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Suppose To Be The Last Day
It was the last day for our department at work.
We clean all the rooms and our desks in the morning, and we have noodles all together for lunch and close the year 2008.
I woke up at 8:13 this morning, and I freaked out!
I had to get to my office at 8:45 so I usually get up at 7:00.
Since I was so drunk last night, I did not set up the alarm...
I tied my hair up, brushed my teeth, grabbed my make-up stuff, ran outside and took a cab.
Thank god, I got my office on time because it was Saturday and no so much traffic.
We cleaned our office with the uniform which I'd never worn.
It was kind of fun to do unusual thing.
This is my last tasting for work.
It was pretty good.
I supposed to finish working in this afternoon, but I could not finish working...
I still left some more work, so I will go to work one more day on Monday with people from other department.
My year 2008 will be end soon.
I just need to get a rest tomorrow and will feel better.
I will definitely go to get massage!!
Lots of Cakes and Glasses of Wine
I went straight to a photo studio for our new products.
It is always fun to see how they set up and are taken pictures.
After the photographs, I went to an airport to take a flight to Tokyo.
Again, I have a business trip to Tokyo.
I went to Tokyo office to meet someone and do some paper work.
And, here it comes, I had to go to see a lady who gave us claim.
I got really scared to see the actual person.
I visited her apt, but she was not there, and could not see her.
I got disappointed, but at the same time, I got relieved a little bit.
I left a gift and a note to her.
Hope she would forgive us...
After the visit, I went to a meeting to discuss about current food industry.
It was my first time to join this meeting.
It was interesting...
The topic today was "Christmas Cakes".
This is $150.00 US cake!
I did not have time to have lunch so I was so hungry, but the only meal I could get at this metting was appetizer, and after the little meal, we just had so many kinds of cakes and so many glasses of red and white wine.
Macarons was this year's trend, but I don't like them...
This was my favorite.
It was so delicious, so I had two pieces!
But I was so full...
Berry tart is always popular.
These are cakes which are made without flour and eggs for people who has allergy.
Okay, by the time I had this, I was so full and drunk...
Too many Christmas cakes.
I had good red wine but drinking with cakes is pretty tough...
This meeting was finished at 10PM.
I took a cab to a private bar.
I was invited to a party for a year‐end party.
I met lots of new people there too but also I could see many of my favorite people who met this year.
I had a couple more glasses of wine there and left at midnight.
I did not have enough energy to be there till it ends.
Merry Christmas...
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.
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...
Being With Snoopy
I went to a meeting for Snoopy Licensees in Tokyo.
We are one of the newest licensees, so our company was introduced in front to more than other 200 people.
My boss gave a speech, and that time, I was more nervous than the time I had to give a speech in front of those people.
It was the most interesting meeting that I have ever joined.
There are some Americans from NY and Santa Rosa, who are related to snoopy character.
The presentation they gave was with all snoopy cartoons, and was fun.
I saw a snoopy fashion show which was held in NY this year on a screen.
All dresses were quite crazy, but I loved the wedding dress, which was sooo silly dress, but cute!!
At the lunch, I talked with the American guy who showed the fashion show.
I asked him where I could get the wedding dress, and told him I would wear it if I would get married in two years, which is our contract year with snoopy licenser.
Unfortunately, since some of the other dresses were sold on ebay, but not the wedding dress.
At lunch, we had three huge snoopy cakes.
This cake of this picture is one of the cakes, which were all snoopy!
They were all cute!
I have loved snoopy since I was a kid, and now I sort of work with snoopy.
I get to know many kinds of snoopy information now.
All people I saw at this party (meeting) know snoopy a lot.
I never thought I would do this kind of job.
All the attendees got a bag of presents.
Got a lot of snoopy items.
This is such a dream job which I had ever had!
I was at the place from 10 to 16, and had an appointment afterwards.
It had already got dark, but I had to go back to my Tokyo branch to finish up my paper work for this Saturday meeting.
I was suffering for a couple hours till 9PM, and went to drink with my colleagues in Tokyo.
4 of them were older than I, but since I am on a little higher position, I paid for them.
So Japanese… I still feel that is sort of rude for elders.
I don’t know how they think about it.
I don’t get much more money than them, but that’s a role for people who hold an administrative position.
Came back to hotel at midnight.
No more alcohol this week… please…
White Tea
I went straight to Kyoto for work from my apt this morning.
Junior high kids were on a train for a field trip and they were sooooo noisy on a train.
All got so excited and I was not in a good mood since it was early in the morning and I was sleepy.
I glanced them and some boys said, "Look! The lady sitting next to you is upset!!" in loud.
I remember the days that I was excited with my friends on a train when I was much younger.
I felt myself being really old...
I might became regular boring business person...
The company I visited today gave me some of their products, which I really love.
Look all these white tea skin care stuffs on the above.
They are really good stuff!
Once my friend came to stay at my apt, he put his perfume before he goes to bed.
I felt weird about it a bit, but I tried that myself when I went to bed the other day.
Now I can't stop doing it.
I looooove good smell.
I have my aroma next to me when I am working on a computer.
I always use white tea hand cream at work.
Somehow, I feel comfortable by smelling good scent.
I went to Spanish style bar tonight.
It was on TV the other day, and my dad wanted to go there.
We had lots of Spanish dishes, sparkling wine, and red wine.
Actually they were not that good, so we left the restaurant soon,
We wanted to have desert so we went to my favorite cake store and bought a whole chocolate cake.
We brought it to a bar which my dad always goes, and we shared the cake.
I had two topics I wanted to talk with my Dad, and I could.
Somehow I get nervous eating out with my dad one on one.
Having lunch is better, cuz it gets like "lunch meeting" and can talk about work as much as I want.
However, at dinner, I felt bad to talk about serious stuff cuz I care that he must be tired.
Weird dad and daughter.
Since when we became to have this kind of relationship...?
He told me to go to Shanghai for work on the way back on a cab.
Should I go? Well, maybe not...
This is my last tasting for work.
