Holiday time!

Hi there. How was your Christmas holiday?

As usual, we spent the day with my family having a party. According to the news on TV, most families spent time together at home. Because of the depression, a lot of children missed their Christmas presents; which I think is a bit harsh for little ones.

My 13 year old daughter honestly believed in Santa until last year and every Christmas Eve, she wrote a note to tell him what she wanted for Christmas and put it under her pillow before going to bed. This is for Santa to make sure he gives the right present to the right child when he visits her in the middle of night. Until the year before, it was toys and/or books; so it was not hard for us to get them but last year it was a “mobile phone”. You can guess how we, as parents felt. In the end, we bought some books instead with a note from Santa saying “you talk to your mum & dad about a mobile phone when you go to secondary school”. How disappointed she looked when she got up in the morning! She was very upset there was no mobile phone she could see and she was crying for a while. However, she interpreted that message in her way and said that Santa told her to ask her mum & dad for a mobile phone when she reached 13. Yes, we had to buy one on the day when she started secondary school…

Someone must have told her the truth about Santa this year but she pretended not to know it and still wrote a note saying “Should I ask for an iPod this year?” We are older and wiser, you know. We told her that Santa is very busy giving presents to younger children and is not coming to our place this year. Instead we bought a present each to swap within the family.

Now Christmas is over and we only have a few more days to the end of the year. This is the last newsletter for the Year 2008. What was the year like for you?

At JPC, we met new customers and have sold a great number of cars worldwide. We are very happy that our client base is expanding every year. Unfortunately, in the last half of the year after the financial crisis started in the USA, the Japanese yen got too high too quickly for customers overseas to buy cars from us. Here is my wish for next year: this appreciation of the yen eases or the yen weakens a bit even and the whole world economy, not only in Japan, turns for the better.
However, the exterior environment is not something we can personally control. Whatever happens around us, we have to provide attractive products and good services to our customer. We have a few new projects we want to start from next year. We have been preparing for them since the last half of the year. Keep watching!

We close our office on Saturday, 27th December and opens again from Tuesday, 6th January. Our office will remain closed between 28th December and 5th January. None of us is going to be in the office so we cannot be contacted. Thank you very much for your understanding. If your cars are in our yard, they will be safe: please do not worry about them. They are in safe hands. For the customers whose cars are still waiting for the shipment, we will contact you as soon as we know.

Well, thank you very much to all the readers of the newsletter and my blog. I promise to write more interesting and informative articles next year, too; so please continue with your support.

Happy new year to all!


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