Hello internet, this is Masami.

Today is 10/30 but I just decided to write from 27th to today’s diary altogether as it is not much.

27th

So on 28th Wednesday, I went to the gym in the morning as always hoping that it will be only me in the weight training section since it was earlier than I usually go and the weather was not great, most importantly it was cold for a fall. But it was so close, there was one guy already training there. I am secretly setting small goal that I will be the only one who does weight training in my gym someday this year. Well, I need to accomplish that in 2month, can I do it? I’ll write another diary when I did it.

Yes so after I came home, did some reading and worked 8-17. Since we had so-called nomikai that night and last few weeks were tough so manager told me to finish at 17:00. I don’t remember when was the last time I finished at 17:00 so it was great! Though I couldn’t finish exactly at 17, did like 30min more but it’s okay.

Then I went to the dentist appointment, it was very fast!

Okay time to go to nomikai! It was I guess Italian?French? It was good, we also gave the manager engagement present. She seemed very happy to receive it. After that, we wondered around the area to find another bar or izakaya but we couldn’t find good one so we called it a night.

As I was going home with one colleague, I realized I didn’t have my keys. I panicked naturally. As soon as I got off the train, I called the izakaya we went but no one picked up. I was thinking and thinking, and decided to call my parents who lives like an hour away from where I live to come and open my apartment’s door though it was already like 12am since I really needed to get inside before the work starts next morning cuz I had important meeting with the client in the morning.

They agreed to come to mine so I was going home to wait for them. First I went to get my bike in the parking spot and then! I found my keys still stuck in my bike lock. Lol. My keys were there all the time, I didn’t even brought it to the izakaya. Super dumb but I was relieved. Luckily my parents haven’t left the house yet… Then I safely arrived home and that was the 28th’s highlight

28th

I went to bed around 1am last night so I couldn’t go to the gym in the morning so I just woke up later and read. Finally finished reading this book called “Factfulness”. And started new book called “SHOE DOG” by Phil Knight which my sister got me when she went to Canada. Let’s see when I can finish this book.

Every Thursday, my sister comes to my place and spend a night. And she had eyelash extensions appointment at Shibuya today so after the work, I just walked to Shibuya and waited her doing some window shopping. I went to Zara and found few clothes that I liked but we I tried those on, it was not the look I wanted so ended up buying nothing haha.

After she finished the appointment, we went to see some sneakers, all the sneakers I wanted didn’t have my size… We just need to buy those in other place… (my sister will get those online with discount later!)

Then we went to Korean restaurant where we wanted to go for a while, called tonn-ichi (とん一). This place was on TV while ago and their service mind is crazy. We only ordered Samgyeopsal but the table was super full with additional free foods, also the meat was super big. Taste was amazing as well. To add up, after we finished the check and were leaving, the owner gave us face ,masks, snacks, and some Soda. Isn’t it crazy? I’ll definitely go there again

We also wanted to have boba so we decided to get one on our way home. We were hoping to get some from coco but it was closed because they are moving to bigger place so we got from Gong cha. As usual, yummy! Then we just walked back home.

29th

It’s finally Friday! After work, I went back to Shibuya for another round of nomikai, this time with close colleagues from same project we are working on. We haven’t decided where to go for that so when we were searching for the place most of the places we wanted to go was fully booked. There was one place where could be booked so we went there. When I got there, there were no one, even the waiters didn’t noticed me when I entered so I though I came to wrong place haha but right after one colleague came and it was indeed the right place, there was just no other customers at the time.

This place is called Lycopene Monsoon and this place have everything from stir fried minced pork with basil to pizza and pastas. This place was very interesting. We went for all you can eat cheese fondue and all you can drink and it was only less than 3000yen per person. The set also had salad, fried potato(this was also all you can eat) and roasted beef or some kind of meat(this as well) and the taste was decent. I mean it was more than enough for the price!

But one thing, as there were lassies included in the list of drinks we can choose. I liked mango lassie so much so I had 2 of that and eventually my stomach went crazy… I’d never drink lassie so much in short period of time. Lesson learned. Other than that, the food was great, the talk was so much fun!

My sister was at her nomikai and was coming back to mine tonight too so I was waiting her to get to Shibuya after I said bye to my colleagues. The wait time was around 40min and as it is Halloween weekend, there were a lot of people (but less than I imagined), I just cycled around Shibuya. Went to Omotesando, back to Shibuya, went to Yoyogi park, back to Shibuya… And she finally arrived! So we again walked back home from Shibuya. It was already 2am when we made it home haha

30th

Good weather! I wanted to go this new cafe opened pretty close to where I live so I woke my sister up and got out home. I said pretty close but when we walk, it’s like around 50min ~an hour so we just enjoy walking around and found lots of new places we want to try in the future. But as we were walking, we got hungry so we stopped at this Asian restaurant called Saigon. I’ve had their food like a year ago and remembered it was great so we went in and had great lunch. My sister got curry with a nan and I got beef pho, and we also shared raw spring rolls.

On the way to the cafe again and got here. We had fluffy pancake together. It was good but too sweet for us haha. And here I am writing this, preparing to leave for another place.

We are going near the Equestrian park to see horse riding goods since my sister is riding horses recently. This is our first time visiting horse riding goods store so pretty excited!!

Okay this is it for today. See you soon and stay safe!