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What Am I Going To Do?
I took 8AM flight to go to Tokyo this morning.
Getting up early is no longer hard for me lately.
I was going to go see somebody, but I did not have appointments, so soon after I got to the airport, I called several companies to get appointments.
However, I could not get enough appointments.
Most of them were in other countries for work.
It seems like there is a big Organic convention in Germany right now.
So I have to come to Tokyo next week too to see them.
I went to check Healthy items at convention in Tokyo.
It was okay convention; I got a couple ideas from the convention.
When I saw a buyer at one grocery store, my boss suddenly joined me and judged me after the appointment.
He did not give me a good comment, which made me so upset.
I argued with my boss and he tried to make it up and took me to café.
The café was called, “Café Bun”, which made me happy.
Because “Bun” is sort of my nickname.
I wanted to get this cup!
I attended a meeting and left Tokyo at 7:30PM by bullet train.
I hate taking bullet train, because it takes 2 and a half hour to go back to Osaka, although it only takes 50 mins by airplane.
Anyway, because I was bored in a bullet train, I was thinking lots of things.
Like, “What am I going to do in near future?”
I have to go to work tomorrow too, so I was thinking about work for an hour, but soon I was thinking about my future.
I was going to do nothing tomorrow, but it seems like I have to go to work.
My current job is exciting, but it never ends.
And I know this is not something I am good at or something I wanna do forever.
I want to work in a hospitality business.
I want to take care of somebody, and I think I would like to think how to make customers happy.
Not a desk work or control many workers, but I just wanna concentrate on myself to do good service to people.
If I get the job, I would make less money than now, but it would make me happy.
I have to start thinking what I am going to do.
Should I take emotional satisfaction or financial satisfaction??
Too Busy To Feel Jetlag
I was too busy to take any pictures today.
So I took a can of Spam which I got from Hawaii.
I love Spam rice ball!
Today I had to be surprised at piles of papers and tons of e-mails.
It was incredible.
I took so much time to check all e-mails and response to each of them.
Time went so fast today.
I had testing of so many kinds fo sweets already for work, so I did not eat dinner tonight.
I had a couple of appointments and several meetings already.
I should not complain this time, because I was inda on vacation till yesterday.
Therefore working hard after vacation is something I should do without complaining, I know.
Normally, when I come back from the US, I get jetlag, but I had not time for it today.
I wanted to go home early, but unfortunately, since I was out of office for conventions and Hawaii trip for more than a week, all the projects of our team were behind.
So I did overtime, and I was late for English lesson.
Yes, I had my student at home tonight.
It was the last lesson since he is going to graduate college.
I will miss him.
It was hard for me to keep teaching after work, but it was such a good experience.
I appreciate him.
My boss suddenly decided to make me go to Tokyo on business tomorrow.
Ahhhhh, lately, I can’t stay in Osaka much.
I gotta go to a convention and research for Organic and see some people.
I will have a meeting at late at night there too, so maybe I should stay a night there, but I will come home.
So it will be just a day trip.
I don’t want to d anything this weekend.
Give me a break!!!!!!!!!!
Back To Japan
This is sky in Hawaii.
I left Hawaii afternoon on 26th.
And I was on an airplane for 11 hours, although it took only 6 and a half hour to get to Hawaii from Japan.
And this is sky in Japan.
We got here at 7PM on 27th.
I am soooo tired.
Gotta go to bed soon and get ready for tomorrow for work!
Good Bye Hawaii
I woke up 7 in this morning, and had breakfast buffet.
We left hotel at 10AM and left to the airport.
We did last shopping, and posted some picture cards.
I really had a good time in Hawaii.
I feel myself so lucky that I could travel with all my colleagues.
We took North West again, and it was horrible like the way to go to Hawaii.
This time my seat was next to my roommate.
We chat a lot and had a good time.
Taking picture on the airplane is the last thing I do.
It is such a tourist thing.
I travel a lot, so now I feel embarrassed to take picture in the airplane.
But we did.
And It is kinda nice picture.
Being normal tourist is not that bad.
It just annoyed a lot of local people.
Anyway, I feel sad that I have to say good bye to Hawaii.
I always love Hawaii.
I will be back to Hawaii soon, I hope!
Don’t Wanna Go Home
Today, we woke up early and went to “The Original Pancake House” which is my favorite Pancake place in America.
Five of us went to the place and had 5 kinds of panckes.
Of course we got hella full.
So we decided to walk to shopping center and took a walk for an hour.
And we went back to beach and hung out by the beach.
We all bought new bathing suits and we wanted to show off.
We were going to go there only with girls, but of course there were male colleagues around the beach close to our hotel.
