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What A Coincidence!
Today, I woke up and I went to a seminar about Snoopy.
I was late since I misestimate the time.
What bad businesswoman…
The seminar was mainly for designers who arrange snoopy picture to use for their own packages or items.
Therefore, it was lectured by a designer and lectured all about fashion trend in 2009.
It was sooooo boring.
So many technical words for fashion and I had no idea…
I had business lunch, and after that, I had a little meeting at café.
Since that was a casual meeting with my boss, I had parfait, my favorite desert.
Since it was a parfait at a tearoom attached to a fruit store, it was different.
More delicious than any other parfaits I had.
Since the meeting was over quicker than I though, I went to the airport at 4:45.
I supposed to take 6 PM flight, but could change to 5PM flight.
I called my mom soon after I got off the airplane, and got to know that my dad was at the airport too.
So I called my dad and went to restaurant to meet up to my mom.
It was such coincident that my dad took the same flight with me on the same day.
I had not talked with my dad for a long time, so it was a nice conscience.
He was excited to see me and talked a lot about work.
He said, “it was so nice to have you at dinner tonight. Sooo nice to see you tonight.”
I was so surprised to hear that, since he has not said such a thing for years!!
We had Okonomiyaki and icecream.
Oveall, it was a nice day.
I could go home early enough and could get relaxed!
Tokyo Again, Damn It!!
I went to work to my Osaka office to take care of my assistants.
Had a meeting for my project.
This is Organic Roll-cake (Swiss Roll) with black beans for human beings and dogs to eat together.
Still arguing if this is good enough for new item.
Anyway had a meeting in Osaka and had work a bit at Osaka office.
I had to take 2PM flight for Tokyo, but since the meeting was too long, so I missed it.
So took 3PM flight and went to Tokyo office.
One of the reasons why I went to Tokyo tonight was to see my friend who works for Accenture, Consultant Company.
I have known her since I went to University of Denver.
It had been a while since the last time I saw her, but she could not make it.
So I worked till late at Tokyo office and went to drink with co-workers of Tokyo Sales Department.
It was nice to go out to drink some of them.
Stayed at small hotel room.
I hate sleeping on a hard small bed.
I wish I could sleep on my bed tonight.
That’s the only reason why I hate to come to Tokyo on business this often…
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…
Freezing Spring in Tokyo
Since I attended my friend’s wedding yesterday, I decided to stay a night and work in Tokyo today before I go back to Osaka.
I went to Snoopy café in Yokohama, which was just opened a couple days ago.
It was horrible café.
I can’t believe that they charge 15-20 average per person with nasty cold food.
They just used snoopy plates and cups, but other than that, nothing was snoopy!!
Also the operation was horrible.
I was thinking that I would do much better if I were the owner of this café…
Today it was really really cold rainy day for walking around.
So I went back to Tokyo soon after I ate lunch at the café.
I do a job for public relations now.
I had an appointment with a journalist who writes articles on a magazine.
He wanted to write an article about our products for free.
It took one and a half hour interview, and it was actually fun.
I talked the same story about our products so many times, but more I talk, the better I talk, I think.
Well, I think I am quite positive today.
Monday is a day, which I get motivated the most.
I took a bullet train back to Osaka tonight.
I hate taking bullet train.
Cold and long.
Lately, I go on lots of business trips, but the hardest part is the transportation.
There was a guy who snored soooo loud today.
First, I thought,
“Yeah, I understand. You must be tired. You could not help drinking beer in a bullet train as a tiring salary man. That made you snore. Yeah, I understand”
However, after five minutes, since he never stopped snoring, and it was continually and loud, I started frustrating.
I was like,
“I know you are tired, but it is enough!!”
You would not believe, but it was ridiculously loud, which even bored me to sleep.
I wonder if I do the same thing as him.
Well, but it was the loudest ever though…
No Rest
I got back from the US last night.
Because of a jetlag, I woke up at 5 in this morning.
I went to work with tons of stuff from the US.
I was the first person at office in this morning.
From the morning, I had a meeting with my boss and gave him reports about my business trip in LA and in SF.
He went like, “So?”
I guess the info I got was not enough for my boss.
He had no sympathy for me about my hard schedule of a-week-Tokyo- business trip and a-week-America-business trip.
Guys, I love being in the US, and to be honest, I enjoy staying in the US.
However, work is work.
Don’t think that America business trip is nothing for me!
Today, I was told to go to the US again next month for butter.
I don’t know how I can go through the immigration this time…
All my assistants loved the stuff I got from the US.
I got lots of reports from them, and I was happy to see them working hard.
