For those who think that I'm having fun here, well not really. I'm staying and working in the biz district of Tokyo, so there' really nothing much to do after work except going to dinner and drinks with the office people, so dun blame me if I did not manage to get you guys stuff from here.
The TV channels sux cuz almost 90% of them are in jap. Lucky thing is I still have free internet in my hotel room but it's not exactly easy using a jap keyboard, so its taking me much longer than wat I would have liked to blog this entry. so pardon me for the typos. So, some brief updates on my adventure so far...

Day 1
Off to the airport from home. It took me nearly 30min to get a cab on a bloody Sunday and when I finally got on one, the receipt issuing machine on the cab was spoilt and the cabby dun issue hand written ones, so I can't claim transport on that trip. Wat's worse, the idiot decided to drive off the moment I gof off the cab, with my luggage still in the boot! And I have to chase after the fucking cab and pound on the boot to make it stop. Wat a way to start the day huh?

The flight was ok, it was 7 hours long so I spent most of the time watching movies, ah the beauty of SQ flights. So I caught 'Evans Almighty' and 'License to Wed', pretty good shows and they bring me a little bit closer to the big guy above. Hahaha I'm not converting but I'm able to appreciate him a little better. Not sure why I had that feeling after watching 2 rather crappy shows... Is it enlightenment? You tell me... anyways...

After we landed, took a one hr journey to the hotel by coach. I heard that the cab fare here is ridiculous. The same journey by cab will set you back by abt US$300. Yup, I'm not kidding. So by the time we checked in, it was like 8pm so we just decided to dine in one of the hotel restuarants. We had French food, complete with entree, main course, desert, wine and cheese, all on company's tab. That's abt the only perk I have, eat and drink till I can eat and drink no more and its all paid for.

Well, the dinner lasted for like 2 and a half hrs though, and I'm having a rough time making conversations cuz well, my boss is a Brit and my other colleague is a black American, so half the time, I was trying to make out wat the hell they are talking about (the topics as well as their accent)... My command of the English language was ok but its another thing trying to filter thru their hometown topics and their accents. My boss worked in New York office before he got posted to Singapore and yeah so, the 2 were yakking most of the time. But it was not that bad, we did break the ice by the end of the dinner, got to know many interesting things about life as a broker, especially those in New York City.

Day 2
Which is today, went to Tokyo office which is like 2 train stations away, took us less than 15min to get there. The office here is more spacious cuz they dun really have many people there. Surprising, most of the jap counterparts here speak good English, better than me in fact, some of them either worked or studied in the US or Austrailia, so they acquired the accent.

So there, we went to work, and erm, I always thought my designation is Accounts Payable Manager but today, I realised my full designation is Accounts Payable Manager, Asia. And I'm supposed to oversee the operations in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Singapore... Bloody hell, I'm　underpaid. They better do some revision after my probation... TMD...

Again, nothing much interesting happened after work, except eating. We had tempura for lunch and shushi/ sashimi for dinner, with jap beer and sake. It was so much better than those in Singapore. So a few sake and beer later, I'm here blogging.

Think there's gonna be more eating and drinking after work, cuz the jap office people is planning a happy hour for us, its gonna be teppan yaki this time and more sake (I seriously dub really fancy sake), so I gotta make sure my cup dun reach that half cup mark (the japs have this bad habit of topping up your drinking cups/ glass to the brim whenever they reach that 50% mark)

One interesting thing I found out today. No one knows what GFI stands for, and some years ago, the big boss man actually offered a 10k reward for anyone who can get it rite. Some smart alec came up with 'Great Fucking Idea'. Its not the correct answer but he got the dough cuz the big boss like the sound of it. Till today, it is still a myth...