just for record

Now there is not so many oppotunities to gather all member of family

after evey children got out from home town to

work or study.

just for record of rare day.

Graduation!

It was really nice day.
I got up early and rushed to prepare myself
to put on dress or set hair style for graduation ceremony.

Thanks for my parents who also came to attend just one hour ceremony
all the way from Tochigi.


We could have choices to put on various kinds of color and pattern special dress
for graduation, some wear dress like me, some do western dress.boys usually wear suit.

So many people...

I should appreciate professors who let me draduate from University;)

Finally, I got diproma!

It was really rushing day. Putting on dress, attending the ceremony, taking pictures

with friends or parents or professors, going to certin room to get a diploma, etc.

Even there were lots of student there but it was difficult to find the poeple who

I wanted to take photo with because inside of university is overcrowded!

So I could say that I had no time to feel sentimental.

Maybe same thing has happened to others as well cause

nobody was crying out, more than that we just use mobile

always jsut like,

" where are you? .....in front of gate? yes, .....5 minuites later.

Let's take some picture..."blablabla.

We were rushing also because most girls, me as well, rented the costume

which has limited time to return.

Anyway,

school days was precious of course

I definitely remember the days.

Now I just can't realize properly that I 'm not student anymore

and suddenly feel strong pressure to be a worker.

Today I had sushi party at home

cause tomorrow I'll move to new flat prepared by

the company I'm going to join.

so, hello to new life!

Last trip as a student! ---kyoto, Nara, Osaka----

Most Japanese students plan to trip to somewhere
just before graduation from University.
you know why?
cause when you start to work, you never have free time
to travel around!! so short holiday is waiting for you!
sick of thinking of it!

Some travel abroad, Some do in Japan.
I had kind of both.
that comes from hard part-time job
so before trip, my travelmates also worked hard
to earn for trip, we almost have no time to plan
where to go but at least roughly we manage to fix
schedule, place to sleep, transportation.


This time We went to the west of Japan,
Kyoto, Nara, Osaka.
in these part especially Kyoto was flourished before around 1600,
when Edo era started. Our current capital Tokyo started from this
Edo era, before that every important things was in Kyoto,
politics , the emperor, shogun, etc.
These area around kyoto is famous for old city, well preserved architectures,
temples and still Osaka is now like another capital in west part of Japan.


Tansportation

this time, the reason we decide to trip around Japan is alsmost because of
special train ticket, which is cost about 11500 yen ( around 115 US$, 75 euro)
for 5 stamps. you can use limited line (JR line) for whole day in one stamps.
if you have enough time, you can go from west to east in Japan with one stamps,
but then you spare all time to move;)
with one stamp, it took 9 hours from Tokyo to Kyoto.
so long? but if you are lucky, you can see Fuji mountrain which is
one of famous landmark in Japan on the way to kyoto.

In kyoto, weather was great. Kinkakuji (Golden Temple) was shining in the blue sky.

Golden temple is built in 13th century. in 1955 this temple was fired by a young monkand he comitted a suicide just after it. so now the Golden temple you see is rebuilt in 1955 and recorded as a world heritage. although we didin't visit there is another temple which is called Ginkakuji(The Silver Pavilion) , is not really decoRated in silver. strenge?;)

kinkakuji and it's reflection on the water.

This area called Gion, and now you see mixture of modern life and histrical gate

at the same time.

A poster of dance festival.

A tower and the road were lighted up like this.

kiyomizudera at night

This snap is"wow!!" for me, when I found to take it.

It was lucky to see lighted up Kiyomizudera.

Not evey time you can visit here at night.

This temple is famous for its stage which is like large valcony.

because Kiyomizudera is built in high place so that it is said that

if you decided to do something, you go to the stage and look down.

and it gives you fear of falling down because of that height.

Therefore poeple say

"Once you determind to put someting into action,

stick to do it, otherwise go to the kiyomizu stage and jump from it!!"

It is like a pre-experience to visit kiyomizu stage then

you realize the fear to jump from it, and you'll try to avoid to give up

what you decided to do.

bamboo road and jinrikisha

If you pay, you can ask him to take you short trip with small guide on this vehicle.

how much? it is much! you see, no one is on the jinrikisha!;)

......I'm joking, it is actually not cheap, but it will be nice experience to

get on jinrikisha and see around some places feeling the flavor of old Kyoto city.

Japanese apricot is blooming now.

The street to Kiyomizudera

place to rest and have some green tea.

A huge statue of Buddha

from back side

the place to clean your hand before entering the secred area.

deers are thought as a messenger of God.

A shrine

the rope with white pieces of paper means the secred area.

In Japan, Osaka is famous for the place of comedians.

Most poplular comedians in Japan come from Osaka,

With characteristic dialog, Osaka is lively all the time.

central area in Osaka.(called doutonbori)

we dropped at the Nagoya city on the way back to Tokyo.

then we invited some friends who live there and had dinner together.

at the entranc of Karaoke

What is good traveling inside of Japan is to recognize

that I have still a lot of things to know about Japan even it's my mother country.

and because traveling in Europe before this trip,

I could compare both Europe and Japan. they are much different

and when I remember life in India, then I can't help thinking of diversity

in the world.

