chameleon network

Fireworks

2009-07-27T14:43:00.007+09:00

The typical, somethings to see in Japanese summer festivals is Firework. This show usually continue 2 or more hours and 5,000-10,000 fireworks are set off. To see it, go there with your friends enough earlier, bring some food and drink, take your place to seat.. not to stand 2 hours!
As technology's development, they have many kinds of fireworks. The most famous thing is the complete round-ball-shape firework. From every direction it is seen as a perfect circle. Also they have new shapes like "Kitｔy", "Doraemon" and "Saturn". I expected to see them this time but I didn't. Actually I left there to have dinner with friends :D Anyway it was a wonderful night festival.

A Robot Makes Coffee for You!

2009-06-25T17:38:00.002+09:00

As a coffee lover, I want to say it is not good coffee. To make a cup of nice coffee is a work of art! not just putting hot water into the beans..
But this robot is so cute! I feel like watching a little girl trying to do some difficult job XD

Masjid al-Rifa'i

2009-06-20T01:20:00.004+09:00

Masjid al-Rifa'i (مسجد الرفاعى) is one of the famous mosques which was built in 19th century in Cairo and is located next to the famouse mosque "Masjid Sultan Hasan(مسجد السلطان حسن)". The design of this mosque is very beautiful and has great impact. I never saw such beautiful mosque decorated with color before. Even the ceiling has very fine Islamic art.
In front of the entrance, there is a room for Islamic saint Ahmad al-Rifa'i, the west part of the building Khushyar Hamin who began to built this and her son Khedive Isma'il Pasha were rested, and the east part is a big praying hall.

Jasmine Tea

2009-06-15T19:10:00.001+09:00

Serving Tea in Chainese way

2009-06-15T00:59:00.005+09:00

There are many teahouses in Yu-Yuan area, and they serve many kinds of Chinese tea. Also they sell tea. I went to one of these tea houses called "Chun Feng De Yi Lou Cha Guan"(春風得意楼茶館). In front of the shop, they show us how to heat tea leaves, it is same to the Japanese way.

How small the cup is!!!! And the interesting thing is that much hot water is used to keep heat and flavor of tea. They don't drink first water they put in the pot. This is the chainese way.. but I cannot do it at my house. because if I do it, my house will be wet everywhere!

Yu-Yuan

2009-06-14T23:51:00.007+09:00

One of the most famous park in Shanghai. It is in a chinese style buildings area, very touristic area too, and those buildings have many shoppes. That´s why it is a good view and you can enjoy walking around. You can find many traditional things(made from wood, stone, paper, you cannot imagine it!), foods and goods. I was almost lost in the street because it is a enough big area, many streets cross each other, and all building have same style! I couldn´t see all of it. too much to see!

Asian Dinner!

2009-05-02T07:26:00.004+09:00

In my apartment bulding, a chinese businessman lives too. And we desided to eat dinner together. So, we made asian foods! I miss asian foods. There is no good restaurante for asian foods in Alex, but it's ok for me. why not enjoy egyptian food?
The Egyptian government decides to kill all pigs in Egypt..worring for the influenza. But there are very few pigs, because muslims don't eat it! Only others eat it but majority of egyptian is muslim, and nobody cares. Where is a pig? I don't see it in the market. Pig is a main food for chinese dishes but tonight we didn't use it. There is no pig..
Anyway we ate very nice chinese and japanese foods!This is a famous Hongkong noodle

The Western Desert from Siwa

2009-04-26T22:39:00.002+09:00

Once, all these area was under the sea.Ya Salaam! We made a camp in the desert!

Siwa Town

2009-04-26T21:41:00.003+09:00

Siwa is a small town with wide palm fields. It is famous for dates and olives. There are some monuments, and big old broken town which is made from salt and cray, looks very fantastic like a lost castle in the isolated place. To see the monuments, we took a donkey taxi :D 4x4!

2009-04-23T22:02:00.003+09:00

In Siwa, they have special style of decolation. It is too beautiful to use..
This is a traditional Siwa's costume for women. It is used for wedding.
and I am one of Siwa women too!

Lakes in Western desert

2009-04-23T21:17:00.007+09:00

Salty Lake; on the way to the great desert from Siwa.

Hot Spring; this is where we made our camp. Near from Siwa. If I walk from Siwa, I would enjoy it as much as I want. Anyway, after breakfast, we run to the spring till we left.
Another Hot Spring; in the desert, far from Siwa oasis, there is a small green place with a hot spring.
Salty lake; there are birds even the water is too salty. When I put my leg in the water, it was wound hardly. Do the birds feel good with salt?
Another salty lake; almost 70 km from Libya. there are no fish. Cleopatra bath; in Siwa town

Martian Dunes and the Shadow of Opportunity

2009-03-27T22:41:00.004+09:00

Human made robots continue to roll across the surface of Mars.

Funny Japanese Turistic Promotional Video

2009-03-22T22:15:00.007+09:00

This is made as a turistic advertisement. This is made by a CM channel of Hokkaido which is the northern prefecture of Japan. One day, an alien came to Hakodate, a famous city in Hokkaido, and attacked there. So a robot fought against it, protecting historical heritages. You can see those in the back ground of the movie.

and, the funney CM channel's site is
http://www.omoide.tv/hakotube/
It is provided in 4 languages.

Antoniades Park

2009-03-16T22:32:00.002+09:00

Egyptian Rose

حلويات مولد النبوية

2009-03-10T22:04:00.002+09:00

The sweets sold on a national holiday for the birthday of Prophet, in Egypt.
There are sweets made from nuts(almond, pistachio, homos, and so on), sugers and honeys with coconut. For a girl, dolls made from suger, and for boys, horses made from suger too.

