Mes crazy expériences

Reading Challenge

2012-01-15T18:12:00.000+09:00

I love books, when I was living in Belfast there was a shop where you could get second hands books for very cheap and it's the same in Japan so I collected a lot of books that I didn't really have time to properly read.
Several times while reading on internet I came across this idea (don't ask me from who it is) it says if you want to read many books get a empty shelve and make a pile with your books near it, then you are allowed to tidy the books by putting them on the shelve only when you are done reading them. I thought the idea was funny and he did turn a bit in my mind but the last time I saw it, I decided that I needed to give it a try. First because it is clearly bugging me to have all those unread books.
Second because you can never know if something will work before you try it for yourself (No it wouldn't work for me bullshit here).
Thirdly because it does make my room look kinda cool this way.
I emptied my closet (and I wonder how the books could fit in in the first place). I empty the shelve of the unread books and here we go.

The books include, English classic, American classic, Homere and Virgil, scientific book (Mathematic, Physics, Chemistry, Paleontology... ), Japanese Manga, Harry Potter 3 in Japanese, one novel in German...

I have books from my "special collection" which will need to be read later as they involve the fact that I'm not fluent in their language and sometimes even don't have the basics.

Some more books will be added soon as I'm waiting for two package from Amazon, one containing American classical science fiction novels and one being "The Fault in Our Start" (more about it later).

I don't know how long it's going to take me to read all this, if I was still in middle school I would say two months but with my actual life, I have no idea. Stay tuned for the updates.

ジウ　警視庁特殊犯捜査係 (Jiu)

2012-01-06T19:53:00.004+09:00

En français

ジウ　警視庁特殊犯捜査係 (Jiu) is a Japanese drama in 9 episodes from 2011 based on a novel suspense serie by Tetsuya Honda.

The Japanese S.I.T. (special investigation team) police organization have two women in the team. Misaki is very warm and feminine and turned toward negotiation. Motoko is more athletic and tend to solve the cases by force which end up with having her transfered to the S.A.T. the special intervention unit normally reserved to men. Both girls are trying to track down Jiu, the perpetrator of very brutal kidnapping crimes.
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content

Casting :

黒木メイサ as Motoko Isaki
多部未華子 as Misaki Kadokura
城田優 as Takashi Amamiya
北村有起哉 as Hiroki Azuma
김명수(L) as Jiu (Jiu is the Chinese character played by a Korean guy in a Japanese drama... interesting)
飯田基祐 as Numaguchi
伊武雅刀 as Kensuke Asai

I like this drama because it is filled with suspense. Also my favorite charactere is Motoko she is more my type. I also like Jiu's personality even if he is the bad guy in the story.

Rainbow catcher (JulNoWriMo part)

2012-01-05T19:27:00.000+09:00

Last July I participated to JulNoWriMo and at the same time to Camp NaNo. This works on the same principle as NaNoWriMo you need to write a certain amount of words to win. I might have been really busy with other stuff at that time because I just realized few days ago that I didn't brag about winning... wait I was traveling in Ireland and France at that time. So I didn't have time to blog post about it !! Anyway the fact is that I actually won JulNoWriMo (and failed AugNoWriMo) with a partial novel called "Rainbow catcher".
The novel is about a boy who travel into a very desert country to catch the purple rainbow he needs for his younger sister's heart surgery. I know it sounds a little crazy but well you'll have to read it to make up your mind about it.
I'm uploading it now because I'm intending to finish this story this month while participating to JanNoWriMo 2012. During the summer it was really easy to write something which took place in a desert as it was really hot. Now that we are in the middle of winter, it seems a little bit more difficult. Anyway, we will see the outcome soon I believe.

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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story Epilogue

2012-01-04T18:26:00.001+09:00

Once upon a time or more exactly when I was kid there was this commercial on TV about dish washing product which went something like : "When there is no more, there is still some", meaning that you could do all your dishes still when the bottle was looking empty if you really tried to empty it more. In a way it was a very educational things somehow, against waste maybe, good for the environment as you didn't need to use a lot to be efficient or to tell you to finish what you start. Or maybe it's just me getting a little bit crazy about it tonight. What I actually want to say is of course I finished "Harajuku Kiss" few weeks ago but I wanted to add a little something about my characters so when you were thinking it was over, here you got a little more.

