Ways to Waste Waiting Time

I am inspired by my friends' journey from Jakarta to Lhokseumawe (approximately 14 hours). She complained about how boring sitting all day, doing nothing, no friends, etc... . Personally I never bored even in a long journey (my longest journey is going to London one year ago, it was 18 hours).

These are suggestions I gave to my friend above :D

1. Read something. Papers, books, mags, ads. Typical
2. Talk to the person beside you (in my friend's case, it was some middle-aged, fat, flirty, unmarried man so my friend went 'ughh'. Pity her)
3. Make up a story in your mind
4. Try to make acronyms of license plates of all vehicles passing by. Eg: B XXXX SB. Sarah Brightman or else
5. Play Solitaire, Sudoku, or else
6. Specify every clouds you see. Eg: that's cumulo-nimbus, and that one is stratus etc. And making up figures from clouds shapes
7. Practice some dance moves
8. Listen to music
9. If it's night, identify star constellations
10. Draw, sketch, whatever
11. Browse the internet
12. Make origamis
13. Watch movies
14. Look outside the window. I survived 18 hours by merely looking outside. So aisle seat is a bad idea
15. Tell the driver to drive faster :p (don't do this if you're on plane)
16. Compose a song
17. Make a to-do list on what you'll do once you arrive
18. If you're going home, think of all cynical or sarcastic words you'll say to your annoying sibling(s) (also my friend's case)
19. Design your dream house (my friend took my interior design mags to do this)
20. Learn a foreign language (or polish your local dialect)
21. Observe everyone else and Sherlockian deductions
22. Do a little survey. Eg: you see 100 men passing by in XYZ city, 4 of them have straight hair, so the incidence of recessive genes appearance in XYZ city is 4%. Silly, I know (btw, straight hair is recessive trait)
23. Make up weird list like this