day 36 - over and out

09/07/07 15:27
the last day of my journey. i'm on the plane right now. this morning i got up early, had breakfast and shaved for the first time in a while (my recharger didn't work in japan). then i threw away most of the superfluos stuff, filling one large plastic bag and taking about 3 or 4 kg of weight from my baggage. mochizuki-san came to the hotel to send me off. my trunk was checked in, coming to 24.4 kg (and probably another 10 in my backpack) and it was no problem. i spent my last yen on sunglasses, a coffee and a donut, now i've got about 40 left. then i got on the plane (3 empty seats again, awesome!). it took off as planned and there haven't been many things to report yet. but my movie screens works this time and there's like 4 or 5 films i want to see, so i'll be busy! the prestige - how great is that? best film i've been to recently.

19:13
what the hell!? james bond is shown in a cut version. no poisoning of his drink. i bet they'll leave out the torture scene too. sucks!

19:40
oh come on. "the job is done. the bitch is dead." was the coolest line of the movie. way to ruin a film, pg-censorship-mafia!

25:48/18:48
i'm back in europe! milan airport. i've got more time to waste than i had on the way to japan. my watch has been set back to middle european time. i managed to get in some sleep after casino royale (i wasn't really eager to watch movies that i hadn't seen before, unawarely missing half of the story because someone deemed it inappropriate for the airline guests). boarding for the plane to düsseldorf begins in one hour. my hand luggage is too heavy to run all around the airport so i think i'll read a little bit.

21:02
i am on the last flight of this journey now. the plane to düsseldorf took off about 20 minutes late. there are only 15 people or so on the flight. i'm feeling a little tired right now, it is, after all, 4 am in japan) but i am also glad to get back home. i'm listening the the flower kings' devil's playground. i thought it would be nice for the last song to be the same as the first, and this is one extraordinary piece of music. not all is the same as it was five weeks ago, though. while these were certainly very busy and eventful days, they were also days of insight. i think i am ready to move on now.
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