hi Martine.
i am surfin for a while on ur website, and its just GREAt. love it, like the pics.
wow i have great respect for what ur doin. i love japan, kinda freak i am hahha. so what ur doin is what i would wish to do.
but i am from amsterdam holland, so my native tong isn't english but dutch, so i cannot be an english teacher as u have to be native english for that.
but u give me a good spririt to keep searchin, altought that is difficult as i am living in amsterdam. i also hardly speak japanese.
i have been in japan last year for only 12 days, all i want is to go back to japan, i really fell in love with the country.
so seeying ur website with ur stories and ur motivation and what ur doin there gives me a good feelin.
thanks.
greets from amsterdam holland
edgar
ps if u got anny idea of sugjestions about working(teaching jobs) in japan, feel free to email me.
have a nice weekend

Hi Edgar,

Thanks for dropping by. Glad you find the site so useful, always nice to hear feedback like this. As for jobs in Japan, you can always check the job guides and see if anything else comes up that suits you - there is always all sorts of work going. Check gaijinpot, jobs in japan and the japan times newspaper.

Good luck to you! Gambatte!

hi Martine.
i am glad u like my post.
ooh about work, i know these sites already. but thanks anny way.
i think i need to be in japan to really search for a job. but think, i first need to learn the language a litle, that always helps haha.
anny way keep goin as u do. u do a marvelous JOB.
so how are Japnese paople treath U??
ooh if u feel like a GAJIN in Japan dont worry. i always say this.
in fact everybody is a gajin in the world.
if we travel across countries, WE ARE GAJIN. so if a japanese comes to my country He is the Gajin.
so if i would be in Japan, i am the Gajin. its just a word.nothing more nothing less
that is my philosophy!!!!!!!
greets from amsterdam holland

here is a link for ya if u got time u can see some pics of amsterdam i made!!!

edgar

the link doesn't work, edgar - just goes to a yahoo sign in page, can you try a different address?

off to kyoto for a few days, yay.

hi Martine.
ooh does it not work, hmm sorry for that.
i am now busy with a litle website of my own, profide by geocities. see what i can do with it.
when i am finished(when i will finish it at all),i will send u a new link ok.
its gonna be about amsterdam and japan.

ooh ur in kyoto, wow have fun.

i hope to but a ticket to japan end of this month or beginning of next month, only the tricky part is, i quitt my old job, and probably gonna start my new job beginning of may, there is just one litle problem, at my new job i cannot take more then 3 weeks of holliday at the time. so i got a dillema here. will buy ticket anny way.

Japan is for me more important then anny kind of job. so they will hire me or not i GO to Japan.

greets from amsterdam

edgar

Hi. Love the site. Was just a-wondering what your browser stats are like? Firefox IE Opera-wise really.

Anyway, for all you firefox users out there, beginner or advanced, I though i'd share a gem i found a while back:
forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php

Some great tips there, simple to advanced.

Keep up the great posts!

Thanks. Glad you like.

March stats 2005:
Explorer 65.4%
Firefox 16.8%
Mozilla 6.3%
Safari 5.9%
Opera 2.2%
Nestcape 1.5%
Firebird .01%

Thanks for the firefox link, cool.

Hello Ms. Martine:)
I was passing by and i fall in love with your photos and work. Your a model of capturing a moment and all your work its so great, so fantastic. I travel all your site, and this is the best i ever seen! For all this i need to say " Congratulations", you are a great photographer.
You need to travel one day to my country ( portugal) :)
Best of everything to you.

sincerely J.

Hi Joao,

Thanks so much for your lovely comments. You just cheered me up enormously! I really want to visit Portugal one day, and Spain. Two great places in Europe - maybe the only Western places I really want to visit.

Cheers and thanks again.

M.

Hi Martine,
Sorry to read about your dash home...hope you're doing OK.
Was just surfing, looking for frangipani images and found your site. I love it.
I'm an Aussie who has just moved to Dublin with my fiance via South America and Canada (9 months travelling - brilliant!).
I studied some Japanese at school and at ANU in Canberra, so I'm now feeling jealous of your locale!
Will drop you a proper email as I'm seriously looking for a frangipani graphic for a new business I'm setting up over here...
keep up the great website and take care!
cheers
Danielle

Hi,
I would like to use one of your photos on my website, its the shoe shop one in Tokyo,

What do a i need to do to get permission?

Regards

Nigel

Hi Nigel,

Just email me at martine (at) frangipani (dot) info and explain how you'll be using the image (as you've done), and a little bit about your company and I'll have a think about it and get back to you with a deal which may or may not involve some form of payment.

Thanks

Hi Martine, I am a regular reader of your site, a Toykoite and we have many mutual friends. In fact I am very surprised our paths haven't yet crossed. I have a proposition for you - if you are free on Saturday 1st April I would be very happy if you could be the official photographer at my wedding celebration. I would pay you and you can attend the party as a guest - there will be people you know there. You don't have to post this as a comment unless you want to give other people ideas. To give you a bit of info, we are not having a ceremony, we are not going to a chapel, we are going to the park for a couple of hours (hopefully with Sakura...) for champagne and snacks, then on to a lovely bar in harajuku for a party. I am so excited. I was talking to Tracey about you at the weekend and she thought you would be well into the idea. Let's discuss this further over a drink sometime. Sarah

Hi Sarah,

Thanks very much for your offer and of course, I am up for it. It'll be cool to photograph a casual Tokyo wedding. I'll email you to arrange a get together.

Cheers

Martine