ME :)

Mon 13/07/2009

I couldn’t sleep on this flight, I had an aisle seat and despite trying a few times to get to sleep, I just couldn’t do it. Instead I watched a movie marathon consisting of 5 movies and they are in no particular order, Quantum of Solace, Monsters vs Alians, Slumdog Millionaire, Yes Man and Madagascar 2. By the time I finished all these movies, I had arrived at Seoul rather sleep deprived. Now I hope the same movies are not shown on the flight back, please show different ones!

I have been on nearly 100 flights but I hadn’t seen what I had seen mid-flight on this plane ever. There was a “self-service” of food and beverages during mid flight, I have never seen so many passengers queue up for some pot noodles. The queues were snaking down the aisle, this must be a stereotype thing so I’d join in on the fun and queued up to see what the fuss was all about. I got my pot noodle fix, together with some chocolate Hergan Dans ice cream.

Arriving in Seoul 1hr late, I met up with J at the airport. The airport was like a ghost-town, there was hardly anyone there. Was it because it was Sunday? or no one was flying anywhere that day? This is supposed to be the worlds #1 airport. I the criteria for being #1 doesn’t mean it has to be the busiest but rather the cleanliness, spacious and uber array of gadgets and electronics. Once we boarded the train into the city, it was bucketing down. This was no ordinary rain, it was like monsoonal rain and it didn’t look like it was going to stop at all today.

We arrived at J’s sister’s place shortly after and it’s a nice cosy 3 bedroom apartment next to a market. Morning brunch was interesting with an abundance of small dishes of vegies, kim chi and various other delicacies I couldn’t recognise. I just kept eating the Kim Chi and the omlette with seaweed in between which I thought was an interesting twist but very tasty!

With the heavy downpour, I couldn’t do much but watch UFC 100 on TV and hanging out with J’s Nephew who drew a cool picture of me on paper. This will now be my new profile photo on facebook. The plan was to get some sleep and then make my way to the hotel and then dinner with J’s Australian friend at the Korean BBQ restaurant near the hotel. J got some sleep but I wanted to power through and not sleep at all or else I will succumb to further jet lag.

Korean BBQ was pretty much the same at home but the only difference I see is that the waiter cooks everything for you from preparing it to the food being ready. I thought that from the menu, we only ordered the pork and we didn’t get any sides. But it turns out they trolley came past not only with the marinated pork, but about 20 other side dishes ranging from salads, kim chi to seaweed and even corn and macaroni, wtf? That must be an american adaptation or something.

After dinner I just went straight to sleep. I couldn’t handle staying up for any longer, it has been almost 32 hours so I just crashed.

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