Monthly Archives: June 2011

Driving License Renewal

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I spent 3 hours renewing my driving license today. 1 hour walking in a production line fashion to different stations where I did different things like checking my eye sight and got a stamp on my application paper. Then 2 hours in a renewal lesson in Japanese where an old guy was talking in details about how many have died in different situation and other things.

A summary of the 2 hours lesson… Wear your seat belt, don’t DUI, don’t speed and don’t run a red light. There were some more things involving street corners and cars that magnetically got stuck on the blackboard where the old guy drove them around to show what he meant.



At one time a gir fell asleep. But was quickly woken up by the old guy tapping her desk and telling her to listen up. After that she hung her head from time to time but never lay down on her desk again.

Dinner at Ex-Kan Manager’s Restaurant

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First tea ceremony since the earthquake in March 11. It went quite well considering the long time without any practice. I also got my first two levels of tea master certificates.

Afterwards I met Chie in Shibuya to have dinner. We went to the restaurant of the ex-manager of Kan, a restaurant in Naka-Meguro. We got served fish bones… But where was the fish???



The deep fried fish bones (from anchovy) was delicious. Crispy, a bit salty and yummy. The food was very good, but the restaurant was full so we had to wait quite a while for the dishes. When we had finished we took a taxi home.

Returning to Tokyo

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It was the longest 30 minutes of my life, taxing and taking off. Why? There was a kid about 4 years old screaming her lungs out. I thought all the glass in the whole plane would crack because of the high pitch and volume. She could probably work as a car alarm or a tsunami alarm or something like that.

Eventually she got quiet and I could start to relax. Then I was home 🙂

Beijing

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Arrived in Beijing around lunch time. Took a taxi to the Marriott Courtyard hotel after some trouble to explain where I wanted to go to the taxi driver, though I had a printout of the hotel address 🙂

The air was as nice a welcome as the taxi driver. Grey and smoggy.



Once the taxi driver find his way to the hotel I checked in, put my bags in the room I went directly to the office, which is about 15 minutes walk from the hotel. I spent the rest of the workday there meeting people and setting up to meet people for the rest of the week as well.

At around 6 pm I went back to the hotel and had a dinner. Then I went to the gym before just relaxing in the room before going to bed.