Flowers insolita Blog

I found this touching video on youtube.  It’s a commercial for an insurance company in Thailand.  Gosh, it’s so well-made that almost succeeded to make me cry.

There is a scene (at 2:01) where the man was giving flowers to the girl.  Nothing gorgeous, just a tiny little flower he probably had just picked somewhere.  She kept it even after it had wilted away…

Flowers can send a message that you deeply care about the person you are sending flowers to.  A flower bouquet is a very emotional gift.  I just hope that people still remember that.

This video has absolutely nothing to do with flowers. But it’s so funny. Apparently, this is a Japanese comedy show. The rule is that you can’t laugh, or you would be whipped!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md8qQa_cCOM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iAmNwGQudA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4o0NaXLULg[/youtube]

Yesterday (Apr 25th), ABC’s ’20/20′ aired a story about a “boy” born with female brain. That is, this “boy” is a biological male, but “he” feels “he” is a girl, a condition known as “Gender-identity Disorder” or “Gender Dysphoria.”
Read ABC’s “Born with the wrong body”

For most people like me, it is very difficult to imagine the struggle these children must be going through. They have to confront not only with their own identiy crisis, but also with their peers and the societies that are not at all kind to them. ABC’s report says that many of these children end up self-mutilating themselves.

Coincidentally, one of the most popular young musicians in Japan is a person with Gender Dysphoria. The musician, Ataru Nakamura, 21-yr old, is a singer song writer, who has a beautiful female voice, but is biologically a male.

One of her hit songs, “Friend Song”, is said to be an enormous hit in that country. It’s a sad broken heart love song that she wrote when she was just a 15-yr old “girl.” She fell in love with a band member, a boy, even though she knew this was a totally hopeless love.
The lyrics goes like this (unofficial direct translation):

“I saw the future of my love even before touching you / but kept that meaningless love for a long, long time.”
“I did’t mend my broken heart, but tried to hide it under other pains in my heart / but it easily became so obvious, it leaked out from somewhere.”
“It would have been enough for me to just hold your hands / just walk together with you.”
“But even that may be difficult / so it is enough for me to be just a friend with someone important.”
“Could I have still been with you, if I hadn’t leaned on you?”
“If I hadn’t cared, I could have just left / but I knew it was impossible at that time.”
“You laughed at me, made fun of me / but I still couldn’t hate you, kept blaming myself, so pitiful, forever.”
“It would have been enough for me to just hold you hands / just walk together with you.”
“But even that may be difficult / so it is more than enough for me to be able to just look at someone important.”
“When you forget about me, if you ever see me again / please be friendly to me.”

Here’s the music video of Ataru Nakamura from Youtube:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY83IdPJZNw[/youtube]

or

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHAw5S0kKQg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqiNYTpLkY[/youtube]

Here’s a video of Annual Orchid Show 2006. The video is a little bid too long, but some of the Orchids displayed are very interesting.
Here’s an unusual Thai education TV program featuring a florist. The flowers they are selling appear to be common flowers (carns, mums, etc). I wonder where they are getting these flowers from. It could be that most of them are domestically grown.

Aggressive Pigeon

Talking Dogs!!

Here’s a video of beautiful lotus bloom.

This is a video of flower arranger in Vietnam.

This is not a flower video, but I like these songs.

Song from secret garden.
Nocturne.

Ikebana Video 1

Ikebana Video 2

Beautiful!