I don’t know if many
feel the same as I do about long, cross-continental flights. I know of many
people who dread the thought of being cut-off from the Internet (withdrawal
symptoms from Facebook or Twitter!) but that will soon change with telecom
companies offering such services inflight.
For me, I see it as ‘down time’ where I can completely
chillax, nobody can contact me. Heaven. I can catch-up with reading my ‘Psychologies’ digital magazine, being
served ahead of everybody else because I pre-order my Veggie-Vegan meal. Oh no, don’t get any wrong ideas, I fly
economy but flying with Singapore
Airlines with its incomparable superb service, the confined space becomes
insignificant. Although, flying Business Class would be desired, of course! What I most look forward to flying with SQ,
is the in-flight entertainment. First, being welcomed on board and then
watching the lovely (handsome!)
well-coiffed, elegantly dressed, friendly crew is in itself a feast to
the eyes! Then it has the best and extensive line-up of films, music and TV
programmes. In short, one is aptly and amply entertained throughout the 12.5
hours journey from Changi Airport to
Frankfurt. Geared up with my Philips noise-cancelling earphones, I
am away in the world of amusement.
Amongst the many
choices to select from, I started watching
a romcom film, Man Up with Simon Pegg (Jack) and Lake Bell (funnily enough my namesake,
Nancy) where Jack mistook Nancy for his blind date where she found herself
‘playing’ along unable to free herself from the charade . Although she did make
several attempts to clarify the embarrassing situation but, hey, it has to come
to an awkward stage to make it a romcom.
One will ask, why go
for a blind date? In the film, they both
have unhappy love- life past, so a blind date (as it is commonly practiced
nowadays) is the best alternative. They spent a fun and enjoyable
afternoon-evening where they really connected with each other and a promise of
a spark was evident. They both share the
most compelling set-back in their lives - their past dictates the present. So
they both made a pact to let go and announced to ‘Fuck the Past’! However, a situation came to a point where the
truth had to come out that Nancy had ‘pirated ‘the identity of his date. Jack
finally got to meet up with the original date but it’s not to be, so, to cut
the story short, they ended up with each other. But that is after a series of
nail-biting chasing.
I thought I’d share
this story because I could fully identify with it. I, too, met my husband in a
blind date 34 years ago. It was love at first sight and we were deeply in love.
The problem was we both live in different continents (Europe and Asia) but love
prevailed. Four months after we set eyes on each other, we decided to move on
to the next step-live together. Whirlwind, indeed! I prepared to move to
Germany to start a new life. You see, when you’re young and in-love, you
believe nothing can go wrong. Of course, things will go wrong. One of the
causes where things can go so badly wrong is how our past experience tends to
become the basis of the present. I was in a very, very foreign country with a
strange language with no one else I knew except my boyfriend, then. I did go to the Goethe Institut to learn German before coming over but that did
very little to my self-confidence. At the beginning of our relationship, we
went through massive difficulties because we were both nursing the pain and hurt
from our past. We did not realise that we were allowing the unworthy, useless
past to ruin the beautiful love we found in each other. It was only after
countless hours of talking through and deciding that the best to make our love
bloom is to ‘Fuck the Past’!
However, the past
filled with wonderful memories ought be cherished with fondness.
Apologies for the
profanity!
That must have worked
for us as we are still together after 34 years. But not without colossal
challenges!
Have a good weekend.
