Yes.. i am the conspicuous type. I have seen the google monster video on youtube, and i'm never that giving away personal information to any of the web based companies...
that is the main reason why i haven't played farmville by the way! everytime i want to do something in facebook, it requests access to my email account and i stop... no further...
so... i was browsing around google, i just recently discovered google reader (i know i'm outdated) and i just recently made a gmail account (i know... i know.. i'm outdated)
so, then just before finishing... google gave me one of those pages
"you've almost finished creating your account... blah blah blah.... verification needed... blah blah blah... select option of verification... blah blah blah..."
and the only option was by SMS !!
bloody 'ell!!! so now google has linked my mobile number with my online persona! great!!!
sure enough, i reluctantly went through with it, and in 2 seconds i got the verification sms...
seriously! bloody 'ell !!
*side note* i keep saying bloody ell because i just finished watching the english comedy series AN IDIOT ABROAD and the main character just keeps saying that phrase...
looool i think, very very soon, once a child is born, they will get a birth certificate, an ID of some sort, and a gmail account on the spot... bloody 'ell!
anyway... HEY GOOGLE!!! YOU LISTENIN'? You have my number! but I have YOURS as well!!! and i know you're in England somewhere! so don't you go do any funny stuff you hear? I can just as easily locate you by using google earth (nope... that won't do)
So i forcefully woke my self up at 10 :/ i guess i was very tired.
I was craving for Mister Donuts. So i went to a mr.donuts but a different concept, its called andonand. weird name. Anyway, i thought it would have the same items as the normal one but it turned out not to be so. I went back to the hotel, met my friends for the last time (i'll miss them) and then checked out.
I ate mister donuts, and sure enough, felt guilty, so i walked like 5 km around the city. I decided to go early to the airport and visit the closest station Rinku-Town which has a premium outlets mall and used that chance to have my last Bagel and Bagel :D and my last starbucks Matcha Tea Latte.
lol its really an irritating name... and it doesn't have a Japanese meaning either... so who's running the marketing department? Mr. An Donand ? :P
Thats more like it
oooooo... tasty... i can feel the carbohydrates sugars converting into fat as i write
if i stayed one or two more days i'll probably witness more of the greenery change to orange... it would have been a beautiful site to witness
Rinku town
Shrimp... mmmmmm....
lol well, when i said my last chance for bagel and bagel... i didn't include these :D lol
this IS my last chance matcha tea latte... lol i didn't buy a 2 liter bottle for the road
Because i had to sign a non disclosure agreement for today's meeting. Today's post has to be very vague. :s
so, lets start from the beginning, or the end, who knows? ;)
I woke up... or did i? i cannot disclose this information.
Then, maybe, i went to the train station and met Mr. T. And we had something that might be called o-bento on the train.... but i cannot disclose that information :P
In the factory, that produces "?", we had to change clothes to keep hygiene at 100%. We all had to change together but i got a bit hesitant because we had to take all our clothes off except underwear... and the one day i was wearing a very funky and embarrassing color underwear this happens :( so i ended up changing alone in a different room...
I finished late and we went to Mr. T's house and had dinner with his family.
Breakfast was at (take a guess) bagel & bagel, there was once close to our hotel in Tokyo. :)
We tried one that is only available in Tokyo. It was too sweet for my taste though.
Then we went to an Art Gallery. One word = WEIRD. But creative.
Lunch with Mr. I. which was delicious pizza. Aaaahhh i ate too much and out of guilt i haven't eaten since. But now i'm hungry :s
Oh, i bought the nike running chip, so i'm glad my running will once again be recorded.
When i arrive in Osaka, and in the subway train towards my station, i saw a girl and her smaller brother who has autism. It was barely noticeable but i could spot it from their interactions. She couldn't have been older than 20. The way she was taking care of him... Really, there is no limits to humanly love, kindness and generousness. It was more moving than the art gallery from this morning.
would i accept a rhino's face for a body like that? hmmmm touch choice :s lol well actually the rhino's face might be a step to the better compared with my current face :/ so, YES
one shawarma and one falafel with extra hammus Strange, that not so long ago, a children's tv show shows a boy and his rabbit pal smoking lol The art has a very nostalgic feeling to it
I think it is happening! :) Yes! I shouldn't jinx it but today's meeting was very positive. The people we met were nice and kind and knowledgeable and honest. All that you need for a good partnership to last and be successful.
We went to their flagship store, beautiful. It was really a nice store.
