Station de Arts et metiers

There you go. The metro station of "arts et metiers". Fantastic isn't it?
I did some lil playing for today's St. Valentine's day as a girl who couldn't be offered any single flowers ::sob sob sob:: Even though tonight, there were more couples on the street than normal weekdays nights. A little bit fun and joke for your life, visit my other blog "bebe log" to see what I did :D

Arts et metiers

Small street around Arts et metiers station.
This area, I think we can call it Chinese district. I was charmed by these red lanterns under the street lights.




I love Chinese antique furniture and such but No offence, Chinese very red decoration sometime gives me a headache like photo of the supermarket on the right. But these pretty lanterns what I saw tonight were obscurely ornamented but they did gave me an strong impression like they are insisting "this is Chinese area".

And again, because of my low photo technique, the first picture doesn't look good as they are and the second picture doesn't look "noisy" as they are.....sigh

strasbourg st-denis

Around Strasbourg st-denis station
This is what I don't like at all about my photography that I am very BAD at taking night photos. (That's how I respect our friend Fabrizio who takes incredible night photos of Torino) They are blur most of the time and they are too yellowish. This happens more in Paris than in Tokyo. Although I find Paris at night is amazing almost like a dream land. But these romantic lighting makes my photos being more far from real Paris...

free paper

There are some free news papers published everyday such as 20minutes and Metro.
Ben Stiller's new movie "Night at the museum" (la nuit au musee)was a cover. Actually, Now this posters are invading Paris, everywhere at the metro station, bus stops. In Paris, it is hard not to know what is on the theater but we are forced to be imprinted these big titles in our heads. Anyway, maybe time for laugh, with the student card, 6euros for one movie during weekdays. Good to be student in Paris, a lot of discounts.

ceremony....

There was a ceremony today at the grand hall of Sorbonne university. I was there to receive my diploma which doesn't mean much at the society level but it means some for me. (well...if you want to see me in that "costume" (robe and hat) you can find a tiny picture on my other blog...)

P.S.
I added your webisites of people who post some comments so far (merci beacoup!)
I hope it doesn't that bother you but if so, plase give me a comment.

moss

Rail road which we can look down from avenue de choissy through the fence. I don't know the exact words to describe this view in any languages but this has been always what attracts attracts me. Moss on the stone walls, heavy but warm nature colours. This is the same condition as what we can often see around the temple/shrine in Japan. That brings me a nostalgia, deep meditation and calm.
Maybe this is a "zen" spirit, Although even I Japanese can't explain what it is, but the word "zen" is used very much for any sorts of products in France.

CGT

CGT (Confédération générale du travail)
The General Confederation of Labour is one of the five major French confederations of trade unions. It seems they were having a demonstration while I was sucking at school to wait a long line for my inscription. When I saw them on boulevard Raspail, it's almost finished and there were just some dust carts, police men and their stickers on everywhere. I don't think I am still in the position who is allowed to talk about French society yet so I won't. But being here for one year, I did see some demonstrations "of course". Manifestation(demo) is their culture, someone says. I wonder how much influence they can have to change something. Is that really effective? Usually when I see them on the street, I take some photos. Some of them (well...not a little of them) smile and wave at me. It broke my image of "demonstration" as the one who had never seen any of them in real before coming here. But as long as something like March 2006 against for CPE won't happen again(broken windows,violence, fire), that wouldn't make me sad...