Johann Low

木曜日, 10月 05, 2006

[Biz Trip in details]

Flew off on a Monday night,transit in Bangkok for a flight to Osaka kansai airport. I was flying with Thai Airways, so far flew once with them before in 1999 where I went to Bangkok for transit (again).Thai Air is not bad honestly, the service is good and so is the food. I love that chicken which is cooked in some curry like sauce..sooo appetizing. The air stewardess are pretty too haaha..I saw some really sweet one on my way back frm Bangkok to SG. I was at the old Bangkok Airport, it is kinda rundown, looks very 70-80s. It is dark and so.....service is so so too. The transit lounge is crowded,carpetted floor is littered with tissue papers,snacks and plastic bags.

Anyway got my butt onto the plane bound for Osaka and reached there ard 8+++am

Thanks to terrorists, immigration @ Osaka recently is uber strict, I was intergorrated like some criminal and was held up there for almost 15 min! Then I was asked to open my luggage to check. I waited for my boss until 1+++pm cos 1) I dunno my way to the hotel 2) I dunno my way there. True enough he was also held up at the customs immigration there. Osaka is HOT(besides the babes), the weather is not much different from SG! It is only cooler @ night. As for the babes, I realised the gals in Osaka have long,layered,wavy,colored (some not) hair, applied dark eyeliners and some wore short skirts. Boss and I were supposed to meet up one client, anyway we were late and we had a late lunch which tasted really yucky. I had curry rice, my boss told me that they simply heated up some pre-cooked curry packet and then poured it onto the rice..WTF? The curry got nothing except gravy and some 0.5cm cube like beef. The udon my boss ordered was also pathetic. I can finish in like 5 mouthfuls? But the dinner was much muuch mucch better. Had some mala bringal pork rice which was absolutely GREAT. I was given 50,000yen for transport and food and 26000 was spent on 2 shinkasen tickets! WTF..and with discount somemore! The shop attendant who was selling the tickets was kinda cute hehe.

Anyway the next day was from Osaka to Tokyo via yes Shinkansen. We took a train to Shin-Osaka station to take the shinkansen to Tokyo. As Osaka is a big city, we got lost when we were trying to get ou butts to the station. Some cock gave my boss the wrong directions and we walked one big circle..ard 10km? My boss asked me to ask some other person (like a shop attendant, not those golden hair chinpara WHHAHAHAHAHAHA) Ok so i asked one shuaige working in Starbucks and bingo! we got to the station. Anyway it was quite amazing cos I cld not really make out what he was talking about but only some main words.

Ride on the shinkansen was smooth and comfortable and fast. When we reached Tokyo, we were kinda late cos we were supposed to meet one client. So it was another hour or so of rushing n rushing..and it was drizzling...we got to the hotel rather late and my client waited for 1 hr!! But lucky he is a nice man and he understood that it was raining..it was rather pathetic when we came into the lobby wet n messy. We had a short lunch at one of the nearby restaurant. Later my boss and I went back to the hotel where he took off by himself tot meet another client while I waited at the lobby to check in! I was supposed to bring the 2 China colleagues (in charge of the China factory) to the hotel but one of them told me it was not neccessary. So i was playing the internet in the lobby until 4pm and those Jpns really insisted I cld only check in @ 4pm...wtf

The rest of the evening was spent 'touring' Tokyo wif my China colleagues. The GM of the factory is so demanding, want this want that...I felt like a enunch. One big hassel was she decided to keykiang, wanna invite one of my Jpn client for dinner..so I told my agent and he told my client..while in the taxi, they decided not to have dinner cos it seemed troublesome..anyway, it was quite a ride cos we need to inform that the dinner was cancelled, then they want it again..but in the end I settled it. Dinner was at a nice restaurant. I had eel.........sushi..which was tasty but the rice had too much vinegar n wasabi. Later we walked ard, took a taxi and then stopped at a nearby drugs cosmetic store. 1 funny incident was the China GM was trying to pay via her China CCs but the cashier told us she needed to call to verify the card ahahhahahaha..i dunno why until i asked my boss. He said they were worried cos it is a China CC. ahahhahahaha..ok so i got my collagen for a friend, great deal for 2 X bundle of can (amt for 28days) and 1 collagen drink for ard SGD28!. In SG, just the can collagen alone is selling at $58 under promo. That 250ml of collagen drink is $5.80!

Right so the next day was the main 'event' of the whole biz trip. Meeting my Jpn agent and client over some compensation issues. Details shld be spared anyway. Oh yeah I was asked to bring back one blardy soundproof sheet sample back and it was like 20kg? And that wobbly trolley from China was kinda..getting me worried it might break under its weight.

29th Sept - time to go back SG! My flight was 11am..so tentatively I need to be at Narita by 9am..Bus trip from T-CAT (Tokyo Central Air Terminal) is abt 1 hr. Hotel to T-CAT was suprisingly fast, I think it took less than 10 min. The bus trip to Narita was very comfy (limousine bus leh) Hardly any hiccups. Narita is crowded as usual. Oh the tape which was used to bind the stupid heavy box housing the sample snapped and in the end I checked in 3 luggages haha. Anywya the best thing was at the new Thai airport. It was huge! and definitely hella inefficient! Since I was supposed to transit there, the signs shows 2 completely opposite direction, one to the right and one to the left! WTF! So I went to the wrong one, in the I walked like 2KM to the next one..and I got like 20 min to board my plane?

Best best thing was when I reached SG, all I wanted was a fast trip home..who know the fucking airport pple delayed my luggage! I was waiting at the luggage pickup area like 30min. I was seeing all the same shit luggage coming in and out and not mine! So I went to one of the grd stuff and I made some stupid report etc etc. wah lao 1st time leh, luggage delayed. Ok so my colleague who was supposed to get the sample drove me home instead. Another best thing happened was I dropped my COY sim card!! and I did not even realised it until the next day hahaha...

Ok so I got one call at ard 8+ in the morning telling me my luggage was 'found' and wld be delivered to my house anytime from 10am - 1pm..They arrived @ 12.45+ ahaha. As for the SIM card...it was quite unbelievable that I managed to find @ the spot where I alighted frm my colleague's car!!! Cos I was worried that some blanga or cheena worker might find it n used it to call home..but i called my COY line for sometime and i cld not get thru which means no one picked it up....Ok I was out then I decided to make one rd to try my luck if i can find it and I found it! Miracles do happen.

so this ends my adventure in Jpn,Bangkok and SG.

elow at 12:14 午前 |

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