Day 45 to 51

Monday is another normal day at the office. After work, went for basketball with the pple in nokia. The court was being booked weeks ago, but sue to many reasons, the response was really poor. Only 4 pple, including me, went. Reached there, had shoot-around for 1.5 hours. That was the most boring 1.5 hours i ever had man. Come on, playing a sport that I dun particularly liked with 3 other pple that i dunno well. Finally, we were so bored that we decided to ask the pple in the next court whether they wanna play together. And yes, we played a 5 v 5 full-court with them which was quite interesting.

Tuesday nothing much happen. Wednesday is the FYP list being released. Check the list of projects available, all seems quite boring like that. Nothing much happening.

Thursday went to the gym at 3rd floor of the office building. As nokia employee, you become member of that gym by some corporate plan. that gym is supposed to be very high class, with monthly membership fee around S$150 at least and another 1000+yen per entrance. So ya, went there with a sg colleague and did some workout. The good thing about the gym there is that there is a meter in front of every machine indication the speed and range that u shld be lifting the weights. ya, lifting at the right speed and range make you exceptionally tired and ache. Oh, the running and cycling machines all have a tv attached, so u can watch it when exercising.

Friday after work went to Shinjuku to walk around again. Ate this rice wrapped in egg and gyoza set. Whenever i was in shinjuku, I can hear a lot of HK pple speaking cantonese there. seems like a lot of hk pple like to tour japan. Then when i was eating the gyoza and rice set in this eating place, there were this family of hk pple came in. They sat down and look at the menu. Then the mother said smth like this "tt jap young man's gyoza like not bad." Feel like turning around and tell them I same birthplace as them one... Sianzz... Anyway the dinner is quite nice.

Saturday morning met a sg colleague, lee, and the taiwan supplier to go to Tsukiji Fish MArket together. We met at 9am which is pretty late, so cannot see any interesting action and pple preparing and processing fish in the market. Anyway, this is the famous Tsukiji Fish Market that handled 2000tonnes of seafood daily...

The plant used to make wasabi.
One of the guy processing the head of a Tuna. Tuna is huge.
This is the liver of dunno wat fish.
General view of Tsukiji Market. There are many many lanes like these.
This is some fish sperm, look like liver right? who would eat that....

anyway inside the market, it's damn busy. Folk-lift, trailers, cart, wateva... all sort of mini motor vehicles are driving thru those small lanes to transport the seafood. Tourists like us really very hard to walk around, like blocking and interfering with their job like that. No wonder they banned tourists from visiting the Tuna Auction... sian...

Anyway walked a round inside the market and then went to one of the many sushi stores just outside to have sushi... This is the set that I ordered. YAY

After the meal, it's still only 11am and damn early, so decided to go to Odaiba together. This odaiba is a reclaimed island. Got quite a few attractions there, but mainly shopping places. This is me and lee at Odaiba.
Me inside some shop trying some funny specs.
There are a lot of museums and shops showcasing their newest technology. There is this sony gallery with all their latest released and conceptual ideas. no photo allowed. There is also this very big Toyota showroom where you can do a lot of things inside. THey have this theatre to simulate actual racing condition, and several other games based on driving. A photo with a toyota concept car.
A random photo of Fuji TV station. Didn't manage to see Kimura Takuya there. haha.
Anyway japan really like to copy everything man. This is the statue of liberty in Odaiba.
After that, we spent quite some time in Toysrus. There are a lot of amazing toys that singapore doesn't have. But what is more interesting about the TOyrus trip is that i can see a lot of cute japanese kids around. so funny. They are damn short and chubby. Have some snack in the afternoon.

Me eating ice-cream.
Went to this place to have fries also. The hot dog angle very weird right, make the hot dog look like something else....
Anyway, Odaiba is quite interesting. Stayed there all the way till dinner time and we had this western buffet for dinner. The scenes from the restaurant is very nice. As Odaiba is a reclaimed island off Tokyo, it's connected by this suspension bridge called "Rainbow bridge". The night scene from Odaiba.

And when the sky is even darker.
Just when we finished our meal and about to leave at around 10pm, say this wedding nearby. Just snapped a pic cos the bride seems quite chio. too bad cant see clearly in the photo.
Had a fun saturday, so sunday is normal. Went church, go home do household chores and rest and so on... Tonight is the Euro 2008 final, let's hope for a good match man.