Last year, the Most Original Pet Award has been given to the giant turtle that a Japanese old man was showing around along the Kanda riverside (Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku).
This year, at Musashi-Koyama (Shinagawa-ku), it has been difficult to find better but finally, I found out that having a walk with a rabbit on the street was more difficult than with a turtle. I give you the star of the neighborhood : Mei-chan the rabbit.

This blog uses to deal with intercontinental experiences in general and mine in particular. Today, I write an article for someone I have never met, someone I don't know at all but who deserves that as many people as possible learn how he lived and how he died.

Many people die everyday and among them many people die for unfare reasons. They are killed by war, poverty, madness or simply because of bad luck. In their case we blame the guilty people and the guilty systems that led us there and somewhere, somehow, some people try harder to fight the causes of their death.

But in this case, there is nothing and no one to blame but irony of the destiny. Take a brave, healthy and generous young man who decided to do something for the people who were born in the wrong side of the planet. His name is Lee Yong-jun, he is Korean, he is studying architecture and since he is a freshman he has spent his free time to get involved into volunteering programs in Tanzania, Africa. He gives lessons to kids, he fixes solar panels, he designs buildings for the people living there. He gives the best of himself to make the world a bit less unfare and to live a life reflecting his wide, wide heart.

So wide he suddenly had an heart-attack and died in Tanzania last year. When he was swimming. Who could ever imagine a way to die more in harmony with the universe ?

His heart led his life and also his death.
There is nothing, no one to blame and very few to regret, except his young age, when we consider how useful and meaningful his existence has been.

(Source : the Korean Times)

They will all remember this beautiful soul.

Right foot in Europe
Left hand in Asia
Left foot in Africa
What's next ?...

I was shopping walking around Harajuku and suddenly I saw this :

Pinky Winky is back again. Yes, Yamapi's new meaningless single and album ! This kind of things make me feel younger !

Here is the last "crime" comitted by the elite of the Japanese boys-band industry...

Lucille Reyboz shares her life between France, Japan and Africa. Sounds familiar.
But Lucille Reyboz is a photographer - a real one. She took beautiful portraits of the colourful ladies of Bamako, in Mali, that you can enjoy until February 3rd at Chanel Nexus Hall, in Ginza (enter the shop and take the lift until 4F).
It's not the first time Miss Reyboz is sponsored by a global brand : she also presented her works about the Japanese onsen and people thanks to HSBC Paris. This time, Chanel Japan gave her the opportunity to go back to her orginal continent, Africa, and especially in Mali where she portrayed the gorgeous brides of the capital city.
The exhibition is not huge but the atmosphere is nice - it's very warm at 4F... welcome to Africa - and this is really beautiful pictures you can watch for free. Information here

2月3日まで銀座シャネル・ネクサス・ホールに「バマコ美女」と言う展覧会が見られます。
ただだし、いい雰囲気だし、マリの音楽とルシール・レイボーズのすばらしい写真をエンジョイできます。
本当にステキだからチャンスがあったら行って見て下さい！

Bamako's Beauties

Chanel Nexus Hall


Chanel Ginza


Mademoiselle

(Source et Crédit Photo : Les Actualités du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et de la Coopération Internationale du Mali)

In the middle, tall and blue : Mr Moctar Ouane, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali.
All around : the "second wave" of Japanese volunteers (as planned by the agreements signed in 2009) who came to share their skills in the fields of health, education, environment, and economic development. 

Alors quand même, question : puisqu'on avait tout à la maison, que diables sommes nous allées faire dans la toundra ??? Hein ??? Risquer de perdre ses orteils et de se faire croquer par un loup, pour quoi je vous le demande ?...
Mais c'est vrai que sinon, "il n'y aurait pas d'histoire..."

Roppongi Midtown : we will make you love winter season.

Fantasia de Disney. Tout un poème.

Et voilà d'où vient ma passion pour le cocooning.