idol.

derrick martell rose

born: october 4, 1988 [22]

2011's MVP (and the youngest MVP ever)

plays for chicago bulls [which is read as shikago bowls]

height: 6 feet 3 in

also rookie of the year in 2009

salary? $5,546,160 this 2011. whoa!

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We See Fireworks at PS122

Helen Cole’s We See Fireworks which enjoyed a fantastic run at the Barbican as part of Spill Festival earlier in the year is on it’s way to PS122 in the heart of the famous city, and are lucky enough to be joined by our good friends Action Hero who will be performing Watch Me Fall.

We’ve been raving about We See Fireworks throughout the past year, but for those of you who haven’t heard the name then here’s the info:

With support from the British Council, Performance Space 122 brings 3 companies, Inbetween Time Productions, Action Hero and curious, across the pond for a taste of the UK's hottest contemporary performance experiences. 

Part installation, part performance archive of audience voices, We See Fireworks is a curated collection of memories of past performances or performative moments whispered softly into the darkness. They talk of religious ceremonies, accidents, lovers' meetings, loss, homesickness, adolescence, fairgrounds, car parks, fetish clubs and school halls. Articulated by strangers, these words are viral, searing into the consciousness, until the deepest memories become yours.

'Quite how vivid performance can be is demonstrated exquisitely in We See Fireworks’  Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

The installation is open at PS122 in New York from Saturday, June 4 - Saturday, June 11 from the hours of 2 - 6:30pm / 7 - 9pm daily.
The installation is closed on Monday, June 6.

If you would like to add your voice to this growing collection, opportunities for individual recordings are available June 4, 5, 7, 8 between 4:30 - 6:30pm & 7 - 9pm.

We See Fireworks at PS122

Helen Cole’s We See Fireworks which enjoyed a fantastic run at the Barbican as part of Spill Festival earlier in the year is on it’s way to PS122 in the heart of the famous city, and are lucky enough to be joined by our good friends Action Hero who will be performing Watch Me Fall.

We’ve been raving about We See Fireworks throughout the past year, but for those of you who haven’t heard the name then here’s the info:

With support from the British Council, Performance Space 122 brings 3 companies, Inbetween Time Productions, Action Hero and curious, across the pond for a taste of the UK's hottest contemporary performance experiences. 

Part installation, part performance archive of audience voices, We See Fireworks is a curated collection of memories of past performances or performative moments whispered softly into the darkness. They talk of religious ceremonies, accidents, lovers' meetings, loss, homesickness, adolescence, fairgrounds, car parks, fetish clubs and school halls. Articulated by strangers, these words are viral, searing into the consciousness, until the deepest memories become yours.

'Quite how vivid performance can be is demonstrated exquisitely in We See Fireworks’  Lyn Gardner, The Guardian

The installation is open at PS122 in New York from Saturday, June 4 - Saturday, June 11 from the hours of 2 - 6:30pm / 7 - 9pm daily.
The installation is closed on Monday, June 6.

If you would like to add your voice to this growing collection, opportunities for individual recordings are available June 4, 5, 7, 8 between 4:30 - 6:30pm & 7 - 9pm.

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Animated Landscapes

After the aesthetic pleasures of Barcelona's victory against Manchester United last night it seemed fitting to head down this morning to Tate Modern for the Joan Miró exhibition.  The first room is particularly interesting from a landscape perspective, was the artist's signature style can be seen developing through a series of increasingly abstract and surreal views of the Catalan countryside.  Before moving to Paris Miró had painted in a cubist-naive style scenes around his family home in the Tarragona mountains.  Vegetable Garden and Donkey (1918), for example, has a strange sky that looks like a set of painted walls and a vegetable patch patterned like a carpet.  After arriving in Paris in 1920, he spent nine months painting The Farm from memory, a work later bought by Ernest Hemingway, who said ‘it has in it all that you feel about Spain when you are there and all that you feel when you are away and cannot go there. No one else has been able to paint these two very opposing things.’  According to the Tate blog, Miró 'boxed with Hemingway as well as having him to stay at Mont-roig, the place outside Tarragona depicted in astonishing detail in The Farm. Miró told a journalist in 1928, ‘The Farm was a résumé of my entire life in the country.’'  

