Tokyo and Taipei

In a city like Tokyo, you don't expect to see much differences from the people you know already from Taiwan. Even you could still feel the trivial details for two groups of people, you'd be lost and confused yourself among tons of people in the central of Tokyo.
Before you noticed that you are different from them, you already started to act like a Japanese. By acting, I meant bowing like a Japanese. It's really an interesting culture of how they inter-act with each other. They have so many official 'sentences' and 'movements' maybe to use for certain situations. They invited so many sentences and movement just to fit the situations they encounter everyday.

It made me wonder that whether it's an easier way to do between people. It's like you have a standard for everyone's everyday's encounters. You have a standard way to act to people and you don't have to think about how you have to behavour among people. Just following this way. On the other hand, it made us easily to judge or critise people's behaviours based on these standard. So you have an example for you everywhere in daily life, and you have a rule to judge people's behaviour. If you asked me, it's like a living textbook for human beings, how you interact/live in a society. As growing up in a society like Taiwan with crammed educations, one question always come to my mind that since school/education system seems to have every answer to everything. How come I never learnt something about relationship between two human beings? How come I never had an exam about acting among a group of humn beings?

On a street like Tokyo, you'd be so surprised to see how clean the city could be. Even there are signs of you cannot smoke while you walk on the street. You have to STOP and finished your smoking. The most amazing thing is not just how clean the city is, it's when you see how many people on the street, and you're still fighting so hard to find a piece of crap on the street. NOTHING. Maybe not nothing nothing, one or two pieces maybe. But have you ever realized how big Tokyo is and how many people she has in her? Even you don't see the public trash can on the streets, still ZERO!!

I've been to London and lived there for like 5 and half years, and I have confident to say that it's one of the most dirty city in the world, especially Friday night. You wouldn't believe how dirty London could be so that you'd wonder is this a city of developed country. I heard New York is not too good either. So what's wrong with this city? I meant where does all these so-called messness, if you like, for a freedom and advanced city like Tokyo? What happened to her attachment of being developed and big city?
Singapore has her cleanless because of the strict and hard laws. How about Tokyo then? Does she have strict and hard laws to press on people to maintain all these? Or is there something else to keep this city running?

Sitting in the small apartment in Tokyo, coming from Taipei, I'm wondering what's this about Tokyo and what's this about Taipei so that I feel so familiar but yet so different. What's confused me in this big and beautify city? Is it something I miss from Taipei or is it something I miss from Tokyo? How come among all these obvious differences between two cities, I still feel confused and puzzled here. Late alone in Tokyo, wondering and thinking....

東京的照片

說到照片，就先想到東京的住所…
那就先來幾張吧！:)
去走走的照片，等過幾天比較空了，再來說吧！
這幾天已經忙到快不行了…

日本行之「走走」

星期六
日本公司這邊並沒有排任何的訓練計劃
雖然台灣公司的經理還是希望我們可以有些「活動」
不過在不影響日本人的生活作息下
我們決定自己到處走走
說到「走走」
我真的是「走」了一整天
一天從Ichigaya（市谷）走到神樂坡
神樂坡是個很日本古味的地方
總個的街道跟現今東京繁華之景完全不同
雖然是這樣 還是很多人在逛
途中經過東京大神社 正是日本神社春祭之時
所以就進去參拜了一下
爬上神樂坡再下來
時間也差不多到了中午的時間了
找了個旅遊書介紹的店 進去後發現人超多要排隊
對日本人來說吃飯排飯 似乎是正常的
但是對於走了一早的我來說 肚子是不能等的
反正這裡離住家並不遠 兩個月之間再來就好了
下坡後 找了家wendy漢堡解決
想說起碼這家台灣現在沒有了吧！
吃完後 在神樂坡入口處的一家紀之善
非常有名的甜品 點了個紅豆抹茶凍
超～好吃…
吃完後 延著神樂坡下去往北之丸公園走去
在快到北之丸公園前
是靖國神社 不記得到底有沒有來過
正好又是春祭之時 因此前往參拜一番
據說日本的櫻花季開始 就是以靖國神社的櫻花為準的
在花園處 正好有傳統舞的表演
內院並沒有辦法進去參拜 而且正好有祭拜的活動在進行
所以逛了一下 買了個神社的開運手機吊飾
就離開了
隨著北之丸公園的武道館向南走
打算往皇宮前進
到了乾門 發現這邊並沒有開放給民眾參觀
於是隨著護城河往西延著皇城走
再向南轉到所謂的花之道
花季已過 可是還是可以從花花綠綠中去窺想全部都是櫻花的美景
走到半藏門 再轉向西前往新宿
走途很累 在日本的starbucks休息了一下
本想買個像台北倫敦一樣的城市杯 沒想到他們沒有
只有花季推出的限量櫻花杯
一路走到新宿 超級累到不行
吃完飯後 放棄再走回家的打算
坐JR回家
洗個熱水澡後
還是受不住看了一下man and boy才上床睡覺
很累 寫出來的文章很瑣碎 連修飾一下的力氣都沒有
照了太多照片 也放不上來
文化 美食 運動 的一天
在東京的我

TWN Mike in Tokyo

東京
印象中
就是還跟著父母過年過節時去的地方
這次的來到
少了童稚的追隨 少了玩樂的期盼
不知道 是久違的東京不同了
還是這些少了的讓東京不同了

在這裡有一種時空錯亂的感覺
乾淨過頭的街道
滿街絡繹不絕的人潮
坐在右邊開車的駕駛
沒有字暮的現場日本劇
多了JP的HMVVodafone

東京、台北、倫敦…
心情的感受在還沒有理清之前
又多了些不知道到底為何的感受
在還沒有從倫敦的情緒出來之前
又會掉入東京的戀情嗎

東京的櫻花早了些日子 凋謝了
只有粉色點綴在綠葉之中
倫敦老街舊屋窗前的櫻花該也開完了
滿地的粉混在週末夜晚的狼藉
台北家前院的櫻花
該還是那幾朵在撐場面的櫻花
吐露著春天的到來

坐在兩個月的宿舍中
不知是今晚跟舊朋友見面的愉悅
還是時空錯亂的興奮
在吱吱喳喳的日文電視中

我在東京

日本行

很久沒有感受到早上尖鋒時間的烏煙排放量
連著兩天
天氣很熱 空氣很不好
頭髮很亂很醜
上班的一切都還很新
很多的準備工作
很多的事情要做
也很多的事要學
到日本學習前的市場調查
日本下週前來一同研習
到星期四一同到日本
為期兩個月的學習就要開始了
興奮很多
只是突然想到 在倫敦上班生活的日子已經完全沒了
有點失落
可大概會一路忙到明年三月吧
那時再來想這個問題 應該還不算晚吧
明天清明放假 好好休息一下
之後還有很多事要做

連結

終於把各位好友的連結放回來了…
可是有些朋友的太久沒去了
也忘了…對不起大家
所以有來的朋友
把link留下給麥克吧
謝謝。