| 6 July 2003 Wasted a day waiting in HK airport, but saw no signs of Jerry, could not give him the presents. The next following week, will be busied with exams & work. No way at all to follow Jerry’s schedule, so Shelly & I decided to take a day leave off work on 14 July 2003 again, to take a gamble, we booked a flight from Shanghai to Cheng Du, Cheng Du to HK & HK to Shanghai ticket. See if we are lucky enough to be able to catch a glimpse of Jerry. 14 July 2003 Early in the morning, Shelly & I both took the 8:45am flight from Shanghai to Cheng Du, waiting for Jerry’s arrival. At around 12:30pm, Jerry’s flight reached!! At gate no. 2 exit, Shelly & I waited there. Eversince 9 March 2003 till today, it had been 4 months plus that we have not seen Jerry!! Finally, our dreams will come true! We were both really excitied & nervous! We waited for quite a while but still have not seen Jerry, my whole heart sank…. We chatted with some of others Jerry fans who were also waiting at the airport, that we realized Jerry might be having his meal at the VIP Lounge. Shelly & I then realized that we both had not eaten anything at all, feeling hungry, we went to fill our stomach. After our meal, we are preparing to confirm our tickets to HK. In Cheng Du Suang Liu airport, there are 2 storeys, when we are walking from the inside to the outside, along the pavement, we saw a lot of Cheng Du fans waiting outside the VIP Lounge area, Jerry must be inside!!! As Shelly & my tickets are for different class, so we checked in & passed the security & went to the VIP Resting area to wait for Jerry, the security was very tight in the VIP Resting area, & as it is facing the entrance of the VIP Lounge, Shelly & I kept our faces fixed in that direction hoping to see Jerry. At 14:45pm, there were a lot more people, all rushing to see Jerry, we also went along with the crowd. At 14:50pm, finally JERRY APPEARED!!! His manager & assistants were walking in front & behind him, with security guards protecting him. We stood there, saw him take down his backpack, walk through the scanner door. At that moment, I simply can’t believe my own eyes. Jerry is in flesh & blood, so real standing right infront of me! Then he entered the VIP room with all his crews. At this time, we are only left with 20 mins to boarding. So we went into the waiting area & sat right at the back, 10 mins later, Jerry came!! At that moment, 2 female airport staff held onto Jerry & refused to let him leave! Jerry remove his backpack, took out a can of Pepsi & gave it to one of them, 2 of them began to snatch for it & forgot about Jerry. Jerry quickly left, slowly he is walking towards us…I immediately went up to him & pass him the presents which we had wanted to give him. Shelly passed the letter to him. At this very moment, I was rooted to the ground, motionless, I could only remember saying : “Jerry, we came from shanghai, this ping pong racket is for you, coz the other time in Nanjing, saw you & Zai playing ping pong, you played well.” I really thought of praising him more but then I could not remember what happened next….i could not even hear what Jerry said. Shelly said I looked so stunned & shocked & my eyes just froze! When we board the plane, there were total 8 seats in 2 rows. I sat at 1C right next to Shelly. But next to me, dividing me is a small passageway & Jerry came in!! He sat right in front of me!! The crew state that we should not be a hindrance & no photo-taking are allowed. As the crews were busying arranging their stuff, Shelly walk right up to Jerry & said to him, “On 6 July, we went to HK to fetch you but sadly we didn’t manage to see you, as we had to work on the 2nd day, we had no choice but to leave.” Jerry, with his electrifying eyes replied : “I’m so sorry.” Shelly immediately said “It’s ok, heard that your job is done, so we flew to Cheng Du to fetch you this time.” I immediately said “You must come to Shanghai ok? We will treat you go eat big crabs!” He just looked at me & smiled. At this time, some fans came along & took their seats near us, all of us were soo happy!! His manager also sat down. In the whole area, there are just Shelly, me, some Xu fans (left & right) at the back row is Jerry, Xiao Zhi, Li Siu Fang & another foreigner.2 hours flight journey began, we at the front kept turning & looking at Jerry, he looked just like a small little boy, he cannot keep still at work, at times, he played with the cards on flight, then he packed his bag, then he flip through the inflight magazines….I can’t help not looked at him!! Once he actually looked up at me & smiled. My heart flap, my jaw dropped open & I just plainly stared at him, my god!!! I must have looked so stupid infront of him!!! |
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