Chio holding a horse

Alexandria Bookmarket

2009-03-03T21:07:00.004+09:00

There was an annual bookmarket here.
There was a biiiig tent, and all publishers from Middle Eastern countries came to show their books there.Outside, there were many other tents selling old books and new cheep books. I bought a book named "the western desert of Egypt". I couldn't see all. It would take more than 3days if I tryed to see everything.
Now, I'm looking for a novel "wahat al-ghuruub"(the western oasis). My friend said it's a nice novel. But written in Arabic.. so it will be challenge! Anyway, after reading "Dune" I want to read another one about the desert..

Egyptian style.. they don't mind if there is a tree or not.. just, 'Let's make a big tent!!'

How many years ago is this? hmm..

Spanish Folklore Music

2009-02-25T19:46:00.004+09:00

I attended a concert in French cultural center in Alex again with my friends. It was a guitter music. The guitalist was a french and the singer was a spanish.
The guitalist spoke only French and I didn't understand his speaking except manes of music, so my friend translated for me. It was folklore songs in spanish. The singer song with full emotion, expecially her metho-soplano voice was very beautiful.

The worst dinner

2009-02-25T19:17:00.010+09:00

My international dinner became a hard challenge to eat.
The menue was; bread, some kinds of cheez, pulpo a la gallega, vegetables.
Main dish was Pulpo a la gallega. It is simple but very delicious spanish food. A piece of octopus on the boild potato, put the olive oil, salt and Pimenton Dulce. The tast of very flesh Tako mixed with Primenton Dulce and so on is perfect!!! But when I opened a can of octopus, I found that it was kept in oil. The terribly bad thing was that the tast reminded me a japanese sea food soup tasted with katsuobushi and soysoace....
Next, there I put three kinds of cheez, Gibna turkyya (Tukish cheez), Gibna adiima (old cheez), and.... my cheez. Because, the day before, I bought flesh milk for the first time. It was flesh, so I needed to boil it to kill bacteria before drink. When I boiled it, it soon began to solid, extracted the essense of milk, andjust left white water that I couldn't drink.. So, nothing to do with it, but I made a cheez from it. I put some limon and salt in it and boiled again. The taste was like Egyptian salty cheez called Gibna baladyya (home cheez or national cheez), now I am very sure how to make Gibna baladyya !!

<- in the left dish, my cheez(white), gibna adiima(beige), gibna turkyya(square),

in the right dish, okura, paprika

and pulpo a la gallega, and lebanon bread

boiled milk

A park in Alexandria

2009-02-21T19:21:00.001+09:00

Egyptian ar Collection 3

2009-02-08T22:36:00.003+09:00

I took a mini-bus called 'tunnyya'. It's convienient, cheap, short distance transportation here.

Most tunnyya are Suzuki. This one is too.

But inside of it, the driver seems to insist 'this is Toyota or Mercedes!'

Let's Recycle!

2009-02-04T21:06:00.004+09:00

There is a street for electricity. There are many shops selling TV, mobile, kitchenware etc.. Among them I found a cup and a can of Cocacola!!

Why...?

It is a telephone!!

There are small holes on the body, upper side and under side, that's the speaker and the mike, and the bottuns are on bottom. It is enough to be a telephone!

Oh, of course it's made in China.

Good Friends

2009-02-04T20:43:00.002+09:00

When I take a bus, some times I see the driver talking with the another bus driver through the window like 'What's up?' and so on, one from the window beside him, the other from the opening door.. they don't close the door because sometimes someone jump into or out the bus.
So, the drivers are talking and lughing or argueing.
But one day, one asked small changes to my driver so when bus stoped at a intersection, they exchanged money :D

FiiSSSH

2009-01-12T05:49:00.003+09:00

The most famous and best fish restaurant in Sakkala is named fish-star. I didn't eat there. But my friend said he ate there and it costed more than 100 LE (about 2000 yen), but it was extremely delicious. In this restaurant, we can choose a fish from showcase that we will eat.
I hope to eat there one day.. but problem is, I usualy travel alone so I cannot order a big meal, also I don't like to eat in a rich restaurant alone!

See this photo. It's great! and it's difficult to choose which fish you will eat right now..

...and more

2009-01-12T03:35:00.002+09:00

واشنطن-وكالات الأتباء:
على الرغم من الموقف الدولى المطالب بضرورة وقف القتال فى قطاع غزة، منح الكونجرس الأمريكي إسرائيل دعما قويا لمواصلة القتال حيث تبنى مجلسا النوّاب والشيوخ بالإجماع مجموعة من القرارات تدعم إسرائيل فى حربها وتعترف بحقها في الدفاع عن نفسها فى مواجهة صواريخ حركة حماس، مع دعوتهما فى الوقت نفسه، إلى وقف إطلاق النار.
فقد أعلن الكونجرس الأمريكى بفرعيه تأييده للعدوان الإسرائيل على غزة وأصدر قرارا بأغلبية 390 صوتا مقابل خمسة، وهم الديمقراطيون دينيس كوسينيش، وجوين مو، ورون بول، ونيك رحال وماكسين ؤوترز.

[ワシントン：　ガザ地方で続く殺戮の停止を求める国際的な動向にもかかわらず、アメリカ議会はイスラエルに対して強力な支援を行うことを約束した。議会では、この決議は賛成390、反対5名の民主党議員で可決された。]

The News...

