Thanks to an uncertain employment situation, a recent move
back to Toronto, a (somewhat) less expensive deal that was offered from Flight
Centre, I am on my way "around the world" on a set of long haul flights. Although the cities were pre-selected, the flights with
exception of Toronto to San Francisco, are all on Singapore Airlines, of which
I have read and heard a lot of positive things. I have never flown before
with this airline (and thankfully, part of the Star Alliance for Aeroplan
points!).
The successive cities are as follows: Hong Kong, Bali, Singapore, Frankfurt and New York. All are cities/countries I have never travelled through before (with exception of New York), which was another reason in taking on this travel schedule.
As I leave from Toronto (YYZ), I have a connection in San Francisco (SFO) before the 14 hours and 20 minutes flight to Hong Kong. Currently I'm on the only Air Canada leg to San Francisco,
and as I normally do on Air Canada flights I try to watch the film choices
under Franco Cinema (some to improve my listening ear, others are in English
sub titles so I can fall asleep with ear plugs in and not the crappy ear phones
to listen). The movie I caught was called "Votez Bougon" and
even in English sub titles the outrageous political themes and concepts will
strike a nerve. The movie is about a motley family on welfare with
variously checked they pull to "increase their wealth" on a temporary
basis. After much whinging and complaining at the TV, the always dishevelled,
Molson Export drinking M. Bougon suddenly finds himself on a talk show spewing
his complaints of political corruption coming from a place of real life
experiences and mops up a long time serving Quebec politician on a well known
talk show. From there a blue collar party was formed, an intentionally phallic
party name chosen and his unlikely election campaign results in him becoming
premier.
A few words about the SFO on the 14 hours and 20 minutes flight to Hong
Kong....
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