The day finally came…8th February, 2010 and my daughter was scheduled to leave for New Zealand on the 9 something flight that evening. Around lunchtime, the officer in the ministry called her handphone but she did not realise it…and all attempts to call him back failed until around 2.30 p.m. when we were already on the way to KLIA. It seemed that one of the students had called in sick and he thought it was my daughter. I told him that she was as fit as a fiddle and we were already on our way to the airport…
Of course, we arrived there VERY early – around 3.00 p.m…
…and we waited…
…and waited till 4 something as the rest began to trickle in one by one…
*Melissa with fellow-coursemate, Christina, from Bintangor…
Then, they proceeded to check in…
…and thankfully, everything was done in an organised and systematic manner…
…and all too soon, at around 7 something, it was time to say goodbye. No, those were not “the track of my tears” but it was SO very hot at KLIA that I was literally swimming in my perspiration…
…and thanks to Mandy and Zul for taking the trouble to come all the way to KLIA to say goodbye to Melissa. It certainly meant a lot to her…
She arrived safely in Auckland and I received messages from her and my brother around 8.00 a.m. Malaysian time the next morning. It seemed that she had to take a connecting flight to Wellington at 2.30 p.m. NZ time – ALONE. The rest would follow suit on another flight an hour or so later and she would have to sit and wait for them at Wellington airport. Luckily, my brother was there to take her to the domestic airport for the said flight. At 10.51a.m. (Malaysian), I got word from her that she had landed safely in Wellington and there were two student-reps from the uni already waiting for them, praise the Lord.
Take care, love…God bless and someday, we’ll be together…
Thanks also to those of you who called or smsed…and for the dinner/lunch treats, the ang paos and gifts as well as all the good wishes in my blog and also on Facebook. With so many wishing her well, I am certain things are definitely gonna be all right…
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 