So we were kinda embarrassed.
I was the only one who has dark skin, so I got lots of sun tanning.
And we went back to hotel to take a shower, and left to “Cheese Cake Factory”.
Look how messy our table was.
We ate many kinds of cheesecakes like we do at work.
We have to taste each of them, so we used our own folks and took a bite from each cheesecake.
We were totally full and I had a stomachache because of eating too much.
But I was so happy to lied down in a beach and took a nap there on Monday, which we always work.
And we could take a shower as many times as we want, and had alcohol from daytime.
How nice it was!
Everyone went off to shopping, so I decided to take Lomi Lomi massage.
I went to Spa and took it for on hour.
I felt sooooo good.
And I went back to a shopping mall, and had dinner there.
I threw up at night by the way, not because of drinking too much, but I had upset stomach.
This happened last night too.
How come I can’t control how much I eat…
On the way back to hotel from the restaurant, we did some more shopping and went back to hotel at 11PM.
Most of stores in Hawaii open till 11PM.
From 11PM till 2AM now we stayed at one room and chat.
The guy who kept talking was hilarious.
Everyone was sleepy, but nobody could stop him.
It was like a trip that we had in high school days.
We have to go home tomorrow, but I don’t want to.
I don’t have confidence to go back to work from the next day we go back to Osaka.
Anyway, I should go to bed not to be late for tomorrow meeting in the morning.
Shopping and Eating
My roommate woke up at 6 and left to diving lesson.
I woke up at 8:30 and had breakfast buffet at the hotel.
I went to Alamoana Shopping Center and did lots of shopping.
I bought such a cute dress at DKNY, and also I bought other stuff too.
I saw a DKNY dress on Vogue and I was dreaming to get it.
I tried it on, but it looked like I am pregnant, so I bought a different one which is even cuter.
I had Jamba juice which I missed a lot.
Banana Berry!! It tasted good as usual!
I wonder why they don’t sell it in Japan!
I forced lots of my colleagues to have one.
After shopping, I went to Italian restaurant with my bosses and their wives.
We had Italian, and I was in charge of ordering.
I talked with my dad about the menu beforehand, so I ordered well, but they were too much.
And also I got pretty drunk after I said goodbye to them.
Probably, I was a little nervous in front of my bosses.
I checked my e-mails and I saw some boys from our company.
They saw my shopping bag and asked me where the store is located, so I took them to the store.
Lots of walking and eating in Hawaii.
So far, I had such a good time in Hawaii, which might be the best time in Hawaii ever.
We are going to “The Original Pancake House” tomorrow morning and will go to beach.
I bought bikinis last night, so I can’t wait to wear them!
Hula Girls On A Stage
I started washer for my laundry last night, and before it got done, I fell a sleep.
I was so tired, but I got up at 4AM and took all my laundries out from the washer and dried them, and checked all e-mails.
After the mess, I went back to sleep and got up at 9AM.
I packed my suitcase for Hawaii and left to have lunch with my sister.
I hung out with her for a while and left to the airport.
I was not excited about this Hawaii trip much, because I was not interested in traveling all the people from work.
However, after busy days from convention, I was getting so excited and was looking forward to going to Hawaii with them.
I had to take Northwest airline which is the last airline I choose.
I don’t like their service and I think their airplane is cheap.
All of us sat in a group, and I sat next to a huge guy who smelled like sweat.
I feel bad that I don’t know his name, but I talked with him nicely for a while.
Since our flight was only for 6 and half hours, I was rushed to get a sleep.
Because we were going to get to Hawaii at 8:30 AM, I thought I would get a bad jetlag.
So I was sleeping but the guy split a glass of water ON me.
I asked a stewardess to give me a new blanket, but she blamed on me saying that I overreact with water.
She goes, “It’s just water. Let it go”.
Her behavior pissed me off.
I told her, “I am not a kid, so I know it is just a water and it would get dry. But it is wet now, and I feel uncomfortable. Do you have a new blanket?”
I argued with her a while and decided to write a comment card.
I can’t believe people who are in a hospitality business do such a bad behavior!!
Anyway, we arrived at Hawaii and of course, I was stopped at the immigration.
It happens a lot lately because I have so many stamps on my passport.
It is such a hassle all the time.
After we left the airport, we took a sightseeing bus and did sightseeing and shopping.
It was fun to see all my colleagues’ private style.
Most of their fashion is out of the day.
They wear suits all the time, so they don’t have good taste for their private clothes.
Kinda funny.
We had 100 year anniversary party for our company at Hyatt in Waikiki outside.
8 of us danced Hula with Ukulele players and singers.
Everyone wanted to take a picture with us, and we were like famous star.
