Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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Японские квартиры

Dima here from the heart written about Japanese apartment. I will copy and add a bit:

Hands pootryval be for such apartments

- low ceilings
- door openings even more (what for, I ask)
- windows are not windows (they do not know what the insulation!!!)
- floor echoing
- The walls are empty and thin
- rental system dull
- neighbors and cowardly act of podteshka
- something else

Beautiful Wordings For The Home

Winter walk

The ideal winter weather, sun, snow and freezing temperatures bearable lures, take a walk. Who no longer go out on weekends or even on a working time can escape from the office, which is a walk in the grounds of the former chocolate factory is highly recommended.

opposite the Savior Cathedral on the Moscow River bank lies the site of the chocolate factory. The factory was indeed outsourced, to make room for outrageously expensive loft apartments with prices per square meter to $ 100,000, but the title and the myth remained. Even the store with the delicious fresh and irresistible confection candy was in the neighborhood, he was only slightly shifted to the rear.
In his place, next to the Patriarch bridge, a classy and very elegant decorated restaurant has opened. But the chandelier is a feast for the eyes.
Well, the old chocolate factory from the 19th Century has become an expensive place.

On the way to the candy shop I lay back with proper picture-book weather, minus 8 degrees, sun, blue sky and snow, I passed a new hotel that was in a solitary brick building at the factory site and poetic " Dawn (Zarya) is called. "The new club," Funky Mama "glaze" and the slightly older Rai (Paradise) draw every night so called golden youth. The offspring of wealthy parents are targeted in Bentley, Maybach, Porsche Cayenne, Ferrari's, enormous jeeps, and other luxury cars, the drivers wait discreetly in the car.

On the Russkaya Ulitsa, "the Russian street, young aspiring designers have opened shops where they sell fancy articles of furniture. In addition to film production companies hire them old factory buildings. Also galleries of modern art gallery and cafes have settled in the production rooms. The gallery of course you can not just expect too poor souls of artists. As children try to rent from oil magnates and in art. A young lady, a child from a wealthy family, breaks with the stereotype of the spoiled and not very busy little girl. She studied art in England, its special route is the Indian art. To structure its exhibitions and performances as independent as possible and is a very foggy art collector. Your working day would have 25 hours to be able to do anything.

At the very end of the promenade, just before the much-maligned monument to Péteri., Then lures the sweet paradise. I thought at least. But my long journey was not rewarded, for I was nearly empty shelves. I wanted to buy the famous Russian confectionery, the Mishka and Aljonas in orders of magnitude. The saleswoman told me it was Now just before the holidays, there would be a lot purchased. Is indeed true, but why will not it be delivered much? Business po russki, unfortunately. If the shop is booming, there's not a commodity. This is Soviet. Too bad that after 20 years still exists the old rut. So I have what you want me to get somewhere else, because it is just not as fresh and delicious as this shop.
stood with me, many buyers wonder before the shelves empty. Before the holidays now, many Moscow companies and the masses of delicious chocolate products. But only if they are in stock.

who have not had enough of a stroll, can go to the other side of the channel, the legendary gray house, also building on the waterfront called over, built in the thirties of last century for the nomenklatura. Since they had Stalin all together under one roof, a stone's throw from the Kremlin. Most of the residents fell victim to Stalin's repressions. Which celebrities have lived in the gray house, can be seen in the many relief panels at home.

are in the courtyard there is an interesting little restaurant, the Spezbuffet No.7. The wives had the nomenklatura, as long as their husbands were in office, a great lifestyle, it was for them cooked, washed and cleaned. Something like this we Spezbuffet it may then in the in-house canteens have looked like. The menu reads like a small treatise on history. Salad "Beat the Bourgeois," crab salad from a recipe by Alexandra Kollontai, beef, what of the proletarians only on holidays enjoy etc. The last page of the menu is a throwback to Soviet prices. Here typical Soviet dishes are offered for kopecks.

Along the canal in the direction of the house of the artist, the viewer is not only to Peter I, but also the garden of the monuments over. Stand here and lie busts and statues of Soviet people who were removed from parks and public spaces. Even the Iron Felix (Dzersinski) once the square in front of KGB headquarters is adorned since. Or was. At first he was really good in a corner of the garden, but when the debate sparked by his re-establishment of the eternal yesterday, was he suddenly stood back upright. Let's hope that he stays there, because his return would not only be a visual symbol.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Marine College In Oman

Yamagata - Part 1 (traditions, sake, bells and fire)

Mein Australien Trip war genial! 30 Grad, Sonnenschein und geile Strände. Von diesem Paradies angekommen, stand schon das Neue Jahr vor der Tür ...

