Having just left Kuala Lumpur, I am currently flying over the south china sea on my way to Osaka, Japan. It was kind of a stressful morning for me. I’m not sure why, but things just seemed to be not flowing like I would expect, or maybe how I would have hoped. Nevertheless, I made it to the airport and caught the flight without any real problems.

So last night I went to bed pretty early, about 830 or 9 just so I could wake early and still be refreshed for the journey. I made sure to set both my alarms just to make guarantee that I would get up. At about 1230 after nearly four hours of lying in bed and watching movies I started to get worried that I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep at all. At about 115 I finally dozed off until my alarms went off at 5am. Geez. I got to tell you I was so out of it today I could barely function.

As I I was finishing my packing and getting ready to leave the hostel, I realized that I didn’t have my key. Crap! I looked everywhere in the room and still couldn’t find it. So I started tearing my bags apart thinking that maybe I packed it accidently or maybe left it in a pocket of the shorts I wore yesterday. No luck, I’d burned about 30 minutes and I still didn’t know where the keys were. Eventually I just gave up and apologized to the guy working at the counter, and also gave him 50rm ($12)

So the day wasn’t starting the way that I had hoped it would. I always like to get up early and feel rested the day I travel just because there are mistakes or decisions that are made that have more serious consequences than if I wasn’t traveling. Forgetting a passport or a power cord wouldn’t be terrible if you just had to go without for a day, but consider if you’re at the airport looking for your passport and maybe realize that you left it on the bed. It’s a perfect way to mess up what would normally be a fun and exciting day.

So I digress. Looking for the key had set me back about 20 minutes and I was now running late to get to the airport. I usually leave 3-hours early, sometime 4-hours, and I was leaving less than 3. I’m rushing around trying my best to get to the subway and train as fast as I can. All that goes pretty good, It generally takes about an hour to get to the airport from KL and I think it only took me about 40 minutes. I’m basically on schedule now and I go to check in, all standard stuff, except I learned that the flight wasn’t until 2pm, an hour later than what I thought. Second I found out that I don’t have a layover in Osaka as I previously thought. I was so convinced of those two thing I actually checked my literary when I got to the gate and then went online to see what the flight time was between the two cities. I have no idea how I got it so wrong. I even showed someone at the hostel my flight details a few days ago and I could have sworn she and I both agreed my flight was at 1pm. Maybe I said something like, “Yeah, see, I leave at 1.” And she just agreed with me… I don’t know but I feel like it was a glitch in matrix or something. Same goes with the layover. How could I ‘know’ that I had 12 hours in Osaka and it turns out that I have about 2? I must be going senile or maybe I’ll get a call from Morpheus.

Like I said though, everything turned out okay. I’m sitting in the airplane with a row completely to myself and my row is the front row without any seats in front of me. So, I’ve got it really good right now. It’s the reason I’m actually on my computer now because I actually have enough room to type.

I’m sitting in the airport in Osaka. It’s really quiet here, no massive amounts of people running around trying to get somewhere. I guess it is Saturday night though, so I suppose it would be one of the more quiet nights. I don’t know though, maybe not. :) It is really nice though not to feel rushed.

I’ve got about two hours before my flight takes off, so I’m thinking I may either play a game or maybe clean my computer… I don’t know which sounds like more fun? My computer is so dirty I was hiding it on the plane earlier…the room I was staying in was so dark, and that coupled with my poor eyesight I guess that I just never noticed it. It’s disgusting though.