February 15, 2011 Palawan to Bacolod
I just had my cross country travel the previous month and I think my trip to places never stops. I could not contain my excitement when I learned that I was one of the delegates selected by the Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers-Palawan (PICHE-Palawan) Chapter to the 72nd PICHE National Convention in Bacolod City. That would mean business trip (OB) for me. There were four of us on OB while there were others who filed for leave to join us in the convention, most of them are from Bacolod and nearby cities. Adding to the excitement was my first flight on a lear jet. The said lear jet travels from Manila to Rio Tuba, Palawan three times a week for business affairs of the Makati head office and Palawan plant office. Since there were not much passengers back to Manila, lucky we were that the Admin booked us to the return flight. We left Rio Tuba around 945AM. The flight took around 1hr and 30 minutes from Rio Tuba and landed on the runway of NAIA. We disembarked on a hangar near NAIA 3. Well the flight felt nothing like flying on a commercial plane except that there were just 8 of us in that flight and there was no flight steward to orient you on safety. As frequent flyers, we knew what to do.