Lost in Translation - Day 8

After talking to people, I found that the quality of life here is definitely worse than HK and Canada.

Heavy Tax, UNBEARABLE long working hours, clear hierarchy at work and any other relationship, expensive housing...............

On the surface, this is very nice, clean and beautiful city, cherry blossom, nice shopping, fancy packaging, good food, very good client service everywhere.

糖衣下卻是非人生活

Lost in Translation - Day 3

Another early morning for me, couldn't make it there to the breakfast place.......

Team meeting - totally shocked...it was such a typical Japanese style meeting, exactly like what I've seen in movie - shocked.

Dinner with Duck and Ben, suppose to meet them up in 新宿三越, the subway station is a maze, there's like 10+ exits at that stupid station, and weird thing is I can see exit 1-4, 6-8 but CANNOT FIND EXIT 5 which I'm suppose to get out. Once I get up the street and try to look for 三越, it is a nightmare because it is a maze, nobody speaks English and nobody knows how to read a map and tell me where I am.

Had izakaya, supposed to be good but again I cannot taste anything, something must be wrong with my taste buds, or maybe it's my sinus / allergies.

Izakaya is also full of smell of smoke, which drives me crazy. Isn't this suppose to be a highly civilized city? How come these people are so clean and polite and environmental friendly and recycles and everything but THERE'S NO SMOKE FREE RESTAURANTS?

Lost in Translation - Day 2

Wake up super early to get ready, and it was chilly and raining. Lucky that I had Mogi-san to come pick me up.

Tokyo office is nice, but feels weird when every body speaks in Japanese, no matter if they're Indian, chinese, white or black, everyone speaks Japanese. Kinda feel left out when I'm the only one who does not understand a word. I guess when I'm back to HK I should always speak in English in office whenever there's a non-chinese speaker around.

Had Oyako-don for lunch, not as good as I thought, way too salty. Had sushi for dinner, it was okay, but I can't really taste it. It was 9pm and the full team is in office, was too tired and I left.

Lost in Translation - Day 1

Never thought my first time to Tokyo would be a business trip, and never have been so unprepared when I travel.

First impression to this place is it's chilly, it was 8 degree when weather forcast said it'll be 15-20. Shocked at how even ppl in the airport does not really speak English.

Sepnt 12 hours on the road, crazy.

Despite how clean the city seems, am totally shocked that restaurants are not smoke free