New Year's Eve with Foals

That was such a fantastic New Year's Eve night I ever had.

I've never been impressed by the live music.
Their great play made me cry, especially when they are
playing ''Spanish Sahara'' and ''Red Socks Pugie''.
What a great night.
I love them forever..........!!!!

I could saw Yannis, Walter, and Jack quite close from my position,
but everyone including Edwin and Jimmy, and other guys supported them
when they counting the time down to the New Year.

It was at HMV forum Camden, London, but the whole venue was packed,
and the ticket was sold-out.

Surprisingly this was the first time I had a New Year's Eve in London
though it was the 4th New Year I experienced in this country :P
Never knew that all tube and bus service would be free until 4am!
Well done London...

Their music blew all the tiredness I had.

That was a great, great way of starting new year 2011.

Happy new year! All the best :))

maki-sushi

It is already 30th.
Very close to the new year!

It's really warm these days, compared to 1 or 2 weeks ago.
I turned the heater's dial to the low temperature finally..
But all I need is a sun...!!! :(

Today I cleaned up my room!
Everything back to its places after the mess during I was working on the dissertation..
Satisfied :)

And went to the Only Japanese Restaurant in Epsom, to kind of celebrate New Year's Eve eve??
Their sushi rolls are sooooo nice!
Hmm, my favorite, (baby)dynamite roll... yumm

Tomorrow, London! :)
Gonna have funnnnn♥

the end.

Pheww....

The 3 days fight with Dissertation finished....6077 words....

All I wanna do right now is to

SLEEP.

I had a sleep for these last 3 days but
after I staring at the computer screen and squeezing my brain to think about the sentence was killing me...
My head is about to explode. heavyyyyy

Gonna have a rest anyway.

Tomorrow is already 30th, gosh! :/

and the day after tomorrow is the New Year's Eve..!



I will finish off with the strange video of Crystal Fighters today...
Psychedelic, somehow I feel.........

Iiiiii Looooooove London!




Good night.

5000

Finally I have reached to 5000 words today...!!
1000 words to go, one chapter and the conclusion.
I will leave this until the tutorial in middle of January after I reread & correct some points and concentrate on the project!!

I'm sooooo exhausted, after the long day of concentration.
But I am the person who can't leave the thing and stick at it everyday...
Anyway this would be the final academic writing I am going to do until
the graduation so I would be happier than ever after I hand this in...

And the landlord came in today with hired cleaner,
but there were only corridor and the bathroom on the 1st floor to clean up for them
because I did it yesterday! Hehe
I got chocolates for rewards :D and getting fatter and fatter lol

But the shower seems to be broken on 1st floor today, because the part of shower got a crack and the water is leaking out of it, and making noises of tapping the floor which is quite scary to hear in this lonely quiet house!! :(


And I watched Oshare izm of the episode about 4 guys from uno fog bar's CM.
I loveeddd itttt :))
This was the second time they coming as a guest, and I watched the first one when I was back in Japan this summer.

Can't stop watching dramas and TVs these days...
I have to go out!!
Otherwise my body will be petrified...

3000words...3000words to go

Finally reached to the half of the entire essay,
I want to finish it as soon as I can!
Hmm...I still need to work on to the uni's project and make a portfolio...
and this portfolio has to be done before the deadline of dissertation :P



This is one of the lovely Birthday presents I got, The weekly calendar of illustration by Airside.
I can't believe that there are already 2011's date on the same page.
2010 is nearly finishing...

And I cleaned up the house today.
Kitchen, Lounge, Bathroom, Corridor, and Staircase...
Especially the Kitchen's floor and sink is totally shiny :)
I will not let anybody say any complaints!





And, these images are the book design done by Coralie Bickford-Smith which I found when I was researching book design for the dissertation today.
Her design is so gorgeous, and especially these set of books about 'Arabian Nights - tales of 1001 nights' is so beautiful.
Because I was curious, I went to Amazon to see how much do they sell these books.
And the price was extraordinary: 650pounds.
I don't understand why the used product got much higher price though, which is 1689.06 pounds.
Unbelievable!!!!
I would just get one of the Penguin's classic book series from Waterstone's, which is also designed by her.

Technical Problem

Today was a boxing day, next day of Xmas.
Everyone must be in a middle of holiday mood
but I was working on dissertation X_X

It was almost the evening when I finally started to write the essay,
after the lots of reading and making structure.
I reached nearly 2000 words before the dinner time,
but the accident happened.

