Mayu

Life in London, Travel

Places I haven’t been before

Posted on 14th Apr 2009

Although it's been for a while since I came to London, there are still lots of places I haven't visited. They are two of them. Primark :P and St. Paul's Cathedral. My image of Primark is cheaper Uniqlo. But they have more different designs than simple Uniqlo, so it's fun to look around. But I […]

TV&Films

Yougisha X no Kenshin (Japanese film: “A Suspect X’s devotion”

Posted on 11th Apr 2009

Although I haven't seen the TV drama "Galileo", I watched its movie "Yougisha X no Kenshin" on the other day. I haven't read the original novel written by Keigo Higashino. ...It was really good! As a mystery, it has thrilling and surprise, as well as bizarre feeling, and as human drama, its title "Kenchin (= […]

Digital products & Design

Trends?

Posted on 7th Apr 2009

This blog has started to get more access since I wrote about Kabuki last time. Most of the searching keywords are "Kamejiro"...wow, he is so popular. Usually access is from searching engine or mixi (Japanese social network site) but today I found unfamiliar URL named "kizasi.jp", so I jumped to that site. It seems they […]

Diary

Japan is great???

Posted on 5th Apr 2009

I found an article like this. "9 Reasons Why Japanese Interactive Work is Awesome" http://www.crackunit.com/2009/03/17/9-reasons-japanese-interactive-work-is-awesome/ The first reason, "The work is polite" made me laugh a bit. I don't know if these reasons are right, but it's really nice to hear someone says Japanese contents are awesome. Not only about interactive media, but I think […]

Theatre

NINAGAWA Twelfth Night

Posted on 27th Mar 2009

I went to see Kabuki on the other day. The story was based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". My impression was, unique Kabuki (in a good meaning). There were more British audience than I thought, and the atmosphere was completely like "away"! At first, three children were on the stage and sang western style song with […]

Diary, Life in London

Business Link

Posted on 26th Mar 2009

As I wrote before, I was challenging a business course. And it successfully finished when I handed in the assignment! But it took so long as I was not familiar with the subject. But it was such a good practice for me. Well, I found a website called "business link" during research in regard to […]

Theatre

Carmen

Posted on 9th Mar 2009

I went to see Carmen last week being invited by my friend. It was the first time I went to Royal Albert Hall, which I always wanted to visit as everyone recommends! It looks beautiful from outside, but you should definitely go inside! It was exactly the same image as I used to imagine "European […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London

Kinetica Art Fair

Posted on 5th Mar 2009

went to Kinetica art fair on the other day. It was really interesting to see interactive arts, or dynamic arts. This is the place. It's difficult to explain with words, so pictures.... There are some interactive arts, like getting information from real world and convert it into graphics etc... Or something which moves reacting human's […]

Digital products & Design

Twitter

Posted on 26th Feb 2009

Recently I always find a word "twitter" everywhere. I remember I read an article about it when it was launched, but as I couldn't understand what is was, so I haven't used it before. ...Well, I still don't know what's good about this. Most of articles just say "it's loose communication.", and even reading "how […]

Art&Exhibitions, Diary, Foods, Life in London

Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement)

Posted on 23rd Feb 2009

My friend invited me to Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) exhibition! It was in Hamstead. ...Before that, we went to eat crape which is really popular in Hamstead. Wow, there was a long queue... I was in two minds of eating sweet one or savory one...but decided to have mushroom tarragon cream one as I was […]