Good thing that whole thing with the factory shoes were cleared up. I caught a night bus from Osaka to Tokyo that night. I love night buses because they're cheaper than bullet trains and I have time to clean up my room and bring my suit to the cleaners (this again) before I disappear from Osaka for several days.  

VIPLINER Experience

 I usually take Willer Express because it's one of the nicer ones. A trip will cost around 6000 JPY (as opposed to 14000 JPY on the bullet train). This time, though, I booked a trip with VIPLINER(you pronounce it as it's written, NOT vee-ai-pee) because word-of-mouth is that their seats are more spacy than Willer Express. I should have figured out I booked the wrong bus as it only cost me 4500 JPY. It was your usual touring bus (the one with blue seats) with curtains between seats. It wasn't all that spacey but I guess it was worth it because they provided a pillow and a blanket. I figured out that the best way to get yourself comfortable on these overnight rides is to put a pillow behind your lower back as these seats don't fully recline. I just have to book the right bus with that company and make sure I get the ones with seats that fully recline.  

April 29, 2015 Showa Day

There's a holiday called Golden Week in Japan where most public holidays occur. Showa Day (yesterday) is a holiday in honor of the late emperor. Golden Week isn't usually a whole week but some companies put in company holidays on days in between the holidays to make it longer. In the case of my company, some departments still have work today whereas mine doesn't. Tomorrow is also a company holiday so Golden Week for me is from the 29th until May 6. My boyfriend wasn't so lucky.  

A Day of Gaming

We spent the day alternating between playing games on the Wii U. We played Mario Kart, Smash Brothers, and Mario World. We also watched an episode of The Office, which I always wanted to get into. The first episode was weird. It's not usually the kind of humor I get into but let's see.

Wrapping up the day

 Dinner at this expensive sushi restaurant where we each had 7 pieces of sushi, a plate of sashimi, and two bottles of beer for 19500 JPY. I say this because it pains me. I appreciate the surprise but I've never been one to like spending so much on food as I'm pretty satisfied with food served in most restaurants. Now to figure out how to discourage him from bringing me to those kinds of places.

As much as I love the dormmate beside my room, I didn't appreciate it when she told to HR that I can pick up the factory shoes from the other office when we were both already back home. I had to pack and I didn't need to try to fit the shoes cause I got the right size whereas she didn't.

Her excuse is that she has to meet her friend at 6:30 -_- you're the one who needs it. Why do I have to be the one to get it? Tell your friend to meet you at a later time. Priorities.

Got a cute omiyage from my colleague who went on a trip this weekend. 

山陰銘菓「どじょう掬いまんじゅう」

I didn't quite like the taste but I love how cute it is. 

I have never understood why snapchat is fun if its only marketing value is that the photos disappear after a number of seconds.

Ended up deleting that app from my phone.

You know what I hate? When guys act like they're single when they're not. Not that it affects me cause I'm dating someone but just hearing about it from colleagues makes me cringe.

I'm actually a lot older than most of my colleagues. If they're fresh out of undergrad, they're mostly 22/23. Grad school kids are 24/25. I'm 27.

I'm just thankful sometimes that I can still relate with them.

And just like that the weekend is over.

At work we're always told how the weekend is for fun and also for improving ourselves. Today was supposed to be the self-improvement day. Which went all sorts of wrong when I woke up feeling lonely and depressive. It took me quite a bit to get out of that funk and get up to at least pick up my suit from the cleaners.

Yes, I wear a suit now. 

I had a conversation with a friend about what I did today and he couldn't understand what I said. To him it sounded like 'fruit'. So I had to enunciate better. "You wear a suit to work?" 

Well yes I do.