Somehow the Norton AntiVirus software detected the Virus in my
dissertation's word file, and it forced to save and close it.
Next moment when I opened the file again, the half of them
(means over 1000 words☆) has transformed into illegal character(?) or
disappeared. Hahaha

The only thing I can say to encourage myself to repair these text again before
go to sleep was, 'This was much better than losing everything after I finished whole essay...'

Anyway I am still staring at the screen and writing, when the clock is saying 4 in the morning.

What a nice start! :/ Ha

I need to Come Back, finally...

This has been really, really, long time since I wrote the last post.

It is almost 2 months(!), as I have been missing the chance to write blog.
I was giving me the excuses not to write because I felt low for the last few months
especially since the new term started, and end up giving up the routine I have been
kept for about 10 months.

I am writing this new post because I had a wonderful spiritual Xmas day and
realised the new year is just around the corner.

Add to this, I drew xmas illustrations too.

Ate magnificent dinner,
Opened the wine for the prize I've got from the competition (detail later),
Exchanged the present,
and Watched Love Actually.
Quiet and nice night it was :)
Next Xmas I would be in Japan...

Experienced Tarot since I had it 3,4 years ago too.
The result was pretty much the truth except the one I didn't understand(or haven't figure it out).
Kind of scary isn't it :P
Thanx 8 san!

Hard work, make firm foundation, and then go out more.

I guess if I am going to express my 2010 year in one Kanji it will be

''焦''(means rush).

Thinking too much ain't be good thing,
I wanna be the person who can stand with own feet without lost.
The reason many unexpected(and unpleasant) things happened this year
was because I couldn't make right decision caused by insecure thoughts.

Well, for now, all I need to do first is to finish the dissertaion!!
I will work hard from tomorrow! Concentrate! ;)

screen printed

stop
27th October 2010

I think I was too scared... :P


Today I went to the silkscreen workshop,
It was difficult enough for me, somehow I don't like that frame holder.
I prefer using steel framed screen and slightly smaller size which I used to
use when I was in high school.
Or maybe it was too long time ago it was, when I did printing last time.

Anyway I was kind of run out of time so I will try the same images next week too,
and hopefully be able to use as part of the project?

And went to Nandos, using the coupon we got the other day,
Yumm :)

Then help out friend's project a bit (it was just be in the photo tho)
and went back home, been watching drama, did some work...

I didint feel really well tonight...I hope it will be fine tomorrow.

cut down

pocket
27th October 2010

I feel strange these days...

I don't know what I really want to do.

I guess I should do the thing really necessary for me and ignore other 'unnecessary matter'.


Today I exposed the silkscreen for printing.
Hopefully, the good results com up tomo...

rethink

vain
25th October 2010


I think Im okay






.....Today we had a presentation again, and sit and listen in the studio whole day.
I felt so tired when we finished at about 4.20

I think I need more skills on writing and speaking.
I knew this already but especially in these days...I feel I've been too lazy to study English and
learn new words. (That's because last time I took IELTS was ages ago and I havent read a lot of books this term)

And I also need to move on to TOEIC test, which is the certification that I definitely need to get until I graduate...

I will try to write my thoughts down more, and practice the best way to translate my opinions in English...

The other problem is, the lack of inspirational stuff to get ideas and other stuff I used to do.
So I should try everything I want to try, before I run out of time (which is going to be next summer),
and decide on my future, whether I should stay or not.......!!!!!!

that was another proposal ・_・＊

where am i going

mail
14th October 2010








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But now its better
Thanks my friends

its not sunny

sun
13th October 2010

Cant believe
IT's already mid of October
Time pass so quickly noooo

I feel so depressed these days
... : _ :





painful

Film day

sway
11th October 2010

Today we had a class for whole day and watched videos
everyone handed in this morning.

It was interesting to see everybody's work,
it was obvious to see which one taking so much time and effort to
create, and which one is not on the other hand.

But I would say most of the videos were really good quality.
I want tutor to burn those works onto DVDs! :)

Cant believe some people done using stopmotion animation,
it must have took ages... o_o

Mine was just images putting together, not a proper film,
and tried to visualise the meanings of lyric, thats all.