People praised my dance since I was the only one who has practiced Hula for 2 years, and other practiced only 2 days.
I could talk with a lot of my bosses and colleagues and had such such a good time.
My dad and mom were there too.
After the party, my roommate and I went out to town.
All the stores open till 10or 11PM, unbelievable!
We shopped a lot and had ice cream at Cold Stone!
I missed all this American life!
It is soooo fun.
I think I can getaway from work for these 3 nights!
Yeahhhhhhh!!!
Success Fifth Day
Finally, we accomplish the last day of convention.
I was so moved.
Since I was sick, it was hard for me to keep standing, but since it was extremely busy, so I could bear.
I got 20 mins break and I tried to take a lunch at 2PM.
However, on the way out to the convention center, I realized that all other booths were trying to get rid of all their products, since it was the last day.
So I went back to my booth, and told everyone to get rid of our samples and stuff.
Once we started giving away, there were so many people came to our booth.
Our booth was with snoopy character, so many people got interested in and they want to get snoopy stuff from us.
Anyway, we succeeded our exhibition.
Today we got the most business cards.
People who came to our booth on the first day and second day told their bosses to check out our products.
So we could do business talk with high level position people today most of the time.
I am now so excited.
The convention was closed at 4PM today, and we cleared everything up and left at 5PM.
I thanked all people who helped me to success this convention, and they were also excited like me.
All of us were happy and knew that we did a good job.
Working like this is so great.
We all felt really good after these crazy busy days.
I was about to cry, because I was so moved today.
I am really lucky person who can get theses good companions.
Better Forth Day
Today, I got such a big bump in my body.
I don’t feel like writing where on this blog, but I never had it before, and it hurts so much.
Maybe because of this first experience.
I am very worried, and I am nervous because I am going to go to Hawaii soon after this convention, so I don’t have time to go to hospital…
I hope this is not anything serious.
Today was the second day of the convention.
An American guy came to me and asked me if I speak English.
He kept telling me that I don’t look like full Japanese.
And he introduced himself and he asked me to give him some brochure.
He was Charles M Schulz’s grandson!!
He said he works for Del Monte, so he was at the convention too.
I was excited, so I talked with him for a while and took a picture.
I thought this is great that I saw his grandson, so I took a picture with him.
However, after we took this picture, he grabbed my butt.
Still I stared at him and I was like “Huh?”
He asked me what I was going to do tonight.
Excuse me??? I am not interested in you old man if you are not Schultz’s grandson!!!
Now I wonder if he was really Shultz’s grandson…
Maaaaan, I was disappointed with this guy who came to Japan from Utah.
I hope I was not deceived, I hope he is still Shultz’s grandson who is such a stupid American who thinks they can get Japanese girl so easily.
Anyway, today, I went to Tokyo branch after convention.
I had to take care of some stuff there.
My boss said he wanted to talk about some plans for the next day.
He took me out for dinner, but we did not talk about serious stuff at all.
My feet weren’t hurt as much as they were last night.
I think I am getting used to.
I did better than yesterday at the convention so I will do much better tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be the last day!
I will definitely get a big business tomorrow!!
Success Third Day
Ahhhhh, what a hard day!
It was the first convention day today.
The hall was so big, and there were so many booths I wanted to see.
However, I did not have a in to look around.
I am a leader of this convention, so I have to take care of everything.
There are 13 of us, and it was a little hard for me to make sure that everyone is doing all right.
Also there are so many people came to our booth, and of course all of us had to appeal our product to do business soon to make MONEY!
People in Osaka and people in Tokyo got together and we were a great team.
I learned a lot today.
I bet I can do much better tomorrow.
Tonight I took other girl, who works for me, for dinner.
Like the other night to other girl, I talked the same thing to her.
We talked how we will work from now on.
She has lots of ambitious, so I hope she will get a good position in near future.
I am so so so tired, and I can’t walk anymore.
I remember how hard it was to work at the front desk at a hotel by standing whole time.
Today, I stood from 8AM to 7PN straight.
I took 25 lunch break, and that was it.
I don’t complain, cuz I feel good that I did pretty good job today more than I expected.
Feet Hurt Second Day
We had been pretty busy from early in this morning.
We went to convention center in Tokyo to check out our booth.
Everyone there was trying to get ready, so none of the booth was completed yet.
I remember that I sneaked in preparing convention center in LA because I misunderstood the first day of Natural Expo last year and got so excited.
We brought so much stuff to a convention center and prepared.
Everything did not go well.
I had to ask people who built our booth to fix.
The more I mention the parts to fix, the less I liked the booth.
My feet hurt so much tonight.
