Little Presents from Japan

Hello my dear ones,

how have you been?

It's such an odd season - right now it's too warm for me

but the good thing is... I finally can wear my dresses and skirts

again. <3

But this time it's all about gifts from Japan!!

Enjoy!!

When I met Ayaka on the Speech Contest's day

she brought me a small cute bag - there were my

favourite KitKat's inside (Matcha! <3)

but many more...

So it was a really traditional gift bag with such cute

designs - A tea towel with the Fujisan on it.

A koi printed fan and small little cards and envelopes

made of Japanese paper.

Risa wanted to send me a package since Autumn

and now look what arrived...

She asked what I wanted to have and I only had

two things in mind: a cute printed mask and some lunch

box items. So she picked a lunchbox (two bowls in one) with

a dog design and two Alice in Wonderland styled masks. <3

There was also a lot of stationary stuff which I really adore! <3

I also met Kotone almost 2 weeks ago.

She brought me that beautiful letter set with flowers

and also another one with a small ribbon and some

sticky notes. <3

But I didn't enjoy only the gifts... but the wrapping

paper, as well! I love it! Isn't it cute?!

And this is how the lunch box set works.

A rice bowl and the upper box you can fill with

another topping.

It is closed safely so it won't spill.

~

I so long for going to Japan again and buying a lot
of great things. (;___;)

I really miss all the cute little things.

You don't need them... but it's nice to have them!

<3

The recent days

Hey gals!

I'm sorry that I didn't write anything at all the last three weeks but I have to say that I was in stress with studying and now I'm in stress with work, hobby deadlines and most of all midterm exam preparations.

Right now working with this heat is awful for me so that I feel clincal dead when I come home!

I'm sorry!! (T_T)

So today, I just want to write about some things that came up.

There may will be a lot of text and less photos - sorry again (;_;")

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On Saturday, two weeks ago, I had a very exciting and funny day because I took part in a film shooting for a friends' application video. (she wants to study direction)*

My role was a teenie fangirl who is absolutely obsessed with some well known teenie star.

It was pretty hard for me to act so hyperactive and exaggerating... when I was at that age I NEVER behaven like that. ^^;

Furthermore the "teenie star" was acted by a trained young actor and so I didn't want to be burden for everyone since I only acted in a hobbylike group that is already three years ago. (>_<)

So I was pretty happy that he told me honestly that I acted well. Thank God!

I'm looking forward to watching the final result!

The rest of the day I went with a friend shopping because I looked for a nice German cookbook that I wanted to send to my Japanese penpal.

Happy me got one and did sent it right away! ^^

We ended up at McCafé as always and ate some Japanese food in a nearby restaurant.

* Of course I can't tell you the details of the 10 minutes movie but if you want to take a look what her work looks like - click here. Or here if you want to read the story of this linked movie.

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Because we're already talking about penpals and so on...

I love exchanging mails & letters but... this month was too expensive!!

On the contrary I received a lot of delicious stuff...

... nice stationaries...

... and as a medical junkie... a Japanese book about anatomy

(since it's in English, too, I can learn both med languages)

Oh and there were more things.

Don't you think that the moly bunny is cute?
I love it! ♥

And the Pure jellys are my favourite ones!!

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So then I also met up with another friend I haven't seen a while.

As always we went to a Asian restaurant - this time it was our favourite Korean one.

Mine was called Dubu Bokum and it was a rice bowl with fried tofu,

a lot of different vegetables and some side dishes..

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And then I had a lot of time while I was in school so I did some nailart again.

I don't like wearing stripes as clothing but I really love stripes as part of nail art.

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What do you think of these fruit-color hair dyeing?

In my opinion some styles weren't really pretty but but these two just called to me "Love us!" ♥

Haha... (〃∇〃)

I really would like to let one or more strands dyed but I'm not sure if it would look as I want it in the end.

So I'm still shilly-shally. (￣Д￣；；

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So that was a really messy entry! (((( ;°Д°))))

I hope to write again... much more organized and about much more interesting topics...

I'm really looking forward to my 3-week-holidays in eh... three weeks.

I'm out of energy! 

But it's frustrating to know that these will be my last holiday until MARCH 2014!! (T____T)

read you soon again! ♥

The traditional "Hiyoko" sweets

Hello my dear gals! （‐＾▽＾‐）

Because I have to work alsmost a whole week again there aren't any special things I can talk about.

So it's another post about favourite Japanese sweets I recommend to you! （‐＾▽＾‐）

This time it's "Cha-hiyoko" - the sweetest chicken to eat. ♥

I'm very grateful to Shin-kun, that he introduced me to Hiyoko - some really yummy Japanese sweets since 100 years! ♥

So the anniversary has just been last year. ^^

First I wasn't sure WHAT it is... but thanks to Japanese vocabulary... it's a young chicken! (〃∇〃)

And there is some history behind the long, long ongoing story of hiyoko...

Please take a look by yourself here.

It is told that the creator wanted to have some sweets that both adult and children like.

Moreover sweets were some energy sources for the workers in mines and cakes were also a nice gift for transactions in other cities, etc.

The outside reminds of some soft cake or soft buiscuit and the inside... is filled with matcha-créme!  ♥

You can get various package versions of these sweets but my ones were packed as triples. ^^

As you may know Japan really waste a lot of paper, plastic, etc. for packaging - but still it's always wrapped nicely.

Furthermore you just can eat one and lay the others aside - they won't dry. :)

I really recommend these sweets to you, if you like matcha and can buy some or get some of them send to you.

Please look for it, when you will travel to Japan someday! (●´ω｀●)ゞ

I hope that Hiyoko-sweets will remain among civilisation for a long, long time!

