The photo was taken in Sevilla, Spain last week.
I like giving some tips to street performers like them beacuse they make me laugh most of the time.
I knew how they were going to scare me, but it's fun to be scared as long as it comes with a good sence of humour.
Don't you think so?
I just can't believe that I've been drinking out a lot lately....
The owner in a white shirt looks so cute and handsome!!! Of course, their foods are very delicious!!!!!
Junko, a friend from elementary school, suddenly phoned and asked me out for drinks one night.
It's been a while since I moved to a new flat. The funny thing is that I'm drinking out more than I used to be.... My new place seems to be very comfotable, and my life also seems to be the same...
A series of coincidences is the result of inevitability among people's life.
The timing of coincedences are always punctual.
Our intentions never reflect to these mysterious dramas.
The idea that we control our life is merely arrogance.
I know that it is very rude to take a photo of a stranger , but I couldn't help doing it....
I've never slept like him on the train as far as I remember, but it must have been a inevitable nap for him on the train.
I really understand how much he tried to keep himself from not falling asleep like this, and I'm sure that he just lost a fight against sleepiness.
Anyway, I found a nice souvenior in the U.K one day, and it says like
"You know that you are getting older when your happisess is a nap"
Hmm, it is for me now!!!
"Nanppu Express" to Kochi was soooo uncomfotable. Fast, but right and left trembling!!!
A view cart running along "Shimanto" river which is very famous for clear water and beautiful scenary along the river.
This one was soooooo DELICIOUS!!!! One of the best things about tours in Japan is food!!!
Summer will end soon, and only 4 months left for the next year 2012.
I haven't been to cafes in Umeda which used to my relaxing places for reading and whatever... since I moved in my new flat. While taking breaks in reading, I was looking at the clouds moving so rapidlly in the sky from the window. A typhoon far off the coast of Japan yet is gathering them.
Aircrafts which are trying to descend at Osaka Int'l Airport are so visible because they are taking a root from western side for touch down due to wind directions. When they descend from western side, they always fly over my town exactlly where I live. It is very exciting!
A preparation for the next trip to London. Concentrations for reading always come out at cozy cafes, especially in the quiet morning time. I do hope that a coming typhoon won't bother a flight to London via Dubai.
Jazz festival with a view of Bernina alps at nearly 3000m.
Cute! I found it on the way to Morteratsch Glacier.
Wherever we go, with smile!
I visited here 17 years ago. I should have posted an old photo taken there, too.
No need to say! I love the 80's.
The stuff that I'll never be interested.
I kept grinning while drawing me in the canvas. He was a nice guy.
Eh!?
I really hated "Strip street" in Las vegas which was filled with bad energies. I just went there because of Garth. I'm sure that I would stay around this Fremont Street, which is a symbol of old good days Las Vegas. It still has an atomsphere that I'm expecting in America.
Once I stepped off the bus called "duce", I noticed that a song "Take on me" was being played there. It was like a welcoming song to me! And then more and more songs from 80's.
I really hasiated to leave here for taking a flight back to Japan, but I promised that I would stay here if I had a chance to visit here, and play cards or so with easy going people there I found.
This is Bellagio hotel, and the fountain show there was very beautiful.
Not in Paris.
Before the show starts
I'm not interested in America at all, except for a few things, and one of the things was Garth Brooks, a country singer.
Several months ago, I had a chance to visit Las Vegas after 17 years with my client, and happened to know that he would hold a show case. I didn't hasitate even a minuite to go to a box office to get the ticket.
The show lasted nealy 3 hours, and Garth kept talking and singing..... What a strong voice he has! I just can't belive that he once retired. Anyway, that is also one of my dreams from my younger age. I did it again!
Casa Batllo, Barcelona
Japanese words saying "My Father" at Sagurada Familia, Barcelona.
Flamenco show in Madrid.
Visitting Barcelona and Madrid is my sister's dream. I just gave her an oppotunity because I owe her a lot in my life.
It is a pitty for her not to make even one of her dreams come true. The dreams are things to make come true.
Thanks to her, I'm travering the world now which has been one of my dreams since my childhood. She just don't realize that she is one of those who has helped me to make what I am, and make my dream come true.
It is time to do something in return for her.
I'm officially leaving here as of 29th of July. Almost empty, except for my PC and a telephone. It looks like a secret agent's room.
I've already moved out here, but it seems to take some time to set up these stuff at my new place, and so I decided to keep them here until the very last day for my job preparations.
Recalling my memories, the reason why I left my first apartment 12 years ago was a bit sentimental, but the second one is different. I'd been hoping, aiming, and planing for this until I was prepared well enough, though it took me 8 years.
The moment of taking actions always comes suddenly since I'm a kind of intuitive. Once everything starts, no one, and even I can't stop me. I feel like I just have to do it. I just to follow my intuition.
I'm not sure that these intuitive behaviors will lead me to WHERE?...., but where I am now is where I'm meant to be now.