Also the convention center was really really cold.
We finished preparing at the convention center for the first day of the convention tomorrow at 8PM.
We went back to our Tokyo branch and everyone who will join the convention got together.
We had a small meeting and went out to drink all together.
13 of us!
It was so much fun.
People who came form Osaka, 6 of us, stay at the same hotel next each other.
This is such a big event.
I was very nervous, but now I am getting just excited.
I hope everyone is too.
We are going to see each other at 7:30 at the lobby.
I should go to bed now.
Gourmet First Day
I took a cab to the airport, and took 7AM flight to Tokyo.
Thank god that I live really close to the airport.
I often miss early flights somehow, because I am not good at getting up early.
Today, I made it!!
I had two assistants for today, but did not have much stuff to ask them to do today…
I felt bad, so I let them go for marketing research in Tokyo.
I myself had lots of stuff to do.
I went for lunch with my favorite colleagues.
He knows lots of good place.
I had curry udon, which was really good.
After we finished preparation, I decided to take a girl who works for me to dinner.
I took her to a nice Italian restaurant.
I wanted to talk with her in person because now I am her new boss, and I thought she has some worries.
I talked with her a lot by eating nice dinner.
This is how they serve Cesar Salad there.
We had ham with fresh melon and mango, and the mongo was the best ever!
We were so hungry and ordered pasta and this fried onion pizza.
Obviously they were too much for two girls.
We had such a good time with nice night sight in Tokyo.
She said she believes in me and will follow me.
I am such a simple person, so her saying encouraged me a lot.
It has been a tough work situation lately, but I got motivated.
I supposed to motivate her, but she motivated me.
Oh well…
Massage and Beef Pot
Yeah! I did not go to office today!
I slept in, and went to Spa before noon.
At spa I got a letter from technician, and it was such a cute letter, and made my day.
I turned in a couple of my pans and skirts which I will wear at a convention to clean, so I had to go back to the department store at night.
So I decided to go to massage place where blind person gives a great massage for one hour.
I had not been there a while, so I felt really good.
I am so spoiled by getting treatment at spa and getting massage at other place in a day.
And I went back to my apartment to pack my stuff for tomorrow for 5 days in Tokyo.
For dinner, I asked my parents to take me to a restaurant where I can get a nice beef.
I thought I would not get good food for 5 days from tomorrow.
So this white beef pot was such a good idea for the last night before busy busy business trip.
Tonight’s dinner hit my spot!
After dinner I went back to department store to pick my stuff up, and took a bath.
I just ordered a cab for tomorrow morning at 6.
I wish, I wish everything would go well from tomorrow.
I am really nervous to be honest.
Good thing that I could get relax the day before the convention today.
Wanna Cry
I woke up early to do household this morning,
And at 10 o’clock, my student came to my apt and taught him English for 2 hours.
Nowadays, I don’t speak much English, so teaching him is a good opportunity for me to speak English.
Poor my student…
After teaching him, I headed to my office by my car.
Now I got a parking spot at my apt, and I am now allowed to drive to my office, so it is easier for me to go to office.
Anyway, I had to go to office because I was not ready for a convention from next Monday.
Lately I go to every holidays.
Although I go to work on weekends, my work has never got done…
I had an appointment for hair salon today at 5:45.
My hair got messed up, so before the convention, I wanted to get my hair cut done.
However, I could not finish my work on time, and I was driving back really fast to get there on time.
I was late.
When I was driving, I wanted to cry,
Because I felt miserable when I think how many times I have sacrificed my private life for my work lately.
Also I was sad to think about a guy who now hates me.
I was thinking how I can get along with him while I was driving.
I have gotten along well with all workers, but since I moved to other department, I have had someone who became hating me.
He does not like a crazy girl who came to a different island (department) because we have a different way to achieve our project.
When I was thinking lots of things, I was about to cry, but couldn’t.
I have not cried for a while recently.
I used to dry a lot about many things, but it seems like now I forgot how to cry.
Am I too tired? Too dry? Or Am I getting strong??
Hula Girls
Today, a guest from last night came to our office.
I was too busy, so I just greeted them and went back to my desk.
I had a couple appointments with designer for the convention we are going to exhibit out products.
Soon after the appointment, I left my office to see a man.
He is a son of he owner of a distributor in Japan, who does import organic stuff.
He knows a lot about importing organic stuff, so I went to see him to learn for the first time.
It was interesting because I learned lots of stuff which I had not known at all.
It seems like it would be difficult to import stuff by myself, but I have to ask a couple more people to know the fact.
This picture is what I ate after the appointment, by the way.
Later, I went back my office and tried to clean up what I had to do.
However, I could not.
