Gorgious Lunch

Lunch At Westin Hotel

Luckily I got $200 worth certificate for food at Westin Hotel.
I wanted to encourage my assistants so I decided to take four of them to have lunch at hotel.
Everybody got so excited about it.
It was a gorgeous lunch.
We have buffet appetizer, soup of today, choice from main courses and buffet deserts.
It was tons of food!!
We had great talks there, and even a customer who ate alone next us joined our conversation.

After lunch we all went back to work hard.
That’s pretty much about it today.

I will go to temple to exorcize (drive out an evil spirit) with my family.
My parents go to the temple every year to pray for business, but this year, I decided to go there with them to exorcize.
It says that 30 year-old women in Japan have unlucky years for 3 years.
This year will be the first year.
So before nothing bad happens, I have to go to temple.
It may sound weird, but this is what all of us do in Japan.

Ahhhhh, I am so sleepy today.
So ready to go to bed already…

What Am I Gonna Do?

Gotta Make A Decision

My sis got home late last night so I ended up not to go to her apt last night.
I went to bed early instead.
So I went to my sis’s today for lunch.
This is what she cooked for my lunch.

After I hung out with my sis, I went to have dinner with my old student.
He just started working from last April, and felt weird to see him in suit.
So nice to get a phone call from students I used to teach like this.
We had Monjya Yaki and went to bar as always.
Lately, I think I am addicted to drink, not alcoholic though,
I enjoy drinking.

Today I got e-mail from the company.
Yes, I got the job.
Now I am nervous.
Should I really take this opportunity??
I just can’t see myself being in that company for good, but this would be a great opportunity for my future career.
I still have not talked with my dad, and when I think about it, I get stomachache.
I will get some advice whom I trust and will think about it for a while…
I won’t rely on fortune teller this time!!

Get A Luck

Crap!!!

Crao! I got droppings on my coat and my bag this morning.
In Japan, poeple say that you get luck when you get droppings.
I had a white coat on, so I felt really sad and misserable.
I don't know how I got them.
Crap...

I went to Park Hyatt this afternoon to meet a business related person.
We had lunch at "NY Grill" at park Hyatt.
Look this beautiful sight.

There are great buffet style of appetizers and I was full by lots of appetizers.
My main course was this Risotto.
It was pretty good.
And we had another buffet style of deserts.
There were 15 defferent deserts.
Oh my god...
Anybody!! Please stop me eating!!!


After lunch, I ran to the airport and caught a flight to go back to Osaka.
I went back to my office in Osaka and get everything done.
I was away from my desk just a day, but there was a pile of papers...
Not only papers, but also lots of tastings.
I ate so many quiches.
And guess what?
I went to eat French for dinner.
I promised to go to a French restaurant with my favorite artisan.
I did not feel like eating, but they were good.

I think I gained 20 punds this week...

Happy Friday

Fun Last Day of A Week

I got up at 6 am and left my hotel soon after without putting on makeup.
I just needed to catch the first flight to go back to Osaka.
After arriving at Osaka, I went back to my apt and took shower and got ready.
And went to Umeda to meet up with my sis and had lunch with her.
This is a place where my sis had lunch all the time when she was a high school student.
Memorable place foe her, but the food was just okay.

Since I went to work after lunch, there were tons of stuff to do.
However, I did not finish everything and left work early to have dinner with my friends from Hula lesson.
This is my dessert plate, banana with FIRE!!
Cool, huh?

It was such a fun dinner with them.
We were not that close last year, but gradually we are getting good friends.
All of us have different work, different life and different dream, so it is nice to get together and talk about many things.
I took a train so we all got drunk and had such a good time.
I feel that I am so lucky to be able to hang out with so many kinds of friends!

Organic Lunch

Lots of Tasting

I had been so tired today.
I know it is not good, but I had definitely been in a bad mood at work.
Such a busy day as well.
I had to attend a meeting half a day as a representative of R&D department.
We had couple things wrong last month, so I had to apologized to everyone at the meeting…

I was tired because I had a hangover from last night.
I need to sleep…

I ate so much today.
Lots of tasting and big dinner with my colleagues.
It was so much fun to eat many kinds of Organic lunch boxes for tasting.
All of them were pretty good.
We had those for our lunch and discussed about these.
This is time I feel that my job is fun.

Tomorrow, I have to attend a meeting for Board of Directors.
I wish I could sleep in tomorrow, but I can’t…
Damn iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Cheesecake Meeting

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…

What A Relaxing Day in Hawaii

Don’t Wanna Go Home

Today, we woke up early and went to “The Original Pancake House” which is my favorite Pancake place in America.
Five of us went to the place and had 5 kinds of panckes.
Of course we got hella full.
So we decided to walk to shopping center and took a walk for an hour.

And we went back to beach and hung out by the beach.
We all bought new bathing suits and we wanted to show off.
We were going to go there only with girls, but of course there were male colleagues around the beach close to our hotel.
So we were kinda embarrassed.
I was the only one who has dark skin, so I got lots of sun tanning.

And we went back to hotel to take a shower, and left to “Cheese Cake Factory”.
Look how messy our table was.
We ate many kinds of cheesecakes like we do at work.
We have to taste each of them, so we used our own folks and took a bite from each cheesecake.
We were totally full and I had a stomachache because of eating too much.
But I was so happy to lied down in a beach and took a nap there on Monday, which we always work.
And we could take a shower as many times as we want, and had alcohol from daytime.
How nice it was!
Everyone went off to shopping, so I decided to take Lomi Lomi massage.
I went to Spa and took it for on hour.
I felt sooooo good.

