pre-stroke - higher education

after the mce results were out, the first offer i got was to to the dartmouth naval college in england.to my regret now, i turned it down and instead took up the offer by mara to pursue my'A' levels at the grimsby college of technology in england. the first thing i did was to search for an atlas,where lo and behold found out that grimsby is somewhere on the northeast of england and it's principal fame is as a fishy town.so,one fine day, we drove to the old subang airport and hesitatingly i boarded the 707 plane for my first ever plane trip. there were six of us going to grimsby, all males,2 from rmc( the other one is ismail fatah), 1 from mckk and 3 sarawakians who spoke a funny language (leng, jamal and hatta) leng is another one with a funny name - leng bin hj jack. it being my first time on a plane, i was at a loss when the food tray was served, and thus nonchalantly peek at my elderly neighbour and proceeded to attack the servings by following his every action. in no time, we reached our stopover destination,teheran pre-ayatollah, wherein i saw my first colour television and i was so engrossed that i miss the re-boarding call. thank god i managed to rush back and board the plane and safely reached london heathrow, where i spent 6 years really, really growing up. i was that close to, in later years, perhaps being an ardent follower of the ayatollah and maybe now residing somewhere in taliban country.my six year stay in england was very memorable and it's account can only be told in future postings as in the six years my life went through a complete metamorphosis