God knows what’s wrong with fucking Ecto, but I’ve written this article three times now. Each time I make it shorter:
Back this weekend after seven days overseas, including five in Tokyo and two in Seoul. I’ve never been to Korea before. Food was pretty good, the hills wrapping around the city are impressive (my office had a brilliant 20th storey view of the Blue House nestled in the bosom of a small mountain), but the city itself is a ‘meh’ — looks like KL or Bangkok to me.
Tokyo was good, except for losing my two-week old iPhone 4g. Somehow Super Wife managed to compel Singtel to sell me a second iPhone 4g (normally impossible) which was ready by the time I landed Saturday night. Overseas three days sans phone sucks.
The legend that Japanese return found property is urban legend. So far Tokyo has absorbed from me a 160GB iphone, a nice pair of sunglasses, and now this time the iPhone 4g.
Other than losing my phone in a Ginza taxi on my way to a mediocre sushi dinner (しもん）it was a pretty good trip — Japan always is. Weather was harsh though. Tokyo was hot. Osaka was worse. And it’s all aggravated by the Japanese Government’s (badly-named) “Cool Biz” policy of encouraging companies to keep their office temperature at around 82F. It’s horrid — you come in from the heat and find yourself in a room just slightly cooler but without a breeze. I felt so nasty after a Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka shinkansen/flight trip that I could have gagged.
Some worse trip comes the following week. Absurd one-day-per-country jolly around North Asia. Ugh.
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