2009-01-12T03:11:00.001+09:00

لندن-واشنطن- وكلات الأنباء:
كشف تقرير لوكالة (رويترز) النقاب عن أن إسرائيل استهلكت الكثير من ذخيرتها فى حربها الحالية فى غزة حتى الآن، واستعانت بمخزون احتياطى أمريكى لتنفيذ هذه الاعتداءات.
ونقلت وكالة (رويترز) أمس عن وثائق مناقصة أجرتها وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية (البنتاجون) أن الجيش الأمريكى إستأجر سفينة تجارية لنقل الذخيرة إلى إسرائيل الشهر الحالى بموجب اتفاقية بين واشنطن وتل أبيب كان الكونجرس قد أقرها منذ عام 1990.

[ロイター通信によると、爆弾を使い果たしたイスラエルはアメリカに協力を要請し、ペンタゴンは、1990年のワシントン-テルアビブ協定に基づき、商船をチャーターし弾丸をイスラエルに送る事を決定した。]

el-Gouna

2009-01-09T22:48:00.003+09:00

el-Gouna is 30min. North from Hurghada. It is a big, clean, beautiful and western style resort city. There are many villas, cottages, and hotels for both sale and rent.

I met Hany at a bar in Hurghada (I was looking for a hotel and he helped me) and he invited me to el-Gouna. On the way to el-Gouna, I saw many, maybe more than 20, windmills for wind power generation.

In el-Gouna, we visited Hany's friend. He is young but he runs 2 restaurant there! We had a lunch in his green 'Lebanon Restaurant.' Then we lay down on the beach ^^ It was a wonderful siesta!!!

Hurghada

2009-01-09T22:29:00.003+09:00

Go cruise!

There is a snorkel tour to Gifton island.

This is our ship. It's big and comfortable.

The tour includes 2 snokel points, a lunch, and 1 hour and half stay at the island, a mask, flippers and so on.

I drove the ship!

When we left the island, we saw 3 dolphins!! It was exiting. Someone said "There is a dolfin!" so all of us came to see it but didn't find out. Then tour guides began to whistle a peculiar tune. They were calling dolfins. Then dolfins appeared, swiming and jumping for a while!!

Islamic Arts in the Nature

2008-12-29T21:37:00.003+09:00

It's perfect. Maybe people took this image and put it in their arts?

Demonstration

2008-12-26T21:34:00.003+09:00

I saw a demonstration of Muslim Brothers in Egypt. They gathered in front of the court in Alexandria, and shouted for a while. It ended in peace :D
Muslim Brothers is the biggest social group here, and the only one that is well organized and has big power. So, it is said that they are the only group that can change Egypt politically and socially.
But, the fact is, they don't make any action. They just speak, but don't move.

Windows stil...

2008-12-26T21:13:00.004+09:00

other snacks in Egypt...
Who's idea is this...?
It's Egyptians!! They make anything they like!

Sundown

2008-12-21T22:36:00.006+09:00

I think,
- If the sun is above the horizon, the sea may reflect its light.
- If the sun is behind the horizon, the color of the sea may be dark.

above the horizon

on the horizon

Eat Windows

2008-12-09T22:04:00.003+09:00

the Microsoft Windows has biiiiiiiig power on people even their food :D

Eid al-Adha عيد الأضحى

2008-12-09T21:24:00.007+09:00

At the moment Abraham tried to sacrifice Ishmael for God, God stopped it. He was tested his loyalty. Then he found a sheep near which God gave him for sacrifice insted of his son..

This is what Qur'an told. The same story is found in the Bible but the difference is that in the Bible his son is Isaac, and in the Qur'an his name is Ishmael. For muslims, Ishmael is the ancestor of Arabs and the first son of Abraham. And Eid al-Adha(عيد الأضحي) comes from this story.

That morning, I woke up at 6:45 hearing voices shouting and repeating same words "Allah Albar!(God is the Great)" "la ilah illa Allah(There is no gods except God)." I saw people walking toward Mosque. They were going to pray there, then go to a butcher. At 7:15, the voice stopped. I knew praying was almost finished, so I came out from my apartment, there, I found Ramy and his Papa(Faris) waiting me! I didn't know it. They finished prying and were waiting me because I told them before I'll go to see the sacrifice. So we went to the butcher together.

When we reach there, the first thing I saw was vivid red blood on the ground.

then I saw big meats still keeping its drooping head hanged over, beside it, a man cutting meats, fling into a plastic bag and passing it to people. In front of them, many dead sheep laying down, and men were skinning a sheep. Among them I found an alive sheep waiting to be cut his throat. Ramy told me that they must not keep living sheeps among dead because by the law(Islamic law) animals must not see their company killed. Men should not be cruel to animals. But now nobady care.. and sheeps are waiting. They did it on the streat beside the butcher. The ground was covered by blood. One after one, sheeps were brought there. We left there and went back to Ramy's home and had breakfirst. Reem said on this day and Ramadan days, they eat meats in the breakfirst.

At 16:00 I went out with Ramy to meet his friend who got a new child :). When we passed the butcher's street, they were still killing sheeps.

Egyptian Barber

2008-12-01T18:20:00.006+09:00

I went to a barber with Ramy. I have wanted to take a picture at there since I know a man working in another barber, and I found it funny anyway.. Yesterday, we were going to a caffe but before it, Ramy needed to be cut his hair. Of course I didn't miss this oppotunity and got picture♪♪yatta!!

Don't be anxious at barbar. They have good skill.. although they train a hose to you!!

1;Wash the hair

2;Cutting

3;talking too much

Fernando Perez - video

2008-11-24T20:37:00.005+09:00

This is a short video of the concert.

If you want to see more, just go to Youtube, and search it. You'll find some.