This place was an ideal place for me to learn many things in life which are now very valuabule to me. I was well determined not to become sentimental sometime earlier, but now I feel somehow....
This place became an important place, and I'd surly been through an important moment of my life.
Adiue!
One of the lifts at the hotel where I stayed in Barcelona never show the numbers of floors. It shows only SMILE. It is very interesting!
Some say that Smiles tell one's life. I mean how he or she's lived one's life so far.
Do you smile a lot?
The SMILE was telling me like...
"Masami, don't forget your smiles!",
which I've been trying to get back to my life for years.
It must've been a good sign for my new life. It was telling me like "Smile for a new life".
"No need to regret anything! You've come to this so far..."
I moved out of 1K(one 6-matted-tatami room+ Kitchen) room to 2DK(two 6-matted-tatami room+Dining & Kitchen) room yesterday.
Much more spacious than the last one which I had lived for 8 years.
You are always welcome to my place!!!
Japan is a beautiful country.
But we unfortunately don't recognize well that it is....
We don't wanna loose this beauty, but how....?
Several days left to move out my current flat feeling nice wind coming in from Rokko mountain, I wonder why I'm ment to be here, and to have been born as a Japanse.
The wine that I'm drinking at this moment makes me feel a bit emotional...
I'm alive, and I'm surly aging for eternal...
Can you get what I'm feeling?
"I'm alive!"
Hoping you do the same there.
Heading for a view point at Sunega, Zermatt, Switzerland.
Hiking in the great weather.
Nice Pic, eh!? Elmo is posing himself with the view of Mt. Matterhorn.
I skipped a breakfast which is not so rare..., and I tried "Kaiten-sushi" as a brunch for today.
My favorite:Gyoku(Egg) and Akadashi(Red miso soup).
And then "Tekka" (Rolled Tuna)!
5 plates were enough for my stomach. I'm always not a big eater. Not Bad!
650 yen (about 5 euro)
From the photo, an elder guy and a lady in uniform for Boat Bus in Paris seems to be having an conversation at a ticket office near the Eiffel tower.
Yes, they acctually were, but there was a story.
I was having a break sitting on a bench while my clients were taking a boat ride in the River Seine. I had watched him strangely streching his legs open forward and backward from a distance sometime earlier. And then I changed my place and encountered this situation.
This guy approached her with a grim face and seemed to ask her to buy things he took out from his bag. I was a bit sttuned when I saw the THING he took out for her. It was just a photo of this guy, but believe it or not, he was dressed in costume of a Primaddona like Lake Swan.
"Wow----, oh la la---!"
She covered her mouth with a hand saying those words, but soon later burst into a laughter. This guy seemed to enjoy her reaction, and hand out his photo to her for free of charge. And then he moved to another target.
I've been here many times, but it seems that there are STILL many, many things I need to see and enjoy in Paris. I really should travel in France by myself someday.
Anyway, I'm wondering if he would be dressed in Black Swan like Natalie Portman for the next time......
"Wow---, oh la la---!"
Have a look at this beautiful reflection view of the houses around "Vieux Bassin" (Old Port) in Honfleur, France.
Should I be a photographer or what? (Hahaha, it's joking!)
Soon after I had taken this photo, the wind started to blow, and the the surface of the water started to shake. All the houses in the reflection disapeared into vagueness.
I had moved in this flat 8 years ago which was on 23/May in 2003. It seems to be a long period, but I never feel so, and now I'm ready to move out...
I wonder if I can any spacial meroies to mention, but I can't pick up any specific... It soulds wired to you, but I didn't have much time to spend here in my flat for parties, or just chatting staying up late with friends. Maybe I dare didn't invite any, and just wanted to be alone while staying at my place where no one can bother my nature.
Maybe, some emotional feelings must have let me do so...
Since my new flat is located 300m to East along this High way, and on the opposite side, I have 2 months left to enjoy the view of Rokko mountain area and Sun set. They helped me heal my emotions to keep on walking in life.
Everytime right after, or before submitting reports about tours to my agent, I take some break at my favorite cafe, "Org. " for lunch & Cafe. It seems to become a good routine to free myself from some pressures I must have felt during tours with my clients.
Pressures we may feel in any occations seem to be things we dare want to avoide. I believe that there are few willingly to enjoy them. Me? Of course, NOT! How about you? I'm not talking only about job situations, but also in private matters.
I don't think that there are obious ways to avoide them. They always follow us and try to seek a chance to overwhelm us. It seems that I've been recently having a good relationship with them.
"You should always confront and fight against it. And then you become stornger". (Sounds soooo American!)
Some people say this kind cliché. Why do we have to fight against it, even though we aren't well prepared, strong enough, or confident enough, which sounds nothing but a loosing battle. What do you think?
I used to do things more which I was not capable of to show myself off, which seemed to make situations worse, and think that that is the quickest way to step forward in life itself. Poor boy!
Since "Knowing one's place" has become one of my favorite mottos, I've become more relaxed, confident, and wiser to live this life...
I always wonder how I make this life more worthy, enjoyable.
