TOKYO
i don’t have time to write any text here – but we are still in the ICI2010 Immunology Congress in Japan trip
WALK IN KYOTO 30th AUG 2010
Oj, oj, oj, these pictures were edited a long time ago in the old iPhoto version, and when I did not neither have nor know Photoshop. But they are a nice memory still from wonderful Japan.
Temple view in Kyoto. The fall is supposed to be awesome there.
This school bus looked so cute with the children wearing uniforms and cute hats.
I told you. Wishes do come true.
On the way to Gion district.
The streets of Kansai region seem old, authentic and mysterious.
Where did it lead?
H2O shower in the street for everyone. Coolish.
The golden pavilion Kinkakuji again, my favorite picture of it.
Follow us.
Do you see the happy family on the rock in the middle?
I had once two turtles as pets (I am sorry), they were called Anabella and Grigore.
These guys don’t know what they are called.
Candy, Sugar and Sweetie maybe.
TOT IN NARA SUNT
Ultimii poze miscellaneous tot din Nara.
(am zis bine?)
Make a wish, dreams come true. I know.
Temple concert in the park of Nara.
Who’s this?
Once upon a time, in a country far, far away…
NARA 1300TH FEST DANCE PERFORMANCE 2010
This dance performance happily appeared around the corner as I was strolling along in the old city one evening on Sunday the 29th August.
Event: Nara 1300th Festival 2010.
NARA RYOKAN
This wonderful and most friendly Ryokan we stayed at in Nara.
Absolutely fabulous, cheap, great hostess, and very comfortable, practical with all the
necessities such as kitchen, laundry, inner court and Japanese-styled calming bedrooms.
ME TOO IN JAPAN
Kat was in Kyoto
and in Tokyo
Where else?
Oh right, at the Kiyomizu Kannon-do temple in Tokyo, where the childless couples go to sacrifice a doll, which are then burned in a ceremony the 25th of September.
Inside the temple
I didn’t have a doll to sacrifice so I put a wish at Kiyomizu Kannon-do
WHICH CITY?
Strolling along in the Kobe night life, I thought it would be a funny thing to collect the typical street lights.
I don’t know now, one could have been enough maybe…
FROM ALL OVER JAPAN
Harajuku shopping street
My Harajuku shopping
Delicious pickled eggplant
Kyoto statue typical for Japan (?) outside different places on the street
Tokyo building
Kobe asfalt footprint in the ca 40 degrees Celsius heat
Fish for sale in Nara
Another Tokyo building
Kobe Kitano Bar sign
What does it say?
Tokyo skyline from the boat trip
SWEET JAPANESE
Different sweets I found and tasted.
The green tea icecream was not among these unfortunately.
ICE COFFEE
JAPANESE PASTA MACHINE? (I WANT)
SWEET BUNS
SHAVED ICE – SUCH AN AWESOME THING IN THE HEAT =) LOVED IT
SANNOMIYA TERMINAL HOTEL
Authentic view of single room without breakfast at Sannomiya Terminal hotel.
Before anything in Japan, an electrical outlet converter is a must have,and it was not easy to find. Why didn’t I buy two? I could have sold the other one, here or there.
Sannomiyas Buddha book gave me insight and comfort, if just for 10 min.
Workers outside the Sannomiya Terminal Hotel one evening.
I was so upset I forgot my camera (how could I really) that evening and had to take night shots with my Samsung Jet.
They actually waved at me; I carefully smiled at them when I saw that THEY saw that I took pictures of them.
That made my evening.
Also outside the hotel, another guy smiled at me and asked me what I am doing.
I told him I just think that these lamp posts look funny and it would make a cool picture.
He looked at it (and me) and let me be.
I have never seen anything like it anywhere.
=)
ONE TEMPEL
Having the ambition to organize and post my around 1000 Japan pictures in sightseeing order, I fail because it unfortunately takes longer than I thought.
Meanwhile I put up some temples.
Guess where?
TRY TO FIND WIFI
Pay tribute to Japan heat:
Arigato, I was not affected by sun but sustained a fair skin, adapting to the Japanese world, perfectly my cup of tea (NB: without Sun Screen).
Inside scoop:
Kat’s sun burn trick nr 1.
Read, write and spell on your iPAD while eating sushi inside the deliciously warm Tokyo restaurant called Tawami.
Try to find Wifi.
Kat’s sun burn trick nr 2.
Drink lots of green tea while ordering a donut in Electrical District and ask for the nearest Wifi.
Kat’s sun burn trick nr 3.
Make sure you find the right Manga store in Asakusa despite the lack of Wifi.
Kat’s sun burn trick nr 4.
Very important! Don’t settle for any ryokan but the friendliest, or else book a room at
The Monterey Group Hotel in Kyoto or Sakura Hostel in Tokyo.
