memories from my past - January 1981 - Schiphol airport

In January of 1981 after arrival (from Karachi) at the schiphol airport, after immigration, customs formalities I checked in my bags for the domestic flight of NLM city Hopper (Fokker plane) to Eindhoven.

Staff at the check in counter (of NLM city Hopper airline) gave me baggage tags. This was my first time exposure to these things in a unknown (new) country. As I was trying to figure it out, girls at the counter whispered to each other after noticing me doing something differently (that this was a first time traveller) while looking at me undoing the rubber band of the tag and putting it back on the handle and knotting it again (but they were shy and did not offer to help me to put the tags on, which is actually a simple thing if you know it.). At the same time while they were talking to each other in whisper I was trying to figure out in my mind how to make friendship with them but I was shy and introvert as well So after checkin I walked away from the counter, looked around in the hall, stepped out to the street to see the view, back in again, a woman passed by me and told me that I had a sticker on my the back of my jacket. It was a nuffic sticker which I was displaying on my jacket so that some one should come and talk to me (as per the instructions in the booklet). I asked her where was the nuffic office, she pointed in a upward direction a bit far from where we were standing. I decided not to go to look for nuffic office upstairs in the building rather proceeded to the departure gate for the domestic flight to Eindhoven operated by NLM city Hopper.

(Documented in January 2022 in Hamilton at my ID address)

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN/INTEREST

Published by the undersigned:

KHALID MAHMOOD (KM) (Male)

www.m0168.org

خالد محمود ھملٹن اونٹاریو کینیڈا

M01684340561220

Ph:(289)990-6590

2-671 Fennell Ave. East,

(Door#: 2 with curtain on the upper Floor)

Hamilton Ontario L8V 1V3 Canada

(correct postal code for my address as assigned by Canada Post is L8V1V3, it is NOT 3J3).

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Monthly Tenant (in this building since 2017 May – 58 months in February 2022 – I was trapped to rent in such building, I did not ask for this address.)

A suggestion to the technical and Engineering Colleges/Universities to include some courses in their programme to prepare graduate students to learn to survive the shock and stress of govt. provided social assistance due to unemployment and unknown reasons, which I was never/not taught.