Who do you think people mistake me for??

Sooo after spending my whole afternoon trying to arrange flight tickets for the management staff for the company that I work for the Japan trip that is coming up in a week, all getting frustrated by a few complications that I encountered and all, a phone rung and it solved my day: my good friend, Tom called me offering me to go to his travel agent office to look after some of the problems that I was facing with. Thank God, he called me, because I was hesitated to contact him on a Saturday asking him for work related help that no one needs to deal with on the weekend, you know?

Anyway, I was able to leave for the gym to do some exercise to relieve my tensed up self and returned home with a great thai take out food for my roommate and myself (I was screaming in the flat and caused some negative emotions on him, which totally wasn't fair...I am sorry! :( :( ).

Anyhow, we ate good food, and I planned out my Sunday (busy day coming up!) and making sure that I will get to cover all that I need to do (work and personal) before my leave for Japan.

I am leaving for Japan on Saturday afternoon, so I plan on checking out this Joe Claussell party on Friday nite, party all nite and then come home, take shower and pack myself for the airport :) hehehehe (I like to do this as it is a great way to adjust my body clock 180 degree).

Anyway, I was debating whether to go and check out this Ron Trent party at 99 Sudbury that was re-opened yesterday! I was like: well, I gotta wake up early tomorrow, and I must do this and that. I wanted to go to my work to arrange some flowers, but I decided to leave that for Monday morning to give myself more time to cover all that I need to do tomorrow.

So I decided to go and check out Ron Trent, who is one of my fav producers, and whom I have never heard live before.

The party was FUN! A lot of familiar faces. Sweet music lovers unite! :) I love dancing with people who appreciate and love the same deep house music that I dig :)

After 3 hours of straight dancing, I decided it was time for me to come home, so I came home, took a nice bath, and decided to update my blog.

Overall, I am feeling much much better than 12 hours ago, and I think that doing things that I love absolutely put me back on the right mind set that I ideally stay no matter how difficult circumstances I may face in my life...

Ron Trent was great. He played *RON TRENT* type of music, nature sounding, organic and african. I absolutely dancing to his music. It felt like my spirits were lifted higher as I dance to his tunes. I am so very glad that I made it. I, however, concluded that he is a good producer (and not much of a DJ). Nevertheless, it was a bless to meet a soul that touched so many other souls in this planet with his amazing production work, you know??

By the way, in the past couple of weeks, a lot of people mistake me for Spanish. I asked all of them why, and they said it is because of my facial structure and feature. Interesting. I always thought I absolutely look Japanese. One person mentioned it is because of the way I dance. Interesting. Anyway, it will be interesting to see myself videotaped just like my childhood video clips that I have posted in my previous entry (a couple back I think), but it will just embarass me to see myself. Because I know I am such a sillyyyyy person. But I enjoy being pure me. Go pure Kumi GO :)

Gotta catch up some sleep. You all have a wonderful and productive Sunday!

Peace and love :)

Roy Davis Jr-No Show, David Morales-sucks ass

I did not get to do much dancing on Sat nite, because the DJs that were opening up for the Roy Davis Jr just did not do it for me (too energetic urban house whose body language sort of reminded me of the DJ Super stah Greg.

Then a DJ who came up to me to introduce himself told me that Roy cancelled 2 hours ago, and wasn't gonna show, so my friends were out of this cheesy venue on Richmond street (clubby-clubb district).

Then when I was trying to get back to my friends, one guy stopped on my way out leaving the first club by grabbing my palms and said: "I was waiting for you. I saw you dance, and I just wanted to talk to you badly, but I lost you, so I was looking for you for the past 20 minutes.
What's your name??" LOL and that sort of made my day, cause it was mad funny (like he was mad serious and all).

Unfortunately, since I do not take people I meet at the clubs too seriously (unless I bump into them frequently at events that I participate) and I was in a hurry to get my crew out of the stupid club (LOL), I told him that I have to get going, but I appreciated his kind words and left him there.

I hope that he did not have any high expectations by courageously saying hi to me, cause althogh I may interact with them on a friendly level, I am not open to share too much of my personal info with strangers unless they make me feel homie, if you know what I mean...

