Alone Again

So it's true. (Notice how I almost always start every blog with the word "So"?) I'm going to California alone. And we're, or rather, I'm, touching down in LA by the way, not San Francisco. How I wish the stop over's in Hawai'i instead of Japan. But hey, Japan's just as cool. Hah.

I love travelling alone. (I've actually only travelled out the country 2 roundtrip times... Manila-Sydney-Manila, and Manila-Tokyo-Manila (that's Tokyo en route to Hawai'i.) You get this adrenaline rush and combined excitement and fear. Pretty much like entering college, only the span of time you feel that is more defined. (You don't know if you're going to be able to adjust to college life in a day, a week, a month or a year.)

The best thing about travelling alone is that you can people watch as much as you can and (1) you won't be noticed much, plus (2) there won't be any relative/s to notice how stupid or obsessive you look while people watching. Another thing is that you can pretend. You can pretend to know everything, what to do, the place when in truth, you really don't haha. And nobody's going to care since you're not gonna see them ever again.

Another is that you get to meet people if you're friendly, not shy and not too tight-assed about things haha. Actually, that happens with or without companions :p

I'm going to have two transfers in my flight to LA. Manila to Nagoya to Narita to LA. Dude, I've never been to Nagoya. This is gonna be fun. But then, it's not really a stop over, just a transfer, which sucks a bit since I'm not gonna be able to go around. I'd just have fun getting lost, I guess. Or I can make friends on the plane and then we'd figure things out together. But I can already imagine it... I'd most probably end up tagging along a Filipino family. Meh, the usual scenario.

But surprise, surprise. I just asked my grandma. She said I'd have to go to the domestic airport in Nagoya. O_O But my aunt said, that's crazy. It's just a gate to gate transfer within the airport. If it's like that, then I can manage. My aunt said she's gonna look ino changing the booking so it's a direct Manila-Narita-LA. I'm gonna be stopping over in Narita. Woohoo. Time to people watch a bit. (I know, that's where I saw AIrport Boy, remember? I just remembered... the only person who's probably read my blog long enough to remember my Airport Boy blogranting days is Ayisse. Those are the days I was still hosted under http://www.bowtome.com)

If I have 10 minutes to spare, don't worry, I'm gonna be using those nifty 100 Yen internet booths in Narita to update on what happened. I'd really be on my own since I'm no longer availing an Unattended Minor service. I need to pay extra for that. I hope i don't turn into a sudden, as Dixi coined, urban idiot.

And since we're in the subject of travelling... For some reason, I like getting delayed flights (that is, of course, if I'm not rushing. But I have no reason to rush yet, anyway.) You can explore the place, get bored, sit around, get bored, people watch, get bored, and it goes on and on. I love it. Haha

Maybe I should write a script for a short movie that occurs inside an airport instead. But that'd be a bit lame if I were to make one. It could be something to include in the Urban Idiot series: Urban Idiot Goes International.

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Reading Quark Henares's blog, I realized that I want Scorsese type of shots if I were to make films. The swish pans and quick dollies. In fact, whenever I envision a script coming it always includes either a swish pan or a quick dolly. And he mentioned that hearing scene in Goodfellas where the character suddenly talks to the camera. THAT'S what I'm talking about. I know, it's the kind you mostly see in gangster/crime movies. And I know, I'm a sucker for the evocative, feely-feely movies but I like to make the narrative ones. And then that's when I'd go all Lost In Translation. hahahahaha