after waiting for 5 hours within 2 days in Heathrow i think i have observed some interesting stuff and come out with some little thoughts..

1st day in Heathrow.. after 2 hour bus from bristol malborough station, i reached heathrow, this place looks a bit familiar coz i have been here once when i came back from m'sia in sept 2007, but yet a bit strange to me! well this time i was assigned a task, to pick up student from India and sent them back bristol safe and sound!

rite, i was waiting patiently after i knew that the plane was landed in heathow.. so i waited, waited and WAITED!!! after an hour i began to worried coz i scared i have missed them, so i paged them and i was told minimum i need to wait for 2 hours n max i need to wait for 4HOURS.. wat? well tat's okie dun mind waiting so long i din miss them. So in the 3 rd hour i started to feel a bit awkward, i dun think i will miss a bunch of India student hem~ but wat was happennin in the custom?! was the queue tat long? out of the blue i heard someone paging for student representative, okie give it a try perhaps they were looking for me! PHEW~ it was them, i managed to get them finally... phew phew phew~ if not i really dunno wat to do in the huge n bz airport!

okie~ wat had i been doin in this three hours? i started lookin at ppl, started observing their facial expression, even their luggages, n ppl waiting there as well! Airport is really an interesting place, u can see happy faces, the moment of touch, a touch of love etc well in summary u can see humanity...

First observation- a chap quite tall, bristish i suppose coz he is blond, carrying a big bag, w/o huge luggage, walking out from the custom, a gal and another chap waiting for him were yelling his name and rush towards him, the gal helped him with the huge bag, while the two guys bearhug each other, (at first i tot they might be...) but i was wrong, coz then i saw a lady and a man appeared to be his father and mother hugging together, so i assume they are a family, brother sister relationship..

I always tot only among Asian we have this big concept about family, but when i saw the father was hugging his son and his eyes turned red with tears drippn down, i noe again i was wrong! they have strong bond as well, i hardly saw them said anything to each other, they were only hugging and cuddling each other. And tat's such simple thing which makes u feel the touch of love, without the needs of exchanging any words. U can deeply feel they care for each other and love each other. Then they walked away together, i guess they will have a nice family dinner reunion follow up.

second observation, having said that i think chinese has a rooted concept as to family, i think chinese is the less expressive one, hardly any chinese there when they saw their family will express themselves that they have missed each others, they were all so shy juz nodded their head to each other and juz a swallow smile, nothing agressive. hem... i wonder this is really a good way where we act so humble? Coz even Indians are quite expressive, the younger will touch the elderly's leg to show respect, then hug together lotsa body languages u can notice but can hardly see this happen to chinese...

another sweet thing i saw, two gals i suppose in the age of 16, 17 they made a card, a big card and wrote DAD N MOM, WE LOVE U... waiting patiently for their dad n mom and keep putting up the card if there were anyone coming out.. and when they saw their parents same thing they hugged them kissed them on the cheek n i saw the gals crying... aww~ how sweet were they!

I guess sometimes we are too shy to tell our parent how much we care bout them, but with this lil action they will b able to feel it, but even this we are shy to do. But i was wondering if we dun tell and we don't make any active action will they noe? will they understand? prolly last time i will think well... tis should put in the heart and not on the mouth... but i think now i have changed my mindset, i think of coz i will put it in my heart, meanwhile i need to tell her as well... so tat she knows it... i think this is a much more effective way!

ohhh apart from being emotional, i was materialistic too gosh! erm!! when i saw some branded bags or luggages within my view line, i juz can't stop lookin at it.. i think it is time for me to wake up!!! stop being materialistic! one of the disadvantages coming to UK is definitely having more knowledge in bags.. aiks.. well.. there is always pros n cons hehe ^^

ohh ya nearly forget ( distracted by the bags thinggy) after this heathrow trip i learnt something i think, i must try my best to pick up my family, friends, lover in the airport coz it really do means a lot for them or prolly for us, i do think it is something very sweet!! aww so sweet ;p