honolulu to tokyo to singapore

so i'm back. still no progress on the promised poem, so you'll have to excuse me. i've got a broadband connection here, so things are good internet-wise. watched brother bear on the plane, which was simple and nice. the sad parts were predictable but you could also have predicted that they made me cry. the poor bear...

then watched against the ropes, which was ok, but at the climax the cruellest thing happened: there was turbulence and the seat belt sign came on and i was like ok i know the seat belt sign is on but as you know there was an announcement over the intercom and the most critical portion of the movie went by without words. please return to your seats and fasten your seat belts... in japanese, then english. it was the part where the feature on the female boxing manager was being shown on HBO and the announcement came on and you could see on the screen the next second their faces just changed completely and i didn't know exactly why. i guess i could guess.

anyway, that was japan airlines, which continues its videos and audio even though there's announcement over intercom.

then stopover and then a united flight, and these guys know to halt the video and audio when an announcement is being made. watched along came polly, which was hilarious for claude, the scuba dude who speaks with such a wonderful accent. don't even know if you call it an accent. happy hippopotamus!

then watched road to perdition, which i watched with my lovey before. of course, it's not so scary once you know what's gonna happen....

and so i'm back, they don't accept exit permits at changi so i've got to go to CMPB (or maybe SAFRA) to return my exit permit. and the boxes i shipped back have also arrived. tried calling about my medical checkup for re-enlistment, but it's saturday, and no one answered. at one number i called, the recording told me that i was being transferred to voicemail and then immediately told me that person didn't have voicemail and so that was that. there's a website to apply for re-enlistment, but they asked what date i want to re-enlist. so i'm thinking maybe i can say 29/02/2222.

will need to get productive soon. sort out my stuff, organize my room, work on poems... it seems if you tell the army you're gay you get downgraded. http://www.yawningbread.org/guest_2002/guw-080.htm

the printer has some problems. it draws very nice colorful lines across the page, like a playful meticulous brat determined to ruin fine print. didn't find soy ice cream at NTUC. no cartoon network at home. got to get in shape. at least i'm sweating more now.