There and Back Again: When Hobbits Sail... In Thailand

Thursday, March 06, 2008

A long flight for a short person

(Took notes, during and shortly after each event)
Woke up early on March 2, original flight from Calgary to Vancouver was delayed (10:10-10:45) so my layover in Vancouver wasn't much of a layover, it was more of a jog over to my next gate. My little hobbit legs got one last workout before I got on my 13 hr flight to Hong Kong.

Hobbiton now presents "The Hobbit In Flight Movie Review"

Dan in Real Life
-Starring Steve Carrol, Dane Cook, Juliet Binoche
-Dane Cook actually shows some good acting and depth in his role
-Carrol was alright but should stick to comedic roles
-Binoche pulled the movie out with her performance
-The Hobbit gives it 3 Rings of Power out of 5
The Game Plant
-Starring Duane "The Rock" Johnson, Roselyn Sanchez
-Token Disney Movie
-Formualic Plot
-Not enough Sanchez, lol.
-Rock manages to pull off a good performance with his charisma, too bad the story isn't great
-The Hobbit gives 1 Ring of Power
Jun0
-Starring Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner
-Great Movie
- Off the wall but fun
-Ellen Page's Oscar nomination very very well deserved
-Michael Cera and Page's chemistry was awesome
-Knowing what Page looks like in a skin tight suit (Xmen), the wardrobe leaves a lot to be desired, lol.
-The Hobbit gives 4 Rings of Power.
In the Actors Studio (Feat John Cusack)
-Need to watch "High Fidelity"
-Lipton has underrated dry sense of humor
-Cusack is a cool guy
-"Putting Cameron Diaz in a cage with a Monkey... Thats a good day"

Meal Review
-TV Dinner Wannabe's
-Free Beer (Henieken, Molson Canadian, Coors Light) is Free Beer

Layover in Hong Kong
-The Hobbit is proud to announce that he got to the Hong Kong Airport before Starbucks (its under construction)
-Saw a Magnet for Happy Valley (you take that as you want to take that)
-Hobbits do not do well on 13 hour flights, even hobbit legs get cramped
-Still hasn't quite hit me that I'm not in Calgary
-The Flight plan for my flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong: North to Alaska and the Bearing Strait, then South through Russian and China airspace.

Thai Airways flight- Hong Kong to Bangkok
-Purple has never been used as it was inside the Thai Airways plane.
-Not much to report other than the colour was loud, and that I slept for most of the flight.

Bangkok Airport
-Busy, the customs was easy and not too busy.
-The architecture of Hong Kong and Bangkok airports are very similar, and very cool.

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