Life in Tokyo

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”.

IN NATURE

Summer in Nagano

I was at a cabin in Nagano during this weekend.
It has been a year since the last time I was here.
Nothing has been changed here.
It is so nice to be back here, back to nature.
It is nothing here, very quiet, cool weather, lots of green, and fresh air.
The only thing I can hear is the sound of water from the river close here.
I even feel guilty to open my computer in this situation.
What I do here is cook breakfast, read a book, take a nap and drink till late at night.
Very calm, and lots of time to think many things.

This cabin has been here for a long time.
My grandpa bought this property and my family came here quite often when I was little.
When I was a college student, my friends and I came up her for camp and skiing.
Now I rarely come up here, but there are lots of memories here.
It is so nice to have this kind of place.
The picture on the wall was my grandpa’s favorite artist’s.
There are two pictures in this cabin and each girl in the picture looks like my sister and I.
Everyone who has come up here asks us if they are us.
The girl in the picture on above looks like my sister when she was young.

I wonder when would be the next time I could come up here.
Now I want to go as many places in Japan as I can.
I would not waste my holidays even though I usually am tired on weekends from work.