I did a few meeting with girls who works for me about their project.
And at 4, we held a big meeting with all people who will help us for the coming convention.
At 5, I had a meeting with Board of Directors of our company.
At 6, I had another meeting for our department/
And from ‘ o’clock, I started teaching Hula dance to girls/
We are going to dance Hula at a party in Hawaii the end of this month.
My dream is to be a Hula teacher when I turn to 70, but my dream has already came true.
Well, I wasn’t good enough, of course.
Teaching dance was very difficult.
Moreover, it is impossible mission to make all girls dance well by teaching only one day for two hours.
We’ll see how it goes at the party…
Happy Valentine's Day!
Look how many chocolates I bought.
I did not get any roses this year…
In Japan, girls don’t get anything on Valentine’s day, but get something back on March 14th from men whom I gave chocolates.
Unfortunately, I would not be in Japan on White Day, March 14th.
But it is all right, because I was happy enough to see everyone’s happy face when I gave them.
I woke up at 4AM this morning by shouting.
I had such a bad dream about work, I got really scared while I was dreaming, so I was glad to know that it was just a dream…
I guess I am so tired, so when I was on the airplane this morning when I was going back to Osaka, I passed out.
I went back to office and worked on so many things.
Too bad that I did not have time to open all e-mails.
Nowadays, when I don’t check e-mail a day, I got tons on the next day.
I had a business dinner tonight in Tokyo.
I have to take care of very important person for my project now.
So I took them to very expensive Geisha place.
You can’t play with Geisha that often.
Actually this is the second time for me, but I had to pretend that I am used to play with Geisha since all other people never had played with them.
Geisha and Maiko play games with each of us.
This is me learning how to play a game.
I look happy, but I really did not want to, felt ashamed.
However, this is part of a job as a Japanese business woman, you know.
I drunk sooooo much, and I was tired to concentrate on taking care of them.
I want to give perfect score to myself about today’s business dinner.
All men went to nasty bar afterwards, so I came back to Osaka by train by myself.
I feel lucky to be born as a woman because I can go home earlier than men because men usually want me to go when they go to nasty place.
Still I came back home at 10:30 PM.
Well, I can’t imagine till what time all the men play and drink.
They will come to our company early tomorrow morning, though.
Men are tough…
Lots Going On In Tokyo
I took an early flight to Tokyo from Osaka.
It was snowing in Osaka but it was clear in Tokyo.
It was just so cold in Tokyo.
I could not sleep on the airplane today somehow, so felt 50 mins flight was long.
I got to Tokyo earlier for an appointment, so I was not thinking hard enough about transportation.
So I took super express train without noticing.
Therefore I had to get off the train at a wrong station which was far far away from the station I had to get off.
Therefore, I was late for the appointment three minutes…
Also after the appointment, when I was on a train, I got confused and was not sure which way I was going.
So I got off the train, and soon realized that I was on the right train.
How silly!
But the good thing is that I saw this quiet area in Tokyo.
Look, there is a horse which is for a horse gambling race in Japan.
I had never seen horse race, and fun to look at this horse which was taking a walk.
I went to Tokyo station to check out chocolates.
Now there are so many interesting chocolates for Valentine’s Day.
And I went to Tokyo branch, and worked a bit.
After work, I went out for dinner with Mr.Yachi who went to MBA school at DU.
I have known him since I went to DU as a college student.
Now he works for one of the famous distribution company.
I wanted to know about importing stuff from abroad.
I was thinking to learn about them, but we ended up talking about totally different thing.
I had not seen him probably too long.
I feel that it was much slower day today compared to my days in Osaka.
I have to go back to Osaka by an early flight again tomorrow.
However, I feel that I could take a little rest with working because of being in Tokyo and being away from my desk.
Okay, now I think I should go to bed in this tiny business hotel room.
In total, I will be staying in Tokyo for 24 hours, such a short trip…
Feel Miserable
I feel seriously seriously miserable tonight.
I missed Hula lesson tonight again.
Lately, I cannot leave office on time, because my work is endless.
And now I strongly think this is the time I have to work the hardest.
However, the more I try to do the best, the busier I get.
Being busy is okay, but I get really disappointed when I can’t get things done the way I have to.
Now I have to work in a team.
I have to lead the team.
However, for them, I am the new boss, and I am quite different from their former boss.
I understand that they are afraid of a big change.
I argued with one person this morning.
I tried hard to understand what he wants, but I never could.
He has totally different idea about working.
I believe making money is not the easy thing to do, and working is something you have to seriously do for your life.
At the same time, you have to enjoy what you are doing, and you can feel happy what you are doing.
I talked with three people after work about what I expect the department as a boss.