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Sweets & Candy package from Japan arrived!

Hey gals! ☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*
What a wonderful day! (at least in Berlin) ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ
When I got home from work something was waiting for me...

My dear penpal Shinji sent this to me.
I was surprised about the fast delivering! ∑(ﾟДﾟ)

Well... and what was inside...
He told me that right now he hasn't got the money for sending me more than sweets&candy but that was totally fine with me. Especially after... unpacking! (〃∇〃)

Strawberry, normal chocolate

and Matcha chocolate cubes!

In front: chocolate pyramids with liquid 

chocolate inside! ♥

Potatoe chips - I guess the right one are also chips but

with ume flavour (°_°)

Typical chocolate biscuits in different shapes

And I have to admit... I'm really happy about those Pockys!
I love Pockys!! <3

And I haven't had the midi ones before.
Haha. ♥ (〃∇〃)

Tomorrow or the day after I can finally send my package to Japan, too.

But the shipping costs are really... expensive.

40,00€ ... that's absolutely unacceptable! (T__T)

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Japanese restaurant NAZUNA and lil' shopping

Hey gals! (≧▽≦)

Today should have been a pretty busy day for me - After I met with Viki last evening I returned home around 9.30am. Perfect time for breakfast with my mom.

Well, then I wanted to prepare for my meeting with a former classmate but she had to cancel it because of sudden sickness. Poor Moni! ):

Nevertheless I wanted to go to town and check out some things... ♥

So I went to Danziger Straße / Prenzlauer Allee to find this Japanese restaurant called "nazuna" my father told me about.
I didn't know that they exist since two years. (@_@)

And here it is:

In the past this shop was a butchery. 

That's why the furniture and the whole selling room

seems to be pretty easy and pragmatically furnished.

On the table are some self-made sweets.
Ichigo Daifuku, lollipops, chocolate.

You can also buy green tea.

The saleswoman is really nice.

Other sweets like cheesecake matcha, Baumkuchen matcha,

yuzu cake, ...

And here are the hearty and tasty things:

A weekly bentou-box, smaller bentou, sidedishes and

special dips or onigiri with salmon or sesame.

These were only a few of the take-aways.

Of course you can also order in the restaurant itself.

I will try it next time but today I just stopped by to take a look. ^^

But what I bought it this:

Onigiri with salmon, Ichigo daifuku, yuzu chocolate,

Baumkuchen matcha

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Afterwards I went to the shopping mall.

And lucky me got two nice items at H&M! (＝⌒▽⌒＝)

I just combined them in the changing room.

The boyfriend jeans shorts are fitting perfectly and it is made of

really nice denim! (that's not always to be sure)

The shirt is a halterless one with animal print.

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That were the only clothings I got - other shops but non fitting things... too lose, too tight, too expensive...

Well yeah. (￣□￣；)

The only thing I bought then, was a new fountain pen. ♥

The last one I got is already 15 years old and at least I wanted to have an "adult" fountain pen for writing letters and postcards... (Yeah, I'm still writing letters - thanks to my penpals in oversea!)

I've chosen a Parker Pen. 

Parker is pretty well known for its writing instruments and what a nice coincidence that my father bought a Parker some years ago, as well.

So the only thing that hurt... was the price. 40€ are really something for a fountain pen (at least for me) but it'll be worth it since such pens last very long. ^^

I'm looking forward to write my first letter with this beautiful little pen. ♥

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So... Tomorrow's Mother's Day!

Are you all prepared with flowers,

chocolate and so on?

Japanese sweets / Tokyo ViVi

Hello darlings! <3

The whole week nothing happened particulary.
It's always the same during school weeks.
Too much stuff to do and to learn, so there isn't really time for anything else. (T_T)

But I'm looking forward to the next traineeship!
It's 'just' work and so I'll have freetime every afternoon and evening.
Furthermore I'll work in a day hospital, so the weekends are free, too. ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ

I already made some plans for May and really looking forward to it.
Especially the day trip to the tree blossom festival with my penpal! ♥ (〃∇〃)

So for today I decided to show you some of my favourite Japanese sweets.

I really like the different flavours of Japanese KitKat!

The pumpkin flavour isn't really strong, but Matcha flavour is great!
I hope that I can try Sakura KitKat soon. Just have to wait

for a package. -w

Milky milk candies are very sweet but are tasting really good, too.

It's some kind of ordinary flavour but there is no need to have

extraordinary things every single time, right?

I love the design! ♥

Look a la mode chocolate includes four different flavours

as you can see. Actually, I haven't tried them yet, but I will

those days. With strawberry, banana or caramell chocolate you

can't do anything wrong! (〃∇〃)

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Yesterday my Tokyo Vivi issue also arrived. (●´ω｀●)ゞ

I haven't bought the ViVi magazine or this special issue before but I really like the design.

Most of the clothings are also good casual style mixed with cool, girly or mature.

Other pages consist of the model's private talk or photos of their private belongings.

I really like such things as 'what is in your bag?'

Very interesting and sometimes you can spot some new good things. ^^

Of course at the end of the issue some gymnastic practises are also shown.

The usual stuff for a beautiful skin, beautiful legs or breasts.

(In my opinion it's stuff that don't work)

As a résumé I want to say that this special mag of ViVi is really refreshing in design, made of good paper quality and the styles are between western and Japanese fashion lines.

I think I will buy the next one, too. ♥

Oh right, and the special feature are some illustration of Sailor Moon.

That was the icing on the cake why I wanted to buy this mag!  -w

Some nail art trends are also shown, but I don't like the geometrical

patterns. Absolutely not my style. ^^;

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