One Minute Ahead

My flight back to HK was scheduled to depart at 0750. I only managed to settle on the plane at 0749 (so fortunate). It's time to conduct lessons learnt.

Plan worked like this:
0000 Online check-in
0625 Check-out hotel
0630 Car pick-up
0650 Arrive at airport
0750 Depart

Time ticked like this in reality:
2100 Online check-in [ahead]
0637 Check-out hotel [behind]
???? Car pick-up [not even happened]
0647 Get on an old taxi [not planned]
0700 Still stuck on the road [not expected]
0713 Arrive at airport [behind]
0717 Get boarding pass [behind]
0747 Pass border & security [behind]
0749 On plane [finally]

Lessons learnt:
~ Don't assume all Sat mornings are beautiful
~ Don't assume your driver can pick you up so early while it was -xx degrees celcius (even he promised)
~ Don't assume you can always reach him by mobile (for one time, a woman claimed to be his wife picked up the phone and said something...)
~ Don't assume traffic is very kind given so early - the whole world is travelling with you
~ Don't expect the custom, border and security are fast - again, the whole world is travelling with you
~ Keep on waving to CX staff (who hold a final call board) indicating you are the missing person(s) when queuing at the border. I did that.
~ Don't assume Gate 13 is close even though Gate 19 is right behind the security

Thanks god I was not the last one... I was the second last. still, what a shame.