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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 2
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 3
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 4
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 5
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 6
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story end

ゴンゾウ / 伝説の刑事

2012-01-02T22:09:00.000+09:00

En français

ゴンゾウ / 伝説の刑事 is a Japanese drama in 10 episodes from 2008.

Traumatized by a weird homicide case which happened three years ago and still gives him nightmare, one of the best investigator of the Tokyo Police forces is now Chief of the equipement section and named ゴンゾウ. He basically does nothing all day and him who was once a heavy smoker just eat candies. But as a violinist ask him to find her violin which was stolen in the train, the past catch up with him and he is once again plunged into the old unresolved murder case.
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content

Casting :

内野聖陽 as ゴンゾウ
筒井道隆 as Seiichi Sakuma
本仮屋ユイカ as Endou
大塚寧々as Dr. Risa Matsuo
高橋一生 as Yuuji Hibino
内田朝陽 as Otobe Isao

I like how this drama starts really funny and then turns totally psychotic. This is one of the quality of the Japanese drama I have seen so far. I also like the recurrent questions without answers until the end.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !! Part 2

2012-01-01T18:04:00.000+09:00

En français
I have been walking around Tokyo with my friends, looking for the Winter Illumination.The first part showed the Blue Forest only as it is a very beautifully illuminated scenery and I have been there few times. This part shows the illumination in the rest of the city with the very special show in Roppongi and the diamonds in the Yumiroland attraction park. I hope you'll enjoy, Happy New Year !!
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !! Part 1

2011-12-30T21:08:00.001+09:00

En français
It's this time of the year when we are supposed to be happy, to be nice to everyone, to believe in Christmas magic. But most people are just busy buying presents just for the sake of it and counting how many they will get under the Christmas tree.
I didn't buy any presents this year, I didn't decorate a Christmas tree, I didn't cook a fancy meal for everyone to enjoy while being stressed out about how Christmas Eve was going to end up, if every one was going to be happy with their presents. Actually this year I didn't worry about Christmas at all, I just relax and enjoy the present time. I was told that I lack Christmas Spirit and maybe I do but I actually really enjoyed my Christmas this year and the wonderful present Santa gave me (had been asking a lot for this one but no, you won't know what it is, it's my secret.)
Anyway, I hope every body also manage to enjoy this busy time of the year in their own way and to bring some more joy to your new year celebration, here are the lights from Tokyo.
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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story end

2011-12-24T17:00:00.000+09:00

Last Monday, I actually finished to write "Harajuku kiss". I'm not totally sure if I'm totally happy with the ending or not yet but I tend to always rewrite the ending when editing to publish the novel anyway so the ending might change as well as other part of the story. I know that you have been waiting for a long time for the ending so here it is, I hope you'll enjoy this little Christmas present.

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The other particularity of this novel is that it actually takes place in a real place and not a place that I totally made up like for "Demon soul" or "Attic Mirror". On Tuesday I went back to that place again but not on my own this time. How it was on that day and what happened there was like I was really part of the story minus the murder and minus the Kiss.

NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 6

2011-12-10T12:09:00.000+09:00

This part is not yet the last part. Things happened that I didn't plan at all and it got scary. Maybe I just got genius ideas or maybe I just got confused, it's for you to judge.
This part is also shorter than the others, I would say that's due to post NaNoWriMo recovery. I still hope you'll enjoy reading it.

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I'm still keeping up on my word count. As long as there is process, it's good.

One day adventure series : 箱根

2011-12-07T21:37:00.000+09:00

En français
One week and a half ago, I spend Saturday night camping in 箱根　it was really cold but really fun. On the Sunday we walked around, crossed the lake and visit the old Edo period museum and a temple and few other things... I let you discover it now.
Enjoy !!
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"Attic Mirror" news

2011-12-05T00:03:00.001+09:00

So that's it, "Attic Mirror" is finally on sale.

I knew that I had been showing it off for a while now, between writing it and getting the first proof and reviewing it but now that's it, the wait is over, you can finally get it on Createspace.
And because I know you have been waiting for so long already and that you are all so impatient to know more about the story, I decided to start reading it for you. So here is the first part of the first Chapter. I'm not the best reader in the world but if you want to hear more of it, just let me know and by the end of the book I might have improved quite a bit. I hope you'll enjoy.

Don't forget to get "Attic Mirror" here.

NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 5

2011-12-02T13:41:00.002+09:00

I WON NANOWRIMO, AGAIN !!!
For the 3rd time in a row I won NaNoWriMo. The first time in 2009 I only had 20 days to win and I managed to get "Demon Soul" partially written and hitting the non-return point.
In 2010, I manage to write the first part of "Vampire heart" and I know I still have a lot of work to do about it.
And this year, I managed to reach the 50000 words one day in advance by writing 5363 words on November 29th on my first detective story.
As usual however the story is not yet finished and I need about 20000 or 30000 more words to hit the ending but I reached the non-return point once again. And that is what NaNo is all about for me.

NaNoWriMo teaches you to finish stuff, to get into your novel so deeply that when you actually reach your 50000 words it is a lot easier to get the last couple of 10000 words needed than to give it up. NaNoWriMo teaches you habit, it teaches you to write everyday even if you don't want to write, if you have no ideas, if you are writing rubbish or if you are to old/smart/stupid/poor/rich/busy/French/analytical/perfectionist... to write. Because you know that you gotta do it anyway. NaNo allowed me to realized my childhood dream and to be somewhat of a writer. So here is the part of "Harajuku Kiss" (Yes the detective story does have a title now :) ) that crossed to 50000 finish line.
And don't worry, you'll have more coming in December.

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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 2
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 3
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 4

NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 4

2011-11-25T22:48:00.001+09:00

It's almost the end... of NaNoWriMo, I just have about 5 days left to reach the 50000 words and win at the same time. I reached the 40000 words threshold last night and took some advance to be sure to finish on time while still going camping tomorrow and thus have a little break from writing.
For some reasons I can't explain a lot of his story didn't turn out quite exactly as planed. My characters suddenly decided to be unpredictable. I have a lot of trouble of knowing what's happening in Seiji's head and why he is acting so... hum... well I guess I better let you discover what I mean.
It seemed that she is going to trust him when he seems pretty untruthful to me, what is going on in this novel is a complete mystery. I feel like I don't know Seiji at all which is kind of disturbing but probably better for what is coming next. Enjoy !!

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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 2
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 3

NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 3

2011-11-18T21:42:00.001+09:00

It's Friday again !!! And time for 探偵小説！！ I did it, I did it, I said it in Japanese.
Anyway...
I didn't write much on the blog this week and to help you forgive me about it, today's blog is a vlog.
I'm on time with NaNoWriMo and I took the time to go hunting my characters. Generally my previous stores always took place in place belonging to my imagination, as you have seen in "Demon and Fairy" or "Attic Mirror"... oh you thought I really had been to the fairy world or Teneria... hum... sorry but no, they are just inside of my head... (Open a geography book, also.)
But this time as my novel doesn't requires magic or weird places or vampires, it really takes place in Tokyo and well Tokyo is a real place. So I wanted to show you the place where I found the main ideas for this detective story. I went back there and I hope you'll enjoy the "Walk in Harajuku".

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And I'm right on time with my word count !!

NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1
NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 2

名探偵コナン- 工藤新一の復活！~黒の組織との対決 (Detective conan live action special 2)

2011-11-13T11:52:00.003+09:00

En français

名探偵コナン- 工藤新一の復活！~黒の組織との対決 is the second live action special movie from the serie "名探偵コナン" also called "Kudo Shinichi Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization".
In this episode, Conan was invited to the awards ceremony of "miss Japanesque" but miss Japanesque is murdered and Conan is transformed back to Shinichi when eating a cake. He has to solve the murder case and to protect Miyano who went also back to normal from the Black Organization.
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content

Casting :

小栗旬 as Kudo Shinichi (花より男子 returns, 花より男子 season 1, クローズZERO (Crows Zero), 名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戦状)
黒川智花 as Mori Ran
陣内孝則 as Mori Kogoro (1リットルの涙 )
岩佐真悠子 as Suzuki Sonoko
香椎由宇 as Miyano Shiho

One day adventure series : 高尾山

2011-11-12T20:13:00.002+09:00

En français
Here is the start of a new series of vlog posts called : "One day adventure".
Today I went to 高尾山　with my friends and 뻬루wanted to join too. I was a bit worried about the weather because it had been raining all day yesterday. Hopefully we were really lucky.
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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 2

