Tuesday, March 4, 2008

First Days at Canon part 2

This second day was again busy as hell. A summary.

from 8.30 to 11am
Canon schedule: address change for foreign registration at city hall
Realization: we were done in 5 minutes, which left us over two hours with our supervisor to kill time at a temple somewhere until our next appointment.

from 11pm to 12am:
Schedule: arranging Canon pass at canon HQ
Realization: again done after 5 minutes. Had to kill time with supervisor with cappuccino and food until 1 pm (lunch was 12 to 1).
1:00 to 2:00
Canon Gallery official tour

2:00 to 3:00
kill time at canon gallery playing with binoculars and high-end camera models

3:00
I finally got to meet the people of my division. They seem great. Naturally I had to do an introduction again today. ("he can speak japanese!"). I think I made a good impression and they seem to have been looking forward to greet a new trainee. They're even arranging a welcome party for me friday evening.

4:00
Home. Dead tired, as you may expect.

Seeing the HQ of canon was shockingly magnificent and everything I imagined it to be. I won't put in too much detail as it is not allowed, but it's a whole little corporate campus paradise where the grass is green, the buildings are superdeluxe, as is the restaurant and the (free) hyperclass fitness and swimming center for its employees... yay!

Also, (completely off-topic) Coming back home today we discovered there is a monstrous supermarket two meters away from the dry cleaner where we already dropped off some clothes yesterday. This is shocking as we have been looking for these kinds of obvious signs of civilization but could only find 'mom and pop stores' and had to walk 20 minutes for the nearest supermarket which is now reduced to 5. How could we have missed this.

And continuing the story of yesterday; I only scored two business cards today. I'm losing my touch.

1 comment:

teacher-in-nepal said...

Wow, that sounds really cool. Another big plus of working at a Cool Big Company. Had a lot of fun in Tokyo, thanks for showing me around. I turned into half a Japanese my self in those fourteen days, constantly nodding my head when greeting people or saying 'thanks'. And those barbaric indians do not even respond.

Ps: 8.15 isn't that bad right?