living a colourful life

2009-06-19T22:02:00.000-07:00

Finally a post...

From the black, white, grey to the city neon light, the ever changing society JAPAN!

Third time to JAPAN, yet still so great!

This trip is totally free and easy and we have tried almost all types of transportation.. train, subway, ship, cable car, bus... except one, taxi which is damn expensive..( A taxi trip from the airport to the city centre equal an air ticket to Bangkok..imagine..)

Day 1

Flight to Narita. Took JL710 and the flight was almost empty. Its a codeshare flight with America Airline and British Airway. This is how airlines survive during this downturn. JAL even closed down their whole business class seats and we were free to move about in the airline. Feel free to change from this seat to that seat, thats exactly wat the stewardness told us to do. But too bad, it is still confined to economy class seats. HAHA.

Day 2 Shinjuku Tour

Arrived in Japan in the morning at around 6am. Took the Narita Express to Shinjuku station. Ard a hour and a half journey.

Reached Shinjuku station, just in time for their rush hour...

Shinjuku station is Tokyo second largest train station after Tokyo station. It accomodates 2 million travellers everday.. At first, it was quite confusing with the number of exits and platforms..

Checked in at Shinjuku Prince Hotel..

Good location in the centre of Shinjuku which houses many department stores and many eateries and also their very famous red light district, kabukicho. Lunch at one of their curry stall.. Nice nice..

Walk around Shinjuku..

Thats all for the first two days. ..More to come.. To be continued..

Work again

2009-04-02T07:22:00.000-07:00

after working, i really feel the strong business culture differences among different nationalities. ang mo is much much better, they will joke with you, making e working environment more relax, not tensing everyone up. Asian is a little kiasu, they will press you for the itinerary. The worst I can say is Singaporeans. Always think that they rule the world. The worst thing still is that it is always the secretary that thinks she is very big, always complaining about this about that. Hello..ya rite, i know that we are service providers, but can you phrase in a better manner and stop criticizing others that they didnt send you e email which in fact they did. You are only a secretary; the real client is your boss! Communicating with the boss is so much better, they understand u better and will joke with u too! no authority at all. I cant say that everyone is bad, there are also nice secretary around. Spoke with airline staffs also. One guy from SIA spoke to me, nice people, i can say. Air France people is also great, although I kept on saying the wrong reference code, she is still patient with me.

Today, had a tedious itinerary to plan out. Although just a very short itinerary, the lack of airline seat will sometime make people faint. the number of class to consider, the different fare code, the choice of airlines...and meeting deadline of the clients..

ya..this job is great so far, at least one can make use of e brain to plan out itinerary. But it is a little constraint, no walkabout, haha. but after being expose to this job, i want to work for e airline maybe SIA..JAL..ANA...sale and marketing.. strategic product planning and marketing. Yeah. It is fun looking at the amount of marketing collaterals they send out and the strong competitions among airlines. Each of the airline really knows their competitors well.. Once their competitors market some promotions, they will start to react. This is really the real marketing world. So challenging!

I wan to go Japan! I wan to explore the world!
Leisure time is just so little when one go back after work. will start to feel tired and sleep. The next day is work again...plan to do things after work, but sleep overrides everything.

Byebye!

I need a phone! Sony Erisson W995 seem cool.!

Friends

2009-03-28T06:56:00.000-07:00

Can you believe tat we meet with ard 1400 friends in our life?

cross cultural

2009-03-20T07:32:00.000-07:00

i will try to blog as much as possible
haha maybe once a week?
hope so

this wk ended super first
with mon tues wed attending abacus basic training
met with all kind of people in e cls
indians, malaysians, bemis...
international huh..
not too bad, learnt something new although most stuff had been taught to me by my team
but i jux don understand some adults
isit that they had left sch for so long and they seek for attention in cls?
asked a lot of questions
not saying that asking question is not gd
but is the matter of common sense
and wats more
they tink tat their jokes are funny
funny until no one is laughing