Fernando Perez

2008-11-23T22:34:00.004+09:00

I attended to a concert of Fernando Perez last Thursday. He is a spanish guiterist from Zaragoza. He said he learned classical spanish music since he was a child.
He played flamenco musics in the concert, some of them was in cuban style. He explained that during the spanish civil war(guerra civil espanola), many artists had came out from spain to other countries, and some went to Cuba. Then, after the war they came back to spain but also brought flamenco music of cuban style that they created there.
Also, he played my favorit music "Concierto de Aranjuez". But this time, he was alone in the concert, so he arrenged this concierto into solo-guiter music. He said it is a challenge for him because originaly this is a beautiful orchestra music, so the music he arrenged is very dificult. For me, it was very nice and wonderful and the best music ever, because one of the reasons that I like Aranjuez is the beautiful sound of guiter. When I listened it played with only the guiter, I was very very impressed..
I will put a video in next article.. but not now.. because of this egyptian slooooow internet connection..

Get a Chicken!!

2008-11-23T02:40:00.005+09:00

Herein Egypt, beef is very cheep, almost same price to chicken. So I mostly eat beef because when I buy it, I take a block of beef. On the other hand, buying chicken is little difficult for me. Because, in Souq, they usually sell living chickens, and people choose one which they want, then seller kill it for their customers. But I cannot choose it. I cannot eat from living things.. So I went to a big supermarket, and looked for a chicken. There, in the meats section they sell only beef but finally I find in frozen foods section and it is imported from Brazil.
Well, I get a chicken!! Yattaaaa!!
Now, I must prepare for cooking.. See this move in which I did things very well :P

スパイス

2008-11-17T20:43:00.003+09:00

１ポンド(１８円)で買えるスパイスの量の比較
唐辛子　と　ジンジャー

胡椒（４分の１ぐらい使った）　

Feel dying

2008-11-13T21:20:00.002+09:00

何点だか知らないけど、翻訳の試験でどうやら悪い点数を取ったらしい・・・。もっとがんばらなければ。私には人一倍がんばらないといけない理由がある。
１;アラビア語の語彙力が少ない。いっぱい覚えないといけない。
２;英語の語彙力も少ない。
３;英語の表現で知らないことがいっぱいある。どの文脈でどの単語を使うべきかとか。。言い回しとか。。
４;授業中にイギリス人が話すと理解できないことがある。誰かの質問だと理解できる。けど、翻訳の授業で英訳した文章をずらずらと読まれると何を言ってるのか全然理解できない・・・彼らの発音は速過ぎるし明瞭じゃないから。

というわけで、アラビア語の単語を覚えるかたわら、英単語も必死になって覚えなければいけない。。。良く考えてみれば当然の事だが、最近その事がすごく大変だとわかった。

今日はドイツ人が揃って欠席していたので、特に大変だった・・ふうううう

Hello Monkey!!

2008-11-07T23:15:00.004+09:00

I shaked hans with a monkey!!!
He likes us because he want us to give foods. Unlike other monkeys, he doesn't eat bananas -the reason is nobody give him a banana- but he eats cucumbers!!

Barack Obama - باراك أوباما

2008-11-05T23:17:00.003+09:00

هذا بداية الامريكا الجديد... لا اعرف ان العالم إذا يبدو تغيرا أحسن ام لا، وان العلاقة بين اليابان والامريكا ستستمر كما كانت موجودة منذ زمن طويل أظن يجب عليها التغير والتقدم، ليس للحرب يل للسلام... أرجو من الأمريكا والعالم ان يوجد فيها سرور الحياة واحترام الناس.. وان ينتهي الحرب أبدًا

كركديه....Roselle

2008-11-03T19:16:00.004+09:00

Roselle is a kind of hibiscus, and people often drink it -called Karkadyya- in Egypt.
To make this drink, some calyces of it is usually boild like the tae in most cafes. But the best karkadyya is not boiled. In a cafe, they want to make it fast so that they boil it to extract easily. But the real karkadyya must be put in a water and kept almost all the day long.. never boiled.
After extraction, it is added in hot or cold water with little suger. That's the best one.
start　5 min.15 min.

OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH

2008-10-30T21:57:00.004+09:00

中間試験が終った。私は死んでる・・・
ここんとこずっと２時に寝て７時半に起きてたから。。明日から1週間の秋休みに入るから、その間に修論がんばって、しっかり形成を立て直さなきゃ！やばい！
友達の中にはシリアとかダハブとかアスワンとかに行く人がいる。うらやましいね。私も修論にめどがついたら、どこかに遊びに行きたいなああああああ。

Still...

2008-10-26T07:15:00.003+09:00

The repairing still doesn't finish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday, I asked the repair-man to bring his child, so today they come together. The child's name is Ahmad. I talked to him, and showed some picture of Japan. he was exciting when he saw a picture of snow. And then I showed him some Origami. We were enjoying Origami together and waited the repeiring fenished. BUT it didn't finish..... so he will come tomorow again........ I am busy.
I don't want it. Really. I say he is a nice man, honest Egyptian - it's rare-, but I hope my room fixed soon.
I am moving to another apartment in the end of this month.. so I have no interest in this room I don't want repairing...

