\n\nFor our shopping trip, we first went to “ \n\nWe then tried to take a cab to another place (“Starhill Shopping\nCenter”) less than a mile<\/span> away. But after<\/span> progressing only a quarter<\/span>\nmile or so in 20 minutes of late-afternoon traffic, we got out and walked. It seemed<\/span> that the moment we got out, the traffic started moving. Oh well.\n\n<\/p> \n\nAnyway, we got back to the airport in time to meet Fumie's mom and Anthony,\nand we all took a Malaysia<\/span> Airlines redeye (left Kuala Lumpur at 12:05am)\nto Osaka (arrived at Kansai International a few<\/span> minutes before 7am). All\ntold, it was about a six<\/span>-hour flight (there's a one<\/span>-hour time difference in\nthere).\n\n<\/p> \n\nIt was a zippy flight, at one point a half<\/span> an hour before landing reaching\na ground<\/span> speed of 1,054 kilometers per hour (655 mph), which is just about\nthe speed of sound in the air up there: where we had just started\ndescending from 41,000 feet -- 12 and a half<\/span> kilometers up. Of course,\nwe weren't actually flying “at the speed of sound” because our\ntravel was through a block<\/span> of air that itself was moving at about 250 kph\n(155mph) in our general direction (a 155mph<\/span> tail wind), so our speed\nrelative to the air we were moving through was only 500 miles per hour.\nStill sounds zippy to me, though.\n\n<\/p> \n\nAfter an hour and a half of immigration, customs (paying duty on our\nshopping), and waiting around, we finally boarded a shuttle<\/span> bus. Two hours<\/span> later, at 10:20am, we arrived home. Phew.\n\n<\/p> \n\nAll in all it was a very nice trip. I do wish<\/span>, though, that I hadn't<\/span> lost\nmy iPod<\/a>. I didn't<\/span> lose\nmy camera, luckily, so I now<\/span> have 600+ photos to process (on top of a few<\/span>\nhundred remaining from before I In taking a quick look over the shots, I thought<\/span> this one was cute. A runny<\/span> nose knows no vacation:<\/p>\n\n
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