December 11th, 2009. Sunlight! At least the last remains of it for the day. And Christmas decorations at the town square. Moose in Sunset < Christmas Tree in Sunset.
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11 December 2009
10 December 2009
9 December 2009
Christmas Calendar: December 9th
December 9th, 2009. The macabre angels at the mall. Scary and (seemingly) headless. I wonder if the artist/decoration director was aware of this or not...
8 December 2009
Christmas Calendar: December 8th
December 8th, 2009. Christmas Workshop - Norwegin style! Norwegian and Japanese friends gathered toghether with crafting gear, Christmas music, hot chocolate and gingerbread cookies. Process, results, and good memories:)
7 December 2009
Christmas Calendar: December 7th
December 7th, 2009: Christmas Decorations at the Student Centre. Not Impressed.
6 December 2009
Christmas Calendar: December 6th
Temporarily Photo-Free Blog Post.
- because I forgot to bring my camera with me when I ran out the door this morning.
I know what picture I want in this post though.
I'm planning on taking a photo of a friend's christmas tree, and then write a short note about it. But writing the note, and not posting the picture at the same time, will be too much of a spoiler so you'll all just have to wait. ;)
- because I forgot to bring my camera with me when I ran out the door this morning.
I know what picture I want in this post though.
I'm planning on taking a photo of a friend's christmas tree, and then write a short note about it. But writing the note, and not posting the picture at the same time, will be too much of a spoiler so you'll all just have to wait. ;)
5 December 2009
Christmas Calendar: December 5th
December 5th, 2009. Julebord/Christmas Parties/Year-End-Parties. A friend and I were hanging out at my place and decided to go out for a drink (yes, one/1 drink... at first..). Since it turned out to be Saturday (a complete surprise to us both) and full of fun people from a Christmas Party we ended up spending the whole evening in the merry company of random fun people. It was almost like having a Christmas Party of our own;)
乾杯！
4 December 2009
Christmas Calendar: December 4th
December 4th, 2009. Work / バイト. Christmas decorations at my part-time job. Not much more to say, it was supposedly a quiet evening, but because of the Christmas Party-season I still ran until my feet hurt, and then a little more.
I'll replace this phone-photo with a proper one when I remember to bring my camera to work.
バイトは楽しいけど、帰るまですごく疲れた。
3 December 2009
Christmas Calendar: December 3rd
三人が
試験を受けた
気持ち良い。
The three,
Having finished with their exams,
Feel good.
(by: AA, ABH & CK)
...and other random scribbles for future customers' reading
Christmas Calendar: December 2nd
December 2nd, 2009. A Christmas decorated pedestrian street where I live. It even has it's own Christmas tree. ♥
Today I'm adding a Japanese proverb:
猿も木からおちる。
Even monkeys fall from trees.
Mata ne!
2 December 2009
Christmas Calendar: December 1st
December 1st, 2009.
Christmas star at my friends' place where we had a Christmas Party / Pinnekjøttkveld. Best evening in a looooooong time. Cheers!
朝四時半に一人で歩いて帰る。
イルミネション照らす道は捨てる。
ちょっとだけだけど、
今、私は照らす道がありそう。
気持ちいい。
Walking home by myself at 4:30 am.
The decorated streets are deserted.
It's just for a moment, but,
Right now it feels like the illuminated streets are just mine.
It feels nice.
25 September 2008
Week 5: Change of plans (backdated)
Power cut. And I feel small streams of sweat form up as soon as the ceiling fan stop working. Yes, ceiling fan, not air condition. No air condition in this apartment, no-no. Aircon makes you sick. I’ve had a cold for a week now, just because of an encounter with mild air conditioning.
The power returned quickly today, after just a couple of minutes. Lucky, lucky. But it can also mean that the systems are instable and the power may be cut again at some point today. But we’re lucky here; I think it’s more than a week since we last had a power cut.
