a reason for being late & a moronic woman

準時並不是真的一件好事，尤其是在飛機客滿時。昨天終於又被升等到商務艙，都是因為我又遲到抵達機場。其實我算好了時間但是誰知道台北市星期天大早的市內交通可以有那麼多車，所以我差了十分就無法作 check-in了。而到了櫃檯我只想著要去上廁所因為早上喝太多茶跟水了。我拿了登機證弄一弄衝到登機口排在隊伍裡才發現我可以走另一條通道。而更誇張的是，另一個通道的地勤居然是我的學生！嚇了我一跳，因為她沒講過是在機場工作的。一整個早上超誇張的但是不錯，讓這張超貴的機票值回票價。

Arriving at Narita, I had 5 annoying loud-talking Taiwanese female tourists, with the leader of the bunch lecturing on passport colours of each country and how it defines the "ranking"of the country. Perhaps I had a bit too much champagne on board, but the woman was obviously blind since she insisted that Chinese passports are red, meaning China ranks 2nd, like all those EU countries. Problem. Chineses travelers were lined up in front of me and behind them, with "black" coloured travel documents in hands, I seriously had no idea how she could be talking about this and sounding totally flawless. Maybe there is some colour code system for passports, but whatever she said was not logical. She insisted that American passports are blue, which makes the US come in first in terms of country strength. Interesting, Australian and Argentinian passports are also blue, does that mean Australia or Argentina more powerful than France, UK, or Germany? I seriously doubt it. The worse was, the other four women were totally convinced based on her weird logic. I rebuffed, and she got mad, obviously knowing something was wrong. I didn't care too much since it was my term to do get out of immigration.

That reminds me, apparently there is loads of misinformation in Taiwan, with my students telling me weirdest things, like Taihiti is a country. No, it's part of French Polynesia (they didn't even know this place existed), an overseas territory of the French Republic. Or Quebecois do not speak standard French, thus hard to understand. If I follow this logic, then people in Taiwan do not speak, nor do loads of other people in China, what they called "standard". I honestly don't know how one is educated in Taiwan anymore. These are college kids, for god's sake!