with my friend who is flying to bangkok for 3 weeks for an audit assignment. she asked me if i wanted to fly over and stay for the weekend.. both of us have never been to bangkok so she was excited while i seriously thought about flying there. then i realised that i will be making my stopover to bangkok (since i always fly thai airways going to mumbai) and so we started hatching our plan and setting our itinerary. think about it.. free airfare, free hotel.. isn't that fate? it was just meant for me to go there!

but then as quickly as the idea cropped up, fate decided to spoil the party. there will be some rallies and protests on the same weekends (march 14 to 23) as my travel period! at first i thought it was just a one-day rally.. now the news are saying it might get longer (think of last year's really bad problem when the airport was shutdown and several travellers were stranded for weeks!) and now philippines issued a travel warning not to go to bangkok for "non-essential travel". i texted my friend who is there now and she said that they were advised to stay inside the hotel for the whole weekend.. the rally will be for tom and monday and it's a wait-and-see situation..

damn it!!!!! why can't i catch a break?? why bother making me hope and anticipate that i'll finally be able to walk around bangkok (and not just the airport) when they will just take everything back in less than 24hours? it's like JYP letting Hottests hope that Jay will return to 2PM but then announcing so rudely and shockingly that Jay made a grave personal mistake and he will never be back to Korea? but i'm not the type to get so negative so easily.. so just like my unending support for Park Jaebum, i'll still continue to keep my hopes up and pray that everything will be peaceful in Bangkok. but i'm also not stupid. if it's really bad, then i won't go. anyways, i'll have other chances.