My Life My Adventure

“Time is money”, this familiar quote is nowadays been underestimated by saying “be calm and enjoy your life”, that actually happen to my adventurous traveling.

A few weeks ago, I went to Singapore to join a study tour from my university. The main purpose is to learn about sign system in which is being the subject of my major. At first, all is went according to the plan. I got lots of happiness and unforgettable memories with 34 friends and 4 teachers. Nevertheless, in the last day everything has changed. Each of us had different time of flight. I had flight on 20.55. So, 3 others friends and I left our hostel in Jalan Besar on 18.00 with MRT to Changi airport because we’re afraid about traffic jam. Imagine, we brought our luggage by ourselves, on foot, ride an MRT, transit in terminal, on foot, ride an MRT, and so on. Then finally, we arrived at Changi on 20.00.

But the stories have not finished yet. In a rush hour, while we were checking in at the air asia counter, we were hungry and decided to buy hamburgers on Burger King’s. Then, we thought we have enough time to eat first. However, after satisfying our tummy, we just realized that it was 20.40 already.

We ran to the gate as fast as we could, but we have not known yet that the gate was so far away. In the end, all of our happiness in few days ago is replaced by the most regretful moment in our life because we’re late and missed the flight. The worst news was we had to pay a new ticket to take us home, which was more expensive than our promo ticket round-trip at the first. We got flight on 06.55 so we stayed and slept in Changi.

The most important from that incident is we learn a simple thing which is sometimes we ignore that this world never wait for people who late, but we have to chase the world to get what we want. Last but not least, we had made a promise to ourselves that we’ll be ‘an on-time person’ and believe that “time is money”.