  2015 est july 24 the air canada agent who looks like kristi yamaguchi announced that we would not board for an indefinite length of time because there was a red alert . it turns out that there was a lightening strike and all planes were grounded. not for long, however, we're on the plane now! we looked for my cousin alain. what are the chances he would also be on our flight to vancouver? (not good, he took off 40 minutes earlier. ) ***** quick math: we were supposed to depart at 8:10 est and arrive in van at 10:20 pst ("2 hours") then add the est-to-pst difference (3 hours) - this flight is five hours long! with the delay, we will arrive at 11 pm pst which is 3 am ast. oh, we're going to be so tired then if we don't sleep during the flight!
while scoping out the other gates near our for my cousin (read: scrutinizing all asian men) it was impossible to miss the fact that there was like a fifteen-fold increase of chinese and other asians. at the back of this plane, where we are sitting, we are surrounded by chinese people. chinese people speaking cantonese, no less.... sigh, it's nice to get far away from all that is halifax! urlLink read more.... 
