Antique Stalls at Durbar Square in Kathmandu.

From the window at Himalayan Java coffee shop. A Nepalese equivalent to Seattle’s or rather the worlds “Starbucks.” Only this is better in a way or maybe not. It is definitely one of the more well of of Nepalese chains of coffee shops.

Meeting Thursday.

My Thursday normally begins with a meeting first thing in the morning. Later in the morning another one just before lunch and one again straight after lunch as a warm up for a forth and last meeting in the late afternoon just before going to coach two U 14 badminton teams.

Today the one meeting just after lunch was not really a meeting and I escaped to do other things, however, a totally new meeting got pushed in just to start at the same time as this Thursdays usual last meeting as a kind of “two on one” meeting solution. So the amount of meetings on a Thursday is constant even with one cancelled.

#meetingsformeetingssake  

Poor self management skills...

I'm worried that I have lost all my creativity!

Even I do not really think I have, I am afraid to have lost my self management skills or at least think they are too weak to keep me away from instant gratification in form of iPad games.

Honestly, I do play too much. All that time I use sitting on my backside parking virtual cars or scoring goals in a silly digital football game, I could have used to play my bass guitar, write stories or draw, paint or build.

Maybe I should just delete those digital distractions, and sit down to to be creative instead. It worries me I feel scared to think that thought. Then I really must be an addict.

But isn't this what it is said about sins or addictions for us humans,  the level is constant. So if one smokes, drinks and what more and stop one of the addictions, the rest just increases to keep the level the same.

I've stopped smoking 4 years ago and quitter alcohol 2 years ago and I do not get onto other women (maybe not even to my own wife) so the level of my sins or addiction is probably just on iPad games. 

Maybe that is a good thing and I shouldn't really worry too much?

Look good naked.

I have this exercise app on my phone. It is a daily five minute work out -well, if I do it everyday it is- and it should tone my body in a way so I could even get to look good naked. It is a good and tough work out and I try to do it every day.

It has become my wife's favourite app, but not (only) because it tones my body. No, mostly because I always find ways to procrastinate the exercises and often do house work instead.  

Friday 18th. of August.

And I have nothing much to say, so I'll say it. “Nothing much”.

Today would have been my mothers b -day. Would have, she isn't alive anymore.

She would have been 87 years old today. She died when she was 66.

21 years ago. I was 34 years old back then. The following year I left Denmark to go to Spain and study. I have never moved back.

How would she have been like, had she lived until now? One of those question you can never find an answer to. So why try?

Maybe because I visited one of my uncles and aunties in Denmark this summer. And they are the age my mother would have been now. Well, my uncle is one year older. And he is fine. Absolutely fine. Healthy, witty, interested and curious and has a huge growth mindset. So has his wife. She must be the age my mum would have been and she still roams around in the kitchen and make and bake and cooks and cleans, and argue with her husband and he is nagging her back. They have always been this way. I think they need it like that.

I must write to them. He gave me his email address. Imagine that. He is 88 and he has got an email.

I must do that, soon. This weekend. Okay.  

Tokyo Tales #1

Outside my window lies an urban landscape so very different from any European urban areas. At the first sight it reminds me of the Star Wars "Death Star" surface as Luke Skywalker peace over and through it in the first Star Wars movie.

I am in Tokyo in the Shinjuku district in a room in a hotel. Well, room is perhaps not the right word. Probably bedroom could do as it is simply a queen size bed with a bathroom attach. And a TV. Yes, the room I've booked is that small.

From high above the city seems so sterile and empty. Grey concrete, glass and metal structures as far the eye can see. On the surface though, when walking the streets, it is lively colourful and inspiring in this certain Japanese sense of being inspiring.

This is my 3rd time in Tokyo and even this time is only a brief stop over on the way to a rock festival in the mountains, it still leaves an impression.

Typical Japanese impression I could say, but what is that?

Is typical Japanese the way the houses are build and the way it all look like it has been randomly built, with no greater plan and concept?

Is typical Japanese the bright colours and light and noise coming from speakers and shops and the numbing number of neon signs and advertisement boards?

Or is all this what it means to be typical Japanese?

At least for me this seems to be what I recognise every time I get to Japan, either the main islands in the north or Okinawa further south.

There is a certain feel and vibe about Japan. Japan to me is a mix of new and hyper and extreme old fashion.

It is hard actually to explain this, but on street level it all seems so ultra modern and cutting edge. Extreme fashion statements and technology from all corners. When you get inside a post office or train ticket office, you suddenly feel like boosted some years back in time. There is paper folders and old fashioned computers and calculators. An a lot of paper. Piles of paper and grey cub bards. Nothing much cutting edge or 2017 like here.

3 X manipulated Centre point perspective.

Japan journal #1

After 4 nights I some rainy mountain in the north of the Honshu island, I am now back in Tokyo and to the heat. It was just incredible to get out of the Shinkansen train this morning and feel the difference. Vilounterely ive stayed out in the rain for 3 days, well more or less. If it wasn't raining then it was just damp and wet and all the clothes were damp and cold, but the music and the spirit kept it up. It wax a great experience and I would probably go again, if there is s convincing music lineup.

Naeba with the Fuji Festival in Niigata prefecture on Sunday late afternoon when the sun nearly broke through the thick clouds.

Tokyo this Monday at lunchtime, sunny and over 30 degrees,

Fuji Fables 2017 #1

Finally, I have made it to Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.

Previous this event was hold at the mighty Mount Fuji, however the weather never really played ball for the organisers there so the Festival got moved to a ski resort in the mountains just south of the city Niigata.

Normally a very quiet and empty place during the summer months, but now music lovers from many countries gathers here to enjoy 3 days of rock'n roll music.

The town itself is a bit worn down, or at least so it seems, and to some extent it do reminds me of ski resorts I have seen in the Chech republic and Slovakia with reminicences from the post soviet east European era,like on this photo where the contrast between old and new is obvious.

Denmark Docs # 5

Take the train. Close to finishing the Denmark leg of the 2017 summer vacation. Sure it is a bit sad, but we have had a great stay in Denmark and here by I would like to say thank you to all of my family who have put up with the two of us.

Last train to Copenhagen for the Morten send in 2017.

Denmark Docs #4

After about 2 weeks in Denmark, finally it has become a bit like summer. Not sure this is all over the country but it is at least here where we are in Løkken, a small'ish beach and bathing town in the far north west of the country.