Tag: London

Diary, Life in London, Small happiness&Mindfulness

New Year, etc.

When can I move to a story about Francis Bacon? Anyway, I’m going to write about after Xmas to now… So, after Xmas, I went to see Ms N. to be given reflexology. As I used to go to massage at least once a month in Japan, I was so happy to be relaxed. Thanks, N! By the way, it revived my interests for aromatherapy, so I bought lavender oil and a stuff for foot bath. For a few days before new year, we sometimes invited guests and I cooked Japanese meals, and enjoyed it very much. On the new […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London

Digital Design Day

I went to Digital Design Week at Southbank Centre in London Design Festival. Well, I think the event was not so good… They had a seminar by apple talking about a workflow of digital design process, and a debate about new media by i-design. I was not afford to listen to i-design as it was 60 pounds, the apple’s talk was rather sales-talk to explain how easy exchanging data between process will be easy on mac, how easy managing digital assets, how good the interface of mac is, how you can work on broad cross media creation. (Well, it indeed […]

Art&Exhibitions, Diary, Life in London

Upon the Thames

I like walking along the Thames. I think, around Westminster is always full of tourist, but around Design Museum which located near to Tower Hill is rather less people and good place to relax. If the weather is good, Tower Bridge looks amazing as well. The museums on Japanese tour guidebook are usually something focus on fine arts, but Design Museum handles rather contemporary designing including commercial arts, and it’s good for me to study. The building is not so big, but I like it as well. The museum shop inside it has lots of interesting books. I got an […]

Diary, Life in London

Cooking

It’s been for a while since I wrote last time as I was so busy with assignment, but I’d like to resume writing now! Yes, I’m basically lazy, but I cook recently. I love wandering around tesco. Oh, I found Kikkoman’s soy sauce. And something looks like chinese cabbage! Well now I wish to have sliced pork, but… as I guessed, there was only block pork, (Surprisingly I found minced one.) I found only long grain rice…well it can’t help. Fish I could find were mainly salmon or tuna, but they didn’t look fresh enough to make sashimi. I couldn’t […]

Diary, Life in London

Enrollment

Enrollment??? Sounds like rolling around… It means registering to the university??? Anyway, the language course started at 28th July, but the first day was not something like “announcement of classes”, but actually only for enrollment. (That’s rather surprising as it’s not like this in Japan.) I went to UAL in Bond Street. It should have finished in 10mins or so because what I needed to do was only handing in papers… but there were few people compared to the number of students. Everything goes slowly in England. After that, I also went to the Japanese consulate in Piccadilly. I went […]

Diary, Life in London

Forever Young Soup??? (Day 7)

The seventh day. Today I went to Oxford street to buy a mobile phone and a bag to carry to school. Started from Green Park, we went through Mayfair, and had a lunch at a noodle bar called “itsu“. The meal there was rather shocking for me though… Although sushi looked like proper sushi… …Is this…Udon??? This is not a problem of “western” or “eastern” (In Japan, soup of udon tastes different in west and east). It’s almost something completely different. Actually you can meet udon noodles and miso-soup under this lots of vegetables. Although I was told to use […]