I wanted to motivate them and let them feel relief.
I want all of them to feel responsible what they are doing.
I don’t mean that I don’t want to take all responsibilities, but if you don’t feel responsibility on your own work, you would feel empty.
I wanna treat all workers as an grown business people.
If they fail, I would take care of their failures, but they have to do their best not for me but for themselves.
I discussed a lot with them, but I am scared if they understood me.
I had to keep telling people what I want them to do over and over.
Anyway…. I am very very tired today.
I might be too pessimistic tonight.
I gotta get ready for a business trip from tomorrow now.
Gotta take an early flight to Tokyo as usual.
To be honest, I wanted to cry tonight, but I was too sad to cry.
I don’t understand why I feel sad.
I think I just am not sure if I am doing the right thing right now.
I am running fast in my life now, so I might make a mistake and don’t realize…
Weak tonight.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Working On A National Holiday
Japanese people had three days off this weekend.
I wanted to go to abroad, like somewhere in Asia, but obviously I don’t have time for traveling now.
So I am looking forward going to Hawaii this month and California next month although they are not my private trip.
So this weekend, I was at stupid meeting on Saturday whole day, and today, National Foundation Day in Japan, I went to work.
I did not have to, but I was afraid that I start my week from Tuesday and work for 4 days in this week.
I won’t be office two days this coming week because of a business trip in Tokyo, and next week, I will be out of office whole week.
I was not sure if I can do everything I need to do and I don’t want other people to think I am not capable for this position.
So I went this morning, and went to Spa for an hour and a half and went back to office again.
Yes, I had done what I had to do.
I think I will start my day tomorrow peacefully.
When nobody is around me at office, I can do my work as three times as quickly.
I know that, but I should not get used to this life.
Holiday is a day I have to enjoy.
So tonight, I decided to eat brown rice to celebrate National Foundation Day.
This is something I want to eat for my health lately.
I don’t have time to cook (well this is kinda excuse. I should be able to cook although I am busy. I know), so I was happy to be able to eat brown rice tonight.
And I did lots of laundry, and vacuum my apt.
As I could not do any household last weekend, there were so much stuff I had to do.
Wow, I really admire all working mothers in this world!!
Eating And Sleeping All Day
I woke up at 10 AM, and cooked breakfast and hang out with my dog, darch.
Whenever my mom is not at home, she relies on me so much, and does not let me go anywhere without her.
When I worked on my PC on a floor, she stepped on my PC and made me play with her.
She is so cute, but if I love with her everyday, I can’t do anything.
Well, it might be my fault to make her be like this princess, since I was the one who took care of her when she was born.
Anyway, since she did not let me do anything, I took a couple naps with her today.
Besides, I was eating.
Recently, I have eating problem.
I can’t stop eating.
I had not eaten that much snacks, but now I eat lots of snacks.
Whnever I eat too much, I feel sick, so I should be strong enough to make myself control.
This picture is a Pizza I ate tonight.
I went to my favorite Italian restaurant, where I go pretty often lately.
I had an anchovy and potato pizza!
It was soooo good.
I love Japanese the best, but I love Italian the second, and French as my third favorite.
Ahhh, gotta stop thinking about food.
I was going to go out this afternoon, but decided not to till this dinner.
Sleeping a lot and eating a lot is the way to go on my day off!
All Day Meeting On A Snowy Day
Nothing much happened today.
I just got upset at the meeting because it was ridiculously long!!
I drove to my office today, and it started snowing when I left my apt.
I was really nervous driving on a snowing day without any snow tires.
Since the meeting was last for 10 hours like usual, I was getting annoying.
Like what a hell you guys wanna talk about for this long time!?
It was nothing to drive when it snowed in Denver when I lived there.
Now I miss Denver.
I wanna go back there sometime.
Denver was really cold but it was such a pretty town.
It was true that I thought Denver was such a boring town after I lived there for three years, but I guess I loved the town!
It is not normal to have this much snow in Osaka.
I had not seen this much snow since I was little.
I remember I made a big snowman in front of my house.
After a meeting at 7:30 PM, I drove back to my apt to pack my stuff and went to pick up my dog from my cousin’s.
He is a veterinarian and my dog was at his hospital for a night.
I went to pick her up and I am taking care of her since my mom and dad are not at home.
I will be able to sleep in tomorrow mooring with her next to me.
But this house is too big by myself and too cold here by myself…
Nothing much happened today, but I got such a relaxing night here.
Meeting With Alcohol
They are men who will be executives of our company after 20 years.
Well maybe…
We are all in the middle management now.
We are all suffering between subordinates and bosses by each way.
We decided to get together to talk about the future of our company.
