2016.9.8

It was heavily raining in the morning because of the typhoon No.13, but to my lucky it stopped raining when I got to the venue and I did not get wet at all.

I have attended MIPIM which is like an Expo of the Real Estate Industry. I visited many booths and listened to two lectures.

There was a demonstration for the Japanese tea ceremony to rest at the corner and a man was serving tea.

In the evening there was a cocktail opening party at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. After the series of adresses, there was an opening sake barrel ceremony called "Kagamibiraki (鏡開き). "
There was a tuna cutting show, music show, and kimono fashion show. There were 10 models whose kimono represent countries. 

I think it was a good experience for foreign participants to know Japanese culture.

2016.9.7

It was raining in the early morning, but I was lucky not to use the umbrella. In the day time it was fine.

There was a rather big earthquake this afternoon, and there are other typhoons approaching.

After rather busy day's work I went to the Tokyo station to get on 18:00 Shinkansen to Osaka.
I go to the Tokyo station sometimes, however I usually use it to transit and seldom go there from outside. The central Yaesu Exit was quite changed from what I used to know.

Before getting on the train I bought ekiben (駅弁), literally means station box lunch. It is not lunch, but it is a boxed meal. There are many kinds of them depends on the place.
I chose kaisendon (海鮮丼), Seafood Rice Bowl, which is boxed rice topped with salmon flakes, salmon roe (いくら: ikura), crab, and herring roe (数の子: kazunoko), shredded  strips of egg (金糸玉子: kinshitamago) and a kind of pickles. It cost yen 1000 and it was delicious.
Here are pictures of the package and the real meal.

After arriving at Osaka, there  was a shuttle bus to the hotel.
I felt lucky.

2016.9.6

It was fine and hot.

I went to MLIT today to attend 3 lectures.

At lunch time we went to cafeteria. There were two fast foods franchise shops. They were beef rice bowl Yoshinoya and udon noodle Hanamaru udon.  I feel uneasy a little bit to go to Yoshinoya by myself, but this was a cafeteria I chose galbi lunch set which cost yen 640.
Since my father had some of their stocks, they sent complimentary tickets for stockholders twice a year. I used them so I only paid yen 40 today.

I was not going back to the office today but documents were so heavy that I went back to the office.

There was a birthday person in our office who has been stationed in Myanmar for a few years. He baked cookies and gave us. They say this is the way how Myanmar people celebrate their birthday.

I remembered when I was in charge of Myanmar people for the JENESYS Program, there was a birthday boy who wished to buy a birthday cake for everyone. Instead we celebrated his birthday by a  surprise party.

I heard in Turkey they celebrate their birthdays by hosting. There are other countries too.

How do you celebrate your birthdays in your countries?