Fujisan - Dec 31

9:18am

Izakaya, Shimbashi

Short Ride in Yokohama

Fujisan - Dec 30

7:00am






9:38am


9:19am




4:35pm

Cocktails

ひょうたん 炭焼き肉

In Hyoutan Yakiniku with old friends

Lonely Walk at the beach in Hayama

31 photos

Fujisan - Dec 28th

8:16am

Yokohama Evening Sky - Dec 27

Time-lapse from 4:13pm to 5:32pm

Fuji san from Hayama

Fujisan from Hayama, Zushi. 9:55am (2011-12-27)

Evening light - Dec 26th

Time-lapse from 4:12pm to 5:28pm (Venus, The Moon & Fujisan visible)

Fujisan - Dec 26th

6:53am


6:54am


8:15am


8:53am


10:36am


4:36pm

Evening Light - Dec 25th

4:29pm



4:40pm

Yokohama Evening Sky - Dec 25

Time-lapse from 3:57pm to 5:32pm

Fujisan - Dec 25th

7:09am


7:09am


7:10am

Joyeux Noël!

Christmas in Japan is not a family gathering. It is Valentine's Day. You need a boyfriend/girlfriend and have a romantic dinner in a western style restaurant (this is Japan). My daughter (16) hinted she wanted to do exactly that. I refused. Too young. But I proposed to be the cook at home. Boyfriend was invited. An opportunity to check him out. He seems to be a nice guy. My daughter made a good choice. As long as it is not a definitive choice... Here some pictures of the food, made with love (not perfect)


9 photos

Evening Twilight

4:59pm

Mt. Fuji - Dec 24

8:36am


4:36pm

Morning Sky - Dec 24

Time-lapse from 6:21am to 7:58am

Oscar Wilde Quotes

Some Oscar Wilde quotes:

"I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after"

"Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken."

"I can resist anything but temptation."

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"

"I am not young enough to know everything"

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best"

"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes"

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live"

"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals"

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made"

"It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart"

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”

Night View From Roof

10:05pm

Yokohama Evening Sky - Dec 23

Time-lapse from 4:07pm to 5:27pm

Bonenkai

忘年会 2011

Fujisan - Dec 20th

6:48am


6:51am

Yokohama Evening Sky - Dec 19th

4:57pm

Fujisan - Dec 17th

6:43am


6:44am

Yokohama Evening Sky - Dec 16th

Time-lapse from 3:36pm to 5:18pm

Cold shut-down?

Prime Minister Noda is expected to announce today that engineers have brought the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to a 'cold shut-down condition'.

Should we be relieved? No! It's playing with words. It's a lie. 'Cold shutdown' does not have much meaning for severely damaged reactors like those at Fukushima Daiichi.

See this article in the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/asia/japan-set-to-declare-control-over-damaged-nuclear-reactors.html

Yokohama Evening Sky - Dec 13th

Time-lapse between 4:02pm and 5:28pm Dec 13th

Fujisan - Dec 13th

6:43am


6:44am

Fujisan - Dec 12th

6:41am


12:08pm


4:30pm


4:57pm


5:09pm