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

Purikura talk // Another Meet up

Hello everybody! ♥

I'm really happy, being on vacation ~ (＝⌒▽⌒＝)

It's so nice to meet all of my friends since a long time! ♥

I will really miss it when I have to work again... but whatever.

It's still a long way until when. ;)

I will enjoy the free time and I really notice that body & mind condition are getting better again.

Please, always try to stay healthy - don't let the stress get caught of you!

Eat enough, sleep enough, have enough fun!

Nothing could be more important than the own health!

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So, yesterday I really did it - I bought the stickers. ♥

And I'm still very happy that I did so!

They are absolutely adorable and sooo cute!! (●´ω｀●)ゞ

Sometimes I still can fall in love with these kind of things.

That's why I'm happy to have penpals - they can send you a lot of cute stuff!

But I'm always ashamed that it's pretty hard to get cute or cool stationary stuff from Germany...

or that it's so expensive that you really can count this as a gift! (Ｔ▽Ｔ;)

I want to send cute & cool things, too!! (>_<)

--> Well, here they are!!

Sakura - mochiro~n!!

Apes can be so cute - but I'd rather like them

as drawings, not in real life. ^^;

These stickers were called "Eichhörnchen" - 

but for real, dear German people:

Children will wonder why our squirrel don't look like this!

And huskies! ♥

I love dogs and this kind is sooo adorable!!

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So and for this month, this is the last purikura shooting! (〃∇〃)

We decided for two different layouts but after choosing one of them with closed eyes I got the full length one!

For my friend it was the first time using a purikura machine but in my opinion she did well! ♥

(And I felt that I've gotten used to it again - it's getting easier for me to vary the poses ^^)

Of course we chose the friends' course and after taking the pictures we really used the whole time for decorating and trying out different things. 

So the full length-shot is a bit plain because we haven't had anymore time ^^;

Still I like plain purikura more than overloaded ones.

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And because we're already talking about purikura machines...

If you're interestes in the different purikura variations, tips about using the decoration mode or about posing, I want to recommend you this blog: http://purikura.blogspot.de/

Samantha writes reviews and give interesting insights into the purikura world!

Please take a look (and maybe get inspired). 

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But this reminds me...

While putting my new purikura to my album, I took a look at the others, I've made since 2009.

Guess, you can see the almost the same person everytime. -w

It's my very good friend Nadine ~ ♥

Love you sweetie!!

She introduced me into purikura in December 2009 and since when we always made some when I was in Hamburg.  :*:・(￣∀￣)・:*:

The machine was a pretty old one, I guess but I liked the different backgrounds you could use.

We often took the chance for presenting our new Yama-chan and Ryo-kun photos! ~w

That was great. (///∇//)

The last row and the last purikura stripe in the first row have been taken in Tokyo. (≧▽≦) 

There were so many different machines... we couldn't decide at all - lol.

And it was pretty cool for me, because it was the first time that collages were made!

(In the second & third purikura of the last row you could also see another girl us, I'm glad to meet again next spring: Vero. She's our purikura genious! ~♥

But you see... isn't it great to collect a lot of pictures with your friends?

I don't want to miss these moments!!

And you can see different hairstyles of mine - see that I also had longer pigtails around 2009?

That's my goal again - have longer hair. Maybe I will make it, haha. (*ﾟ.ﾟ)ゞ

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ヽ(*・ω・)人(・ω・*)ノ

Happy Birthday, Nadine! 

♥

Visiting Asian Art museum // Meet up with a friend

Hey Gals!　ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ

Yesterday I met my dear friend Sarah - we haven't seen each other for a long time. ^^

We decided a long time ago to go to the Asian Art Museum in the city but haven't made it until today.
So this was finally the time to do so.

I have to say that I really like to go to museums - I really love to discover some rarities, getting a closer look on the backgrounds, etc. (〃∇〃)

Because I'm also interested in Asian art and craftwork (most of all Japanese) and Sarah likes that, too, it was clear we have to take a look there someday.

Of course the first sections about South Asia and Co. were interesting but rather than looking at different Buddha statues I prefer graphics, fashion and dishes.

I should have taken some pictures of the Indian graphics.
These are so adorable!! ♥
It's minimalistic style but it's just astonishing to see how they could draw/paint at such small sizes of paper! (≧▽≦)

When I got into the Japanese section (and I lost Sarah there somehow because the arrangement is some kind of labyrinth), I really was happy.
What did I see?
Well... take a look. I took some pictures here.

On some days of the year they also held a traditional tea ceremony show.
I really would like to watch this! ♥  (●´ω｀●)ゞ

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After three hours of walking through the museum's halls we were so hungry that we went for a restaurant.

We both love Indian cuisine and so we went to the restaurant Amma.

☆* Review *☆

☆ Atmosphere

As always the Indian restaurant is pretty colorful. You could sit outside, too, but I prefer the quiteness inside.
The restaurant itself is pretty clean, the chairs are comfortable and everything makes a simple but a good impression.


☆ Menue

The menue has got a lot of different dishes. Starters, soups, appetizer, ...
You will have to choose from a lot of possibilities.
The prices are okay - we both paid for two meals, drinks and starters around 24€ - a normal price in my opinion.


☆ Service

I don't like waiter who try to flirt with you just as a joke.
Really, that's not necessary in front of a client.
Nevertheless the service was excellent.
They serve fast and they ask you if everything's is alright and whether you're enjoying yourself.

☆ bottom line☆

Atmosphere: ☆☆☆(☆)

Service: ☆☆☆☆☆

Food: ☆☆☆☆

Price: ☆☆☆☆

Total: ☆☆☆☆

All in all it's a nice restaurant with very delicious meals.
Today Sarah ordered Chicken Curry and I ordered Chicken Saagwala - Chicken with a spinach, ingwer and garlic sauce. The chicken was so tender, the sauce not too fat or spicy - great! ♥

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Afterwards, Sarah had to go to idee.
That's a German shop for decoration, drawing and other kind of stuff.

She needed something for her next cosplay and while looking at different stands I had to stop at the stickers' one.
There were so many cute stickers that remind me of Japanese ones!! (///∇//)

I could have bought everything!! (●´ω｀●)ゞ

Here are some examples - you know what I mean? I just love them!!

source

But still it would be a waste to buy them because I wouldn't use them - of course. >__<
Still I wish for these cute stickers!! (T_T)
Life can be so unfair - haha.

(Maybe I will buy them nevertheless tomorrow?!
Argh! I shouldn't!
I have to spend too much money this month because of some preparations, medical stuff, A LOT OF BIRTHDAYS!, etc. ...)

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Oh and we had to go to the J-Store, too.

We shared some purikura - and Sarah got the problem that she wore green pants today, so... it went blue with the green screen. xD

I really like the outcome of the purikura! ♥ ≧(´▽｀)≦

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Finishing with everything we decided to drink some coffee (or better White Chocolate) at Mc Donald's and then headed back home.

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It was such a funny and interesting day! ♥

We both hadn't had such a wonderful one such a long time.　

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! ♥