31 March 2009

ととみー鳥

Of course, I watched birds in Viet Nam too. We went to Cuc Phuong national park, which is three hours drive from Hanoi. We didn't have neither a guide nor a vietnamese birds guidebook. But Thai birds' book was really useful.



Black-creasted Bulbul(エボシヒヨドリ)
One of the most common birds in Cuc Phuong. We kept saying that "No more Black-crested Bulbul nor Red-whiskered Bulbul!" Because there were so many of them. But once back in Japan, I want to see them again...
タイでもおなじみのエボシヒヨドリだけれど、何度見てもかわいい。うちにいるトトロの人形"ととみー"のような目をしているので、ととみー鳥と呼んでいる。クックフーン国立公園であんなにたくさん見たのに、やっぱり母の一番のお気に入りはこいつなのだそうだ。

Viet Nam

This time I made a short trip to Viet Nam from Thailand. At first I was planning to go to Cambodia but I changed my mind because my Thai friend asked me to go to Hanoi together with zero baht ticket by Air Asia. I shold go when I have a chance!
ベトナムでは、空港についた瞬間からサプライズの連続だった。ハノイ市内は道を渡るのが命がけ、というほどバイクと車がとめどなく右へ左へと走っていて、ひっきりなしにクラクションがなっている。夜は12時過ぎまで、朝は5時から、クラクションとおしゃべりの騒音が続いた。バンコクが静かで平和に思えるほどだ。



Fruits in condensed milk with clashed ice. Somehow every chair and table of street stands in Hanoi was really low. "They probably made two chairs out of the same amount of plastic to make one nomal sized one" my mother said...

28 March 2009

ヤマショウビン



Black-capped Kingfisher
We went to Chatuchak market and watched birds in the adjacent Chatuchak park also. When I was watching a Coppersmith Barbet(ムネアカゴシキドリ), a guy told me that Queen Sirikit Park across the street is much better. He was true. Although we didn't have enough time to walk around the whole area, we saw almost all the birds we had expected to see in Bangkok city, such as Indian Roller(インドブッポウソウ), Common Koel(オニカッコウ), Asian Pied Starling(ホオジロムクドリ) and this Black-capped Kingfisher. This park seems to have good botanical garden so next time I need to try that. (My mother said that we went there already with my father but I don't remember)

25 March 2009

今日は、大学の卒業式。お世話になった先輩方の送り出しに参加する予定が・・・・・・式が終わる前にバイトへと抜けることになってしまった。ごめんなさい。
来年は自分たちが追い出される番だ、と言われたけれど、なんだか実感が湧かない。獣医と同じように、6年間あったらいいのにな。



研究室の追いコンのために、テーマ『扉』になぞらえて作った色紙ホルダー。実はこの追いコンも、タイに行っていて参加できなかった。ごめんなさい。
これを作って以来、洒落た扉があると、ついどうやって作ろうと考えてしまう。タイの友人と遊びにいったハノイには、素敵な扉がたくさんあった。

23 March 2009

Agroforestry

I had learned about agroforestry in several classes in university. Agroforestry is a sustainable landmanagement system by combining forestry and farming or animal husbandry on the same unit of land.
This time, I had a chance to visit the Trat Agroforestry Research Station. The assistant chief of the station kindly explained to me a lot about his research.




By combining trees and crops, we can except synergetic effect of good harvest and good environment because trees keep soil, water and microclimate. But if trees and crops compete each other for water, nutrition and sunlight, it won't work well. So far, Rubber and banana, Coconut and coffee, Teak and corn etc are good combination he said. On the way back to Chantha Buri, I found the rubber forest with banana trees in-between from the car window.

16 March 2009

Khung Kraben



My father took me to Khung Kraben, a tombolo at the east part of Thailand some 60 kilometres from Cambodian border! We walked along the wooden deck in mangrove forest. It was really a nice place with full of information about mangrove although all of them are in Thai. I took pictures of some boards, so I need to ask him to translate.
I saw Collared Kingfisher and Green Bee-eater there.

2 March 2009

お坊さん



昨年、タイのアンパワ郡で、托鉢僧に食べ物を差し上げる体験をした。托鉢は日の出前にはじまる。運河沿いの家には、お坊さんは小船に乗ってやってきた。銀の器に食べ物と水、花を入れると、お経を唱えてくれる。そのほかは、一部始終、無言だ。

また今年も、タイに行ってきます。

□■□ 宣伝 □■□
今年も、目黒区美術館で都内の国公立11大学の美術部による国公立展をやります。お近くにお越しの際は、どうぞご覧ください。
第55回 国公立展
会期:3月10日(火)~15日(日) 10:00~18:00 (ただし初日は14時~/最終日は~17時)
場所:目黒区美術館区民ギャラリー
参加校:東京海洋大学・お茶の水大学・首都大学東京・電気通信大学・東京大学・東京医科歯科大学・東京外国語大学・東京学芸大学・東京工業大学・東京農工大学・一橋大学
今年の共同制作テーマは水。わたしは共同制作には携わっていいませんが、後輩たちががんばっているようです。