Routines and basketball

I can't believe its already June. I swear time goes by way too fast. Even weekends are just a blur to me. Every Monday morning like today, I find myself wondering why I didn't get enough rest during the weekend and always have to look forward to getting myself prepped up for the upcoming weekly meetings. Life is beginning to look like a long routine filled in with series of daily routines. Its not a bad thing, but for me, it makes me lose a sense of time, and before I know it I'll be in my 50's wondering what the heck happened the last couple decades.

On a different note, I've been trying to find new people to play basketball with. I haven't been successful so far, but I've been trying some completely new approaches, so I'll see what I come up with. My goal really is to find a good solid team, and possibly compete against other teams in the area and eventually enter tournaments. I'll be honest, at the moment I'm no where good to even compete in non-pickup games, but again.. its just a goal of mines.

Speaking of basketball, I am really excited that the Orlando Magic are now playing in the Finals. I've been pulling for this team since 1992 and finally they are back in the finals after 14 years. I have complete confidence that they can beat the Black Mamba and the Lakers. Can't wait for Thursday night's (Friday morning for me) game 1. Go Magic!!

Conference call blues

Man.. the past couple of days I've been stuck on marathon conference calls. Some of those conference calls though didn't have to be take as long as it did. I mean.. you know the bridge needs to be closed when people on the call stop talking about the deployment and start talking about how allergic they are to cats and the rash details when they do encounter one....

Un-appetizing food

Generally in Japan, their pizzas, particularly thin crust pizzas are amazing though I must admit I prefer thick crust pizza and have yet to find any good deep dish pizzas around here. Anyways, I got a funny advertisement from this Pizza shop in the mail the other day.



This has got to be the most unappetizing pizza I've ever seen. It looks like someone lost their "lunch" on top of this dinner. The restaurant business in Japan is really competitive, so it is really understandable to see restaurants be more inventive with their menu to try to find a competitive edge against their competitors. Having said that, I think the only one this restaurant seemed to win over in my household is ... my dog. By the way, this is supposed to be "Indian curry" pizza.. yeah I know... I totally agree with you.

Weekend update

I felt that my short vacation during Golden week or Golden days for me was just that.. short. I already feel burnt out from work this past week. Things on my project just always seem to get from bad to worse.. its definitely not a fun time. Anyways, enough about my boring job. Highlights from last week were my co-worker's birthday and the other was another co-worker's BBQ.

The birthday dinner was interesting. She is a big fan of the Latin culture so we had her dinner at a Spanish restaurant. The place was pretty good, but one thing that was really gross, which I actually never saw in Tokyo before was while we were eating our appetizers, we actually saw rats running across the floor. When I saw it, all I could think about was my time living in NYC and eating out at Chinatown. Back then, I paid like what 4 bucks for a full meal so I expected my food to come from a place that didn't maintain the highest of conditions. However at the Spanish restaurant, we paid like 65 dollars per head so I totally did not expect re-live my Mushu pork days and see a surprise appearance from Mickey himself. We ended up staying there because the place included a live performance, but I thoroughly inspected my food to make sure my meal didn't include surprise chocolate covered croutons.

The BBQ was much more sanitary even though it was outside. A coworker hosted a BBQ this past weekend along Tamagawa river. The weather forecast was a bit dodgy (What the heck.. how'd that word get stuck in my American vocabulary) as there was a chance of rain during the whole day. While we set out for the BBQ, skies were dark gray but luckily not a single drop came until the BBQ was over and I was on my way home. I ate a lot, which isn't surprising. Luckily, BBQ's in Japan are a bit healthier than ones in the states. Most of the meat were thin sliced, yakiniku style and lots of veggies were served. It was a great time but what sucked was I had to go home an crash early so I could wake up early on Sunday to work. Speaking of work.. I need to go back to it as my Monday morning has just started.

I love inaka

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