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SPA For 2 Hours+Collector's Store!!
I woke up pretty early, and went for shopping and went to spa.
I had not been to spa for a month, and I have wanted to get a good massage.
Today’s massage was one of the best one, so I fell a sleep.
I hate sleeping while I am getting massage because I don’t wanna the feeling.
After the massage, I went to a professional bike store.
The reason why I say that the store was “professional” is because of the looking of the customers there.
Of course there were bunch of bike stuff compared to the store I have been.
And all the customers were there by a real bike, and looked really tough.
Some of them were wearing bike suits.
Anyway I was there to get something for Rye, a bike messenger, but I got a little excited while I was there.
I am not interested in bike stuff at all, but I love collecting stuff.
So I get excited when I see a store which looks like they have everything what people want.
Like, I would be so excited when a store has all orange-color items.
I went to Kushikatsu dinner with my parents tonight.
They treat me well all the time, but especially before and after I go on a business trip to other countries.
Two more days left before I leave to the US.
I will get up super early to go to office tomorrow morning and will get lots of stuff done at my desk!!
Saturday Is No Longer My Day-Off
Since I got so drunk last night, it was hard for me to get up this morning.
However, I had a big mission to call to the US this morning.
So I setted upi my alarm at 5 in this morning, and made a phone call to the US.
I had to make appointments for the coming business trip.
One of the company I called this morning, I had no idea what they said.
Maybe because I was not totally awake, ot maybe because they were non-native English speaker.
Anyway, after I made a couple phone calls, I went back to sleep till the time I had to go to work.
I had to go to work today too.
I got so used to go to work on Saturday, and I think it is such a bad habit.
My boss took me to my favorite curry and rice place.
Lately I eat a lot, really...
Ahhhh, today I got high somehow.
I don't wanna sleep tonight.
But maybe I should sleep tonight not to ruin tomorrow, which is my only day-off.
Board of Director's Dinner
Today was a day which all the board of directors at our company get together.
I am not one of them, but they let me join.
We get together and talk about one topic to make sure that all of us are looking at the same vision.
We do this one-hour meeting once a month, and three times of a year, we go out for fancy dinner.
This time was traditional Japanese dinner.
This is our special menu there.
It was a nice night.
I went out to drink with three of them after this fancy dinner.
We all drunk sooo much and talked about work for hours and hours.
I think I love talking about my work.
I drink everyday lately…
Organic, Cheesecakes And Alcohol
I took a flight to Tokyo and went to Saitama, where is 1 and a half hours away from Tokyo.
Recently I am close to president of an organic products distributing company.
He is from Main in the US.
I have been learning a lot about organic from him.
I like talking with him because we can talk very friendly.
We talk not only about business, but also non-business topics.
The picture above was my lunch at his organic cafe.
After I got back to Tokyo office from Saitama, about 30 or more cheesecakes were waiting for me.
Salesmen at Tokyo branch bought tons of cheesecakes and they wanted me to eat with him to discuss what to be sold.
Eating all these was not easy at all, made me sick.
However, I enjoyed hearing their thoughts about cheesecakes.
We are eating cheesecakes a lot lately because our new products for autumn will be cheesecakes, so we have to learn a lot about cheesecakes.
These are salesmen at Tokyo branch.
We went out to drink.
It was so much fun!!
This picture looks really stupid, though.
We went to Karaoke after this and got soooo drunk…
Always love to hang out with them.
Since all the people at Tokyo branch are nice, I feel comfortable being in Tokyo once a week.
Anyway, but they drink alcohol like monsters…
First Experience
I did Omiai for the first time in my life tonight after work.
He was president of a BIG company in Japan.
Omiai is one of Japanese traditional brind date, sort of...
It is basically for marriage, but not all the time.
I felt really weird me sitting in front of unknown 46-years-old guy.
It was interesting experience.
He took me out to a steak house, and this is an apple pie I ate there.
I don't think I would do omiai anymore.
Having Dinner With My Assistants
We had MonjyaParty closed to my apt.
I invited assistants to the restaurant.
We had such a good time together.
Maybe we should do frequently.
We are good team mates!!
Tired
Today was my only day-off in this week.
Honestly, my work is getting harder and harder.
I need break.
I am tired.
Gotta get up really early tomorrow, so can't write much today.
I worked at home today.
Went for shopping for an hour, but realized that I left my credit card at home, so could not get rid of my stress by shopping...
I have not been ready for a new week yet...
College Days
I went to office for a long once a month meeting today.
It was boring as usual, so not much to talk.
I had to go to my parent’s house to clean my stuff which I left there.
My mom wanted me to clean everything since I don’t live there any more.
I had so much stuff and it was too hard to clean everything.
Whenever I found a letter, I tried not to read, but it was so funny to read them.
The funniest thing I found was a lyric of rapping I made.
I hung out with a rapper guy when I was 16.
I felt sooo embarrassed so I decided not to keep it anymore.