Samsara - Victor Ullate Ballet

2008-10-26T05:49:00.004+09:00

I remember some dances in it - it was consisted from some parts.
The most impressive one is, that there are 7 or 8 people wearing like Saudi Arabian women. I only see their white face swinging in a back corner. Then they come forward one by one and reach out the hands as if they wash the face, and retern to back corner again but now I see their face and hands swinging. I felt I saw something deep in the humanity. What do the white faces mean? What does face-washing mean? Before the hands appear, the faces tell me that they exist there even the world is dark, hopeless but it's just existence of mind. After they show their hands, they become more active, more aliving. So the impotance of existence is not just the mind but also the motive for the life.
Again they come closer starting the dance. They never look like happy.. There is no hope.. Inside them, a women appears. I think she awake from the caos of the world, on the other hand the others wearing in black show the difficulty of our life and anguish. So, she try to dance vividly but she cannot becouse these black women interrupt her and catch her. she is struggling, crying and looks sad... she cannot change harshness of the life. Finaly, she fell down and become black like others again. She cannot overcome her life and abondon her hope.. This is the life though I don't want so.
It continues to the next dance. It is about two men's love... I was surprised when I saw two men wearing white shirt dancing happily together srounded many black men and women... I didn't understand what they are. But finally, I understood. They love each other, but people pull them apart and enforce the sanction. I don't know how to say, but this is a new type of ballet, I think....
So, these two was the most impressive. And mostly they move slow.. It was filled with emotion of the oriental philosophy.

Vivtor Ullate Ballet

2008-10-25T18:07:00.004+09:00

I enjoyed Victor Ullate Ballet, named SAMSARA سمسارا. I don't know the origin of this word but in Arabic, this word comes from a verb 'samsara سمسر', and it means "to act as broker or middleman". The director Victor Ullate was invited by the Spanish Ministry of Culture to create a new national ballet company, the Ballet Nacional de España in 1979.
He says this is a dance of the life, in which we can awake, and unveil the ignorance...
The idea came from the oriental philosophy like Middle East, Asia, and Far East. That's why, it becames a unique Ballet.
He also says, in this ballet, we recognize many times that we are eternal. We circlearound our wish without any necessity or desire for the backward as if we never get old or die...

修理

2008-10-21T23:58:00.002+09:00

ベッドルームの天井の漆喰がぽろぽろ落ちてくるから、それを大家さんに言ったら、修理することになった。で、昨日さっそく修理工が来て、天井のペンキを落とし始めた。３日かかるといわれて、今はちおちゃんの部屋に引越し中。彼女の部屋にはベッドが二つあるから助かった。。

さてさて修理が始まったのはいいものの・・・ひょいと覗くとなんとタバコを片手に歌いながら仕事してる！！困った人だ・・・その写真の人。

Alex Beach

2008-10-17T06:25:00.004+09:00

I went to Agami beach in Alex with my friends again. It's beeeeeeeeeeeautiful.
We swum there. the water depth isn't deep at all. But, when waves come, it becomes deeper and deeper. Here waves have friends!! They always come two or three together. first wave.. second, and third... then waves return to the sea, and come again from the first. So, in the beginning, I stand in water which is under my knee but after the third wave, I am under the water!

風邪薬

2008-10-15T00:49:00.002+09:00

風邪をひいてしまった。。
エジプトでは風邪をひいた時に飲む特別な飲み物がある。それは乾燥したミントとアニスにお湯を注いでレモン汁を加えた飲み物だ。好みで砂糖を加えるともっとおいしい。だからそれを作ろうと思ってさっそくスークに行ってミントとアニスをどっさり買ってきた♪本当はどっさり買うつもりはなかったのに・・・
ただ、
「何グラム欲しい？」
と聞かれた時、どうしようか悩んでると、店の人は
「皆たいてい４分の１（キロ）買うよ」
と言ったので、
「じゃ、４分の１」
って答えただけなのだ。結局アニスは、スーパーのクルクル回して取る透明のビニル袋、ミンとはコンビニの小さい袋に満杯入れたぐらいを買ってしまった・・・。
値段はアニスが１４１円、ミントが７０円ぐらい。安い！！！！

Travel Information of Dubai

2008-10-11T00:40:00.002+09:00

If you arrived Sharjah airport, take a bus to the fish market bus terminal, or maybe you can get off the bus at Rolla sq. and then go to the fish market. From there, many buses go to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other places. Bus is cheap transportation but usually be late because of big trafic jam. Be sure that when you take a bus at a bus stop -not a bus terminal-, you'll wait for more than 10 minutes... in a bus terminal, there isn't this problem because it is the start point :D
　When you come to Sharjah from Dubai, you should take off at Rolla sq. and take no.14 bus to the airport. There is a bus from the fish market too, and this is faster than 14, but it isn't frequent.
People are very kind, so ask them any time. In Dubai, you'll see most of them are Pakistani or Indian being there for working. Also, their restaurants and shops are very favorable. you can get things with little costs. But you'll see men come to those restaurant and not women. Therefor if you are woman, you should go there with a man so that you don't feel unconfortable.

If there is Picasso's 3D Guernica

2008-10-11T00:03:00.006+09:00

Picassoの絵の中ではゲルニカが一番好きだ。理由はわからない。自分で書いたことがあるからかもしれない。またはこの絵に歴史があるからかもしれない。またはこの絵がモノトーンだから・・・？
でも、もしゲルニカを３次元で復元したら？
Picassoのすごい事は、絵のつながり方だ。一つのものが途中で切れて、隣のものとなぜか不思議につながっている。それは彼が２次元を意識して描いたからできた。それを３次元にできるかな？

このページでそれを確認して欲しい。Look here.

Egyptian Car Collection 2

2008-10-10T06:23:00.009+09:00

All dune buggy car and minibike are for children's fun. Especially during a festival, there are many..

This is a funny tricycle.. it has two wheels as the front wheel and one for the rear wheel..

