Hallelujah ! I learnt that I will be allowed to go back to Fance and spend Christmas 2010 in family - finally ! I experienced Christmas in Japan twice and even if it's funny, that's really not the same. Looking forward the D-Day, I became Christmasholic. Totally obsessed. Look at what I have eaten a few days ago.

Xmas in a pizza

Xmas in a scone

I just can't wait the smell of the real tree.

This little picture is for my family and friends who are freezing in France.
A wave of snow invited itself in Paris and because nothing was ready for it, everyone is stuck where they are - when it's home, it's fine...
So please have a look at it and remember that before being a boring stuff that prevent you to go where you want to go, snow is the most beautiful thing in the world. I know, it's easy to say from my sunny Tokyo...

今のパリは雪が強く降っています。早いから皆はびっくりしました。そして特に大きい雪で、乗り物は色々な問題があります。少し大変ですが、雪はきれいではないでしょうか。
雪を浴びんでいる家族や友達のことを考えています！

Most of the graveyards in Japan have no walls, no fences, no gates; and it made me realize that our graveyards really look like prisons. It's not surprising that the Western zombies just want to escape and walk freely in town like anyone else.
So there is no gates, no guardians, and you can come anytime - by night, too. It's a place like another. So it's really not frightening. Even ghost stories are used to take place in summer in the Japanese tales, when it's super-warm - while we can not imaging a dead spirit without thinking of cold, freezing wind... as a result, in this sunny December, no way you feel ill at ease in a Japanese cemetery !

Aoyama yard, Tokyo

Christmas as it is used to be in Tokyo : totally non-Christian (Jeezus who ?...), colorful, shiny, German-spirited (did you know the Christmas sausage ? Me neither) and... romantic. This is the time for couple to go to Disneyland and joyfully mix the Christmas symbols with a kind of American-style naive romance. Look at this atmosphere at Roppongi Hills.

No Christmas without a tree...

... or two...


... or three.


Here it is : Drosselmeier's magic castle !


And... the Nutcracker ! Yesss !
(but ahem... could you please become Hans quickly ? thanx)


I shrinked for real... I could enter a snowball.


Oh ! A giant Barley Sugar over there !


"la neige ressemble à du glaçage à la vanille"


The Snow-man took the keys and stole the house. Damned.


Lights... lights... lights.