Let the Long March begin!

Well folks, it's just about time now. The furniture is gone, the flat is spotless, the ADSL is no more, and mighty Melchior is somewhere in the middle of the Tasman.

For those in Wellington, the official farewell event kicks off Fri night at the precise time of whenever. Pizza, Coke, a movie, one last time to reminisce about the good ol' days.

For those wanting the full schedule, it goes something like this: fly out of Wellington Sat night, listen to Mei complain about how long the hour long flight is, get as much sleep in Auckland as the 4am wakeup call will allow, listen to Mei complain how early it is, fly Auckland - Hong Kong Sunday morning, listen to Mei complain how long the flight is and how she's too short to see the movie screen, fly Hong Kong - Shanghai Sunday evening, listen to Rock complain how appalling service on China Eastern Airlines is and extrapolate his disgust to all things Chinese, get off the plane at Shanghai and... well to be honest folks, that's where the plan ends. Perhaps find a net cafe and try to find a way to make 15 hours in the air sound interesting?

And thus ends the first journal entry. Start posting those cyncial comments now. You know, the ones you were dying to post on Jared's site but didn't have the facilities to do so...