2019年3月21日

Tokyo Super Hotel (Premier)

Standing by the glass window, looking upon the vast inanimate objects beneath my feet, I grabbed the phone and captured the magnificent view from JP Tower 29th floor.

The view from Medidata Tokyo office

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I’ve been loosely doing this since last October. (Very loosely, I want to emphasize that.) I have zero intention of making practical use of it. I don’t bother the angle being different every time. This is one of the things that I started without any specific reasons, and have not stopped either because lacking such reasons.


Today I was refueling myself with another cup of coffee. As I wandering to my routinary site and looking out the window, I sensed something was off. Something is breaking the harmony, like a dead pixel on the screen.

What is it..?
SUPER HOTEL Premier?
Was it there before?
Why it seemed to speak to me in a way it never did?

I immediately took out the phone checked my photo logs. As identical as it can be for the past 36 entries, I had a breakthrough with the recent two.

tokyo-super-hotel

Aha, busted! A new top banner!

Don’t know why this discovery would make me so excited. Perhaps the ability to spot the subtle change from the insignificant mass is satisfying. Perhaps the sense of recording a tiny fragment of now-invisible history is rewarding.

Nonetheless, that hotel name is gonna stick with me forever for sure!


(Originally published at Medidata internal blog.)

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Qihuan Piao

朴 起煥

東京で働いている「外人歴」9年のソフトウェア「ライター」。いつの間にか納豆が食えるようになり、これで日本に慣れきったと思いきやまだまだ驚きが続いてる。読んだり書いたりするのが好きで、自身の経験や本から得た「何か」をここに書き出してる。最近古本屋にハマってる。

他にも英語中国語で書いてます、よろしければチェックしてみてください。