Starring at the screen

beyond the
10th October 2010

stayed at home whole day...doing work... going to be crazy

London

blossom
9th October 2010

started to prepare for the film im going to hand in on Monday...!

but still went to London from noon lol

anyway I could get shirt, bag, and one piece.
And bead parts too! :)

And how sad that I had to com back before
Noah plays... ;_;

But I just needed to sleep,
and needed to do the project,
and needed to save money...

Next time, definitely!

CS

hide away
8th October 2010

tutorial with CS tutor

......................

helpful...?

Printer

it must be
7th October 2010

I wanna be a short sleeper.






Finally got an A3+Printer!! Yeay♪
negotiated and it was 1/4 price of original.
Havent set up or tried yet but I will definitely use it all the time and gonna make more more books :)

And still not really well prepared for tomorrow's tutorial...hahaha

And havent started filming...I have an idea though.

home cook party

slow
6th October 2010

had talk about dissertation in the morning,
and other talk about competition RSA in the afternoon.

Sounds good but also seems really serious and hard too.
I feel I have got so much things to doooo...
Wonder whether I can go next week's workshop.

Anyway I could finish the thing I needed to do by tomorrow,
and finally updated my course blog,
and some of my flatmates and me cooked our own culture's food tonight.
I made sushi and salmon in miso.
Im so glad they liked it, and I LOVE everyone's meals.
Soooo nice and tasty but it was really filling as well,
my stomach will explode...

lots

you need a story
5th October 2010

suddenly I became want to make new books.

suddenly I really worry about the future

obviously I need more sleep

apparently I have been eaten too much from last weekend

...and more

so many feelings in a day

Im so so so tired

what made me happy a bit in the very end of the day was
receiving checks for my books from the shop :)

collages

pile
4th October 2010

had a whole day class in studio.
Just got really tired after all that weekend.

But anyway we tried to make Fanzine, which is a publication
has a potential of reproduced and in 3 different version...
There were no enough time so I couldnt finish it but
done for the original collage images to be used in this book.

now we've got a new brief...!
Making 3 minutes film...? noo :((

get back home

wait for
3rd October 2010

That was a long but short, fantastic weekend!

From tomorrow I need to work hard...
and yes Proposal for Dissertation... x_x

Sheffield's Saturday night

somewhere
2nd October 2010

Finally restarted

1st October 2010

Hello, I've been busy but lazy to upload and write a blog for a month,
and I think I need to make myself back to the right(?) routine again...
to draw a picture a day and write down what I feel for each day.

I have moved to a new house,
I have travelled to Germany,
I have started my course,
and went to a lots of events
and saw a lots of great stuff
and got a big inspirations
and met many nice people
.....

I might to talk about it later on when I have time
but anyway it's already October...! (Unbelievably)

And for the last weekend I went to Sheffield with my friends
to celebrate her Birthday.

It was a big and beautiful city, having a lots of attractive stuff
and great for student life I think.
I really enjoyed staying there even it was a short time, just for 2 nights.

There's a plenty of nice cities and towns left that I have never been to in UK.
I wanna go to other big city such as Birmingham, Nottingham, or Liverpool.

And it was interesting to hear some people talking in strong accent...

part missed

2nd September 2010

!!

Im still in Japan, haha.

Ahhh, what the hell...

which part of plane has missed?

Please fly tomorrow please

Tomorrow

gaze
1st September 2010

Am I ready...?

gosh I might needed a bit more time for rest :P

Day after Tomorrow

thought
31st August

Sooooooo tired

Im back to Tokyo at 5:30am after the long? journey by bus.

can't believe that I will be in Europe 2 days after...


Anyway...I need sleep

Kyoto sanpo

unbalance
30th August 2010


Last day in Western Japan.
Kyoto!
Last time I came to this city, I was about 15...?

Anyway I traveled around famous traditional places at that time but this time
I went to Kawaramachi and loved its sense of hidden place.



Hanjiro, Kyoto version





by the river...







Dinner time at interesting place
Here was almost hidden place and really few people were there, relaxing.



nice envelops and wrapping papers from nice shops



The part of stuff I got during this long travel.

Nara sanpo

fragment
29th August 2010

Nara day.
It was bloody hot... x_x
we were nearly dyeing...
Introduced by a friend lived in Nara, we enjoyed traditional, and old Japanese town and buildings.
A lots of people and also foreigners were there.







Even turtles in a pond....
hot...











!?



Heijo kyo

we could see it from a train...!
A looong queue was lined to this castle...