I had so many kinds of meeting with many people today, and I left office at 9PM.
I was so sleepy since this afternoon and because of that, I felt really cold at work.
No food at my apt, so I grabbed rice balls from a convenience store.
I can’t believe that I was in the US yesterday.
Welcome back to my real world…
Tasting Organic Life
I could sleep well on both ways between Osaka and Tokyo on a flight.
I went to Tokyo branch in this morning and went to see a person of an organic store to sell our products.
It seems like he got interested in.
After the appointment, I went to a different organic grocery store.
There are more interesting organic stores in Tokyo than in Osaka.
The organic grocery store I went this afternoon has a restaurant.
So I had lunch there, which was buffet.
It tasted pretty good, but $12 for lunch is pretty expensive with these simple buffet menus.
But I thought eating only organic stuff is not a bad idea.
These are organic cakes I got at other oraganic store.
Disgusting!!
They tasted horrible.
When you eat sweets, you can’t think about organic!!
Well, now we are trying to make organic sweets though.
However, we are trying to produce DELICIOUS organic sweets.
That’s why some owners of organic stores got interested in our products.
I ate other normal sweets at café too.
They were horrible too.
Where is the pâtissier’s pride?
I went to sales to one more organic store.
The buyer guy at the store said he was in Germany and Paris for researching organic stuff.
I am going to go to Organic Expo in the US, and now I see many people who goes to expos in other countries.
Talking with them is interesting and I can learn a lot.
I took a flight back home and I could get a rest at my apt.
I was going to go to Tokyo for convention from this Sunday.
However, it seems like I have to go from Saturday night because I got an appointment with other company this Sunday.
I will have a hella long meeting on Saturday and I have to leave to Tokyo on that night.
Wait! When do I have to pack my stuff for Tokyo and America??
Ahhhh, I wanna get a day off, but no time to get a day off…
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…
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”.
This Is Where I Stay
Ahhh, I am drunk.
I did this again…
I wish I were brave enough to day that I can’t drink much.
I am in Tokyo today.
My business partner and I were going to come to Tokyo tomorrow without spending a night here.
However our boss told us to come for meeting this evening.
I still think we could do tomorrow morning, but he ordered us to come, so we worked in Osaka and took a flight to Tokyo for a meeting.
After a meeting, I went out to drink with people of Tokyo branch.
I drunk too much…
I stay at a nice hotel on special occasion, but I usually stay at this small business hotel.
We get paid 8300yen($80US) for hotel per night, but it is hard to find that cheap hotel in Tokyo.
Actually, since I stay this small hotel, but this room is over the budget so I have to pay extra from my pocket money.
Not fair!!!
I would rather sleep at my apt, so I wish I could bring my bed to everywhere…
The reason I hate about Japanese business hotel is the following.
1. Too tiny little room
2. Too thin wall. I even can her snoring of a man who stay at the next room.
3. Too stinky. I hate to wear PJ at hotel, but I have to since I can’t carry much stuff when I am on a business trip.
Compare to Tokyo business trip, business trio on abroad is much better.
I always can get to stay at nice hotel whenever I work in other country.
There is no budget for that, although I care about the expense
Ahhhh, I can’t take a shower tonight, I think I will be pass out now.
I am proud that I wrote this blog tonight...
Tokyo Eating Business Trip
I left to Tokyo early this morning by plane.
Since there was an accident, so the train got delayed.
Trains often get delayed in Tokyo.
I joined the seminar for the exhibiters for the biggest food convention in Asia in this coming March.
I am excited but there are so many things to do before we get ready for the convention.
I am always the one who go to the convention, bur never as an exhibiter.
Very nervous.
Since I got a couple hours after the seminar, so I went to my favorite building in Tokyo, New Marunouchi Building.
I shopped a bit, and had expensive Italian lunch by myself.
It is nice to be able to eat good food by company expense for work, but I always feel sad that I have to eat good food by myself.
This is a picture of Risotto I had, which was a part of the course menu.
I don’t like to eat by myself, first of all.
Got a call from my ex boyfriend, telling me that his parents are in Kyoto.
As I told him that I was in Tokyo, he took me for dinner.
His company is in front of my company’s branch in Tokyo.
What a coincidence!
We talked a lot about our work, and I felt weird that we have totally different life although we shared the same three years of our lives together.
It is always interesting to see my friends are getting changed, so that I can know a lot of different perspective.
Recently, I get tired too easily when I see someone for dinner.
My bad habit, but I can’t stay at restaurant for long hours to chat.
I felt a little bad that I went back to hotel soon.
I had business lunch, and after that, I had a little meeting at café.
