YouTube is Addictive

Watching TV is never on my list of activities during weekends, but once you start on YouTube, you can not go back. This is really annoying, there are just so many interesting short films you can browse. I am recently getting into this Taiwanese talking show. I always feel guilty that I spend time watching this useless show, a group of middle age talking about different topics. It is quite an interesting way to get to know the general sentiment, whats-in and metality in ever-changing Taipei. Other than this talking show, I am addicting to BBC series on nature narrated by David Attenborough... I am sure I will find another stuff getting me hocked soon.

Moving image with sounds is definitely a easier way to get information, I have not been reading properly after 2 weeks since my YouTube addition starts.

La Brasserie in Imperial Hotel

I had bought this dress in Amsterdam last year, finally got the chance to wear it. Sadly I was the only one who dressed up that night. People are really lazy sometimes.
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Imperial hotel is one of the oldest in Tokyo, in which the royal family used to have functions. Unfortunately, the foods were not as impressive as the fame.

X'Mas Run in Tokyo

Starting from Tokyo station.

Going on the street to scare little kids.

Reindeer drinking coffee...

Ending in Roponggi, finishing the late X'mas lunch by 5pm, real bar party started!

Really Busy

Still running on the street... The Sunday City Run is really like a social event, no sweat at all for the 12K route.
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The past few weeks made me re-define the adjective, "busy". I am moving between 2 or 3 sites, one of the location, Fuchu, is 1 and half hour away (4 different type of transportation) to get to from Tokyo. I will spend a couple hours in Shinkawa client site in the morning and jump on my bike rushing to another client's office in Yaesu (15 minute bike away, faster than train or bus). If I am going to Fuchu, I will be working until the last train, normally gettting home around midnight if I don't manage to miss any train.

It was averagely 5 hours sleep at the beginning of the insane commute, I had to wake up like 5:30am such that I can do the run, got back before 6:30, drink my coffee and read news, rushing out by 8am. Returning home around midnight, I only got to recover the missing sleep hours during the weekend. The break of the crazy hours came because the project needs the time to figure out the hardware purchase, and I was drawn to another project.

The other project started in mid summer, the client site is really close to my place, 5 minutes bike to the site. The project is related to a totally new field to me, equity derivatives. Absolutely interesting and challenging. I spent the 2 happy (and hard) months in Tokyo then the nightmare started when my other resting project came back to life.

I am literally torn between 3 sites/projects (one client has 2 separate workstreams). Exhausion came both physically and mentally. The good news is that one of the projects is now delayed to phase 2 since both my company and the client realise the gravity of lacking of resources. It is amazing how hard it is to find people to help out. I phone interviewed a couple of resources and hung up with shaking head. I guess I have to live like this for a while...