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22/12/2009 図1　Shiodome Blue Ocean Shiodome Blue Ocean (図1) is a 15 minute illumination event of a blue ocean with snow and soap bubbles, which comes alive in the front area of Caretta. Various movements of laser rays create floating green clouds  , the sunrise  and a lot more. Mainly the colour is blue as the name indicates , but it varies in to pink, red, green, white creating a beautiful sea world. In the little hut at the middle,(which really is meant to be a coral Christmas tree,) is a fortune telling pearl which tells how ur life partner and you will be living ever after. The destiny changes according to the color you get when you touch the pearl or so it says. 図2　Hashire!! Fantasia go Above are the illumination in remind of the Shinbashi staion. This year the theme has become "The Galaxy Platform" where the space train comes and stop at the platform where you can get in and out of planet  Earth. 図3　Noraml illuminations Above are

22/12/2009 This year a sudden change in plans, resulted in a cold night out to Tokyo to enjoy the Christmas Illuminations of the year 2009. Four of us ( Two boys and two girls -  all Thai) set out early at 4.30  in the evening toShinjuku. Toeido line took us to Roppongi - beautiful luxurious night land of Tokyo. "MIDTOWN CHRISTMAS" was the  Special Christmas illumination event going on in Roppongi in this winter. Galleria is a luxurious shopping mall just in front of the  Roppongi station. All the illumination and events are in an around this big shopping plaza. Welcome Chandelier Welcome Chandelier(図１) is made of  Japanese traditional paper called "washi" and is at  the entrance of the Gallaria shopping mall. This is lightened up twice and hour an one lightening up  is carried on for 15 minutes. This is so large that it hangs down from the top floor towards three floors below. This is lightened up in various colors as shown above for 15 long minutes.

30/10/2009 The five young Sri Lankans at the Shokugyou Nouryoku Kaihatsu Sougou Daigakkuo planned to throw a Sri Lankan food stall for the University Festival 2009. What they were going to sell was the next problem and the final answer ended up with Kottu and Cutlets. Kottu of  all?? Nobody had any idea to make Kottu except for this one brilliant guy, who is called "The Chef".We went shopping a week early and started making the Kottu from 8 o`clock in the early morning after a long night of the earlier day spent on preparing the cutlets.  First we started with making the flour rotti. First put some flour in to salty water and make a batter. then make little flour balls and later flatten them very thin on a oily heated pan. This will result in a rotti. Make rotti using 1.5 kilo of flour to make kottu for 70 people or more. That`s what we just did. Then cut them in to small pieces with the maximum length of one inch. This is the hardest part of the whole Kottu business.

31/12/2007 Nikko toshogu shrine is situated in Nikko city of Tochigi prefecture. This is more famous as the Nikko. NIkko is very famous for it s great architecture.The shrine of Nikko toshogu was built in 766. Tokugawa Iyeyasu and his grand son s remains are entombed here. This shrine is listed as one of the Unesco world heritages. I had the chance to visit the Toshogu shrine on the 31st of December, 2007. I was out in Nikko with my  host family to enjoy a day out on the new year s eve.   14.1 The five floored pagoda at the Toshogu This five floored pagoda represents the earth, water , fire, wind and heaven with each floor ascendingly.  To protect it from earthquakes it is said that a big central pillar is hanged  with chains from the top inside the pagoda.  14.2 Old buildings with attractive carvings     14.3  The tomb of the Tokugawa Iyeyasu and his grand son   14.4 The very famous carving of  "

Mount Fuji is my favorite  scenery spot. I used to go to see Mount Fuji every dawn of the new year. First it was at Hakone and then next year it was at Izu in Shizuoka. it`s  always the most enchanting view and mount Fuji always manages to calm me down.  I have seen different Mount.Fujis through out my 2 years in Japan. Sometimes it is blue, then again it is red. Again it is of a dull brown colour and then no snow at the  top. Mount Fuji is so  beautiful that it always had been a favourite matter of discussion among painters and nature lovers.  13.1 Mount Fuji from the Hakone mountains The photo above was taken at Odakuwani Hakone of Kanagawa prefecture . I was out on a trip to tne odawakuni hot springs and this photo was taken at the car park. The blueness of the clear blue sky and also the clearness of the winter air has given mount Fuji a blue aurora. Just imagine the wonderful meaning I felt when I see this with my naked eyes. 13.2  Mount Fuji from the Chuo Ex

Roses are the symbol of love. It also symbolizes the summer and the and the sun. I was able to capture the summer roses at the Sagamihara Kita koen last year. Watching the hot summer sun shining on the petals make you forget the loneliness and the missing things in your life. Below are some of the snaps of roses,I mamnged to capture last summer of 2008.       Photos All Rights Reserved.

Report - 13.07.2009 According to the most recent data (2006) of the World Health Organization, the death cause of 23.7 in 10000 persons of the Japanese population is suicide  and a Japanese kills himself/ herself every 15minutes somewhere in Japan. These facts have made Japan rank at the eighth palce among the suicidal countries, gaining a name called "suicide nation".Why is the tendency for suicide is high in Japan.In this report,The causes of suicide,and suicide prevention in Japan is explained. Why has Japan become a suicide country? According to the Japanese media,internet group suicides have become a big reason for the sudden rise of the suicidal rate.Internet suicide means a group of people meeting in the world wide web, and then the group killing themselves as a group. It is said that in year 2006, nearly 100 people had died by internet group suicides. Now, as suicide sights have become very common ,internet related suicides have become dangerously high. Even

18/08/2009 I had the chance to make Japanese dolls using traditional Japanese paper, for the second time in this summer of 2009. It was fun and of course a little bit of hard work. I managed to take photos step by step in the process. All the steps  are not included, so that I hope to explain the procedure each step. The worst part is, all the stuff  and shapes needed are already stuffed in to a little bag so that we never learn to cut out the papers by ourselves. Here we begin. The head is made of cotton and an oil paper wrapped around to get a smooth surface. The head is then glued to the end of a  steel wire which is at least 15cm long.Then another steel wire is attached horizontally and tied up with a thread to make up the arms. Next, paper serviettes are used to build and fatten up the body of the doll. Tape is used to tighten the tissue papers around the body of the doll so that the body becomes slim. Additionally, the tissue is also wounded up around the horizontal steel