New programme starts on ZIP FM this coming weekend, and to promote the show, I've produced a series of postcards featuring a Nagoya city street with a sign warning CHRIS GLENN NEXT 77.8Mhz with my silhouette on it...
450 cards were produced and all have a small personal message written on them too...I've got a sore hand from writing, and a fuzzy tongue from licking stamps!
Saw this vehicle rolling down Nagoya's Airport road (Route 41) fitted with cameras pointing in alsmost every direction,...could this be the famed Google Map / Earth van taking pics? I must look up the area and see if I can see me!
On stage at Nagoya's International Airport, Centerair, for a talk show for Thai Airwarys International. Did a 30 minute talk and big screen slide show promoting tours to Thailand!
At the same promotional event, my friend Ai Chan, who is one of the world's top Fruit Carvers (bet you didn't know there were professional fruit carvers, did you?!?) carved this out of a single watermelon. I want to know where she got a watermelon at this time of year,...
And another friend manned the Thai boot, Hattori San,... Wonder if he's related to the famous Hattori Ninja clan,... Must ask him about that!
After the Quake relief donation collection, while the PPF staff were collating and re-packaging donated items, I had to do a talk show on the Japanese performing art of Kabuki. Local kabuki specialist and friend Oguri San had set up some kabuki costumes and items from many hundreds of years ago around an old 1800's home, now used as a civic centre of sorts. In one room, in front of a public gallery and cameras we talked for about 45 minutes on Kabuki, Japanese history and culture. The stories behind the costumes was fascinating, with hints as to who the stories were about, determined by the patterns and subjects on the costumes,...
Saturday March 26. Below Nagoya's TV Tower collecting donations and goods to be shipped to the quake and tsunami ravaged north eastern districts. Once again TV and newspapers were on hand to cover the collections. This event is growing. Last week was just me and the PPF team, this week, we're joined by many media people supportive of my work with the helicopter team.
In front of the PPF offices,...and this is just half of what we collected! It took a one-ton truck to get all the donated items to the Hope International Charity's collection point! First time I've ever driven a truck too!
The radio DJ team from various stations gathered to help collect radios to be airlifted to the survivors. This is probably the first time ever that rival station DJ's came together, despite what radio station management thought!
A big media turnout this time, with FM Aichi's Takeyama san and Kuro Chan, Mid FM's Sano Eri, Soon to return to Zip-FM, Chris, and TV Aichi's Kaino Yuka...
Friday March 25, up early for a 1 hour drive to Ichinomiya just outside of Nagoya for another Earthquake relief donation collection event,....
This time, helping raise funds for the helicopter association was former model and TV personality, Mizuno Yuko (crouching in front of me). Mizuno San saw what I was doing for the victims of the mega-quake and tsunami, and wanted to take part, and so she organised a collection event, similar to what I was doing in Nagoya city central.
Mizuno san enlisted the help of her friends from the Ichinomiya area to help collect funds to keep the helicopters flying, and to gather necessary supplies to take directly to the victims in the North eastern Tohoku region.
TV Aichi is updating is programming, and so today was my final regular appearance. At the end of the show, I received flowers from host Arai, who's also leaving, and main host, Tsuboi Norio.
Regular director Yamaguchi Yuko is also moving on to a different show... Oh well, All good things must come to an end....
