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JapaneseCulture

Be bamboo my friend

Bruce Lee said: “Be water my friend”, last weekend Garr Reynolds in his talk at TEDxTokyo said: “Be bamboo my friend”. In that sentence, Garr sums up several lessons Japanese people has taught him using bamboo as a metaphor: what looks weak is strong, you do not have to be big to be strong, bend yourself but don’t break yourself, you have to be deeply rooted yet flexible, slow down your busy mind, you have to be always ready, find wisdom in emptiness, commit yourself to growth and renewal (even a 20 meter bamboo cane can grow one meter more), express your usefulness through simplicity, unleash your power to spring back, if you fall 7 times stand up 8 times. Making it short: be flexible, tough, adaptable and able to recover with even more strength, like bamboo.

Every morning, on my way to work I pass by a place with bamboo canes, from now on every time I pass by there I will remember Garr’s words:

Be like bamboo my friend

Here you have the complete fabulous talk by Garr:

“Be bamboo my friend”

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Photography

A week in Tokyo in photos

Here you have another series of photos that I took last week around Tokyo. It was a work routine week where the weather started to get very warm.

To Shinjuku using Keio line
On my way to Shinjuku on the Keio line.

Tokyo spring colors
On my way to work I came across a child that was going to school.

Roppongi Hills
Walking around Roppongi Hills.

BMW in Tokyo
A BMW car that caught my attention.

Van
Volcom van!

London bus in Shibuya
A London bus in the streets of Shibuya

Japan Digital Laboratory
Japan Digital Laboratory?

Old woman in Tokyo
This old woman always keeps an eye on me from her small garden every morning when I go out to the street.

Kit kat 紅いも! Thx @inata_hazuki
Kit Kat special edition from Okinawa, purple sweet potato flavor.

デカイいくら丼!
Ikura-don: salmon eggs over rice.

Cheese and tomato ramen
Cheese and tomato ramen. Weird but it was very tasty!

Small girls coming back from judo practice
On my way to the gym I came across these small girls that were coming back from judo practice.

Morning gym, ジムなう
At the gym

First volume of Jin
Buying the first volume of the manga Jin.

Don't worry be happy!
Don’t worry be happy!

Araki polaroid
One of the polaroids of Araki that we saw in an exhibition. Its price was 30,000 yen.

Never-ending
One of those never-ending meetings at work.

Rachael: Do you like our owl? Deckard: It's artificial? Rachael: Of course it is.
Don’t ask me why but we found this owl in a fish shop in Shimokitazawa.

Jimbocho
Buying books in Jimbocho.

Blue Man show
Zordor and Cads on the way to attend the Blue Man show, where Saralu had invited us.

Blue Man show
The first billboards on the way to the Blue Man show.

After the Blue Man show
Great pic after the show with one of the Blue Men.

A Blue Man
A Blue Man.

Hootsuite and Remember the Milk
Eating with people from Hootsuite and Remember the Milk.

Eating
Eating with people from Hootsuite and Remember the Milk.

Eating
Eating with people from Hootsuite and Remember the Milk.

Having dinner with coworkers
Having dinner with coworkers.

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Saralu lent me her Hasselblad again.

Te dedico la foto negra @zordor !
Using the Hasselblad.

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In a second hand cameras shop in Ebisu.

Ricoh GR shots by my friend Kikuchi-san
Barbecuing in Shin-Kiba.

Ricoh GR shots by my friend Kikuchi-san
Barbecuing in Shin-Kiba.

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Working on a sign for his shop.

 mysterious lightning
In a building with mysterious lightning.

Felix the Cat
Felix the Cat!

New glasses
On my way to buy some new glasses

Waiting for the train
Waiting for the train.

On my way home
On my way home

Tokyo

Tokyo

Japan

Japan

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Drinks

Power Squash, the Dragon Ball Kai drink

The other day my friend Zordor recommended me to try the new drink “Power Squash”, whose can designs are based on Dragon Ball Kai. He told me that the taste is similar to “Lifeguard”, another one of those unique weird Japanese drinks. Yesterday I finally gave it a chance and bought one can, I got the Krilin one:

Power Squash

Power Squash