ISC Promotion 2007

My dear Eve & Amandine, it feels like it was just yesterday that we were sitting in Global HRM in APU together... Now you've graduated!!! Congratulations, my sempais and friends!

It was fun to see the President of ISC and some of my favourite professors giving speeches...

Musée du Louvre

A trip to a museum can't be more fun than this...

House Parties

The Korean way... Kimchi...

The German way... Beer...

Issey Miyake

Yes, I got invited to Issey Miyake's fashion show. Thank you Amandine!!! It was such a great experience!!! I love the invitation letter so much I'll keep it forever!!! FYT Freya is the name of my magazine! Special guest of Creative Director Cinnamandine!

I love the entire collection! The idea is amazing! I picked out only two outfits I really like. Here they are... In the picture which you see two outfits, I love the pink one, the shoes and the fluffy pinky clothes are just too cute!!!

These are the videos of the opening and closing of the show. The in-between video is the part I loved the most in the show when the yellow tubes made the most significant movements. I really don't want to use too many words here, words sometimes ruin the natural beauty of an object, especially when the object is too beautiful for words... However, just one little notice for your attention, the yellow tubes grew out along the show and they blew in breezes which caused really nice effects. The name of the collection is called "Wind"

Amandine, with her "Staff" tag, and I were there!!! We were there!!! Meow! After the show, it was fun to walk in the white catwalk carpet with lights shining on you from everywhere. I felt like a super star. And it was fun to know that Kanye West was there, just right behind me BUT I couldn't see him!!!

Mon Petit Appartement

Voilà! C'est mon petit apartment! I'm so very proud of my apartment because my room is red!!! J'aime beaucoup le rouge! And my landlord is super nice! She teaches my French anytime she is free. I'll speak fluent French in 5 months. Muahahaha!
I think I'm paranoid

Ok, let us start with my room first... Eve said it is very Parisen. If you look at the mirror, the fire place, the huge door leading to the small balcony,... it has always been like that for years. My neighborhood, according to what my landlord said, was built right after the Napoleon War. People from the war came to this area and they combined the architecture of France and other countries they've been to. The surrounding neighborhoods have smalls houses and apartments built closely to one another. From my window, I don't have a nice view but at least I have the beautiful sunlight... and... oh... poor my little flowerbed... I haven't done anything about it yet. Yellow Jasmine for the winter it will have, but it'll take a while...

Here are a few more pictures... I don't have much in my room but I feel pretty comfortable. Can't complain anything at all since I have such a nice bed and a nice relaxing chair! I don't put up pictures on the wall but I do have lots of pictures in the room

Below is the kitchen, the petit dinning table. I love the thick, concrete brick floor very much! Houses in Vietnam used to have this same kind of floor before; even now, they still do, but with different colors and designs. It might be rude to put a picture of the garbage "tube" here but I think it is so interesting and everytime I go throw my garbages, it is such a pleasure! You step on the pandle to open the trash "tube", throw your garbage inside and it will go to the garbage station downstairs. A piece of cake! It's so traditional, so Parisen and so "benri" (easy to use)!!! Here in France, they seperate pet bottles and carboards into one "recycle" category and the rest to "trash" category. I don't know what they do with the "trash", I've got to ask.

I miss my mother's cooking so much!!! I miss family dinners, too!!! But for family dinner, Motohiko will make it up for me this December, hihi, ne!

A bit off topic but... it feels so "natsukashii", sometimes I feel like I'm in Vietnam! The phones here have the same ringtones as they do in Vietnam. People cross the streets for red lights (yes, red, not green), just like they do in Vietnam. There are so many things in common! It might sound weird but I feel like Vietnam is closer to France than to Japan. Just so you know in Asia, each country is different. We're not all from China. Okay, back to my apartment... this window here, its lock, its white paint, its glass,... my grandfather's house used to have these kinds of windows. It's amazing to know that Vietnam has so many exterior and interior designs in common with France. The famous highschool near my apartment has an outlook that reminds me of some building in the center area of Saigon.

Well, since you all go to Japan and take pictures of the automatic toilets, I'm taking picture of this very Parisen restroom. In Vietnam, we used to have the same thing! Pulling the string is so much more fun than pressing a button. I'm serious