I often take part in my nephew and nieces events with my sister. The other day I went to a choral competition at my nephew’s high school. My sister said that it was unusual that they sang a cappella, so I wanted to go.
Before the competition, the principal made a speech that the high school had a 50 year tradition of singing a cappella and some people chose that high school because of the a cappella competition. Really? I became more and more keen to listen to them.
First, the first-year classes sang. They had only started at the school two months earlier, but they were not so bad, considering. After the first-year classes, the second-year and third-year classes sang. Wow! They sang pretty well. All of them were in good voice and in perfect tune. Excellent!
Speaking of choral music, I like the American TV show, “Glee”; a musical-comedy-drama. As I listened to the competition, I deeply felt the difference between American and Japanese school culture. Freedom vs. discipline. In American schools, they sing and dance, and they sing all genres of music. In Japanese schools, they stand side-by-side in three rows, and sing songs as a chorus. I was surprised that my nephew said that when a class sang in the competition with steps, it was prohibited from the following year. Unbelievable! I hate such a Japanese thing like this.
2011年6月30日木曜日
2011年6月25日土曜日
A site model
I'm having a terrible experience now. I’m making a site model for my assignment and it’s awfully terrible, because the site is a mountain with sheer cliffs. Why is it so terrible?
When I make a site model, I use styrene paper 5 mm thick. This time I am making a one to two-hundred scale model, so it is scaled down to 5 millimeters for 1 meter. The height of the mountain is 72 meters, so I need to pile up 72 styrene papers in a contour interval. If I simply pile them up it’s not so hard, but the styrene paper is expensive, so I make it by using only two papers. How?
First, prepare two site plans, and trace on every other contour line with a red felt pen. Shift one line in another plan and use a blue felt pen. Next, put up plans on each styrene paper, and cut the styrene paper along the colored line. Then, pile up the red and blue ones one after the other. Finally, the mountain is complete!
It seems not so difficult, yeah, it’s easy when it’s a gently sloping mountain, but in case of sheer cliffs, it becomes hard, and that's 72 papers.
My work stopped at a part of the gentle slope. The future is black!
When I make a site model, I use styrene paper 5 mm thick. This time I am making a one to two-hundred scale model, so it is scaled down to 5 millimeters for 1 meter. The height of the mountain is 72 meters, so I need to pile up 72 styrene papers in a contour interval. If I simply pile them up it’s not so hard, but the styrene paper is expensive, so I make it by using only two papers. How?
First, prepare two site plans, and trace on every other contour line with a red felt pen. Shift one line in another plan and use a blue felt pen. Next, put up plans on each styrene paper, and cut the styrene paper along the colored line. Then, pile up the red and blue ones one after the other. Finally, the mountain is complete!
It seems not so difficult, yeah, it’s easy when it’s a gently sloping mountain, but in case of sheer cliffs, it becomes hard, and that's 72 papers.
My work stopped at a part of the gentle slope. The future is black!
2011年6月18日土曜日
A crisis of continuation
The night before last I went for drinks with people who entered my old company at the same time. Our friendship, six members, has lasted about thirty years, although we are in different careers now. Last year, we decided that we would get together twice a year in the future. Of course, all of us should participate in it, but unfortunately one of us, my best friend, is going to move to the UK in the autumn and two of us will move to Yamagata Prefecture next month. Unbelievable! We are going to get together at a hot spring in Yamagata Prefecture next time for the moment, but can we continue the party?
By the way, we met in Shinjuku, Kabuki-cho. I went to Kabuki-cho for the first time in a long time. I got lost and strayed off into the terrible place! No, interesting place! There were so many hosts, you know, Japanese hosts, on the street. Maybe, more than a hundred hosts were there. They stood in front of the shop and called out for passersby to come in. It was my first experience of meeting real hosts. It was the world I’ve never known, so it was kind of exciting. Fortunately they weren’t my cup of tea (^▽^)
By the way, we met in Shinjuku, Kabuki-cho. I went to Kabuki-cho for the first time in a long time. I got lost and strayed off into the terrible place! No, interesting place! There were so many hosts, you know, Japanese hosts, on the street. Maybe, more than a hundred hosts were there. They stood in front of the shop and called out for passersby to come in. It was my first experience of meeting real hosts. It was the world I’ve never known, so it was kind of exciting. Fortunately they weren’t my cup of tea (^▽^)
2011年6月15日水曜日
I did it!
I attended a class at university last weekend and I was finally freed from the assignment. This time I tackled the assignment seriously, so I was really satisfied with my work and it was rated highly. The teacher said that my plan and model were the most beautiful in the class. I did it! A good evaluation motivated me to study hard and I’m working on the next assignment straightaway. Next is to plan the space for praying by the sea, in a green field, or in the town. I chose the sea because it seems interesting to make a model. How will I plan it? The problem is that the teacher of this course was the man who rated me low in his previous class, so I definitely want him to think better of me. I’ll do it!
By the way, once I start studying architecture, I tend to totally concentrate on the assignment, so it is little hard to continue these bogs. I still need a lot of time to write these blogs…, but I’ll try to continue writing blogs as well as I can, even if it’s once a week, or if it’s very short.
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