Airport


I rarely picked up friends at the airport as our airport is very efficient and it's not hard to go to the city centre with public transportaiton at all. Of course, I made an exception for close friends that I care about.

On 17 October, I was counting down the time for my friend's arrival. I tried to relax and not to go to the airport so early but eventually I still arrived pretty early. I hated to find out that his flight was a bit delayed. I didn't meet this online friend in person so I was a bit nervious on whether I could recognize him. Sometimes I looked around and wondered if that person was him as he's there for some minutes and seemed to be waiting for someone. Well, his flight was delayed, of course, that's not him. I bet I just hated the feeling of waiting and wanted to spot him out right away and came home.

As time passed by, there was no sight of him. I started to feel a bit anxious and couldn't help text him just in case. Soon that I realized some people next to me were also waiting someone from Vancouver as well. So, it's not like my friend was being stopped by the Customs having trouble or he didn't jump on the plane at the last minute.

I waited for almost an hour and I could guess some passengers from that plane showed up. They looked like they were from Canada 'coz they carried a lot of baggages, wearing relatively more clothes and probably they're in bigger sizes, too. It's just a wild guess but I hope that's about the time he would show up.

I saw more and more people meeting their friends and felt so happy to give them a big hug or kisses. I didn't know what I would do when I meet my friend. That's the very first time we met in person though we've known each other for more than a year.

Eventually I saw him in his usual black T-shirt. Definitely it's the guy that I wanted to meet. I always find it strange to "transit" the person of meeting a person online to face-to-face. Even how close I felt to a friend online, it always take a while for me to adjust. Luckily, it didn't take so long for me for such adjustment this time.

Yes, I wanted to hug him and welcome him to the place where I live. Welcome to Hong Kong, my dear friend!

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