The One With The Departure

yes, I have short hair now

Yes, I can finally online. It's been a "rough week" without internet access and I wasn't desperate enough to pay £2(RM14) an hour for it. Oh well, finally Orientation Week's over and I'm left with registrations this week. Classes haven't officially started yet so I'm still kinda free. I have so much to write and so many pictures to show so I'll start from that fateful day, the day I depart from Penang, September 16th 2006. The final few days was a lot of fun. Had nice dinners, watched a good movie and spent the rest of my time packing my things. My mother had me bring a box of Maggi Mee to the UK. It was like 10kg. Shit! However, it was reduced to around 4kg because my luggage limit was around 30kg in total. Heck, I'm not gonna bring 10kg worth of Maggi Mee to the UK.


That day was gloomy day. Dark clouds scourged the sky as drops fell from the sky. No lah, I don't think it rained but it would have made the departure more emotional so let's assume it did. Hahaha. I started sending out my final smses only to initiate a few final calls and sms replies from some of you all. However, Jack's second sms is the only one that hit me hard. He wrote "zhou heng tai geh, mm sai kong yeh one". This is what it should be you know. Everything's understood, there's no need for words.

So I reached the airport rather early, only to find some of my friends were even earlier, waiting to send me off. I've told people not to send me because it'll makes things easier but in the end, Andrew, Kelvin, Jee Loong, Terry, Yi Wen, Aun Pein and Zhenjian came.



I bet some of you were wondering if I cried. I didn't. I wouldn't let myself. Yi Wen cried a little bit and made me sad. Lucky she held it back. But was really touched that she shed tears for me. However, as I walked through the departure counter, I did feel a little heavy but NO TEARS. I think they will come, just not yet.