And I went back to a shopping mall, and had dinner there.
I threw up at night by the way, not because of drinking too much, but I had upset stomach.
This happened last night too.
How come I can’t control how much I eat…
On the way back to hotel from the restaurant, we did some more shopping and went back to hotel at 11PM.
Most of stores in Hawaii open till 11PM.
From 11PM till 2AM now we stayed at one room and chat.
The guy who kept talking was hilarious.
Everyone was sleepy, but nobody could stop him.
It was like a trip that we had in high school days.
We have to go home tomorrow, but I don’t want to.
I don’t have confidence to go back to work from the next day we go back to Osaka.
Anyway, I should go to bed not to be late for tomorrow meeting in the morning.

Lunch Break Is What I Love

Lunch In Tokyo

Today I worked at Tokyo office in this morning.
I was working on a paper work due to tomorrow, which I think I am doing well so far.
For lunch, I made an appointment with my friend.
We went to a restaurant in the closest station from my office, which was on a magazine before.
In Tokyo, the best place to meet up with my friend, is the area of our office.
It is because that our Tokyo office is the office for sales department, so all the workers should not be around the area, but should go to other area to sell our products.
Anyway we had such an expensive lunch, $20US.
Since I started keep my accounts, I think I have been cheap.
Well, I don’t want to spend much money, which is good and bad.
I don’t like to be cheap when I am around my friends.

Lunchtime is such an important time for me.
I enjoy having lunch because it is time that I can relax and refresh myself.
By eating lunch, I get energy.
Although I had this much lunch for today, I had to eat pancakes for work.
It was an interesting menu, pancake with marshmallows.
Got really sleepy after I ate a lot, but I had two appointments; a magazine publish company and a promotion company.
They were quite exciting, but I learned that I have to study harder to talk about our products well.
Since our products will be on a magazine and we will do a lot of promotions for them, recently I have many opportunities to give a presentation of our products.
I have to do it over and over, but I think my presentation is getting boring.
For the first presentation, I try really hard and prepare a lot, but when I repeat the same thing, I am getting lazy.
It is bad…

I came back to Osaka by the latest flight.
I have to write a report about today’s appointments.
Gotta go.

First Day of Work in 2008

2008 Will BE A Good Year

I woke up really early, had a cup of coffee, put new makeup stuff, and left to work.
We had a New Year ceremony at work.
The dad gave a speech and we drunk all together.
We learned how our company would be this year by the owner.
It was really positive speech, so it motivated me so much.
The first day of work was not that bad.
I talked with so many people, and it was different from the work days in 2007.
Everyone was so energetic.

The only regret was that I went to really good Italian restaurant to eat pasta for lunch.
I usually have one hour break, but sometimes I get away from work and go out for lunch to a nice place for 2 hours or so.
I thought I did not have much stuff to do on the first day of work.
However, it was not right, so I stayed at work till late at night.
I was going to go to gym, but I didn’t.
I was going to eat at my apt, but I didn’t.
I am so weak that whenever I am invited to go out, I say “Sure!!”
I came home and took a bath, washed my bath tub, did enough skin care, did laundry, and writing this blog.
Now I am going to keep my household accounts.
I am very fulfilled.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
I will try hard to continue these little daily routine stuff to do.

House Holding Day

Fun Busy Day

Today was a busy day but different busy day from usual.
I was busy doing lots of stuff for myself, but for work. Yeah!!
I got up pretty early and went to Spa and had whole body massage.
It was such a nice one, and could relax a lot.
I bought a couple more Christmas present in downtown Osaka.
Also I shopped some stuff for my computer surroundings.
One the way home, I saw a roast sweet potato (yam) vendor.
I passed once, but since it smelled really good, I went back the way and got a yam.
It had been a while since the last time I had it, but I decided to make it my lunch today.
It costs only $1.20, what a cheap lunch!
Plus, it was tasty and very old-fashion to eat yam, which was wrapped by a newspaper.

After my lunch, I rearranged my room.
It was something I had been dreaming about for a while.
I got a modem for a wires Internet so that LAN cable would not be all over my room anymore.
So this is a picture of my room before “remodeling”.
I moved all my furniture in my bedroom, and rearranged probably 4 times.
I had drawn a picture of my room how to arrange it, but every time I moved, I just did not like them.
So I decided to stick with the original position, but change the position of my computer desk and a bit.
I was so disappointed that I could not have many changes, but still I am planning to make my bedroom a little simpler before New Years.
My arms so hurt because of moving.
I rode a bike to eat at my friend’s noodle restaurant.
It is located two stations away, so I decided to go there by bike for my exercise.
Actually it was a good idea, just 20 minutes bike ride one way.
When I was ready to eat, I hardly could hold my chopsticks because my arm hurts that much.
Anyway, today was such a fulfilled day for me.
I hope tomorrow would be the same on Christmas Eve!

Shopping With My Mom

Christmas Shopping

I went shopping with my mom today.
Went to downtown in Osaka to find presents for me from my mom.
I want to get a bag dor work, an orange humidifier for my room, big accessories, comforable shoose, and so on.
I had not been to expensive floor for a long time, since I had not been interested in brand stuff.
But today I went to a department store and saw many expensive stuff reminds me of the time I was so rich when I was a teacher.
We found a good light fashonable bag, and saw the price, "$1,200US".
I found a watch I really like, "$5,200US".
What can I say?
We got tired of walking so we went to cafe and had this sandwiches.
It is so nice to go shopping with my mom, because now we don't have much time to hang out together.
I love spending time with my mom because I love my mom so much.

After shopoing, we went home together and went for dinner with my dad.
Three of us had such a nice dinner and enjoyed talking a lot.
However, now I am at my apt by myself and feel pretty sick.
Don't know why, but I should go to bed early tonight.