8 thousand miles apart, one dreamed of having a wife, the other a husband… 
…to spend all their times with.
But then days, weeks, and months went by. Ah, it’s crazy! Guess it was time for a reality check. In such a cold world, 
I preferred to just dream 
until I could hold my wife in my arms again. 
Jan actually hugging the robot R2D2
And it was the only thing I really wanted.
Every days off, I would sit idly on my chair and with laptop on my table, 
I would start to reminisce of places and even sometimes, I would go on writing a blog. 
It sort of my way of rolling back the good times I had with my wife while we were together.
But not today! I won’t be sitting infront of the laptop dreaming.
In Toronto, 
I’ll be meeting up with Mai (God help her!). Yep, das ryt! Mai, my wife, will finally be coming to Canada! Eiyahoo!
The Day (Friday)
Previously, Mai informed me 
regarding her flight details/ itineraries. That she’ll be leaving Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates via Etihad Airways. Her destination?? Maple Leaf country, ofcourse! And that I would finally see her on a Friday!
Few hours later, and coming from deep in the Canadian rockies, I boarded a WestJet flight 
destined for Toronto (YYZ) Pearson Airport. When I sat down on the assigned seat, this big weird lumber-jack looking guy was watching Harry Potter 4. 
He was wearing green carpenter workpants, a flanel shirt, a camouflage trucker hat and really long hair and sideburns. Looked like he would fit right in with the Klu Klux Klan.
Yep, 4 hours on the plane, and I forgot to bring my earphones to watch the movies, twas just the clouds outside the window most of the way so I was planning to just sleep instead most of the way, anyways it was just harry potter 4 on, and the other one was Snakes on a Plane, and I’ve already seen those 2 movies. I was getting ready to close my eyes but the guy sitting next to me started to chat about this time.
He spoke vveerrryyy slloowwly, like he’d been hit by a bus as a kid… He was just on holidays he said, and yup, those were his travelling clothes.
yuckk! hehe.
We chatted awhile and he went on about how he missed the plane a few times and I was going to offer to teach him how to read, when I could see he was going to ask me to come with him to to meet his mother when we land or something. So I just said that I still have to 
meet my wife at the airport. So much for my quiet day.
And after that long flight (4 hourss!), I finally made it!
Anyways, I was at the airport waiting for my wife to arrive.
Meanwhile…
Mai is late. Jan could only think of two possible exlpanations. Firstly that her flight from the UAE could be late. Secondly that a gang of hijackers took her hostage. The police gave chase. They got away but they caused a crash and she’d lost her memory. An ex-con picks her up, mistook her for a fugitive, 
and shipped her to Kabul. She met some afghan raiders who took her to Iran to steal some nuclear warheads. 
But their truck hit a mine at the border with Iraq but she wasn’t harmed, and she took to the hills in Egypt 
and found a secluded church where she becomes a 
nun. Jan began to imagine Mai 
all dressed up in a nun’s uniform that looked like a penguin suit, even walking like a penguin. Haah!
Then my cellphone rang. It’s Mai!!! And guess what?
>> Whaahaat??
She told me she’s still in Abu Dhabi, UAE,
…and that I was actually…………. A DAY EARLY!
whattaattaahh!!!
#%@@**!!!
She got confused about transcribing Greenland/ Zulu times and such. (Because UAE and Canada were on opposite sides of the world, and therefore has different time zones). Sorry.
Sorry??
And I’m so stucked here!
The BIG question:
What the hell am I gonna do now?!!
Niweis, I just smiled, 
ate a burger, 
and went for a nice stroll in the beautiful Toronto by myself 
til it was late in the afternoon. Next, I went to find this backpackers place that I read about in the Lonely Planet. Found the place, walked around and had a look… not bad, and Its pretty cheap @ only $20 a night + tax.
I checked in about just before nightime and sat down to watch some golden night time tv, 
and this guy with a shaved head with a bleached blonde patch on the top of his head came in to use the internet. He looked as if he was one of the psycho soccer fanatics, as he was 
wearing an adidas tracksuit and looked like a bit crazy. It took all of thirty five seconds for him to confirm my suspicions when he sat down at the computer ($2/15mins!!!) and simultaneously logged onto the football website and more suprisingly an online blackjack website. It appeared this guy was addicted to online gaming, as I watched from the other side of the room he got agressive with the computer and banging the desk impatiently. After he lost a bit of cash, he stood up and walked out of the room, returning 10 minutes later to give it another try, where I exited silently only to find out ten minutes later I was sharing the double-decked bed with him.
I think God hates me.
(Ooops, joke lang po, nagpapatawa lang).
Deciding to not linger in any dangerous topics of conversation with “Tommy” I left for a walk. Went to my usual hangout with the worldwideweb at an internet cafe’ for about ten minutes before heading to my other hangout with the squirrels at the park.
Anyhoo,
Went back to the hostel and blogged for a while as everyone else seemed to be going drinking. Later I decided to get some food and go for a nightime walk and stopped in at 7-11 on the way home. Had a Taquito which is ( I think ) a cross between a taco and a burrito. Also got a 1.2L slurpee, and that was the medium size, the large was 1.8L. The medium took over an hour and 9 brain freezes to finish, but I did it.
I went back to the Inn and waited til the supposed meeting’s actual time and place. Which was… The following day, Saturday.
AH, YESS!! SATURDAY, The Actual Day.
Finally, Mai arrived @ the Pearson Airport and simultaneously each of us would proceed to our rendezvous point 
at a place in Downtown Toronto in an apparently World’s Longest Street called Yonge in the T-Dot (a.k.a. Toronto).
As I was approaching, 
Mai saw me. 
what an amazing love story!!! soo funny, too… 2 thumbs up!!!
wow, so beautiful!