On Sunday 29th August 2010 in the morning at 8:30, Huy came to pick me up with my brother and we went to pick up Dara C., Rathanak, Seng, and Kun. It's a bit narrow with 7 people inside a car, but we were still very pleased with our fun along the way to the International Phnom Penh Airport.
My mum and dad had already been there when we arrived at the airport. I put my 2 heavy luggae to check in. It had some problem with overload luggage more than 25kg, but it was no problem when I showed check-in desk the Letter of Scholarship issued by Embassy of Singapore.
Mouyleng, Monin, Chhoeng, Candy, Sany, and Dara H., arrived to send me off after that. They had prepared a surprise for me with a bunch of flower and 2 T-Shirts. Dara H., Lay, Chenda, Vichka, Deth, Sros, and Hak came later nearly 10:00am, when there is only 15 minutes left before departure.
While I was paying money at Service Fee Counter, surprisingly my name was announced to get on board immediately. I was the last one!!! The plane was waiting for me impatiently. Therefore, I rushed and run.
I had never imagined that I would go to passport control and luggage counter within 5 minutes. I boarded on the plane MI601 and got a window seat. That's the last moment I was in Cambodia.
Arrival at Changi Airport
I arrived at Changi Airport at 12:45 (Singapore time). The person who came to get me is Mr. Faizal, liaison officer from Ministry of Foreign Affair (MFA). I waited for another Indonesian student, Benny, who came later than me about 15 minutes. Mr. Faizal arranged a car for 2 of us to go to NTU first because other scholars were arriving late.
The first building I saw when the car came into NTU was School of Computer Engineering, in front of International House. The car dropped me at Hall 1. I went to check in at hall office with my 2 big luggage. Fortunately, I met Seiha, who was also waiting in the queue for check in, or I wouldn't have know how to do.
12-01-177 is my block-level-room number. Where is block 12? It is at the top of the hill. I was tired to death with carrying luggage. Luckily Seiha helped me carry one of them.
After settling down in the room, Seiha brought me to Nanyang Market to buy some items I didn't have. In the evening, we had dinner with other seniors at canteen 2. It made me feel comfortable to see our Cambodians at NTU.
It's hard to get to sleep for the first night. I didn't get used to the mixture of languages yet. The next morning I woke up very early, at 5:00 am. The new page of my life is flipped over!