It's been one week

I feel like I owe it to the blog to spill some virtual ink here. Plus, I DO have stuff to share, I just couldn't find the time earlier. I think I had a BAD jetlag experience (5 days yo!) and have only yesterday retracted my head completely from the clouds. :)

So let's do this in an organized way, since I'm trying to get organized for first term (and the successive terms as well):

Flight:
Highlights of this was definitely the All Nippon Airways flight from Tokyo to Chicago. Or rather, the highlight began when I disembarked MAS into the Narita Airport and arrived in O'Hara airport in Chicago. First of all, Japanese bathrooms are the cutest things. I was just snapping pictures in my little cubicle. These little buttons for vertical and rear ass spraying were darling, and get this, there's even a flush sound button (Which doesn't flush actually), so that when you go, no one can hear the treasures dropping down the bowl. Genius I say. I also got to spend transit time comfortably as I met Nazira, this cute undergrad going to Pennsylvania. You know how some people meet you for 10 minutes, then they start telling you about their latest fight with their boyfriend? This was one of those occasions. Nothing like two Malaysians alone in a Tokyo airport to stimulate some heart to heart.

On the flight, I was blessed with being seated next to a Japanese woman, Mayumi and her two half Japanese-half white American boys, Ian and Spencer. I didn't really talk to Mayumi, but those two little boys took a fancy to me and kept trading seats after every meal to sit next to me and talk. Now Ian is a little Marat Safin. I swear, if Marat Safin shrunk to 3 feet, and wore a plaid shirt, shorts, and boots, then he'd look like Ian. And what a smooth talker! He taught me how to use chopsticks, and when I demonstrated, he easily said, "You do it really good, you do it better than me."

Spencer is a darling as well, telling me about a friendly ghost that lived in his basement, and making me watch these Japanese cartoons and explaining what was going on (since I don't understand Japanese ;P).

At the end, they asked for my address, and promised to write, but it's been a week *sniff* and no letters! I miss them! I want kids. I want boys who look like them.

Baltimore:
I arrived, from Chicago (on a terrible United flight), got my bags and took the train into the city before boarding a yellow taxi cab driven by a Pakistani who, upon driving up Stirling street asked me, "You sure you live here? This is a bad neighborhood." Unfortunately, my anxiety was stoked further when I realized no one was home. But I was to tired to worry, so he took my bags out and I just waited at the doorstep. I wanted to go walk around a bit, but then I realized what he meant by it's a bit of a bad neighborhood, so I went back and stayed put.

Suddenly, weird thoughts came. "Kye you traveled across the world to this place, what if this Chase person doesn't really exist?! What if this house is some drug dealer's place?!" But yea, I didn't entertain them too much. And luckily, like a angel on a mountain bike, the Chase that I only previously from pictures came coasting down the pavement going, "Kye! I'm so sorry! My phone was off and I was in an exam!" Ahh saved. The sweetest thing, she had everything ready for me, including a bed and a place to put my clothes and offered me food and drink and, well I just went straight to sleep. :P

Okay, Darn it, I actually have a lotta stuff to recap. Nevermind I'm gonna skip most of it and just say what I wanted to talk about originally. Which is this conversation I had with one Neff Walker, a Hopkins faculty member, during our class picnic on Wednesday.

He's been married for 35 years, and has spent half of his married life away from his wife, who lives in New York while he's here in Hopkins. And seeing as to how I'm in a long distance relationship (possibly one for many many years), I was hanging on to his every word when he talked about it. They don't have any kids though, which made sense, yet made me a little worried since I do want kids at some point. And what with the total fertility rate around the globe dropping, it's almost necessary to have kids. Not to mention, I want little things to adore me hee.

So yea, I asked him what the biggest challenge was in his relationship and he said, (remember the Texan drawl y'all) "Well, the thing is, after being apart for awhile, you're gonna have different lives from each other. And you're gonna come back to each other and wonder why you still wanna be together." And that hit me quite hard, as in, I'm thinking about it a lot.

Okay, that's all I should shower now.

Toodles!