So it begins

There should be a banner here or something, but I was too lazy to make one. Also, it'd only be for a week. How sad would it be to work so hard on a banner only to have to take it down almost as soon as I'd put it up?

So anyway, on my way out. Here's to hoping I don't forget anything embarrassing like books for the airport underwear.

from naia (the airport)

Am at the airport now reading princess bride. It is amazing. I love it to bits and i am just at the beginning of chapter two of the good parts version. Oh god it is so good. I suspect that most of the people i have chatted with over irc have been infleunced by this same book because something about the way it flows brings me back to many an early morning conversation. And apparently we have the movie. When i get home i must dig it out and watch it. Yes, yes i really should.

Anyway i am so excited about chapter one that i cannot quite bring myself to read chapter two. That is often the case with me, for the record, by the way. Most of the time, it takes me much longer to finish an episode or read a chapter or listen to a song because i keep *getting up* in the middle of it.

1By the way this new phone may yet be the best investment that i have ever made. I am free to keep on typing and typing and typing even as i stand in line. And believe me, this line is a long one. It looks like people are beginning to leave the country in preparation for holy week. Guess we were not the only ones who had that bright idea. Who would have thought?

Oh dear so i gave my phone to my brother to read and he just proofread it. Am too lazy to correct my mistakes though, so you'll just have to suffer :)

Am at the airport lounge. free wifi! am checking my mail and all. trying to pry myself away. trying not to check up on my baby oh god why am i calling it that?

First day in Japan

The internet in this hotel is free! :DDD I've been typing in my phone all day, so I just transferred everything from my phone to my laptop:

It is evening and i am now in japan! The flight took a bit more than three hours, but we sacrificed an hour getting here so it is now just about seven.

Am pretty stoked. Signs are in japanese, english and korean which i am finding funny for some reason.

Took some time out in the plane to get up and look out the emergency hatch window, like i always do, to look at the clouds .from the top. Ostensibly my reason is that i needed to go to the bathroom but i had gone just before we boarded.

...yeah.

Anyway here now done with immigration waiting for customs. Traveling with family so we need to pass through it as a group together. Immigration was pretty nifty: stick both forefingers into a little machine, press down, stare into a camera. Whywhywhy? But i am happy to do it anyway as long as i dont have to see what the photograph looks like afterwards.

Finished princess bride on the airplane. Now i dont have anything to read on the way home. Hopefully i would have gotten something in japan to make up for that oversight ü

Am still waiting. Wonder what is taking them so long? I kinda want to head back up the stairs to the immigration area but from experience, that is pretty strongly frowned upon.

Oh dear my hands are getting cramped from all this typing while clutching at the phone. Maybe I should start reading Buttercup's Baby now? The ending of Princess Bride was somewhat painful; am not sure whether william goldman's comments helped or hurt on that account.

Tours are all right but someday i plan to come back here on my own -- or better yet, with friends.

Oh man i forgot my old enemy in other asian countries: the squat toilet. Heavens. I mean they're not as bad as some people make them out to be, but they're bad enough.

Oh and i just managed to contact Ju! Omg omg omg omg.

Okay so absolutely full from dinner. First dinner here was buffet grill. Awesomeness. Loaded up our plates with lots and lots of meat. I took shots of two platefuls ahaha. So full right now.

Osaka, as seen at night from the highway, is very similar to south korea, hongkong, and certain parts of thailand. Just something about the way roads and buildings are laid out, as well as the cars and character sets.

Am at the hotel now. It is very cozy, sort of moody. Ceiling is so low that i can actually reach it (with uh a bit of jumping but still).

Also there are like cheapo pajamas (3 pairs) in a drawer. Put on a pair now so i can save up clean pajamas for later in case other hotels dont provide.

I wonder what bexhill-on-sea means? It comes up in autocomplete. I dont really see how it would be in common enough use to warrant an entry n the default

Movies before books? Books before movies?

[Poll #1155065]

(This comes from a discussion that aveleh and I are having, because I haven't seen/read The Princess Bride, but I have both the movie and the book on hand, but started reading the book first).

Dear Juju

I meant to call again but it's getting late but I will try again tomorrow maybe I shall get one of those 1000 yen calling cards and call you with that? Unless I can find something in cheaper increments :DD

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( 30 babbly tweets for 2008-03-16 )