스티커 ♡ new arrivals for my collection

Who follows me on my personal tumblr - yukulicious.tumblr.com - might have noticed that between the obnoxious load of KPOP content, POKéMON and fashion snippets, loads of cherry blossoms, beautiful photos and general outbreaks of anything pastel and cute (I honestly reblog whatever floats my boat without any kind of content filter there, it's like my personal dump for everything that holds my attention for longer than 3 seconds) - you can find relatively many reblogs containing stationery.

Hands down, I love stationery.
- especially cute stationery, no matter if pens, pencilcases, notebooks (I actually collect them as well) or whathaveyou, which is why South Korea or Asia in general is heaven on earth for me in a completely other level.

   

source ♡

Honestly, I sometimes have a hard time to find stationery with decent quality that is at least kind of in the same street as what you find in Korea in terms of art supply or just generally stationery, here in Germany... Most of the time it's either too expensive or too kitschy (or both).
All the more I used every occassion I could to wander through stores that sell stationery and just surrounded myself with items that I never tired of looking at.

study and organisation tips

It is always kind of hard to get into the 'back to school' feeling in spring - when there are no offers for supplies and pretty much no one cares about your university necissities.

The pattern of my first 12 years of education differs so much from what university is like, where I live. The school year - up until I graduated - started in August or September and ended in June/July.

However as soon as you change to university, things change likewise.

Now, I have summer terms and winter terms and it actually makes a lot more sense to me.

The terms itself however can feel like a whole school year felt to me a few years ago.

Getting back to school is a big topic in general. If you look it up you'll find thousands of hits, clicks, pins, tweets, tips, videos and whatnot. Everyone gets excited about their latest supply haul, new markers and planners and I'm no exception.

Though it means getting back into schedules and having a lot of work already peeking up in the distance, I like these times of the year.

It's really motivating and after a break of roughly a month, going back to a regular schedule for everyday, with appointments and deadlines {that guarantee to keep you busy} seems kind of desirable and I find myself looking forward to it a lot.

I always was the kid that enjoyed going to school anyway, but that's another topic.

Since the 'back to school' time differs a lot between university and school - unless you're from South Korea or Japan {the two countries I know, where the school year starts in spring} - I decided to post this here kind off-time - but in synchro with my personal schedule.

I will share general tips and rules I try to stick with, to make my study routine more efficient and fun. I can't reinvent the wheel, whatsoever so you probably heard of the things I'm going to talk about already.

...and that's who I am ♡

I'm really lazy these days. really. lazy.

The weird thing is, that I get frustrated over myself because of that and still can't get myself to just get up and do things I have to do.

This time, I've been clicking through a blog, I've started to follow only a week or so ago, keeping myself from studying for the exam that is still waiting for me at the beginning of the new semester, that will start in a couple of weeks.

Piixel is a really cute blog, written by Sann and I've re-discovered a really offbeat blogging-style that I would like to be inspired by, too. It feels just so much richer in variety and I would love to have more of that on my blog as well. You should definitely check her blog, if you're constantly looking for new, interesting and fun blogs to follow - just like me.

Anyway, I clicked through her articles and found one, that seized on a tumblr blog called "andthatswhoIam". 

I've seen their edits and post and pictures floading around the Internet for a longer time now. I could spend hours, if not even days on that page, clicking through all the random little thoughts they gather and share there and because I always wanted to do this - but never did - I spontaniously decided to give you this - by contrast with former updates - rather random update here, where I want to share a couple of things I found, browsing this blog.

If you're curious, you can check out the clearly smaller selection, Sann shared on her blog, here.

words ♡ 初心忘るべからず

 "We should not forget our beginner’s spirit"
初心忘るべからず

I decided to start today's update with this Japanese saying. 

It's one of my favorites and suits the situation quite perfectly. As many of you know; I went to Japan from March 3rd and returned March 31st 2014. I'm still writing updates about my experiences on my JAPAN tag, here.

In memory of this - my first - trip to Japan, I decided to give away some details about me and my intentions to start the degree course I'm currently in and how my interest for Japan and East-Asia in general, were formed and shaped from early childhood until now.

This post will be kind of sincere and personal and with a lot of text passages - I would really much appreciate comments and feedback since I haven't spoken that honestly and directly on this blog in some while and I would like to know how my readership thinks about it.

new hair for the new year

The year is almost over and Christmas kinda just rushed by... till now I didn't think about doing a detailed post about it since it didn't feel like such a big event to me this year.

Maybe it's the stress?
Of course I spent some nice days with my family and I got a handful of cute and thought-out presents but I had not quite the motivation to take proper photos of them or think about anything else like that.

So if you are interested, let me know. You might find out about some presents sooner or later, when I mention them, maybe. (◎_◎;)

So today I just want to distract me from the fact, that I should be doing my song of the month and a couple of other postings I was planning to do these days for at least half a year now.

But of course, I absolutely forgot... Honestly, I'm not at my best lately.

My mom is going to do my best friend Cat's and my hair tomorrow so next to the release from the pudding hair that was forming on my head, I had to decide if I want a new hair cut as well.

Of course. I always want new hair. So after diving deep into the depth of our well known Internet, I wondered: why not share it with you when I'm already at it? (๑>ᴗ<๑)