Physical pain never felt so great!

View from my desk -- Overlooking Osaka Business Park.. Always got helicopter flying around as the Osaka Castle is there as well (not in this pic). The castle is this horrendous green and white thingy..












My Company -- I am on the 15th floor, Crystal Tower.


The view from my workplace is gorgeous.. Just yesterday, there is this red dust thingy that according to Mike (an old staff), Osaka tends to have this yellow or red dust that occasionally gets blown over by the wind from don't know which desert... the sky was entirely red but I didn't have my camera with me then, so no pics.. :(

Will be expecting to work late next week onwards. My team leader stays til 11pm. And he expects us all to do the same. Sigh. Whoever says working life is fun??? Only the $$ bit is motivating me right now. I love the people in the company though.. Maybe that shall be my new motivation? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

Ok this is totally random, but thought I would share my wound on my heel with everyone. That, was caused by my shoes which did not contain my expanded feet in the heat properly.. Enjoy... I didn't know which medicine to buy coz they were in Japanese.. so I do the home-DIY style.. put salt.. Yes, my temporary threshold for pain is very high! It healed a bit. By the next day, the pain is totally gone. Viola!

Japan

My Green tea ice-kacang.. But I still prefer the Green Tea ice-cream from Minami, Dunedin though...

The gurls in Kobe -- Mabelle taking the pic.

China town in Kobe..

CCC New Zealand!!! Awwww I miss home!!

My Loft that I am suppose to sleep in. But I really cannot bring myself to sleep in there.. so claustrophobic...

The height is only 90 cm.. I can hardly sit up if I were to sleep in it.

Ladder climbing up to my Loft.

As you can see, I now sleep on the floor in my "spacious lounge"!

Arrived in Kansai, Osaka on Friday morning.. surprisingly the flight didn't seem long at all despite the 8 hours I have to wait in Singapore airport... perhaps I have lots of things on my mind....I still hear Mark's soft voice when he sang for me in the airport, and I still hear Ronald's guitar strumming, and I still hear Cheong's soft whisper of : "At least one of us is getting outta here.." when he hugged me goodbye...

The guy (Aaron Koh -- profile- born in Perak, Moved to Singapore, and migrated to Perth) that picked me up didn't hold the company's sign in the airport as he thinks he looks foolish doing so.. and because of that, I waited (didn't know how this Aaron dude looked like) and after waiting for about half hour, I finally rang the office and spoke to J.Tessensohn, our superior (the man that hires the foreign staff), JT then rang Aaron to confirm he is actually in the airport...and scolded Aaron as well... errr whoops.. Sorry Koh, didn't mean to get you into trouble..Thought it would be awkward silence all the way from the airport to my residence.. but no, we talked non-stopped which was good.

This Aaron dude compensate well by at least lugging my 25 kgs worth of luggage through the heat, onto commuters, and finally to my apartment whereby he fix my air-cond and TV as well upon checking in. He also spent me lunch... hmmm... I am beginning to think all the foreign staff are friendly in Japan based only on one dude...And he took me to places to shop for essentials. AND even gave his advice on which toilet paper to buy (those with "groove" so it feels better)... errr.. ok..

It's so hot here 36 degrees heat wave.... sweat like shite man!
Dinner was planned with most of the foreign staff, to welcome me and Laura (Scottish chick) at this place call 280 whereby all dishes are 280 Yen. Cheap! Food is so cheap and gorgeous here if you really know where to go... And it is a pleasure to get to know all these foreign colleagues. Mostly Canadian Asians (dual citizenship I think, from HK and Taiwan) and One Irish, and majority of Aussies though, and some Americans.

The next day, went to Kobe for a day trip with the female colleagues... 5 of us had a blast even though we hardly knew each other.. I think when every one is on foreign soil, everyone tend to look out for each other, and stick to each other... the gurls treated me and Laura well, and took us sightseeing.. :)

One of the Singaporean chick is called Mabelle... and the Irish dude is Mark.. hmmmm....According to Mabelle, her apartment was broken into when she first arrived 9 months ago, and the burglar stole her underwears and bras... scary....So after hearing her story, I leave my not-so-nice bras on chairs in my apartment, and safely stow my sexy ones away so if anyone breaks in, they will go for the ones they can see on the chair.. ahhahahaha

Oh, according to those foreign staff that has been here for about 2 years now, they hardly speak any Japanese and they can get by... I will tell more about my experience in shopping for groceries and my observation of Japanese people in my next post. :) What can I say? The shopping was eventful and the people are damn colourful. Haha. Tune on... I need sleep now..

Left on a jetplane. whee~

a) My parents.

b) Those that sent me off .. no, I didn't cry.

c) Bunch of islands near Indonesia I think.. I took it for you Mich, kept thinking of you when I saw them. Hahhaa. Love you babe!

d) NZ just as I leave..

Yay~ my video!

Its amazing how much love I can give to my friends especially my gurlfrens!!! muakss... been so long that we are far apart but I will never forget our schooling days, the best of all!

