Sad

It's sad that even a mere airport bookstore overseas has more to offer than the stores in one's own city. (A cursory stroll though Changi's Times Link bookshop revealed E.L. Doctorow's The March, Sarah Waters' The Night Watch, Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and William Vollman's Europe Central.)

It's sad that in the urge to conserve foreign exchange, one picked up only one of the above. (The Yiyun Li.)

It's sad that instead of heading to the electronics or liquor duty-frees like any self-respecting bloke, the first thing that one did was to look for a bookshop.

And it's sad that thereafter, one wanted to blog about it from the airport itself.