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If in the future, a 6-month-old baby starts to wonder about on the street alone(!) by riding a robot like this, my determination to postpone any maternal responsibilities will only extend for ever. (I do not have children now.)

Such a use of mobility and technology combined for individual convenience keeps on developing, and I do not necessarily agree with it. But I must admit, seeing this walking robot I became excited at once - The iFoot (or Eye-Foot) by Toyota has been nominated for the 2005 Good Design Award and is also exhibited at the Aichi world exposition.

This is why I kept saying that we were in the midst of the 3rd-generation Art Deco. The Paris Spring Collection 2005 was another example. Ooo well, the peak has passed now. Above is a shop window in Ginza, Tokyo, cited in the Japan Design Net.

Yukata was back in trend this summer, which was predictable given all the reviving kimono fashion had been around in the market for some time now. Thinking back further, I would even say that the vanguard for this second revival of 'Japanese art deco' had already been apparent by the time Takashi Murakami made his name internationally known circa 2000.

I went to Ireland for the first time last weekend.

Shannon region is not the most scenic area in the country according to some friends, but on the way through Limerick (where the picture was taken) to Dromineer I think I saw some interesting sites. The city of Limerick looked to me very much like suburban Massachusetts towns, where Scott and Shinji used to live near Brandies Univ. and perhaps also Worcester, to where Joe and Maurizio and I drove once to visit Louise at the museum. What was most different though, I thought, was the people not to mention their ways of living.

The main purpose of this trip to Ireland was to attend the wedding of Veronica and Oliver in Portroe. Nadine and I took many photographs during the long reception/dinner/dance (and so on so forth) which we will bring together and I will hopefully upload on the flickr's or kodak's web photo album later this week.

...ahh(!) is over, and it still feels nice. Now that I am out of this place, having started a fresh, new month and a new cycle of life, I begin this blog to log my usual monologues. I will also upload recent gradutation photos and others from the past two years as I sort them in order, o-n-e by o-n-e...maybe.