I’m not going to talk about 9/11 because it was not 9/11. Rather it was 8/11 i.e. August 11, 2006. May be you guys have forgotten this date. If so, let us retrospect to the date. Now you already loaded the date in your memory, didn’t you? You are right - it was the day when we’d taken a flight to Thailand in order to join our master’s program at AIT. I can guess the flight was the first international flight to most of us.
It was exactly three years ago when we’d taken the flight of RNAC (now NAC), government owned national flag-carrier of Nepal, from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Kathmandu to Don Muang International Airport (DMK), Bangkok. DMK was shortly closed (Sept 28, 2006) for international flights as Suvarnabhumi Airport was kicked off. Consequently, our batch became the last AIT batch from Nepal who took the flight to DMK from TIA.
We six people had taken the group ticket. To the rest, we didn’t know. We commenced introducing each other from TIA. Later we found there so many friends who were going to AIT. Here is a list:
It was exactly three years ago when we’d taken the flight of RNAC (now NAC), government owned national flag-carrier of Nepal, from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Kathmandu to Don Muang International Airport (DMK), Bangkok. DMK was shortly closed (Sept 28, 2006) for international flights as Suvarnabhumi Airport was kicked off. Consequently, our batch became the last AIT batch from Nepal who took the flight to DMK from TIA.
We six people had taken the group ticket. To the rest, we didn’t know. We commenced introducing each other from TIA. Later we found there so many friends who were going to AIT. Here is a list:
- Bharat Shrestha, Sailesh Bharati, Bishnu Acharya, Pratik Shrestha, Binod Chaudhari, & I
- Sangita Sharma, Abha Baidhya, Mukta Sapkota, Lalita Thakali (?)
- Prabal Khanal, Agni Nepal, Prakash Gupta
If we look at the statistics, the flight was carrying more than 30 % of the total students from Nepal who registered for AIT’s master program in August 2006. That was what made the flight very exciting.
Few interesting events were emerged during the flight. For example, as it was his first flight (national or international), “Kale” was quite nervous when there was turbulence in the flight :). He was babbling: ... oh God ... ... :D. I won't go further to this event as anybody can easily guess ... :). To me, the international flight was quite relaxing because there was less turbulence compared to the domestic flights.
People used to say that any first or last event is unforgettable. Our first international flight also aligns to the saying. Since then the time has made us juniors, then seniors and now alumni. In each of these stages we have got a lot of friends (national and international), experiences (both good and bad), and more importantly the thinking power (to any topic). In addition, some people knew how to cook ;) during their AIT life. Finally, no matter wherever and in what situation we are living now, the day definitely provided us a window from where we started watching the world. Hope casting an eye over this note made you remind the especial day once again. Missing all your companies and love !
Few interesting events were emerged during the flight. For example, as it was his first flight (national or international), “Kale” was quite nervous when there was turbulence in the flight :). He was babbling: ... oh God ... ... :D. I won't go further to this event as anybody can easily guess ... :). To me, the international flight was quite relaxing because there was less turbulence compared to the domestic flights.
People used to say that any first or last event is unforgettable. Our first international flight also aligns to the saying. Since then the time has made us juniors, then seniors and now alumni. In each of these stages we have got a lot of friends (national and international), experiences (both good and bad), and more importantly the thinking power (to any topic). In addition, some people knew how to cook ;) during their AIT life. Finally, no matter wherever and in what situation we are living now, the day definitely provided us a window from where we started watching the world. Hope casting an eye over this note made you remind the especial day once again. Missing all your companies and love !
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In this occasion, I would like to dedicate a song, the song that we played in the AIT's welcome show, to all the 2006 August batch friends who took the same flight. Please check it:
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