The Last Day Of Work!

Last Work Day in 2008

Hell yeah! It was the last work day in 2008!!
I felt year 2008 ended pretty quickly, but I can say that I work soooo hard!!!
So damn hard!!!!
I went to work today and cleaned my desk, greeted everybody to thank for taking care of me in year 2008
Also, I looked around all of our factories to see if they are clean enough.
That's my habit to do at the last day of my work.
Not only for checking, but also I show my appreciation to the factories for making goof products for a year.
And I found this broken computer backside of our factory.
Who threw this computer to our territory!!!!

After my work at office, I went to see someone to sell our products.
Yes, I went for sales on my last day of work!! ( So they should buy our products)
It was a good drive to visit the office, by the way.
Went to Kobe and this is the view from their office building.
I wanted to go to IKEA, but did not stop by because I have more than enough furniture in my apt...

After work, I went to see Ryohei and Yoshi, who are my old friends from YMCA camp.
I met them when we were 13.
Whenever we see each other, we tease each other talking about 17 years ago.
Yoshi in the picture just got back from Latin America, and he promised me to take me around Latin America!
Can’t wait!!
We had miso pot, and after that I took them to my bar close to my apt.
We had a couple drinks and chat about lots of stuff.
They were such good friends of mine, and I am so lucky to be able to get together t\with them whenever I want.
This is the only reason that I am afraid to move to some other country,
I have good friends here.
Well, my result of my job interview will be announced soon.
What do I want??

He is a guy I saw in a train.
Just kidding.
He is Ryohei, another my good friend.
He is funny crazy guy.
Can’t believe this crazy guy settled, and got married, but I am so happy for him:)
Ahh, I wanted his coat so bad!!

Last Day of Year 2007

The End of 2007

Finally year 2007 is ending.
It was quick and long, I would say.
Somehow I managed to finish cleaning my apt before 2008.
Look, how clean my room is now!
Well, I don’t wanna have this much hard time the next year, so I will try to clean little by little everyday.

So many thins happened in 2007.
I think I went traveling so many times this year.
Anyway it was really really busy year.
January, 2007: A Happy New Year
February, 2007: My grandpa past away & My good friends got married
March, 2007: Went to FL, NY, LA, and SF for researching dog stuffs
April, 2007: Got promoted to Kacho
May, 2007: Went to Philippines & Couple of my friends had weddings
June, 2007: Started Sales job in Tokyo & Went to Gunma
July, 2007: Went to Quebec, Montreal, Boston, and NY & Went to Nagano
August, 2007: Went to Thailand & Biggest incident for our company happened
September, 2007: Went to SF & Had Hula concert
October 2007: Went to Shanghai & Started to join a new project & Had a big BD party
November, 2007: Lots of business trip every week to Tokyo, Nagano, etc & Started to write journal on this blog everyday
December, 2007: Worked really hard

Lot of changes in this year.
Work, Hobby, Love, Family… Everything got changed.
Bad and good happened, but in total, I had such a good year.
The biggest incident was that the fact I am still in Japan.
I was going to move back to the US, but things got changed and I am here in Japan.
I still think that I am going to move back, but at this moment, I think I was lucky that I had to stay here to work for my dad.
I learned so many tings in this year, and I think I got my career up.
I am getting confident, and I am sure that I will do better in year 2008.
Ah, 4 mins left to have a new year.
I think I should get ready for it now.

Sleeping Beauty

Last Day Of Work

Oh my gosh, I am cheating the date of this blog today, since I could not write one yesterday.
Since on 27th night, I went to bed like 3 in the morning and got up at 6:30, I was so sleepy whole day.
However, there are so many things to do and also we had to clean up our office.
It was the last day of our company in 2007.
I did all daily stuff to do in the morning, and I went all of our factories to check with Vice President.
This was my third time to do it.
I can tell how the year 2007 was by looking at them now.
I saw lot saw improves when I compared with the end of 2006.
By the way, this is a picture of a machine to make margarine made in 1955, but still works!

While I was in a meeting, I was almost sleeping.
That was how I was sleepy.
We supposed to finish working till lunchtime on the last day of the year.
So we have soba all together, called “toshikoshi soba”, meaning, “passing year noodle”.
We can drink beer if we want, so I did, although I knew I had some more work left.
Oh well.
The last day of work, we tell everybody one by one, Thank you for taking care of me whole this year, please take care of me the next yeat, too. Have s good year”.
We had to say this phrase over and over, but I kinda like it.
This is the time I can talk to all employees.
I went home at 6 without eating dinner, and I passed out.
I was going to write a blog, but I could not get up.
I was sleeping till 8am in this morning.
It has been a while since the last time I slept more than 12 hours.
Thanks God for letting me sleep this much!!!!

Forget About 2007??

Forgetting Yeat Party

I was invited Japanese traditional “Bonen Kai” (Forgetting Year Party), which is held at the end of the year, by boss from other department.
I was the only one who was not belonging to the department, but since I hang out with those people from the department pretty often through work, they invited me.
Actually, I was invited from many other departments too, but I won’t go all.
This is not because I am popular, but I think they fell that they should do since I go to each department everyday and I am the only one who works every department.
It is nice of them to invite me still, but I don’t think I can afford anymore…
Also I have to have the same parties with my friends and other work-related people too.
This is interesting Japanese culture to have party at the end of a year and the beginning of a year.
Basically, we just get together, drink and chat.
To forget about the past whole year, we do “forgetting year party”, and to wish a good year, we do “New Year party”.
Both are quite the same thing, but for people who loves drinking and partying, this season must be the happiest one!
I will have a couple more parties till I finish this year.
Not to forget about 2007, but to enjoy the party with many kinds of people.
I actually don’t want to forget about 2007.
It has been such a dense year.

We went to Korean BBQ in downtown Osaka.
We had “broiled (pieces of) pig innards”-according to my dictionary for translation, but does not sound right.
Well, they were not pig but beef, first of all.
And we had weird parts of them such as neck, stomach, chin and so on.
It might sound gross, but actually tasted good.
On the way home, I got sick on a train.
Lately I get a ride sick pretty often.
Bullet Train is the good place to finish my reading and work, but recently I can’t…
In bullet train, train, bus and car, the entire ride made me sick.
Gotta figure out what’s wrong with me, otherwise, I can’t do anything while I am transporting.

Okay, I should go to bed now.
One more day to go till I get a day –off!!