Second Touch Down, Similar Feeling

Finally, I’m back home. A place I have been anticipated for 120 days. I always tell myself: “Why would I even bother to go back a place I cry so much for?” and it always ended up with: “Because my love for them never stops me”.

17 Feb 2011

I’m right now in the plane and I’m on the way to Kolkata, I have been thinking of this particular moment 120 times, like never before. I must say that it has been a long way coming back home. It’s quite a hectic journey for me, to wait at least 4 hours of interval but you know having to know bhai are there waiting for me, it means more than just plain waiting.

Looking out of the window, the endless cloud, the endless wind, the bright sun, I can feel this flavored country. The place Suraj Singh was born, the place where he doesn’t have to care who he really are, because it doesn’t really matters anymore.

2 more hours before Suraj is going to touch down at Kolkata’s Airport, maybe he should share some of his personal experience in travelling alone at the age of 21.

It simply just came to my mind: “Suraj, you got to come back, you got to return to this very place” it was then I decided to purchase the tickets and come back all alone. You must be thinking: “he’s crazy” but unfortunately: I’m not. Honestly speaking, it’s quite scary to travel alone, because you got no one to talk to, people are treating you like a foreigner, which I hate these part of it! When I fill up that particular form the stewardess pass to me, what I want to write was: “Suraj Singh” and skip that foreigner part, but guess I wasn’t born that way. I’M STILL A FOREIGNER.

Board the plane at Singapore Terminal 1, the place where the adventure begins. I’m all alone in that very security clearance room. Board the plane, got my seat, tie my seat belt and I just stone at my seat. I have no one to speak to. My mind has been wondering all along, how am I going to transit from KL to Kolkata? Where should I go? How do I come about doing it?

If you are travelling alone, I suggest you not to think so much and just calm down, because everything seem so easy when you are going through it.

Like me, after I alight, I follow the normal procedure to check out myself from the airport and retrieve my luggage. After which I goes to the departure hall to check myself in for the transit. Everything is so easy and I laugh at myself for thinking so damn much.

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