Hello again! Come again to the
continual post of my trip to Japan! Notice that every post getting shorter and
shorter, however it will be getting very long maybe on the last post. Hehehee.
Don't worry this post isn't going to be the last post J Let’s continue then!
On the final day of workshop, we
were given some more time until 12.00 p.m to finish our presentation, have
lunch and off to MUJI (Ryohinkeikaku) Headquarter which I kind of forgot where
it was (which district it was).
Final presentation is getting a
bit on our nerves actually. Suddenly we became very nervous moments before our
turn to present, but luckily it all went well thanks God. All of the points and
words I've been practicing since last night (yes, I am practicing, afraid that
my English speaking skill will be a burden again) can be presented well. Done
with the presentation, all 3 teams went back to hotel to have commencement
session (to announce the best team presentation from each company) and farewell
party. Before that we took photos of our team:
right after the presentations and on the front office of Ryohin:
I have a little incident here. I
am briefed here that on the commencement session, we were free to dress as long
as it is formal, so I change to my batik. Getting a little bit late for
commencement (I’m taking shower first, that’s why) I didn't know that on the
last moment the dress code change again into business formal wear and I
unfortunately didn't bring my blazer there!! For God Sake, luckily one of the
committee borrowed me a scarf to blend me in with the crowd so the difference
is not so distinct.
And unlucky after unlucky
moments, my team didn't come out as the best team. I kinda already predict that
though, looking of how our discussion going and my effort toward this,
definitely other team, in this case, Tiara’s team that efforts are so total
that deserve as the best team winner. On the 3rd day, while I’m enjoying my
time in Odaiba, their team working on the presentation until late, not to
mention Tiara’s effort for working until 4 am in the morning. They really worth
to be announced as winner after all. Congratulation!
After the nervousness ended, here
comes the farewell party! The food was great, the drinks and beers were
extraordinary (and yes several of my friends already a little bit drunk even
before the food was served) and the mingling was fun! We get to know several
people directly from the company and mingling with each other, asking about the
chance to work in Japan, the experience, not to mention new friends from other
country. Everything was perfect.
With MUJI full team:
Random photos taken:
Notice Dendi's photos almost all blur, 'cause he is already a little bit drunk that time!
Full team AJE 2012:
The photo session close the
farewell party and we were very looking forward to meet again sometimes with
everyone here, which were together for almost 4 full days J
However, farewell party didn't ended our trip to Japan, still, at least, my trip. Some of us, well, most of us
decided to go nomikai once again to Wara-Wara, which indirectly hosted by the
man, Hiroki whose in the end pretty confused to lead about 30 people and getting
funnily pissed (and kinda regretting why he invited so much people to go
nomikai hahaha)
However, this final nomikai night
was very fun and kinda messed up in the end. Several people getting very drunk,
smashing several plates and glasses (WTF) and puked off. We have drinking
competition, wasabi-mixed-up sake, lots of food and so on. Really.
This is the wasabi battle.. sorry guys but idk why blogger can't rotate the photos even I've already rotated it before I upload it...
Realizing how red my face was at that time.. not a good drinker that means.
Everybody starts to fly to drunk-heaven..
Before all of us get too drunk, we decided to went home as soon as possible. Leaving from Wara2, it was like
twice as cold as before (maybe due to our rising body heat thanks to Alcohol +
colder weather). See it yourself.. (It's in celsius)...
However despite all the happiness (and drunk-ness) I’m kinda sad though, this is the night when
actually we informally say goodbye to each other, especially MUJI team from
Indonesia (me, Ezra and Tiara) which will depart from Japan on the next 2 days
not tomorrow, so we will not seeing them again on the next day. And yes, after
we went back to hotel and get up in the next morning, everybody already left
and we didn't have a chance to say goodbye to all of them.
However, 1 thing to be grateful
is, a day for everybody to depart from Japan and go home means one extra day
for us Indonesian MUJI team to have another full day Tokyo sightseeing again!
The reason we have an extra day because we were arranged as the last team to
have an interview on 3 p.m. and there were not anymore flight to Indonesia after
this 3 p.m. so we were scheduled to leave on the next morning! Hooray!!
Luckily there is Ezra, who
already familiar with Japan due to his internship lately for 3 months in Japan
so he can take us wherever we want and be our guide for the day! On the 5th day,
firstly we went to Gundam Realsize Statue in Odaiba. Tiara really wanted to go
there and since we have the whole day to travel, why not? Actually we have to
go back to the workshop place at 3 p.m. to have our interview for 1 hour and
it’s free time again! Arrived in Odaiba, before reaching Gundam Statue:
This is us, arrived at Gundam
Statue, and didn't forgot to take photos too:
*sorry again guys for the un-rotated photos.. blame blogger!
Since there is Gundam Store and
Cafe beside the Statue, we went in too. This is what it looks like on the
inside, they're selling Gundam souvenirs and even waffles:
After satisfying our self with all
the Gundam accessories, we went once again to Asakusa because me and Tiara felt
that on the first day we still hadn't got enough souvenirs to be brought to
Indonesia. After buying lots of stuffs as fast as we could, we took several
photos near Tokyo Skytower and Asahi Statue there:
We have quite a good walk here.
The weather was quite good and sunny, so it was very perfect to take photos and sight-see From Asakusa, we decided to go back to our workshop place near our
hotel and take our interview session as best as we could.
The interview was a panel
interview where several people directly interviewed 3 of us. I am quite nervous
at the beginning but actually getting more calm after several questions
answered. Finished with the interview and the hell with the result, we rushed
again to several sites we always wanted to go: Shibuya especially Mugiwara
Store, Harajuku, Shinjuku, and Tokyo Tower.
Stay tuned until my next post,
wait for the climax of my trip J
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