This week has basically been work, work, and more work. A post negotiation, a big presentation on Chinese FDI, not much sleep, and not too much else to report. Its now reaching way back in memory - after a weekend mainly in playing catchup. Next time I'll post more quickly so the jokes and whatnot are fresh in my mind. Sunday night was ( Read more... )

So its Saturday. Unexcitingly I'm staying in and catching up, doing some laundry, the like. Last Night was relatively low key. As per my last post, my Australian friend hastily booked some tickets home. In light of this, last night was something of a going away party. So off we went to Shinjuku, one of the more built up parts of Tokyo for some ( Read more... )

Well another weekday night, nothing much doing - staying in and working. Thats what I do, I stay in weeknights and work. An Aussie friend of friend had quite a good time last night. So good in fact that this morning he woke up on the street with a 1,400 bar tab that the bar is politely asking him to work off. I haven't had a chance to talk to ( Read more... )

So, Sunday morning - Lets go to Yokohama. First we walked down to Shibuya's Hachiko statue to meet the group. Now this was interesting enough:


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Snow in Tokyo - yet again. It supposedly only snows here once a year, right now we are on number 4.


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Uneventful night - turning in early for festivities tomorrow. Although we did go to conveyor belt sushi - and turned this:


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So this week, in a typically uneventful school day morning - trip to Shinjuku. Japanese class field trip. You may remember Shinkuku as that city in the background of those shots from Odiaba.


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Nothing much to say today. Except - interesting discovery. This building is the Asahi brewery and the office next store, I'm not kidding, is supposed to look like a giant beer.


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Another update, not much new going on - so I thought I would make some more observations of the oddness that is Tokyo. So as I walked home, and was directed by an automated LED man directing traffic:


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So its Monday. I squared all that Shibuya office business and put in for some business cards (they are absolutely essential to the corporate culture here). All in all a good day. So I return home again, and reiterate once more - I never tired of that:


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