My plans keep being changed. (Usually by me, fortunately.) This weekend I had planned to go to Kerala, but as I still have a cold I decided it would be too intensive for me to travel that far and that much with that many people at once at such a limited time. And thus, the first change of plans. So Lina and I were thinking of going to Ooty – until we learned we would need at least 4 days for any Ooty-trip frm Pondi. Second change of plans. We decided to stay home in Pondi for the weekend, perhaps take a daytrip somewhere, but mostly study.
We’ve had an intensive week at school this week, up until Wednesday which was the last day before our long weekend.
Missing Japan, listening to Jp. goodfeel music – genres changing with my mood.
The power returned quickly today, after just a couple of minutes. Lucky, lucky. But it can also mean that the systems are instable and the power may be cut again at some point today. But we’re lucky here; I think it’s more than a week since we last had a power cut.
My plans keep being changed. (Usually by me, fortunately.) This weekend I had planned to go to Kerala, but as I still have a cold I decided it would be too intensive for me to travel that far and that much with that many people at once at such a limited time. And thus, the first change of plans. So Lina and I were thinking of going to Ooty – until we learned we would need at least 4 days for any Ooty-trip frm Pondi. Second change of plans. We decided to stay home in Pondi for the weekend, perhaps take a daytrip somewhere, but mostly study.
We’ve had an intensive week at school this week, up until Wednesday which was the last day before our long weekend.
- Monday – lecture and then field trip to a Dalit village (village of people from the "caste-less" caste in India; the “untouchables”).
Dalit woman and her grandchild dressed up for having their picture taken:
- Tuesday – seminar for the whole class (usually we’re split in groups), then double lecture. Plus a lot of readings weighing on a student’s conscience. And errands in the evening, and a dance class I didn’t go to because of 1) errands making me late, and 2) still not well from the cold.
- Wednesday – Another day on double lectures, and lots of people leaving for Kerala. I wore khaki shorts and a casual t-shirt to school, and received the comment “Oh, how unusual to see you in Western clothes!” … has my wardrobe turned that much Indian? I hadn’t realized…
- Thursday – Went out for a morning walk with Lina at 5:45, we snuck out early to avoid the yoga instructor in case she came and admonished Lina for not going to the yoga class at 6:00. We walked to the beach promenade, had chai and watched all the people, including a weird French guy walking his marionette (“Ernesto” we were told) at the beach before he began his yoga exercise. We weren’t the only ones taking pictures of him, a crowd of locals had also gathered around. After returning home we meant to go to school and study, but lack of proper sleep brought about a slight change of plans, so we ended up staying home.
Ernesto out for a morning walk at the beach:
- Friday – Actually went to school to study, and studied! In the evening there was a movie night at Kamachi, but I ended up changing my plans again, and chilled back home– surfed the net ‘til I slept.
- Saturday – slept long – café – blog/study evening – in my own company.
- Sunday - ..studying!!! Let’s hope this plan won’t change…
Missing Japan, listening to Jp. goodfeel music – genres changing with my mood.
4 September 2008
Picture post!
the study center & scenes from the study centre:
queueing up for breakfast nice lunch at school
Ganesh on "Ganesh Day" (Ganesh Puja?)
People preparing for the Ganesh festival
group sightseeing & guide
beautiful settings
back in the quiet street outside my building
was overjoyed to find this at out local store:)
another happy moment for a Japan-starved mind:
Peace
11 May 2008
short update
I'm mostly repeating the same old routine up here on the mountain, so there's not that much to say. A few changes though; I've joined a circle (a student group or club or association or whatever) for practicing Japanese, and I've gotten involved in a collaborations for designing a t-shirt for my floor for a "World Festival" we're going to perform at in June. I did say "we", but I'm only contributing to the performance in off-stage activities, like (helping) designing the floor's t-shirt. The artistic challenges that this t-shirt project will let me play with will be a nice break from my other school work.
I've picked up again my Plastic Tree Concert review project, and I will finish and post it at some point. This is as much a promise to myself as to any of you out there, because you've probably lost interest already since I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I really want to write it. It's become my favourite procrastination activity - but I can't afford to procrastinate that much nowadays unfortunately...
other things;
The weather is shifting, awful, windy and rainy yesterday, and today the most beautiful sunshine and pleasant temperatures around 19-22 degrees (a bit cool, almost chilly actually, compared to last week). The view was clear enough that we could see to Shikoku - a fact I find very romantic. The view is one of the major things I'm going to miss from APU.