By 1923-4 Miró's forms were becoming freely floating signs and in The Catalan Landscape (The Hunter) the land is reduced to an undulating orange plane.  Sea and sky are delineated by no more than a thin line ruled over the yellow background.  Wave forms and gull shapes are among the most recognisable symbols; elsewhere, according to the artist, there are such details as "the Toulouse-Rabat airplane on the left; it used to fly past our house once a week. In the painting I showed it by a propellor, a ladder and the French and Catalan flags. You can see the Paris-Barcelona axis again, and the ladder, which fascinated me. A sea and one boat in the distance, and in the very foreground, a sardine with tail and whiskers gobbling up a fly. A broiler waiting for the rabbit, flames and a pimento on the right..."

After a couple more years of accelerated artistic development Miró painted a sequence of 'Animated Landscapes'.  In Dog Barking at the Moon (1926), the ladder that had been propped against the wall of The Farm and drifting in the sky in The Catalan Landscape (The Hunter), can now be seen dominating the left had side of the picture, climbing up into the night sky.  The Tate's exhibition is actually called 'The Ladder of Escape', after a 1940 painting, one of his celebrated Constellations, which were begun during the blackouts in Normandy and completed after his flight from occupied France to Spain.  By this stage Miró was painting a purely inner landscape. The Constellations are probably the exhibition's highlight, although I was pleased to see again the 1968 triptych Painting on White Background for the Cell of a Recluse (usually hung in Barcelona at the Joan Miró Foundation).  As Adrian Searle says in his review, 'there's nothing much to the three white canvases. No colour, no forms. Each enormous canvas is painted with a single black line over an unevenly primed white ground. You can tell where the slender brush has run out of paint, is recharged, then continues on its way with the same unknowable purpose, like the passage of an ant or a bird in flight, or the journey the eye makes along a horizon.'

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videos of real Japan

I like to introduce videos of my tour!
They were made by Janice. She came to Japan with her husband in cherry blossoms season last year. It was her first visit to Japan. They joined a group. This group consisted of mainly Japanese-Americans. They come back to Japan periodically. It was my 4th trip with them. They are like my family.

Some of them were born in Japan and god married to American soldiers after WW2. Then they moved to USA with their husband when they finished their mission in Japan. In the beginning, wives had a hard time in USA because they couldn't understand English but they didn't have money to go back to Japan.
In addition to that, according to my mother's story, I think although they came back to Japan at that time, they might have been considered as somebody different and couldn't find their space even in Japan.
But the wives had babies and decided to live in USA. They are now in their 80's and they have a strong spirit.

And some of them were born in USA and have American citizenship. However, during WW2, all of their possessions were confiscated by American Government and they were gathered in concentration camps.
Men had to fight against Japanese as an American.

Snow falling on Cedars

It was a Big Contradiction!! I'm always upset and furious whenever I hear this kind of story. I read a book, `Snow falling on Cedars', watched movies related to this theme and listened to their stories whenever they come back to Japan.



the statue of Sadako 
at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
 





However, I had a chance to meet the 3rd, 4th and 5th generations of Japanese-Americans last summer.
Children told me that they researched A-bomb from Japanese side and their American friends researched from American side and shared their both views at class.
I was touched by that idea and believed those children are a symbol of our bright future without any boundaries. As an adult, we have to promise to protect them and their future!














Finally, I like to introduce Janice's videos. During their tour, I always speak English and Japanese because a few of them don't understand English. Although I speak the same things, they always listen to me attentively and do the same reaction. Although I speak twice, they forget because they are old, then I have to speak the same things again and again. They are like my young grandparents!

There are 4 videos but it isn't completed yet. I hope Janice will complete someday!!
Areas they visited are not visited by regular tourists. Those sites are very special to people like them.
You can see real life of Japan. Please enjoy them!

videos of real Japan

I like to introduce videos of my tour!
They were made by Janice. She came to Japan with her husband in cherry blossoms season last year. It was her first visit to Japan. They joined a group. This group consisted of mainly Japanese-Americans. They come back to Japan periodically. It was my 4th trip with them. They are like my family.

