All Girl's Night Out...almost

The night of November 24, 2006 I had dinner with some of the women in the office. We ate at the restaurant near the station. (This is the same restaurant people always go to when they decide to dine out or celebrate something. This is actually my 3rd time of dining in this place and I still can't remember its darn name. bwahahahaha.) The party was composed of six people namely Michiomo-san, Hirata-san, Higuchi-san, Fujimoto-san, me and of course the one that made the night an ALMOST all girl's night out, Oya-san. Hirata-san and Higuchi-san are both my groupmates. Michiomo-san and Fujimoto-san both work for another company. We are all working on the same major project but they are handling a different module.
We talked about many stuff that night, from who the noisiest person in the office is to who's the weakest and the weirdest (Which reminds me, why do Japanese throw coins into places with water anyway? And it doesn't have to be a wishing well type of place, any place with water will do. In this case, the little pond like thingy beside the table where we were eating.) We had many laughs and I enjoyed it very much despite the fact that I'm very poor in Japanese. It was a good thing that Michiomo-san and Oya-san were there. They can both speak english well. As always, Oya-san did a lot of translating for me.



































I didn't drink much alcohol that night but I drank a lot of really super delicious juices. I took a picture of the prettiest one. I took a picture of the aftermath of the food storm too. hehehe.

Fushimi Inari II

II? When was the I? Nah, forget it, the past is the past and I didn't have an ample amount of time to post then. So here we go.
Last November 3 was a holiday here in Japan, we (Gloridel, Sheira and I) decided to conquer the great mountains sorrounding the Fushimi Inari Taisha. Remember the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha" or "Saiyuri"? This was the place with the long trail of orange gates that the child Saiyuri ran on to wish for love.

The first half of the journey was the hardest, it was an uphill trail so it was very tiresome. We had brunch halfway of the uphill climb.

The second half was easy since it's mostly downhill. The entire trail could probably be completed in an average of 2 hours for an athletic and healthy person. But then we're not really that athletic, are we? I'm pretty sure that I ain't that healthy either, so it took us longer to complete the route.

Dinner with Kaneda-san

I know that this post is long overdue since the dinner happened ages ago (last week of October). But then, "better late than never", right?

Kaneda-san is the girl sitting at 10 o'clock in the next row from me. She doesn't smile often enough but when she did, it was spectacularly cute! hehehe.
I wasn't the one who first noticed her in the office. It was Oya-san who did, he has a weakness for short haired women. We were checking out who were the "hot" people in the office that time. In my case there weren't many men who attracted me so we ended up comparing the pretty chicks in the room instead. hahahaha. One of them is Miss Kaneda Mayumi.
Before that dinner, we already ate one lunch with her. From that encounter I learned that she's interested in movie editing and that she's quitting work soon to take care of her mother. It was a good thing that we invited her before it was too late. (Guess, who did the invitation? It was a dual effort, almost like stalking! hahahaha).
We had dinner at a restaurant near the office with Oya-san. (I can't remember the name of the place but I think it is famous since we had dinner there before with my group mates.) It was a night of great food, drinks and conversation of mix japanese and english. We talked about everything from Kaneda-san's eccentric right hand guy to mangas and personal stuff. I sense that Kaneda-san is a comedian. She drew some caricature of her original created characters. Although I needed additional information to understand the joke but I knew that she was trying to make me laugh. So sweet, really. I wish her the best of luck in the future and maybe someday another great dinner to celebrate the sweetness of life.