Cool Or What

So it’s Monday the day after the Party or to be precise it was a few days ago and Monday means a work day. Can’t moan really as we’re only working five days a week right now, give it a while though an I’m sure we’ll be doing more.
Anyway off to site we all go and this time we have Leo in toe, like I say I’m not going to mention that much about work because as we all know it is a four letter word after all.
Just wanted to set the scene, taking Leo around site with one of the Japanese site managers “Abe San”, San means Mr in Japanese.
Check out the photo, do we look cool or what, probably or what you’re all thinking, must be the chin straps on the hard hats. You have to wear a chin strap on your hard hat in Japan, got to be safe you know it might fall off.
So that was the site tour over with, actually we had quite a bit planned for the rest of the week as we were going back to some where near Tokyo for some meeting and to inspect some material.
Fast forward a couple of day and we’re in Tokyo and it’s Tuesday the 26th, caught the Shinkansen again getting a bit of an expert on the trains here, never been on so many in such a short period of time. On that note it must be twenty years if not more since I was on one in the UK think they were still run by British rail at that time, if they’d been as good and punctual as the ones here I’m sure I’d still be using them, actually I’m not sure that i would but it sounds quite good.
Check out the photos the sign caught my eye, never been to a Psycho market before, wonder what they sell there, the other one is of the four most famous character figures in Japan snapped this in the station, don’t ask what they’re call I was just told by one of the Japanese guys with us that they were famous.
Enough of this drivel, got the meetings over and we’re on our way back to Utsunomiya, Leos going back on Wednesday so he’s staying in a hotel at the airport so we left him in Tokyo, we have another guy coming over this weekend though, just to keep the numbers up, actually we’ve got more meetings
Oh one other quite funny thing did happen earlier on this week, we all went out for lunch at an Italian restaurant, that dinner to you and me.
Have been there before but a Leo was Italian though we would go again as it was quite nice. Good job they had pictures or we would have been up the creek with out a paddle so to speak last time we had a Japanese person with us.
Ordered the main meal everything went well than it came time to order deserts, which by the way all looked really good. Leo is asking what they all were he went through them all from start to finish, there were nine of them. Like I say they all looked really good, I’d noticed while he was asking what they were the waiter was fiddling with his hand held electronic thingy and some time it bleeped a bit, this is Japan you don’t need to write any thing down the orders go straight to the kitchen from the hand held.
It dawned on me that maybe when one was pointed out and asked about the guy took it that we wanted it, no problem we told him we only wanted three and picked one each.
To cut a long story short when the deserts came, guess what we each had a plate with three on, thanks Leo, but they were really nice and it was to late then so we all tucked in so it was back to the gym for me that night.
Just remember when in a restaurant in Japan don’t point at everything if it looks good, or you could get more than you bargained for.
Am running out of things to write about at the moment as have not really do much exciting, oh have been looking for an apartment though. I’m getting close to choosing one. Actually the one I wanted has gone and I’ve seen quite a few now and I’m getting fed up with looking, so am probably going to pick the best of the rest, will keep you posted on developments so Tarar for now.