Month: July 2009

Diary, Life in London, Small happiness&Mindfulness

Lavender Harvest

My friend told me about this, I went to the Lavender Harvest. It smelled so nice even outside the place. They were selling lavender oil and creams etc. It was so fun. I had rice balls and Japanese tea for lunch. (OK, it’s not British style, but…) And we went to pick lavender. I realised it was the heaven for bees… They looked so huge…so scared. Everyone said, “Don’t worry, they wouldn’t hurt you”. But still scary! Well, but they looked so busy flying around lavenders. Although it rained a bit, it was so nice to have been away from […]

Life in London, Music

Magistrates at Koko

My friends told me about “Magistrates” and I went to see their gig at koko yesterday. It was really good! I loved it. I don’t know why, but their tune sounds a bit like Asian traditional music. But still soulful. The vocal’s voice was so good. You can listen to their music here. http://www.myspace.com/magistratesband

Art&Exhibitions, Music, Travel

Portugal Day3 / Aaron Koblin

Portugal day3 = Offf day 2. The first talk I saw on that day was by Aaron Koblin. I had seen his works sometimes, but didn’t know his name, so it was so surprising I could hear his talk in Portugal. He visualise the information using the Processing, and also does experimental projects related to “Wisdom of Crowds”. The promotion for Radiohead is also popular. The talk was maintly about these issues. 1. Visualising information. There are many kinds of “visualisation”, but he uses things like the record of searching query, or flghts records and I find interesting that make […]

Travel

Switzerland Day2

It is the Switzerland Day2. We went to Jungfrau, which I heard the highest mountain in Switzerland. We went to the bottom of the mountain from Interlaken by car. (I don’t remember the name of the station… I can’t remember as I couldn’t pronounce it!) Unfortunately we couldn’t go to the top, but the scenery was amazing~~~. It was Switzerland! Mountain! What a scale! The ice cream I had there was so yummy~~~. Eating an ice cream, having a walk, we had a sandwitch lunch watching the mountain and the sky. It was such a nice time. After returning to […]

Travel

Spain Day3

I finally finished my disseration! I’m free! And, oops, I was writing my blog in Japanese but have been lazy for the English version… now I have to catch up. So, this is about the trip to Spain, Day3. We went to one day trip to Sevilla. It is a capital city of Andalucia…it’s huge! But the buildings of pastel colours looked so European. Walking around, we arrived at Santa Cruz area. Narrow passages look so pretty. For the lunch, I tried gazpacho yummy! I liked its light taste, and I love tomato! After that, we went to the cathedral. […]