Anyway, so let me tell you what happened after we parted ways ( Read more... )

So yesterday I was getting some coffee when I overheard a conversation between this guy who must have been in his mid to late 40s at the youngest and some random female employee. I don't work with either of them on the project, so their existences are ... not relevant to mine. Except the old guy commented to the woman that he had never been on a ( Read more... )

Today I got the official word to head back to Tokyo. The original plan was for me to be here until the end of July/mid-August. But now I will be leaving here at the end of June, then take a week off in California before heading back to Tokyo. I have mixed feelings about all of this, since I was sent out here to accomplish something. Yanking me ( Read more... )

Well, one big happening really. It looks like I'm going to be going to the Philadelphia area in mid-April to participate in a project that one of the other companies in the ING Group is doing. The duration is very much in flux right now, at least as far as I am aware. There has been an amazing paucity of details, mostly due to the fact that my ( Read more... )

So I've been at ING for going on a month now. It started off ( Read more... )

Last October, I went to Europe for the first time. I was sent ( Read more... )

Since I last posted a blog entry. It doesn't seem that long.
I just had a very momentuous event happen in my life. My father
passed away. I hadn't talked to him in more than 14 years.

I'm back in California for the first time in about a year and nine months to attend my friend's wedding & hang out with friends and family. It's good to be back..and feels totally normal.. almost like no time has passed, but it has been more than three years since I've lived here. A strange feeling. Anyway, here's some pics :


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After my last trip I came back to Tokyo and relaxed for a couple weeks before Marvin and Tommy came to visit. That was literally the most exhausting "vacation" that I have ever had. I usually prefer to do very little on my own vacations, but they had a mere week in Tokyo, which is nowhere near enough time to see, do, and eat everything that is ( Read more... )

Here's a few photos :


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