JENESYS

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The Loco-Motion by Grand Funk Railroad

Yes, superbly old song... I think the original was from the 1970s or something, because Kylie Minogue did a cover in 1988. Ancient, but quite cool I think. Catchy in that super retro song way. And I like it cause SMAP was performing to this song in their new CM. Yes, totally biased HAHA.

Anyway... I am in JAPAN. To be exact, I am in Osaka, in this little port town known as Rinku Town, all the way at the outskirts of Osaka. Next to the coast. Its a pretty little town, where the nearest train station is about 25 minutes away. Loads of wide spaces. Loads of plants. Not a lot of people, but I see a lot of families. Anyways... Culture shock to the maximum. Its only the first day and I'm assaulted by Japanese. Even logging onto the Internet directs me to Google Japan and all the Japanese words are screwing with my brain. I assure you, its one thing to go on tour, and a totally different thing to solo it out. New York and Taiwan and China and wherever was fine. If not because of the language, it was because I had people I could talk to. Now? OMG is the only expression I can come up with that can even start to describe how I feel. Its seriously an ASSAULT. All your senses going in overdrive to try to help you cope. Exciting, but very worrrying. And knowing me who is currently listening to Glee, I am using escapism to get away from the language overload. Not a good thing at all...

Anyway, my first SQ flight. I can start to understand why some people won't fly any other airline but SQ? Hot towels? Gorgeous menus? 150 channels of movies to watch? A gazillion albums and songs to listen to? Virtually my entire Korean playlist was available on SQ. GD&TOP, yes. 2NE1, yes. SHINee, yes. TVXQ, yes. It was so comprehensive that they even had Vidoll's Monad! Like hello? Scary much? I'm not going to talk about their English songs. Top 10 hits of every year since the 1970s? Insane. Too bad they didn't have the Warblers, otherwise I might just fall in love with them. Anyway... Service was ok, had this rather sulky stewardess, and the food was decent. Not great, but decent. Better than Eva that's for sure! Although the stewardesses (is there even such a word?!) on Eva were prettier. But yeah, SQ tries very hard to be perfect, gotta give them credit for it.

The Institute is GORGEOUS. I have been exploring, and I declare the place more than satisfactory. The room is much larger than expected, and the facilities are plenty decent. I might grow sick of the place in the next 40 days, but I must admit that it is nice. The view is fantastic and while the location leaves much to be desired, I guess it would be manageable if I had rented the bicycles. People here are generally friendly and hey try very hard to make me speak Japanese. I do speak, but I think I seem like a very quiet girl. HAHA.

First day here so there really isn't anything much to say, except that I am superbly thankful for the presence of the Internet. Otherwise I might have died from loneliness. I need to feel connected to people; even when I'm out with people, I have a habit of moving close. I hug and cuddle with my close friends... All I can say is I'm a very tactile person. Which is why being alone sucks. I'm like a rabbit; I need to cuddle. Or I might die.

Nothing much to say. Hopefully I will be consistent with my blogging. This year has been pretty much a drought period, what with less than 30 posts in 6 months. What am I doing I wonder...

"Where's the rock and roll?"