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Journey to the Promised Land
(aka Square Enix Party 2007)
Charlotte Chen
May 22, 2007


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May 8, 2007

When taking the 11-hour flight from LAX to Narita, it’s important to remember the essentials. Nintendo DS. Check. I know I should pack all Final Fantasy titles (of which Final Fantasy I through Final Fantasy VI are now available in one form or another that is playable on a DS), but I sneak The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap into the mix. What? I never got a chance to finish it. I am immediately punished for my insubordination by finding an interloper already in my assigned seat on the plane when I board. He begs to switch seats because he needs to charge his laptop and his seat wasn’t working—would I mind terribly taking 44G? Despite various superstitious fears about switching seats (look what happened to people who did that on Lost!) and the fact that 44 is a really unlucky number in Taiwanese and Japanese, I just let it slide instead of beating him to death with my pink DS, since I’m pretty sure that’s one of the offenses that gets you shipped off to Guantanamo. The fact that the plane was delayed due to mechanical reasons involving the hydraulics system and that the meal service ran out right before they got to me were surely coincidences.

May 9, 2007

After landing at Narita in Japan, I still need to take an hour-long bus ride to Shinjuku, the district in Tokyo where Square Enix’s HQ is located. Unlike the MTA in Los Angeles, the buses in Japan run on time, and I have about five minutes to change my U.S. dollars into yen (the only kind of money in the world currently worth less than the dollar, except for possibly Monopoly money) and get to the bus stop. My bad luck streak continues, because despite a kindly robotic voice instructing us in both English and Japanese over the bus PA system to not to speak on cell phones because it will “annoy the neighbors,” a woman behind me commences to do just that. ON SPEAKER PHONE. It’s only been a day and a half and I’ve already met two people I want to kill.