Ema (絵馬) are small shinto traditional plaques that are usually located below sacred trees in Japanese shrines. When you go to a shrine you buy an ema, you write your wishes and hopes into it and they you hang it together with the other emas. Emas are near the gods, so they can read them and make your dreams come true. When people goes to shinto shrines they go to “ask for wishes” more than “praying” like we are used to see in other religions.
Japanese, and also Asian people are pretty addict to energetic drinks. There are zillions of different kinds of beverages. Here, there is a picture with energetic drinks and similar potions in a simple convenience store, if you go to a pharmacy there is even more variety. “Red Bull” is trying to enter this competitive market in Japan since a while a go but it seems they are not being successful.
Eneko Alonso shares his schedule with everyone, he wakes up everyday at 5:00h, that’s really early! But he can leave work around 15:00h. Here there is my prototype schedule during the week:
- 9:00h – Wake up
- 9:40h – Commute
- 10:00h – Work
- 12:00h – Lunch break
- 13:00h – Work
- 19:00h – Commute
- 19:30h – Dinner
- 20:00h – Procrastinate, personal projects, study and read
- 1:15h – Sleep
In Tokyo most of the people start working around 9 or 10AM. It’s pretty late, but some people here live really far from their workplace. One of my work-mates lives two hours by train from hour offices. What do you prefer, start before and finish before or sleep until late?