before I left Australia
Alright its been a while since I wrote a blog about 7 months so I'm a bit rusty
My flight was booked for the 28th of July 08 about a month before, i don't remember giving it much thought, the only thing I had to worry about is being in Kuching- Malaysia on the 1st of August, so i though 2 days in KL would be enough and leave KL on the 30th, get to Kuching a day before
I'm writing this blog about one month after I left, I don't recall much details but here's a briefing of what I remember ..
My flight was booked for the 28th of July 08 about a month before, i don't remember giving it much thought, the only thing I had to worry about is being in Kuching- Malaysia on the 1st of August, so i though 2 days in KL would be enough and leave KL on the 30th, get to Kuching a day before
I'm writing this blog about one month after I left, I don't recall much details but here's a briefing of what I remember ..
the day before I left I was supposed to meet up with a few @ers Negah, Ron, Abhi and Martin, it turns out that James ( Victoria's coach) just flew in from Sydney that morning so we all met UTC at around 10.30 went for a cup a coffee, chatted , in short had a really good time, i was given a photo album, which had photo's through out the past semester and beside each photo was a simple funny comment.
I said Goodbye to everyone their and then headed back home to finish my things-to-do-before-i-leave list, and its was a pretty long list, as soon as I got home I started to freak out, cause not only do I have to fly the next day, it was my last day at the Swinburne Unilodge, so I had to pack everything either in my suitcase or in a 10$ plastic container.
At that point I was also sending out SMS's to everyone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to, cleaning the wall and backing up my Laptop HD on the portable HD, it was quite a long night, a few friends dropped by that evening and we chatted and had coffee, and by the end of the night everything was packed, the room was empty and I was almost dead tired.
The next day I woke up late as usual except "it was one of those days", and by that I mean its one those days that you know that everything will go alright no matter how bad things seem its all going to work out in the end, so i took may bags said goodbye to my brother Yousef, and then me and My other Brother Ibrahim headed for the airport, The line was soooo long I took us almost an hour and a half, thank god I had Ibrahim there so we can make random arabic jokes and laugh at people without anyone - well almost - knowing what were saying
We had Sushi for lunch while we were waiting in the never-ending line, once we got there I was asked if I had any preferences for my seat, so being a normal human the first thing that popped into my head was the window seat, from the look in his eyes I could tell that was pretty hard, but - and this comes back to "its one of those day" - he makes a phone call talks for about 2 minutes and then informs me that I did get a window seat "WOOOOOHOOOOO !!!!!", not only that I found out later that no one was sitting next to me "Oh yeah !".
After all that I needed a coffee ( not that i need a reason for sipping a 2 sugar take-away cappuccino), My brother decides that he wants to buy me my last coffee before, I had absolutely no objections. but .... and here 's where the "nothings for free" Saying Comes in , I go to the bathroom and come back and I see My brother playing with his phone, couldn't really figure out what he was doing but looked very specious, i ignore it and take a sip of coffee , as soon as I started to drink the coffee my brother bursts laughing, well I don't really want to continue this story, let just say it involved a joke my brother was dieing to do and I didn't finish my coffee.
I said goodbye to my brother and went to check in after I check I get asked to step aside and I was checked for explosives out of around 50 people I was the only one !, me the innocent, knows no evil Mahmoud was checked for explosives, well I can't really say I blame them , if anyonw had my passport photo i'l check him too.
After all that I got on the plane and started reflecting on my past year and what have I done ?, what have i accomplished ?, how many people did i gain and lose in that year ?, and was it all worth it ?, in the end I have to say it was a year with no regrets.
As soon as the plane took off I went into a peaceful 30 min sleep , before the meals were served after that i watched a few movies and POOF I was KL- Malaysia , what happened in KL is another story ...
At that point I was also sending out SMS's to everyone I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to, cleaning the wall and backing up my Laptop HD on the portable HD, it was quite a long night, a few friends dropped by that evening and we chatted and had coffee, and by the end of the night everything was packed, the room was empty and I was almost dead tired.
The next day I woke up late as usual except "it was one of those days", and by that I mean its one those days that you know that everything will go alright no matter how bad things seem its all going to work out in the end, so i took may bags said goodbye to my brother Yousef, and then me and My other Brother Ibrahim headed for the airport, The line was soooo long I took us almost an hour and a half, thank god I had Ibrahim there so we can make random arabic jokes and laugh at people without anyone - well almost - knowing what were saying
We had Sushi for lunch while we were waiting in the never-ending line, once we got there I was asked if I had any preferences for my seat, so being a normal human the first thing that popped into my head was the window seat, from the look in his eyes I could tell that was pretty hard, but - and this comes back to "its one of those day" - he makes a phone call talks for about 2 minutes and then informs me that I did get a window seat "WOOOOOHOOOOO !!!!!", not only that I found out later that no one was sitting next to me "Oh yeah !".
After all that I needed a coffee ( not that i need a reason for sipping a 2 sugar take-away cappuccino), My brother decides that he wants to buy me my last coffee before, I had absolutely no objections. but .... and here 's where the "nothings for free" Saying Comes in , I go to the bathroom and come back and I see My brother playing with his phone, couldn't really figure out what he was doing but looked very specious, i ignore it and take a sip of coffee , as soon as I started to drink the coffee my brother bursts laughing, well I don't really want to continue this story, let just say it involved a joke my brother was dieing to do and I didn't finish my coffee.
I said goodbye to my brother and went to check in after I check I get asked to step aside and I was checked for explosives out of around 50 people I was the only one !, me the innocent, knows no evil Mahmoud was checked for explosives, well I can't really say I blame them , if anyonw had my passport photo i'l check him too.
After all that I got on the plane and started reflecting on my past year and what have I done ?, what have i accomplished ?, how many people did i gain and lose in that year ?, and was it all worth it ?, in the end I have to say it was a year with no regrets.
As soon as the plane took off I went into a peaceful 30 min sleep , before the meals were served after that i watched a few movies and POOF I was KL- Malaysia , what happened in KL is another story ...
posted by Mahmoud Shadid at
2:30 PM
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