Upon entering the office building, I am to tap my electronic card on the detector, which assigns the lift to my floor. I am unable to access any floor of the building except the floor my card is allocated to. I never have to touch a lift button or any human or object. Somehow I miss the human touch. I miss pressing the lift button, and sometimes, forgetting which floor I am on.
I have some left over habits from Japan. Since returning to office, I would always go into the convenience store to look for a snack or drink. I miss vending machines in Japan that disposed hot milk tea for 130 yen. I found that the convenience store near my office has so much Japanese type snacks. But due to my dietary habit not to consume sugar, I am unable to buy most of the snacks except the salty ones. I had a sandwich yesterday. Today, I decided on a pancake. I am on my second cup of milk tea. The first cup was coffee. They both have no sugar.
I am tired now after having worked for two hours. Wrote the prologue a little. Fixed some stuff. Replied some emails. Researched some videos. Got into the Mimi mind. I need to build up my stamina to work for four hours on two shifts, at the total of eight hours which is my aim. Which, is hard to achieve for creators because if lets say, I am doing repetitive tasks working eight hours without using much brain power is okay. But creating new content requires much more mental effort and my “creation” capacity is still between 2 – 4 hours a day. I may consider using my Saturday and Sunday mornings on two, two hour bursts to speed up my content creation.
I never understood why Tite Kubo, the creator of the manga series Bleach, would tweet about what he ate everyday instead of tweeting about his grand master plans to dominate the world with his comics. I finally understand now that artists have to get into a habit of creation. Somehow this blog is now serving as my “grounding” place where I can write about my thoughts before I start working on a mega project. Which I hardly want to talk about because I am already working so much on it.
I gave the office cleaning lady a cute flower pouch I got from Japan as a gift. She was elated. I somehow guessed she liked pouches and she confirmed my suspicions that she loved it so much and she needs pouches all the time to keep her belongings or “they will get lost”.
I am becoming a collector of pouches myself, and having being addicted to buying them most of the time other than key chains. I think on this Japan trip alone I bought over ten pouches and more than ten key chains from different shops to be given away. I just find them too cute and too unique that I can’t help but buy so many. Some of the unique key chains I got is a life size plastic model of tuna, peaches and a tied up girl in kimono.
I still haven’t been able to consume all the magazines and books I bought from Japan, which will take months. I have so much little presents to give away 😀 Maybe I should organise a friend’s gathering or just give them all away during this Chinese New Year.
Another unique trivia I learnt is that in Japan, they do not use the Lunar calendar to celebrate New Year. They follow the western calendar so their Golden Week (Japan version of Christmas) is over New Year. However, the Chinese still use the ancient thousand year old Lunar calendar to celebrate Chinese New Year. Which is a month away. Only babies born after Chinese New Year carry the astrological sign of the year. Which in this case, it is the Year of the Monkey! 😀
I can’t wait for Chinese New Year to be a a big Madame Santa!!!
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