Award and Meet-up with Shou-chan!!

I was tagged again by London's Beauty, thanks so much my dear! Share 7 random facts about yourself! I hope I didn't write about them already. Maybe my facts are too boring as well!

1) I am Vietnamese with a slight Chinese (through my father's side), but I can't speak or read or undertstand any Chinese, hahahaha!

2) I grew up bilingual, meaning I have two mother tongues, German and Vietnamese. I can also speak English, Japanese, and basic French.

3) I am an absolutely non drinker and non smoker (I'm such a good girl XD) and don't like to party (which also makes me kinda boring, hahaha).

4) I love meeting new people! Blogging has given me so many new friends and opportunities, I can't thank you enough for your loyalty and support!

5) I am an almost vegetarian, I still eat fish and chicken, though, but no other meat :-)

6) I love letter writing and crafty things!

7) I can't play any instument nor can I sing properly, but I still go to Karaoke in Japan, it is so much fun!

Today I met up with the lovely and cute Shou-chan! And, oh my God, she is always so cute on the fotos she posts, but she is even more prettier in real life! Many of you might know her super cute blog スイート・ミルク・コーヒー ("Sweet Milk Coffee" for all of you who cannot read Japanese XD). I highly recommend you to follow! 

It was the first time for me to meet a blogger friend, and it was a great meet-up! I chatted her ear off, hahahaha! No, honestly I was afraid that the conversational topics would end soon, and that we'd have nothing to say, but luckily that wasn't so! We took some purikura (since the local Japanese bookstore has a new machine :-), had some nice coffee in a japanese cafe and Onigiri in a newly opened Onigiri shop, where we also had a nice chat with the owner. Have some fotos!

Purikura we took! Sorry for the low quality, my scanner must be the oldest one exisiting, hahaha!

Something weird happened in the Onigiri shop :-) A group of Asian guys (they were speaking French though!) kind of waved their hands and said Hello when seeing us, we had the feeling they were kinda flirting with us??? Wth? I think it must be because of Shou-chan,  they tried to hit on her, cause this never happens when I'm alone, hahaha! 

"My beautiful coffee"

Shou-chan's Caramel Macchiato

I specially like this one, isn't she pretty? :-) (I did not ask for permission to post this one, hope that's okay for you, if not tell me, I'll delete it at once! :-))

A foto of us in the cafe

I hope you enjoyed! Thanks again to Shou-chan for spending the day with me, I hope we'll see each other again soon! :-)) It was a super funny day! :-))

Update and about Ufo Catcher

Hello, it's been a while again! I'll write more today to make up that I was absent again the last couple of days. I hope you won't get bored reading :-)

On Saturday I went to the farewell/birthday party of some japanese friends who will leave Germany again after a year of studying here in Düsseldorf! I'll miss them heaps, but I can see them again soon in Japan :-) It was a funny evening. Have some fotos!

Some of the girls and me (hope they're not angry with me for posting :-)

The cute plushie guy having some snacks :-)

Today was just an "I stay at home all day" day. Actually I wanted to do so many things, but it was raining most of the time, so I decided to learn some more Japanese (yeah, I'm really studying again), thinking up good topics to blog about, write some letters and watch TV :-) My sis and I love the "24" series, and now we're at season 5.

I wrote these three just in about 2 hours :-)

Just in case someone's interested in the backside of the letters...

When I thought about topics which I could blog about I came up with stories or weird things that happen to me while being in Japan, and I think posts about Japan are always popular, so why not? So today I wanna write about Ufo Catcher in Japan, which I personally enjoy everytime I'm there and I'm also pretty good in catching stuffed animals :-) (No showing-off here, hahaha!)

Game Centers are pouplar throughout Japan, and when you've experienced them once you'll understand why. I myself could hang around there the whole day, either watching people playing or doing it myself, hahaha! There are also many purikura-machines in Game Centers, so watch out for masses of school girls taking them after school :-)

Some of the trophies I brought back to Germany. I gave a lot to my sis, so this is only what I have atm. You can imagine how bothersome it was to drag that huge Korilakkuma back home in my hand luggage, hahaha! It was caught by my friend Yui.

A Game Center at Halloween's

Some Pirates Rilakkuma

Various plushies :-)

I'll enjoy them again soon, but what should I do with all the plushies I get?? I'll only have a room in Japan, and not a whole apartment, hahaha! Maybe I should get some for a stuffed animal giveaway? XDD

Last but not least: The famous Nic Nic is throwing a lovely giveaway! She and her husband have an online shop for japanese cosmetics called A Pop of Kawaii, be sure to check it out!