Some of them were born in Japan and god married to American soldiers after WW2. Then they moved to USA with their husband when they finished their mission in Japan. In the beginning, wives had a hard time in USA because they couldn't understand English but they didn't have money to go back to Japan.
In addition to that, according to my mother's story, I think although they came back to Japan at that time, they might have been considered as somebody different and couldn't find their space even in Japan.
But the wives had babies and decided to live in USA. They are now in their 80's and they have a strong spirit.

And some of them were born in USA and have American citizenship. However, during WW2, all of their possessions were confiscated by American Government and they were gathered in concentration camps.
Men had to fight against Japanese as an American.

Snow falling on Cedars

It was a Big Contradiction!! I'm always upset and furious whenever I hear this kind of story. I read a book, `Snow falling on Cedars', watched movies related to this theme and listened to their stories whenever they come back to Japan.



the statue of Sadako 
at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
 





However, I had a chance to meet the 3rd, 4th and 5th generations of Japanese-Americans last summer.
Children told me that they researched A-bomb from Japanese side and their American friends researched from American side and shared their both views at class.
I was touched by that idea and believed those children are a symbol of our bright future without any boundaries. As an adult, we have to promise to protect them and their future!














Finally, I like to introduce Janice's videos. During their tour, I always speak English and Japanese because a few of them don't understand English. Although I speak the same things, they always listen to me attentively and do the same reaction. Although I speak twice, they forget because they are old, then I have to speak the same things again and again. They are like my young grandparents!

There are 4 videos but it isn't completed yet. I hope Janice will complete someday!!
Areas they visited are not visited by regular tourists. Those sites are very special to people like them.
You can see real life of Japan. Please enjoy them!

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walang kamatayang kakornihan.. SiNONG NBA PLAYER..

..ang assistant ni santa?

zach randolph [memphis grizzlies]




..ang malikhain?

ron artest [LA lakers]

..ang nakakabadtrip pag mataas?

ronnie price [utah jazz]

..ang hinihila ni kampanerang kuba?

raja bell [utah jazz]

..ang gustong gusto ng mga estudyante?

jrue holiday [philadephia 76ers]

..ang dip ng friend chicken sa isang fastfood chain?

..tracy mcGRAVY, hahaha. [detroit pistons]

..ang nakakahilo?

evan turner [philadephia 76ers]

..ang minsan white pero usually red?

derrick rose [chicago bulls]




..ang prinito?

channing frye [phoenix suns]

..ang crispy?

von wafer [boston celtics]




..ang pansindi?

pau gasol [LA lakers]

..built the ark?

joakim noah [chicago bulls]

..ang lasenggero?

carlos boozer [chicago bulls]

..ang nakasugat?

paul pierce [boston celtics]

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1444

A Message from Kyoto 2011

This is a new video to introduce Kyoto area now made by the Japan Federation of Certified Guides which I belong to. I appreciate their effort to promote our safety. However those who made this video emphasize the safety in Kansai, the western part of Japan. Personally I feel a bit sad because Kanto, the eastern part of Japan sounds to have problems. It's true though. The tea plantation near Hakone beyond Tokyo found to be exposed to the radiation. The harvest of the tea should be abandoned. The truth is always hidden by the authorities and we are informed much later. Now many of us can't believe information brought by mass media. We know we had better to google or use another means.

But it's true Kansai area is safe and nothing is changed. If you are in Tokyo, you'll find less light, less operating escalators and drinking places closing early. I hope people in the normal area do their best and it brings to early recovery in our economy. Please enjoy the video!

A Message from Kyoto 2011

This is a new video to introduce Kyoto area now made by the Japan Federation of Certified Guides which I belong to. I appreciate their effort to promote our safety. However those who made this video emphasize the safety in Kansai, the western part of Japan. Personally I feel a bit sad because Kanto, the eastern part of Japan sounds to have problems. It's true though. The tea plantation near Hakone beyond Tokyo found to be exposed to the radiation. The harvest of the tea should be abandoned. The truth is always hidden by the authorities and we are informed much later. Now many of us can't believe information brought by mass media. We know we had better to google or use another means.

But it's true Kansai area is safe and nothing is changed. If you are in Tokyo, you'll find less light, less operating escalators and drinking places closing early. I hope people in the normal area do their best and it brings to early recovery in our economy. Please enjoy the video!

