Tokyo Business Trip Part 1

I flew to Tokyo on Monday night. I had thought that my flight was at midnight and only needed to be at the airport at 10pm. Luckily I checked during dinner, bcos my flight was actually at 10pm. Hohoho. Luckily I didn’t miss my flight. 

Thankfully, I got to fly business again and went to the business lounge. Of course I wasn’t hungry but I shouldn’t waste the business lounge. I didn’t have much time though. 

Did I do DFS shopping? Of course not. There would be plenty to buy at Donki in Tokyo. 

This was the bfast menu. I duno how it tasted bcos I told the air stewardess not to disturb me - I needed to sleep. 

There wasn’t anything interesting to watch while waiting for take off. I had “Goat” on the screen but switched it off immediately when the seatbelt sign was off. Good night. 

Like usual, I stirred a few times in the night but thankfully fell back to sleep quickly. I didn’t quite know when bfast was served. Business class was not full but I do remembered waking up at some point to the clinking of cutlery. 

Good morning! 

Immigration was smooth and I took a taxi directly to the office, only to realise that the office building main door wasn’t open at 6.30am. I went for Family Mart bfast, found an outdoor table and was happily surfing while enjoying the cool weather and my bfast. It was approaching summer and there was just a heat wave last week. I got to enjoy the good weather. Woohoo! 

Watching little kids go to school. 

After I finally managed to gain entry into the office building and freshened up, I found myself stranded outside the office door. I had to wait for my colleagues to come at 9am. 

I had thought that the weather was great. Funnily, I was told that Typhoon Jangmi was hitting Tokyo the next day and the Government had issued warning. While my agenda was F2F meeting with colleagues, nobody would be coming to the office the next day. It is ok, at least I have cool weather. 

Lunch was again grabbed from convenient store. But it was so good. 

The typhoon was supposed to arrive in the night. There was a light drizzle when I left the office at 7pm. It was so light that an umbrella wasn’t needed and I had a nice cooling walk to the hotel. I stayed in Mitsu Garden again and enjoyed my Donki night shopping. 

I wasn’t too hungry and got some instant food from the Family Mart. I thought it was chicken and pork. Yes, it was some kind of pork - pork tongue. Zzzzzz.. I didn’t manage to make myself eat those. 

Sleep was good bcos I was so tired. 

When I woke up, it was like there was a heavy drizzle, not typhoon. My colleague texted that I should stay in the hotel, the Government had just issued a warning. 

Bcos there was no need to get ready for the office, I had so much time in the morning for gym and bfast. 

The hotel has changed the bfast menu and it is better. 

It was raining for most of the day. At times, it was heavier but otherwise, it feels like a light rain for most part of the day. 

Singapore thunderstorms felt worse. This is typhoon? I think the Roppongi area was less impacted with all the tall buildings. 

I did experience the typhoon when I went downstairs to grab lunch. The rain was light but I got the “wind”. My lousy Singapore umbrella withstood the test of wind. Later in the afternoon, I saw trees dancing and purposely went downstairs. The wind wasn’t any stronger leh.

The rain let up at about 4.30pm and the sun came out. The typhoon has gone on its way to China. I “survived” a typhoon in Tokyo! 

For dinner, I finally tabaoed proper food instead of the Family Mart and had curry rice. Yum! 

Mummy Lim