One guy came from Tokyo, and we planned to do this a while ago.
Therefore, I could not say I could not go because I had so much stuff to do.
Tonight, I was not sure if I should left tonight.
Seriously, I am working pretty hard lately, but I feel horrible that I can’t get rid of them forever.
I feel ashamed that I was late to turn in my documents for the first time to a meeting on Saturday.
Well, I got it done today before Saturday meeting, but obviously I did not give enough time to other people to prepare for the meeting.
I still have lots of things to do for my former department, but whenever I try to work on them, I always get lots of other things to do for a new department.
I really don’t know what to do…
Okay, so I was with them, and I felt there is not sex discrimination at all in this company.
I don’t think they don’t know that I am a girl.
We drunk and talked not about work but about stupid stuff.
It was fun to hear what they think about their department.
Tonight one guy told me not to tell anybody that I travel abroad during my vacation time.
How come people don’t understand that I am financially independent?
Whatever I do fancy, they think that I get support.
Well, sometimes it is true, but most of the time I am taking care of myself.
Anyway, I want to go to Thailand again in May during my vacation!
I gotta get up early for a meeting tomorrow.
Totally I had a good time tonight, so I guess I made a good decision tonight.
I will cover my work tomorrow before the meeting!
Busy Tokyo Day
I am writing this entry in a bullet train now on the way back from Tokyo.
It will take 2 and a half hour to go back to Osaka, so I will get there at 23:10.
I was wondering if I should do my work in a bullet train or should take a nap here and do my work at home.
However, once I got in a train, soon I took a nap for an hour and half, so I guess I will have to work at home.
I feel cold now; maybe I caught a cold since yesterday because of the weather in Tokyo.
It was snowing quite much.
Look how many people walking around the train station in this morning.
I left a hotel today to go to our branch office and I took this picture.
I always am amazed by this crowded town.
Today I went to office and did tons paper work that I had to do for a couple of hours.
I did a right choice last night to stay at office late to do my work, because I suddenly had to visit one office by my boss’s order in this morning and did not have much time.
After the visit, I could not find time to take lunch, so I went straight to the next appointment.
It was a studio to finish up a promotion video of our new products.
The studio was pretty cool.
I was there today to direct the narration parts of the video.
The stuff might have felt I was a bitch cuz I gave them so many requests…
What can I say?
Because I can’t be shy about work now.
After the video making, I went back to office and prepared for an orientation.
The orientation was for Tokyo Sales Department to get ready for a convention this month.
I was a bit nervous because I am now the head of the operation of the convention but I had never been a member of any convention as an exhibitor.
After I finished the orientation, I was an observer of another orientation of our normal products.
Normal products are frozen cakes which R&D department produce twice a year for these 30 years.
Since I just moved to R&D department this month, my boss told me to observe for the next time to be able to give a presentation to sales people by myself.
There are so many things I have to study and remember.
It is very hard, but I feel responsible and sometime feel good being this busy.
Oops, I am almost get to Osaka.
Gotta go.
Tokyo Report
I am in Tokyo now.
I stay at a business hotel like usual.
Today I am here for promotion activities.
Went to a couple of magazine publish company.
It was interesting to see their offices.
All the offices were so messy and full of magazines.
I appealed my new products to them.
When I left, all of them gave me their magazines so now I have some magazines which I can enjoy tomorrow in a bullet train for free!
By the way, our new products, were the topic on the top page of Yahoo Japan today.
The reason why I got to know is because I got lots of calls from my office in Osaka saying, “We are getting so much calls and we can’t do our own daily work”.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20080205-00000015-oric-ent
I am so proud!!
I hope I will see a big success soon!
This morning, I took a flight to Tokyo and went to our branch.
For me, coming to Tokyo used to be a little break.
Well, I worked hard outside of our Tokyo branch, but I did not have much stuff to do when I was at the office.
So I used to leave office at 6PM in Tokyo, but today, I could leave at 9PM.
This is how much I am behind now…
I was eating lots of snacks at office while I was working on what I had to do, but decided to eat dinner before I check in the hotel.
My friend Yusuke and I went to TGI Friday’s.
I only ate soup and salad; I did not eat the steak in the picture.
I was sooooo sleepy and when he was blaming on me, I could not concentrate on the conversation.
I felt bad that I was rude, and I regret that I did not straight back to hotel.
TGI Friday’s is the restaurant where I had not eaten at when I lived in the US.
But now I got there sometimes, maybe I sometimes miss American food.
TGI Friday’s is very close to my office, and full of Americans.
I bet lots of Americans feel TGI Friday’s in Tokyo like the way I feel Sushi restaurant in the US.