2011-11-11T20:30:00.001+09:00

It's Friday again and time to enter the second part of the detective story. I still don't have a title for it and it's starting to annoy me a little cause I can't even tell the name of it when talking about it. I just call it the detective story. Or at the moment more something like 探探... 探偵小... 小小... 小せ...探偵小説 it's gonna kill me if I remember it to say it all at once.
Anyway back to topic. In this part it's getting a little bit funnier, probably, actually I'm not really sure if talking about a murder can be funny. I wish my character is a bit funny, more funny than crazy.
In the first place I really intended to kill Kaji and to leave him that, dead. The problem is that I can't really do that. I mean Kaji is a cool guy, right, you probably like him to, right? Why the hell did he had to die? Couldn't I just keep him kidnapped and Seiji would have find him and everybody would have lived happy ever after ?
Well sorry, I don't have a resurrection potion yet so, he is really dead. And it's not a vampire story so nobody bite him before he got shot or anything. But, I have flashback, cause before being dead he was alive. So here I'm letting you with the flashback magic. Plus I promise you'll like Seiji more than Kaji, if you ever come to meet him again.

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And I'm right on time with my word count !!

NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1

名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戦状 (Detective conan live action special 1)

2011-11-10T14:11:00.000+09:00

En français

名探偵コナン- 工藤新一への挑戦状 is the first live action special movie from the serie "名探偵コナン".
also called Kudo Shinichi's Written Challenge. This live action special has been released in 2006 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the manga of the same name created by 青山剛昌. It put into action the detective Kudo Shinichi before his accident. In this movie, he received a written challenge. The criminal is abducting people and wants Conan to stop him.
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content

Casting :

小栗旬 as Kudo Shinichi (花より男子 returns, 花より男子 season 1, クローズZERO (Crows Zero))
黒川智花 as Mori Ran
陣内孝則 as Mori Kogoro (1リットルの涙 )
岩佐真悠子 as Suzuki Sonoko
西村雅彦 as Inspector Megure

ボス (boss) season 2

2011-11-09T13:41:00.000+09:00

En français

ボス (season 2) is a Japanese drama in 11 episodes from 2011. See first season's post here. After the shooting in the end of the first season, the special team of Osawa Eriko is dismissed and she goes back for two years in the US. The second season starts when she is called back again and the team recreated two years later. The goal is to solves special mysteries but also to catch up with the past.
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content

Casting :

天海祐希 as Osawa Eriko
竹野内豊 as Nodate Shinjiro
玉山鉄二 as Katagiri Takuma
戸田恵梨香 as Kimoto Mami
溝端淳平 as Hanagata Ippei
吉瀬美智子 as Narahashi Reiko
ケンドーコバヤシ as Iwai Zenji
温水洋一 as Yamamura Keisuke
塩見三省 as Onoda Tadashi

Japan : お台場のよさこいお祭り

2011-11-08T13:40:00.001+09:00

En français
On Saturday 5th I went with my friends to see the よさこいお祭り　(Yosakoi festival) in お台場。This wasn't my first よさこい。I already saw one in 調布、last summer (調布のよさこいお祭り). The dance festival is always very entertaining. Here is the new video of that day.
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Japan : 江戸東京たてもの園: 東ゾーン

2011-11-06T12:42:00.000+09:00

En français
The 東ゾーン of the architecture park was the most interesting part for me (西ゾーン and センターゾーン). It contains a complete street. We first saw a traditional police box, then a city model train, before entering 下町-中　Shitamachi-naka street. The street seems to belong to another time just because it actually does. There is a kitchenware store, the 植村邸 (house of Uemura), a stationary store and Flower shop 花一, a grocery store, an oil paper umbrella wholesale store showing the fabrication process of the paper umbrella (more on this later), an inn, a soy sauce shop and a traditional public bath house 子宝湯 with a bar and a tailor shop. The 子宝湯 was the model for the Miyazika animation 千と千尋の神隠し's bath palace.
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NaNoWriMo 2011: Detective story part 1

