2008年11月30日星期日

日本游记 ~ 第一篇

在人来人往的车站,突然感觉到一股无形的压迫感。挺直的西装,华丽的装扮,几乎是所有男女的写照。他们有着一样的表情,没有感情的表情。牛仔淡妆平凡的我,几乎就要淹没在人群中。

赶紧把耳机套上耳朵,听着跳跃的音符至少让自己抽离压迫的人群。

来了短短不到一个月,这是第二次听到自杀事件发生在其他部门同事。同事说日本人或许不是很善于处理压力,虽然犯罪率不高,但家庭暴力事件还是蛮多的。心灵上的伤害比身体伤害更痛,或许是这样吧。

每个人都会有工作或生活的压力,每个人都有释压的方法。有些人喝上两杯,有些人发牢骚,有些人去旅行,只要是有效的,都应该偶尔放松一下自己,不要把自己抓得太紧。

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2008年11月10日星期一

Here I come, JAPAN!!!

Never thought I could be so happy after my boss told me that my UK training was canceled. People say sometimes good thing happen after bad thing. It's true, I lost a chance back to UK, but I got a chance to go Tokyo. Bravo! Boss always told me it's not easy for Japanese to accept woman as engineer, especially Asia woman, but hei, here I am, finally.

It's rush and tight plan, I have to apply for visa in China so that I can be there as soon as visa applied. God know the Japan visa application is so complicated in China, even I'm not Chinese. It's not easy to get in and out of China, I think.

Holding my breath on JAL flight, experience my first time in Japan. Lucky being Malaysian Chinese, we can speak most of the main language. Once in Thailand, and again, now in Japan. Really a strange feeling when people around talking the language that we don't understand, can finally understand my UK colleagues' feeling when they work in China.

Airport always give a first impression for new comers, lucky me can understand some of he Japanese words, which is similar to Complicated Chinese. People is polite, and they queue! OMG, this is really hardly seen in China... I love the people.

City is clean, though it gives me different view at day and night. The city is old, house is small, feel like kampung at day; it looks mystery with ancient traditional feel at night. I like the city at night.

There are many vending machines and convenient shop in Japan. There is 3 : 1 ratio for people : vending machine, every vending machine serves 3 people, it's a lot! You may find many types of convenient shop, 7-11, Lawson, am-pm, Family Mart etc. Different convenient shop has their own special products, the local know how it works, for me, just another convenient shop.