Last minute notice to Dubai

In the first place, agak cuak to get few emails, sms and calls from Dubai office and my boss while I was on my leave last school / christmas hols. And more, while I was enjoying my precious time with family back in my hometown. Definitely office work would be the last thing that I want to think of, sigh... The original schedule was a few days trip to Dubai & Iraq and I'll be in KL before new year. It turned out that my stay there was postponed till the following week. So I miss the long weekend in KL. However, spent weekend in Dubai = shopping 'kain' ;) What a therapy :))

Antara kedai2 kain di Dubai.

Dan agak rambang mata...

End up, I've to get another slightly bigger luggage than what I brought (that small red luggage). Hmm, pergi Uzbek beli bag, pergi UK beli bag, I need to carry larger luggage or extra luggage even I've been told for a 3-5 days trip, just in case!

Sayonara...

Can't wait to go home... boring tul outstn lama2, away from the family. Unfortunately sampai KL esok malam, next morning travel balik ke Kerteh... penat weh... nasib baik lepas tu cuti tahun baru cina...

Smlm sempat ke takashimaya selepas habis kerja, well kali terakhir sebelum balik KL psl mlm ni ada dinner. Kalau tak mau panjang langkah lagi... Kalau ikutkan byk yg menarik utk dibeli tapi mahal ya ampun... After takashimaya closed at 8pm, we moved to Isetan queen which closed later at 9pm. Lepas tu baru la sibuk cari kedai makan tempat kitaorg mkn smlm since dah tau sedap & depa masak seafood... Pusing2 tersesat la plak, besar sangat Yokohama station ni... Rasa mcm nak patah kaki menapak... by the time sampai kedai tu, dorang dah letak sign 'order closed'. Even the restaurant normally close at 11pm but by 10pm dah tak bole order... Shopping punya pasal... Malas nak cari tempat lain, we decided to eat at the hotel restaurant jek... slightly expensive but claimable. We ordered grilled salmon set & the food was good. Nasib baik still ambil order...

Today is the last day... This evening, chiyoda arranged farewell dinner at a well known traditional japanese restaurant. Layan jer lah...

Nak mengemas baju la plak... as early as 6.30am dah kena check out. Domo...

View from my 25th level room.

Ni gambar first day sampai...ahad mlm sempat tengok AJL life lagi, hehehe...

Dinner with Chiyoda & Lion. Dlm gambar, PM from client side, me & Norul, yg lain tu Japenese. Our PM dok ujung tak nampak. Nasib baik dok jauh dari pm, sebok discuss business, penat la wei... Yg duduk meja sebelah kitaorg siap buat lawak bodoh lagi...

Pakcik ni tgh asah wasabi dari sejenis tumbuhan, mcm lobak hijau gitu...

Antara ikan2 mentah yg dihidang (shashimi, entah la eja camner)


Sempat lagi amik gambar sebelum makan walaupun kebulur....

Ni la dia godaan kat sini...

Antara barang yg dibeli di Takasyimaya... I'm impressed with the salegirls here, layanan tip top. Dorang mmg cekap, bungkus barang kemas & cepat, bukan bercinta kena tunggu... Ada antara barang yg dibeli masa kedai dah announce nak tutup (dah 8pm), dorang still layan, tunjukkan barang2 yg kita nak tengok walau kena cari unlock/ lock drawer... Bila dah beli, dorang wrap kemas2 tp sepantas kilat... Lepas tu tolong bawa brg to lift, selagi pintu lift tak bukak, selagi tu dorang pegang barang kita tunggu sesama. Then bila kita masuk lift dorang siap bow ucap arigato... Kalau kat KL mesti kena jeling, kedai dah tutup la :P

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

A must place for ladies...

The Eng. group flew back to KL on Sat. morning but the 3 of us, Joe, Lida & I extended our stay and booked flight back to KL on Sun. On Sat. we took shinkansen together with Rizal our resident engineer, to the factoty outlet in Sano... so sempatla jamu2 mata. Now back in KL, my boss dah mintak outstation report... nak report yg mana satu ya, Sano, Ginza, Roponggi, Tokyo tower, Akihabara, Akasuka, Ueno ker which report ni? Klu report psl tu laju la sket, ahaks...

Malas nyer nak buat kerja, too many different tasks to sort out... Dgn project PML Revamp yg kejap2 call mcm talian hayat, dgn this Imperial project, all COP, PRISCOP, IPA, meetings, engagement sessions and what not...malas nak komplen lelebih... Apa2 pun puas hati ke Sano...

Sano Premium Outlet is quite similar to the Bicester Village outlet in UK. Sempat la rembat seketul dua barang2 kat situ, biasala pompuan hehehe...

The most popular store kat situ, penuh jer orang...