Serendipity

Two of Japanese scientist, Prof. Eiichi Negishi and Prof. Akira Suzuki was awarded with Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
As a Japanese, I am very happy with their winning the prize.

I am very much impressed when Prof. Suzuki was talking about "serendipity".
As a matter of fact, I'm very fond of the word and its concept.

The word "serendipity" owes its origin to the Persian tale about "Three Princes of Serendip".
Serendip is an old name for Ceylon or Sri Lanka.

According to that tale, the three princes of Sri Lanka was always looking for something
but they could not find what they were looking for.
Instead, they happened to find something else so wonderful.

From this old tale, a word "serendipity" was coined to express the faculty or situation
of gaining or meeting unexpectedness that is so wonderful.

Yes, I love "unexpectedness". And the theme of the SL7B in June this year
was "Unexpected Collaboration".
Unexpectedness is something that will lead you to somewhere beyond your ability or imagination.

But this unexpectedness does not come easily.
When you return to the old Persian tale, you'll find these princes were always looking for something.
Yes, they kept on searching something and it led to finding something else so wonderful.
Something unexpected and wonderful is attained by the continuous effort of searching,
which is now proved by the lives of these scientists.

Paris!

The sims of Paris are very beautiful places
with their realistic buildings and city plans.
The Eiffle Tower and the Arch of Triumph
are the good places to visit with your friends and lovers.



And if you turn left around the corner of the Arch
and go along the street, you'll find an musical instrument shop
with a poster of a band marching on.
Yes, this is a new and first shop of winds Seiling in Paris!




One of the administrators of these sims seems to like her shop.
And if things goes well, we might have concerts or events here in Paris!
Wow! It will be a fun to play in a very place place like this.
This afternoon, I walked down the streets and saw the concert venues
with winds and other frinds of ours. We had a a very good time there.

So please wait and see what happens next...in Paris!

On the playa again!

I reserved my camping plots for Burn 2.0 2010
and now come back again on the playa.

This year, I am setting up the camp
with winds Seiling's YOKOHAMA MARCHING BAND
and naturalway Flow's Music StarMine,
two of the most wonderful performance from Japan
that has been attracting world-wide audience for these years.

What are we going to do this year?
Well, it's a secret now.
Please check it out! :-)

Thank you very much for coming to our show in Spring Fling!

Thank you very much!
We received a lot of audiences in our session in Burning Life Spring Fling.
I appreciate so much to those who cheered for us.
I was so excited.

As this was a spring festivity and as we are Japanese,
we were dressed in Japanese kimono and planted cherry trees on the stage. lol
Because, you know, the name of winds Seiling's band is SAKURA,
meaning cherry blossoms. :-)

Yeah, I was so excited I shouted "Good morning, America!"
at the beginning of the concert though it was past 10 o'clock in the evening.
It is because I often give my gig when it is in the morning in U.S.A.
and in the evening in Japan and also because the environment setting was midday. lol
So everybody laughed and I laughed myself and got relaxed to play my music.

Please find below the members of our band and the music we played:

winds Seiling (cl, eg)
Cimon Cham (tp)
strawberry2banana Azalee (b)
aoi Bing (ds)
Hiroshi Kumaki (pf, key)

1. Sakura Metropolitan
2. Someone to Watch Over Me
3. It's Only a Paper Moon
4. Platanus Avenue
5. Renka (Love Songs)
6. Sailing
7. Call for Peace
8. Rez Yourself (Theme from Second Life)

I'm very happy every one of you enjoyed our music
and very much pleased to be a part of this international event.
Thanks again to all those who enjoyed our performance. :)

Joined Avatars United

As was announced by M Linden's blog post,
Linden Lab has acquired Avatars United.
As many of my friends began joining it,
I also signed up and sent many friend requests. :)

Well, as the names goes, when avatars united,
what will happen?
I'm very much excited to imagine that.
This is gonna be a very big movement, I believe.

My page is:
http://www.avatarsunited.com/avatars/hiroshi-kumaki

Applied for a Theme Camp!

As I wrote in a previous article,
I applied for live performance at Burning Life '09.
But I was sort of reluctant to apply for a Theme Camp.
I did what I really wanted to do in Burning Life last year
and Second Life 6th Birthday.
As a creator, I do not want to do the same old things….
Something new…oh, that does not comes to my mind these days.

It was one of those days winds Seiling,
captain of Yokohama Marching Band proposed me
we should do something together at Burning Life.
Collaboration? Yes! That will make something new!
I accepted her offer, had a meeting with her and her staff,
then my brains began working
and I felt something wonderful would happen.

Next morning I woke up with a very strange image
and a sound of music I know very well.
Confused about the combination of the image and the music,
I told winds about this.
She seemed to think it was interesting
and told me she had imagined similar combination before.
All right. This means "Go!"
I quickly posted our application for a Theme Camp
under the title "Yokohama 'Burning' Marching Band."
What will it be like?
I will tell you when we are granted our land. :)
Please pray for us getting our Theme Camp
and look forward to our performance.

We will, we will burn you!!

[Yokohama Marching Band Official Blog]
http://yokohamamachingband.blogspot.com/

Applied for Live Performance

As a live musician, I applied for performance
at stages of Buring Life '09.
I'm not sure what my schedule will be at last
and whether it will be the Center Camp or
Tokyo Plaza or whatever,
but anyway, I have decided to play at Buring Life this year.

I hope we will have good times together there!