48-hour Madness

The next 48hrs: Finish diss,edit diss,bind diss,cast vote,pass diss to NJ,change money,pack,read up on Msia-Indo FP,take flight to Jakarta.
— Farah.z (@iFarahz) May 3, 2013

I hope I stay sane. Sengaja cari pasal..

Flying Like A Dato

Today turns out to be a good day in spite of back to back meetings and class. Met up with my former Mandarin teacher who graciously drove me back to KL and treat me to 'minum petang'. When I got home, too sleep-deprived to do dissertation work, I decided to book my ticket to Kuching for the Rainforest Festival. Much to my amusement, Malaysian Airlines has an array of titles to select from when you fill in the passenger information form (see below).

This could be interpreted in various ways:

1. MAS is sensitive towards their passengers' titles and seeks to uphold a professional standard when dealing with passengers
2. Malaysia is still caught up in our obsession with titles and often put meaningless importance on using those given titles at meaningless situations
3. MAS wants to make their passengers feel special by allowing them to choose their own titles

Needless to say, Dato Farah, Dato Aneez, Dato Deepa and Miss Elizabeth shall be flying economy class to Kuala Lumpur on MAS this July.

Best RM38 Datukship deal, ever. 

The Farewell Journey

A series of my thoughts I penned down while I was travelling in June..

24th June

As I said goodbye to my fellow exchange students throughout the month of June, I became rather anxious thinking how it would be when its my turn. (un)fortunately, the whole process was (and still) a blur as my travel plans were arranged with little breathing space.

I started packing about two weeks before I was due to leave Nottingham as a result of boredom when my laptop's keyboard malfunctioned. With the peace of mind that most of must stuff were packe, i left it as late as possible to pack the rest of the it avoid making my room look empty. But as I woke up on the morning of 22nd June, my mind went into a mild panic attack as I realise that my room does not look like i'm supposed to leave the next day at 4am! on top of that, there were errands to run, last minute meet-ups to squeeze into less than 24hours. muraculously i managed to get everything done.

two days, here i am at the heathrow airport, waiting for my flight to Stockholm, Sweden. Today alone I will be in 3 cities - Bristol, London and Stockholm; and everything is still a blur. I have not yet digested the fact that I have left Nottingham. Maybe this is a good thing. But for now, I need to catch my flight!

p/s: Happy birthday to my sdfbff, Rabbit!