And here are some more or less random pictures from Campus - taken with my phone so please excuse the quality...
I've picked up again my Plastic Tree Concert review project, and I will finish and post it at some point. This is as much a promise to myself as to any of you out there, because you've probably lost interest already since I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I really want to write it. It's become my favourite procrastination activity - but I can't afford to procrastinate that much nowadays unfortunately...
other things;
The weather is shifting, awful, windy and rainy yesterday, and today the most beautiful sunshine and pleasant temperatures around 19-22 degrees (a bit cool, almost chilly actually, compared to last week). The view was clear enough that we could see to Shikoku - a fact I find very romantic. The view is one of the major things I'm going to miss from APU.
Middle left: The Kunisaki Peninsula,
Center Background: the tip of Sadamisaki Peninsula, Shikoku
Center Background: the tip of Sadamisaki Peninsula, Shikoku
And here are some more or less random pictures from Campus - taken with my phone so please excuse the quality...
1-2: Daffy and Donald (Look Aunt B! Donald in Japan!)
3-4: The invisible man, and alternative vases at the Osaka Ferry
5-6: Cake, and how to make animal figures out of sausages
7: Another proof there are fancy things in Japanese supermarkets
8: The Exoticness of APU - an Asian performance the amphitheater, lacrosse practice in the sports field in the middle background, and then view of Beppu and Oita
9-10: Random cool car in Beppu, and how APU teach hirgana to new students
11-12: Fantastic flowers blooming outside AP House
13-14: Sunset view from the APH bridge, and Christina noticing the price of pasta screws.
(100 yen ≈ 1 USD or 5NOK, you do the math...)
3-4: The invisible man, and alternative vases at the Osaka Ferry
5-6: Cake, and how to make animal figures out of sausages
7: Another proof there are fancy things in Japanese supermarkets
8: The Exoticness of APU - an Asian performance the amphitheater, lacrosse practice in the sports field in the middle background, and then view of Beppu and Oita
9-10: Random cool car in Beppu, and how APU teach hirgana to new students
11-12: Fantastic flowers blooming outside AP House
13-14: Sunset view from the APH bridge, and Christina noticing the price of pasta screws.
(100 yen ≈ 1 USD or 5NOK, you do the math...)
8 January 2008
Welcome to 2008
Happy New Year!
I might be a little late, but it's still my first blog post of the new year. It seems I might have more English speaking (reading) audience so I'll try to write more in English to reach everyone. The occasional Norwegian post will occur, of course.
Last post left of evening December 30th, so I'll recount the rest of my New Year trip from New Years Eve, hopefully in shorter terms.
December 31st
Went shopping as planned, explored the popular shopping area Tenjin all day. No time or energy for touristy activities in between. In the evening we were hanging out at McD's (since everything else closed at 6pm), passing time until we thought it would be a good time to find a restaurant. We turned out to be wrong, the few restaurants that weren't closed already were full. So we ended up at another McD's.
Back at the hostel V* disappeared off to Skype* with her BF* and I was left alone for the saddest New Years Eve ever; Feeling a little lonely at midnight I logged onto MSN to say Happy New Year to whomever was online. Welcome to 2008.
