special ♡ SM pop up store & K-POP gets

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.

お土産 ♡ what I bought in Japan

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.

2014 catch ♡ august - december

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.

a month in a nutshell ♡ 十一月

It's the countdown these days, 2015 is coming closer and closer and I am still missing two months since I started this nutshell madness. I actually enjoy it a lot and I think I will continue it in 2015. It just looks so cute and I grew addicted to cute photo-edit apps on my phone anyway.

Here are some small peeks from November.
And surprise; this time there are 8 shots because I wanted to post some food, haha

live 2014 ☆ july, august, september and december

I'm as busy as a bee, this is already the second update I prepare for you guys.

This time we're talking about the other 4 concerts that were in my schedule 2014.

July 27th I went to Berlin to join other ARMY who were waiting excitedly to see BTS, 

a pretty new but really talented rap-heavy group of Korean boys. 

It was really fun and I got to know a couple of really interesting, 

bubbly teens when we were waiting in line. 

This almost makes me feel kind of old, haha

a month in a nutshell ♡ 七月

It's getting really cold and dark outside these days...
I'm busy as ever with university because the midterm tests for Korean class come already rolling in.
Honestly, I wish I had more time for myself; get some serious writing and blogging done - but I try to be more considerate and responsible for my body so sleep always comes first these days.
I'm really sad I can even do less with important friends who live far away because their schedule keeps them busy as well.
Though I still try to keep myself hyped and motivated, things like this make it a bit harder to stay focused and put your everything into your studies.
Even right now, when I'm writing this, a small nagging voice inside my head tells me that I should actually be writing flash cards or finish Japanese homework I've been doing for practise - but you can't always work, I say.

Since I don't want you to get too bored when I wallow in memories of Japan all the time, we're having another month in a nutshell today. We're looking back to the mids of summer; July.
- probably good to cheer up the mood, after coming home at 5PM to find everything already swallowed by November's early nightfall.

just in case ♡ summonflyingtoenail.com review

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.

song of the month ✧ 2013 special

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.

song of the month ✧ SEPTEMBER

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.

song of the month ✧ JULY

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.

song of the month ✧ JUNE

Lovelies! 

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.