The Roots Live in Tokyo

Nowadays I started really appreciating the fact that I live in Tokyo, the city that contains the traditional and modern Japan, the mixture of foreign cultures, and the uniqueness that you can never experience in any other cities in the world. As Japan has been accepting all kinds of music from all over the world, Japanese listners of any kind of music tend to go deep inside of the background of where the music they listen to has come from instead of just enjoying the sound itself. This tendency we have has hit hearts of many international musicians, and a lot of those musicians has named Japan as their favorite place to perform their songs.

And The Roots is not an exception. They have been supported by the heads in Japan ever since they came out with their first album. I was really glad that I got last night's ticket for their performance at Billboard Live Tokyo. Our seats were really close to the stage, and when ?uestlove's big afro appeared on the dark stage, I was like "Aight, now it is really worth paying 9,000 yen for this show." I was that excited to see them live for the first time.

It seems like Billboard Live Tokyo welcomes a lot of artists from overseas every month, and I am thinking of going back there once in a while as long as I am financially stable...

Jam of the day - "Proceed II" by The Roots with Roy Ayers

2009

It's finally here baby... We welcomed 2009 in Sendai city, where our 93 year old grandmother lives. It has been a while since I last saw her, and everytime I see her, it makes me think deeply about "God's Love". Our grandmother survived the World War II taking care of her six children. She does not talk much about what she went through, but she and her kids managed to survive on the way back to Japan from China by boat while so many other people were killed by the torpedoes in 1945. And later on, the whole family became Christians, and it is just so thankful that we managed to become a part of only 0.1 percent of the whole Japan's population. Yes, only 0.1 percent of people in Japan are Christians.



Ok, it was kinda too personal for a public blog, so here I am changing the subject, and writing about my favorite thing - food! lol

Sendai is famous for the fresh foods especially for seafood. How many of y'all have had the real sushi before?? Now I'm not talking about things like Boston salmon here (I actually enjoyed sushi in America also though..). If you ever get to go to Sendai, you GOTTA try sushi there. I don't even know how to describe the great taste of them, so here is the photo...



Don't they look so darn good??? Sendai, a cold city located 220 miles noth of Tokyo is having lots more snow this winter than usual, but our hearts are warmed up with home made Osechi.



I would like to wish everyone a happy new year!