que pasa

My flight back to Singapore was half filled with Chinese 3rd graders. They were on some program that the Singapore government is running, their bright red t-shirts exclaiming singaporeedu.gov.sg on the back. I dreaded the flight, 50 little boys and girls had the potential to turn the 5 hour flight into a nightmare.

I have to say, it didn't turn out as bad as I thought. Except when they kept exclaiming (in Chinese), "Earthquake! Earthquake!" when the plane was trembling as it took off. Except when they kept going "Woooe... woooe..." whenever we encountered turbulence. Except when they kept calling out "Ah yi, ah yi..." to get the air stewardess' attention (because they didn't know about the call button. Except when they all started requesting for endless refills of coca-cola during meal service. Except when 2 girls cut my line for the bathroom (I don’t care if they’re kids and they need to go, a line is a line is a line! But yes, I let them go in front of me anyway.)

But at least there was none of that screaming or running up and down nonsense. And it was quite tickling to hear them all laugh in unison at the "Just for Laughs Gags" video that was being played. I found myself laughing along like a kid too. And then when the plane started playing "Shaun the Sheep" clay-mation cartoon, I figured I wasn't going to get any proper in-flight movie after all. So I content myself with watching sheep breakdance, watching a sheep play a bouncer, watching another sheep pretend to be Picasso and so on.

I still can't figure out why the cartoon is called Shaun the Sheep, but who cares. Just happy to be home.