Job in Tuas South and Tokyo + Musashi-Kokubunji

For five days (3rd-7th), I worked in a place which I would 

call the end of Singapore (Tuas South). Tough commuting. 

Back to this place after five years. Happy to see the 

machine again. Things went okay for the job. 

I took the SQ638 midnight flight and arrived at Narita at 

around 8AM on Monday for a 3-day interpretation job in 

Tokyo.

I had decided to go to Musashi-Kokubunji on the first day 
as I knew I would have plenty of free time.

I checked in the Sengakuji hotel first and started my trip 

to Nishi-Kokubunji.

Quite easy to go to Nishi-Kokubunji, but it was really 

tough to find the temple where Tatsumi-sensei is.

I began walking from the station, not very sure which way 

to go to the temple. I dropped by a small bank branch to 

ask the way. They misheard me. They needed some time to 

find the way, looking at many pages of the large area map, 

and gave me the way to the Kokubunji Hospital (!).

They spent some more time to find the Musashi-Kokubunji 

park, where the temple should reside.

Having Reached at the park (two parks, really), I found 

that it was vast and I would have to walk quite a distance 

to the temple. But I had only a rough idea about which way 

to go. After walking through the first park, I found the 

management office of the whole park, by this time drenched 

with sweat, and asked about the temple. They only showed me 

the map and didn’t know which way I should take. I 

continued to walk, trying to find the temple. Out of the 

second park (it was a small hill), I finally came to the 

Kokubunji Temple. Still not sure about the way to the grave 

of Tatsumi-sensei, I rang the bell of the temple. I was 

ushered to his grave.

Then, work. There were tough moments as I’d expected. But, 

I received commendation of “awesome,” “you are fantastic,” 

and “you did a wonderful job.” I appreciate every support 

I got for this job in Tokyo.

Shame on you, Maria Lessie Flores.