United Airline Lounge

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I am at United Airline Lounge at Narita Tokyo Airport.
It has been a while since I used this space.

I noticed there are pieces of black tapes on the floor here and there as I walked in the lounge. There are not one, not two, not ten, but more than that, pieces on the floor. Then I realized that they used these black shipping tapes to repair the worn carpets!

I cannot believe United Airline using black tapes in the lounge to repair the carpet! I know things are tough with airlines but are they that broke? This looks like a very poor and cheap airline. Although it is only on the floor, it gives an impression of the lower quality & poor company image as a brand!

Are you that broke, United Airline?
Can't a CEO give in a bit on his bonus to repair the carpet properly instead of using black shipping tape! You really got to be kidding, right?

Leaving Tokyo

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It is raining in Tokyo this morning.I am getting ready to leave for home.

Raining in Tokyo

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I am in Tokyo this week. It is raining here today.

Almost a year since March 11

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I am in Japan this week, watching many TV programs looking back the day of the Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011. Watching videos remind me of the people I got to know from Tohoku during my last trip in November.

Many of them I met, who survived the disaster, say "My life is given" when I talked to them. What a perspective of life they have. They are trying to figure out why they are the ones who survived and not the others.

We are sponsoring to bring kids from these regions this summer. I am getting lots of support from many of the companies we know. We truly appreciate the support we are getting to carry on with this program. You can visit our online page to see all of the supporters we have: http://www.pspinc.com/eng/page/japan-relief/.

This is a picture of Minami Sanriku cho I took last November.
I shall return to visit them all sometime this year again.

Struggling with the technology...

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Robyne in my office told me something is wrong with my calendar - I thought I was having a quiet day today but it was all because my calendar, iCal, in my Mac was not syncing correctly nor entirely to my iCloud! Now when we both looked at my calendar, we realized that there are lots more appointments that were missing!

I asked Robyne to save my calendar on paper, while I work on the solutions. I saw that on my phone, the calendar was displayed correctly so I knew iCloud was fine. It must be my iCal then...

It took me a courage to delete my current iCal events, which emptied my entire schedules, but then I have added my iCloud account - no luck getting the calendar synced entirely.

I repeated the same thing 3 times - delete the account, setup the account again, and sync the data.

Who said the third time is a charm - it finally worked on the third try!

I don't know what happened but it seems to me that the software on iPhone is better than the software on Mac. What a frustrating afternoon it was...

Can I go home tomorrow?

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I am still in LA office today and tomorrow but will head back tomorrow night to Seattle. I hope I can be home tomorrow though. I heard they declared a state of emergency and www.weather.com has all the alerts I can think of the snow storm on it in Redmond!

I hope everyone in Seattle are safe and staying warm.

Will it snow, really?

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The forecast keeps saying it will have tons of snow but I have not seen it yet. This is getting ridiculous - quite a few staff headed home early because of it. I hope we all can catch up at work later this week.

I am heading to SeaTac Airport soon to catch my flight to LA - yes, where there is no snow!

I need to get to the airport

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I have a flight to LA tomorrow evening. I hope to I can get to the airport all right. The forecast says there will be more snow. I went to the office briefly but came home early just in case.

I got tons of snow around my house.

Really snowing...

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It's snowing really hard for the last 4 hours without stopping around my house. According to friends in Bellevue and Issaqua, there seems to be no snow... hum...

I even cleared the deck for my puppies to be able to go out. I think there is at least 4 inches of snow now.

In spite my effort to keep my puppies dry, Nano decided to take another route into snow to take care of the business... She came back all soaked wet with snow all over.

I don't know if I can get down the hill from here tomorrow morning to get to the office. Let's see how long it will keep snowing like this. This reminds of me the winter 3 years ago, when we got 5 days of snowing straight!

Snow - really?

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Never know what the weather forecast says around here in Seattle - some forecasts say that we will have some snow starting Sunday night. Really?
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