Assalamualaikum! :D
So a few weeks ago, my friends and I arrived at KLIA on the 17th of August 2011 to head back to US before our Fall classes begin. Apparently there were more Malaysians on board on that particular flight than what we had expected :p which is a pleasant surprise! :)
Usually, we could book our seats on the plane for our flight hence we get to sit with our friends on the plane. But due to technical difficulties of Cathay's website, we were only able to book our seats for the flight from KL to Hong Kong. The seats from HK to JFK was completely random!
N there I was finding my seat. Thankfully I got the aisle seat; at least I won't need to disturb the other passengers if I needed to go to the bathroom (which we usually do need to do so eventually :P) I find myself sitting next to a nice old Chinese couple, most probably from Hong Kong as we had a transit there for about an hour :)
*okie they weren't that old, maybe around their 40s or 50s :)*
At the very beginning, I could hear the husband 'scolding' his wife on how to arrange the bags on the floor before taking off. I smiled at their honestly sweet little argument :) Then I had to put my handbag in front and below her husband's seat as under my seat was already full. Such a nice guy to not mind my handbag being there for quite a while :D
Then during the flight, as usual we will wear our headphones and scroll up and down on what movies to watch on the mini screens in front of us. Just then, the nice old couple both asked for my help on how to set up the headphones, and even show them how to choose a movie, change the language to chinese, and turn up the volume.
I did not understand mandarin, and they could not really converse in English. So we were really talking to each other in sign language hahahaha :D btol2 mcm ayam dan itik gitu. adoi2 XD
These are the ways you could use to talk in 'sign' language :p:
- How to turn up volume? = take off your headphone, and show it to the other person and shake your head or hand
- How to choose Chinese language = point your finger to the options you desire on the screen
- but please note, once the language changes to chinese, I have NO CLUE how to choose the following other options!!! XD (entertainment or music, etc etc)
- To choose a movie = point finger to desired movie
- To choose subtitle options = please wait for me to refer back to the ENGLISH version :P
There were times I tried to talk to the old couple and break the ice. But all I could get were head nods, yes-es and thank you hahaha XD There was this once where her husband went to the restroom, and I tried to talk to the lady and asked her where was she heading to in the US. I think she said Ohio, and then baby? I'm guessing she's going there to visit her children XD She did mention something else in Mandarin, but I had no clue what she meant :(
Then she said that her English~ *shakes head* hahaha that one I understood XD n then I told her "Mandarin, wo puche-tau" (means I don't know) and you could literally see her face lit up and she was laughing all the way. I said I only know wo che tau, wo pu che tau, wo ai ni~ and she really laughed when I said wo ai ni hahahaha :D
*big smiles :)*
What else happened ya? Oh2 since my friends and I ordered the Muslim meal, our meals usually comes earlier than the rest as I think they are already ready-made, and only required heating before serving it to us. And I was eating first with my meal, and the husband beside me was anxiously waiting for his food, and finally turned to me and said "I'm hungry" while holding his stomach hahahahha XD
16 hours on the flight flew by rather quickly I must say :)
But the thing I couldn't forget most was when we have landed safely, and when we were waiting to get off the plane and had taken out our bags from the overhead compartments, the chinese old lady held my hand with a wide smile and saying goodbye and thank you. (for helping with the electronics haha XD) I also can't forget the kindness of her husband when it was late at night, and he asked for instant noodles in the cup for him n his wife to have. Before he ate his noodles, he offered me some very kindly :)
Aahh old chinese couple, I miss you already :) May we meet again, and hopefully I have already mastered Mandarin by that time and could converse with you much much more better than the last time. No more sign language, aite? :)
Assalamualaikum :)
Oh just for a very incredible love story:
http://www.deewanapan.com/love-stories/an-incredible-love-story.html
:)