(* V = Vanessa, Skype = Internet chat and/or telephone, BF = Boyfriend)
January 1st
Rose early to go shopping with V and her friend Tammy -both eager to get the popular New Year -surprise bags from the mall. I was mainly tagging along with them, observing the shopping frenzy of the New Year Sales, while the girls were shopping more seriously. Tammy even bought another suitcase for her shoppings. Throughout the day the girls started talking more and more in Chinese (they are both Chinese-Australian). I didn't mind at first, until they started making decisions, of where to go and what to do and such, in Chinese and then announce it to me in English, then continue in Chinese and changing their minds -not announcing the change of heart to me. When we split up that afternoon I was relieved to be on my own, not needing to guess what our next actions might be. (V had to return earlier than planned due to an unexpected HW*-deadline.) I returned to the hostel, slept, went out to get food, and then sat in the common room and chatted with random people (= random American, David or Adam...) before heading back to bed. (*HW = homework)
January 2nd
Slept in, slept off 3 days' worth of travel & shopping exhaustion. Finally managed to get out of the hostel at noon, heading for Dazaifu, not really knowing where it was, how to get there or how long it would take. A small map in my Lonely Planet revealed that I could get there via Tenjin station, so I went there first, and then followed the signs that took me to the right ticket counter and train platform. I had to transfer trains once, but the stations were clearly marked an announced. Met a lovely family on the packed trains, spent 10 min talking to the wife (in Japanese!) before we arrived in Dazaifu. Lost the nice family less than 30 sec after the train stopped because of the crowds -which were massive! People everywhere.
I decided to only take a short route through a small part of Dazaifu, seeing the closest temples/shrines and the Kyushu National Museum. At one point the crowd slowed to a syrupy pace, and when it slowly moved through the torii (temple/shrine gate) I realized that the crowd had become the queue to enter the shrine. I don't know if it really was to enter the shrine, because I left the queue as soon as I was able to and took a detour to the less crowded museum. Really good museum, spent a couple of hours there before heading back to the station and to Fukuoka. Passing the temple again (from the other side) on my way to the station I snapped a few pictures of the queue, which was still as long as when I'd passed there earlier.
Back in Hakata I decided to chill out at Starbucks with a coffee and writing travel notes for a few hours before returning to the hostel. In the common room I sat down in the couch to write, but ended up chatting with Kate from Australia for 2 1/2 hrs instead. I love meeting people this way.
January 3rd
Walked around Hakata and Canal City exploring the side streets (i.e. not the shopping malls)
and minor tourist spots. Ended up in an almost secret Japanese style garden and then in a Tea Ceremony house. I totally loved the garden and the tea ceremony-people, they were lovely, and apparently they adored me for stuttering as best I could in Japanese. Moving on, I passed by Canal City (the mall) again, walked by and through a temple area (and got a new calligraphy for my jinja-book! Ureshii!) and then I found Fukuoka Museum of Modern Asian art. Lucky for me they had huge posters, or I would never have found it; it's located on the 7th floor of a (random?) building. Having satisfied my culture-quota I returned to Hakata to find my bus back to Beppu.
It was nice and interesting to travel with Vanessa, and I had a few wonderful days on my own, but finally back at campus, I entered my room thinking "I can't remember it being this nice!".
...and then I'm almost up to date on my blogging. (^_^)v
(Pictures will be up shortly, both for this post and the previous one!)
I might be a little late, but it's still my first blog post of the new year. It seems I might have more English speaking (reading) audience so I'll try to write more in English to reach everyone. The occasional Norwegian post will occur, of course.
Last post left of evening December 30th, so I'll recount the rest of my New Year trip from New Years Eve, hopefully in shorter terms.
December 31st
Went shopping as planned, explored the popular shopping area Tenjin all day. No time or energy for touristy activities in between. In the evening we were hanging out at McD's (since everything else closed at 6pm), passing time until we thought it would be a good time to find a restaurant. We turned out to be wrong, the few restaurants that weren't closed already were full. So we ended up at another McD's.
Back at the hostel V* disappeared off to Skype* with her BF* and I was left alone for the saddest New Years Eve ever; Feeling a little lonely at midnight I logged onto MSN to say Happy New Year to whomever was online. Welcome to 2008.