That was something I would not want anybody to see.
I looked thousands of pictures.
I found an album, and this is me at college.
Ahhh, I hate cleaning.
Busy Busy Day
I was not that busy this morning, but since this afternoon, I had been so busy.
I got such short time for lunch, becuase I never knew when my boss caled me for board of Director meeting.
I did a presentation about Organic, which I saw from a convention in LA last month.
After the meeting, I had a couple appointments with some people who wants to do sales to me.
Recently, I am trying to meet as many people as I can.
Since people from outside now know that I am the head of R&D department, everyone calls me to see me to do business with us.
First I rejected to see them, because I would not have anytime to work for myself if I met every single person.
But now I decided to see them because I should not forget how to welcome people.
Because of my title, I might have been too snobbish...
After these appointments, finally I did my stuff.
But most of the time, I had a meeting with my boss.
Everytime after the Board of Director's meeting, I get so much work suddenly...
These day, I really appreciate to my assistants.
They work really hard for me.
I really feel that work in a team is great.
I hope this happy work days would last long.
Eating Too Late
I slept over this morning.
Today was the day we had morning meeting, so I supposed to be there 30 minutes earlier than usual.
But I was late.
I can’t believer that I did that, although I am boss…
I felt so bad, but I came into office like I did nothing wrong.
I swear that I would never be late!!
Putting make-up in a car while I was driving this morning.
Ahhh, I should have not stayed up late last night…
Monday is the day I have work the most.
I was going to go to gym, but I could not make it since I left office at 9PM.
So I went out to eat and had rolled cabbage.
I used to cook rolled cabbage and I think I am good at cooking the recipe.
But their rolled cabbage was good too.
I learned putting cheese on a rolled cabbage is a good idea.
BTW, I have to stop eating at this late at night.
When should I go on a serious diet?
Finally They Got Married
Since last night, I have cleaned my room.
Yeah, my room was that messy.
When my room is messy, my life style is messy too.
I had been so lazy and that’s why I got so fat lately.
When my room is clean, I care about myself well.
After I cleaned my room, I went to a beauty salon.
And left for my friend’s wedding.
He is one year older than I, and we were YMCA leaders.
After I stop volunteering at YMCA, I started teaching English to him.
He had had Peter Pan Syndrome.
He used to talk to me a lot about what he wanted, and each time I talked with him seriously.
I had been so worried about him although I am younger than he.
I cared about him a lot, so every time he did stupid childish thing, I never be able to hate him.
Last time he came over to my apt was midnight, he brought a business plan and he said he wanted to open his own business.
To be honest, the business plan was not that good, and I thought he would not make it, but we fixed it till the next morning.
Now he did open his own business successfully, and he got married with a girl whom he have dated for a long time!
He is such a successful man!
There were so many friends from YMCA.
These are people whom I went to camps in winter and summer.
Since we are now having such a different lives, we don’t get together much, so it was like a reunion.
It was fun to see old friends. (These people in this picture were just some of them)
We went out to drink after the wedding to chat more.
It was such a small wedding at a restaurant.
They invited all their friends, and we sigh for them to agree with their marriage.
Groom made a bouquet with a flower we had and gave to the bride.
They did not exchange marriage ring, but they exchange presents in front of us.
Since their religions were different, so it was not an usual wedding which I have ever seen.
It was small but such a cute one.
The bride is pregnant, so they will have a kid soon.
Both of them looked really happy, and I am pretty sure that they will have a happy life together.
I feel really good to see my friend’s happy face!!
I love attending weddings!
Boring Meeting but Nice and Slow Saturday
Today was the once-a-month boring meeting.
Because my boss’s son entered high school today, so the meeting started from 1PM instead of from 9:30.
My assistant came to pick me up at my apt, and went to office at 11AM to prepare.
The good part of today’s meeting was that it was such a short meeting unusually.
1 o’clock to 6 o’clock.
5 hours meeting!
I know it is still long, but if I did not remind my boss about how long he had been talking, it would be much longer one, probably till 1AM tomorrow…
After the meeting, I went to eat my mom’s cooking.
It had been a while since the last time I ate at my parents’ house, I felt.
Today, I have time to relax by myself at my apt, so now I am cleaning my apt and doing some laundry.
Tomorrow I will attend my friend’s wedding again.
I still have not decided what to wear.
The dress or that dress??
This is a picture which my mom took tonight.
I think I really gain weight...
Spring Has Come!
I went to visit a company which we are doing business together now.
They throw cherry blossom viewing party every year.
This was the first time for me to join this party.
I love the owner of the company.
He is my mom’s friend who was in the same tennis club as my mom’s.
He is 60 years old, but he is good shaped and such a gentleman.
Since the party was hold from 5:30PM, I could come home earlier than usual!
They invited about 200 people to their company, which has a beautiful cherry blossom trees.
They had a band, and lots of good food.
I ate and drunk with viewing cherry blossoms!
