Birthday in Tokyo

It's been a long time since i had spare minutes to update the blog. Working in Tokyo was really stressful. Not only do you have to walk their speed (twice as fast as even the fastest singaporeans), the things are also really expensive. Instant noodles with a couple of slices of char siew costs USD10??

The first weekend was spent in Kyoto. My hosts were really nice (in fact, too hospitable) and Mrs Wada put me up in her house, which is some traditional place right next to the temple that she takes care of. Her son drove us around, while Hidetoshi acted as my translator. Kyoto is really a beautiful place.

Oh, i had to spend my birthday in tokyo. Unfortunately, i worked till almost 10pm that night, leaving only a couple of hours for celebration. Nevertheless, leng bought 6 mini-cakes and combined them into a "single" cake for me. Quite sweet of her. :)

After waitlisting for every single flight from tokyo back to singapore, i finally flew back on Saturday morning, arriving just in time to go for elias class. Spent the entire sunday at NTC attending the poomsae course. Phew, i think i passed both the theory n practical tests (and probably everyone else too). My family celebrated my birthday for me after my course so we went for dinner at miramar. Gotta go back to office tomorrow morning to settle all my outstanding stuffs. So much work to do!! Then i'll have to cut my hair in the evening. That's about all the time i have before flying off to brisbane on tuesday morning. ARGH!!! Damn stress lor!!