Johan's Journal

onsdag 10 mars 2010

Photos and more updates

My modest hotel room bed in Dongguan, China. You could fit about two Tokyo offices in this room.

Room view in a foggy Hong Kong.

Scrapers Hong Kong

Alley in HK

Another alley

Amazing that they use bamboo sticks for construction rigs

Dongguan pines, Cell phone base stations looking like pine trees.
(The problem in Sweden is that we would loose track of them, in Dongguan you can be pretty sure it is a cellphone station if you see a pine.)

Shrimps, love them, totally burried down in chili! As my dear father does, the chinese eats shrimps with their shells still on (atleast these one).

New glasses, bought in Hong Kong! Ray Ban frames + lenses + eye check-up = 1750 SEK.
'Perty sweet deal and free delivery to Japan...

That's all for tonight, g'night!

Long time no see

Yup! Time for an update! Been really busy at work, a bit to busy maybe. :) In the last weeks the followinghas happened:

-Beard got longer

-More funny (from a retrospective point of view) meetings

-Earth quake woke me up in the middle of the night, when it stopped shaking I fell asleep again and kind of forgot about it.

-Went to China on business for a week, very hectic schedule, but great experience.

-Bought a pair of new glases in Hong Kong, photos coming!

More coming! (soon)

måndag 15 februari 2010

Monday

Oh, wonderful monday!

Weekend that passed:
Started out with hunting around for a new lens for my camera this saturday, weather was terrible. 3-5 degrees, probably, and mixed showers of rain and hail. Went round in Shinjuku and found the camera stores I was looking for, all of them were really expensive though. Had some lunch and and went back to Roppongi after looking around in different stores in Shinjuku. (No lens bought)

Thought I would watch Avatar, since most people speak so highly of it, but there were only shitty seats left, so I skipped the cinema.

By now I was feeling tired, feat aching and my back was aching, that it does some times from a full day of walking and I went to have a few pieces sushi, in a nice place pretty close to home. When I sat down I was feeling even worse, so I ate my food and went back.

Then I had a cold until, well I'm feeling better now, and hopefully it will be all gone 'til tomorrow.

Oh, and on sunday evening I bought a pack of Ibuprofen tablets, water and a ticket to see Avatar. I was really impressed by the "Alice in wonder land" trailer and Avatar was ok, a good solid 3 of 5. Would have been a 4, if they wouldn´t gone so crazy with the cheesyness. I prefer Braveheart, now that would have been cool in 3D! Arrows and blood flying around...(And people who like cheesyness gets that to)

Tomorrow Tuesday:
Jacket and tie day! Customer meeting, with all new people to exchange heaps of business cards with!

Oh and there was a trailer for another movie aswell: "My honey is a Gaijin!" a Japanese romantic comedy, about a girl who has met a guy with a beard that probably is American. All sorts of funny things happen! Atleast that is how I understood it, you now: mother-gets-surprised-and-drops-a-wase-in-the-floor-kind-of-stuff.

Pictures 2010-02-15

My japanese kitchen set; chop sticks, Muji knife, glass, and cutboard

Subaru, older model

How many Hello Kitty can you find?

Plastic Labradors

Labrador sign

Older (english?) car

Newer american penis substitute

Insurance company cafeteria?

Insurance company employee with large duck-in-cat-suit suit

Again

Shinjuku

tisdag 9 februari 2010

Update

Hi,

Weekends gone by and week has started and is about halway through.

Went to a consert on saturday, see photos below. Good show, awesome bands, but to few people maybe? Fun though, good atmosphere in the place. The bands where hanging out in the bar and when a band started to play the rest of the bands gave their support from the audience. First I had to find the place, the entrance was tucked in between to stores and a sign showing the names of the bands, as big as an A4 paper...

First the night started out with a more classic heavy metal band, straight forward rock'n'roll, think their name was Earth Blow. Next band is called Fastkill, a band that is a textbook example of thrash metal from the 1980's. They played a 25-30 min set, without ever catching their breath between the songs, and they played crazy fast and hard and they sounded way better than anything I would expect if someone told me about a japanese band playing 80's thrash. Next band to enter the stage was a japanese band I allready had heard acctually. Electric Eel Shock, alot of fun, alot of classical rock riffs and this would probably the most well known band in Japan of that nights performances. Last band to get up on stage was the americans, Saviours. From the classical heavy metal grounds of the San Fransisco bay area. Heaviest that evening and impressive skills on their instruments, cool.

Sunday I woke up at an ok time, did some boring have too's. Cleaned, washed clothes and was iretated that the internet didn't work.

So plans for the weekend? nope no plans, think there is a public holiday on thursday, I will try to catch a design exhibition.

Have a look at the photos, blurry camera shots...
/Johan