I love cherry blossom trees.
I grew up surrounded lots of cherry blossom trees.
In Japan, we start everything in April.
So when I entered elementary school, I was taken a picture with a new uniform in front of my house under lots of cheery blossoms.
Form April 1st, new employees comes to our company.
Lots of fresh faces.
Cherry blossoms made me feel really good, and made me feel very positive about many things.
People tell me that my face has been changed lately.
Some asked me, “Are you in love?”
Because love makes people look happier.
Humm, am I in love??
I always wanna be in LOVE!
Phone Calls
Two phone calls I received his morning on the way to my office.
One girl had been sick for three days, and she did not get well today again.
Everyone worked hard to cover for her last three days.
I was shocked when one more girl called me to leave for absence.
So when I got to office, I told everyone, “Change pinch to chance!!”
Taking care of yourself is so important as a business person.
I am weak so I easily get sick.
Actually, I felt a little cold in this afternoon, but if I get sick now, I would ruin everything.
So I took medicine immediately, and got recovered!
At late at night, I got a call from Mr. Sotomi.
He is a son of the owner of a chocolate company who went to Canada and the US on business with me before.
He moved to Osaka from Tokyo on April 1st.
He went to a famous café, which has a special roll cake, which is hard to get.
So he drove by to my office and dropped me a roll cake from the store!
It’s been a while since the last time I ate it.
I ate it at my apt soon after I got home.
Yammmmmmy!!
I think I will bring it tomorrow to my office and share with my colleagues.
Tomorrow will be a hard day for me.
I know I will be scolded by my boss who had been out of our office for three days.
Should I work on my paper work or should I go to bed?
Hummmm, I should sleep…
Being An Uncompleted Boss
Today, I was busy as usual, but I think I could work the most efficiently every today.
I finally understood how to work with many assistants.
When I was in the US, I talked with my ex boyfriend’s mom about my work.
She made me realize how inefficiently I work at my office.
I think I could not rely on my assistants, and I tried to do everything by myself.
When I was at the former department, I did all my work by myself, so I did not know how to trust other employees.
But she told me how to do that.
So I carried out soon after I came back from the US.
And it worked!
Now everyone feel that we are TEAM!
Since everyone helps me with my work, I can concentrate on the work which only I can do.
We discuss about many things now, which made them think a lot about their work, which leads them to like what they are doing.
Today, one of my assistants and I went to café instead of going to gym, since we got late for our pilates lesson.
Ah… I ate this banana float coffee at late at night.
How can I go on a diet…
At café, she told me that they were talking about me when I was not at my office.
She said they are talking how happy to have me as their boss. (Well maybe I should not write this kinda stuff by myself, though)
I was so so so so so happy to hear that!
I am not perfect at all, and I sometimes got depressed because I was not sure if what I was doing is right or not.
And I have felt that I have been supported by my assistants a lot recently.
I worried how they felt about it, so I felt I was so happy, honestly!!
The other happy thing today was my friend’s surprise visit.
My friend, Masaru was in Osaka on business for a day, and he came to visit me to my office.
He came to a restaurant close to my office and waited for me till I finished working.
After we ate at the restaurant, I toured my office for him.
Of course, at late at night, I could not show him much of it, but I showed him my new department.
It was kinda weird to have my friends at my office, but we always welcome people who want to see our company.
Unexpected visit surprised me and made me be happy today.
He might be in SF when I would be there next time, so I hope I can see him soon again!
This picture above is a menu which my assistant, Miss Manabe, ate at café after I ate Masaru.
Since I ate with him, I did not eat with her, but had banana float coffee only.
I was too full to taste her dish.
But it looked good, so I took a picture at least.
Bought a small condo in France
I was promoted today.
There was a ceremony and I received an official announcement this morning.
Now I am vice director of R&D department.
Everyone started calling me with a different name from today, “Ikada Jicho”.
I don’t like this name, because it sounds like a name for old man.
It maybe because not so many young women get this position but old men do.
Now I have so many responsibilities.
I have to take care of about 15 people below me.
My memory is not that good, so this is hard work for me to remember what I told to them, and what they supposed to do.
I have to be smarter.
Today we discussed about new items of our three different projects.
It is always fun to think what we want to make.
However, once we started thinking about details of the items, it becomes such a hard work, especially when we only got short time to think about it.
Today we started thinking about Christmas cake, which we have to do a presentation this coming June.
It would be Snoopy cake.
I am thinking to make cupcakes for Christmas, which would look like a picture above.
The donut on the picture above is called, “Sally”.
We have to make products which suit the image of Peanuts Character.
I went to Hula lesson tonight.
I will be on stage in May.
I practiced for the stage today.
Hula dance is a hobby, which give me energy.
By the way, the title of this entry is a lie.
Of course I am not rich enough to by a condo in France.
Today is “April Fool”.
I tried to lie today, but could not find a good lie.
So it is a boring lie, but I lied anyway for a day.