After that i met a formal colleague and had dinner with him.
aaaaahhhhhh... Its such a nice feeling for a 2 year old project that wasn't going anywhere to finally see the light.
We didn't but if we dined on the terrace, that would have been amazing.
We stopped before that at a starbucks and had our fill of morning waker-upper.
The expo was veeeeeery nice. We were met by the our contact and her boss, the Vice President of the company! I didn't expect that at all. We got the tour around the expo. I got lots of ideas as well...
also, what was especially interesting about the expo, my favorite nugget, is that Lupicia has over 50 stores nation wide and USA (SF and Hawaii), each store or area has a unique type of tea that they sell ONLY at that place. You wouldn't be able to buy it at any other place even if it was lupicia store. So... at the expo they had all of those flavors available for sale. :)
After that we went back to the hotel. I bought another football jersey. I have already many Japan football team jerseys. This time i got GAMBA OSAKA :) which also is sponsored by Panasonic... so its a double wammie for me... Osaka and Panasonic.
Oh by the way, i forgot to mention that i bought a wallet yesterday. i am very happy about it... i was sad in Ramadan when i lost my wallet, i really liked that one but i'm also happy with this new one :)
Since we're talking purchases... the shoes... Berluti... unbelievable! They are sooooo beautiful and comfortable and expenses!!! hehehe so i am very hesitant to buy them. Also, the main reason i wanted to buy a new formal shoes is to wear with Dishdasha and Suits (even though i have a black suit now, i want to wear brown shoes with it). The one i liked most was a bit on the funky side with its coloring, its reddish brownish greenish kinda :/ It looked great with the jeans and i'm sure with the dishdasha but maybe not a formal black suit. Hmmm i always thought my next suit purchase would be light gray, but maybe with a brown shoes, i'd better think dark blue... anyway, i postponed this decision, since its a decision that would remove lots of money's from my new wallet :/
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anyway... to TOKYO!
first, we were welcomed by COLD RAIN...
In Tokyo, K. San introduced me to her friend, he is very nice and a very light hearted man. I really enjoyed my time with them.
Now i need to sleep, tomorrow we have to do market survey.
neat huh?
Of course, what's a trip on the shinkansen without umeboshi onigiri
I have found my next car, the Nissan LEAF. 0% Emission. Of course, i hope the day i'll give out 0% emission doesn't come soon :P
Nothing beats a sweet soft Chestnut filled Daifuku.
This was dinner... lol i put the blackberry just for size comparison... And i ordered the kids portion (there was no kids portion, this isn't mcdonalds) But even the wooden spoon was humongous!
You know that story? Jack and the beanstalk? When jack goes up into the skies and into the giant's home, and he sees all the giants furniture and utensils? Well i felt like that... i felt any minute now a giant will walk in screaming "FE FI FO FUM!"
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I felt that the subway trains were crowded here in Tokyo, but after seeing this video clip, i thanked God a gazillion times I wasn't in that place :/
anyway... HEY GOOGLE!!! YOU LISTENIN'? You have my number! but I have YOURS as well!!! and i know you're in England somewhere! so don't you go do any funny stuff you hear? I can just as easily locate you by using google earth (nope... that won't do)
lol its really an irritating name... and it doesn't have a Japanese meaning either... so who's running the marketing department? Mr. An Donand ? :P
Thats more like it
if i stayed one or two more days i'll probably witness more of the greenery change to orange... it would have been a beautiful site to witness
Rinku town
Shrimp... mmmmmm....
lol well, when i said my last chance for bagel and bagel... i didn't include these :D lol
this IS my last chance matcha tea latte... lol i didn't buy a 2 liter bottle for the road
would i accept a rhino's face for a body like that? hmmmm touch choice :s lol well actually the rhino's face might be a step to the better compared with my current face :/ so, YES
i'm hungry :s
We didn't but if we dined on the terrace, that would have been amazing.
look at the feet
:s
Gundam Cafe, the robot in Best store. Has a cafe. Neat.
a nice statue at rippongi hills and behind is Tokyo Tower
Shibuya... there, the starbucks is supposedly is busiest starbucks in the world with the fastest service.
Nothing beats a sweet soft Chestnut filled Daifuku.
This was dinner... lol i put the blackberry just for size comparison... And i ordered the kids portion (there was no kids portion, this isn't mcdonalds) But even the wooden spoon was humongous!
the chocolate one was better
this is not a fish eye photo, the road is actually bent like that
i like this photo.. nice huh?
and of course, how can i end the day without bagel & bagel? :D
