little penguins @ sapporo snow festival
Posted by rocksea on 06 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: japan, photography
snow? who cares!!
1 n 2. the japanese self defense force braving the snow before the mammoth snow sculpture they made.
3. see what the koalas got to say
4. huge task ahead!
5. hide n seek. shez from macau. do u know where macau is
6. mmm looks like the little girl from The Ring ?? May be not!
mama penguin n little penguins. lions club sapporo and hokkaido university international students joined together to make this snow sculpture for the 57th sapporo snow festival (6 Feb to 12 Feb)
Sapporo snow festival (Sapporo Yuki Matsuri 1) began spontaneously in 1950 by a small group of high school students who started making snow sculptures. In time it grew, the japanese Self Defense Force (SDF, you can see the structure they built and saluting in the pictures above), several groups and the public joining it.
1. Yuki Matsuri. yuki = snow, matsuri = festival
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on 07 Feb 2006 at 5:58 am 1.Ally said …
Wow, these pictures are fantastic!
Hope you are doing fine
Here it’s cold (-6°C) but we haven’t had snow in a fortnight. May be it’s too damn cold! LOL
Have a great day !
Ally.
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on 07 Feb 2006 at 8:59 am 2.Kris said …
Lucky u….saw the news and stuff about it in TV over here…wanted to travel to sapporo for that event, but u know how much the costs peak at this season…:-(
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on 07 Feb 2006 at 11:18 am 3.rocksea said …
ally,mmm. that day (we made it last saturday) we must’ve got record snowing for the year.. like half a meter or more! was snowing heavily from friday nite to saturday nite
hey kris, ya the airfare peaks at this time. JR is so crowded these days, so many tourists!
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on 07 Feb 2006 at 10:30 pm 4.g said …
jolly good pics again rocky(oh yea, thats ur new nick!)cant believe its so cold, i start complaining at 16 deg !
have a nice day
love
g
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on 08 Feb 2006 at 5:56 pm 5.g said …
we’re playing tag and ur it!
love
g
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on 10 Feb 2006 at 12:32 pm 6.Praadeep Nair said …
Heard about it and saw on TV. Lucky you! Good pics.
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on 10 Feb 2006 at 8:34 pm 7.sthira said …
Hey Rocksea,
Well, they (I also have a friend from Japan visiting)are going to be there for about 10 days and mostly around Delhi and Agra. They wanted to read about the social, cultural, religious, philosophical, historical aspects of the country as a whole.
By the way, you have a pretty neat website!Wonder how you chanced upon mine. Welcome.
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on 12 Feb 2006 at 11:12 am 8.?????? said …
fuck you
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on 12 Feb 2006 at 6:56 pm 9.rocksea said …
aye g, have done it in ur blog. rocky is already in the list so you’ve to find smtg new haha.
pradeep,
sthira, where in japan is ur friend from? isn’t what they asked for a bit too wide
in general we can start with the diversity of the country and therez a post here on it, have you seen? but it will be interesting to read some books caricaturing these features.. lemme think n get back to you.. ]
?????? hey relax yaar. you have to chill down
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on 12 Feb 2006 at 7:18 pm 10.rocksea said …
hey sthira,
i should better recommend you some documentaries on india. best would be to watch michael palins travel accounts through india. if you or ur friends use torrents, they can get it from:
MVGroup at http://www.mvgroup.org (one wud need to register)
Himalaya with Micahel Palin
http://www.mvgroup.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2277&hl=
He takes you into the social cultural historical philosophical aspects in india.
other related ones, search for it in the same web:
Legacy - Origins of Civilization - India - Empire of Spirit
Ayurveda - Art of Being
Lost temples of India, which is available at page 2 on india-unity in diversity on my web
etc etc.
keep wikipedia along.
other reccomendations: one of my friends had a trekking to the valley of flowers. i had gone near to it 4-5 years before though i took another route then. it would be a great experience if your friends go on such a trekking. may be you people know that rishikesh is the gateway to indian philossophy. it is kind of the place where you can say the himalayas start geographically. so if anyone likes to have a wonderful geographically enthralling view mixed with philosophy, spirituality and sports starting upward from rishikesh would be a great idea. but beware it wont be as easy as roaming around delhi n agra. so preethi’s blog abt valley of flowers is at http://oddthots.blogspot.com anyways it will also depend on what time/month they’re going to be in india
cheers, roxy
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on 12 Feb 2006 at 8:24 pm 11.silverine said …
Hi rocksea,
Your name suits your profession!! Had a nice time looking at the photographs. Now lemme check out the rest of the blog.
Cheerio
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on 14 Feb 2006 at 3:09 pm 12.rocksea said …
silverine, ya it shud
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on 15 Feb 2006 at 6:34 am 13.cibbuano said …
Yeah, great photos of Japan… it almost makes me miss snow. The bite of the cold winter air, the feeling of snowflakes melting on my oversized nose…
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on 15 Feb 2006 at 7:02 pm 14.skie said …
oh, the photos are so beautiful!!!
would u teach me how 2 do it???
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on 07 Aug 2007 at 11:08 pm 15.eguru said …
snow? who cares!! beautiful Image..:)
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