Want to update more but working overtime a lot lately. Heard today my colleague worked until 3 A.M. in the morning. I know this is Japan, but comon. Is this also in other countries? Is this normal? Ive been pondering about life alot lately. Why are we here, what is our prupose. If this is our only life, then why should we put work above play? Live to work? Or am I just very lazy? never mind….don’t answer!

Today, January 17 2010 it has been exactly 15 years since the terrible Hanshin Earthquake. The earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 (which is not THAT big, but shaked horizontally instead of vertically (or so I have been told) took 6434 lives and left more than 300.000 homeless.

I thought back about what I was doing at the time the quake hit, 15 years ago. I was only 15 back then, and I didn’t get much info about the earthquake then. Maybe because it was a far from my bed story or maybe I was just too busy playing. In the last 2 years Ive picked up a lot of information and insights from the quake.

The quake that had its epicenter in Awaji an Island below Kobe, had a magnitude of 7.3 which isn’t extremely high. But the quake in Kobe apparently shaked horizontally which is why is caused way more damage than any other earthquake with the same magnitude, not to mention of course that everything in Japan is built adjacent.

Here you can see what I meant:

I found a HD documentary about the earthquake in English which is self explanatory.
Check it out.

2009 was both a good and a bad year. Ive made a lot of progress in my own field (3d modelling) and of course improved my Japanese which is both good. On the other hand I lost both my grandmother and grandfather in 1 month which wrecked me. The thing I’m mostly sad about is that I couldn’t give them a proper farewell, especially my grandfather. It goes without saying that I miss them a lot.

I got to meet Faisal for the first time in real life, which was awesome. I had a great time! I heard he will be moving to Japan in 2010. He bought a nice crib somewhere in Tokyo Shibuya where theres a lot of sexy Japanese women heh.

I got my first photo shoot assignment which involved 2 friends dressing up as Maiko’s! You can find the whole photoshoot on flickr only for now, will up it to my facebook profile one of these days. click here

And other noteworthy things: Going to a Japanese wedding twice, which I have to say, that Japanese weddings are friggin expensive. More on that later. The moms came over from Holland, colleagues leaving my office, 1 day holiday at Maizuru, friskyRadio finally managed to get John Digweed on air in Monaque’s October show, friends of mine become fathers. (why all of this noteworthy? actually I dont know, p*ss off!)

But it has been a slow year on the photography front. Shame, I have to check more into that this year.
AS for now, counting down 5,5 hours left until NY. Goodbye 2009, I loved you, but I wont miss you.

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