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Will I Have A Baby Someday??
I went to Kobe to see my friends from college.
Went to Brazilian restaurant which one of our friends works.
He just got married last October, and he looked so so happy!
His restaurant is pretty cool and it is a buffet style.
Look how much I ate.
These with lots of meat, which Brazilian waiter cut in front of us.
I still have stomachache, but can’t help eating… Why???
Anyway, Mayumi who is still single and I who is also single went to see my friend who came back to our town for vacation with her baby boy.
Also my other friend came to see her.
It’s been a while since I saw her the last.
She took her husband and her little baby.
Since we met, it’s been 22 years past, but we are still good friends.
It is just weird that most of them now have a family.
Look this little guy, how adorable!!
I like this age kids but I just could not imagine that I will have a baby like him someday.
Everyone laugh at me holding baby.
It seems like being mother is very difficult and lots of work more than I work now.
But someday, I will get there.
Just can’t imagine now somehow…
It was snowing today in Kobe.
On the way back, I stopped by the massage place I always go.
Ahhhh, felt really good.
Now I am in my apt writing this blog in my bed waiting for my sister comes home.
After she gets to her apt, I will go over and stay over her apt tonight.
It is a pretty fun weekend-start for me.
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!!
A Big Day
Wow… I did a lot today.
Today was a Japanese holiday so I did not have to go to work.
However, I woke up at 7 in this morning, took a shower, put make-up on, and wore suit.
Because I had an interview.
It was on-line interview.
It supposed to be on skype with mike and camera.
So I cleaned my room and made myself look neat.
However, their camera did not work so it was just with sound.
There were two interviewer, one was from main corporate and the other was from Chicago office who was interested in me.
It was my second interview and I was pretty excited but when I heard that the office who would hire me was in Chicago, and which made me get shocked…
So I am not sure if I did well on that interview or not.
They just liked the fact that I take Hula lesson somehow.
I will know the result in a few weeks.
We’ll see.
After the interview, I went to lunch with my best friend from elementary school.
We see each other once a year now, and we report how we have been and also we discuss what we would do till the next time we see each other.
She is a good listener and analyzer so I made myself really clear after I talk with her.
By the way, I felt a little guilty to eat steak for lunch.
But it was soooo damn good!!
After I say bye to my friend, Sakura, I went to down town and did some shopping for holiday gifts.
It is a lot of work to find gifts but I kinda like it.
I got so many bags from shopping.
I also got presents for my Hula friend as Santa!
Oh, I did so many walking…
After shopping, I went to Hula lesson one hour before the lesson starts.
We practice for an event we will attend in January for my friend's favor.
We supposed to practice but we just chat and fooled around.
At lesson I danced pretty hard.
I felt really good.
I love Hula dance.
I will be Hula Instructor when I turn to 70 years old for sure!!
Ahhhh, I did a lot today.
Pretty active, huh?
Girls' Party
Uhhhh, it was a busy day today!
Lots of trouble happened, so I had so much extra work.
Trouble is bad, but at the same time, I get excited when trouble happens.
Because it is the time I use my brain and figure out how to solve the problem quickly.
And I made it.
Everything went well at the end.
I was late for dinner with my girl friends.
Eri is a girl whom I met when I was 13.
She was the one whom I went to South Dakota for home-stay when we were 14.
Now she got married with my friend and have this cute baby, Kan.
Kana is a girl whom I met when I was 18.
We used to like the same guy.
Now she got married but still work for Armani.
We were all different, but we used to hang out so much together.
All we talked were about boys.
All of our ex boyfriends were good friends.
We have not got together for a year.
But I did not feel like it.
All of us got changed, but we felt like we went back to teenagers.
We did lots of stupid things a long time ago, but now we are fine adults, I guess.
I felt a little bit behind, actually, though…
Meeting With My Rare Friend
Today was the first day to go to work with my new hairstyle.
When I was walking to my office, my co-workers came from the other day.
They laughed at me saying, “Ohhhh you look so cuuute.”
I felt embarrassed…
Most of them thought that I was wearing wig, and could not help laughing.
The picture above is pie ice cream we made for a recipe to cell our pie shell.
They are yummy!!
I supposed to meet someone tonight which I was looking for, but my friend had a cold and the appointment was canceled.
So I worked till late but did not feel like eating by myself so I called my different friend whom I have not seen for a while.
I have been friend with him since I was 14 years old.
Ryohei is a good guy but very different from me.
He is a type of guy whom I don’t usually hang out with.
However, he is a good friend for me whom I can be honest with somehow although I don’t get to see him that often.
