Relaxing Holiday

It was a 3 days weekend in Japan and I went back to my family's place.

Playing piano, going to gym and swimming, going to cinema, seeing my grand parents... Things that I used to do in my spare time, things that I like to do but haven't done for a while because I didn't have time.

Busy.... that is just an excuse.

The past few months, I have been putting most of my time for work (work until late and sometimes even weekends). But I realised I need my own time. I need time to be alone, do things that I like to do, and to study. Before, I used to study or learn something for myself (ex. new language, read business books, cooking, belly dance) but I forgot about that now.

Time is limited so you need to make time, not wait until you will have time.

I will start doing things that I used to do.

*above photos: my neighborhood

Mt. Fuji

View from an airplane.
I am planning to go up there this year!! I'm a little worried if I have enough strength to reach the top (I'm terrible in sports...) but hope the weather will be good and it will be a wonderful experience.

6 month past...

Wow, it's already end of June.
I can't believe how fast time past this year.

I've been travelling a lot (all of them for business) national and international, 2-3 places every month. I never got tired of going overseas but this year, I am... I realized visiting other places for business or holiday is definately different.

Anyway, until now, I dedicated most of the time for work. So many thing happened but I was enjoying and had such a fruitful time. Not just working as sales but I also involved in product planning. I actually planned and designed a product, went to the factory to check the mass production proceedure and launched this product in April.
I am also involved in one big project that will finish in early winter. This will probably be one of my biggest acheivement ever (for my company too), I can't wait to finish!

Well, hope I can enjoy a lot, work hard and be happy rest of this year.
Everything depend on me, right?

Interesting photo

It's quite scary to see so many legs in jeans...

Happy 2010!!

Tokyo night lights. (view from Roppongi Mori Tower)

Icho Namiki

Autumn trees in Tokyo (@Gaien Jingu). It was so beautiful.

My recent appetite...

Seasonal Japanese dishes.
You can eat all of them, leaf shaped carrot, rice wheat shaped popcorn... it's art.

Wine I bought in Paris 5 years ago. It tasted fantastic.

French in Kyoto style.

Bouchon in Lyon

It was true that Lyon is one of the best city to eat.
You can eat inexpensive with high quality dishes.
One bouchon we went turned out to be one of the best, we met some local people who came to bring their friends from Paris, a restaurant owner in different area of Lyon and they said it is one of the best places to dine.

We had a dinner set with appetizer, main dish and dessert for 12 euro and it was the quality of Michelin star restaurant.
I would definately come back to the same restaurant! @Atelier d'Yvonne

Lyon, France

Berlin Marathon 2009

For my holiday, went to see Berlin Marathon.
Running is one of the sport I hate the most, however, seeing this marathon made me want to run a little. (well, very little though...)
At the end of the marathon around 35-40km, people seem to be really tired, make them think to stop and quit at anytime. However, most of the people do not stop. Why is that? Why do people run even though they are really tired and cannot move even 1 step??
One answered "There's only 2 choices for marathon, either proceed or stop. You can stop anytime, but if you stop it's the end. Therefore, I proceed until I have no choice to stop."

I saw lots of people from Denmark and Swiss. Are there many marathon runners? Very few Asians, btw.

I really respect all the people who finished to goal 42.195km, no matter how fast nor if they walked. Achieving is the most important thing any not many people can do that till the end.

I didn't get to do much sightseeing, but got a chance to see Berlin Cathedral. It was amazing! One of the biggest and most powerful Cathedral I've ever seen. Too bad we couldn't get to go inside due to the Sunday misa.

Berlin was a little different from what I imagined, modern and clean city than I thought. Since Berlin is one of the city that was destroyed in WWⅡ, I was expecting more of Middle Ages, European style. My impression was mixture of US and Europe. People were... not so nice.. :(When I asked for direction or something, people either said no or answered with unfrindly face.)