Was in Tokyo last week for work..it's meetings and more meetings.
Quite a tiring trip it is with no time to shop at all, well most dinner meetings end at 9plus, 10 at night, by then most shops has closed.
Furthermore after the disaster that struck Japan in March, measures has been taken to help conserve energy.
This including minimizing the air conditioning in most buildings and switching off the air-conditioning for certain hours...
gosh, weather's getting really warm in Tokyo and imaging reaching the office without much air-conditioning...eh..
*salutes the locals*
Anyway just some snippets i managed to capture while rushing from meetings to meetings..
Tadah! chanced upon this store! lol i'm sure alot of guys would love to step in...no chance to do so though..
a lovely, french-style cafe for breakie! the tuna toast is yummy! very similar to the kind of thick toast we eat at the HK cafes but 100 times softer and crispier!
another scene captured at one of the popular kopi place called Donutr in Tokyo. Is it so safe in Tokyo that they can use their mobile phones to chop seats instead of packets of tissue paper like what Singaporeans do?
Well wishes or congratulatory flowers for opening of new offices...hmm they send white orchids. the whole lobby looks so solemn with the rows of white orchids and they reminded me of funerls...with those wooden planks with words written on top man.
Snippets of one of the dinners, it was a yummy yakitori dinner.. The Tsukune above is actually chicken meat, and then you dip it in the half boiled egg to eat..very yummy!!! BBQ gingko nut is equally delicious!
@ another dinner, there is where i had an overdose of the daily sashimis...=___= anyway the chilled sake is nice and sweet!!
and the baby ginger was something unique, never tried anything like this back in S'pore. pretty refreshing i must say..
pass by this place while on the way to lunch...
Oh and i love this instant kopi that the hotel provides. quite innovative right? a mini-drip kopi!
a mini landscape at one of the traditional Japanese restaurant. Love the spring bloom...so pretty!
The green matcha tasted so different in Tokyo too. Creamier and so much tastier!
one of our meetings ended early so we had time for a short tea-break before moving on to the next meeting.
Here is where one of our licensor, TV Asahi's office is situated at...very pretty buildings! actually the prettiest part was the brown bricks walls that made it look like a castle. but the trees were blocking the best part!
Was staying in Mitsui Garden, Ginza. A business hotel for the 5 days. Not bad, i mean it's really a business, business hotel.
Room is cosy, neat and comfy, perfect for business. like ya i mean real work, real business.
Cosy enough for a 1 pax without leaving you the empty, lonely, scary feel.
I always have this thing about staying alone in hotel, it kind of creeps me out especially when you are in the bathroom. but this hotel's great, doesn't give me much of those creepy feelings.
Taking a look at some of the amenities, they even have Shiseido make up remover, facial cleanser, toner and face moisturiser for you! pretty impressive i must say
and i absolutely love the face & hand soap. it's a foaming soap!! you pump out the foam and use, so mild, so gentle on your skin.
On the lower right side that's the panel from the bath room, you can choose to make it totally transparent so you can watch tv while in the bath or poo-ing...lolx
perhaps it's the culture or perhaps it's the thoughtfulness.
They even provide bath tablets for you! i soak in baths almost daily , ultimately shiokness after a long, tiring day.
Tried the Rose bath and the lavendar bath..hehz...
Also the thing i love about hotel showers, the water's power really strong, not like our typical HDB, water jet no power one.
a small cosy little room.
Star wars with a Disney Theme. or rather, vice versa.
1 of the lunches, we have sashimi for almost every meals..gosh. extreme overdose on sashimi plus the fact that sometimes i don't even know what fish am i eating..or was it fish in the first place? hehz.
As the Japanese believe, premium sashimi is one of the best food to be served to guests, hence almost all of them brought us for premium sashimi....
It was so bad i nearly felt like puking and gotta eat it with so much ginger and wasabi to kill that sashimi taste man.
one the first day where we had a slightly time again in between meetings and the luxury of having kopi with desserts! the pancake with berries simply fantabulous. The pancake is so soft...woooo...blogging about it know makes me hungry.
oh tadah, so absoloutely 'act cute' pics of me. lol. but i kinda love these pics and how this silk scarf brightens up the whole look and act a touch of feminine to the whole look with a plain black dress. Bought this silk scarf at Mango sale for only $29!
view from my room during the day, and i sit facing Burberry's flagship store daily, with not much time to shop inside. Usually i'd buy blue labels whenever i'm in Tokyo. but this time round, i broke the record of not buying a single blue label!
That marks the end of my Tokyo Business Trip. I've never really enjoyed business trips as it's always tiring and makes you double busy before you leave for your trip and after you come back.
Contrary to what most people thing, travelling for business ain't as fun as it seems. You hardly have enough personal time to shop and have fun, so don;t ever look at it like a holiday or something.
Not sure if that's the nature of my career, i often land in jobs needing to travel once in a while.
Well kind of lucky to get this kind of exposure though.
As long as it's not too frequent, once or twice a year, i guess i should be fine with it...
and oh i so very much wanted to share with you guys a piece of news on what i've been busy with other than work and nua-ing...and i actually created a blog for that as well..ahah shall share it when time is ripe.
that is when someone makes it official lolx...