Challenge #1 sponsored by All That Scraps

Welcome! Well, this past week has been the longest! Since we chose our Design Team and our Guest Design Team, we do have more followers (thank you for that) and we had so much fun making the first card / project. Our first Christmas Challenges {with sketches} challenge is finally up.

This week we are sponsored by All That Scraps and they are offering the lucky winner an amazing $30 gift voucher to spend in their store.
You can find the store --> here <-- The winner will be chosen by Random Generator.

Here's some inspiration from the Design Team ...

Made by Carol

Made by Claire

Made by Janneke

Made by Linda

 Made by Marion

 Made by Monique

Made by Nicole

Made by Pam

Made by Renata

Wilma is on vacantion so no card from her this time ;o)

And our lovely Guest Designers

Made by Annemarie and Merit

Made by Betina

Dina is on vacantion so no card from her this time.

Here is the sketch that Janneke made for you this time ;o) You can rotate the sketch and resize the elements, as long as you follow the original sketch, that way your entry qualifies for the prize draw.

To join the challenges and to be eligible for the prize made ​​available by the sponsor of that challenge, we have a few rules. You can find them --> here <--

You can place your direct blogpost link in Inlinkz untill Monday June 6th 23.59 am (Dutch time)

summer!

CI: *holds out an index card* 1/8 to di ba? eh pag 1/4 gano kalaki?

class: mas malaki po dyan.

CI: malamang.

class: hahaha.

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aira: nanonood ka ba noon ng "fullhouse"?
liane: oo. ang ganda nun no. eh pag mexicans, gusto mo?

aira: oo. ung "rosalinda", ganun.

jihad: pag mexican naman kasi, kelangan sabihin ung buong pangalan. "luis fernando!"

kami: hahahaha.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: so, pwede nio namang gawin yang drug study nio sa library. ilang drug handbook pala ang nandun?

class: dalawa lang po ata.

CI: baka pagpunta nio dun magkanda punit punit ung drug handbooks.

class: hahahaha.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*katatapos magbasketball*

jihad: hala, may sugat pala ako. ikaw sean?

sean: oo may sugat din ako.

jihad: grabe, battlefield pala dun ah.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*si jovs nagpa-henna tattoo*

CI: ano yang tattoo mo? bakit, preso ka ba?

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: saan na kayo nagduty?

BJ: sa OB ward, gyne, ortho..

CI: ay, dun pala kayo sa mga pinaka-kritikal no.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: dapat confident kayo sa pagrerecite. para pag case pres nio na, magaling kyong sumagot. siguro sa simula, merong nginignginig, himahimatay..

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*quiz*

CI: number 5 palang tayo. pero until number 50 yan.

class: whoa.

CI: mapagpaniwala talaga kayo.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: magseat work naman kayo. para makapagpahinga naman ang vocal cords ko. pag pinagdugtongdugtong mo lahat ng sinabi ko baka nakarating na sa tarlac.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: dapat alam mo kung kumain ung pasyente mo. pagkunwari, Biogesic yan, kahit sabi ni john lloyd na okay yan sa tiyan na walang laman, hindi pa rin pwede.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*attendance checking*

CI: *mabilis* mr. bangcolen, mr. buen, mr. bayang.. absent lahat yun, bakit walang sumagot?

sila: sir! sir! sir!

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: abuse na pag parang hindi kumpleto ang araw pag hindi uminom ng gamot na un. parang pagligo at pagkain na laging ginagawa ung pag-inom ng gamot na un. pero pag hindi naman talaga kayo kumakain at naliligo, iba na un.

class: hahahaha.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: sinong mga naninigarilyo dito?

class: *blink blink*

CI: sinong mga sunog baga dito?

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: sino dito ang nagda-drive?

class: *blink blink*

CI: nagda-drive? i suppose car, hindi kariton, hindi tangke. o baka eroplano pa.

class: *blink blink*

CI: okay. kasi may mga driver kayo no?

