Writing on the plane

Here's what I wrote I was still on the plane:

2008-10-08 - 5:46 pm (and heck know what is the actually time while you are in the middle of the air above middle of the ocean)

I made a lot of stupid decision in my life, and also made a lot of mistakes. Case in point: this morning when I went to airline counter to check in my luggage, I realized that I didn't have my Hong Kong living address with me to write on the label for my 2 check-in luggage. So I only wrote down my email address and my phone number. Sigh.

HOWEVER, I did make some great decision while preparing for this Hong Kong trip, and one of them in the picking of seat. I really like the seat I picked because:

- It's the aisle seat, so that I can walk out to the walkway whenever I like, and go to the restroom whenever I need.
- My seat is 2 rows away from the restroom, so that I can observe when the restroom is not occupied at ease on my seat, and take advantage of moment right after someone left the restroom

This makes my 15+ hours flight relatively less painful.

I also got my dinner 15 to 20 minutes earlier than others because I marked "special dinning request" while I was booking the flight (I marked seafood by the way). The food was not particularly awesome, but it was delivered right at the moment when I was hungry.

(By the way, I was typing this after I used restroom abd got back to my seat. I am looking at people lining up near the restroom mostly because we just had dinner. The scene is painful. I am so glad that I did my number 2 while there was no one lining up.)


I enjoy the in-flight entertainment system provided by Continental airline. I can choose whatever problem I want from a respectable large set of selection. The video game play was kind of lame, but I enjoyed a lot of the HBO specials.

Speaking of this entertainment system, there was some problem with the system at the very beginning of the flight, and the system was rebooted. It's so funny to see all those Linux (yeah, I even saw the Penguin logo) flied by on the screen before the normal console of my screen got set up properly.

I am feeling sleepy now, but not sleepy enough to fall into sleep. Guess I need to watch more TV...

Later