ラマダン明けの祭り

2008-10-03T21:46:00.006+09:00

ラマダンが終ると1週間くらいの祭りがある。この時期に家族や親戚を訪問することになっている。子どもにとっては、何かを買ってもらったり、遊具で遊んだりできる楽しい期間だ。
　　私と友人のちおちゃんも揃ってRamyの家を訪た。帰る前にちおちゃんは子どもに混じって遊具で遊んでいた・・・というより、遊ばされていた（笑）
　　この祭りの時期には特別なお菓子がある。それは、カハクというクッキーで、周りに砂糖がかかってて、中にナッツとか水あめとかが入ってておいしーい！！それにくるみ、アーモンド、栗、豆、豆、もやし・・これはちょっと塩辛い。甘いお菓子と塩辛いお菓子を同時に食べるらしい。
　　ちなみにラマダン中の主婦にとって一番重要な仕事は毎日の夕食を作ること。でも、ラマダンが終るともう夕食を心配することはない。一日中食べていいから。というわけで、私がRamyの家に行った日、ママは夕食の準備をすっかり忘れてて大慌てでマカローナを作ってくれた (＾o＾)　

Egyptian Car Collection 1

2008-09-29T04:02:00.004+09:00

This is Volkswagen's car.
But, is it... real marque?

Iftal in the Alex University

2008-09-29T03:48:00.004+09:00

Iftal；断食開けの食事！年に一度、アレキサンドリア大学のTAFL Center主催で開催されている。
TAFLの先生＆学生が集まって、アラブ音楽のバンド演奏付きで食事して楽しかった♪

←友達

2008-09-23T21:46:00.005+09:00

Class Starts

2008-09-23T20:36:00.003+09:00

授業が始まって二日目。昨日はマスメディアを使ったディスカッションとアンミーヤ、今日はフスハーと翻訳だった。ちなみに、テストの結果、私は上級クラスにいる♪
しかし・・・アンミーヤの上級クラスは無理だ！ありえない！！授業が終って早速、レベルを下げたいと話しに行ったくらい厳しかった・・・。フスハーは楽勝☆☆先生もわかりやすく正確に教えてくれるので良かった。正確な説明っていうのはエジプトでは珍しい。いつも「大体」で済まされてしまう。　私は語彙力が無いから翻訳の授業で焦ることが多いけど、このままここにいると思う。少し難しい方が良く勉強するし。クラスの半分はドイツ人で半分はイギリス人だ。ドイツ人も翻訳の授業がアラビア語－英語だから困ってるみたい。でもよく勉強する人たちばかり。たった2日しか終ってないのにすごく勉強したような気がする。。。

やった！

2008-09-21T18:42:00.002+09:00

スイスの実験は失敗したみたい。良かった！まだ生きてる！！
・・・・・・・
［ジュネーブ　２０日　ロイター］　宇宙が誕生した「ビッグバン」直後の状態を再現することが期待されている世界最大の素粒子加速実験装置が、技術的な不具合によって少なくとも２カ月の稼動停止を余儀なくされた。研究者らが２０日明らかにした。
　欧州原子核共同研究所（ＣＥＲＮ）によると、「大型ハドロン衝突型加速器（ＬＨＣ）」が設置された地下トンネルでは１９日に大量のヘリウム漏れが発生していた。
　ＬＨＣは地下に設置された円周２７キロのトンネル内で光速に加速した陽子同士を衝突させる仕組みで、１０日前に稼動したばかりだった。

Agami and Ma'amourah

2008-09-21T18:27:00.004+09:00

I visited Agami and Ma'amourah. Agami is the west side of Alexandria and Ma'amourah is the east. Both have the beautiful beach.　But I prefer Agami because it it a quiet place and it has big waves and water is clearer. I took the picture of both. Have a look.

Ma'amourah

Agami

Economics? of Alexandria

2008-09-20T05:54:00.002+09:00

I wonder why they made a shopping town in the burbs.
I went to Carrefour yesterday by taxi. I didn't have any other way to get there. The only man who have a car or can take a taxi is able to visit. So, it looks open society.. there are many shops inside and outside of Carrefour, american style, high level trafic circumstance... but the truth is, it is closed society for rich.
But, if Carrefour was in the center of Alexandria, and in fact the price is reasonable though we can prefer Souq, everyone would go there. It becomes open society!

BUT, at the same time, this idea has the risk of destroy egyptian tradition, destroy Souk.. as destroied Shotengai in Japan.

ぁパーッと

2008-09-18T00:58:00.002+09:00

ようやくアパートに落ち着けた！！ちょっと予定より高い部屋になってしまって困ってるけど、大東文化大の人とシェアするから生活事態は楽しいはず♪
　どうやら、この一角はリッチな人たちが住む所らしい。近くに住む、クラスメートのイギリス人たちはもっと高い部屋に住んでるらしい。でも、彼らにしてみればイギリスの物価の高さに比べるとエジプトに住むのはずっと楽だと言ってる。うらやましいねえ。
　最近の食生活。。
　→スークでバナナ１キロとブドウ５００グラム get!!　１３０円なり
　早くラマダン終ってほしいよ～　レストランは閉まってるし、ほとんどの店は早く終っちゃう。しかも、夜のイフタール（毎日の断食の終わり）の後にいろんな店がもう一度店を開き、買い物のために人々は外出するから超うるさい！！イフタールの前後３０分、つまり合計１時間ぐらいすごく平和な時間がある。みんなイフタールのために食卓に着くので、通りから車が消え、誰かが叫ぶ声もなくなる。この時間がすっと続いて欲しいものだ。

the biggest building in Alex

2008-09-15T00:17:00.004+09:00

What is the BIG in Egypt? We know usually mosque and church are big. And a famous hotel is big too. I don't look all of Alexandria yet, I think the biggest building here is a shopping mall. It is made up with a hotel, wedding hall, shops, game place, and restaurants.

