Saturday, February 25, 2006

Strong Osaka Girls

Sorry dear readers, I still have no pictures to share with you.

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I arrived in Osaka in the afternoon, it was raining slightly. The hotel is right next to the Osaka Castle so I decided to take a walk. The castle is surrounded by water on its 3 sides and there is a cherry blossom park right in front of the castle. It was very quiet and peaceful, a large bird glid over the water, I can only hear the rain sizzling.

I breathed deeply, I was all by myself as far as I can see. Beijing is actually quite stressful. People are very very unrested, always very eager to do something or to go somewhere. The castle park was really nice although my shoes were all wet and my fingers were immoblised because of the coldness.

I then saw a man mumbling to himself, he looked like a homeless. I decided not to show that I was scared. I walked passed him instead of detouring, at the same time, I shot him this very dirty look. I then ran very quickly to the deeper site of the park (I thought I was walking out then) in a fear that he might be following me.

Anyhow, I got back to the hotel alright. Later my friend told me it is not safe to go to the castle at night because of many homeless. But this is Japan!! I protested, I will be on the newspaper if I really get mobbed.

Another thing I observed in Osaka is that all the moving lagguage business in a hotel was handled by some tiny, nylon-wearing girls. While waiting in the airport lounge, I also found it was all women who load the laggages to the airplains. Is it because Osaka girls are very strong?

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