Airport Blogging

So I'm currently sitting in the airport lounge waiting to board my plane. You have no idea how much of a hipster I feel, sitting here with my laptop, earphones plugged in, blogging, of all things. Anyway I was on a train for many hours, and after lots of waiting, paperwork and more waiting, I finally got on my flight. The food was surprisingly edible, considering it was plane food. It basically tasted like oil, salt and MSG, and considering how my cooking combo is oil, salt and soy sauce, maybe I should consider replacing the soy sauce with MSG.

My flight was essentially overnight and I would've slept but before it was late I looked at the movies I could watch and holy shit there were a lot. They were all quite new, as well (well I say quite new because I haven't been to the movies since Cloud Atlas). So I started off watching Identity Theft because I saw the trailer and could tell it was supposed to be funny, and it was something I'd wanted to see. The movie was horribly disappointing--- like I could tell they were trying to go for the Zach Galifianakis effect like they did in Due Date and The Hangover series, but it just really wasn't there. Not that the lady wasn't a good actor--- in fact the actors present were actually quite good, it's just that the whole idea of a decent, hard-working guy getting screwed over by a massive out-of-societal-norms troll was too overused. I mean, I've seen it so many times, and the humour didn't even reach the level where it'd extort a smirk from me.

After being thoroughly disappointed with that, I found a movie called Warm Bodies in the list. I wouldn't have continued watching movies except I remember my roommate telling me that she went to see it with her boyfriend, and that the movie was quite good. Okay, I was also attracted by the cover of the movie, because I thought the actor was kinda cute. So I watched Warm Bodies. The story was decently shit but somewhat inspiring. I really did enjoy the male lead's face. I didn't think it was very funny though--- oh, and I totally picked up on how the guy was meant to be Romeo (his name was R) and the girl was meant to be Juliet (Julie, seriously?) Yeah and the Dad who wanted to shoot the boyfriend in the head when he saw him. Tsk.

Then... Oh yeah, I started watching Identity Theft at like, 11pm, to give you an idea of time. After Warm Bodies I saw Les Mis in the list, and watched that. Yeah yeah I knew it was a long movie and watching it at the time was probs a bad idea, but I was served food and didn't feel sleepy. Not to mention how the movie was actually really good. For the first 10min I was like "this singing feels so horribly unnatural", and I had that thought a couple times more later in the movie, but all in all it was very good. I mean, I liked the original Victor Hugo story, and I thought the movie was an excellent adaptation. Then the guy who played Marius caught my eye, because he looked charming and Eponine's solo about loving him really broke my heart. I guess the guy sitting next to me on the plane must've been pretty annoyed because I just didn't sleep all night, and the brightness of my monitor was just super high because I don't like low brightness.

So I got through 3hrs of Les Mis... and you'd think I'd stop, but noooo, too late for that now. An hour or two left for the flight, but I couldn't get to sleep anyway, so I booted up yet another movie. I chose Jack the Giant Slayer because I saw the trailer ages back and thought the guy who played Jack was good looking. I soon realised he was the same guy who played the male lead in Warm Bodies which I watched earlier, so that just made things more entertaining.

But God that movie was shit. Well not like, super-shit, but like, I'm too old to watch this. It just did not amuse me at all. Anyway, I got zero sleep out of all that, and watched a lot of movies I would've otherwise paid to see at a cinema. Out of the 4 I'd definitely not-regret paying to see Les Mis, Warm Bodies I would've considered a good time, but everything else would've just been me having too much money to waste.

Tsk, back to the present. Still waiting for my flight to arrive despite all the rambling I've done. As soon as I stepped off my plane I thought I was underwater. I was just deprived of oxygen, and the air was so heavy I thought I might float. Then I felt really hot so I took off my jumper, but having sat in the airport for ages, the aircon's made me cold and I've had to wear my jumper again...

And now my phone's out of battery after too much usage, and I've grown really tired of watching Naruto in Cantonese. It surprises me that Cantonese dubs of anime is actually surprisingly good. Like, compared to English dubs, which you'd rather mute and read the subtitles for, Cantonese dubs are like, close to the original thing.

It's too bad that I don't even enjoy Naruto. In fact, they're not even playing Naruto any more, they're playing some Taiwanese teen drama, still dubbed in Cantonese. Man I wish I understood more than random phrases of Cantonese.  It'd make this whole watching-TV thing far more enjoyable.

Now, the length of this post should make up for the fact that I haven't blogged in however many days. International flights are exciting. Airports--- especially the one in Hong Kong, are really really cool. Visiting airports and watching Warm Bodies has made me think: man, if I were a zombie I'd love to camp out at an airport too.