Arrive at Heathrow with Kamil since he sent me there with some luggage, looked for the check in counter for Air China. Found it, but somehow not chinese person serving me. She asked me if I have anything in my baggage not belong to me, and whether I have packed my stuff by myself, I could’nt hear what she was trying to say exactly, it was full of accent. I was ‘hai?’, and then she said ‘do you need any translater, it seems to me that you don’t understand what I am saying, we do have someone speak chinese here’, I was like, wtf?! Have been in UK for five years, can’t say having excellent english, but at least fine with conversation, I was thinking if I should say ‘yes please, cause you are full of weird accent which I can’t possibly understand.’, but instead I just said no it’s ok, and then I tried harder in listening to her. She asked me if I know that I will have to take my checked-in baggage after flight to Bejing from London and then ‘check out’ the custom, and then check in everything again for Bejing to HK. I said I donno, and I don’t think that’s possible, my transition time is meant to be 2.5hours, and reduced to about an hour after delay from Heathrow. I was so shocked by this stupid idea. What’s only good about Air China is that I have 30Kg rather than 23Kg for BA and CX. After a while, she gave me the ticket where there is a logo of ‘United Airline’ which I noticed only after Kamil mention. I was kinda shocked and looked for her again after sending Kamil off to the tube station. She said the ticket and boarding pass stuff are operated by United Airline, but the plane will certainly still be Air China. And then I asked if I would even have my personal TV, she said nope, damn…

After messing with her, I went in to the gate. On the way I was pushing my trolley with only a small bag(two pair of shoes and badminton racquet) and talking on phone with Juli. There come suddenly a woman from behind and starting loading stuff on my trolley and kinda said to me that(in chinese) ‘Let’s push together!’ My brain was totally empty, I’ve never seen such a situation, I don’t understand what the hell is happening. We kept pushing the trolley for few steps and then my brain start to function again, I took my stuff off the trolley and said in chinese(give it to you), and she seems very happy, laughed, took it off and share the trolley with her friends(another two women). WHAT THE FUCK?! How dodgy this is?! I don’t understand, trolleys are free, trolleys are everywhere, the gate is right in front, why she has to take my trolley, to save a few step of taking her stuff?! I just can’t believe that. The worse is yet to come. When I kept walking with them slight behind of me, we queue up. When the queue is moving, I don’t like keeping myself vey very tight with the queue, that’s sick, isn’t it, people need space, so I left about one step of space right in front of me. When the queue get into a turn, the woman who robbed my trolley suddenly took my place, it’s just seem like what happened in Formula One, and those two are trying to do exactly the same thing, and I moved myself to block them, which they couldn’t get passed, and the one at the front said to me, ‘O… I want to stick with my friends’, and I shifted myself a bit and let her get pass to my back. I just DON’T UNDERSTAND, I am a single person, how much adventage you could get from jumping my queue[I was jumped by three Korean earlier in the same date in passport control.], faster by 5seconds? 10 seconds? And we all have to wait anyway since the flight is delayed by one hour. I HATE it, I FUCKING HATE it. Couldn’t they be slightly more patient?! Do they simply understand what is ‘queue’? Why they always having to optimise their own benefit?! It makes me sick, very sick. In order to avoid further conflict with those china chinese, I tried to sit closer to the gate when waiting hopefully get on board asap and leave them fight for the queue.

On the flight I sat with a china chinese girl who sat on my left and a guy sat on my right. After a while of reading my Memoirs or Geisha and he was reading his Angel and Demon(a book I which I also bought as well), I started a conversation with him, talked about the book at first. And then realise that we have some common things to talk about. I talked the story in terminal, about how rule are china chinese, and he told me he thinks exactly the same(but I am sure there is some exception, like Yangorgor). We chated until feeling sleepy and slept. After woke up then chat again. He is nice guy, and we exchange our email. I said I will look for him if I am going to 廣州, and he will look for me if he is coming to HK, no matter that’s gonna be true or not, it’s nice to meet him.
After arriving at Bejing, I heard a girl shouting ‘transition to HK’, and then walked forward. And after a while, she took me to a place with I can get my next boarding pass without checking out and in again, and baggage will be sorted as she promised. So I aboard the next flight without having much trouble.

When I get to HK, I wait for my baggage at baggage reclaim area, wait, wait and wait. Nothing much came out, and no one waiting, very shocking, I thought everyone got what they have already, but only a few piece came out from the beginning. So I spoke with a person in uniform and he told me that baggage stuck in Bejing and lots of people queuing up in the information centre. I went there, queue up for a bit, and then they finally annouce that they have latest information that baggage are all taking the next plane from Bejing to HK, but in case have to queue up again, I filled up a baggage lost form with my name and address and stuff… At the end I had to wait for another >30mins for them, damn… It wasted my time, and surely for Juli as well, she was standing outside of the arrival for more than two hours, um…

And after a little bit more time for bus, I got back home and had dinner with mum and my brother…

Figure 1 and 2: Baggage lost form