Fly to your Dream

I have always love traveling via air. No hassle, no pressure, no traffic or so I thought..




Never had I imagined that I will be working in the air, serving a hundred and more people while traveling the world basically doing my job (for a living lol) and achieving my dreams/goals at the same time..


They say being a cabin crew is every girl's dream, I was not one of them though.. but here I am traveling from one place to another. And enjoying every minute of it. But It was not easy, being a cabin crew takes a lot of effort, sacrifices. Hard work and most important, PATIENCE. Yup, patience is a virtue guys..



Now I'll show you how I got in Cebu Pacific Air as a cabin crew, and how I passed the written, practical and oral exams that we've been through..




I applied as a walk in applicant in Cebu Pacific Air main office in Terminal 4 Domestic Road last November 15, 2016 after I failed the impact interview for Flight attendant position in Philippine Airlines (this happened on the same day) I went straight to CebPac hoping that I'll get in despite the fact that I feel disappointed that day.



Little did I know that I was meant for this company..

Cebu Pacific Main Lobby ofcourse with my seatmate, Seann Santos.

as I went inside the hotel lobby I feel anxious and nervous at the same time.. but I went on as I was already there. Well, its now or never.

The receptionist told me to go upstairs as I need to do my screening and impact interview already, so I went to 5th floor and gave my CV to Miss Glenda who's in charge of 5th floor entrance. We were asked to wait for our names to be called for the screening. And so I waited, i was already nervous since I already got rejected in PAL and I only got like 10 percent hope that Ill get in.



We were called by fives, we were the last batch then. What they actually do in screening are:

Checking of height
Checking of your skin complexion
Do you know someone from Cebu Pacific
What college are you from
What course did you take
Checking of weight


After Nicole (the HR) did the screening, she told us who passed and asked those who didnt to step out as they were told that they werent qualified and asked to reapply after 6 months. Fortunately, I was not one of them.

I passed the screening and was asked to stay for my impact interview in about an hour or so..

Once again I waited..

After an hour a woman named CJ went in and had us sit altogether in a circle. We were called one by one and asked one by one while the others were listening. She basically asked what do we know about cebu pacific, and of course the universal question which was "Why do you wanna be a cabin crew" as she assess our answer, she assessed as well how we sit, how we listened and how we act and talk as a person. To cut the story short, I got in and was asked to do my final interview 4 days after. Luckily, I passed the final interview and signed the documents that day. All ready for the requirements to be passed after a week so I can start my training ASAP.

Training was held in the fifth floor which was composed of different training rooms. Its a 52-day training that consists of oral, written and practical exams.

We did:

survival swimming

Halon fire extinguisher

Portable breathing equipment (to be used if theres fire)

First aid training 

(photo captured using my Go Pro Hero 4 Session)

Aeronomenclature

Aircraft operations

Emergency procedures 

(Emergency Slide Procedures)

Revalida

Those exams come in three different forms we do have written, oral and practical.


And it was so hard, you get to know the lessons now, tomorrow you do the written exam and the oral exam afterwhich you do the practical. It was hard, believe me when I say that its hard because if we only did this kind of study during college we'd be a suma cum claude already. We memorized an inch and a half manuals in a span of 1 month and a half. Who wouldve done that easily?! No one. But we're lucky we did it wihout using our lifelines. Yes, we do have lifelines. 


We're only allowed to retake the exams for 3 times. 2 times retake, on the third time you fail, you get out from the training and will never be able to reapply forever, yes you read it right, FOREVER.


We embraced the coffee since day 1. Thank you very much starbucks for your arabica coffee we survived the day without feeling so sleepy. You guys gotta love coffee if you wanna survive flight attendant trainings.



So these are our wings

These are my closest friends in the batch.

Omarie Linn Osuna, Juneal Tongco, Me, Seann Santos and Matthew Hinoguin.

Hello everyone, we're Batch 137.

We all graduated and now flying for a year already some are flying in Qatar Airways already, time flies so fast you wouldnt believe it. Now, we can always say "flying with you" because during trainings we can only say "flying with you soon"


Now I encourage everyone to apply and be part of our growing family and we'll help you achieve and fly you to your dream, FLYING WITH YOU SOON.



Always remember that "Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."


For those of you who wants to view our Graduation Video and Pinning ceremony video pease don't hesitate to click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnvMAe-gd5E&t=13s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87IDFXrYXKw&t=1s

Also for your reference..

https://careers.jgsummit.com.ph/CebuPacific

Leave nothing but footprints

     The Pico de Loro summit was actually my first hike here in Manila. This happened last November 2015, There were only the five of us who went there, it was actually a "Trip lang" Hike. Haha! im so sorry I didnt post it sooner.


     None of us even researched how high the summit was, how hard it is to climb and how long would it take for us to finish the trail, we didnt even know that the trail was so hard, slippery and dangerous that we didnt even hire a tourist guide going up.

   Those are my friends, Mike (The Designated driver), Matt and Karen (The Power Couple), Ems, and Me (The orange backpacker). *since I really didnt plan to make hiking as one of my hobby, I didnt bother to buy hiking shoes and bag, I just used my Herschel bag and my New Balance shoes which I really regret afterwards.

A little advice on how to get there:

  you might want to bring car since the location was kinda creepy, there was no way of transportation. we did park at the DENR where we paid 20 pesos for the environmental fee, they let you park for free but im telling you there's no one there after six in the evening, no one even checked on us because the logbook that we signed before going up was left there open in some corner. 

   Going up was quite hard since its slippery and we had nothing to hold on to except the trees, the rocks and the ground itself. lucky for us some mountaineers who were going down gave us the kahoy (I dunno how its called) but we used it as a tungkod while going up to prevent us from falling.

We did a lot of stopover since this was actually their first hike. And this cutie dog climbed with us without even excerting too much effort. He made hingi our baon as well every stopover.

      It took us approximately FOUR HOURS climbing up since the trail was slippery and we dont have tour guide and plus the stopovers.

      From our view we can really see the monolith up close. this was actually the camp site where they USED TO allow hikers to stay. Sadly, they dont let hikers now sito preserve the mountain's cleanliness. We did eat out lunch at the summit though. Well from here the summit was like 20 mins away, and since its almost 6 in the evening we did hire a tour guide going down. 

 San Marino Paella is even more delicious here on top!

    The monolith may seem daunting at first look from the summit, but you'll be saying "it's all worth it" when you reach the top. And the view was actually breathtaking since we witnessed the sunset. I guess we're a lil lucky that time.

There goes the sunset that I was talking about. from the top you can see a lot of mountains that im not quite sure of, but our tour guide told me one of it was Mt. Binacayan, reaching the top was quite easy compared to going down---ALWAYS.

  

I remember that I really had to wait for kuya to pick me up at the top to guide me in going down.

Unfortunately, they closed the Mt. Pico de Loro Summit for some reason. still hoping that they would open it soon though.

  but all in all, it was all worth the climb, the summit was worth all the walk. Since then I decided to climb all the mountains that I can in this country bec the feeling was all worth it and satisfying once you reached the top. 

"Spend money on experiences not on things"