He got married so it is hard for me to ask him out for dinner but ask him twice a year.
He came over to my apt and we went out to drink.
Ryohei can’t drink much but he drank much enough for me.
Since he is one of my good friends, I got drunk easily.
So nice to see a rare friend.
It was too fun and forgot to take any picture…
It was a nice night tonight.
Hisami and Yu
I slept like a rock for 12 hours today.
I just did not want to get up.
I know that it is bad to sleep like this once a week, but I can't help it.
I got up like at 2 in the afternoon, and went to meet up my friend, Hisami.
We have been friends for 21 years.
Wow, so long!
She got married once and have a cute girl.
We went to buy her present from Santa.
I got something for her too.
So fun to look kid's toys and dresses.
She is now trying to find a guy who wants to get married with her again.
We are the same age but because of her experiences, I feel that she is more mature.
We went shopping and had dinner and drink.
She is a girl whom I see twice a year.
We are good friends, so we don't have to see each other often but whenever we see, we can catch up really quick.
We will see each other in summer next, maybe.
Lots Going On in Gunma
We woke up early and Ayako drove me to palm reader.
I went to see a fortuneteller in July or August and had a really bad experience.
At that tie the fortuneteller yelled at me and told me what I did not want to hear.
However, when I think about it now, she was not that wrong.
Actually some of things she told me at that time really happened to me now.
Anyway, I was so afraid of going to see a palm reader, but she said he was good so I decided to go.
Actually he is a Buddhist priest.
He was not a strict one at all.
Some of the stuff he told me surprised me but interesting.
He wrote out lines on a hand and explained.
He could read my palm and see that I am wondering which of three ways I should go now, to keep working for my dad, changing job, or going to the US.
Of course he could not tell me what exactly I was wondering about, but he could see that I was wondering among three things.
See? The three lines on my hand. (One with a ring)
He explained everything and I understood everything.
What he told me actually encouraged me.
I don’t rely on him, and don’t believe in everything what he said, but keep what he said in mind would help me, I think.
He said that I am going to get married next year and will have 3 kids, 2 girls and 1 boy.
He was confident about it, so we’ll see, hahaha.
Ayako and I went to a department store and took a picture in heart.
I don’t know what it was but seems like it was a photo spot, so we took a picture.
On the way back to Ayako’s house, we had bread with Miso, which is bread famous for Gunma.
It was yummy!!
Also we had chocolate, almond and banana crape.
We ate too much.
And after we went back I had dinner with Ayako’s family again.
This is a picture which Ayako took.
Me with Boo.
I left Ayako’s at 10 in this evening and took a bullet train to Tokyo for tomorrow.
I have work in Tokyo tomorrow again.
Now I am in a business hotel washing TV.
What a nice weekend I had!
Ready to go to work tomorrow.
Tokyo and Gunma Trip
I just got back from Tokyo to home yesterday morning, but I left home to Tokyo again early this morning.
It is just one-hour flight from Osaka to Tokyo, but still it is a lot of work for me.
I put all my stuff in a locker at the station in Tokyo.
Since I am not good at remembering which “coin locker” I used, I took a picture to remember where.
I had to help with exhibiting at food expo in Tokyo.
It was actually fun though.
It was hard to stand from 9:00 to 5:30 whole time, but I could talk with many people and fun to sell cakes I produced.
There were not many sales women or talkative girl who has strong Osaka accent, so I became pretty famous at the convention center.
This picture is one of products we exhibited at the expo.
Tarts for Quiche, very good stuff.
After this expo, I took a bullet train to Gunma to see my friend, Ayako.
She is one of my good friends whom I have known since I went to DU.
And this is “Boo”, a pug she has.
What a cute doggie.
Gunma is sort of countryside of Japan, so pretty different from Osaka or Tokyo.
People, landscape, food and culture are different, and it is a part I like to visit there.
Ayako’s family is so nice and warm.
They serve so much food at dinner whenever I visit.
Tonight, Ayako’s brother’s family, Ayako’s friends were there too.
9 of us had dinner all together and it was like a party.
Ah, I ate too much again till midnight.
Uhhhh bad for my health but it was such a nice night.
Finally They Got Married
Since last night, I have cleaned my room.
Yeah, my room was that messy.
When my room is messy, my life style is messy too.
I had been so lazy and that’s why I got so fat lately.
When my room is clean, I care about myself well.
After I cleaned my room, I went to a beauty salon.
And left for my friend’s wedding.
He is one year older than I, and we were YMCA leaders.
