MA : 1.0

MA : 1.0


To do to not do!! Umm I don’t think it’s a great idea come on…. Have I gone mad of course I don’t wana do this now… oh no no I guess lemme do it… HUFF!! This exactly was the kind of the thing that went on in my mind…. When I first thought about my vacation to Singapore….

With my decision made I told dad that I couldn’t really make up my mind to go leaving him behind… since he dint have a passport at all.. Of course dad gave me a quick ten min talk and I SAID YESS!! Am gonna do it!! Now that the decision was made I had to bring myself to accept the fact that I was gonna travel alone to my MI trip no.1 which I did quickly :)

The details of ticket booking and money exchange and travel bag – oh come on dad wouldn’t let me do a thing… he took care of my travel to the last minute detail!!! The loving caring dad!! No wonder daughter’s are always partial towards their dads :) taking care of ticket booking is one thing and ensuring to buy a number locking stuff for my samsonite is another thing of caring altogether… not sure abt anyone else but ask me and I could say I am so lucky to have a caring dad like this… The packing as usual was done in the nth moment LOL of course am known for that all thru … :) and ohh!! The DAY arrived!!

WHOOPSIE DAISY!! I was travelling to Singapore... Sure loads of ppl do!!! But then for me the first international travel made me nervous, excited, proud, and happy all at the same time… Next thing I know dad dropped me at the airport and I entered the lounge …. I turn back oops only travelers are allowed.. :) :) Oh come on!!! GROANNNNNNNNN not happening…. The daddy’s girl was suddenly left all alone to worry about the stupid check in and blah blah to be done on her own.. as confused as I was I turned to look at the glass door and found dad nervously standing and peeping at me and waving me to go towards the counter and show my tickets to the personnel there… that moment I understood that dad wasn’t worried abt being alone for the longest period and for the first time without me but he was worried abt sending me all alone!! The look on his face was nothing less than a father who was throwing his kid and catching her mid in the air suddenly by mistake could not catch her and was bewildered and worried to the core of the soul!!!

I immediately called him to say it was alright and I was fine… and pleaded him not to worry…. And cleared my misty eyes!! Of course a travel alone for four and a half hours was manageable… but how the hell was I supposed to be fine and not miss dad!!! But then the next one hour kept me busy with the baggage check in, security check, immigration blah blah… I was not very but actually a lil nervous wen I stood in the queue for the immigration… sure there were so many travelers who were moving in to different booth for the same as me… but there was a mild agitation inside…. And there… came my turn and I gave my confident smile and a helloo and handed the officer my papers and passport and he started stifling my papers and checking it into the system in front of him for what looked like to me as a million hours {it actually took two mins :)} and after putting the much needed stamp on to my passport … he said – “ First time travel :) all the best , enjoy” - to which I gave a nod and a thx to him and walked out of the booth with a sigh of relief and smile on my face.. of course I waited in the lounge for ten mins and finished my quick call to dad to which he only said call me before u switch off :)

The obedient one that I am :) boarded the flight settled down to my window seat and happily called dad to say tata…. And stared out of the window to see if I can find a taxi and my dad somewhere in sight.. Now this might look stupid and funny but then isn’t it that wat one would do while battling so many emotions at the same time??? I finished switching off my phone and finally turned my attention to my fellow passenger.. Just in case… the cautious one that I am…. I found an aunty in the side seat and to my relief the centre seat was empty :) GEE I was definitely relieved… The sitting next to someone with that a close area… is something I have always hated … or rather I am simply not comfortable about … dunno y though….

Since there was nothing much for me to do once I was locked inside the silk air – Aircraft… I started turning my keen eye to the aunty in the green simple saree… Simple the saree was but not she … definitely… the Louis Vuitton bag and the black cashmere shawl kind of a thing she draped herself with was definitely beautiful… oh I would call it as elegant… And then we exchanged wat is called a fellow passenger smile and eyed each other and ahh!! There came the approval smile from both of us being satisfied with the fellow traveler… and I settled down with the seat belt… now some more time to read the TODAY – newspaper of Singapore given to me and my fellow passenger - the elegant aunty :) and there suddenly I realized that the aunty wore a beautiful design of diamonds as bangles , a beautiful super cool pair of earring and a ring… the glitter of the diamonds wow this was a super cool aunty surely… who said anything about one can’t look elegant in their 50’s !! of course I have seen the heavy makeup and un necessary modern touch that people try to force on themselves… Now … I really was awed / impressed by the way this cute aunty dressed… hmm ohhh in the meanwhile… here comes my vegetarian dinner… :) :) despite eating chapathi at home.. Here I was munching off the meal without a minute’s hesitation… it was decent not great!! Now this conclusion about the meal I came to only after I completed hogging… :)during it the only thing I thought about was the options and which to eat first…

Ten minutes after the meal I tucked myself into the warm blanket and eyed the sky hoping if I would get to gaze at the moon and the soft cotton like white clouds… oh no!! :( I was in for disappointment.. instead I found a dark sky and heavily lashing rain… :) I tried to keep my eyes open but just could not do it anymore and drifted off to wat is called as the peacefulness of sleep where there was no excitement and anticipation of the trip or the sadness of missing dad… there was calm and quiet..

I woke up wen the sun light started touching my eyes slowly seeping thru the tiny windows of the air craft… and kept shuffling myself to adjust my eyes to the soft light of breaking dawn… and kept staring down to see what lay in the surprise package and started thinking wat it would be like wen I step in to the Singapore soil… yuppie… here I was !!!! Destination reached… It felt great… setting my foot out of the air craft (after the weird thank you have a nice time – from the air hostesses) I felt as though I were someone like a Neil Armstrong and was the first one to set my foot on the Singapore soil - this was the exact thought and I almost laughed out while thinking… ROFL…. One could feel like calling me a fool to have thought this way… but then my thoughts were mine isn’t it … funny or stupid --- that was the feeling I felt..

I got company of another girl who was a loner like me and I helped her by showing the way to the escalator that took us towards the baggage counter and in turn borrowed her pen to fill the required form :) and together we made it to the exit :) and said bye… and there I sat in the lounge of the Changi Airport… changing my airtel sim into the matrix one and waiting for sis and family to arrive…

:) :) for further details… keep watching this space eheeh :)