The Eye of Patrick

This past weekend was another weekend in which I planned to do nothing but ended up doing something. When I got home Friday from work I was exhausted and not really feeling like doing anything, but I still wanted to get out. So I decided to visit one of the many wonderful restaurants that are located in my town.

The restaurant that I decided to visit was “Morena,” it is an Indian restaurant run by a local Japanese couple. They are both not from Shimokawa, but moved here to escape the heat of Honshu. They are painters and musicians, so when you visit you have the opportunity of seeing their art work and hearing some wonderful music as the master is a brilliant guitar player.

On this trip I decided to have some Chicken Curry with Chapatti. It was just the most perfect meal for me to have as I was craving fresh vegetables and non Japanese food that was not a Hamburger or pasta. So I ate up it up at a leisurely pace as to make sure to enjoy every moment of it. Then finished it off with a cheese pie and tea (the tea was compliments of the master). Then I headed home and did some cleaning and went to sleep.

The next day I woke up at 8:00 am, as I had to make my way to the town’s nursery school to attend a performance of sorts by the kids of the school. It was very fun to watch as the kids could not sing for their lives, but that did not stop them from belting out tunes. Some of them got so into singing that they would breathe in deeply and then exhale as if they were trying to blow out a birthday cake.

The performances were mostly songs or skits that they had created and decided to perform, and from the photos on the right you can see that it was a pretty packed house. It is amazing to see the advancement of technology and how it has played such an important role in our lives. When I was there I noticed at least 10-12 video cameras and who knows how many camera’s, and it made me think of how my generation onwards will be one of the most captured generation as so many people have technology to capture it.

I think it will be interesting to see how future generations look back at this generation and whether it will be easier to gain an understanding of this generation and what it stood for. As if you look at the evolution of the human race and our ability to capture it and understand it has grown with each generation, from the cave men with their sketches on the walls of caves, to letters from nobles of the 16th century and newspaper clippings from World War II, each generation has had the means to capture its history and give future generations the opportunity to understand it. But this generation will be the first one where the ability to capture the living moments so easily. So it will be interesting to see how things turn out.

That is all I will write now as I promised to keep my posts relatively short and my next post will be a longer one I think. It will be about an Izakaya, a Karaoke bar named Afro and fishing.

So till next time,
Take care,
Patrick