CLei -- partner in class
Pei -- erm.. I love that nose stud man! How new is that?
Put -- You look gorgeous in the video!
Farah D -- I still can't link anything else but boobs to you. Sorry, didn't mean to sound so shallow when I talk about you.
Pris -- The vagina walk production was funny... although I would prefer live shows from you?
Mich -- Can't hear much from that video snippet of yours....I just heard Wood, Cat and Sunny day in Bristol and of course, I heard that wet kiss.
Feli -- Miss you lar!

As for Seong, PY and Rafiq, huGss and know that you have a space in my small box-liked apartment in Japan.

Love to my darling who compiled the video. Yeah yeah, Pris, I know it is hard work for him to do that. Bweks~

Profs party at Jesses'

It was at Redcliffs.... Ronald and I picked up Julian, Jason and his wife Chong Lei before heading over.. as usual because it is a "law" gathering, the nibbles for the night would be wine and cheese, grapes, olives, sundried tomatoes.. but this time other than wine, we had White Russian, kudos to Hadley and also rum, kudos to Julian.

We talked non-stop about how we barely knew each other from the first day of Profs and how we blend into a nice little cosy group at the end of this training.

We bitched about the bad times, laughed about how we would never ever need to take another assessment in our lives etc.. good times good times people.... basically we de-briefed very well and by the end of the night, wine was spill on the cream carpet and yellow couch, people were drunk and talking non-sense, and at some part, there was some actions on breast-touching.. hmmm.

To start of with, Boss started touching Tim's and Julian's chests.. whoa.. turning on.. hehe. Here are the photos!

fare meself well...

And we all wonder why I am always late.. this time is not my fault.. sorry guys.. but seriously, my darling D cup friend was literally drunk when Ronald, Roderick and I went to pick her up. Partly because she just finished her legal training so she was drinking personally, and partly because the we (legal training people) had an "end of legal prof training party" as well.
Loads of apologies again for keeping people waiting!!

Other than that, Mabel's blog covers pretty much everything. Thanks for the gifts guys! Will try to make space in my luggage for them, or I will just hug them in the attempt to bring them over to Japan with me!

I will definitely miss this bunch of frens! Took me a while to find you all and get use to you all, but definitely worth keeping all of you...Muaks muaks!

Missing in action that night with valid reasons -- Denise and Ah Boo, Ben Yong, Deborah, Ellen and Justin.

The final of all assessment!

That's it, last day of Prof Legal Studies' assessments! Advocacy came and went. The trial lasted shorter than all the hours of preparation I've put in. Stressful, stressful morning!

To start off with, my trial is to start at 9am *ahem - as prosecution counsel... I am supposed to be at High Court 3 at 8.45am to meet my witnesses and to be let into the Court before the normal doors open at 9am. BUT: 8.20am, still at home putting make up on, then my left contact lense decide to drop on the floor then.... looked around for it, can't find it at 8.30am, I still can't find it so heck, put on my spare left eye contacts with the eye power that doesn't suit well. Jumped into the car and was just about to reach the city, when I realised I forgot to bring my Exhibit which is to be an item of evidence in my trial later (the Exhibit so happened to be dog meat which I left in the fridge at home). Rushed all the way home -- 8.45am-- morning traffic jam on both Fendalton rd and Riccarton rd.

OH my god, I will be late for my trial!! Judge won't be pleased...BUT, thankfully, I reached the courts 2 minutes to 9am, I kept pointing to my Prof Legal Studies' file to the guard inside so that he knows I am part of the Profs class and I have the privilege to go in before the doors open at 9... but he couldn't be bothered, kept shaking his head and indicated that the doors will open in 2 minutes time... FARK you!! I need to be in there!

Rang my witness (she is already in High Court 3 with everyone else waiting for me), and she got my instructor to come down to get me in.. by then, the public doors were already opened and the guard put me through the metal detector!! whoa.. more time wasted.. kept apologising to everyone when I finally got into HC3.

My instructor and the judge was nice enough to give me 5 minutes to compose myself.. which was greatly appreciated. Then the trial began! Yay~ I have to admit everything went well, my witnesses didn't forget anything at all to screw my case up and feedback was positive! Muakss... all the stress for nothing, hehe.

Fooling around in the judge's seat, Emily (my learned friend)pretending to be "witness"

Compilation

Bersatu Victory dinner came and went. Food was not too bad. My fav photo of that night:



Which reminds me, Ronald made me lunch the other day, with my help of clearing the kitchen beforehand, hehe.
Menu was:
Soft sesame buns holding fried pineapples, fried pears, bacon, runny eggs, lamb and mint sausages, mustard (tho not strong enough) honey lemon tea... fattening but gorgeous food.

Lunch



I love guys who can make good eggs. I know a few already although one can't love them all.

Quote of the day --
Was talking about facial - Someone said: "I won't pay $80 just for someone to wash my face!"