Showing posts with label tokyo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tokyo. Show all posts

Sunday, May 21, 2017

5/21 Au mauvais endroit au meilleur moment


J’ai la gorge qui me démange toujours,
Ça doit être mon manque d’amour...
Mais non ça n’a rien à voir!
Je me dis ça tous les soirs.
Mais je préfères quand tu m’enlaces,
C’est plus facile, plus efficace,
Que cette tristesse si tenace,
Que ce coeur rempli de crasse,
Que cette sentence qui me dépèce, qui me dépasse,
Qui me rabaisse, qui me menace,
Qui se dépêche de me voir lasse.
J'ai la gorge qui me démange sans fin,

Mais ça doit juste être mon chagrin.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

1/1 Happy Sheep Year Guys :-) アケオメ☆



HAPPY NEW YEAR, All the best for this 2015!

     May your year be filled with success, -or failure- because it will lead you to success anyway.
May your year be anything and everything but normal, dull, according to expectations.

   I'm sure that "A bad experience is better than no experience at all" are words of truth, I'm sure that life doesn't come without pain, for the mere reason it helps us feel it, enjoy it more, understand its value.

   Don't we like to have a sweet dessert with our coffee? We do to the extend that some of us will gradually forget about the dessert and have only a coffee, isn't it?

   To me it doesn't matter whether your life's bitterness or sweetness is prevailing, just live it, like it, enjoy it and find reasons to laugh because every single time you can. Because this new year too, life doesn't care about your resolutions, it's just giving you the same old challenge. This year like the past one, your only true mission is going to be: To make yourself happy! (And believe me, that is not a piece of cake (even with coffee ;) ))

So, ready? :-)

 

Saturday, December 13, 2014

12/12 A Belgian waffles with your Sushis?




Rafeyte, a Belgo-Tunisian friend came to visit from her Dubai base. A short summary of her trip : )


    Rafeyte is a friend that definitely needs to be featured on this blog, first because she has actually already been, second because she is someone who followed my life (or did I follow her's?) for a very long time. And destiny has been reuniting us no matter our choices in life and the personal and professional paths we choose for ourselves. She first hosted me in her place in Brussels even if I didn't know her at all.

That was probably 8 years ago. Then we've met in Carthage (Tunisia), in Paris and Brittany (France), in Jerusalem, Nablus Bethlehem (Palestine), in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), in Tokyo (Japan) without even traveling together or even living in the same country. Destiny is something you just can't control, just enjoy its vagaries :).

  Rafeyte is now in Dubai, working for Emirates, and I know If I go to Lebanon, Omar, Iran or Jordan I'll be crossing her path again. She doesn't know but she's the inspirational woman of my life. : )






Thursday, December 11, 2014

12/02 Tous ces maux d'âme-our.



C’est la plus belle chose que tu m’aie dite.
Du coup il faut que tu t’en ailles, pars vite.
C’est Cuit –entre nous-- une cuite, prise d'un coup
Je voudrais m’auto-rouer de coups
roue d’une auto qui va-et-viens et ça vient? c’est tout ?

La plus belle chose que tu m’aie dite
Puis j’ai pris la fuite
Inconnue m’est la suite
Inconnue t’est ma suite
Un con nu m’a séduite.

Et sans voix, interdite.

Mais je ne te laisserais pas.
Faire
Mais je ne t’abandonnerais pas.
A moi.
Je m’en irais et rangerais mes mots à la conjugaison absente.
Avant que rien tu ne sentes
Avant que toi con tu sentes et que moi conne consente.


Un homme à la mer,
Une femme dans la merde.

Jette-aime.
Moi eaux scie

Tu te jettes à l'eau, je jette l'encre
Tu te noie dans tes mots, je coule
tu fais couler tes larmes,
Je fais couler de l'encre.
Tu es planté la devant moi 
Nikita je me plante au stylo
Coeur de pierre planté avec des
 ciseaux
Trop de Jeux pour aucun Je.

Entre nous trop de faux pas
Entre nous il ne faut pas
Il ne faut juste pas
Que ca soit b'Ô.!




Sunday, November 30, 2014

12/1 Olaf and Olaf reunited : )



Wishing you a nice Winter season start!

I've met this awesome guy in Shibuya. Don't know how he came up with this costume (maybe he's the real Olaf), but this is too awesome not to be on a post : )

Stay warm!
Love.


Tuesday, November 25, 2014

11/25 Japan Podcast Ep.21 @Waseda Univ.



Hi guys! ^_^

Hope you're finding your way to enjoy this tumultuous life and to seize each day of it.
Each day that ends is a day that is gone forever, only the memories will last.
So sometimes better bad memories than no memories at all, don't you think : )
Okay this have nothing to do with today's post :D


I've been invited to animate the Episode 21 of a great series of Podcasts about Japan, it was partly about living in Japan as a Muslim... But all the debate we had throughout the show were very interesting and stimulating!


