BPPV: not a Minion language happy birthday!

Yesterday it was my birthday, 46 years spent around this funny world and I was supposed to be in Italy for celebrating the wedding of a special friend Valentina and her partner, Ivano..

Happy Moon cake day..

Cloudy and rainy, I will not see the moon, but I still got a couple of old delicious moon cakes, 月饼, that must be enough for my own celebration of the day!

Today it is the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节, zhōngqiū jié), or so called Moon Cake festival 🙂

A few years ago I got this nice video from a Chinese Aikido friend:

…and I add the memories from my second year in China, when I could really enjoy the moon (in 2010 it had been quite cloudy and rainy!):

From the top: moon cake 月饼, the moon on Hefei, 中 (中秋=mid-autumn)

中秋节快乐！！
Zhōngqiū jié kuàilè! !

Thing do not always go as one would hope!

Thanks to Stefan for the funny link and the great time in Dusseldorf 🙂

Sweet Monday!

Monday can start in a completely different way when you got a colleague who is baking such great cakes!

peanut cheese cake

44+1- happy Aikido birthday to me!

Special treat for my birthday yesterday night at Aikido practice at Aikido Amsterdam dojo: I hope it represents the introduction of a tradition developed in Norway.

What better way for Aikido people to celebrate their birthday on the mats receiving Aikido “hugs” in forms of throws and techniques by the fellow aikidokas?

I cannot think of a better way to show Aikido love 🙂

Aikido Amsterdam – birthday treat

A nice Sunday

Friends, good food, great weather, blue sky, light and shadows and color and contrasts and bike: a real day in Amsterdam life style!

what a day!	waiting for the spring
biking around	Italian lunch.. hands ready… go!
sun scares the clouds away	the corner view

Bohemian kick off!

An Aiki-brother from my time in Stavanger has set out along his predestined path: music at professional level! Already when I met him, his life was a mix of playing, working in music shops, and Aikido.. and he has always worked in intriguing projects, starting now a new one, with a band called Bohem, who is releasing the first album and start an exciting new adventure!

bass on fire

..and images and sounds are already available for a first great taste…

The Caravan Song:

..but this live session gave me goosebumps, maybe because I know the place where it has been recorded or maybe because it reminded me of many nights spent talking about everything, eating, drinking and enjoying music..

Let it Burn (Live studio session):

 

short tough steps before flying on water

 
(Fantastic picture that gave me great vibes by Damian, the Bearded Butler!)