A Journey to the Levant
Although not being sold yet, the Nikon D5 is available to hold and experience at Nikon showroom in Shinjuku L Tower .
As I am still using DX format, the Nikon D5 is not really for me. Maybe it is about time I will move on to FX format, but can’t justify the cost of the Nikon D5 and new set of lenses.
Shinjuku station has an area for special marketing campaigns which draw sometimes a lot of attention.
This time is it a campaign by Nissen , a Shopping Catalogue company, using a boy band called NEWS.
The slogan is ”さわってみて”, touch! with real size images of the group and real clothes which the fans can touch, open the zipper and close the zipper… which they did a lot.
My photo does not show it
But twitter provides enough images:
https://twitter.com/gekikaracacao/status/686514371862724608
Which I wake up very early, go to the train, but is just does not move.
Stopping before and in each station, waiting for a long time. A ride which usually takes 20 minutes (or 30 minutes when busy), took me more than an hour.
I actually decided to get off the train, work in a nearby Caffe and return to the train later. It was a good decision.
If you happen to visit Kyoto, I recommend going to Kyoto National Museum.
Besides swords exhibition which draws a lot of crowd and monkey paintings that fits the monkey year theme, some Buddha status are really amazing:
Photo taken during a visit to KiyomizuDera (清水寺）。
Every year, a Kanji Character is selected to represent the year that ended.
For 2015, it was 安, which means safety and represent the safety uncertainties and terror in 2015.
Thinking more about it, there is no real meaning to this Kanji of the year, but it is a nice tradition and something to discuss in the news and Friends.
Let’s hope for a Safe 2016.
Two episodes this morning:
1. A woman struggling to take the express train and staff pushes her in , head bumped by the automatic doors and she made it … Is it worth it ?
2. A guy (early 50s?) pushed me, rushing to get a seat . Is it worth it ?
Xcode installation is stuck in “Installing – 3 minutes” for more than 20 minutes, which gives me a reason to complain about Installation estimates.
We ALL know that there is no way to really estimate it , so why do it ?
It is helpful to know the percentage of installation and what else is needed to be done, but do I really want to state at a “Installing – 3 minutes” for more than 3 minutes? Moreover, it sometimes changes to 4 or 5 minutes, which is even more annoying.
Part of “Letters Live” project, Thom Yorke wrote to Father Christmas:
His writing his simple and maybe childish, but I love the simple requests and honesty.
“i have also tried to do what i’m told but often have delighted in doing the exact opposite.
but always i have tried to give love and try not to cause hurt.”“you send them (my kids) some hope for the future. that is very important.”
“but perhaps this year you would consider not giving any presents to oil company executives and the politicians whose influence they buy?
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One of the topics that Japanese like to talk about are the Japanese four seasons.
6 years ago it may have tired me, but now I have accepted (immersed in) it.
Traveling to Singapore/Thailand/Taiwan and seeing only small differences between Summer and Winter I now appreciate the Japanese seasons.
The photo below is Gingko （イチョウ or 銀杏) in it’s splendour.
I love this photo so much.
The seriousness of the woman photographer, the smug smile of the man with her and the blurred image in the background.
The blurred image belongs to a girl who was walking by herself with a lost look on her face. Fits this photo very well.
