Through the MAGIC of post scheduling, by the time you see this, I will be travelling across the largest ocean on Earth in a long metal tube which defies the laws of gravity via an exploit in a loophole in aerodynamics, travelling in less than thirty hours a distance which used to require months or years. And throughout my time in this miracle of human engineering, I will probably be complaining about insufficient leg room.

I've never really experienced or even witnessed any dramatic partings at an airport. Singapore's Changi airport would probably be the best one to do so in, being that it actually looks nice, as opposed to merely serviceable, like every single US airport I've been in. (Admittedly, this means Detroit, Los Angeles, Denver, and Pittsburgh. I'm probably missing a few more.) Tokyo's Narita comes a reasonable second, but the vagaries of transit means that I've generally only been in Tokyo for a couple of hours at a time, save for once when I was little with my family and visited Tokyo (on the way to Los Angeles) for a day. This was, perhaps fortunately, before I Discovered Anime.

I've also transited in Frankfurt before, but it was three in the morning local time and I was only there for an hour or so anyway.

In any case, my general inability to be properly emotive is probably the main reason why I treat most farewells as a mere "see you later", even if we're never actually going to do so again. I'm probably missing out on a lot of dramatic moments which will be forever remembered fondly as the years go by, if anime is anything to go by: any scene in an airport is likely to lead to some sort of revelation or confession, if it's not a simple "yay we're going on a trip" kind of feeling (eg the trip to Hong Kong in the first Card Captor Sakura movie). It's not exactly a small thing to hop on a plane to elsewhere, especially since it's a huge investment in time and money, so if it happens, it's likely to be particularly significant.

I'm still not sure what I'm going to be doing when I head home to Singapore. My DVDs will be going on ocean freight, which means that I'll have what few I didn't bother to bring before to the US. Further updates as events unfold, assuming nothing untoward happens en route.