After I stop volunteering at YMCA, I started teaching English to him.
He had had Peter Pan Syndrome.
He used to talk to me a lot about what he wanted, and each time I talked with him seriously.
I had been so worried about him although I am younger than he.
I cared about him a lot, so every time he did stupid childish thing, I never be able to hate him.
Last time he came over to my apt was midnight, he brought a business plan and he said he wanted to open his own business.
To be honest, the business plan was not that good, and I thought he would not make it, but we fixed it till the next morning.
Now he did open his own business successfully, and he got married with a girl whom he have dated for a long time!
He is such a successful man!
There were so many friends from YMCA.
These are people whom I went to camps in winter and summer.
Since we are now having such a different lives, we don’t get together much, so it was like a reunion.
It was fun to see old friends. (These people in this picture were just some of them)
We went out to drink after the wedding to chat more.
It was such a small wedding at a restaurant.
They invited all their friends, and we sigh for them to agree with their marriage.
Groom made a bouquet with a flower we had and gave to the bride.
They did not exchange marriage ring, but they exchange presents in front of us.
Since their religions were different, so it was not an usual wedding which I have ever seen.
It was small but such a cute one.
The bride is pregnant, so they will have a kid soon.
Both of them looked really happy, and I am pretty sure that they will have a happy life together.
I feel really good to see my friend’s happy face!!
I love attending weddings!
Being An Uncompleted Boss
Today, I was busy as usual, but I think I could work the most efficiently every today.
I finally understood how to work with many assistants.
When I was in the US, I talked with my ex boyfriend’s mom about my work.
She made me realize how inefficiently I work at my office.
I think I could not rely on my assistants, and I tried to do everything by myself.
When I was at the former department, I did all my work by myself, so I did not know how to trust other employees.
But she told me how to do that.
So I carried out soon after I came back from the US.
And it worked!
Now everyone feel that we are TEAM!
Since everyone helps me with my work, I can concentrate on the work which only I can do.
We discuss about many things now, which made them think a lot about their work, which leads them to like what they are doing.
Today, one of my assistants and I went to café instead of going to gym, since we got late for our pilates lesson.
Ah… I ate this banana float coffee at late at night.
How can I go on a diet…
At café, she told me that they were talking about me when I was not at my office.
She said they are talking how happy to have me as their boss. (Well maybe I should not write this kinda stuff by myself, though)
I was so so so so so happy to hear that!
I am not perfect at all, and I sometimes got depressed because I was not sure if what I was doing is right or not.
And I have felt that I have been supported by my assistants a lot recently.
I worried how they felt about it, so I felt I was so happy, honestly!!
The other happy thing today was my friend’s surprise visit.
My friend, Masaru was in Osaka on business for a day, and he came to visit me to my office.
He came to a restaurant close to my office and waited for me till I finished working.
After we ate at the restaurant, I toured my office for him.
Of course, at late at night, I could not show him much of it, but I showed him my new department.
It was kinda weird to have my friends at my office, but we always welcome people who want to see our company.
Unexpected visit surprised me and made me be happy today.
He might be in SF when I would be there next time, so I hope I can see him soon again!
This picture above is a menu which my assistant, Miss Manabe, ate at café after I ate Masaru.
Since I ate with him, I did not eat with her, but had banana float coffee only.
I was too full to taste her dish.
But it looked good, so I took a picture at least.
Happy Wedding Sunday
I woke up early this morning to leave to Tokyo to attend my best friend’s wedding.
I was excited about the wedding, but at the last minute, I started worrying about my dress.
I wasn’t sure if I was wearing the right dress for wedding.
Since I am always late for everything, I was about to be late for the wedding today.
I did not pay attention the schedule on the invitation card I got…
However, I was able to attend the ceremony at a chapel so I felt relived!
Worrying about time is always hassle and makes me tired more than necessary.
I should learn how to be on time someday soon.
Anyway, Masaru’s wedding ceremony was great.
I was so moved at the ceremony.
Somehow I had a weird feeling, hard to explain, but maybe because I was a friend of the groom.
Different feeling from the wedding ceremonies I attended for my girl friends.
Whenever I attend the ceremony at a chapel, I always think that wedding is such a big deal.
There are some couples who never had a wedding, but I think people should do a ceremony even it were a small one.
After the ceremony, we attended their wedding party with having luxury lunch.
The bride, Aki, changed to a pink dress from the wedding dress.
She is such a sweet girl who cares people so much.
I had met her only once before this wedding, but I felt that I would like her a lot.
