Japan : Trick Art museum

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You probably remember how some times ago I went to 高尾山 with some friends. (If you don't have a look here). At the end of the previous post I was telling that three of us had decided to go to the Trick Art museum. Should I say the craziest and more courageous of us? Probably according to what happened to us in there. But I think the video is going to do all the talking. Welcome to the best museum ever, ever, ever... did I say best ever?
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神話 (the myth)

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神話 is Hong Kong action movie from 2005 staring Jacky Chan and directed by Stanley Tong.

Jack, an archaeologist has been having recurrent dreams for three months in a row. His friend comes to see him to ask him to help in his project of discovering the mystery of levitation in the kingdom of Darsa. While in the temple, Jack discover a sword belonging to the character he is incarnating in his dreams, general Meng, and the portrait of the woman he loves, the concubine Ok-Soo. He will pursue his travel to unravel the mystery of his apparent previous life.




I like this movie because it shows that two people who are supposed to be separated by everything, family, place in the society, time can still love each other and stay true to each other until the end. Ok-Soo will trust Meng until the end even when everything tend to prove that he is dead.

 Casting : 
Jacky Chan as Meng and Jack
梁家輝 as William
金喜善 (김희선) as Ok-Soo
मल्लिका शेरावत (Mallika Sherawat) as Indian Princess

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Demon and fairy final part

It has been a long time since I gave you a part of "Demon and fairy". (If you need a little bit of memory refresh about the story you can have a look at the previous part here.)
Here is the last part of the story as I finally finished the first draft few days ago. It took me 5 months.
"Demon and fairy" has probably been the story I had the more troubles to write for several reasons.

It's the first story in which my main character is a boy. I don't think that it is much of a problem, I really liked to be with Seti. I like the beginning when it's only him and me and all I had to do was dealing with his feeling about the unfairness of his life. But at some point it started to be difficult not to go see other characters. Kallisto is also really interesting. She is just sweet and nice and she trusts him as soon as she looks at him no matter how dangerous he could get. I think in a way she doesn't really understand how much he could hurt her, but as long as he is not doing it intentionally that's ok with her.

One other problem is the scenery. My stories so far had been confined into mostly one or two places -the house and the cave in "Demon Soul" and the attic and Teneria in Attic Mirror- my characters didn't really need to move too much. In "Demon and fairy" however there is this research of love that is going to take Seti in the "Fairy World" far from everything he knows. I needed to make a real contrast between the "Demon World" and the "Fairy World" and this also gave me some trouble.

Another difficult part was to have to deal with so many characters at the same time, especially when they are all in for different reasons, have different background and feelings and would react totally differently to the same situation. One of the character most difficult to deal with was probably Azazel. He wanted Seti's power and life without knowing about it and at some point I was really ready to give it to him, the problem is that he didn't react to it as he had expected.

"Demon and fairy" is also my longest story, with a total of 101267 words. I must say I had problem to see the end until I actually get there.

Now if you actually bothered to read all my state of mind about the story, I think you deserve to actually know the end. I hope you'll have as much fun reading it as I had writing it.

PS : let me know what you think about the references to "Demon Soul" all over this book. It could be considered as a second part in a way.
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I won NaNoWriMo: Vampire heart, part 4

After no posts for ten days here is what has been going on. I went to a trip in Kansai and I will let you know all about it later because today is more the day for announcement.
I won NaNoWriMo 2010.
Again? Yeah again, that's only twice so...
Again? I know right... I'm awesome like that. :D
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Now more seriously. I passed the 50000 words count line few minutes ago. I spend a long part of last night writing and hoping to get pass the 50000 to stop at 47773 words and deciding to start again first thing in the morning, which I didn't because first of all I got up late and second I'm absolutely unable to write in the morning. Anyway. Viorel is getting his memory back right now which means that the story is not finished. And who says unfinished story says NaNoFiMo for December.
Anyway, I'm really happy to have won this contest once again and I'm really happy to have another part of the story to share with you tonight.
As usual I hope you will enjoy reading it as much a I enjoyed writing it. And hopefully you will have a lot more to read in December.

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Japan : 高尾山

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Last Sunday we went to 高尾山, a mountain in the 明治の森高尾国定公園 (Meijo no Mori Takao Quasi-National Park). We were supposed to meet at 9am but we were a bit late so they were already gone when we arrived at the meeting point. Hopefully we managed to catch up with them and to take the train. From Chofu it's really easy. We decided to cut the group in two. Some people took the easy way up while we took the more difficult. I don't think it was that difficult, especially compared to climbing 富士山. We looked for the stamps, saw the temples and eat some 肉まん and 団子 before going back down. 高尾山 was beautiful with the different colored autumn leafs. Then three of us went to the Trick Art museum but that's another story.
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Vampire heart, part 3

So we passed half of the month and I'm still amazingly on track with my words. I felt behind my own 2000 words schedule twice but always made it back, once by writing 3400+ words in one session and yesterday by just getting 2700+. Of course as I am more efficient at writing in the evening, the word count of the day gets kind of confusing when I pass midnight but anyway I am happy with my word count and I think I can relax during this week-end trip.

So how is the story going. Actually pretty fine. Viorel killed one more person than expected. My friend has been telling me that he is one character I can't control as he is stronger than me. Maybe, or maybe I was just feeling like writing something completely crazy. I kind of wonder why I didn't get more descriptive on that part. Sometimes I'm scaring myself a little bit with character crazy torturing minds maybe that's why I keep it sustainable. Maybe I'll write in really crazy later just for myself. Anyway...
I also figured out a way to explain more about Viorel's past and what is happening in Transylvania. I mean those vampires are not angels, they want blood and they want Viorel dead. And you want to know why obviously. But you'll have to wait next post for that. Oh, I wrote it already, just yesterday, 2700+ words, and I know that it's going to surprise everybody who read the rest as soon as it's out but I want to let you enjoy Viorel being crazy first before meeting the rest of the crew. So stay tuned and if you really can't wait for more, just yell at me in the comments below. Viorel will love that.
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Cooking : Aubergine chicken

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It has been a long time since the last cooking recipe. Does that mean that I have been totally uncreative culinary speaking? Does that mean that I have been eating out so often that I didn't bother creating anything special once in the kitchen? Probably a little bit of both. Anyway, here is my recipe for today.

What do you need :

Chicken
2 aubergines
Onion
Garlic
Soy sauce
Sesame oil
Dried basil
Fresh basil leaves

Pre-reparation :

Cut the chicken into pieces and baste it with some sesame oil. Add the dried basil.
Slide the aubergine and let them marinate in the soy sauce. Left the all rest for some time.

Preparation :

Cook the chicken pieces in a well oiled pan with the onion cut into pieces and the garlic. When the chicken is glazed, add the aubergines' slides and some of the soy sauce. Be careful not to add too much of the soy sauce as it would result in a dish too salty. Add the fresh basil leafs and serve with rice.




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