Baking Dreams

I was supposed to arrive about 7pm, Canadian Time, at Pearson airport.

Thanks to the delay however, I ended up there at TWO FRIGGIN' AM instead, due to the following reasons:

(i) Massive delay in Shanghai (transit). Like, 5 hours.

(ii) Instead of flying direct to Toronto after the delay, the plane had to stopover at VANCOUVER. >.<

(iii) At Vancouver, one of the random passengers got lost and the plane had to wait for him.... and even after he was found, the plane had to wait for the sandwiches that were supposed to be delivered as our lunch??? The sandwiches took a whole hour to arrive, and when they DID get here the crew realised they were delivered in a truck that wasn't HIGH enough and couldn't be loaded onto the plane.

By then people were saying, screw the sandwiches, let's just take off.

(iv) The final straw: After landing in Toronto, our baggage got delayed. The control tower DIDN'T KNOW we were arriving, and subsequently didn't prepare a conveyor belt for the passengers' luggage abroad our flight. (Later I learnt from the ladies that my flight details didn't even show up on the arrival flight chart in the international arrival hall. wtf)

ANYWAYS, I AM IN CANADA, WHOOOOO! Special thanks to the two ladies who drove allllllll the way from Greek Town to Pearson to get me in the ungodly hours of the morning as well as the Hot Chocolate I was given later. You ladies are truly godsent~


Funny story on the side:

In Vancouver, when the plane landed there was a change of flight crew. Thanks to the last minute flight changes, i reckoned that Air Canada just grabbed whoever they could find as crew replacements, and bestowed upon the passengers (mostly from Shanghai, China) a predominantly FRENCH-speaking crew. It's as if they just hailed off a bunch of people from Montreal. LOL.

The result: All announcements in the plane came in (i) French (ii) English (iii) Cantonese and (iv) very, very, VERY badly broken Mandarin. LOLz.

And of course, I ended up as an English-Chinese translator for the 6 or 7 people seated around my area.

LOL moment of the day: French strewardress asked what I wanted to drink... in French. Yeap i had no idea what words she said but it was pretty obvious. I replied 'juice' and she asked what kind. My most awesome reply,

"JE SU UN ANANAS"

(Translated: I am a pineapple)

I meant to say "Je veux d'ananas" (I want pineapple). LOLOLOLOL.




P.S.
I made strawberry-crasin-walnut muffins. They're in the oven now and will pop out in a few mins. The house smells heavenly of baked fruits and cinnamon. :D :D :D :D :D