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Hanami

Today I'm sick, so I found some time to update the blog with this post about Hanami.

A FACT KNOWN TO ALL OF HUMANITY:
Japan looks its best when sakura (cherry-blossoms) is about.

As with all of the countries in the world, in terms of natural beauty spring is the most beautiful season of the year. But in Japan, sakura blossoms and makes nature at this time unbelievably beautiful! Ofcourse, japanese people agree and they take any opportunity they can to celebrate the beauty of nature under the beautiful flowers. The amazing combination of white and pink in this tree inspires japanese people (nature's beauty always does this, doesn't it...). But here's the catch: the flowers don't usually stay longer than one to two weeks! So this beauty, once a year, represents how beautiful moments in life are so frail and pass quickly. So, almost all japanese go for hanami, which is having a picnic under the sakura (usually involving alot of drinking!). To give you the size of the importance of this period, tv-stations monitor the progressing of the blossoming throughout Japan, while a hanami usually kick-starts the new academic and fiscal years!

Enough talking, on to the pictures I managed to gather... Unfortunately, most of them are not at the peak of the season which is usually around


My house :)



Near my house



Unfortunately there's a problem with blogger.com. Will post a couple more soon!

Found it!

The commercial I first saw on japanese tv and made and impression...

Your mind tricks

will not work here...

Dogeza instructions

or how to apologise correctly in Japan!

The bomb has landed...

I know I've been absent for too long but I've been terribly busy. In the meantime:

Apple Macs can now run Windows XP

that is the karate-chop-fatal-kill move by Apple.

That's all for now...

Tokyo Anime Fair 2006

I have learned about it today at about 2pm from Danny's Website. Ofcourse today was the last day, but I thought what the hell I should go. So I went to Odaiba, which is actually quite far from my house... But I thought that would be a good opportunity to take some nice images with my new camera. On my way there, I took some interesting ones







And after about 2 hours I was at Odaiba's Tokyo Big Sight which is this futuristic Star-Wars-Empire-Side building, with MANY people carrying anime-drawn bags full of merchantise



The inside was sparsely decorated



and even though the exhibition was until 6pm and I was there at 4.30pm, they stopped selling tickets... Very very disappointed I returned back to Shibuya, while taking some images of the interesting buildings around Odaiba











I also took some images of Shibuya on a Sunday evening. Have a look how it's like...



I am very very disappointed... You can at least see Danny's images here.

Day of Independence

Today, is the Day of Independece for Greece. To "celebrate", I've made a cup (yep, a large one) of greek traditional coffee.

Γεια μας.

Office 2007 screenshots

You can have a sneak-peek here. These DO look interesting indeed!

New CD from Thanasis Papakonstantinou!!!

One of my personal favourites, Thanasis has given us a new cd. Read his statement here (in greek) with his hilarious comments at the end. Also, note the title of track no. 6. Too bad I cannot get my hands on it soon...

ps. thanks Dimitris for pointing this out to me ;)