This is the mall...

And also, Alex is a artistic city. I found a round apartment..

and a theater

Friends

2008-09-14T01:04:00.006+09:00

I visited my friend's family, and eat together. They live in west part of alexandria, it takes 1 hour from the central of alexandria. They wish that I live near thim so that we can be neighbers but I can't because it's far from alexandria university where I study arabic.

Now it is the month of Ramadan, we ate a big rich meal, big cake, and drink ramadan juice called amr-ddiin, asir-elhalb. I like asir-elhalb. It is sweet. amr-ddiin is sweet too, but is like melted-jam..

Ramy and Reem

Singapore Airport

2008-09-10T01:24:00.004+09:00

It become bigger and bigger!! It has 3 terminals and many gates I don't know the number... I saw a man playing piano on the stage of terminal 3 which is the newest ternminal. The only thing that I want is the shortness of time for the use of Internet. there are free internet, but we can use only 15 minuts for each. so I had to come to the internet 3 times to check e-mail, blog, news and so on....

2008-09-07T11:39:00.005+09:00

香港で会った人達

この人、私のために私の名前をキャンバスに書いてくれた。
誰だか知ってる?
超有名人！

　　　　　　　　　　　　　それに絵のモデルにも・・・

　　　　　　　　　　

Caffe Freddo Shakerato

2008-08-29T23:25:00.003+09:00

エスプレッソを使ったコーヒーで、カフェ・フレッド・シェカラートというのがある。正確にはイタリア語でシャケラートと発音されるのに日本語では母音が入れ替わってシェカラートになったのはどういうことか・・・
　　それはさておき、これはコーヒーの雑味が全くなく、程よい苦味だけがうまく残ったアイスコーヒーだ。まるでビールの苦味の様な旨さがある。見た目にも、黒い液体の上に褐色の泡がのっていてビールみたい。ダッチコーヒーに近い味を感じる人もいるかもしれない。シェーカーを持ってる人はぜひ、このコーヒーに挑戦してもらいたい。
材料（一人分）；
・エスプレッソ（1杯)
・氷（大3，4個)
・砂糖（６～10g)

作り方；
全ての材料をシェーカーに入れ、空気を含むように振る。その後、グラスにコーヒーだけ注ぐ。氷はシェーカーの中に残す。
振るのが足りないとうまく混ざらないので泡立たず、振り過ぎると泡が氷にひっつき、落ちてこない。

Fire Flower !!!!!!!

2008-08-23T23:34:00.005+09:00

the Real Japan?

2008-08-23T21:42:00.004+09:00

My mother likes nature very much. She wants to save the earth.. But sometimes, I don't understand her idea..

I came back to home for the first time in a year.
And I found it completely changed... When I was child, my father planted a japanese apricot tree and two plum tree, and a sakura(japanese cherry tree) in the yard. Now I see plum trees ivied by akebia, a sweet fruit (http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2005/09/akebia_quinata_2.php), and willow-like-sakura.......
I love trees, I love flowers, I love forest, mountain, but I don't want to see the jungle in the yard!!!! Well, I will show a pair of before-after-photo in some other time.

Here, photos of the yard.

ivied plum tree

引っ越し完了！

2008-08-21T20:19:00.002+09:00

現在２０：２０．引っ越し完了。
段ボール箱大小合わせて13箱と、冷蔵庫などなどの電化製品とか本棚とか・・・　けっこう荷物多かったぁ・・　でも弟も手伝いに来てくれたので私はほとんど働かずに済んじゃった。やったーー！持つべきものは忠実な弟（笑）
荷物は全部トラックへ。父が知り合いから２tトラックを借りてきてくれて助かった。軽トラックでも行けるかな～って思ってたけど、自転車もあって結局大荷物だったので２ｔという父の判断は正しかったわけだ。。
帰り道、峠の危ないところを過ぎたあたりで私はトラックの運転をさせてもらった！まだ峠の半分が残ってて大変だったけど、２ｔトラックの初運転は無事成功♪♪
めでたしめでたし

三重旅行２

2008-08-11T17:25:00.010+09:00

ホテルから見える海は真珠の養殖場がいっぱい。けど真珠には手が届かなかったなあ・・・

その後は鳥羽水族館へ！！奇妙なモノがあちこちに・・
　　
　
　

my pets

2008-08-07T19:55:00.002+09:00

Feed my fishes!!　→→
魚に餌をあげて！！

賢いカレンダーはこれ

http://blog-parts.komaba-project.com/01_countdown/index.html

三重旅行

2008-08-07T19:33:00.007+09:00

難波発！　三重県、賢島まで電車旅行～

まっすぐ伸びる
ながーーいホーム
来る電車は１時間に１本・・・
青山町駅で乗り換えの電車待ち

伊勢うどん。めっちゃ太い！！普通のうどん２本分の太さ！
せっかくの機会なので、伊勢神宮の外宮を見学。
・・・実は何も見れなかった。壁が高くて・・・
木の高さとでかさだけは充分見れたんだけど・・・

New Passport

2008-07-28T22:54:00.005+09:00

結局、天神祭には行けなかった・・残念。

新しいパスポート GET!!
なんと、IC旅券とかいうやつになってしまった。。2年ほど前から新しくなったらしけど、パスポートの中のICチップに、個人情報の全てと、顔写真までが記録されてる。あまり嬉しくないよね～情報が全部コンピューターに残ってしまうじゃん。

　　
まだIC旅券に対応してない国(エジプトとか)に行った時に、何も知らない審査官がICチップを壊してくれたら嬉しいな　‘‘ ＾＾）　エジプト人って雑だし。ちょっと期待してる。

今日のコメント

2008-07-25T00:47:00.001+09:00

明日、大阪名物の天神祭を見に行きます。見るのは初めてなのでどんなのか楽しみ。

Summer Festival 2

2008-07-16T22:41:00.006+09:00

　　　　　　　ニコ･プランタさんからもらった写真です。
　

Media Artist

2008-07-14T18:19:00.002+09:00

ナウシカの所で紹介した飛行機の動画について
who did make that airplain which I showed in the video last story but one.

