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.
