The Flight
I was sitting next to a Scottish man on the plane, whom I kept talking to on purpose just to hear his lovely accent. He must've thought I was very annoying....
There couldn't have been a stranger flight though, because I met a few funny characters on the plane. I was about to sleep and I pushed my chair back when it suddenly met with a vast resistant. The woman next to me made a few sympathetic faces as the heavily built woman behind me (i.e. fat) pushed my chair against me and said, "I'm sorry, I have long legs, could you please not recline your chair?" Stunned, I said ok and made faces at the sympathetic woman beside me in sympathy with her sympathetic expressions, and left in search of another seat in front of a more horizontally-challenged person.
So I moved to the back, where I ended up against a woman from Norway who could speak a little English. Her birthplace was in Sri Lanka, and she was going to Singapore for a holiday and to buy gold (?!) before she would go with her husband to Sri Lanka. I ended up trying to adjust the entertainment system for her so that it was playing Tamil movies, and after a while while I was engrossed in Shallow Hal (bad movie ) she tapped me and said, "Up." So I frantically tried everything I could think of, tapping the upward arrow button, going back, and trying to figure out what she wanted, but she kept on saying "Up", and in the end I said, "Off?" and she said, "AHhhhh! Off, off, off" and I think I should start learning some basic Tamil, not just "Your voice is very nice" and "You are very handsome".
After that she went to the toilet, and her husband moved next to me and started talking to me. Suddenly leaning very close, he said, "You are very beautiful".... and I was a little worried and kept casting anxious glances at his wife, who looked worried too. "I have to go to the toilet", I said hastily, and took my pillow and blanket and headphones and scurried back to my old seat, where I spent a sleepless and upright night watching 50 First Dates (good), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (not bad), Shallow Hal (urgh), The Girl Next Door (blearugh), and Peter Pan (very very good).
I didn't know whether Peter Pan was targetted more at adults, because it seemed to have this undercurrent of darkness and sensuality running through its innocent portrayal of a few children in Never Never land. (ahahhahaa.... am talking crap la).... Will write more on Peter Pan in the next entry...am now going to sleep.
There couldn't have been a stranger flight though, because I met a few funny characters on the plane. I was about to sleep and I pushed my chair back when it suddenly met with a vast resistant. The woman next to me made a few sympathetic faces as the heavily built woman behind me (i.e. fat) pushed my chair against me and said, "I'm sorry, I have long legs, could you please not recline your chair?" Stunned, I said ok and made faces at the sympathetic woman beside me in sympathy with her sympathetic expressions, and left in search of another seat in front of a more horizontally-challenged person.
So I moved to the back, where I ended up against a woman from Norway who could speak a little English. Her birthplace was in Sri Lanka, and she was going to Singapore for a holiday and to buy gold (?!) before she would go with her husband to Sri Lanka. I ended up trying to adjust the entertainment system for her so that it was playing Tamil movies, and after a while while I was engrossed in Shallow Hal (bad movie ) she tapped me and said, "Up." So I frantically tried everything I could think of, tapping the upward arrow button, going back, and trying to figure out what she wanted, but she kept on saying "Up", and in the end I said, "Off?" and she said, "AHhhhh! Off, off, off" and I think I should start learning some basic Tamil, not just "Your voice is very nice" and "You are very handsome".
After that she went to the toilet, and her husband moved next to me and started talking to me. Suddenly leaning very close, he said, "You are very beautiful".... and I was a little worried and kept casting anxious glances at his wife, who looked worried too. "I have to go to the toilet", I said hastily, and took my pillow and blanket and headphones and scurried back to my old seat, where I spent a sleepless and upright night watching 50 First Dates (good), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (not bad), Shallow Hal (urgh), The Girl Next Door (blearugh), and Peter Pan (very very good).
I didn't know whether Peter Pan was targetted more at adults, because it seemed to have this undercurrent of darkness and sensuality running through its innocent portrayal of a few children in Never Never land. (ahahhahaa.... am talking crap la).... Will write more on Peter Pan in the next entry...am now going to sleep.
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