Illustration by livingjapan


Great Thanks to the regular Hosts of the radio podcast:

Edgar Santiago Peláez Mazariegos
Brent Thomas
And the Lovely Motoi Takekawa

Aired on the campus of Waseda University. @Takadanobaba, Tokyo.


Indeed for those who remember, I used to be a student in Keio, which likes to say are the "best enemy", meaning perfect rival of Waseda. But I just think both can't life without each others. The classic love/hate Ying/Yang relationship. : )

Anyway, here's the link if you feel like listening to that Episode, or the others, or just listening to Frenglish, you may click on the links here under : )





Until then, with love

Olfa

Friday, July 25, 2014

7/23 東京新聞にも載っているラマダン^_^


先日、東京新聞の蒲・敏哉さん記者にラマダンについて記事を書いて頂き、自分の名前まで記載して頂きました(笑)。
今朝お友達に発見されちゃって面白く思いました。
蒲・敏哉さんとお話が出来て良かったです!またマスマス日本の方にイスラムのスピリチュアリティ が知って頂きたいです。

またお話します!



東京新聞 26年7月25日の版。
記事:蒲・敏哉記者



7/22 De l’atmosphère, de la température et des longeurs d’onde.



Je n’avais pas faim,
Ou plus je ne sais plus, 
J’ai du mal avec le cho/froi j’ai du mal avec les saisons, j’ai mal avec les temps et ratures.
Aujourd’hui je suis peut-être heureuse,
Ou du moins plus que d’habitude,
plus que de raisons, plus que X raisons -mauvaises réferences- cette...
Enfance qui renvient forte, comme un coup de poignand, en pleine immatérialité des sens.

Le "rien du tout", pas le "rien" du tout mais le "rien d’un tout".


C’est dur les mots hein, mais désolée je n’ai que ça.
Je m’excuse 
Veuillez les agréer, 
veuillez désagréger mes mots et toute ma sincérité.

Ou du moins ce qu’il en reste.




Je n’avais plus soif, 
Je n’avais plus soif mais il me fallait des réserves je le savais
Je le savais parce que je savais que j’allais crier
Crier et devoir me répeter
rérérépeter, en récréation. 

D’un mot qui n’a rien à voir en action
D’un mot valise qui mort à l’hameçon
D’une pensée libre en castration.

Et qu’à cela ne tienne
casse la tienne pour de bon.
Cas ceux là ne tiennent, il leur tient de me casser les bonbons. 




Je n’ai plus sommeil,
Sur le parvis de cette grande place froide et belle
Comme la plus belle des damoiselles
Glaciale mais accueillante
-Laisse tomber ça rime à rien-
Eternellement mystérieuse
-Laisse tomber ça fait pas bien-
Ne t'inquiète pas, d'accord ça va, 
bras froids et de toute façon on finira là.

Miss Terre, heureuse
Miss Earth heure creuse
Mess Ardh preums deuse




Je n’ai plus peur
Comment ça, c’est le pire,
Sans peur pas de challenge, tu es condamnée
A ne pas voir mieux à ne pas souhaiter, à ton empire ne rien changer,
à périr vide de n’avoir rien affronté,
C’est la pire chose que tu m’ai dite tu sais?

Peut être, pas sûre enfin,
Si tu cours? Ne vole pas tombe, fais toi mal et marque ton chemin.

J’ai toujours mes mots.
Quoi qu’il arrive quoi que je fasse,
des maux qui me dépassent pleins de suie plein de,
Crasse.
Des mots qui prennent leurs temps, faites vous plaisir, pourquoi
Pas.
Des mots qui se marient entre sous-fifres et Rois.



  
                              










Thursday, June 19, 2014

6/17 Kids, just kids.



They're the only ones who know how...




...to make this world go round :)



Recently I've been having a tedious adult-social life break.

But I'm not saying that so you forgive me, actually you better don't :) .

Being forgiven is having a second chance for mistakes.
Acceptation is allowing "Recidivism" to exist by giving it a First Name.

Maybe we shouldn't forgive, 
We should know, understand, do with that,
But never really accept anything as "normal".

So to let mistakes live only in the tight fetter of concrete life,
rather than the wide world of the abstract concepts.

***

Feed me Art, feed me danger, feed me life.
Feed me bravery, feed me unconsciousness, fit my love.




Thursday, January 2, 2014

2014 1/1 H-ere we go again-APPY NEW YEAR.




HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Is something I hate to say,
Come on, who knows it's gonna be good? 
That's only the very first beginning.
But yeah, we should underline some of our life events,
so the soup can become bortsch.
If only the mere action of "wishing" could make it "happening".

Um, it always sounds to me like a "Hey destiny, look how confident we are about the future, come on, you can't deceive us, you can't let down all this positiveness right?"
Ain't it a "Prêcher le faux pour savoir le vrai?".

