It's hot and humid. Humid and hot. air-conditioning is seriously the best invention ever known to mankind (particularly mankind in singapore).
It was kinda surreal leaving New York, but the plane ride home went by pretty fast. And there was an empty seat next to me the entire time, which was much appreciated. Plus a nice auntie sitting two seats away from me, who helped me heave my heavy carry-on up into the overhead compartment. the guy at the SIA check-in line at JFK airport told me my carry-on was 3kg overweight, but i needed everything that was in there, so i pretended to take things out, but really i just put them on the floor (where he couldn't see it) and then put them back in after he weighed it and gave me the green light. haha.
Got to see 'Hannah montana the movie,' 'Watchmen' and 'Race to witch mountain.'
Liked them all. except that the guy in front of me kept pushing his seat back so i could hardly see the screen. And i was surprised to find that 3 movies they showed on the plane were actually still screening here in singapore! how slow is that. i also realized i've seen most movies that haven't been released here yet, like Up, The Hangover, The Proposal and Bruno. i guess i should've waited and saved $$.
Warm welcome from the family at the airport, then spent the rest of the day trying to keep awake so i wouldn't be so jet-lagged. but i failed, and took a nap. haha.
i guess things here are still the same. brothers are still strong+silent, parents are still working 24/7, the weather's still hot and muggy, and i'm still doing the same old things - shop, watch movies, eat. seems kinda boring in comparison to the past few months.
Met up with suang today to catch up... even though we hardly keep in contact during the rest of the year, we always slip back into our familiar ways with each other, and it feels like nothing's changed, even though lots has. and then we saw kobe bryant (basketball player for the lakers) in orchard!! ok at first we saw a bunch of people gathered outside Ion mall, and we wondered if they were just being typical singaporeans. You know, gathering around something just 'cause everyone else is and you don't wanna miss out. haha. it really seemed like they were standing around and staring at the construction site. but then we figured out they were waiting for kobe bryant, cuz there was a giant poster of him decked out in Nike on the building (and also cuz someone told us). and just when we decided to leave, we spotted him coming out of a car! and people followed him, snapping pictures of his face (which was easy, since he was 2 heads above everyone else).
Just thought that was ironic. After spending 2 months in NYC, the place crawling with celebs, i didn't see any. and then i come home and immediately see one. but i guess he's not that famous, since everyone i tried to tell doesn't know him (everyone meaning my mom, dad and brother). haha.
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