On location try to find the Wifi.
…if I have more time the list could be much more funny.
HOLD ON TO YOUR BEAUTY
Smile.
Bought mine in Tokyo.
I actually went shopping in Tokyo.
Mindblowing really, for me at least.
Hello Kitty.
Be careful where you put your garbage.
Thank god our rubbish is combustible.
GEISHA
I also want to be Japanese, ren’t they beautiful?
What a crowd of beautiful women and men in Japan.
Me in the heat, taking a shower of offered water showers on the street.
Quite enjoyable.
SHINKANSEN NOT SPÅRVAGN 104
Time to step on Spårvagn 104, express to Sahlgrenska. It is a bit slower than the Tokyo subway. Just think how much time I (we) could save if the trams went as quickly as Shinkansen. First stop Sahlgrenska Huvudentre.
The above is from the subway and the train below is the famous Shinkansen express.
A Demitasse coffee from the vending machines, which are everywhere,
full of tiny small bottles of coffee, sweet water, tea and beer.
Japanese are smart.
CONFERENCE OFFICIAL PARTY
The official dinner was held on the Luminous Cruise on
Thursday the 26th of August, the day I was born.
Cool.
The Ship.
Amazing fireworks especially for us.
Domo Arigato ICI 2010 and Kobe.
Good Night Kobe, wherever you are.
CONFERENCE EVENTS
The source of my pain, Flow Jo, in Kobe. Nicely I did get some answers to my problems.
At the exhibition hall they offered a Japanese Cafe.
The women in blue in the back were entertaining the tea sippers,
unfortunately I did not taste this.
Thought that I would try it elsewhere but completely missed to try a tea ceremony.
Silly me.
My poster, A3 size since I forgot the real one at the airport.
And, of course I forgot the A3 poster on the subway later.
Kat Nippon was busy.
Though paid 1600 YEN for this new piece of poster.
CONFERENCE MAN
International Congress of Immunology (ICI) 2010.
Location:
Kobe International Convention Center.
Taking the Port Liner to Port Island, 10 min ride from my hotel Sannomiya Terminal Hotel.
Final Stop to Convention Center.
BUDDHA ROCKS
True:
There are two kinds of Worldly passions that defile and cover the purity of Buddha-nature.
The first is the passion for analysis and discussion by which people become confused in judgment. The second is the passion for emotional experience by which people’s values become confused.
Both delusions of reasoning and delusions of practice can be thought of as a classification of all human defilement, but really there are two original worldly predicaments in their bases. The first is ignorance, and the second is desire.
Ay, ay, ay…
I could not have put it better myself.
(ler’d see if i can nfind the letters on the iPAD key board heefe first…)
So:
The delusions of reasoning are based upon ignorance, and the delusions of practice are based upon desire, so that the two sets are really one set after all, and together they are the source of all unhappiness.
God bless Buddha.
- Latent Lucia from my iPAD
T REGS
Portopia hall in the Portopia Hotel, Kobe. 14:30 Wednesday, 25th Aug 2010
Notes:
I don’t get it. What do they mean??
WHERE ART THOU?
I am still wide awake, and don’t want to get up soon..
23rd of August, Monday in Kobe
Woke up late – hurry in the shower and grab an ice latte and pastery and I am off to Port Liner, the train that takes me to Convention Center on Port Island.
It takes 10 min and I come just in time for lunch.
Halleluja there is a stand right outside the Main exhibition hall, where they sell Starbucks!
I don’t usually have to drink Starbucks in Sweden, but here it is so good.
Off to neuroimmunology workshops. Interesting stuff, but at times difficult to understand.
Fine by me.
A guy sitting behind me felt the same as me, and asked:
‘Where did you buy that Starbucks coffee’?
I smiled, looking at him with the most adorable eyes ( it’s true – I felt his funny pain and I was happy to see a coffee fellow) and said:
‘It is right outside the exhibition hall!!!!!’
He was American and thanked me the Japanese way (no he didn’t – that is a joke).
Hang outside in demonstrative, surprising wonder in the heat.
I like it.
I just ask why? How can it be, and why? I don’t see. How? Why?
Why does it aggregate in the CNS? Why doesn’t it work in the lamina propria? Full moon, aggressive, transformation – all environmental effects on CX3CR1.
Come home, please. Just come home where you are supposed to be.
Stop messing up those synapses in the CNS. You will not attract more infiltrating cells this way. You need to signal down the right pathway. Otherwise you will just be silenced.
And I thought you were more clever than that.
How many stainings does it take to get you lit up actually?
I will try clicking on the Batch report and see if it workshops, and turning sample OFF.
Yeah, maybe that’s why you disappeared.
- Latent Lucia from my iPAD