Boy – am both I exhausted but glad too that my toughest day of lecturing completed this evening. There’re still two more days of lectures to deliver, but the two topics today were the hardest to teach in compressed mode. Fortunately, my Japanese students took to the lessons gamely and it was a unreserved delight teaching interested learners.
Dinner was still at Restaurant Matsuri, with the wait staff the same team as yesterday. I’m guessing they’ve got different day shifts on roster or something. The dinner sequencing was different from the last several days too. Rather than have one dish arriving slowly at a time, this time round, 10 minutes after sitting down, this tray landed on my table:
Yep, everything came at the same time. I wonder why the change. Maybe perhaps they felt that since this poor guy is coming into our restaurant looking very tired every day (after work) and all he wants is to eat and go back to his room, let’s just plonk everything on his table and let him rip.
Or maybe the head waitress concluded that Japanese fine dining is lost on this obviously-non-local guy who has no clue how to truly enjoy Japanese cuisine, so why bother.
Either way, while dinner was as delicious as before, in truth I was really too tired to enjoy the meal anyway. Lips were numb, throat was dry and my legs were aching. So, I finished dinner chop-chop, then mowed through this exquisite dessert like I was eating cheap Magnolia ice-cream…
… in double-quick time, then zombie-walked back to my room to do up this quick post, and look through tomorrow’s lecture materials before turning in.
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Tomorrow’s agenda is going to be a little different. The college is receiving visitors from the other national colleges around the country, and the guests are interested to see this collaborative teaching arrangement between my institution and their national colleges. So, I’ve been asked to do a presentation, meet them and talk about what we do in Singapore; and they’ve asked to sit into my lecture too as I teach the Japanese students too.
And oh yes also; I’ll be brought out to dinner tomorrow by my Japanese counterparts. Not sure if it’ll be polite to take pictures of everything that’s put on my table but I’m going to assume it’s not. So, sorry folks: you’re going to have to just read about it tomorrow.:)
Dear, bring your camera anyway and who knows it might be ok to shoot at your dinner tmr :D
OOooooo, i’d love to have your dessert :P *salivating*
Let’s try “Ba-sa-shi”.:)
you can just tell your japanese counterparts the dishes are so pretty you want to show your wife. they’d be pleased =)
looks like it’s persimmons, pear and strawberries galore! yums!!
you just look at the dishes in awe and say “sugoi!”, “subarashi!” and ask to take photo la… can one la hahaha
hey, grace is back. she says hi and enjoy yourself! ^^