Anyway, we went to the old BOA to check out David Morales with a bunch of people, but when we got there around 3:30am, David Morales wasn't even on the deck, and the guy who was opening for the show was playing some progressive stuff, which usually turns me off....so Nozomi and I were getting more and more tired by not really and fully enjoying our evening out. And even when David came on the DJ deck, he was playing some cheesy clubby music,that just did not do a magic to me. So Nozomi and I left the club leaving the rest of crew (LOL) there.

Although we indeed wasted a lot of our money by making stupid decisions without much investigations on the background of the events etc, I absolutely had a wonderful time with friends, especially with Nozomi. Yes, she rules :) and I am very grateful that I became friends with her. :)

Peace-

Tonite's Party: Roy Davis Jr.

You know where to find me. See you there :)

PEACE!

Toronto-afterhours party!

Sooooo it was my first weekend off in like....2 months? I had to go out and dance for sure!
I went to the gym and enjoyed using the steamroom for like 1/2 hour or so, came home, super hungry so made veal stroganoff for dinner, had a sip of sake and just fell into sleep (ended up taking a nap for 90 minutes or so).
I got up did some work for my little sister's assignment (more so a request), and the clock said *midnite*, I was like: "I gotta go and do my thing......"
So my new friend, Donald and I ended up going to this club called "dragonfly" where a collective of sweet deep house DJs used throw weekly Saturday nite events. But when we got there, the place was empty, and the music was...different.

We stayed there for a bit, and we figured that the boys were no longer throwing the event there anymore, and it was the first Saturday that they stopped their weekly events. We tried staying there, but the music (to my taste) sucked and I wasn't feeling the materialistic -we are all on *e*- type of vibe where every individual was in their own zone and not interacting with people around them but enjoying their highness. LOL

So we decided to go somewhere else (I insisted. LOL). The bartender there recommended us to go to this afterhour party on Elm street and Dundas. And we were ready to rock'nroll.
I raised my thumb up by the street for a taxi and the mid-size ban pulled over that gave us enough space to put our bikes! (just like that and it was a very great timing, because it just started raining really hard).

So here are some photos of the evening: I have not had such a fun time dancing my ass off until morning for like 5 years! It was such a blast! :)


God bless DEEP HOUSE MUSIC! :)-more photos to come-

My new JOB :)

My first day at my new work was cool. I did some planning (travel arrangement) for my boss, and did work hard!

I know that it will be a little nervous job, because if I miss something or screw things up, it will have a huge effect on my boss and his partner (lawyer). So my first conclusion to do my job well: sleep well, do enjoy life (working out, meeting friends, being inspired, do my things)! so that my mind stays open to things that I should have my focus on (when tied up being busy, it is easy to forget things easily, you know? But when one is fully enjoying life, it permits creative mind to rock'roll, and human often does some crazy things, don't you think? LOL).

I already know that I will be going to Japan in early December for an event in Chiba (near Tokyo). My boss said that we should also visit my folks at the restaurant, eat good food and rest in a traditional Japanese housing, so my folks are very excited about it :)

I am also excited!! but before we go, there is a lot of work and planning to do, so I will keep my focus and continue working hard! :)

The people at work is overall, nice and considerate people, who are intelligent, got a unique personality and are plucky (a new word that my boss taught me LOL).

My boss took all of us out for a drink to welcome me to the team, so we went out to a nearest pub from work. My boss has such a great sense of humour, and I love it how he talks and teases us just like my friends (in 20s-early 30s) do. LOL

So all of us kept laughing and enjoyed our little get together. :)

My boss is an intelligent business man, who is athletic, got a great sense of humour and courage and adventurous personality. He drives the black jaguar. It totally suits him. Speakingof jaguar, I think jauar will also suits my personality ("go get it, tigar!;) ) too. LOL So one day, if I ever have a lot of money to spend on a car, I may get a red jaguar too (will see).

I feel very lucky that I am blessed with good people and a challenging career.
I hope to work hard to progress and share my gaining with others :)

I can not believe that I am having my weekend off, and although I am a little confused as to what to do utilizing my freedom right now (was tied up for soooo long. lol), I think going to the gym and do my thing will once energize me and allows me to appreciate all that I have in my life. God I am so thankful! Thank you for all and everything! :)

happy halloween!

my weekend was spent hitting up a local club on Friday nite with Nozomi and checking out a private halloween party at someone's loft on Queen street east!(not to mention both of us worked both on Friday, Saturday and Sunday! LOL).

