Christmas atomspher in Paris

A huge Christmas tree at Galeries lafayette in Paris. Everyone looked excited taking a photo of the tree. Ooops, a bald-headed guy!!!

A hot carrot soupe plate at a cozy cafe in Paris.

Beautiful Christmas illumination at L'Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

Christmas gift from a F-ing coach driver

A surprise gift from Patrick, a French bus driver.

It's so cute!

Lucky color!?

I chose a blue jacket one day by chance, and the christmas tree at the airport is also blue.

What a nice coincidence!

37th anniversary

Spending a quiet night with various cozy music from a radio program,

I'm wishing my life a further progress accompanied with wonderful experience and smiles.

I'm glad to notice that I myself am smiling at my life so far...

A day in Kobe 2

A day in Kobe 1

The next with my new passport

I renewed my passport which will be valid for the next 5 years.

I don't want to think about the future, but can't stopping hoping that it (my new passport) will lead me to the steps to a great life.

"Be hungry! Be foolish!"

Yeah, I'm foolish enough to take this path, but no regrets even if I've lost someone, something special.

I'm sure that all will come back to me again when it is ready.

Such is life....

You taught it to me, eh!?

It becomes a masochistic toy for pleasure

Do you ever know that "masochistic"(the opposite is "sadistic") just is defined like "Self-defeating personal disorder" in Wikipedia? Funny!!!

"SELF-DEFEATING"

I bought an Acupuncture pointer today, a traditional Japanese one.

Yeah, it is really "SELF-DEFEATING", nothing but painful.... ,

but I feel now addicted to those pains.

"OMG, I am a masochistic guy."

Legends never die...

I wish I could complete my life feeling like this song, though it is too early to reach the state of mind.

Anyway, she is Ms.Misora/Hibari, a great legendary Japanese singer. Unfortunately, we can't not listen to her voice any more live, but she is singing in our hearts.

There are many craps in music, but she is a real.

No music is no life, but always with real ones.

"The spirit of Australia" is burning down...

The sequence emergecy landings of Quantas' A380 and B747-400 reminded me of what I had experienced several months ago on a A380 flight between Paris-Dubai.

Our flight was cursing at over 10000m about an hour after we took off. The crews were preparing for meal service, but I suddenly heard a huge bang sound somewhere from under the aircraft. I just thought that it wasn't the sound we should not hear at this over sea level....

A few seconds later we heard the sound, the captain called a service manager on the phone, and then he entered the cockpit. Right after he got out, he took a phone, called all the crew menbers, and told something emergency.... I felt....

It was a moment that the atomspher inside the aircraft changed into a sort of tence. The crew started preparing something with the seatbelt singns turned on. It was very easy to notice it for me because I was sitting at one of front lows.

"Oh no... We are going back to Paris....!"

That's what I tought. I'm a very optimistic person, and never thought of crush or something emergency landing stuff. My intuition just told me that it was not going to be serious.

The captain officially made an announcement about an engine trouble of the aircraft, and gave us an appology for the return to Paris.

We were lucky enough to return to Paris safely, but had to que for the accomodations offered by Emirates. Some of the passengers were very angry about the situations, but they should've felt lucky that they were still alive.

Even if no matter how much fast I rushed into the que, the situation was the same. I just didn't want to get into the tence, so I politely asked my clients to wait untile I came back, and I started quing almost at the end.

Can you imagine what we got?

The over-night accomodation at Hilton airport for my group!!! Most of the passenger were sent to standard hotels at the airport, but only my group got a superior one!!!

In Japanese proverbs, "The left-over draws always come with a luck."

See, it is right!

5 Year's memories

Not all of them, but very precious ones.

All smiles by chance healed my heart.

As long as a way is ahead of me,

I'll walk in the future on my way....

Renewal of Passport

I applied for the renewal of my passport today, and am supposed to recieve the new one next week. The valid is still years left, but no more visa pages. We are allowed to add extra pages once, but I already did it years earlier, and so I had to give up the old one.

I've visited nearly 40 countries since I started working as a tour leader 5 years ago. Of couse I visted the same places again, again and again, and so it is meaningless to count the numbers.


Well, I was honestly not sure that I should keep on traveling for the last few months, but I'm determined to do so now. It seems that I finally allowed myself just to let the flow of life go on as it wants to , not againt it.


If you say, it is a fate for me to keep on traveling.... Yeah, it may be....


If you say, it is a great oppotunity for me to meat people..... Yeah, it may be...


If you say, it is a great lesson for me to see the world... Yeah, it may be...


Someday, I'm sure that it reaches an end, and then I just stop it. That's all, and the next comes...

Constant solitude of this traveling life sometimes bothers my mind, but I've build up enough strengh and braveness to face it, and I know somehow how to live with it.


Unexpected smiles that I encounter by chance are nothing, but an energy and a healing. Building up my knowledge and understanding of things in general is nothing, but a treasure.


I'm sure I can still go further to be a better man...

Two Penguins

Look! Isn't it nice!???

I bought a wall paper of a couple of 2 penguins at a souvenir shop in Cape Town, and had it laminated today.

I wanted to put it somewhere on the wall in my room, but couldn't find any. Hmmm...., and then I got an idea!!!

I placed it on a desk, and put a bare light behind it. It turned into a nice lamp with a nice couple of 2 penguins.

A guide in Cape Town told me about how penguin couples commit themselves to each spouse. It is very simple! Not as complicated as human's....

What I saw was...

What I saw was not making love, but just two turtles mating for further flourishment of life.

I just wonder if they do this just for funs and preasures like human-beings.

We are very good at making excuses like,

"We are making love..."

"What we do is not making love..."

I just wonder if they ever have any thoughts of Love...

The concept of Love that we make is really based on what we think.

So Love is unreliable, never lasts....., and untrustable....