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.
Next to the cultural, historical and traditional sites that I visited throughout my vacation, wandering through crowds of people and experiencing the rythym, the pace of the city myself was one of my favorite things to do and though I'm usually moderate with my spendings I really loved to go around and shop with my eyes. How could there be a better place to do that than Myeongdong, one of Seoul's main shopping districts?
Who caught sight of the headline (and is literate in hangul) might have already guessed it; none other is today's posting about!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Today I try - next to a 12page text about AI in Japan, Korean homework and Japanese vocabularies - to supress my urge to draw my character from Pokemon X/Y to finally post again.
Before my new semester started I was optimistic to find a fixed day or at least an amont of 2hours per week I can organize as spare hours to deal with my blog... but it turns out it to be hard to reorganize your life.
Much harder than I thought at least, and learning two languages at once isn't really a walk in the park either... but I'm doing fine this far and I'm not here to complain anyway.
Right we are. It's already this time of the year but the 31st of October was a ordinary university day for me {pretty busy too} so I did nothing halloweenish at all this year. It didn't bother me actually, because I'm not such a big halloween fan anyway. {please don't kill me. I love pumpkins and pumpkin soup and black cats... but I just see no point in rewarding loud, annoying children who threaten to blow up your mailbox or 'decorating' the frontage of your house with bad eggs, with sweets that I could eat while studying or reading a book fanficition}
Now... as the title already implies, we're at it again. The {belated} single/MV release evaluation of October.
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.
After it took me forever to make any sense out of the photos left on my hard drive and the steady feeling of hesitation that built up inside of me, regarding the idea of making make-up and circle-lens reviews without a good camera {I'm still waiting for me and my dad to get me my super late birthday present}, I decided to give you another story though it's already been a couple of months since it happened.
In May I got my first EXO albums.*
* Let's not think about in what kind of madness I gave myself when I started to buy real albums instead of just getting my hands on MP3 versions of the songs.
I have to say that I feel much richer {not money-wise but in a figurative sense} and better the way it is now.
The KPOP industry seems to make so much more out of their business, than plain CD packages with a - more or less - exciting cover.
For me it's always like opening treasure boxes when I get a new album of my favorite KPOP musicians.
I bought them from the lovely Angi, who sold them second hand. This was THE big chance for me - back then a bloody beginner when it came to EXO - to finally get more into these guys, since I've been kinda enchanted and shyly interested in them after watching Kai and Lay on New Year's Eve 2012 {I know, I was really, really late to get to them}, when they performed with SM The Performance for one of the many 가요대전 (Gayo Daejun) shows I watched{in one of those shows also EXO had a MAMA performance}. Beside the point, I watched all of them: SBS, KBS and MBC's end-of-the-year-show.
I'm pretty busy today - actually - because one of my dearest friends comes home from Seoul today and I'll head to the airport soon to welcome him...
Tomorrow start my Korean lessons and I'm really excited about it as well.
It feels kinda unreal that my semester break is already over again, though.
I have many things I still want to show you but they have to wait now since I have to sort out pictures and stuff like that... but I hope I can do these posts soon.
Enough about that, let's start!
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.
So actually I'm on vacation right now and try to fight my writer's block to finally finish some of the fanfictions I plan for a longer time already... but of course my monthly evaluation shouldn't wait just because I can't get my shit together to finally write the sequel to "The Panda and the Phantom".
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.
I haven't updated for ages again... Sorry.
But my seminar is over now and I spend the last weekend with my besties.
Anyway - I spend the last few days working on posters/covers for my upcoming EXO fanfiction and decided that, I'll do some for my already uploaded oneshots as well...
I'm going to upload them soon and also finally on my LJ.
So here you can have a look on them... I put the AFF link beneath them so you can read my last works if you click.
I've been quite busy the last two weeks. I met many friends, had a lot of fun and today I'm really late with the Songs of July because yesterday - when the deadline actually ended - I went to Berlin instead to pick up my dear 고양이 Yonghee.
I'm so happy I saw her again after we haven't had the chance the whole semester time...
July was stuffed with great releases and I had 16 songs on my list... it was a tough fight to decide the 10 I'll review here now already and because I'm lately much more into KPOP... I decided to concentrate completely on those this time.
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.
I'm late again because I studied the whole week end... and sorry to say - but I'm still not done. Give me two more weeks, 14h sleep and I'll be back, creative and ready to upload issues I'm dying to upload for a while now!
[also I'll finally be able to work on my fanfictions again]
But here we go with the actual topic of the day!
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.
I'm so sorry I can't update properly lately because of my exams!
There are still so many things I want to show you - and I will - when this hell is over!
Just now I'm simply too overwhelmed by this and needed to share it though I actually should be breakfasting or stuff like this because I need to head to my Korean Culture class in half an hour... hm.
link for all German followers who end up looking on a black screen saying: "no b'tch, not in your country"
It's their new Japanese single and - JONGHYUN is back. I mean... yeah.
He's not even my bias but still... I'm happy and I goddamn-freaking love this song and the MV [though it's nothinng special - actually]. [I'll skip my passionate rant about how freaking-much I love key and why he is so sexy and OH MY GOD] When did Onew became so convident and sexy? I mean... he always was like a hidden treasure and now... woah.
