Working on Saturday

Chose to Work

I was invited to a party in Tokyo from friends whom I went to Macau with.
(I gotta write about Macau trip, but I haven’t… oh well…)
I was going to fly to Tokyo, but decided not to.
I know that I have to enjoy being with my friends but now I feel that I should more concentrate on working.
Also I got tired more than I thought from Tokyo business trip yesterday.

I went to my parents’ to sign for a paper for my dad.
That was to get stocks for my dad’s company.
I feel guilty that I am secretly applying for another company.
What am I doing?

Today was my sis’s birthday.
She became 33 years old.
The more we get old, the better our relationship goes.
We still get in fight quite often, but I am happy to share lots of feelings with her.

Sis, thank you for being next to me all that time!

Lunch, Party and Bar

Eating and Drinking Whole Day

Had lunch with m second father, Maekawa-Kun, my father’s best friend.
He takes my sis and I for lunch sometime.
Mostly Sushi at fish market.
The best Sushi!!
Had Sushi a lot and went to café to have coffee and cakes.

Went to back to work, real world…
I was sleepy since I ate too much.

After work, I attended birthday party for employees of our company.
This time, employees who were born in October or November.
This was my fourth time for me to attend.
Wow, that means that I have worked for my dad for four years now…
It was quiet party but very nice opportunity for me to talk with employees whom I don’t talk usually.
Nice.
This was a part of our dinner at the party tonight.

After the party, I went to Jazz bar with my assistants and a co-worker.
All girls but drunk a lot.
Today's band was really nice.
5 of them play Jazz at such a small bar was so great!
It was quite a concert.
Had an apple salad which the master of the Jazz bar make.
It was yummy.

One of my assistants came to apt to spend a night tonight since we drunk till too late to go back her parents' home.

I ate and drunk too much, seriously.
How can I go on a diet?
But it was such a fun nice day!

My 30th Birthday

30Th Birthday

I woke up and nothing had been changed.
I was like, “What? Is this how 30 suppose to be?”
The first thing I did was writing letter to my parents.
Sounds weird, but this is something I was planning to do when I turn to thirty,
They celebrate my birthday every year, but this time I wanted to thank them.
This sounds stupid, but I almost cried when I was writing the letter because I was thinking all my memory with them for this thirty years.

My day started pretty good, but later, it got worse and worse.
I did a presentation to my dad, but he did not like it and I was scold sooooo bad.
So many people e-mailed me, text me, called me to say happy birthday, but my dad and my boyfriend didn’t.
I was waiting happy birthday from my boyfriend in America but never happened and still not.

I thought “30 is no fun at all, but I met two great person for work.
One is a lady who is an artist.
She was in a project when Nike did “Just Do It”.
She was the member in a group who made the phrase.
The other is an old man who is a founder of one of the most famous café in Japan.
He is like 65 or so and married with French lady.
He had so many stories of his experience in all over the world.
He was a great man.
I fell embarrassed when I talk with those smart people because I don’t know much about anything.
But all of them are so nice to me, and I get motivated by them.

This is how hostclub in Japan is, originally uploaded by yikada.

And after my birthday dinner, I was taken to a host-club, which I have only known by TV.
All the boys celebrated my birthday and drunk a lot.
I drunk so much good wine at dinner and so much shitty champagne at the host-club.
Host-club is one of the most weird place where I have ever been.
Interesting experience, but I would never go again.

I was happy that so many people celebrated my biggest 30th birthday.
However, I am still waiting a word from two men whom I really love.

Worker’s Saturday

Last Working Saturday in 2007

This is my sister’s birthday cake last night.
I got a piece of cake this morning for breakfast.
I had not had this cake since my birthday in October.
I love it!!

Today was the last Saturday I had to work in this year.
When I think like this, I like working Saturday.
It is sad that I can’t sleep in, but Saturday is the day I can work very very well.
Yesterday my work partner made a couple mistakes and now he may be kicked out from this project team since he had made our boss disappointed lately.
We have been partners for a while and he helped me so much in many situations.
I don’t want him to leave the project, so we decided to do lots of paper work together to finish everything by today to make our boss satisfied.
And we finished everything today!
We will have a presentation the beginning of next week to our boss, and hoping our boss would like it.
He poured me a cup of coffee a couple times while we were working, which is so unusual, and we get work done one by one very quickly.
I felt really good because this might be the first time we seriously work really hard together to achieve the same goal.
After a raugh day, good things happen!

Today is still December 22nd, but lots of my co-workers left office for a Christmas date.
Wait, do we have to go on a Christmas date this early??
Humm, I am cold...

I am 29 years old

Birthday in 2007

I became 29 years old on October 29th.
My friend threw a big party for me, and forty people came to the party on Monday after their work.
I was so moved that so many kinds of my friends came to celebrate my birthday.
It was my first experience to celebrate my BD with that many friends.
I was really afraid of becoming 30 when I was 27 and 28 somehow.
I was very afraid of being old.
However, this year, I got very positive idea about my age.
30 will be my next stage of my life, so I shoud be excited about it.
Now only one year left before becoming 30.
I don't wanna regret of anything, so I will do my best while I am 29 years old.
Last spurt of my 20s of my life!