Mingshern’s Blog

   Hie there… Sorry for this late update on my whereabouts… I have just arrived here yesterday after about 13 hour flight from Singapore straight to Manchester… reached here about 6.50 in the morning… Well, in case you wanna know, my flight left Penang at about 9.10pm and reached Singapore at about 10.00pm… From Singapore, our plane departed at about 11.50pm… =) when i arrived here, me and farhan waited until about 7.30am for the Manchester University airport collection service to come and collect us and bring us to our university accommodation… then from there, my cousin came and bring us to her house in Irlam, Salford… well, we spent the night yesterday at my cousin’s house… since my accommodation contract have not started yet until today… =P And today morning, we’re supposed to go to the university and register our accommodation and stay there… =)

   Well… i’m currently in my cousin’s house over here… I’m using her PC to come online and type this post… my hostel haven had any internet access and, err, dont ask me why i’m staying at my cousin’s house again today… =P So today morning, me and farhan went to settle our accommodation stuffs and attend some so called orientation touring programs… they bring us to a supermarket tour… its to a supermarket called Asda… i’m not sure if anyone from Malaysia has heard about but, to give you the general idea, its something similar to Tesco… or Carrefour for that matter… =) Err… yeah, then later my cousin came over at noon and brought us around shopping for essentials, try to set-up a bank account, try to get a mobile for us and later in the evening, brought us for dinner… =) err… sorry for not elaborating it further… i’m kinda tired actually… its currently about 11.00pm, which is about 6.00am over there in Malaysia…

   hmmm… time difference is about 7 hours… time in Malaysia is actualyl supposed to be about 8 hours ahead, but due to something called Daylight Saving Time (i think), the clocks here are adjusted and its now only 7 hours behind Malaysia… =) err… the weather over here is really nice… its like Genting in Malaysia… cool and cloudy… not much sunlight… sometimes its windy a little… and the best thing is, you dont really sweat and you can walk and walk and walk for hours and dont really feel that tired like how you’ll feel in Malaysia just after walking 5 minutes under the sun… =)

   well, there’s many things to be sort out still… i have to do my student registration… then i have to register for my hostel internet service… and after that probably get a mobile over here… and of coz, find out about my study timetable and stuffs… ><! its kinda hectic actually… and also… There’s still a lot to explore around the campus… Oh ya, for one, the campus is not exactly isolated from the city and have the perimeter walls or fence around it… nope… instead, it sorta like integrated or merged in with the city… so you have one building here, another building there, clusters of accommodation buildings here and there… all within the city… =)

   hmmm… i guess thats all for now… sorry for the really brief update… I’ll probably talk and elaborate more on here next time… till then… have a nice day and do take care… =)

    Tonight, I’ll be leaving to the UK through flight… Which makes me think of this song by John Denver, Leaving On A Jet Plane. Its an old song, but its still nice… And somehow, this song just seem to fit my current mood so much… I dedicate it to my loved ones… =) To all my friends out there… Do keep in touch and take care… All the best to all of you… =)

YouTube link: John Denver - Leaving on a Jet Plane

Leaving On A Jet Plane

All my bags are packed
Im ready to go
Im standin here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin
Its early morn
The taxis waitin
Hes blowin his horn
Already Im so lonesome
I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Theres so many times Ive let you down
So many times Ive played around
I tell you now, they dont mean a thing
Evry place I go, Ill think of you
Evry song I sing, Ill sing for you
When I come back, Ill bring your wedding ring

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time
Let me kiss you
Then close your eyes
Ill be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I wont have to leave alone
About the times, I wont have to say

Oh, kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that youll wait for me
Hold me like youll never let me go
cause Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

But, Im leavin on a jet plane
Dont know when Ill be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

- Words and music by John Denver

    Hi there… been a while since i last
posted something on my blog… ><! Well, I’ve been kinda busy
lately… been rushing to KL and back and then to Kl and back again
because of my visa application stuffs. Well, for those of you who
might have not know it yet, I’m leaving to the U.K soon for my
studies. What am i studying and where will I be studying? I’m going
to the University of Manchester and will be studying Mechanical
Engineering for 4 years over there. =)

    Besides rushing for my visa
application, I’ve also been kinda busy lately, meeting with friends
for farewells and such. This makes me think of a point. Why do we
only want to meet up and get in touch with our friends when its
almost time for farewell? Why do we have to wait until someone have
to ‘go’ or going to leave before we want to meet up with them? Why do
we all seem to ‘forget’ about our other friends on our normal days
but ‘remember’ them only when its time for farewell? Why? Do we take
them for granted that they will always be there with us? Or is it
that we dont really care about them at all? Perhaps, some farewells
are even ‘fake’. Perhaps some of them are just there just for the
sake of a farewell. Just like a ‘give face’ kind of thing. Who knows?
Only the person itself will know his/her own intention.

    I’m not saying that all my friends who
met up with me recently are fake. In fact, I’m really happy to see
all of you guys at least once before I leave. For some who really
cant make it, its ok. Its the heart that counts. =) Some of my
friends even met up with me a few times. Really appreaciate you guys.
=) Some of them arranged for times that are inconvenient for me,
as I have been rushing up and down to KL and return. Really sorry about
it. Sigh… I’m feeling so sad now that I’m going to leave here soon.
When exactly? Next Tuesday, 11^th September 2007. Haha.
Whenever i mention my flight date, almost everyone told me something
similar to this line, “Cant you choose a better day to fly?”.
Haha. Well, if i can choose, definitely I will. The thing is, my
orientation starts on the 13^th September and I cant get
any flight on the 12^th September. So, 11^th
September is the best that i can get. =)

    Ok, back to the title, Separation
Union. I choosed this title because it sounded cool (dont it?
Hahaha… Ok, maybe for me it is =P) and also that it sorta reflect
on my thought, didnt it? By the way, if im not wrong, Separation
Union is also a song from O2jam. Hehehhe… =P Anyway, the whole
message is that we should not take our friends for granted and we
should appreaciate our friends when they’re still here with you. To
all my friends who read this, thanks for being my friend and hope to
see all of you some time again. And do forgive me if I had done
anything bad both intentionally and unintentionally to any of you…
=) And to those that I may have ‘forgotten’, i apologise once
again… Do take care and all the best… =)