Tokyo life starts

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:08:37 +0200

My last entry is 768 days old.. Well I've been Quite busy.

I got married in Hawaii (Nov 2006), went back there on holiday (Oct 2007), moved from Osaka to Tokyo (March this year), started a new job (April) and so on.

Before I moved, I was half looking forward to living and working in Tokyo. I would come up here on a business trip, feeling all the buzz and excitement in town, wondering it would be so exciting to live here. The other half of me was dreading the commuting nightmare, prices, living away from parents and friends.

It's been 4 months since I moved and I've pretty much settled down now.

Osaka is the second largest city in Japan but still I was a bit baffled by the sheer number of people in Tokyo at first. I had heard about it but it's different when you are actually standing in the middle of the craziness in Shibuya. Honestly I don't know where all the people turn up from. I'd be walking across the station wondering " Is there a fireworks event or something going on?" EVERYDAY.

But before I knew, I was used to it. It's like you've been building up the nerve not to be intimidated by the crowd to realize one day it doesn't bother you anymore. At that point, you are part of it, I guess.

After that I no longer felt like an outsider and started to enjoy my life in Tokyo. After all there are so much to experience here!

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Right. First day! (hello)

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:36:05 +0200

I've been contemplating to start a blog here for some time now. I'm a 3 month old blogger on a Japanese blogsite. Which is good, but the thing is.. quite a few people in my office read my blog now (including people in my team, my boss's mate, my BF's boss) so it can be a bit tricky sometimes, you see..

Like last Friday. Fatboy Slim all night live in Osaka Japan (where I live). I had been so looking forward to it but managed to catch a sticky cold about 9 days before. Naturally I was quite desperate to get over it before Friday. Work was mad busy in May (end of fiscal year), but I took 2.5 sick days during the 6 working days Before Friday AND one more on Friday itself, to make sure I'd be all right. (Never been so bloody serious about sorting my cold out!)

Blog-wise, I'm caught in a dilemma. I want to talk about it but obviously not keen to tell everyone at work that my 3.5 sick days in total in the midst of the busiest time of the year was for an all nighter..

The other thing is, I tend to write at work. (ok, I have Only Ever written at work) So I'm not a big fan of the time stamp given to each post for people in the office to know what's really going on between me and my laptop. I'm supposed to be "busy" . he he

Also I'd want to bitch about the office bitch or talk about my love life sometimes.. (my BF is in the same office)

Does anyone have these problems?? It can't be only me, right?

And of course it would be lovely to make cyber friends over here!

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blogging it girl!

Tokyo life starts

Right. First day! (hello)