星期六, 12月 09, 2006

Stamps

I used to collect stamps when I was a kid. All the students were kind of crazy in exchanging stamps from their home country and it became a popular thing in my primary school.
All my friends were from different countries around the world, so I have the chance to have beautiful stamps from all the places even I haven't been to before.
This is a stamp from Japan, I found it from an envelop from my office. The diamond shape firstly attacted me, then I look at the stamp carefully, I found out this stamp is a memorial stamp of the Emperor & Queen of Japan.
I quickly took it out before someone took it to donate to the post office. When I saw this stamp, waht I think of is to give it to my grandmother. My grandmother is the one who let me have the interest of collecting stamps, and I can remember that I used to have many talks about stamps with my grandmother when I was a kid. But somehow, all these talks had disappeared....
There are many letters been sending to my office everyday, so this is a good chance for me start collecting stamps once more. Collecting stamps sounds old fashioned but I think stamp is also a kind of art which worth for us to keep them as our precious.

星期二, 12月 05, 2006

Candle Night @ artegio/Yufuinn, Oita, Japan


Last Sunday(2006/12/03) I went to a piano concert in Yufuinn. The concert was held in a small exhibition hall. I was so beautiful and lovely. The building itself was surrounded by many many beautiful candles and so does the piano.
At first I thought the concert might be a normal piano concert but when I walked into the hall, I was wrong... This pianist (Souichirou Shigematsu) was like a fairy and all the music that he plays are mostly about the nature, life and spirit which makes me think deeply about many things in my life.
His music gave me power and courage to step forward to my new life and makes me has power to look for new things for me to challenge in my life. I feel very happy that I went to the concert but feel a little regret that I didn't buy the CD on that day...
Anyway, after the concert I got a chance to go to the after party with the Pianist and other staffs and I really have a lot of fun. I hope that I can have a chance to play music with this pianist some time in the future....