I feel happy when my friends get married with someone who is nice and someone whom I would be able to get along with.
These people in the picture above are the member of my table at the party.
People who attended his wedding party were global.
All people who were at my table could speak English including the two gentlemen from Germany.
The young guy is SPI, I heard.
We talked about crimes at the wedding.
After the party, more of their friends came to the hotel and had a cocktail party.
I could see some old friends from University of Denver, so it was like a reunion.
Almost all friends I got to know at the school now became great business men/women.
There are so many things I could learn from them and I am lucky that I have so many connections through them now at a business situation.
I was introduced more people who graduated from DU before I entered the school.
We went out to drink after the cocktail party by ourselves with 13 people.
Masaru, groom, joined us at the end and some of us went back to his hotel and had pink champagne at a bar which was located on the highest floor.
Great view and nice champagne!
Today, I drunk and talked so much.
What a good day.
I am glad that I was invited his wedding, and I think I became happy too by seeing the happiest couple today.
Missed My Step
I went to Kyoto to visit one company from this morning.
After I got off from the train, I was talking on the phone about my work, and I did not pay attention to the exit I took.
Once I got out from the station, I realized that I took a wrong exit.
I looked forward while I was talking on the phone then I fell off from my knees.
It was so painful, but I kept talking on the phone, and I bet he did not realized that I fell.
I looked back and saw there was a big step, and realized that I missed my step.
There were so many notes said, “Watch out your step!”, but I did not pay attention at all.
I hung up on the phone and before I made another call, I looked my knees and saw there was a big hole on my pants.
I was shocked and my knee was bleeding so badly.
The worst thing was that I had to go visit a company with my pants suits which had a big hole.
Soon after I greeted people at the company, I excused that I fell on the way to come to the company.
I felt horrible…
Also after I went back to my office, everyone mentioned that my pants had a hole.
Each time I had to tell the story.
I am so embarrassed to tell them how careless I was…
After work, I went to Thai restaurant with my friends from Hula lesson.
I was late for 30 mins but when I got there, they even did not drink at all.
I can’t believe that they did not order for 30 minutes.
They said the Thai waitress got mad at them because there were people who waited to be seated just before I got in.
Anyway, the Thai restaurant was good, but very spicy.
This week I had hot Korean, Italian, and this hot Thai.
Quite variety of food I am eating.
Getting fat.
Can’t stop eating lately…
After we had dinner, we went to café, and talked for a long time, and I got home midnight tonight.
I am soooo sleepy.
We had such a fun time by talking so many things.
All girls’ talk which we can’t let any other people to listen.
I hope other customers there did not listed to us.
Sometimes girls’ talk is fun, although I usually don’t do much.
Since I have not know the girls from the Hula lesson much yet, it was interesting to listen to their lives.
I am happy that this week has gone now.
Well, I still have to go to my office tomorrow a bit, though.
Anyway, I just need to sleep now cuz I am soooo crazy and hopefully I can sleep till 10 or something tomorrow.
Dinner With My Friends From College
This is not Pizza.
This is Korean Pancakes called Kimuchi Chijimi.
I went to dinner with my friends from college in Japan.
One of them is now pregnant, and I felt a little weird to see her big stomach.
I am so looking forward to seeing her baby!!
Today I had a pretty good day because of my new assistant.
He works really well and our combination is pretty good.
We are doing research for something in the US now.
Nobody could do any faster than we did.
We talked a bit by ourselves before I left office today.
He asked me not to make him go to the US with me on April 23rd.
I asked him if that is his anniversary or something.
He said, “no, but important day”.
I did not ask him any more because I don’t think I should know.
But now I am kinda worried.
Maybe he will have a job interview on that day?
I might ask him tomorrow although once I told him that I did not wanna know.
Because it would be a big deal for me if he will leave our company!
It is always nice to see my old friends.
Whenever we get together, we can go back to our old age.
Now each of us lives in a different world, but we are still good friends.
It is fun to listen to somebody else’s life which I never have experienced.
We went to Café after the dinner.
There were so many foreigners at the café.
The guy who took our order was very cute so we asked him where he was from.
We were all surprised that he was from Colombia, who can speak Japanese very fluently.
I ordered an apple pie but it was totally different from the picture, so bitched about it.
However, they did not care what I said.
Their sweets were not good at all.
I bet they make a lot of money by the cute foreign waiters but not by their food or sweets.
Humnnnnn.
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…
Anyway, Mayumi who is still single and I who is also single went to see my friend who came back to our town for vacation with her baby boy.
Everyone laugh at me holding baby.