It sounds as gambling on our own destiny,
It sounds like a enthusiastic Horse racing.
Speaking of Horse racing, good thing, this year is the one guys.

The Horse Year (tadam), might be the best time to start trusting that 
betting on yourself could be good.
I should give it a try sometimes.

Here's some of the traditional 年賀状we use to send for new year, 
as always there's some classics, quickly overstepped  by non-sense ones (including more motor bikes than horses....)
But wait "Horse power" is as a matter of fact made for overtaking, right?







With Love, from under and above : )

















Wednesday, December 18, 2013

18 / 12 Holidays, If I may?


A normal introspection when asking for holidays in Japan...


This is a drawing I've made for my last holidays, I needed to ask for a 1 week off the next month.
I was so freaking out it would be turned down (and I  have reasons to, I have this bad habit to book my flight tickets BEFORE asking for my holidays), anyway I was so freaking out that instead of asking for "a week in one month" I did asked for "a month in one week"...

(You see then LawwwLing)
haha

This makes me now remember when I said to my Boss last time "Hey, I need to go to the Emirates on Monday" and he started this long discussion, like "But we need you here, why all of a sudden?" And after 15 minutes I was like "Embassy, Oh did I forget to say "Embassy?" Yes I'm going after work, I won't miss anything."

I think my Boss is always wondering if I'm crazy or If I just fancy pulling people's legs around.
Hum.

Well, This time (Yesterday) I really did asked for a full month OFF. See the trip? Same situation without the end : ) I was wondering If I should just remove the last square and post it again : ). But I'm really sure I'll have a reason to draw this surely upcoming new funny situation that awaits me somewhere before I'm off work. I don't know why destiny always gives me the hell of a "fantastic adventure" I have to deal with each time I decide to take holidays : )

Most of the times that consists in blood, more blood and hospital grand tours :D
Hope destiny is going to be nicer with me this time!

Love,
Olve



Hum. okay stupid play on words....




Tuesday, November 26, 2013

11/26 The (Japanese) city that never sleeps.


Hi there!




What have you been up to recently?
As for me, I'm just everyday having exciting home-office-home round trips : )

That, as boring as it sounds, make me go back and forth thru the beautiful city Shibuya is.
 I was thus thinking,
the fact you see something (you do, or you just know you'll always be able to) shouldn't make
you forget how outstanding it is, and that some people have to come from faaaar away to be
able to do so (something I forgot to do with Paris maybe....).

So, now frankly speaking,

Shibuya is better that New York. What "No"? Whay "Don't you say that"?
No-Yes-Come on I say-what-I-wanna-say "What What""Okay bring it on"
"Don't You daaaare"

Haha, Okay, no, seriously I mean It.
Shibuya is the noise's nirvana. The sleeping pills' hell. And it's just so cool.
In a childish way.

It's just "Oh, Ah, Eee" All around (The last Eee is the Japanese one indeed ^___^)

Here you have an update version of a drawing I've did before, with some variations :D

If you have sometime free between 2 and 3am, just feel free to visit the crossing,
 It would be as agitated as a 2-3pm ^_^

Bye for now, and until soon,


Monday, November 4, 2013

11/06 HarajuNku (lol)



Quick portrait of a girl in Harajuku.

I'm growing older, but I still love that place. It's like going to Alien's district to me : )


Sunday, November 3, 2013

11/05 Off Tokyo, to the Sea.


Those times you need to go off to explore new horizons.
Brace yourselves, we're off to the sea!
356 km of Awesome.


Action Plan
ツーリング旅路

The Sky is spotting you out :)

Hohoho!!

Nice! (Nice, France would work too :D)

"What, If you may open the window??"

132 km South, 329 m High.

We let our bikes make new friends too =)

Just wanna diVe now...(don't get me wrong! lol)

Yes blessings and so on, blabla, yup got it...

やっと発見!

Meeting up the BBJ =D
(the Biggest Buddha in Japan)

"Fire in the hole!" (Oups bad joke ^_^')

Such a big family! A bit cold but yet cute :D

Avatar origins.

You should go see the doctor guys.

BRE
(Best Road Ever!)

Dadam!

I'm blue (Dabedidabedah! Got it?)

You know what? Fuck parkings.

-"I'm afraid we only do whales"
-"...Wait What?"

-"Then I'll have this 200 Yen...Evil Snail?"

-"Or this Level 2 Straight coming from Hell's bottom, 
Satan's favorite Crustacean. Really looks delicious"

Friends are gone.

News Friends again.

When you see it O-MochiG (find the pun =D)

Japanese delicatessen ^_^

"You shall not pass" Said the Fan-Boy-Tree.

Cheap Ship



Mission: Completed.

Now I have an excuse for not speaking =D

Fiou, the morning face!

Mornin' Baby!

Here we go again!

WTH with this picture!

I'll dive for you baby, stay dry!


Public Baths :D

Can we stay here forever?
Of course not! Here we go again!



23:40 BACK TOKYO,
safe : )