I was skeptical about the chilly air that was groping over my bare headed-face. It was a rainy January 16 and it was the last drop of rain on a chilling air that I felt from my hometown.
I had never been out of my country, but yeah’ I did travelling a lot because of the immersed nursing places that I have to undergo and the stupid Regulation Commission lying on the next island..it’s crazy but believe me, you would always want to go back and forth.
When I leave Bacolod, I didnt think of anything at all. I felt weak and out of my mind and better stop narrating this otherwise ill start wetting my eyes and weeping over the whole course of the scene, but the feeling is true.
NAIA Terminal 1 wasn’t a very big airport terminal at all, in fact passengers are crowding the whole lobby, terminal foyers, and check-in counters with attendants calling out arline names and putting the airline logo in your shirt and make yourself identified upon entry at the Immigration cubicles.
It was a long queue but I am so relieved that I was able to pass after a series of confrontations with my visa and documents and stuff like youre an RN so why this and that. Well, I think Pinoys are like that; always have an interest to know something before it gets cracked. And then there I was in a small vicinity of shops and check-in gates. Not so big but I think its so visible that you always have to look for something that captures you..
After a few hours, I left the Pearl of the Orient.
The plane was a one big home for me. I never thought a plane could really be this big but shut up and you’ll see how your own personal TV works exactly just perfect right before in your very eyes. Games, Music, TV, Movies, Docu, News, etc. is so true that I never believed Hongkong was 2 hours away.
When I arrived at this unbelievable gargantuan international airdrome, my world just so suddenly flipped over..everywhere is Chinese with a little English of course and a nice air of cold ambiance where you at all sides have a view of aircraft driver with their attendants and their nice trollies where I only see that in films like View From the Top and Catch Me If You Can. It was so true that you would think its unreal.
To Be Continued...