It feels kind of weird that it is already time for another month in a nutshell again.
After life has been kind of slow the last weeks of September it sped up rapidly in October and there is so much that changed or is in change right now, I can't even grasp it completely yet - standing in the middle of it all.
It's actually so much going on right now, that I struggle to write coherent sentences right now - there is still so much whirling around in my head.
I hope that sitting down and writing about October and remembering some of the things I did the past couple of weeks will slow me down a bit. Maybe this will make the spinning stop (it's a great excuse to not do my homework, too - even though I will most probably regret it tomorrow).
People who have followed the updates about my trip to Korea probably remember that I uploaded a ton of pictures in a post about Myeongdong last November already.
Today, other than the previous non-chronological haul posts, I'll talk about a specific topic and share the small amount of impressions I've gathered while being in Korea.
Ironically, I bought more stuff related to Korean pop music and my favorite bands of that genre when I was in Japan than I did last summer when I was actually at the source.
I'm a little early with this nutshell but because we have the end of the year approaching, too I needed some compromising. It's only a couple of days left till 2015 is over and I'm not 100% sure if I am actually ready for 2015 to end just like that... or maybe it's only about the short vacation that will end on the 2nd January, too and the fact that I feel weirdly disoriented after the last food coma, now when we're finally done with the holidays' eating binges.
Anyway, I will stop with the rambling and try to focus on that small résumé of December, now.
Partly inspired by Jessie from Jeweled Heart who published her most recent hauls like a machine the last couple of weeks, I decided to give you a small overview what I spent my money on the last couple of weeks, too.
Realizing that the majority of my new treasures emphasize my reawoken passion for anything cute, girly or pastel - it wasn't hard to decide on a title and this post here maybe gets me motivated enough to prepare a handful of reviews that I am dying to work on for you, but wasn't able to yet because grey weather only gave me crappy lightning that I wouldn't be satisfied with for my photos.
Maybe I will have more luck on a weekend, soon...
So this update is to share some of the things I might rave about in a review soon, or which I generally bought during the last two months (basically everything I got after returning from Korea in late August).
Assuming from my own - pretty nosy - nature, I thought it would be fun to share what I spent all the money on, during my trip. Since I stayed a month in total, I'm sure a certain amount of cash was used to feed and carry myself around. There are only two or three days I recall, when I didn't board a train during my 4 weeks stay.
However, I got the chance to buy a lot of stuff - though I couldn't help my thrifty nature and didn't spend nearly as much as I feared I would - and especially the 100￥ shops, namely Daiso were to my liking. I still don't understand why we can't have something like that where I live.
Literally everything there was more pleasing to the eye than what I've seen for easily twice as much in my home country.
The quality might not be the best and I have to admit that some of the stationery I bought are decrepit by now (after one year of constant use), but other things from the same store still work completely fine.
Before it gets too late, it's time to share what presents I got for Christmas 2014.
University has recently kicked in again and I just hope I'll be able to keep a constant blogging schedule up, neverminding the studywork I have to do - especially now, when the exams draw nearer.
Once again, I hope you all could spent your holidays nicely.
I'll include a few shots from my Christmas holidays, too to re-create the mood.
After all I feel a bit weird for talking about Christmas 11days into the New Year.
I've shared my outfit for Christmas Eve
{that is when we exchange presents where I live}
a lot of times already, but I still really like it (‘∀’●)♡
As promised, I won't let you down on the second part of this year's catch.
There are still enough things I want to show you.
I did however not include any Christmas presents or the things I bought in Japan in these updates, since they'll get seperate updates next year.
A U G U S T
the only thing I got in August. I love to buy t-shirts as a memory after concerts... but sadly LedApple was the last concert where I was able to buy a souvenir like that for me.
This time, I have really exciting news. At least I'm really jittery and happy and a bit proud.
Some of you should know that I have a weak spot for fanfiction and used to spend a good part of my time on websites like asianfanfics. Specifically, since I upload my fanfictions there as well.
However, because of the massive schedule I had with university repeatively throwing bricks into my face - proverbially of course - I now, after beating a writer's block that lasted almost nine months and preparations I did, starting from the first spark of an idea, till editing covers, that took a year at least altogether; I decided it was time to take the big step and get my new project, my first real - big - project
{at least since I started to write in English} out there.
Seeing that I didn't give a lot of hints and news about the concerts I went to this year, I thought it was about time to gather these and write a few words about them.
This year was the first year I spent so much money - and time - on concerts but I enjoyed them all so much and looking back I just have a few regrets...
Since I'm a quite honest concert-goer and rather enjoy the experience and moment than taking photos like a madman - especially when it's more often prohibited than not - I rarely take pictures at the venue or anything at all.
In my opinion, I paid enough money on the time I'm going to spend there, so I'm gonna make it a good time and enjoy the moment instead of risking to get kicked out for some blurry photos.
But that is - as stated - just my opinion and I'm rather thankful to people who think differently - I can look up some good concert shots later then; hehe.
That being said, this post will contain more words than images.
It's time to get some of the things done, that I whined about when I said there were posts that needed to be done before 2015 sneaks in behind our backs.
I noticed that I did way too few {gets} posts this year. The first was published really early, in February - you can read about it here.
And as I learned that many of my readers seem to like those, it's about time I do another one, and spam you with some of the goodness I got to call my own during the first half of the year.
Nothing new - I'm a huge BABY;
so of course there was a point where I got myself some goodies.
This point was back in April and it was kind of a birthday present for myself;
I'm on vacation, guys!
I'm going to be for a while, too. I've spent a week at Aiji and Maya's place.
Two lovely friends of mine, I meet way too rarely because we live on opposite sites of Germany (buh!)
Right now I'm besieging one of my precious real-life treasures, Cat.