A Media artist, Hachiya Kazuhiko （八谷和彦）made it.
He makes very interesting machines, for example, change your vision. How do you see the world? You see as you see!! But you can see what they see you with the Inter Dis- Communication Machine (視聴覚交換マシン）!

He says, "You can only see through the other person's eyes when you wear these machines, which forcibly put you in the other's place. These were made to obscure the border between identities of two persons."
Even! 'the concept "to make it possible to kiss or to make love with the partner while keeping the machines on" is observed.'
hehehe.. unbelievable!!!

and... Next one is to change the color of lights （虹を作るための巨大ブランコ). Each swing is linked to ７ computers and the color is changed by thier angles.
His work is not simple electric machine connects to human but philosophy of human using computer science...

猿になった！！

2008-07-14T17:32:00.007+09:00

猿真似といえば・・・
誰かのすることの真似をすること。つまり、物真似だよね～

さてさて、猿の真似をするのがほんとの猿真似かも。

←こんな感じで↓

ここ、奈良と大阪の境の生駒山。
30種類のアスレチックがあって、全部クリアするとかなりしんどい・・・
でも、このコース、自分の健康体力を測るための公認コースだとか。どの団体の、どういう基準の「公認」なのか聞くの忘れたけど。。
で、各アスレチック、クリアできたら何点、とかあるわけ。
私は　運動体力＋精神体力＝95点　結果、20代後半の健康体力と診断されました。
まあまあかな・・・
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　これを乗り越えて！！

ポニョポニョ

2008-07-10T18:38:00.003+09:00

ジブリの新しい映画、崖の上のポニョは前評判がいろいろあるみたい。
　宮崎駿の目論見としては子どもにも訴えるようなものにしたかったらしいが・・・

　でも、この映画、やっぱりジブリらしい所、というより宮崎駿らしい所は、全部完全手書きアニメーション　なこと。
　昔から思ってたけど、ジブリ映画の背景って、いつもすっごくきれい！
今回もめっちゃ繊細に描かれてるらしい・・・

　ジブリの中で一番好きなのはナウシカ。ナウシカはすごく人間的だと思う。他の人の意見を聞かないで自分の意見を貫く人。悪く言えば超わがまま。でも、ナウシカ自身の考え方とか行動基準はいつも正しい。それに絶対的な善とか愛情がある。だから、ナウシカは人間的に完全なんじゃないかな？たぶんカリスマ性とか言うのかもしれない。

子どもの頃からメーヴェに乗ってみたいと思ってた。田舎に住んでたから、山を越えるのに苦労したけど、空を飛べたら楽だもんね。遅刻しないですむし。

いつか実用化されたらおもしろいな。

　ちなみにナウシカってギリシャ神話に出てくる誰かの名前だったはず。。。

Marhaban!!

2008-07-05T18:56:00.003+09:00

It's starting now!!
I'd like to show you my life in Egypt here, so I begin to write this blog.
But you'll say that I'll be in Egypt from september! It's too first to begin isn't it? Yes, but forget it. I just came up with it few days ago. So I'm wrighting.
As I am in Japan now, I can show you my life here, and some topics that I think interesting :D

أنا في انتظار بلقائكم
وقل لي حالكم وروايتكم

مع السلامة

Summer festival !!

2008-07-05T18:33:00.006+09:00

今年は外大の最後の夏祭り・・

来年からは阪大と一緒になるのかな？外大っぽさが残ってたらいいな～
いろんなダンスを一通り見たけど、フラメンコが一番面白かったと思う。

でも、歌手の声の低さが気になった。。ああいうもん・・・？ hmmm、ちょっと・・はずれてた気も・・
スワヒリの音楽は、めっちゃリズム良かった！みんなノリノリで手拍子　で、手が痛くなってしまったけどね。

Who am I ?

2008-07-02T22:44:00.007+09:00

暖かい場所に住むのが好きで、両目はそれぞれ３６０度動き、ながーい舌を持っていて、奇妙な足と皮膚のある生き物といえば・・・
　CHAMELEON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
　　　仕事　：　openSUSEのモデル；）
　　　家族　：　pleoという、やんちゃな男の子。

　そしてそのNetworkとは・・・

　カメレオン・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・Chameleon Network

1)　活動的・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ 1)　活動的
　　オスのテリトリーはかなり広いらしい。　　　　　　　　いろいろな話題がある？
　　だから飼育は困難だとか。。

2)　手足の指で物を掴める。・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・２)　知る人のみぞ知る
　　爬虫類の中では超珍しい生態。特技！　　　　　　超珍しい人種！

3)　体色の変化　・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・3)　多言語
　　周囲の環境に合わせてというより、　　　　　　　　　いろんな言語で書くつもり。
　　その時の気分で色が変わる。

今日から

2008-07-01T23:23:00.002+09:00

7月1日23時、カメレオン誕生