WARNING: THIS IS A VERY LONG POST. IF YOU HATE READING LONG ARTICLES LEAVE NOW OR DIVIDE THE READING INTO PARTS =D
Well, hello guys and ladies,
Here I am again in Bath to finish what is left from my studies. The few hours before I left yesterday were the busiest since a long time. As I woke up at around 9.30am wasn't unable to relax until I found my seat in the plane!! I woke up on a call around 9.30am from someone asking to buy my camera for a silly cheap price and i refused and told him that I am leaving in few hours. Then opened my room door to go to wash up and found some lovely notes from my family members asking me to try my luck and amend my journey for few more days and stay till the weekend. I was so happy my family wants me to stay more!!
I went with my bro. to Manama where I bought some presents for some friends here and directly then to Gulf Air to ask them to change my flight schedule but rude employee refused to change it. I was angry not because she didn't change the schedule but with the way she talked and treated me like I don't know what type of ticket I got! I didn't argue because it's no use to do that to a lady the same age as my mother.
Then I went to have a haircut (for 500 fils!!) and on the road back home a friend called around 1.20pm saying he's at the door of our house and waiting to say goodbye. We arrived there, let him in, had a chat and some drinks and said goodbye. After he left, my parents have already returned from work and the family was ready for lunch but I haven't took a bath to clean up myself from the hair nor pray! so I skipped lunch to do that.
As soon as I finished my shower I said bye bye to my bro (since he will be in uni from 4 till 10pm and unable to come to the airport). When I was ready to pray some other bunch of friends came along around 3pm. I sat with them till around 5.40pm and I was planning to leave home around 6.30pm for my 9.10pm flight. I had plenty of stuff to do. Pack up my stuff!! pray!!! go to the nearby supermarket and buy some essential (not mentioned!). So I had to do everything as fast as possible.
Although I was fast, I wasn't unable to finish at 6.30pm. I barely finished preperation to leave at around 7pm! And as I was already leaving I suddenly remembered that all the photos that I took during this holiday was saved in my brothers laptop.!!! How could I leave without my dear photos??
So I asked my father (He was driving to the airport) to wait for few minutes so that I burn the photos into a DVD!! While the laptop was in the process, it suddenly turned off as there wasn't enough charge in it. So I had to do the process again!! and it already reached 7.15pm. But after that il-7amd lillah I had the DVD.
We drove the road and reached the airport and when I entered the departures floor it was fully loaded with all sorts of nationalities leaving back after attending the F1 grand prix.
I went to the Gulf air check-in section. There was a lady around my age, she seemed immature in her job and could have made me a serious problem and I'll tell you how. First she asked for my passport and frequent flyer card to issue me a boarding card and hand in & tag my luggage (only a 20kg bag). She failed to do the process once, twice and thrice and at each I had to take my passport and card out to do the process again!! There was also an order to change all the flight from Bahrain-Muscat-London to directly Bahrain London as there wasn't any flight from Muscat to London. I didn't know that at the time of issuing the boarding card. But the young lady continued with issuing me boarding card from Bahrain to Muscat and then from Muscat to London.
Then I said goodbye to my family. I really felt so sad to witness the tears on the eyes. I never felt so sad and depressed like that before. I didn't want to leave at that time. I asked myself "why I had to do a masters degree? chan inta now having a job at Bahrain and with your family rather than feeling this sadness!"
I always try to avoid coming back to Bahrain only because I don't want to face this moment of saying goodbye to everyone. What made my mood worse is that I would be leaving home in وقت المغرب whereas this time is the time that I usually enjoy staying at home having a cup of tea and watching TV.
Anyways, then I went directly to the gate to depart to Muscat. I had my headphones on my ears and at first I heard something like (… flying from Muscat to London….). I said "oh that's same as my flight" and put on my headphones again and continued waiting until my turn to board into the plane. Then again, few moments later, I heard the announcer saying (Could mr. tito flying from Muscat to London contact the transfer desk on the ground floor ASAP). As soon as I heard my name i left the queue and while I was walking I was asking every employee in the airport about the location of the transfer desk until i was able to reach it. There, I asked one of the employees on what's going on? He said we need to change your flight schedule as there isn't a plane from Muscat to London and he would place me in the plane going from Bahrain directly to London!!! I said yepeee!!! your the best in Gulf air.
Then I asked him when the flight is leaving directly to London, he said at 1.15am and I looked into my watch and it was only 8.50pm. So this brilliant idea came up is to leave the airport and return home until the time of the fligh comes up. I called my family and they were just entering the home back from the airport, and I said "la don't!! come back and take me back home! I wanna spend some more time with you!!) so after like half an hour from the call they arrived back to the airport, took me back home, spent like one and half hour watching tv and had some dinner and calling back a friend to tell him what happened. I first told him my visa was expired and they won't allow me on the plane and that I need to stay few days and he was happy for few moments then i told him what had actually happened.
around 11.30pm, me, my brother (he came from uni) and father went to the airport and I did the check in procedure again. In summary, it was a nice experience to change the flight and leave the airport to go back home for a while and come back again. The flight was awsome as I slept prior to taking off and woke up just 27 minutes before landing and the passengers were really awsome people (l2na no children or noisy Indians or paks!!).
A strange thing is that on the plane just before landing in Heathrow I thought about the blog. I had a topic in my mind which is kind of personal and I was thinking whether to write about it or not but i thought if i bottle up this feeling much more i won't be happy for a long time. SO BE IT!!!, it least it will be better when i let it out in the next post!
Sorry for the very long post for those who have reached this line. Baaaaaaal, I feel so sad and lonely right now and with this personal issue my sadness is doubled =(
I will update my flickr page to share with you some lovely photos around bahrain.
Thank you
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