We went to Red Pepper today. To celebrate Mina-sensei on her 15th birthday (though her birthday is tomorrow and maybe she is just a bit older than 15 ;-)). Tomo-san joined as well. We had a good time eating and talking. And then we had a delicious desert.
I rushed home after work today to meet Chie. We were going to Yasaka for dinner. On our way there we had a look at the Meguro river and Chie’s and my lamps. Some of the cherry trees have already started to blossom.
The whole day today Chie and I have been talking about shooting Osaka people (with our fingers). Just to see if they really are as in the YouTube video.
After going to Ginza to say hello to a friend who ad volunteered for Tokyo Marathon we went back to Naka-Meguro to have dinner at Yasaka.
It turned out that one of the people working at Yasaka was from Osaka. So Chie shot him and stabbed him with an imaginary sword. And he died. Both from a gunshot and from the sword. While working 😀
Another story about people from Osaka was actually on CNN the other day. 24 years ago Hanshin Tigers, a baseball team from Osaka, won the Japanese championship. Osaka people got so happy they threw the statue of Kentucky Fried Chicken founder, Colonel Sanders, in a river in Osaka.
Not a particular exciting event maybe… But since then Hanshin Tigers have not won a championship. And Osaka people believes it is because of the statue. So since then they have been searching in the river to find the statue. And this year they found it. That’s why this story was on the Japanese news the other day, even CNN broadcasted the story. And Osaka people truly believes that this year they will win the baseball championship because they restored the statue.
Osaka people are different. Different from Tokyo people. Different from… Well most people. This video confirms it.
I was in meetings for almost 6 hours today. The last meeting was for a 3 and a half hour. And I was the note taker. My boss had asked me to take notes and to make a draft Minutes of Meeting (MoM) before I left. The meeting ended at 5 pm so I was stuck at the office until 9 pm. And today was the last day of the work week too since tomorrow is a national holiday.
Once I finalized the MoM and sent it to my boss I took a taxi back home and met Chie at Yasaka. She had already finished dinner but we could still enjoy the time together.
Tonight was a somewhat special night for us. Soon it is sakura (cherry blossom) season in Japan. In Naka-Meguro the hang lamps along the river to celebrate this. And Chie and I have 2 lamps 🙂
After ordering the first round of kushi-yaki, Chie and I went to watch our lamps 😀
