Sunday, April 19, 2009

4天3夜東京工幹之旅

近來的生活, 活像回到中七那年一樣, 每天睡的只有4~5小時, 但我沒有那些年的朝氣了, 也沒那個本錢再催化自己的身體邁向更差的一個谷底。

不過, 上星期在復活假前, 突然到了東京工幹去! 那幾天, 不至於比在香港輕鬆很多, 因為這次工幹是要簽訂一份重要的買賣合約, 但至少我不需天天加班至10點多11點, 也沒需在家裡處理很多瑣碎小事, 至少, 我有多點點休息, 那就夠好了。

以下, 便是我在東京那幾天下來, 有空點寫下的點滴...


Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Arrived... everything's confused without a translator...

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Going to somewhere not expected.
Calling around to find a translator for tomorrow meeting. Love everyone to help! Helpful Karen & lovely Steve, and on-sick-leave Crystal.
Rooms booked to be cancelled, and settled in another really small hotel. Efficient little wing wing executed straightly!
Boss does not like the small room, moving to another BIG HOTEL~~ ..................
Boss wants to back to hk tomorrow, changing the ticket schedule / buy a new one...............
does anyone feel we are TOO DYNAMIC?

Sick again on trip... pray not to get too worse..........


Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Busy and good day, even I am more sick (my broken english ) with all my medicine done

Finished the meeting at 3pm in Shin Yokohama (新橫濱) and boss left at 12 (how brave he is to leave me alone)! Meeting with Japanese alone is new and challenging, cos it takes time to understand their direction. When I think back tonight, I really look forward to more experience in discussing business independently. There have been so many "tutors" around me already and I am always being taken care.

After the meeting, we said goodbye to the translator, Song. She is helpful really but expensive on her translation... another job to admire.... We went back to Tokyo and now I am in a hotel in .... the name is so long to remember. It's IKEBUKURO (池袋). The hotel is just next to the largest dept store in Japan, TOBU. Nicest guy in the world, CM, brought me to SHINJUKU (新宿) to shopping! I think he understands female so well that they couldn't help shopping in Tokyo! For sure, I am not bringing empty bag to hotel. Shinjuku is really a shopping heaven. It's like multiplying MK in HK by 10 times, but much better quality. Everywhere is crowded.

The dinner is good too. We ate Ramen in Shinjuku. The restaurant (康龍) is really small and the Ramen is not excellent still much better than those in HK. I ate 1.5 bowl~~~ Hope the people around were not scared by such a HK girl.

Now, it's around 23:30 here. To finishe some emails and orange, and go to bed early cos I will go to a far-far-away place tomorrow, to visit a factory.

Goodnight to everyone I miss. It's easy to fall into lonely trap in trip.


Thursday, April 09, 2009

The place we went for factory visit on the 3rd day was 歧阜羽島, which is between Nagoya and Osaka. We took Shinkensen for 2 hours to get there, which costed over 10,000yen per person per single trip... The factory visit just lasted for no more than 45mins and actually I felt disappointed. The people there refused to tell me the yield rate of that machine and there was no final product to see! Anyway, I have visited the factory. Somethings bad that morning was, I forgot to bring my phone with me! That means, I would miss a lot of calls, especially from bosses.

When we went back Tokyo, it was 2pm already.We had lunch (Ramen again), and went to Shinjuku again to shop. Actually i went there to buy what others want me to buy for them. It's good to buy for others and search for trophy to those I missed during the time in Japan.

The time was good until I got a call from boss. The contract progress was not smooth with our HK lawyer. CM planned to bring me to Tokyo Tower that night, but we just had to cancel. Go back to hotel to work after dinner, until 10. I just can't stay any longer facing the contract, and leaving my emotion down. I went out by myself, to walk through TOBU and SEIBU. Most of the shops were closed, but just some restaurants and game stations. When I was clam down, I went back to hotel for hot hot shower and sleep...

This was really a long day.


Friday, April 10, 2009

It was the last day of the trip, Apr 10. It is also the day I woke up late, at 8:35. The first thing I did is to pack my luggage. I used over 45mins, which broke all my previous record. That's really too many things to be packed in the suit case. After that CM checked out for me and brought my luggage to his room.

Then, it was the last chance for me to shop in this trip! CM and I went to UENO (上野) first. We had our breakfast there and had a nice walk there in the park. The scene was so good with many cherry blossom. It was a relaxing and could be a romantic moment too. Everywhere was sweety pink. We walked through some streets there and it was just another style than Shinjuku. Meal time came for us to have Ramen again. CM doesn't eat raw food and so I didn't have chance to have any shashimi this time.

The last station we went is Harajuku (原宿). As my memory is correct, I just walked along the 竹下口 for 1 hour, bought most of the trophy for my friends and family.

Good time always has an end. I took Narita Express from Ikebukuro, by myself. Time to say goodbye to CM. He even took me to the platform and brought my luggage into the car. Time to say goodbye to Tokyo. But before that, I spent all my Yen to the snacks in the airport! The chocolate was so tasty but I found that made my sickness worse again........

Goodbye, Tokyo. I will come again.