Just when you think you can sit back and try to
enjoy the peacefulness you desperately sought after, the world overwhelms you
with its conflicts, hatred and despair of normal life...
And General Insanity creeps in
Every day....
--> VSOP and a really Happy Passenger <--
Oh well, I'm in London.. Wow, it felt so weird being in Heathrow. Weird and yet, I felt very much at home. When I was on the plane, I pictured myself like character from a comic book and going to London was like trying to blend into a Monet impressionist painting. When I reached Heathrow, the immigration officer looked at me as though he was taking in my unfamiliar harsh outline. But as he stamped the approval on my landing form, the outline blurred and slowly, I immersed myself with the rest of the London crowd and my awkward cartoonish outline smoothed into the pastel dotted impressionist landscape.
Everything went fine and my journey started well because some of you really sweet students decided to send me off and bestow upon me all your kind wishes and gifts. Thanks!! I really appreciate the gestures, the phonecalls and the kind wishes! I'll really miss all of you! At least I have photos with you to remember you guys!
Well, there was a shaky start- the baggage!!! I always had a problem with baggage!! Of course, my clothes seem to weigh a tonne and I had to take out some stuff from the luggage and disguise it as some more hand luggage.. that's where the problems end (for a while) because when I got on the plane, it was heaven!!! Thai Airways has the best service ever!!! They kept serving drinks and after a steady flow of red wine, white wine, VSOP, vodka and sherry, I was suspiciously waaaaaay too happy for a passenger bound on a 12 hour journey!!!
What made me sober was the cab fare to my friends' place- a whopping £75!!! that's $225!!! I almost died from a massive stroke. And of course (as though things couldn't get any worse), a wheel from one of my luggages had broken off and it was a nightmare struggling with a crippled 23kg bag!!
Lesson learnt: Alcohol can only numb your brain with happiness for a short while before reality steps in to whack you head-on like an oncoming train.
Tomorrow: Flat hunting.. sheesh.. what a chore this is going to be...
Chloe Andrina
11:47 AM
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