the highlight of this course is that i met with Tiffany.
Guess wat
she is a ex-tourism student
and wen to korea for foreign language study
WOW
she told me a lot of things
the singapore tourism industry, which line is gd, which is not, which company is gd, which is not.
haha
also told me about her life in korea
she met with all kinds of people there
americans, japanese, koreans, mexicans...
how the different nationalities interact with each other
and the funny part is tat she said that the tourism marketing campaign in japan is just so wonderful to the extend tat japanese think that merlion is a life animal.
Learn a lot of things from her.
and i finally understand the true reason for visa issue
there is actually a story behind it, huh. called tiao fei ji

had an abacus test on wed
ok lor
students are just too immune to tests and examinations

wen back to my company on thurs n fri
my sales manager is just so funny
always got suan-ed by my team members
but he just don bother
n started laughing tgt
n then he suddenly remembered that he forgot to do an orientation of the company to me
n started bringing me around the company aft i have been in the company for 3 wks
then i shook hands wif almost everyone
he also shook hands wif them
which i don understand
haha
n he got suan-ed by other again
'aiyo so late then intro, i know her liao la'...

fri
WOW
jux after one rd of introduction
most of them knew my name
so touched
maybe i am e only intern there so ya
luv xiuling a lot
from my team
also a ngee ann graduate
from bs, trm elective
she really really taught me a lot of things
she had a lot of things not done yet
but still find the time to teach me steps by steps
can clique very well wif her

a relax environment is the best place to be

jux something to share from e paper
what is the difference between a american bank n china bank?
no difference. they both survived with yuan

something else
is she selfish or jux over-protective?

Attachment (:

2009-03-12T07:31:00.000-07:00

I update my blog like every sem once?
haha. nothing much to write leh.

attachment started le.
in the corporate sales division

attend to few customers
one of them actually compliment my work
'ur itinerary still fine to me and its just great' that what he say to me
so happy
can really feel the satisfaction

times fly when u have thing to do.
working in a business travel management company is really fighting against time.
Clients may be flying tonight and need u to complete everything for them immediately.

planning, booking and issueing is still managable
but the steps to invoicing is a little tedious
different companies have different way they wan to be invoiced

overall
i love it
the people in the company is really very nice
i love the working environment
we work in team of four
everyone takes good care of one another
i help u do u help me do
e willingness to teach me is also something that let me feel very touched
seeing them working OT yet i am always the one leaving 1st makes me feel a little bad
i hope that i can really help them after i acquire more skills aft my training which last for 6 days
YEAH!(:

i luv my class

2009-01-21T02:59:00.000-08:00

i seriously don understand why someone don understand what is effort. from young, everyone has been saying to put in ur best in order to get recognize, but is this really the fact? Its not that we slack thru our way and anyhow anyhow do. I assure that OUR CLASS did not slack thru but what about ...' pls don make any assumption ok' but i know u know what i meant. the hand-drawn poster, the dance, learning a new instrument, all these add up to WHAT! Nothing!

maybe in the end, it not about what you do, it is about where u r!
read from e newspaper in e morning. THERE IS NO FAIRNESS IN THE WORLD.
maybe tis is the absolute truth and let us accept this and maybe we will feel better.
after all, its about living happily in the world.

始めましょう

2008-10-13T08:01:00.000-07:00

today is the first day of school. haha!!

いや

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え

ああ

さあ

あれ

わあ

やった

PF2008

2008-09-21T04:20:00.001-07:00

Jux came back from Polytechnic Forum 2008. !
Fun and met a lot of friends that can really clique well. The food is good. Haha. But jux feel that time management can be improved. Well, really enjoyed this 4 days 3 nights event. Great exposure and indeed learnt a lot!

台湾之旅

2008-09-13T05:48:00.000-07:00

大家好！
我回来了！
九天的台湾之旅真的是超棒的。真的。
好爱那里的一切！好想他们！

Emma’s Blog。。。
如果時間能夠重來,那麼一切就不會這樣珍貴。

こんにちわ

2008-04-03T08:24:00.000-07:00

おげんきで！