day 1: packing for a plane.

1PM PST:
Spent most of the wee hours of the morning playing tetris with my clothes and equipment to fit them into three pieces of luggage. Now for the award of a 14 hour plane ride...

4PM PST:
Had to check in the pelican case with my camera gear (7kg's max weight for carryons)!! Did a last minute scramble to throw everything valuable into my backpack and ziptied the case.

FLIGHT:
Tried to do some reading, wasn't really up to it. Ended up watching two films L-O-V-E and Taken, during the flight.

LOVE was an omnibus in the vain of "Paris, je t'aime" or "Tokyo," but this time in Taiwan. Featuring an orgy of teen idols doing teen idol things; looking cute, being cute, and saying really cute things about "love."

TAKEN was a surprise, think "The Searchers" meets "Borne Identity." Was like candy. Something about having a film with "professionals" (script co-written by Luc Bresson), doing what they do best never gets old.

POST-FLIGHT:
Everything (gear & luggage) made it alright. OMG... it's hot here!