painful news

painful news
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Train crash in Amagasaki. BBC NEWS (in pictures) tells how big it was.

I am watching two morning news shows this morning. Five shots of the TV screen, four from one show and one from another, convined into one.

The top photo:
"JR TRAIN CRASH
71 KILLED, 442 WOUNDED"
(The train was packed with commuters in Osaka and Kobe area.)
Ambulance workers pulling out one wounded.

The second row, left:
A TV reporter in front of one of the hospitals where the wounded were taken, last night. He's watching an ambulance coming.

The second row, right:
Crashed train and rescue workers.

The bottom row, left:
The TV reporter talking to the camera.

The bottom row, right:
"Live from Amagasaki, the crash site"

cadbury logo

cadbury logo
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

I like macro. I like doing stupid things with my camera.

language variety on cadbury's choc

language variety on cadbury's choc
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

I think this is a good source for learning several languages at one time. Seriously, you can look at the word "sugar", for example.

There are English, French, German, Spanish, Portguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish (mmm, difficult), Russian (this is very difficult), Greek (very difficult), Polish (difficult), Chech (difficult), Arabic (you'll need at least 30 days to learn the letters), Japanese (my native tongue so no problem for me), and Chinese (the characters are the same so I can guess to some extent).

In this picture, there are Norwegian (blurred), Danish, Finnish, Russian, Greek, Polish, Chech, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese (blurred).

languages on cadbury's choc

languages on cadbury's choc
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

For Cadbury to export. For us to know different languages.

On the rear side of the chocolate box, there are English, French, German, Spanish, Portguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Greek, Polish, Chech, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese.

in English, et en Francais

in English, et en Francais
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

cadbury choc

cadbury choc
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Yay! A surprise at my local supermarket in Tokyo. (They don't usually stock Cadbury's.)

Squ"air"

Squ"air"
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

A Muji bottle bottom.

broadbean in bed

broadbean in bed
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Too dark to catch the colour (fresh green). I will try this again next time I buy some broadbeans.

broadbeans

broadbeans
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Four shots combined.

I found 初物 (the first-time-in-the-year) broadbean at my local supermarket. After taking these pics in a rush, under a dark kitchen light (you see how hard I was trying) I just boiled them and ... yummy!

azalea curl

azalea curl
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

azalea

azalea
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

azalea

azalea
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

azalea bud

azalea bud
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

bells

bells
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

white bells

white bells
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Though they are everywhere in the area, I don't know the name of this blossom... even in Japanese. The blossom is tiny, five millimeters or so.

evening mothers

evening mothers
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

a boy on an old sign ("manga" style)

a boy on an old sign ("manga" style)
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

A macro of a hand-painted signboard. Looks like 30 or 40 years old.

something victorian

something victorian
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

The other day, knautia reminded me of a book I bought but haven't read through yet. I have just discovered the book from the pile of the books, and here it is. (Two images are combined.)

Full of fine graphics from the Victorian magazines and newspapers, it is written by two Japanese academics (in Japanese, of course). Clearly written, it helps you a lot to get the picture of the Victorian "respected" society.

108 faves

108 faves
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

My first 108 (6 x 18) flickr faves. Please click on the "ALL SIZES" button to view a larger image. :-)

By the way, 108 is a number which reminds me of our new year's eve... I am not a religious person at all, but in Buddhism, it is said that we (I mean, ordinary people) have 108 "seeds of suffering," such as hatred and envy, in our own minds. And on the new year's eve, the bells at Buddhist temples around Japan are struck 108 times.

poppy

poppy
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

"Don't you know where my ears are?" said the bunny.

"Don't you know where my ears are?" said the bunny.
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

A roadside bunny. (I mean, this is not someone's garden or something.) He/She was looking up at me just like this, on the roadside. Poor bunny.

feather

feather
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

dogwood

dogwood
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

inside/outside

inside/outside
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

she's telling a secret

she's telling a secret
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

dogwood blossom

dogwood blossom
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

I hear the first dogwood tree was brought to Japan from the USA in return for the cherry trees sent there (to the DC).

dogwood leaves

dogwood leaves
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

double-flowered cherries - another macro

double-flowered cherries
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

UPDATE (October 2005)

I re-posted the original size. You can also view fullsize (1280 x 960).

double-flowered cherries -macro

double-flowered cherries
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

double-flowered cherries

double-flowered cherries
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Time to say "Yes" to ... frills.

UPDATE (October 2005)

I re-posted the original size. You can also view fullsize (1280 x 960).

double-flowered cherries

double-flowered cherries
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Double-flowered cherries, in Japanese, "yae-zakura 八重桜‰" are now in full bloom.

violet

violet
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Probably the last violet in this area... I couldn't really capture the color.

violet

violet
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Probably the last violet in this area...

hollyhock

hollyhock
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

hollyhock - buds and a flower

hollyhock
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Is this a "flower" or a "blossom" anyway?

hollyhock - macro

hollyhock
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

hello from new leaves

hello from new leaves
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

brillante

brillante
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

THE Brasseirie Brillante? Pourquoi? Ce n'est pas "La Brasserie Brillante"?

a fine example of language mix-up Japonais(e)?

plate

plate
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

b hills manequin heads

b hills manequin heads
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

Mannequins are one of the things quickly disappearing from Tokyo. When I was a student, they were all over, even at your local store. They now exists mainly in very fashonable show-windows in a big commercial areas. Strange, I haven't been aware of this until I get to know the Mannequin group at Flickr.

peace x 3

peace x 3
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

lights - ceiling

lights02
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

looking up at the ceiling.

Aoyama Twin Tower, Tokyo.

lights - reflected

lights01
Originally uploaded by nofrills.

reflected images.

Aoyama Twin Tower, Tokyo.

I was with my compact digital camera and I must have looked curious, a guard was looking at me very suspiciously. ;-P