Especially in this trip, I could have much time to move in the train and

it gave me time to turn my thought toward my student days

or new life from April or other topics.

I never expected what I am now

when I enter University.

so nobody knows what will happen in the future.

My sister said to me once,

"the job for student is to think a lot.

you have even no time to think except for job"

If I had other life, would I have been different person?

nn.... something philosophical;)

During the trip, one of my friend tried to describe me

in drawing when we were in a cafe, she drew the question mark covered with

larger question mark! even it was more than ten layers question marks!

my friends said,

---miki, I see you always think "why?"----

so am I achieve the job as a student?;)

at last, here is the answer for my philosophical question.

in Ryoanji, a stone garden in Kyoto.

There were 15 stones in the garden but you can see

only 14 stones in every degree.

what is the purpose of the person who made this garden?

Some poeple say,

"you have to see what you can't see in your eyes, in your heart"

anyway, it fully depends on you how you understand the fact

that you can't see everything even you know everything is there.

Actually to think of this kind of question, which seems to have

no answer ( for example, one famous question is

"which hand does sounds when you crap your hands?")

is one of the training for enlightment in Zen

spreaded in 13th century in Japan.

anyway, Big thanks for travelmates Kaori, Ikuyo!

Looking forward to see them full bloom

I got the bulbs of turip from Holland.
This time I planted the turip with shorter
stem than usual.I don't know the name of this type
tulip even if I found it on the package of bulbs,
it is written in Dutch so I can't read it.

anyway it was something new for me
and enough curious to see how it looks like
in my garden.

What you should prepare to plant tulip bulbs:

1: a flower pot

(filled with soil. if you can, it is better to put some gravel on the bottom before you

put soil, it helps for water to come out from the pot. so pot should be also has small holes

to let water go.)

2: a scoop

3:bulbs

Putting bulbs

You can put bulbs like this. it looks too close to put each bulbs, but it's ok.

then put some more soil to cover the bulbs until you see only the top of

bulbs.

yes, like this.

decorated version;)

I used pumpkin seeds to circle the edge of the pot

also I made flower plate and stick it on the back side.

Oh my turip, I can't wait to meet you!!

and thanks in advance for every sunny day!!

Is the picture reflection of one's emotion?

Noticing that I haven't drawn a picture long time,
I tried to draw something.

By chance I found a magazine which features on Praha this month.
Prague castle and charl bridge was the title cover on the magazine
and I turn over the pages finding places I visited together with several
memories.

from one of the pages I chose a picture which can drive me to copy.
it was the drawing you can see above.

To my surprise,
after the drawing, I recognized
the woman (or man, }I don't know)in the drawing looks nervous.
In fact in the model picture I copied, she just closes her eyes. you can't
see any emotional feeling.

It is the art which can be taken in any ways depending on the person
who see it. but I didn't see the women angry so why did I draw like that?

maybe it's difficult to hide emotion in this way like drawing
even if you can do it very well with words.

Maybe it is too famous that
there is the pycologic test to check what you really feel in depth
by drawing a picture of a tree on the white paper,
which is called "tree test" or "Baum test"
how you draw a trunk, branches, leafs, there is fruits on the tree or
drawing roots or not, these are the resourse to judge your hidden
psychology.

CM

see the last scene of this short movie.
I made the bottle he had.
We
(I edited this with some friends , here you'll see only thier name at the endroll)
borrowed the concept of this movie from TV commercial typical for sports drink.
---Runing , running, running,,,,, and drink. -----

This was an advertize for people to come for a
presentation which intends for visitors to
start or challeng something. then I thought
something energetic should be matched for it.

that's why you 'll see "on stage" at the end of this movie
because the presentation is held on stage, not in the field for athlete.

nnn,, when I see this now,

......much space to improve;)

but still fine, good memory with friends;)

I amsterdam!! -part 1-

What happened to Amsterdam,
I have never been to such an exciting city.

I had a trip to Amsterdum from Praha
from end of Februaly till beginig of March.
the flight was by......

how beautiful the sky was!



cannal bus tour

Amsterdum is famous for cannals running
though the city.
It costs 7 euro for one hour canal bus tour
then you can see the view of amsterdum
from canal river.




for me as a asian, more or less buildings in
Europe are similar amang the european aountries
but still I can see defference in building
in Amsterdam.
maybe it is also because of enviroment which
the buildings are surrounded by,
cannals, bridges,many bicycles etc.





look at the houses on the canal river.
they live there with proper address and electricity as well.
in amsterdum lacking of the land to live, this system of living
developed. now i wonder they can easily move thier house like a boat
just separating thier house from the edge of canal.


here is the big house which is released from the edge of the canal;)
....of course this is not a house
(still I may say it is house for seamans)
but a model of ship
behind it you see the museum called NEMO althogh
we didn't come inside there.


the whether was beautiful this day
and it was so confortable to sit on the canal bus
that I couldn't help feeling sleepy a bit

but I enjoyed canal trip fully next to
Aibek http://aibek.nomadlife.org/
who is an experienced traveler and also
good camera man who took many nice pictures in this canal trip
also though the trip I did this time.
moreover he is the one who always makes my trip
wonderful and unforgettable! not only interm of photos.




whatever I missed to see in this trip
can be seen in his pictures.....


to be conteniue...!