(* V = Vanessa, Skype = Internet chat and/or telephone, BF = Boyfriend)
January 1st
Rose early to go shopping with V and her friend Tammy -both eager to get the popular New Year -surprise bags from the mall. I was mainly tagging along with them, observing the shopping frenzy of the New Year Sales, while the girls were shopping more seriously. Tammy even bought another suitcase for her shoppings. Throughout the day the girls started talking more and more in Chinese (they are both Chinese-Australian). I didn't mind at first, until they started making decisions, of where to go and what to do and such, in Chinese and then announce it to me in English, then continue in Chinese and changing their minds -not announcing the change of heart to me. When we split up that afternoon I was relieved to be on my own, not needing to guess what our next actions might be. (V had to return earlier than planned due to an unexpected HW*-deadline.) I returned to the hostel, slept, went out to get food, and then sat in the common room and chatted with random people (= random American, David or Adam...) before heading back to bed. (*HW = homework)
January 2nd
Slept in, slept off 3 days' worth of travel & shopping exhaustion. Finally managed to get out of the hostel at noon, heading for Dazaifu, not really knowing where it was, how to get there or how long it would take. A small map in my Lonely Planet revealed that I could get there via Tenjin station, so I went there first, and then followed the signs that took me to the right ticket counter and train platform. I had to transfer trains once, but the stations were clearly marked an announced. Met a lovely family on the packed trains, spent 10 min talking to the wife (in Japanese!) before we arrived in Dazaifu. Lost the nice family less than 30 sec after the train stopped because of the crowds -which were massive! People everywhere.
I decided to only take a short route through a small part of Dazaifu, seeing the closest temples/shrines and the Kyushu National Museum. At one point the crowd slowed to a syrupy pace, and when it slowly moved through the torii (temple/shrine gate) I realized that the crowd had become the queue to enter the shrine. I don't know if it really was to enter the shrine, because I left the queue as soon as I was able to and took a detour to the less crowded museum. Really good museum, spent a couple of hours there before heading back to the station and to Fukuoka. Passing the temple again (from the other side) on my way to the station I snapped a few pictures of the queue, which was still as long as when I'd passed there earlier.
Back in Hakata I decided to chill out at Starbucks with a coffee and writing travel notes for a few hours before returning to the hostel. In the common room I sat down in the couch to write, but ended up chatting with Kate from Australia for 2 1/2 hrs instead. I love meeting people this way.
January 3rd
Walked around Hakata and Canal City exploring the side streets (i.e. not the shopping malls)
and minor tourist spots. Ended up in an almost secret Japanese style garden and then in a Tea Ceremony house. I totally loved the garden and the tea ceremony-people, they were lovely, and apparently they adored me for stuttering as best I could in Japanese. Moving on, I passed by Canal City (the mall) again, walked by and through a temple area (and got a new calligraphy for my jinja-book! Ureshii!) and then I found Fukuoka Museum of Modern Asian art. Lucky for me they had huge posters, or I would never have found it; it's located on the 7th floor of a (random?) building. Having satisfied my culture-quota I returned to Hakata to find my bus back to Beppu.
It was nice and interesting to travel with Vanessa, and I had a few wonderful days on my own, but finally back at campus, I entered my room thinking "I can't remember it being this nice!".
...and then I'm almost up to date on my blogging. (^_^)v
(Pictures will be up shortly, both for this post and the previous one!)
26 December 2007
Advent i Japan 2007
Årets Julekalender, fra 1. til 24. desember. Yoroshiku!
1. Desember: Homemade Holiday Cards (Japanese Style)
1. Desember: Homemade Holiday Cards (Japanese Style)
2. Desember: Ladybug Visiting
3. Desember: Memories
4. Desember: Random Chocolate
5. Desember: Artistic Intentions
6. Desember: Lasting Light (bambuslyktutstilling på campus)
7. Desember: Performance
8. Desember: Letter from Home
9. Desember: New Flowers
10. Desember: Random Candy
11. Desember: Wachifield - New Toy/Decoration
12. Desember: The Love of New Boots
13. Desember: HW Procrastination
14. Desember: Dancers on Stage
15. Desember: Sunny Weather (although it doesn't feel like December)
16. Desember: Random Gift
17. Desember: A Faithful Friend in HW
18. Desember: The Joy of TV
19. Desember: The Best Bus Rides
20. Desember: The Benriness of Pre-portioned Food
21. Desember: Energetic Dancer
22. Desember: A False Sensation of Snow
23. Desember: Christmas Decorations
24. Desember: Christmas Dinner
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