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Greetings from Bangkok airport! I really feel as in a transitional space in many ways right now.

The morning went surprisingly smoothly. I woke up at 7:00 without alarm clock (very unusual), packed the few remaining items, and was all done by 10 o'clock. As the flight -- I was counting the Indonesian visas required for unavoidable overnight stay in Bali on way to Timor-Leste in my passport and adding up the time before 2004 when the visa was not needed, and concluded that I must have taken the flight MZ8490 from Dili to Denpasar (and the MZ8480 from Denpasar to Dili) at least 18 times during past 3.5 years. Pity that Merpati doesn't have a frequent flyer programme (or actually I think they have one, but only for Indonesian residents). Well, I was about to write that as the flight was at 13:40, I had an idle hour or two, and couldn't figure out what to do and how to be.

Thanks for you all wonderful people who came to my farewell yesterday and/or to see me off at airport today! More on those occassions a bit later.