MARCH 20

Went to Manchester. It was already past noon when we reached there. The weather, chilling. Still wearing my slim sweater. Thought that I can brace the weather. what a joke! First destination. The town hall. There was a massive gathering at the town hall square. There was a banner hung at the building and people were holding placards. They came for the anti war gathering. They were surrounded by policemen. They were just watching the crowd. Very professional indeed.

One lady told me that the gathering started at noon and marched at several streets around the city. How is this war affecting them? Those B&B (Bush and Blair) are launching the first world war of the 21st Century and we are going to have to answer to our children what we did about it. It's a brazen war of imperialist conquestm aimed at tightening a rich,. gas-guzzling megapower's control over the oil fields of the middle east. AND IT WONT STOP WITH IRAQ. THE WAR IS GOING TO GO ON AND ON.

The lady told me that they have come up with a protest - If Blair is going to act illegally, they we will also - get involve with the strikes occupations, blockades across Manchester. They will do this on April 1 - the April Blair fools day.

The idea is that people do their own action throughout the day. They will meet up at 6pm in All Saints Park Oxford Road for a demonstration together.

what really interesting is how the police handle the crowd. They were calm. Never interfere except occassionally when some people went out the line. Overall they were very professional. A policeman told me "Its their right to have an opinion. We are just here to monitor that no one go out of hand and no public property was damaged". It was really an experience. Furthermore, these police are experience lot. They handled big crowd, riots and demonstration regularly. Especially during football games.

Ops! while we were at Manchester, we met NTV7 team doing coverage on the football games. Of all the places, yea?

MARCH 17

Pukul 5.30am dah bangun sebab nak kejar pukul 6.30am. Packed everything last night. Hope semuanya dah cukup. Especially snokin hehehehehe. Check weather kat Hull, mak ai max is 10C. Bila dah keluar rumah baru sedar cincin tak de. Lari balik masuk, tak jumpa. Ntah mana campaknya semalam bila mandi. Well, tak pe la kot. Check jam alamak dah lambat.. 35 mins past 6. Tarik beg. Mak ai beratnya. Ini mesti sebab jacket kulit Juli.

Tiba kat Masjid Jamek, rush hour time. Orang semua pergi kerja, aku tarik beg besar sengsorang. Had to let go one train sebab memang dah padat. Check jam alamak dah 7am. Marina dah text dia dah tiba kat Sentral. Alamak mana tren ni?

Finally reached Sentral at 7.10am. Marina dah tunggu. We all dah beli ticket ERL kat Matta so dapat half price pergi balik. OK la tu.

Tiba di KLIA dah dekat pukul lapan. Check in. ingat kan cepat la tu rupanya pun dah dapat seat kat belakang 60E and D ish! macam cup bra la plak hahahahahahahaha. Well sebab apa plane penuh? laa sebab budak2 brazilian team balik. The Youth Cup dah abis. Cheh! And Im wearing the Real Madrid jersey.. tutup tutup

Tiba kat Heathrow dah pukul 3.50pm local time. The weather kira ok juga. Tengok dari tingkap, nampak cerah. Rasanya suhu pun tak de la sejuk sangat. Hopefully. Turun dari flight je, it was a long journey to the immigration counters. Pusing-pusing baru tiba ke immigration line. Punya la ramai umat manusia.

After clearing with the immigration, terus proceed ke carousel, tunggu beg. Alamak dah lepas! Kena pusing satu lagi.. tunggu lagi. Beg bukannya berat sangat. Aaaa tu dia! Satu lagi beg nak tunggu. This one penuh berisi dengan makanan untuk orang kat England hehehehe.

Once the bags were on the cart, we all terus cari Abang Annis. He was the one who supposed to meet us here. Sedang elok aje we all keluar, dia tiba.. He was so nervous tengok we all. Sampai juga akhirnya hehehehehe

From the airport, we go straight to Surrey. Tido kat sana satu hari.. Aduh! penatnya badan. Jet lag lagi.