I can’t wait to go to Hawaii now.
It is coming up soon!
Oh, before I go, I have to mention how much I got surprised about cab in Tokyo.
All the cab are non-smoking now, but not in Osaka.
In Tokyo, you need a special card which you have to apply beforehand.
It must be so much hassle.
Wow, they are working so hard to make all people in Tokyo quit smoking.
Well, I wanna tell them, “Good Luck”.
Tough Work More Than I Expected
I am drinking coffee, till doing my work.
Oh my god!
This position is much much harder than I expected.
I left office at 10:30 PM, and I feel ashamed that I was the last one who left office.
This was the first time for me to leave the office as the last person.
We prohibited doing overtime from today to everyone at our department.
I was the one who rushed everyone, but I had to stay since there are so many things to do left.
Seriously there are so many people whom I have to control now.
I can’t believe how come everyone ask me so many questions every minute.
I tried to finish my work at office, but could not.
So I took a cab home and doing now.
I have to catch 8 AM flight to Tokyo so gotta get up damn early.
I hope I can get used to this life soon; otherwise, I will die…
This is my work bag in this picture.
Look how messy it is.
I am messed up now too…
Maybe I should go back to work now.
Supposed To Go To Gym, Though
I attended the first morning meeting at R&D department today.
The meeting was 30 minutes earlier than a normal day.
I forgot how early I had to leave so I got my office one hour earlier than usual.
Everyone at my former department got so surprised to see me that early.
Because I got up really early I was sleepy, but I did not realize till I got home.
My day passes really fast.
There are tons of stuff to do at this new department.
Today was the only day I could go to gym, but I did not go.
I was called to my new boss’s room, and he told me to go out to drink.
I could not say, “No”.
I should have gone, I know…
However, I was pretty happy with the menu tonight.
It was Kushikatsu!
We found a new Kushikatsu place close to our office.
It was really fancy Kushikatsu place, but we went on Dutch.
Damn, I have to spending so much money on food...
Ayyway, we talked about a plan of our department.
Besides a topic about work, we talked about English.
He said if I would make him be able to speak conversational English, he would pay 10 thousand dollars.
If he is not a liar, I would do it, but hard to find time now…
Awww, I need sleep, seriously…
Lots Of Napping
I felt guilty in this morning.
I went to bed pretty late last night, and obviously weekend is the only time I can sleep in.
However, this morning, my grandma woke me up really early.
I asked her to let me sleep more, but she got upset and told me that, “You are not by yourself now. You are in community life. I'm afraid you lacks cooperativeness.”
That made me super upset.
I cared about her, and that was my choice to stay there, but I wanted to understand her how much I need sleep.
We talked a bit, and we made up.
Since then, she was super nice to me, and I felt guilty that I made her feel fear at me because of the way I upset to her.
She is my grandma, and I should have known how much she wanted to spend time with me since I don’t visit her enough.
I feel horrible…
And it was true that nowadays, I am so used to be by myself to live my own way.
Anyway, we calmed down and had breakfast peacefully.
I took a shower after that and took a nap till we had lunch.
I requested her to cook my favorite lunch menu she makes.
She used to cook that for my grandma and for me.
Whenever I tried her receipt, I can’t finish the same as she does.
Uncle Koji and I went shopping after lunch by bus.
After we came back, I took another nap.
Okay, then I felt that slept enough.
We had dinner together, my another favorite dish which my grandma cooks.
I think she is the best cook.
She used to be a super housewives, like she was a good mom and a good teacher, artist, cook, wife, and etc, etc.
She showed me an article of a newspaper, which was about 40 years ago.
The article was about how great she was.
I had never seen it and I was really surprised.
Now she is close to 90, but she still does her nails, and makeup.
She is still a perfect lady, I gotta follow how she lives as a lady.
Party Girls!
Today was the first day for me to work at R&D department.
I gave a little speech at my former department, and everyone was so surprised.
I felt relief that I don’t have to hide my position change to anybody anymore.
I moved most of my papers and files to other building.
There are two guys to help me moving so much stuff.
I felt a little sad, but at the same time, I am very excited to manage R&D department.
At night, all girls at our department went out to drink.
There were 13 women at our company.
We had such a good time.
When I started working, I was almost the youngest and there were only four women, but now I am one of the oldest business women at our company of 13 women.
We had dinner at my friend’s restaurant, which serve lots of vegetables.
After we ate, we went to bar and had a drink.
We are going to Hawaii next month, and I will teach all the girls Hula
I am not sure if I am capable to teach Hula, but I will try.
We will wear Hawaiian dress all together and dance in front of all workers.
I am so happy to have these nice companies.
