My dad told me yesterday that he has recently discovered that history "isn't just kings and queens" and can also include things during your lifetime. I have a history degree but it turns out I have no tact as I openly laughed at him.
Oh also fuck being in the emergency aisle. I want my bag and all the random crap I have in there for the flight, I don't want it piled up in my lap.
Changi airport is normally so nice but it's been proper shit today, first were weird about my passports, then told "no seats" at check-in (but gave me a seat?) and then at security made to take off my shirt??
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While working in our archives, I found an old metal box. Inside was a long-forgotten roll of silent 8mm film marked "The Philippines 1942"
Excited at possibly discovering lost WW II footage, I sent it to specialists for care and digitization.
Yesterday, it came back. On it was:
Why do some parents loudly narrate what their kids are doing? I'm trying to enjoy my brunch, I don't need an audio description of your kid eating a yoghurt urghhh.
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in honor of Jane Austen’s birthday today, don’t forget to tell someone “if I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more”
I'm not one for regrets, but telling the lady at the fruit stall last night that I didn't need her to open/cut my pomelo was a terrible mistake.
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The tagline in the Hisense pitchside advert is "China first, the world second" (中国第一，世界第二), which is quite the choice of copy for a World Cup advert
If you suddenly dislike Qatar because you can't drink beer at a football match and not because of, for example, the country's attitude to slave labour and its treatment of women, then you're just a bit shit aren't you.
There are maybe 4 people wearing masks while queuing for this flight, which is WEIRD AS HELL to me after so long in China.