Today's Program

Tonight would be SPANISH FOOD with Miki, Rachel and Ken. Followed by partying either in Shibuya or Nishi Azabu.

I am always more excited when I hang out with the locals here. These friends are Japanese and yet with an international and more open mind-set, I often hear comments/ discussion which I typically would not from a typical local.

Last night I was with another bunch of colleagues. We started off with Tequila shots (2 each). Not sure why but this Mexican resturant in Ebisu serves a really big cup of shot - or so we called "value for money". I guess a usual night out after work here is alcohol, cigarettes and informative humour. Quite a nice gang last night - all from investment banks, both front and middle offices, and a mix of Japanese, New Yorker and Singaporeans. Thats a nice way to end a really stressful work week.

We had an interesting conversation about how to tell people what we (Product Controllers) do. Coz usually when you mention that, people's face goes blank. And when you say which financial product you are looking at, I think they wished they never asked the question in the first place. In summary, in order not to induce such blank expressions, we should say Finance, or we click macros, or when there are no system issues, there is basically nothing to do.

Well, time to head out for shopping as this is the mid-week of Tokyo Sale.....