Jahreswechsel is probably the most important holiday in Japan! It lets the old year pass in review and will start in the new pure! To this end, the Japanese have many rituals that seem pointless for the first time but the whole still make sense.

I'll tell you in the course of these rituals. What is important, however, the last days of the year is a family festival in Japan. Unlike us, the Japanese do not go to the clubs and let it rip, but go to their families to the countryside and spend time in the immediate vicinity!

After I spoke about this with some Japanese, it was clear the Tokyo New Year's Eve will be empty. So it happened! My friends stayed in Tokyo and have it confirmed. Hard to believe, but on New Year's is dead in Tokyo pants! So do not pay by huge masses along the countdown and champagne drinking. There were so open about 5 clubs in Tokyo in the almost only foreigners have been shot down.

on something I had not fixed and we had four days off, I've sat down at 31 in a Shinkansen and went to Yamagata.

Yamagata is located in the northern part of the main islands

train shot through with 300 Tokyo, rice fields and tunnels. I noticed that it gets colder ...
In Yamagata Once awaited me-10Grad, lots of snow and empty streets.





Japanese have a tradition to eat on the last day of the year soba (noodles made from buckwheat flour) gladly participated: =)

The empty streets have been little disturbed me & hellip ; spend But ...

That the Japanese with the family the time I knew. But exactly 1 hour to go before the new year, most in a temple! There, the gods appeased nor really with money and you make your bed for the happiness and success in the new year.

So I'm out at 9 and made my way to a great temple in Yamagata. It was not so full, I asked for all possible gods for success health and love in the world and I could see some funny stuff. There

Each Shinto temple, it "fate Letters to a small slip of paper drawn from a box that shows your fate for the new year. Who has a good fate is pleased ... Who has a bad, will not cry .... Den is in Japan for all provided!

You would not want to live all year with a bad fate, so they go to a "special" priests can convert by his prayers to the gods of fate the bad into good. Well that's reassuring ... only does it cost about 25 €:)

Instead, I bought it. Arrow luck for the new year. So I will symbolically make my wishes and dreams!

slowly came more and more people from everywhere and there were large fires lit! On this later ...

Since it was 22h, I wanted to look at some of the area. I saw this tiny quaint Shinto shrine. The deity was revered there, I already knew already from Kyoto. Inari 稲 荷 god of fertility (rice god), which is manifested in the form of foxes! When you make your bed this deity for his professional success and health!



few people were on fire, I have placed this and we got talking. Which I have with 10 words English vocabulary of the Japanese customs of the year and I'm told that advises the German and Russian.

The numerous fires that were lit on this evening are the cleanup. Man Burns there old personal matters, of which one wants to separate, old talismans, lucky charms, letters, photos of ex-friends old decorations and so on.

The shrine was associated with a small building. Eventually, the two grandfathers said to me: "Dude, come with clean, we drink times a "... I did not say no:)

Man ... is the real total love people! Which I have just taken into their circle of friends, given me a warm meal and filled with sacks right:) Just love and friendly!

There have been members of the families of the old monks who lived here before. Sac that has been cooked is prepared only in winter. It tastes just delicious, has little alcohol and sweet! Do not worry ... the other also have had:)



Well ... so glass after 3 my Japanese was indistinguishable from that of a Japanese:)

beds, most people outside the shrine ... I could talk to and directly face to face with that deity and some stuff make it clear:) I would also

Taiko drums, the drums may actually only the monks;)

I am so happy that I got to know these beautiful people!








So approx 11:50 I have tried to explain something ... I have not even checked what ... but then.

In a Buddhist temple in the year, the great bell tolled 108 times, which desires to sell 108 of the 108 people and evil of the old year. 8 times in the old and 100 times in the new year! I could beat the 8 and purify my sins with the bell sound.






Then quickly to the temple, where giant snake was already ne ... I have the traditional incense set on fire and asked for love in the world, as I looked at the clock and 2011 ... was there! No, none 3 .2 .. 1, no corks popping and keineYehhaaa ... only the sound of bells and the murmur of the monks.





a while I still stood by the fire and have been thinking about the past year ...


Monday, January 17, 2011

Contİnuous Abdominal Pain

2011

2011 soon, soon ... 2012)

Did not purely

long written, but what you is expected soon:

- My Trip to Yamagata

first New Year celebration with Japanese. Sacks, drums and fire,

second Yamadera,

third ski ZAO, hot springs and snow monsters.

- Traditional Japanese Kyogen Theater

- Coming of Age Day

- And much more ...