Marketing Competition

In our zemi many people take part of contests and competition.
And with the help of our prof, few of the people in the zemi and I have decided to take part of a marketing competition taking place in Kobe.

The url to the competition is here.

The concept of the whole competition is to create a marketing plan on how to sell these pants from a specific brand. The company can receive new ideas from young undergrads and for the participants we can brush up on our english skills and business skills and receive attention. I'm really fortunate to take place in a opportunity like this and I'm really pumped to win this thing. We already had our first screening and got chosen to present in Kobe (A city close to Osaka). Stay updated on how we do at the competition!! (I feel like im jinxing myself. haha)

 Below is one of the snacks and food we had while we were vigorously trying to think of a brilliant marketing idea.

 

Caramel Potato Snack.

 

Package of the snack. $1.50

 

Pork Belly BBQ rice. $3.5

 

Musashiya Ramen $6

Top 200 Universities presented by Keio (Times Higher Education)

While I was waiting to talk to my prof, some girl came by us posted and this list on the bulletin board.

"Top 200 Universities in the World"

My friend and I took a close look at it from curiosity.

 

Food: Monjya Yaki: In Tsukishima

 

I have posted about monjya-yaki before on this blog.

BUTT 

where i ate it was in Yokohama. Which means it's not the real place to go eating mojya.

My friend's mom took me to a real monjya-yaki place in Tsukishima and I have to say this place was 10 times better then the other.

I became very full and very happy.

Below are some of the pictures.

 

シークワーサージュース. Made from japanese lemon-ish thing.

 

Grilled asparagus and mushrooms.

 

And this is my mentai-ko, mochi monjya. Excellent line up. 

It's festival time!! Dance practice everyday!!

Keio University has a festival called Mita Festival every year.
It is one of the biggest school festivals in Japan and collects around 200,000 people each year.
While mita festival is going on, there is no school for a whole week for preparation day, the actual festival which is 4 days and take down the festival day. I have participated in the preparation day and the actual mita festival this year and I am really happy I got to be part of it.

The reason I got to be part of this big event is because  I joined the dance club called revolve.
Keio has several dance clubs but I got to join this particular one with a help of a friend of friend of mine.

We practiced every Saturday and had many other practices when it was close to the event date.

Revolve has several genres (hip-hop, girls hip-hop, lockin, poppin, house,  and punkin) and I joined the hip-hop genre.

Below are the pictures of our practice and of the actual festival.

 

Midnight practice in shibuya from 12am-6am. Japanese ppl are hard working ppl. 

(Including myself :D)

 

We also practice in the cafe after they close the stores.

 

This is our circle hang out place. 

Soba (Buckwheat noodle) Making!

 

One of the reason why I am really glad/happy that I came to Keio University for exchange is because of the amount of facility and groups that is there for the students. 

Because people at this school have pride and love for their school even after they graduate, they still consider themselves as Keio University students.

And one of the groups organized by Keio Uiversity grads hold events every month for exchange students. For this month they held a soba making lesson for 300 yen :)

Soba is japanese noodles. It looks black/grey and its thinner than udon but thicker than soumen.

You can eat it either hot or cold and its very popular among the japanese.

I have made udon at home several times but never soba because you need special soba powder to make it and I was very happy I can learn how to make it just few min from my apartment! (They actually held the lesson at our apartment lounge :D)

 

So these soba making ppl came to our apartment lounge to teach us!

 

These are the materials you use to make soba.

Shinbashi/ Shabu Shabu/ Friends from Canada

 

I have visited Shinbashi for my first time last week. 

Shinbashi is known as the holy land for all working men (according to my friends) because of the amount of food stores and how all the stores are somehow business man related 

(e.g. suit stores, gambling stores etc.)

Shinbashiwas actually very close from my school (maybe like 5 min train) but I never got the chance to visit before. But last week I got to go because my friends from Canada came to visit me and another friend. The "another friend' who came that night was someone who I also wanted to meet for a long time so I was super happy to go out and have dinner with everyone.

We had all you can eat shabu shabu (Japanese hot pot) that day and it was truly amazing :p

 

I got to the station a little bit early so I decided to walk around and take pictures of the area.

Korean Restaurant and fun time with older friends

 

I went to a Korean Town callled "Shin-Ookubo" two weeks ago and had one of the tastiest food.

First of all the reason I got there is because I posted on twitter "I want to eat some hot food, does anyone have any suggestions?" And then my friend's friend, where we were only twitter friends retweeted my tweet and got an unexpected amount of replies. And then she organized a mini party where people who wanted join can go to dinner together.

So after school I went to the dinner party not knowing anyone except for two ppl.

But at the end of the dinner, I ended up talking way too much and I had a great time spending some time with the new older friends I made that day. (I was the youngest) 

Below are some of the pictures I took of korean town and the awesome korean food I ate that day.

 

This place is seriously a lloot bigger than the korean town we have in Canada.