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I can’t pack my entire life into a suitcase.
Beauty and the Beast… in KL
While I’m racking my head for a final point to stick in my political science paper so that I can make it to the minimum of the stipulated 8-10 pages, Dad emailed me to know that Beauty and the Beast will be playing in Kuala Lumpur from 24 June to 3 July. Ashley Oliver plays Belle and Matthew Cammelle’s going to play the Beast.
(Not like I really know who these people are, at any rate. I have a boot of the entire cast from some UK Tour, and I just know Matt played someone in Phantom of the Opera, which is about all there is.)
… I’m not actually sure if I want to go. I’ll certainly be in Singapore when it comes, and a car drive to KL isn’t that bad, but ugh. I don’t want to stay at my relatives’ place again (I don’t like them. My second aunt keeps harping all over the fact that I’m “pleasantly plump”, and I just hate my favourite aunt’s husband. HE STOLE HER FROM ME. It’s been 11 years and I STILL HAVEN’T GOTTEN OVER IT), and I just don’t want to travel any more than I have to.
I don’t know why, but Dad has lots of things in store for me when I come back to Singapore, and one of them is TRAVELING. Maybe I haven’t told them that a 20 hour flight is probably enough to last me 6 months, but dear GOD. I’m flying back to Singapore because it’s SINGAPORE, not to go somewhere else! He’d probably go to KL for this if I said yes, he’s taking the entire family to Angkor Wat (against my mother’s will, and probably my sister’s) and in September, he’s flying off to Paris for a conference and I’ve agreed to go with him.
I’ve seen the production for this one before as well - it’s the one where gas shoots up and voila human Beast. It’s not the actual Disney production, and… I dunno. I don’t feel like it’s worth going. The parents (who haven’t actually seen anything on Broadway) are going to just get a different impression, and God knows if I try to explain to them that it’s a different company staging the same Disney show, we’d all wind up angry and confused.
Singapuraaaaa
There really hasn’t been much to say lately, except that I’m now swamped with research papers to do by the end of next week and I’ve completely lost my motivation to study. The usual depressive phase has passed, but I have to say I’m really, really, really looking forward to taking a long summer break back home.
Speaking of summer: itinerary to Singapore dwee!
Date: Tuesday, June 10
Flight: NW 2914
Departs: Columbus-Int’l, OH (CMH) at 11:40AM
Arrives: Detroit-Wayne County Int’l, MI (DTW) at 12:52PM
Flight Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes
Date: Tuesday, June 10
Flight: NW 11
Departs: Detroit-Wayne County Int’l, MI (DTW) at 3:40PM
Arrives: Tokyo-Narita, Japan (NRT) at 5:35PM on Wednesday, June 11
Flight Duration: 12 hours 55 minutes
Date: Wednesday, June 11
Flight: NW 19
Departs: Tokyo-Narita, Japan (NRT) at 6:40PM
Arrives: Singapore-Changi, Singapore (SIN) at 12:50AM on Thursday, June 12
Flight Duration: 7 hours 10 minutes
A 20 hour flight, which really isn’t all that bad, considering my last flight was 28 hours long (YEAH GO CHASE THAT CONTINENT BITCH). I kinda wish I had a smaller laptop, though. This one’s big and heavy, and it’s gonna be a bitch getting this through customs. Also, yay for new US state on stopover. I’ve had Oregon, Illinois, Minnesota and now Michigan.
I don’t really like Japan’s airports all that much… If I did have a choice, I’d rather have a stopover at Hong Kong than Japan. It’s more user friendly, from my perspective. 3 more weeks! YAAAAY
HELLO PORTLAND
*waves to Laura*
Fuck.
NORTHWEST AIRLINES 6
Singapore-Changi, Singapore (SIN) on August 29, 2007 (Wednesday) at 6:00am
Tokyo-Narita, Japan (NRT) on August 29, 2007 (Wednesday) at 2.25 pm
Tokyo-Narita, Japan (NRT) on August 29, 2007 (Wednesday) at 3.25 pm
Portland-Int’l, OR (PDX) on August 29, 2007 (Wednesday) at 8:30am
NORTHWEST AIRLINES 590
Portland-Int’l, OR (PDX) on August 29, 2007 (Wednesday) at 12:10pm
Minneapolis/St. Paul-Int’l, MN (MSP) on August 29, 2007 (Wednesday) at 5:34pm
NORTHWEST AIRLINES 184
Minneapolis/St. Paul-Int’l, MN (MSP) on August 29, 2007 (Wednesday) at 7:20pm
Columbus on August 29, 2007 (Wednesday) at 10:11pm
It’s a 28 hour flight, and the worst thing is that I have no aisle seat. I have a weirdass right leg that likes to act up and I need to get up and walk around every couple of hours because of it. It’s not going to be happy if I keep shoving my ass up against the guy on the aisle attempting to get out. Hopefully I can convince the person at the counter tomorrow to get me one.
Mom keeps shoving more and more stuff into my bag, and when there’s no more room, she brings out yet another bag and says ‘well, you can check in two pieces of luggage, right?’ Yes, mom, but I don’t want to check in two pieces of luggage. My backpack’s going to be as heavy as shit when I’m stuffing my laptop in there, and I am not carrying another 10kg worth of nonsense that I can live without.
Does anyone have experience with Northwest? I’ve flown United, and if Northwest is worse than that, I’m not going to be one happy person at the end of the flight.
From now on, I am going to take pictures of every airport I’ve been to. Or collect magnets, whatever.
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On another note, I’ve joined the RP raisethecolors on GreatestJournal, and I’ll be playing Calypso! (I would have loved to play Sao Feng and half of the Brethren Court, but I doubt I’ll have time to play more than two characters. But whatever, maybe the draw will be too great. One day.) So here I am, pimping the comm, because we need more members! Most of the main characters have been snapped up, but here’s the character list. Join join join!
Insomnia
It’s 5.07 am, and I’m not able to sleep at all. I only had 5 hours of sleep last night, and it surprises even me that I don’t feel tired. I hope this isn’t permanent.
Just a bunch of other quotes I remembered from NYC.
1. Woman queues up with her children to buy some Beauty and the Beast merchandise in the theatre. The line is excruciatingly long, and with the crowd, it’s hard to differentiate the queue from the crowd. This woman in front of me had a stick up her ass.
Woman to another woman: The queue STARTS. BACK. THERE, OKAY, SO BE A CIVILIZED PERSON AND DO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING.
Another woman: Whatever. I’m just standing around, I’m not queuing.
Me: (HA, EPIC FAIL.)
2. On the last public performance, the orchestra continued to play music as the audience filtered out, some guy whips out his camcorder and films the orchestra pit.
Flute guy in orchestra pit: THAT’S ILLEGAL! What you’re doing, IT’S ILLEGAL! IT’S NOT ALLOWED! just so you know.
Collective mind: It’s the last show, who gives a fuck what you think?
… I know there’s more, but I can’t remember. Oh well.
