Showing posts with label Samurai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samurai. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Common and/or uncommon day in SL and RL

It happened several days ago. Concretely on April 9. All began as usual everyday way to my work by train and then by tram. I got off tram near to the botanical garden of my alma mater – Masaryk University in Brno. I looked towards opposite street side and I spotted it. Some sakura blossomed behind fence. Btw., sakura is my love spring tree. It looked as a vision from other world in this morning vapor. It was about quarter to seven. I was full of energy.

As I saw this tree I had remembered movie The Last Samurai, where Algren and Katsumoto discussed in the garden with blossomed sakuras:

Algren: There is Life in every breath...
Katsumoto: That is, Bushido.

Katsumoto: The perfect blossom is a rare thing. You could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life.


Later, one my friend called me in SL. He was about nine month away. He restored his former club and invited me to the opening party. Unfortunately, I had to apologize myself due to some things in RL. Fortune showed a smile to me again during my wander at Slovakia sim in CCaS club. I met Tristan Delpiaz. He is also my old friend. It was very nice discussion.

My work passed in good tempo and then I walked to the city center to drink glass of good wine in my favorite wine bar in some old convent. The atrium garden was open and my Rl fiend sat there. So, we told about life and so on in spring sunlights. He was not alone there and later they gone. After that, my other friends came. They are husband and wife Cizek and every Thursday with them is nice days. But I had to leave bar as I said above, some action in RL.

Unfortunately, it was the nastiest experience of this day, so-called house meeting of occupant of our house (Note: There are 24 flats in our house). I had expected a bit, how this meeting would be. But what the neighbors showed there, it surpassed all my visions. There were envy and hate, arrogance, communication inability, compromise inability, slander each other, etc. I left it after about one hour. Maybe I behaved cowardly, but what is too much, it is too much. I escaped in SL world.

After client start, I received several notices. So, I flew to the party, where I was invited in the morning. There was crowded and super music. I tried once or twice sploder, but I almost lost. Party came near to end and a waiter asked me in RL, what game I played. I was in net café. He told me that he had showed me several times, how I was sitting silently and looking at screen of my notebook.

So, he became my first real and no virtual listener, whom I introduce Second Life. During talking, we flew from an island to other one to outline him the SL atmosphere. I spoke about SL general, what one can do here, about SL economy etc. He listened me whole time. Sometime he asked me about something, but he was not downright negative to SL phenomenon. He said that it was surely interesting. But later, we told about other things. I had to go home to sleep. I tell usually with liking in SL: „I go to hug my pillow.”

The next day, sakura was there but other. An aura disappeared.

Wine Bar

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Satori

Hadžime jori                      From long ago
Au wa wakare                    Thought I had heard to meet
Kikinagara                          Could only mean part

Akacuki širade                    Yet I gave myself to you
Hito o koikeria                    Forgetful of the coming dawn.


(Lesley Downer: The Last Concubine)


The haiku, which I have used as the beginning my today’s contribution, was written by Sachi, heroine of above-mentioned romance, to her lover Shinzaemon. This romance is set in background of old Japan of 19th century. The forbidden love, concubines, shogun, samurais and emperor, this all had to go away. The shogun reign was coming to an end and the Japanese had to forget all these things whatever want or do not want. I read this romance in several portions and it is so far the most interesting, what I read in the last time.

And after that, this experience became an inspiration to find some similar in Second Life. SL Search is certainly the powerful tool, but one does not achieve the aim in the all things. I used the original name of Japan capital – Edo. Of course, when I ignore avatar names, the first position occupied fashion trademark of male wear “Styles of edo”. Btw., it is my favorite. However, it was not matter, because the link to EDO JAPAN sim was in tow. Firstly, I would like to say several words about Edo and then we fly there.

The castle Edo was founded at Musashi plane in 1457, but it became an official residence and capital in year 1603. The shoguns from Tokugawa dynasty governed the whole country till year 1863. The Japanese emperor held a minority role in this time and his court resided in Kyoto. When the emperor came back to the capital after the shogunate extinction, the city bore another name – Tokyo. It means “East capital” and it is till now.

Sim EDO JAPAN is rather the shopping area, but fully inspired by Japanese architecture. What all can anybody buy there?

Hairs LALA Moon trademark Prim Hair Shop
Japanaese furniture from Yamamoto trademark
Kimonos and the relevant accessories from Juno Kobo trademark

and a lot of others.

However, the old Japanese garden hided many of secrets and corners. Lonely kneeling samurai meditated in the shadows of huge sakura (Japanese blowing cherry) and in sunshine. He was protected by a watchtower and does not perceive the surrounding beauty. He thought of the only.


Her name felt on his lips. He called her to myself. However, nobody answered and only old stone lamp was shining into the night darkness.


“Maybe she appears onto water surface”, he said to myself. But only the fishes with sorrow eyes swam lazily in the small lake under sakura and not choppy surface did not tell anything about her.


The night cold drove the samurai to a house neat to fire. He decided to find her in flickering flames without his katanas and waraji.


However, the wood cracking in fire slowly cradled his mind, which dropped in beneficial sleep, and with it the whole body too. Maybe dream brings something so long desired.


The morning dawn rays wake all living creatures and also samurai up. The bird song floated in the air and bells jingle of the harness was listening. She is coming …