2011-11-04T13:30:00.002+09:00

NaNoWriMo started few days ago and I'm really excited about my new story. It seems incredibly easy to write so far, especially because it's the beginning and I didn't reach yet the part where my lack of planning is going to give me a huge headache. I really like my main character. She is totally unable to focus on the thought at hand and on the task she wants to concentrate one and she is confused by a multitude of contradictory feelings. I made her react in such a way for several reasons. First having a character's thoughts jumping for one topic to another before coming back to the really story is practical to build up the suspense. It also make is easy to hide little details that will have their importance in the rest of the story later. Another aspect of the chaotic mind is that it define the way girls think. For a biological point of view the girl brain is linked from left to right which means that it's really easy for girl to use simultaneously their emotional and logical ability. If my character was only concentrating on fact without taking into account her conflicting emotion I would loose a part of the plot complexity. An other this is the psychological effect of what is happening in her life and how she has to move the other element around. The small flash back are one of the main pattern of deep thinking, "I know this because when I was a kid... " This kind of plot telling has been used extensively in "Slumdog millionaire" when the character has to explain how he figured out the answers to every questions in the game. It makes the story more fascinating as it allow a deeper understanding of the character's past and personality.

Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy reading this first part as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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And check the word count, it's going really well.

Japan : 江戸東京たてもの園: センターゾーン

2011-11-03T17:36:00.000+09:00

En français
Today I will present the center zone of the architectural park 江戸東京たてもの園 details about the west zone can be found here. The center zone is the smallest zone in the sense that it doesn't contain so many building but it contains a garden and Musashino spring-fed pond. The architectural discovery contains :
旧自証院霊屋 (the Mausoleum of lady Jisho-in), Lady Jisho-in was one of the 3rd Tokugawa shogun Iemitsu's concubines, the mausoleum was constructed by her daughter, Princess Chiyo, wife of the Owari Lord, Mitsutomo Tokugawa in 1652. This mausoleum was discovered by Professor 藤岡通夫 (Michio Fujioka) in 1937.
The house of the viscount 高橋是清 (Korekiyo Takahashi), he was the prime minister during the 二・二六事件 in 1936 and was assassinated during this snow days in the largest bedroom on the second floor. His politics was successful at that time but his measure to decrease the budget of the army had let to making enemies within the rebells military officers.
The 西川家別邸　（second house of the Nishikawa Familly)　was built in 1922 in Akishima. Nishikawa was entrepreneur in silk industry.
The 伊達家の門 (gate of the Date Family Residence).
And the 会水庵 (Tea Arbor "Kaisuian") the tea room was built around the Taisho period as the residence of King Jong Yamagishi tea masters.
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NaNoWriMo 2011

2011-11-01T21:44:00.006+09:00

It's November again, which means it's time for writing, writing and even more writing. I know I'm already in possession of two brilliant but unfinished novel and that starting a third one doesn't sound so much like a brilliant idea but seriously what would be November without a NaNo.
Plus I'll finish the other some day, I'm really confident about it.
So what is my NaNoWriMo all about this year ?
A detective story. With brand new characters, no magic and no vampire.
Which means that the famous rule "When you don't know what to write put a vampire" can't really save my word count this year. But I really wanted to try something new, maybe get my character a bit more human and able to solve problems without the rescue of magic tricks. Even investigating magic tricks as seriously as I usually do, they are still magic tricks and this time I'll be investigating evidence and human psychology.
Therefore I spend the last months reading books about human psychology especially to cover up the topic of relationship, self esteem, procrastination, passion and depression as my main character is a little bit of a whiny in the first place. And I have been watching a lot of Japanese detective story drama, as you have probably noticed in the cinema section lately (more coming soon).
I think I'm well armed not to rely too much on Viorel this year, hopefully cause he is still mad at me for not finishing his story yet.

And as you can see my word count is right on track!

Japan : 江戸東京たてもの園: 西ゾーン

2011-10-31T23:05:00.000+09:00

En français
This Sunday, I went to visit 江戸東京たてもの園 with my friends. The architectural park is divided in 3 zones, west, central and east zone. Today I will present the West zone. It contains, in the order of our visit, 田園調布の家大川邸(The house of Okawa in Den'enchofu), the house of 前川國男 (Kunio Mayekawa) who was a Japanese architect, 小出邸 (the house of Koide) , 綱島家住宅（農家） (the farmhouse of Tsunashima family),奄美の高倉 (an elevated granary from amami-oshima Island), 吉野家（農家）(the farmhouse of Yoshino family), 八王子千人同心 (the house of the Leader of the Hachioji Guards), 三井八郎衛門邸 (the residence of Hachirouemon Mitsui) and the 常盤台写真場 (Tokiwadai Photo Studio).
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