Jalan-jalan cari makan

Tempting seafood plater

Satoi san, very the shy gitu...

Ala2 ikut gaya Satoi, peace...

Jumpa kedai makan yg sedap.

Jenuh explain kat waitress that we don't want any kind of meat and alcohol for our meal.

Tarra... our dinner.

Yesterday's agenda was to review partners documents & Yoshihara san seems to deviate our focus a bit by offering to bring us shopping and sight seeing right after lunch. PM was in another meeting in Tokyo & that explained why. He sent his lady officer, Satoi san to our room at 2pm to bring us around. I politely set a later time at 4pm. 2pm was too early kang tak siap kerja plak... At quarter past four, off we went to Sogo. The Sogo dept store is actually bigger (10 levels) and more exclusive than Sogo in KL. Afterthat we had dinner at the Yokohama Bay Quater where we opted for seafood. The food was good and so were the price... anyway it was on chiyoda.

As for today, the weather is nice with wonderful bright sunshine and not as cold as last few days. For lunch, we had sushi & tempura. Chiyoda brought us to the Japanese restaurant near Tsurumi station which is just a few minutes walk from the office.

This evening, we had to search for the dinner ourselves... We were talking to FW guys about food before. There are 3 of them which I only know Darren whereas Norul know them all as she had OJ training in their dept. Darren & I were involved in a basic design project way back in 2004 in Reading. What a small world, meet each other again here in Yokohama and their room is just next to ours. Well Darren is actually moving one step forward in his career as he's currently hold a Chief position in his dept. He'll be stuck in Yokohama with another colleague till Mar, wow... not for me. He was complaining about the cold weather too which according to him even here is colder than London...

Besides of discussion of general stuffs about Yokohama, we were informed by FW of a cheaper way to upgrade our software system. For that we can engage this American guy instead of buying another one. My dept is currently sharing one software in KL & I think that'll be a really good option. As informed, it's not just cheaper but what good about it that it can be customised to our needs, either import & export via excell and in overall it'll be more user friendly.

So our jalan2 cari makan this evening was actually within the Yokohama station right after visiting takashimaya. It was closed at 8pm & 1 hr window shopping was not enuf... hehehee... Well, we planned to go there again sometimes before leaving on Sat.

Winter in Yokohama

Alliance concept commercial review brought me here to Yokohama which I travelled together with my junior colleague on Sunday morning (sacrifice one day of my weekend). My 5th trip to Japan but this is my first time in Yokohama . It's cold here, the temp range of 0 - 5 deg C. As to avoid freezing, I put on several layers of clothes... inc. wool jumper ... so bulky. I was hoping that I won't hv to come here this time but it was not agreed by pm. However, I'm considered lucky to be able to escape from the dept away day... I tot I'm the only who think that way but surprisingly both my junior & pm also have the same tot... haahaha... Looking at the away day agenda, we can predict it'll be soooo boring. Away day @ to work... It's better coming here to work & shop ... hehehe. Before coming here, I kept reminding myself for not buying stuffs as every time I travel to Japan, the pulus also travel gitu... But blame it on hotel I'm staying now which is just next to takasyimaya and 10 mins walk to another shopping malls. As helpless as ever, after office hour this evening my colleague and I went to takasyimaya to window shop but ended with shopping. Next we moved to Minato Mirai to take pics of the nite view with the Ferris wheel background. Unplanned we came across the hard rock cafe... ended up with buying stuffs... Shopping is sort of a mind therapy to us, esp. after our so called hard work. Well, it makes me feel so good until I see my credit card statement ... :P

Ferris wheel in Minato Mirai

Yokohama hard rock cafe

In front of Yokohama landmark tower

My KL colleague, not japanese

Pejam celik pejam celik...

~Nov 2007~

Akid's 'graduation' day

Happy birthday mama (2 Nov 07)

Cepatnya masa berlalu, tup tap tup tap, we're already in 2008. A lot of things happen either personally or within our surroundings.

This year, Akid goes to a standard one class in a new 'real' school, bye-bye kindergarten. This year too, we're settling down in another place, a new housing area, Prima Saujana. Well sayonara Alam Damai... It had been a lovely place for us, with lots of memories both happy and not so happy moments in our life. We moved in Alam Damai in 2001, I can still remember in 1999 hubby and I travelled all the way from Kuantan (driving), early in the morning to the Alam Damai sales office and returned to Ktn on the same day. At that time we were still young & energetic and we used to travel domestically by car a lot...

Last fasting month, Akid managed to fast for about 15 days. He was just six and he loves food, so fasting was so challenging for him. The first few days of fasting was really a challenge to him even to wait till zuhur, mcm nak mati lah bg dia. After half of the mth, he got his own courage to complete a full day fasting after he promised to fast if I bought him the 'monsters' from Japan:) Yes he really did what he promised.... very impressive... Ragam bebudak masa puasa tak yah citer...mcm2, dgn merengek, melepek, kejap2 bukak peti sejuk, cium food dlm peti... layan jer lah just that kena selalu monitor...

Last year, the public shock of heartless killing of Nurin Jazlin was not yet over but again early 2008, we were stunned by the missing of a little innocent girl, Sharlinie. I remember, it was so sad reading the news about the cruel death of Nurin Jazlin on the flight from Narita to KL last September. As for Sharlinie, hopefully and I pray to Allah she'll be safely returned / found.... I can't imagine if I'm in her mother's shoe....

Again last month, I travelled to Tokyo for the submission of BDP pkg. The Project Manager was away for Hajj, so Lida, Rizal and I were representing on behalf of GTS. It was fun going there without the PM, hehehe. Lida & I went there earlier on Sat nite so that we had some time in preparing ourselves for a meeting on Sun. Approaching winter, the weather there was cold...

~December 2007~

Mount Fuji near Gotemba Factory outlet... too bad tak nampak sgt, dilitupi awan.

Hanya kitaorg jer yg tau, frust tul tak dpt amik gambar ms clear pg tu, sebok nak shopping dulu...

Ginza street before Christmas day, ramai tul manusia...

Siap tutup jalan tuk org ramai bershopping...

Lovely scenery during fall season

@ Imperial garden

Imperial castle