I wanna see The Dark Knight soooo bad.

all packed @ 25kgs

I'm all packed. I'm all visa-ed. And now I stand on a precipice I face a destiny in which there are three possible outcomes:

Probably: I'll see Dark Knight on the plane

Ideally: I'll see Dark Knight In Tokyo!! On Imax!!

Or, and if this be the case I'll cry: I'll see it in like five years time, all pixelated on a laptop. God forbid.

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Reading pack

These are the books I'm taking - they are a good blend of read, unread, serious and not-so-serious. A bit euro-centric. But that's how I roll...for now.

Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose - Sandy Balfour
The Kraken Wakes - John Wyndham
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
Howards End - E.M Forster
Turn of the Screw - Henry James
The Caves of Steel; The Rest of the Robots - Isaac Asimov
All Quiet on The Western Front - Enrich Maria Remarque

For the plane: probably Gatsby which i first read on a plane - Cape Town to Jo'burg 2000. And maybe Howards End.

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Initials

I'm not in Mihara but in seven sleeps time...no...like ten sleeps, I will be.

Naturally, it is an adventure into the unknown. But one thing is certain: I will have an Inkan.
My supervisor, Kaneshima-san, known only to me via gmail (Chatter anyone?) is having it made right now. Probably. No...in like four hours maybe. The Inkan maker is still asleep. In four hours time he will be awake, my Inkan will be ordered and in the pipeline...

'What is an Inkan?' they cried.
'Who are they?' I cried.
'We asked first!' they cried.
'Very well,' I said...

An Inkan, as far as I know, is a stamp that you use instead of a signature on official documents. My friend Darryl showed me his Chinese equivalent and my god, what a beautiful thing! Mine will be my name - Jemma - in Katakana - Japanese script for foreign words. If I'm not wrong, it'll look something like this:

cool hey?
'yes', they said