Interested in coming to my graduation ceremony?

I'd love to have you all come, and then take pics afterwards!!

Date: May 11 (Thursday) from 2pm (ceremony should last about 2 hours)

Place:  Greek Theatre

Let me know by leaving a comment.  I'll get a hold of you once I get tickets and we can think of a place for all of us to meet so all of you and my parents can stay in one group so we can take a group pic after the ceremony.

I know it's before finals but it'd be great if you can come out. I'd appreciate it a whole ton.

I got the job!!!!

I'll be working in Tokyo starting late this summer.

Dream come true...

I'm DONE!!!

Final round interviews finished.  So now all I have to do is wait.  But I'm not stressed or worried.  I know I did all that I could and now it's beyond my control so no point in worrying.  If it works out, I'm happy, if it doesn't oh well.  No regrets.  Thanks to all those that cheered me on.

Just to let all of my American friends know...

I'm going to Tokyo from the 24th for final round interviews

Job: Associate Consultant

Firm Type: Management Consulting (Strategy)

Office Location: Tokyo

Main Clients:  Medical devices, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies

I learned how to cook 'cuz in Japan we have a lot of "room parties" where we just get together in someone's room and cook whatever and eat whatever we cooked.  That's how we spent a lot of our time when all of us had nothing to do.  Bring drinks and ingredients and then... cook.

Plus, if I like a girl enough, I'll do whatever to make her happy so I guess that was a part of it too.  Looking up recipes, going to supermarkets to check ingredients out, and then going to her place to try it out.  I made cream stew before (kind of like beef stew but it's kinda like a white chowder, not brown colored).

Anyways, I'm working on raising my "stock value" as a potential husband. haha

Just to let my good friend Omar know,

I can cook.

I couldn't cook when I was in Berkeley before I went to Japan for a year.

Let's just say I came back a new man. haha

Yes, I promised her I'd cook something for her first, and she wanted pasta so that's what I'll be making.  She'll be making me a French dish in return.

So an update...

She invited me to go visit her place when I go back to Japan so I said sure and offered to cook dinner for her.  She said she wanted to eat pasta so I spent hours searching for a good recipe when I should've been reading for Poli Sci.

I talked to her again today and she said she'll cook something for me too.  A French dish, she says, is her specialty.  My goodness, she's incredible.

So I'm wondering...

Who would gasp in despair if I said...

I'm already in the third round of interviews for a management consulting job in Tokyo, for an US consulting firm?

I can already think of one...

So I'm sure there were some doubters out there about my chances with that girl.  Believe me, I was a doubter myself, and though there still might be doubts, what she said made me really happy today.

What I had done was send her an e-Valentines card...

(again translated from Japanese)

Her: "Thank you for the card!"

Her: "It was very pretty."

Me: "You're welcome.  I'm glad you liked it."

Her: "I wanted to send you an email thanking you but... sorry for being late."

Me: "No, no, it's okay.  Actually though, I was a bit worried when I didn't get an email... thought 'oh no, I've failed..'"

Her: "No, it was a great success!!"

Me: "Hehe, really?  Thanks!  Happy Valentine's Day!"

Her: ""

That's the gist of it.

Man, she made my day.

Recent conversation went something like this (but all of this was in Japanese; I've just translated this into English):

Me: "So have you heard of the place?"

Her: "No, but it looks like a great place."

Her: "15th story... the view must be great"

Me: "Yeah, I've always wanted to have dinner at a nice place like that."

Her: "Oh, I know.  I love having a nice laid back dinner with some nice wine."

Me: "So... you wanna go then?"

Her: "Yeah!  Let's go, let's go!"

Her: "I gotta dress up~!"

Me: "Guess I gotta look for something nice to wear too"

something about her favorite one-piece dresses... said she had a black one, a pink one, and some other color, and then goes...

Her: "I'll get a white one this time!"

Me talking about something along the lines of what would look good with white and how fun it will be and what not... oh, and that now I've energy to actually study.

Her: "Well, study hard or no date for you~"

Me: "Haha, okay, I'll do my best."

Man... a girl wanting to dress up for me!?  Boy, I must be dreaming... well, no I wasn't.  But yeah... phew.

So now I can't wait for May, 'cuz that's when I'm planning to visit Japan again and see her.

OH, and BTW, I'm done with my LSAT.