when it's over, is it really over?

i'd like to think not. currently i'm in seoul, incheon airport, parked with my barang and normypoo's at gate 24. managed to cadge a free wireless internet provider somehow, thank goodness. the past flight took 13 and a half hours, this transit's taking 10+, and the last flight's around 5-6 more hours. it'd be terrible if i didn't have a companion, so thanks to poopoo ng! apparently he's into dan brown now so he was quite happy to borrow digital fortress from me to read on the plane. we had a whole contingent of korean kids on board the flight... as most asian kids are, they were quite well-behaved. since norman and i have a 10 hour transit at the moment we stayed to watch everyone go... it was rather interesting to watch all the arms go up in the air, raised to reach for invisible bars to stretch the moment we touched down, irregardless of race or age, we all have the same reactions. kind of funny how everyone woke at the same time too, which led to long toilet queues. bleah.

people clapped to appreciate the captain's smooth landing. i liked that they did that.

thanks to the wonderful family i stayed with in nyc too, i had a great time...*claps* michael, if you see this, thanks for pampering me so much, i want to repay the favor so hurry to singapore if you can! will bring you to places my family didn't. *winks*

well. back to adapting, back to rushrushresoundingresponsibility. when i was on the plane for no reason at all this scene flashed in front of me - shopping at citylink, with the surging mass of humanity navigating past one another in both directions, hurry hurry we have a place to go and a deadline to meet! i'm getting a headache just thinking about it. not like at south street seaport which i went to with michael on saturday, where people just sat by the pier looking out at the river and the brooklyn bridge. would you ever see singaporeans sitting by the group, along the river, doing nothing? nope, you wouldn't. it would be a waste of time. the only people you ever see are couples at night along the bay, and you know couples have all the time in the world - okay, perhaps only a few hours for the night - to waste.

anyway. no more shopping or spending for me. no more sleeping till 3pm for me. no more going out with friends whenever they call me up and i just walk out of the room with my keys and wallet. no more watching 2-3 films a day for me, and no more - o! i sound so miserable already. haha. i should be more optimistic, as my grammatically-challenged preuniversity biology teacher once accused me of being, thinking that it was a bad adjective. ok. here goes the second attempt. more exercise for me in the form of rollerblading, swimming and retaking my taekwondo. more mental stimulation for me in the form of classes and 20 literary classics to digest. more friends to meet up with (and to remember my birthday!) and more food in the fridge, amply stocked by my wonderful parents who make supermarket shopping so much fun.

so. here's to a return to the comfortable and the familiar. time to clean up my act and my room, throw out the old to replace the new with clothes for 2 semesters. o_O see ya in 13 hours!