This Time Last Year

It was my BVC classmate's birthday on 3rd Sept. So I dropped her a message on her Facebook wall, wishing her Happy Birthday.

She replied me with thanks, reminding me that it has been exactly 1 year since we started the BVC in BPP Law School.

For a moment, I was lost in thoughts.

Yes, the same day last year - 3rd Sept 2007, I was heading towards the School in Holborn, anxious and nervous simultaneously.
I dragged a luggage bag along and filled it with the books provided to us to take them back home with me to Euston. Most of them are as thick as dictionaries.

I then thought of the journey I travelled from Euston to Holborn during weekdays. From Cobourg Street to Euston Road, passing by Euston Station where hundreds of people in suits are walking swiftly in all directions. Head south and walk along Woburn Place, passing by Russell Square, and subsequently reach Southampton Row, and eventually High Holborn.
That was the journey I took almost every weekday and it took me 30 minutes by foot. The journey will be awful when it is winter and it is raining, and nice when it is spring/summer with breeze.

Oh, my cosy little flat in Cobourg Street. Well, it is not the nicest accommodation and you can find in Central London, but the rent is cheap, and the house was filled with joy, laughter, sorrow and all kinds of memory.

And the Sainsbury's at Warren Street that was 10 minutes away. Well, it is not very well-equipped like other Sainsbury's in other locations, but I could get all the basic stuffs there. Milk, bread, veggies, cereals, fruits, meat.

I am missing London very much. I sometimes even questioned myself that why I didn't try to seek for a job there. Ah, to finish my chambering in M'sia and get qualified as an Advocate & Solictior. And this is an easier route - applying for jobs in UK (esp in London) is, more often than not, very stressful and frustrating at times.

I will visit London again. Whether as a visitor or as a worker, I will want to see that place again.