A storm in a tea cup
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
24 February 2007
20 February 2007
@explore
@explore
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
1. red-green
2. Rules in Tokyo
3. Wata of Boris
4. how to keep your city tidy
5. poppy
6. fizzy drink
7. afghan embroidery - hem detail 3
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
25 Tokyo Circles
25 Tokyo Circles
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
1. to the right: a station sign on the floor
2. on a sunny day, so without umbrellas: an umbrella rack found on the pavement
3. Red circle on black: the ubiquitous red-and-black one
4. A very scientific milk pan: a pan that tries to give us a science lesson
5. A Big E: street art, civil engineer style
6. Surface: Guinness from the can
7. Help! I can't stop looking for something sc-able!: a vent portrait
8. Grey circle on grey: a manhole cover
9. under construction (protection sheet): with a kanji
10. baby manhole: another manhole cover
11. Many circles: yet another manhole cover
12. After the rain, and it's a circle!: I know this is too easy but it's a manhole cover
13. how to keep your city tidy: the unseen side of our tidiness
14. When I see things like this, I do ...: civil engineering related
15. No bikes: a "do not park your bike here" sign
16. circle one: a street lamp
17. "water": a water-system manhole cover
18. brillante: a French restaurant sign written in English
19. circle closeup: civil engineering related
20. step power: I still don't know how this is called in English and even in Japanese
21. sorry this is blurred: a zabuton (座布団) at a Japanese restaurant
22. Squ"air": a Muji bottle
23. Something that is sc-able: a bottle of hina-matsuri sweet
24. plate: in a window on a street in Aoyama
25. to the left: a station sign on the floor
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Separated at death
Separated at death
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
A mosaic (two separate pictures, taken ten steps away each other.)
The paper at the top used to be part of the tyny box below. It's a box of strawberry gums, popular among children,
From the Land of the Rising Sun
From the Land of the Rising Sun
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Rubbish from Nisshin Cup Noodle, sticking onto the road surface.
It's dinner time.
It's dinner time.
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
View large to see why "dinner time". This is an "as-is" picture. Possibly related to this Cup Noodle, which was 50 meters away.
Hints of spring
Hints of spring
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
They say it's 暖冬 (warm winter) this year, and I feel so, too. The cherry buds are getting ready to come out.
Never mind.
Never mind.
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
I found it hard
Its hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
Its hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
After the rain
After the rain
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Ciggy stubs everywhere. They usually ruins the picture, but can't I somehow make the picture? And this is one experiment. 'See this On Black.
* Additional effects on a software called JTrim. It's great, easy to use and free.
Being an elder sister
Being an elder sister
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
「おねえちゃんなんだからしっかりしなきゃ」。かくして彼女は暴れまわる弟の首根っこを押さえつけ、まっすぐに歩かせる。ああ、お姉ちゃんシンドロームの始まり。
* Additional effects on a software called JTrim. It's great, easy to use and free.
Turn right, it's one way.
Turn right, it's one way.
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
See the irony here? Basically it's a street sign and some posters among houses. But ...
The posters are, from the left,
1) Rubbish collection notice (it's nothing special)
2) "Defend Article 9" poster of/by the Japanese Communist Party
3) A Japanese Communist Party poster showing MP's faces
And the street sign says "go right."
Aaaagh, by the way. I really hope the JCP will get themselves renamed. The other day one of their MPs said there's no (or little, I don't remember correcty) communism left in the party, so why? I wish they could rename themselves the Official Monster Raving Anti-War Defend-9 No-Big-Brother No-Neo-Liberalism Party. At least they would make politics look interesting.
* I'm only being sarcastic as usual, so I hope anyone reading this doesn't get upset.
Urban nature, a few months later
Urban nature, a few months later
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
It's four months since I took this picture, which went on to the Urban Nature Group blog. I just thank these plants. 合掌。
Boss comes in rainbow.
Boss comes in rainbow.
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Somebody's act of littering, or is it just he/she gave me a chance to take a picture for the "bright colours on gray" group?
Just another victim
Just another victim
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Littering is annoying. This is one of the everyday problems here in Tokyo. People throw their rubbish into somebody else's bicycle basket on the street. This isn't my bike, but often I find mine with a basket-full of empty cans, ciggy boxes and onigiri wrappers. I don't remember how many times I had to get back to my room to get a plastic bag for all the rubbish. Annoying, really.
spamming!
spamming!
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Spamming is a problem for us, online or not. This beautiful motorbike has just suffered one act of spamming on its number plate/license plate. (See note.)
The yellow sticker says "Thinking of selling your motorbike? Just call us! We are more experienced than anyone else!!"
I think the sticker is very easy to remove, though. Stickier than Post-It notes but less sticky than usual brown tapes.
A Shop 99 sign after rain
A Shop 99 sign after rain
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Another view:
www.flickr.com/photos/nofrills/393978967/
shop99
shop99
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
You can buy almost everything at this chain store, except for beers and full bentos, for only 99 yen. (99 yen in USD, in AUD, in British Sterling Pound, in Canadian Dollar and in Euro.)
They have breads, rice balls (おにぎり), cup noodles and soups, tofu, udon, yakisoba, soysauce, miso, cheese, milk, yogurt, chocolate, biscuits and every sort of junk food, rice crackers (おせんべい、あられ), frozen edamame, nori seaweed (海苔), sesami, some vegetables and mushrooms, and so on - everything you want to have in your kitchen. And some plates, cups and bowls. Batteries. Pens and notebooks.
The Shop 99 was born after the "100 yen shops" took to the streets all over Japan in the late 1990s. Their "１円でも安く (only 1 yen but it's CHEAPER than the shop next door)" policy has seen a huge success.
* This description on the Shop 99 is free to non-commercial use (CC by-nc 2.0) as long as you can fix my silly mistakes in English if you find any. (^^)
* I am in no way affiliated with the Shop 99 chainstores. I just wrote what I already know. If some parts of my description above is not accurate, it's because of my memory and/or my English. There is no mal-intension.
* If you want to make sure my description is accurate, visit their website. If you want it to be translated, ask your friends, or hire a translator. Thanks.
Help! I can't stop looking for something sc-able!
Help! I can't stop looking for something sc-able!
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Addiction to Flickr's Squared Circle group.
After the rain, and it's a circle!
After the rain, and it's a circle!
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Something to do with Tokyo's water system. On a manhole cover.
plastic flowers
plastic flowers
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Our good-old plastic flowers. I think this is for ひな祭り, with the pink round one (which is お団子) on the tips, though they always have plastic flowers on this street.
19 February 2007
Coala's March goes hina-matsuri
Coala's March goes hina-matsuri
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Now that the Valentine's Day is over, local food stores are going ひな祭り (hi-na-matsuri) pink fest of capitalism and consumerism - well, it's not "pink" to be precise, it's "the colour of the peach blossoms (桃色)". So please don't 早合点 like "Pink for girls! it's a crazy sexism." (^^) The peach blossoms are seasonal thing as well as an ancient icon rooted in the ancient China.
Bonjour!
Bonjour!
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
Nobody expects あじの開き to be from FRANCE!!!!!
At my local supermarket!! (@_@)
Quirky globalisation!!!
I didn't buy it because I'm half-vegetarian. (I eat fish at restaurants but not so at home.) Now I'm thinking I should have bought this. Really.
近所のスーパーに行ったら、「あじの開き」が「フランス産」でびっくりした。店内が大変混雑していたので、全体をフレームに収めることができなかったのだけど、普通のあじの開きでした。（私は動物系はほとんど口にしないので買いませんでした。買ってみればよかったのかな。）
18 February 2007
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