stories from the land of the rising sun

[edit: i typed this out on tuesday morning. but pressed on save button instead of the publish button. so everything is slightly backdated in this one]

they’re here, they’re here, they’re here!!!!

miss hirota and justin are here! they called me monday morning and we met up. firs tday went well. lots and lots of walking. 1pm now, and chihiro is still sleeping. we’re the kinds that would wake up, do some stuff, go back to bed. hehe

today, we’ll head to the museum to check an exhibit out, to the good ol’ merlion park, a walk to the esplanade (depending on how we go for time). dinner will be at changi hawker for chilli and pepper crabs, sambal stingray (this is for steve irwin), maybe fried baby squids, a dish of vegetables. yummness!!

in other news, the boss is always right. no matter what, the boss is always right. 

i was saying the other time, that my boss mentioned that it would take about 2hrs to travel to tokyo while the girl there now mentioned it was 30mins. i mis-understood the girl. 30mins from the end of the tokyo line to where i was. i confirmed this with another friend who used to live in the next town from where i’ll be. he said two hours to central tokyo. i say that’s pretty good. not too far.

in other other news, the search for an apartment is now on! it all looks very nice, clean. in both apartments you can set the water temperature and level for the bath electronically! and for one of the apartments, the control is located just by the main door. so you can set it, do your other stuff, then shower, saving time. quite cool right?

but it seems the school i’m at is infamous for it’s stingyness. so as most rented apartments arrive empty, i’ll have to start sourcing for my whitegoods (fridge, stove, washing machine), basically, stuff to furnish the apartment. but we’ll see yeah? the girl i’ve been emailing seems really nice. looking for the apartment, contacting me, answering my questions, whilst my predecessor hasn’t even emailed me!