Irasshaimase

Te fuiste,

como se van otros,

como nos vamos todos.

Casi sin decir nada, dejándote llevar.

Como cuando te arrastran las olas mar adentro.

 

A mí me dejaste en tierra,

llamándote a gritos.

Me quedé con las ganas de darte más vida,

toda la que tú me has ido regalando.

Y no sé si fueron bastantes

los besos que te di,

las veces que nos abrazamos.

 

Aquí me quedo, entre pañuelos,

como cuando a él

también se lo llevó  la marea.

Yo te admiraba,

creo que nunca te lo dije,

lo nuestro nunca fueron las palabras.

 

Sé que la vida pesaba,

me lo decían tus ojos.

Y desde mi ausencia,

yo jugaba a arrancarte sonrisas.

 

Me esperaste,

como yo te pedía tan egoístamente.

Me esperaste,

y ahora te has ido.

Dime adónde,

y allí te mando mis besos.

 

 

 

 

  

 

Who turned the lights off?

Who shut the noise down?

Who let the wind blow?

No surprise, it was me.

 

I keep blooming in colours,

for others there's no hint of the dark.

Sometimes when I feel it,

lurking around,

trying to scare me,

I smile.

 

For others there will be no hint of the dark.

 

Dreams can be tricky.

Mine turned my world around.

 

 

Besitos desde "la capital de Escandinavia". O eso dicen.. ;)

 

 

Un poco tarde para subir las fotos ya que ha terminado el mundial... Pero mas vale tarde que nunca!

 

Fuji Ring... alli estaba yo! Animando a Alonso a grito pelao en medio de una horda de finlandeses enloquecidos. Las clasificatorias, pasadas por agua pero manteniendo el tipo, como tiene que ser. A mi lado un peloton de finlandeses con sus banderitas, y uno que llego que parecia que habia pintado la sabana de casa. Que ostentacion!! Pero nada me perturbaba. Mis mini-banderitas confeccionadas la noche de antes a hurtadillas en la oficina se alzaban al compas de mis saltos en las gradas mojadas.. Ni ese capullo mimado ingles, ni tanto Finlandes con cerveza enlatada podian amedrentarme... Alli estaba yo aullando A-LON-SO! A-LON-SO!!

 

Hasta que en mitad de tanta lluvia y neblina tonta, pantallazo en la cara, y me veo a mi ninyo saliendose del coche.. cabrooooonnnnneeeess!!!! gggrrrrrr!!!

 

Ya a estas alturas en que Raikkonen se ha llevado el mundial, solo me queda el consuelo de que al menos no se lo quito el capulli del "rookie del anyo". Ninyato...

 

:-)

 

He subido un par de videos a http://shufla.vox.com/

 

Bzotz!!

 Sumo is the world-wide known traditional japanese national sport, BUT baseball has become as "national" as the elder mate.

 

Following the rule "If you are in Japan, you have to see this!", plus the other one: "At least once in a lifetime", I ended up enthusiastically clapping with my Tigers plastic bats!!.. when my friends indicated me it was our time to be noisy.. :-S        Have I already mentioned that I had no idea about baseball, that it was the first time that I saw a match, and that all those guys dress in similar colours and it's complicated to know who the good ones and who the bad ones are?!?? :-) :-) :-)

 

After 3 hours, and priceless patience from my friends, I managed to get a few ideas : three strikes, one out ; home round is when 'batman' hits so strong that the ball flies away and all the guys with one big hand cannot catch it ; if you have one of your good guys in each of the three bases when you get a home round, you may get a 'grand slam'. 'Boul' doesn't exist, it is 'foul' (that was a hard one). An inning is the part of the game in one of the columns of the score panel. AND you must only cheer when you are 'attacking'! But if you don't know what 'attacking' means and you can't recognize your good boys with those confusing costumes, ask your baseball expert friends to guide you, or just "follow the crowd" :-)

 

Videos in http://shufla.vox.com/

 HANABI （花火） = flowers　（花） of fire　（火） >> Fireworks or fuegos artificiales    (for videos > link below)

 

Every summer, mainly during the month of August, you can find a lot of japanese people gaping at the artificially coloured sky. Every weekend the fireworks take place in a different location in Tokyo. The 18th of August, it was Futagotamagawa hanabi taikai, that is, the firework festival in the green scenery of the Tamagawa river. There I was :) Well, me, my friends and more than a million Japanese people!! :-S

 

Good point :) = Fireworks in Japan are awesome. The fireworks themselves may not be spectacular, but they last longer than I've ever seen before (about 1h, around 10.000 fireworks), and they are accompanied by music, which makes it quite pleasant to watch. And the whole event is interesting from a 'japanese culture' point of view: women are dressed up in their beautiful yukatas and men do the same in their summer yukatas (not everybody though!); picnics may be held all day long in order to enjoy a most probably pretty hot summer day but also to keep a good spot to see the hanabi before the crowd invades the place; it's funny hearing the reactions of most of the people during the fireworks :) all screaming in unison 'oooooooooooooh!', or girls shouting 'ookiiiiii!!' ("biiiig!!"), or 'suugoooiiiii!' ("great/amazing/wow!!"). In summary, nice.

 

Bad point :( = Crowded. Incredibly crowded. Frightfully crowded! If the place where the hanabi is done has more than one station to get to, you'll suffer BUT, if the place only has one nearby station (like this Futagotamagawa)...then...you will likely experience the highest level of urban-suffering. Promised. I'm from Andalucia but now I am not exaggerating at all! Just check the first pictures. And the train station..the train station...indescribable. Nonetheless, if you are willing to pay that price (I was. Although not more for this year, not until I forget this time..), I recommend to go. At least, once in a lifetime ;)

 

 

 

またね！

 

Too much movement for my little digital camera, but I managed to freeze a bit of the essence of this summer festival in Tokyo.

Don't miss the videos in http://shufla.vox.com/ !!

 

Demasiado movimiento para mi pequeña camara digital, pero al menos consegui retratar un poco de la esencia de este festival de verano en Tokyo.

No os perdais los videos en http://shufla.vox.com/ !!