Old enough to look back and laugh at my mistakes,
Young enough to look at the future and like what I see,
My best days are ahead of me.
Nobody could have sung it better than David Gokey.
The days I've been waiting for are here. The beginning of the end of the year.
It all started in Tokyo. Ahhh, Tokyo. From stealing the cute Mandarin Oriental packaged tiny sugar cubes wherever I went (and that included while having tea with the CEO), to stepping front and backing off from the toilet seat in Nobu Tokyo just to see the sensor-automated toilet lid flip up and down, to downing sake in an irreverent atmosphere at a Tokyo National museum gallery that was specially booked by our company for a client event (at night too, no less!), to partying like it was 2012 with newly-made friends at two Roppongi Hills clubs til 5am, it almost made the year worth it.
The Japanese sure know how to party, and they're really good at lip-synching to the most popular American tunes today. Imagine swirling your whiskey glass in the underground basement of a totally non-descript building which resembles a warehouse, with tons of Japanese guys and girls smiling at you, while all of you are singing together to the song "Empire State of Mind". Nooo York..... concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh....
Price-freaking-less.
Sitting on a park bench watching the world go by, and a couple at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Roppongi Hills.
So Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore are down. Tonight I fly to the land of Swiss cheese and ski resorts.
See you in Zurich.
