I am writing this from an airport lounge in Incheon, Korea on my way back to Jakarta.  To be honest I wasn’t even sure what day of the week it is until I looked at my Blackberry and realized that my article deadline is due.  The thing is I’m in transit coming from Chicago, which was a twelve-hour flight away and 12 hours behind Jakarta in time.  Korea meanwhile is fourteen hours behind Chicago and two hours ahead of Jakarta.

I only stayed in Chicago for exactly two nights while the transfer in Korea itself is more than twenty-four hours.  The flight to Jakarta is over six hours and again I will be travelling back in time.  In the last few days I would have spent more time travelling than being on the ground.