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Design Day

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I joined the Design Tour to be with my colleague for a day.

First, we visited Good Design Marunouchi.

Currently, 50 juries are introducing their best G-Mark winner products here.

Yes, I spotted Haku Accessories.

I can wear gold plated jewelry like a sticker.

First, cut the tape to suitable length, then remove the plastic film, place the jewelry on my skin, wet the paper so that it will stick.

We can buy some of these G-Mark winners’ product at Good Design Store Tokyo by Nohara at KITTE

We continue our trip to Ueno Station, Hard Rock Ueno Station.

Then walked AmeYoko (American Street).

I had a Kebab for lunch.

We stretched to Akihabara to visit Hobby Building, Radio-Kan (Radio House).

We returned to Roppongi to visit Design Hub.

We could get information on other G-Mark winners that is difficult to display the actual product such as urban development.

We did enough exercise for a day.

My friend wants to eat Unagi (eel) for dinner so I took her to my favorite eel shop, Shojikiya, Roppongi.

We continued our coffee, Starbucks Christmas Drink Strawberry Shortcake Frappuccino, at her room.

We often communicate via emails and WhatsApp; it was nice spending time together!

Hope to see you soon again!

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G-Mark & JIS Mark

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I am handling few missions now.

I visited G-Mark Exhibition which is currently held at Tokyo Midtown Tokyo.

The Good Design Selection System (or G Mark System) was founded in 1957 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (currently, known as the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) to encourage industrial players to design products and services to enrich the society.

I witnessed many interesting products and services.

in the afternoon I received another mission for foundry and engineering.

I arranged the briefing and dialogue session at Japan Quality Assurance Organization (JQA) on JIS Standards.

The Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) based on the Industrial Standardization Act are national standards intended to ensure the appropriate quality of mining and manufacturing products, provide product information, advance technology, increase productivity, improve the competitive environment, and enhance the interchangeability and compatibility of interfaces.

It was beneficial day but tiring.

It’s Halloween today.

During my absence, my friend stopped by to give me treats!

I surely need sugar rush now!

I texted her, I will not trick you!.

Trick or Treat!

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Wine Tasting for Bourgogne White Wine

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I participated in Wine Tasting for Bourgogne White Wine at Enoteca Marunouchi Lounge.

I tried five types of white wine from Bourgogne.

These are:

Chablis Grand Cru Bougros Daniel Dampt (2014)

Marsannay Geantet Pansiot (2015)

Bourgogne Aligote Matrot (2014)

Puligny-Montrachet Olivier Leflaive (2016)

Macon-Villages Les Heritiers Du Comte Lafon (2017)

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My First Rugby Game and Baseball Tournament Among Six Universities

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I went to watch the professional rugby game at Chichibu no Miya Rugby Jo (Prince Chichibu Rugby Stadium), Aoyama, Tokyo.

The match was Suntory Sungoliath vs Hino Red Dolphins.

I was seating at Suntory side; therefore, I bought a cup of beer to support the team.

It was fun to watch because the team that I was cheering, Suntory Sungoliath, won by 50 points.

That wasn’t it.

I could enjoy another game.

The Jingu Dai 2 Kyujo (the Jingu No. 2 Baseball Stadium is next to the rugby stadium.

The baseball game between Tokyo University and Hose University was about to finish (8th inning); as such, we could enter the stadium for free or without a ticket.

This is also my first time to watch Baseball Tournament among Six Universities.

Todai (Tokyo University) lost the game but it was fun to cheer the team.

I’m glad that my friend asked me to join.

After enjoying two games, I returned home to cook for my parents for dinner.

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Health and Beauty

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I went to Megalos Hibiya Studio to participate in Volt Drum (Exercise in Dark using Drum Sticks).

We use two drum sticks that light in dark when we hit them.

It was fun but I look forward for Volt Box (boxercise In Dark) next week.

Hopefully, I don’t need to cancel it.

After the lesson, I went to Chinese Restaurant Keiraku @ Hibiya/Yurakucho for dinner with my friend.

Oops, beer tasted VERY NICE!

I came back home and greeted by Choco.

I dressed him in Halloween Costume.

He looks nice but he will try to take it off. ahhhhh

For beauty…I’ve been using Gerovital which I bought them when I visited Romania last May.

I’m about to run out so I ordered via Amazon.

Apparently, these arrived from Romania.

I received some samples, too.

Of course, the price is more expensive than what these are sold in Romania.

However, I have sensitive skin and so far these never gave me any troubles.

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Spoiling Day

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The park that we go for a walk regularly organizes events.

This time, L’CCITANE…?

People are busily preparing for a day to start.

After the morning walk, I went to treat myself at Spa.

I need to regularly maintenance myself; especially before the big event which will start tomorrow.

After the spa, I prayed at Asahi Shrine that is local area guardian.

The Shrine brings me peace in my mind.

I had a volumy ramen lunch at Tenka Ippin Roppongi Store.

I took a cha siu (toasted pork), tamago (egg) Kotteri (thick soup) ramen.

I enjoyed every bite!

After taking a lunch, I became sleepy so I took a nap. hahaha

I was asked for dinner to the Teppanyaki Restaurant that I can bring Choco with me: Teppanyaki Yasaiya Roppongi.

The restaurant is prepared for welcoming Choco and even gave Choco a complementary jelly.

He seems to like it very much because he couldn’t control himself; he went straight to the jelly.

The restaurant can prepare dinner for Choco as well, but this time I already brought his dinner (dog food) with me.

Perhaps, next time.

Food for us/human is also nice.

I’m happy to know that there is a restaurant that we can dine inside because it’s getting cold in Tokyo.

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Tully’s Seasonal Drink: Nutty Caramel Apple Latte

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I faced a problem with my external drive; I cannot access to it.

I saved all my works in this external hard drive so that I need to access it badly.

I went to see my friend who is system engineer for help after office.

While he was diagnosing the external drive, I calmed myself with a cup of coffee: Nutty Caramel Apple Latte for Halloween.

My external drive was admitted; he needs to run the recovery software to save it.

Amen

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Gift Rush

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I was away to manage the project outside of office for a week.

When I returned to the office on Tuesday, I found two packages on my desk. (Yellow Box was inside of white paper bag).

In the yellow boxes, there are many nice confectioneries from Palace Hotel Tokyo.

In a gift paper bag, there are coffee and cooking ingredients from Malaysia.

Then my friend gave me special moon cakes (varieties of lotus paste moo cakes) from Malaysia because 24 September was moon cake festival.

So nice of them and touched!

Thank you for Mr. K, Mr. Z and Ms. T!

XOXO