It's been ten days since the earthquake.
Today it's equinox and it is national holiday. It's Japanese custom to go to family cemetery to say hello to those who are there. Usually I either follow the national custom or go to mountain house to enjoy the end of snow season with my dogs.
This year I'm staying at home. My dogs are fine, my house is OK, my office is OK, my family is OK, but so many so much bad news.
The number of tsunami casualties are increasing everyday and this Nuclear plants problem is devastating and outrageous. People are horrified.
Twitter was a very good media for us to get the information soon after the earthquake happened. Twitter is now the place to get the information and not the place to exchange casual silly comments with friends. Many friends are rather quiet for this last few days. How I hope they come back to say "want to eat donuts" or "a dog did some silly thing".
For the last several days I have been trying to write to tell my gratitude to those friends who wrote me since this earthquake happened.
But I couldn't. Because whenever I tried to write I could not help crying.
It is soooo encouraging to know that there are many friends all over the world who are thinking of us in Japan. Some of them I know in person and many I never met. That's made me cry. Thank you all.
There was a good news yesterday. 80 years old lady and her grandson were rescued after nine days trapped under the wrecked house. They were in the kitchen of the house which was swept away by the tsunami but the house was not wrecked to pieces but gave them some space. This space and the fridge helped them to survive. The boy looked after his grandmother.
2011年3月11日金曜日
The earthquake on 11 March
I was going to Mr donuts to get some sweets for afternoon tea. It was when I was waiting for the traffic signal to change to green, I felt the ground move. It wasn't wild shake or big shock but something like a gentle swing.
I looked around me and could not find anything out of ordinary. I thought I was day dreaming.
Then I felt another swing and this time bigger and wider. The guy waiting next to me looked at me when I looked at him.
He said to me, "Earthquake?"
"Yes, isn't it?" I said.
We Tokyoites are so used to earthquakes that usually we carry on what we've been doing even when we know there is an earthquake happening. But this time it was different.
Because the next shake was too big and too long. It was not a swing or a shock but I felt the earth MOVE.
I ran. Out of my breath I got to the office and I found my colleague kept the dogs with him under his desk. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The office was OK without any damage at all, lucky us as it was the huge one of mag. 8.8, hypocenter 500Km north of Tokyo but very shallow of about 10km below the sea.
Now four and half hours after the first shock, we still have aftershocks and they are not getting small yet. Outside the office people are walking home as NO public transportation is working.
My colleague left the office about an hour ago. He also would have to walk about one and a half hour to get home.
For me and my dogs it's only ten min walk to home so it is not a hard one. I hope nothing serious is happening at home.
There are the Tsunami warnings to the world around the Pacific.
Fingers crossed and touch woods for everybody and for us!
I looked around me and could not find anything out of ordinary. I thought I was day dreaming.
Then I felt another swing and this time bigger and wider. The guy waiting next to me looked at me when I looked at him.
He said to me, "Earthquake?"
"Yes, isn't it?" I said.
We Tokyoites are so used to earthquakes that usually we carry on what we've been doing even when we know there is an earthquake happening. But this time it was different.
Because the next shake was too big and too long. It was not a swing or a shock but I felt the earth MOVE.
I ran. Out of my breath I got to the office and I found my colleague kept the dogs with him under his desk. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The office was OK without any damage at all, lucky us as it was the huge one of mag. 8.8, hypocenter 500Km north of Tokyo but very shallow of about 10km below the sea.
Now four and half hours after the first shock, we still have aftershocks and they are not getting small yet. Outside the office people are walking home as NO public transportation is working.
My colleague left the office about an hour ago. He also would have to walk about one and a half hour to get home.
For me and my dogs it's only ten min walk to home so it is not a hard one. I hope nothing serious is happening at home.
There are the Tsunami warnings to the world around the Pacific.
Fingers crossed and touch woods for everybody and for us!
2011年3月8日火曜日
Welcome
About two months ago I started to choreograph Dono's new routine.
How do fellow freestylers choreograph I wonder.
I usually start with some set pattern sequences which I've had in my mind when deciding the music. Well that should be the structure of the routine. Then I will be putting this here and putting that there so that the routine become comfortable and enjoyable for both us and the audience. It's just like the work I do for living, Architectural design.
Now the new routine, I simply could not decide what to do at the point from where it would get into the ending. This is actually the part of the structure and I cannot go anywhere without this part missing.
I had been fiddling around with doing bits and pieces with Dono. So far nothing worked OK, either Dono was not ready for that or I did not like it.
That put me off from the-early-getting-up-and-do-the-training-before-the-work.
This morning finally one idea has come to me.
Welcome!
How do fellow freestylers choreograph I wonder.
I usually start with some set pattern sequences which I've had in my mind when deciding the music. Well that should be the structure of the routine. Then I will be putting this here and putting that there so that the routine become comfortable and enjoyable for both us and the audience. It's just like the work I do for living, Architectural design.
Now the new routine, I simply could not decide what to do at the point from where it would get into the ending. This is actually the part of the structure and I cannot go anywhere without this part missing.
I had been fiddling around with doing bits and pieces with Dono. So far nothing worked OK, either Dono was not ready for that or I did not like it.
That put me off from the-early-getting-up-and-do-the-training-before-the-work.
This morning finally one idea has come to me.
Welcome!
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