1st Business Trip to Tokyo Part 2

The sleep was good. I usually don’t sleep well on the 1st night but not in this case, I was too tired. The blackout curtain was working well bcos the sun was shining brightly even at 6ish but not felt in the room.

Bcos there isn’t a gym in the APA Ropponggi Six hotel, I have decided that it would be jog day. 

I didn’t know where I was running to but towards the right of the hotel, there is a long incline and it makes sense to turn left. Lol. 

I jogged along the path and then turned, thinking that if I go one big round, it is going to bring me back to the hotel. At some point, I was totally disoriented but all thanks to google map and I got back fine. Ya, 5km done and my 1st ever jog in Japan. 

The timing was a little rush and I wasn’t hungry but I headed to bfast anyway bcos it is Japan. The hotel has 2 tiny restaurants serving bfast - a fusion one and a Japanese one. I wanted to go to the former but it was crowded and I ended at the Japanese one. Monkey see, monkey do and I followed whatever the other people were doing with the plates and bowls. 

The sky was looking gloomy when I walked to the office. I was told that summer brings along rain. I asked my colleague if Tokyo was chilly and all he said was “bring umbrella”. Lol. Bcos it was cloudy, it was a super nice cooling walk. I like.

This was the slope that I had to conquer to head to the office. It wasn’t that bad but on the 1st day, when the luggage was pushing me down the slope, I wonder how it would feel to lug the luggage up the slope on Friday. Haha.  

I spotted a construction worker. Interestingly in Japan, even most construction workers are Japanese and bcos of multiple factors, there is a bad manpower shortage in the construction sector. Anyway, what I wanted to share was the super baggy pants that these construction workers wore. This one is tame already. I seen even baggier ones and they look super stylish. Then they also wear jackets with built-in fans. Very “cool”. Hoho.

It was a day of coffee and more coffee drinking. I had to opt for hot chocolate at one point to prevent caffeine overdose.

Very sweet strawberries from a colleague. So nice! 

We had a company dinner. The colleagues were very nice to organise one. We went to the squid restaurant that is supposedly very famous but the squid was lost on me. It only taste very chewy. They got me my own plate of cooked food instead. 

There was a lot of sake and beer drinking, which again was lost on me. The colleagues went for round 2 to another sushi joint for more beer. I headed back to the hotel to finish some work. 

Mummy Lim