All Plane Journeys Should Be Like This. Lah.

Please play this YouTube video and have the music playing as you read =] :

I would like to share with you the best plane journey I've had. It would be my Phnom Penh to Singapore flight with JetStar. It was just really great. No babies but rather a couple dozen school kids from Bedok Secondary. They were on some school holiday trip thing for 5 days (to Cambodia?!!? I've clearly been attending the wrong schools!)

I won't lie when I first realised they would be on my plane I dreaded it. I thought they would be loud and unruly but they were rather the opposite. JetStar were nice enough to play "Hey Soul Sister" (sadly not the glee version) through the system and well, popular song + bunch of school kids = one thing - a big fat singalong... so there we all are sitting in the plane waiting for it to taxi to the runway and almost every passenger including myself, my Dutch friend and the Catalan woman from Barcelona sitting next to me were singing along.. especially at the "Hey-ey Hey-ey-ey-ey" part. I thought there was going to be a genuine T-mobile moment. Honestly. At that moment I was a bit gutted that I didn't have a phone with a good camera (like a BB, HTC or iPhone), it was truly a magical moment. 

And as if it couldn't get better, I managed to make progress on the Nollywood movie I'm writing, have a 15 minute nap, wake up to the sight of Singapore at night (currently, my favourite view in the whole world), and  have the schoolkids applaud the pilot upon safe landing. I mean who does that anymore?! No one, and that's the shame of it. Why don't we break into song on planes? Why are we so serious when we take our seats - so focused on falling asleep as soon as possible? And WHYYYY don't we applaud pilots anymore?!?! Or say a tiny little thank you prayer to God when we land? So much could go wrong with every journey. We all know who to blame when it does, but do we know who to thank when it doesn't?

Rambo Cambo

Here is a really quick summary of Cambodia in video form... you can still read further down below my actual written post:

the life of a travelling student in websites

So as this experience is coming to an end I doubt it could change so much in the next 2 and a half weeks. I thought I'd paint a picture of what my life has been about by listing alphabetically the most viewed websites. By that I mean if I type in just one letter what website is Google Chrome going to guess I want to go to.

A - airasia.com
B - bbc.co.uk
C - cnn.com
D - dailymail.co.uk
E - https://exchange.nus.edu.sg
F - facebook.com
G - google.com
H - hotmail.com
I - itv.com
J - jetstar.com
K - klm.com
L - locate.fco.gov.uk
M - muddymurphys.com
N - nus.edu.sg
O - (any random popup link from watching pirate websites)
P- packages2go.com
Q - the only letter without an association
R - (any random popup link from watching pirate websites)
S - studentadmin.manchester.ac.uk/
T - tigerairways.com
U - uhms.nus.edu.sg/students
V - vietnam-visa.com
W - whsmithcareers.co.uk
X - (any random popup link from watching pirate websites)
Y - youtube.com
Z - zoe-meets-singapore.tumblr.com

I reckon from this you could write my life as a fictional story and still be quite true to form. The internet... what a marvelous thing eh?

Sunday 22nd May 2011

so jokes today. So I realised last night that my student visa was to expire today and that I needed to leave the country and come back with a visit stamp.. so then today we went to JB to do just that. I told them I had lost my card so that they wouldn't take it in from me, then they were all like "ok we have to refer you" and then I was like "Oh wow, here it is" and so then they were like "ok stay here whilst we cancel the referal" and then finally they let me go.... yayyy JB! that was easy and fun and a couple hours and we're due to return. So on the return we fill in the white card (as departure lady instructed because our cards were expired) then arrival lady was like "dude, where's your card?" and I was like "here, but I don't need to show you that because I've got this white card" and she said that was exactly the problem - that I had filled in the white card when I departed as a temporary citizen on the student card... and I was like "well then pretend I haven't handed you the white card" and she clearly said  "no." so I said "well all my friends have done the same, so...." so Ede, Edem and I all get taken up to this room with 4 visible cameras and 2 security doors on the 8th floor and they question us.. blah blah blah they eventually let us go, then we went to the biggest Horseracing event in the calendar (even the President was there) but I didn't bet cos I could just hear mum reading me scriptures and praying for my soul, but my friend betted and I was gonna bet on his horse with him and in the end he won $73 so I could've won $73 if it weren't for mum.

VietnamJUMP 2011 4th Entry

So it all worked out in the end albeit it that the extra costs and additional stress sort of railroaded all my other plans. So no Hong Kong for me this time around.
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Scratch that.
That was a premature blog post.
VietnamJUMP didn't happen for me.
Life is such.
And no, Hong Kong didn't happen either but, I will be doing Cambodia- with friends and that is all that matters.

So fourth and final entry.

Sometimes things don't work out how you planned but the intentions are still appreciated.
You just have to pick yourself up, and move on. Everything can be an adventure if you want it to be.