It was a lot of fun. I am looking forward to seeing some photos that Nozomi took! Once I get them, I plan on posting on my blog.

I decided to wear my leopard dress to work today (again-cause I wore it on Sat nite too LOL)!




















Happy Halloween, everyone! I gotta go work now.
Peace and hugs,

Kumi

re-evaluating my career path and positive changes

I was recently contacted by a local head-hunter for a bilingual Japanese executive assistant position for a microchip technology company, and I have been doing alot of evaluation in terms of *the ideal career path* to help me not only grow as a person, but being able to serve others.

When I think about what I seek in career, the most important aspect when making a career decision which is to serve people remains the same even after many years of different career experience.

And lately, I realized how it is very important for me to help my family before serving the people in the society. Sure, the balance is the key, but I feel I have been too self centered, being interested in my personal progression (well, that was the stage of life that I was going thru), and not thinking too much of what I could have done to help my own people.

I became interested in the catering/event manager position in the restaurant business, because I thought that it would hep me cultivate the path to opening a restaurant here in North America.

As you may already know, my family has a family restaurant business that has been running over 80 years in Japan, and because of that, I was able to come overseas at the age of 15 to study English. Unfortunately at the moment, no one is to continue the business over there (all of their daughters are here in N. America), so I have been hoping to establish a new root but in the same industry to continue our family tradition. And in my mind, I was picturing myself to open the business in the next 3-5 years.

But recently, I got a wake up call.

If I do not get to help my parents now, I am not even sure if what I am doing right now will lead me to get where I need to be in 3-5 years.

So what is it that I need or want to do right now?

I want my parents to give some of their responsibilities to me. They still look after my youngest sister who goes to high school in Vancouver, BC.

Because of that they continue to work, although they would (I think) like to retire and try something new and exciting (they are very eager and mentally young adults who started snowboarding after turning 50! And my dad is training to become a snowboarding instructor! Yes, I got my humble personality from my dad ;) ), and I know that they deserve to explore their life more while they are physically healthy and young!

So I have been thinking: if I get the bilingual executive assistant position, I will not only get to see my family during international business trips (which I know bring them some good happy times), but help my dad by supporting my youngest sister financially even a little bit...

And if I do get to start helping my family now, I may get a better understanding of my own self and the purposes of my life better, which will definitely help me in terms of turning my own dreams come true, you know?

And guess what!

I heard from the head-hunter yesterday and I am now offered the position by beating up another candidate with much stronger career background!!

How did I do it?

Well, there was a pdf file that summarized the company profile (and their products) in their website.

I used the given information and made a presentation of it, but in the language of Japanese to show my translation skill (as well as my presentation skill).

I knew that I had to make a great impact during the second job interview, and although I was busy with my current job responsibility, I stayed up until 4am to complete the presentation file and brought the file burned onto a cd-rom to the job interview this past Wednesday!

Needless to say, the president and the executive were impressed with my initiative and my eager attitude.

And I was told that they really like my diverse career background (have worked for manufacturing, educational and hospitality industry) and my humble, determined and responsible personality! :) And so they decided to hire me as their team member! YES!!! YES!!! YES!! I did it! :)

So yes, it is official that I am going to work as a bilingual Japanese executive assistant starting next Friday! And this is very exciting to me, because I feel that I have finally obtained a career that I can be very proud of and have the potential to grow (as a career woman) and at the same time allow me to help my own people!! (yes! Finally!!)

So although the idea of leaving my current company suddens me a little (people were very nice and generous), I feel that this will cause a good change for my family and myself.

You know, things have been kinda difficult for me since last fall losing my personal identity.

I literally had to learn how to live from the scratch.

But because of that, I can appreciate the each given day as a gift,

And it makes me super happy to know that I really mean things that I speak right now, being truly truthful to my own life philosophy and appreciating all that is given to me from the bottom of my heart. I feel that because I learned how to appreciate the life in an ultimate way, all these lucky things are arriving in my life.

So I just wanted to give my people my wonderful news and share my immense positive energy that is fuelled in my body and soul!

Thank you so much, guys (you know whom I referring to!) for being there for me and being such a great support and inspiration.

I promise that I will continue trying to inspire you guys in everything that I do in my life :)

Peace and love! thanks so much for reading!