She's so great and amazing but she'll probably never admit it though.
I sure could have done another JAPAN post now, but I feel like a lot has gone missing during these months of university and now... I feel like I just can't put all the pieces together enough to make it really interesting.
Guess university life just isn't interesting after all.
Long story short; I decided to put together at least a hand full of highlights - worthy enough for me to post it on Instagram - portraying what May was all about, long ago, when 2014 was still fresh and new.
I'm kind of sorry, really but on the other hand I've been such a lazy bum since my lecturers ended.
It's been almost a week now and I didn't do much yet. Not even for my term paper but I gladly realized that my writer's block {that's been bothering me for almost nine moths} is finally gone and I've found the motivation to work on a project I've been planning more than a year now.
This time now, I want to share a bunch of photos from Shin Okubo{already mentioned in the headline} as well as one of my most favorite stores I've been to during my time in Tokyo: Tower Records in Shibuya.
It's a large, 5 or 6 story building stuffed with nothing but music. Music of all sorts, from everywhere and I don't even know what.
It's amazing. I tell you... and I'm pretty sure I spent the majority of the money I spent - there.
My oral exam is next week and the 21st is the day of my written exam. This is my excuse for that lack of updates and also a warning because I'm not exactly sure if I'll be able to update before the last weeks of this term's lecture periode have passed. Unfortunately the end of the term also means that my motivation is long, long gone... doesn't make studying periode a really fun experience, tbh.
I haven't spoken much about music on my blog this year, which is a pity because it's a big part of not only my everyday life but basically everything I do.
The long-awaited f(x) comeback, however, is enough reason to show a sign of life.
The song has an amazing drive but still some parts I stumbled over the first time I listened to it.
I'm hyped anyway and absolutely love the music video.
They are all looking super sexy and hot and just wow. It's been long since I've been so thrilled about a girl group's music video... but these ladies always get me out of my shell, haha.
Especially Amber - let's be real.
She's been my favorite even before I knew who f(x) was and goddamnit, I love her so much.
She's such a lovely person with a fun and inspiring personality (and she's so incredibly attractive ;A;) and I'm pretty sure I'll spend the rest of my entire exisstence crushing on her...
Anyway - if you have a working proxmate or another addon (or are just lucky enough to not have an institution in your country that bans music videos on youtube) you can watch the new music video and do the math!
I have to recover in high-speed from a sudden fever till tomorrow so that I can go to Düsseldorf.
Yes, I haven't mentioned it before but I'm actually going to see B.A.P there on Saturday and I can't wait as much as I don't care about my health condition because I will go there no matter what.
Not really smart, I know - but {I never thought I would ever use that in any case ever - not even to prevent a life-threatening situation}you only live once. Besides I'm relatively optimistic about me recovering fast.
I will keep you a little updated on twitter - and if not, I will try to give some sincere new postings some day next week.
I will go and drown myself in medicaments now {no, I won't I don't like them and most of them don't help anyway} and go to bed then.
After my birthday sneaked past silently and next to my slowly starting preparations for the new semester (and the re-exam in Korean) - at least I wish I was doing important things like that - I finally decided on a concept for my JAPAN postings.
But before I'll launch this series I finally want to do the review I've been waiting to do since the moment I ordered the products.
I kid you not.
I was so excited for them to arrive and though it took forever.
It wasn't the stores fault but some trouble the custom office in Germany had.
But after almost 6 weeks they finally arrived - the mobile phone cases I ordered for Christmas from www.summonflyingtoenail.com.
Actually I don't know anymore if I had any other special idea behind it, when I decided to do a song of the year 2013 special.
I think I toyed with the idea of making another top 12 out of all the 'winners' this year.
But I decided against it. Because I'm lazy and because this kind of getup didn't seem to appeal to most of you anyway.
Thus the special now is nothing special in the whole sense of special.
Maybe you find yourself enjoying it anyway.
Here are the 13 songs of 2013 which were rewarded... if only with an edited crown.
I honestly hate to bring so much stuff over to this new year now... but it feels even worse to sweep it under the table. So though I decided against continuing that format for 2014 - at least like that - there will be another posting next to this to sum up 2013 in a whole.
But first of all,
I wish you the best for the new year. Maybe I'll come up with a small post on that in detail.
Let's continue witht he usual madness.
As always this is just MY OPINION!
You don't have to agree. You don't have to like.
Opinions differ naturally and it doesn't make you a bad person.
* and please keep in mind that you can watch the MV clicking on the picture.
Actually I wanted to do this post like two weeks ago... but thanks to a really busy schedule and a sudden sickness, that knocked me out last week, I never got the chance to finally do it.
But now when finally Chirstmas vacation and 大晦日 comes rolling in, I am free for the rest of the year.
I mean... I still have to learn a couple of vocabs and do stuff for my term paper but all in all it's going to be much more relaxed than I expected it to be. Yey for that.
Now let's see what we have here.
This post is somewhat a sequel to my Like a dream, he's a cold machine ♪ posting from October.
After I talked about how I got my copies of MAMA, we're now moving forward to my impressions about their first album XOXO.
It has been a week since I wanted to do this post but I was super busy, super stressed and the past day I even caught some fever. {I believe it's from my lack of sleep - at some point it had to get unhealthy consequences}
But since it wouldn't make any difference to write a long apology letter to you now, I'll just get over it and go on with the usual business. {also because my head hurts again and I don't want to challenge the fever to break out again. no thank you.} Oh. I changed the design of the pictures a bit... I don't know if I'll keep it till the end of the year or if there will follow other minor changes with the blog layout.
As always this is just MY OPINION!
You don't have to agree. You don't have to like.
Opinions differ naturally and it doesn't make you a bad person.
* and please keep in mind that you can watch the MV clicking on the picture.