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: alcohol stays in the body for less than a day, depende pa rin yan sa dami. pero pag isang galon yan ewan ko na lang.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: inhalants. like paint thinner. gustong gusto yan ni miss john kasi malapit sia sa pader.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*quiz*

CI: what do you call the drugs that can be bought from the drugstore even without prescription? hindi sia libre ha.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: kelangan ko ng marker. kunin mo nga sa table ko.

froilan: saan po ang table nio dun?

CI: basta tignan mo ung pinakamaganda, pinakamaayos at pinakamalinis na table..

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: narinig nio na ba ung steven-johnson syndrome? familiar ba? narinig nio na?

class: *blink blink*

CI: oo kasi sinabi ko.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

girl: sir paano pag mali ung sagot pero tama ung solution?

CI: pano nangyari un? patingin nga.

girl: sige na po sir. kahit two points lang para sa effort.

CI: eh pano yan, sa board exams wala nang effort effort dun, kahit mamatay ka man sa kaka-effort, wala pa rin.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: meron tayong tinatawag na pallor, callor tsaka dollor. ano ang dollor?

girl: pain.

CI: oo tama. kaya pag dolores ang pangalan mo, pasakit ka lang.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

fred: pahingi naman nian. *oil blotting sheets* para saan ba to?

liane: para maabsorb ang oil.

fred: *puts on face* wala naman.

vielle: baligtad.

fred: hala.

vielle: naniwala ka naman. hahaha.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*kumakain ng halo halo*

fred: wala to sa halo halo sa mankayan. may macaroni pa.

karen: magtaka ka kung ung pasta, ng spaghetti.

vielle: tas pansit no.

fred: tas siomai. haha.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

karen: nung natulog ako kina joey, suot ko pa tong contact lens ko. buti walang nangyari sa mata ko.

vielle; baka hindi ka umabot sa REM sleep.

karen: oo ata.

fred: REM sleep? di ba un ung mabagal na paggalaw ng mata.

vielle: anong mabagal? kaya nga rapid eh. rapid eye movement. as in mabilis!

fred: sorry naman po. un kasi ung naaalala kong itinuro sa amin eh.

vielle: hay naku. sinisira mo lang ang stock knowledge ko.

fred: okay fine.

karen: parang sinabi ko lang na natulog ako nang naka-contact lens a, umabot na kayo sa ganyang usapan.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

CI: pag bababa kayo sa lowlands.. siyempre hindi ka naman aakyat sa lowlands..

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

jihad: ganun talaga ang mga lalake. naturally lazy.

sean: enjoy life. its gonna end anyway. hahahahaah.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*12:00 noon*

sean: silipin mo tong sugat ko. nagbulge pa o.

liane: eww.

sean: tas kakain tayo no. hahahahahah.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

liane: parang asteeg maging pathologist no. ung nagpe-perform ng autopsy.

sean: oo, pero mahal.

liane: aviation pag nag-pilot di ba? mahal din un?

sean: oo a.

jihad: ako, pinangarap ko kasing maging tindero ng taho eh.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

jihad: inoperahan ako noon eh.

sean: ay o? saan?

jihad: sa utak. binuksan ung utak ko, tas sabi ng mga doktor, "matalino tong batang to a. palitan nga natin ang utak nia."

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

jihad: u're in pain.

sean: no. just reviewing. same as being in pain.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*tinanggal ang bonet*

jihad: nakakahiya naman sa inyo. kumakain tayo tas naka-bonet ako.

jovs: hindi. kami nga ung nahihiya eh. kumakain nang hindi naka-bonet.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

jihad: sira yang mouse ko.

sean: bakit?

jihad: nahigaan ko kagabi eh.

sean: hindi mo ba naramdaman?

jihad: pag tulog kasi ako, no feelings.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

jihad: alam nio ba kung ano ang 123?

terrence: oo. ung hindi na magbabayad sa jip di ba?

jihad: eh ung 123 456?

karla: ano naman un?

jihad: ung hindi ka na nga nagbayad, sasabihin mo pang, "manong, ung barya ng P20?"

kami: hahahahahahha.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*kanteen*

manang: ikaw ung nagyupi nitong kutsara no?

fred: hala, hindi po ako.

manang: ikaw. kayo ung nakaupo dito kanina eh.

fred: pramis po. its not me. its not my family.

joey: in my head. in my head.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

*nabali ung chalk habang nagsusulat*

aira: ay!

