Be careful about hotels in the country

I went to Miyazaki to coordinate a round table discussion on editorial advertising. There were four doctors participating along with some clients observing.

When we do round table discussions, doctors and clients sometimes make unreasonable requests. Some of them are irritable, so I must brace myself for a discussion.

However, this time, the problem was the worker who in our banquet. He was useless! There was only one person available. It was impossible! One hour before the meeting began, I asked him to exchange the table which was already installed for a bigger one, but he didn’t have enough time to do it. I also told him to give the doctors a “welcome drink”, but it took 30 minutes for him brought some coffee. And I had asked the hotel in advance to record the meeting on tape but they forgot to. I feared that someone would fly into a rage and it would mess up the meeting.

Maybe what we asked for was more than he could handle. However, I think that the hotel should have sent more employees to our meeting place.

Luckily, there weren’t any major troubles. In the end, the young boy’s boss apologized to me.

Later, a colleague said that I should be careful when I work at hotels in the country, because many people in the country aren’t as concerned with details. Originally, I grew up in the country, Saga, Kyusyu. I guess living in Tokyo has made me hasty, inflexible and irritable.

Belly Dance

I went to an Indian Restaurant near our office for a drink with my colleagues. They have a Belly dance show at the restaurant every night. Recently, there was a belly dance boom in Japan. I heard that many Japanese women started belly dance training for health and beauty.

Belly dancers wear slinky dresses and Belly dancing has very voluptuous movements. We were very interested in seeing it.

There were two performances. Two dancers performed at the first set. However they were amateurish and fat old women. We felt disappointed. After the performance, some customers left the restaurant. I want to go home too, but I was engrossed in conversation until the second show started. Luckily, a beautiful young dancer walked onstage. We were very excited! Her dancing was very nice. We enjoyed it very much. The Long time we spent waiting was well-spent.

The worldwide fall in stock prices

Recently, many articles about the worldwide fall in stock prices fill the pages of newspaper everyday, but I don’t know very much about the economy and finance, so I can’t understand the seriousness of the crisis.

Some colleague which knows a lot about economic affairs says that we should buy stock now, but I don’t even know where can I buy stocks.

One of them says that the best method to learn about finance is to actually buy stocks actually. He bought foreign exchange (FX) before and lost 100,000 yen. However, because of it, he learned lot, so now he enjoys reading news about the economy. I don’t know whether it is expensive or cheap to pay 100,000 to study finance, but I am interested in buying stocks. Because not only can I learn, I may make a lot of money by fluke.

Stray Cat

For the last ten days, I have seen a stray cat in front of my room’s balcony. When I threw him a piece of cheese, he really attacked it. Since then, he comes asking for food every night.

I have liked cats ever since I was a kid. I had wanted to keep cats, but my mother never allowed me. Now that I’m older, I have not thought about keeping cats. However, I am with him every night and think he’s cute.

Recently he narrows his eyes endearingly, but he sometimes assumes a threat posture when I get close to him. Stray cats are very cautious.I will continue to give him food until I can hold him.

Stay at Shinagawa

I stayed at hotel in Shinagawa for three days from October 1 to October 3. I worked day and night on making reports on a medical conference. Because I live in Kamata, only ten minutes away by train, I had never thought that I would stay at hotel in Shinagawa.

The hotel that I checked into is a luxury hotel and the room is spacious. It has a bathroom with a Jacuzzi. I don’t feel like I’m working. Of course, the hotel is very expensive, so I can’t tell my wife about it. If she hears about it, she would definitely say she wants to stay here.