If I could have it my way
I’d go to New York. Or Paris. Or Italy. Seriously, getting denied by the Japanese embassy for a visa is so frustrating! Oh yes, what I was raving about a few weeks ago suddenly disappeared in a cloud of dust. Kapoot. Gone. The Japanese embassy had the heart to deny half of our company’s visa applications, and all of those were us females.
That afternoon a few weeks ago when our HR Manager announced there’s some “very bad news”, I knew my Mt. Fuji exploits (all of them about photography, don’t worry) would never materialize. I silently cursed the powers that be that probably thought these single ladies would only be looking for husbands to milk there. (Do I hear Beyonce in the background?)
Anyway, enough with the sourgraping. We’ve been at it for several days now. During our last meeting, we had another votation on where to go in lieu of the frustrated Tokyo trip. Of course we didn’t want to go anywhere in Southeast Asia anymore since our HQ is just in Singapore and regional HQ is in Thailand. Hello, why go somewhere we can afford with our own money?
New York is one of those at the top of my list actually. We could easily get a New York bus charter and tour around Manhattan on one of those double-decker buses and be so “tourist-y”. The photographer in me is hyperventilating just thinking about it.
I’m so hoping the budget fits. 
