All is fine in Japan

Man its been a long time for me updating my blog. I did return from my business trip in Malaysia no problem. Unfortunately while I was there, the whole earthquake thing happened. I got back at the end of March and had to make a detour to western Japan for a while before going back home to Tokyo. As my luck would have it, I got sick on the shinkansen ride back to Tokyo and I have been sick ever since. I just stopped taking my plethora of medication this week. It really feels great to be back to normal. Since February I have either been under the weather or out of the country! Crazy.

Anyways, as for the state in Japan, yeah its pretty bad but it depends on how you look at it. If you don't look at the news at all and just go on with your daily life, it is really normal as can be minus the supermarket and convenience stores don't have everything you could want as usual, but they do still carry a lot of things. Conversely, the news, especially the international news is pretty scary and I don't blame anyone who doesn't want to go outside anymore and hoard water and non-perishable foods. The nuclear situation is serious and I believe yesterday they raised the situation from a 5 to a 7 in their "seriousness" meter but the most thing I am concerned about is still the earthquakes. Everyday so far there have been earthquakes. Granted it has not been that bad, like the biggest one was a 4 in my local area. At the office, the scariest part is the announcement before the earthquake. With very strong earthquakes, Japan has the technology to warn its people minutes before the earthquake arrives. So there was a pretty big earthquake yesterday around 2pm. The public announcer came on and warned everyone to prepare themselves for a very strong earthquake. Man.. I was scared but at the end it was only like a magnitude 3 in Shinjuku which isn't that bad at all, relative speaking that is.

Anyways, that is my quick update. Now here are some pics from Malaysia -