CI: okay lang. hindi nakamamatay.

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Three Essential Elements: Why I’m Going to and Blogging about NLO

Three elements underlie why I’m heading to the conference.

Element 1: Networking
One morning my officemate asked me: “Do you know the nonlinear optics conference is in Hawaii?” Me: “No.” I must say Hawaii is good place for a conference.

So I looked up the committee chairs and invited speakers and wished to go. Steve Harris—my dissertation advisor’s dissertation advisor will be there. Steve Cundiff, who edited the book "femtosecond optical frequency comb technology" and recently published “Optical arbitrary waveform generation” (which is closely related to what I am working on) in Nature Photonics, is one of the program chairs. Also the conference will have a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the nonlinear optics.

Element 2: The negotiation workshop given by APS
At the 2011 APS meeting in Dallas, APS gave a FREE (Yes, free, everything paid) professional skill development workshop. One presentation is about negotiation skills. Two key things I learned: a) you don’t get it if you don’t ask; b) negotiation is not selfish and it is for the benefits of both sides, at least as far as a faculty position is concerned. Both you and the school want you to settle down well and succeed. Negotiation lays the terms necessary to do so.

By the end we had one assignment: Ask for something you want but do not need.

Going to Hawaii is a lot of money. 11 hours of flight time. Hotels, registration fee. But I thought, this could be a good exercise.

I gathered courage and sent my advisor an email in which I proposed I pay part of the fees.

Several days later, he came in and told me. Go ahead and submit an abstract. Money is tight but should not be a big problem.

That leads to the 3rd element.

Element 3: Nice experimental results!
I have been working on this project--Pulse-shaper-assisted phase control of a broadband coherent Raman spectral comb--for one and a half years. Finally in March we obtained some beautiful results. Therefore I do have some nice figures to put in the abstract. I am writing a paper anyway so I prepared an abstract and submitted.

Now, Bingo! I am going the Hawaii’s fourth largest island. I have been to the first 3 islands so this would be a totally different experience.

When Nicolas from FastLite in France asked me whether I am going to any conferences in European countries, I said no but I am going to Hawaii. Here is his response:

NLO in Hawaii... wow... seems much better than Europe :-D !

I am getting excited.

Enoshima Aquarium

I went to an aquarium in Enoshima. The island connected by a bridge is called Enoshima. The aquarium is located just by the sea. My junior and high school is located near here. I sometimes jogged to here at physical education. I didn't like jogging...

For some of you who moved from Tokyo to Hakone when you were in Japan,  you drove along this seacoast and had a look at this island. I always explain this island.

In summer, there are so many surfers, swimmers and long traffic jams.

Last year, one popular drama was shooting in this aquarium. In the drama, a girl who had mishap met a man who worked here and also had a problem. He told her that jellyfish doesn't have a brain and is dissolved when it dies. She said she liked to be a jellyfish at first. But at the end, they overcame their difficulties together and she was happy to be a human.
Therefore, jellyfish is a must to see here!

On that day, there were sooooo many students including kindergarten and elementary kids.

Peaceful moment! I felt like receiving gifts from the universe!!

I don't know this is one of Japanese characteristics or it fits to all the nationalities.
Many of Japanese are good at giving but not used to receiving. I was taught to be nice and modest to others first. I sometimes feel guilty if somebody is nice to me first and feel I have to return as soon as possible.

Right now in the disaster-stricken areas, even the sufferers feel guilty because they survived and their houses were left. My area is also considered to be the stricken area but I didn't notice it until my friend in the west part of Japan told me because I'm safe at home. The atmosphere of guilt covers Japan.

But I try to change this idea. Now I think the more I receive, the more I can give. I can give others the same amount and quality of what I receive. The balance is always important.
At the same time, I like the idea of 'Pay it Forward'.

I wish I could swim like this person. One of my dreams is to swim with wild dolphins.

Dolphin show is another must to see!

Dolphins sing and dance together with instructors!

They are so clever!  In a part of my mind, I wonder how those dopiness feel and what their destiny is.
But I focused on enjoying myself.

Two dolphins swim together. They are mother and child.

Dolphins seem to be relaxing after the show.

The weather was very nice and I had a good time!