Have a lovely day my friends! :-) I'll have to work again tomorrow! See you!

Awards again!

Hey, I was awarded again, two time by the wonderful Naka! Thank you girl, I feel loved and I really appreciate that! :-)

Where do you think you'll be in 10 years?

Wow, in 10 years I'll be 33... hopefully I'll have a house and a safe job (in Japan or in Germany) till then. I also wanna say of myself I've seen a lot of this world. And of course I'd be still into everything japanese :-)

 

I nominate:

London's Beauty

Saving Capulet

Megan

Ken

Sophia Alexandra

I nominate:

Steffi

Sara Mari

Sakie and Thomas Gantz

Shou-chan

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As lovely as awards are, it takes me too much time to write about them :-)) But it's till fun, so keep on tagging me! I still have to do a post about a tag game from Jessi! I didn't forget about that, just had so little time to do it!

I wanna leave you with a guessing game today! You maybe know that there are some weird machines or devices to be found only in Japan, I found some of those browsing my Japan-fotos files.

What do think is this? Well, those who are able to read Japanese may already know, so no prompting, please!

This is where I wanna be right now. Foto was taken from Odaiba, you can see Tokyo Tower and the Rainbow Bridge pretty well.

Next time I maybe have something more interesting to post, since today I'm going to two farewell partys for our two japanese interns at university, who will return to Japan the next days. See you then and have a lovely day! :-)

Award, Letters, and Muffins

Hey, time to post again! Thank you for your kind comments everytime! I really appreciate them! :-) 

I got two letters the last days, one from Megan, and the other one is from Chelsea! I was so moved by their letters cuteness, and I wanna share it with you! :-)

Left: Megan's letter, right Chelsea's one <333 When I saw the My Little Pony stickers, I immediately had to think of Sara Mari, since she loves them so much, hahaha! And I love the Pokemon stamps so much, they will find a nice place in my purichou :-)

Anyway, thanks a bunch, girls! You made my day and I will reply to you soon! :-) I'm also happy that I triggered off many people to start wrting letters again, it is such a beautiful way to waste some time, hahaha! Go on writing and make people happy with your letters! :-)

On Monday, Lara and me made some muffins for our picknick with the Tandem course at university, they turned out to be edible! We made some nice chocolate and sugar decoration as topping, and it seems everyone liked them! 

Sorry to all the diet-ers at the moment, I post too much food! This will stop, I'll promise!

I was awarded by London's Boutique! Share ten things you like!

I like: (in no particular order, though!)

1) Going to Japan

2) Meeting friends

3) A neat and clean room

4) Eating!!

5) Shopping!!

6) Writing letters

7) Cute stuff it can be anything

8) My plush bunnies (and all other plushies I own, too)

9) J-Music

10) American TV-Shows (does anyone know Bold and Beautiful??)

I like just simple things, they make us the most happy, right? XDD

Okay, that's it for today, hope I can post again soon, I have to think up topics to post about! Suggestions are more than welcome! :-) Wish you all a nice day!

I made it! :-) and random fotos again

Hello friends, are you enjoying your weekend so far? I'll do, but I have to work so much today later in the evening... Anyways, I have some good news to share with you! It is not yet official, but I passed my graduation paper!!! I went to the administration office of the university yesterday, because 3 months have passed since I handed that thing in, and I still didn 't hear anything about it. They told me my professor still did not hand in the grade, but the second proofreader finished long ago. See the working mentality in our university?? XD

Still, it makes me happy to just know I will graduate soon and that I'm on the safe side of my Bachelor's degree. This will definitely help me with getting a job in my Working Holiday year in Japan. Speaking of WH, it seems my friend who I wanted to do WH together with can't come with me, cause she was also accepted into a japanese university for one year for the spring term starting in March 2011. Well, I kinda expected it to come out like this, so I am not angry or anything like that. Just a little sad, that we can't spend this awesome year together. But we'll see each other anyway, since her university will be in Yokohama. Anyway, I know a bunch of cool people in Tokyo, so I will not be bored, hahahaha!

Wow, so my life as university student will end soon. I can remember the first term about 4 years ago, when we were the freshman group, everything was so new to us, and we had so much respect for the older students and professors. All in all summarized , the last years were full of fun, tests, fears (but no tears, hahaha) and lovely new friends I will miss like hell when they all move away to Japan or to where ever (me included).

It seems you liked the random fotos I posted last time, so here are some new ones for you, as I don't know what to post as fotos today. I just realized this post has become rather textlasting, sorry for that! :-)

The cutest necklace I've seen for a while (hey, I'm working in a jewelry shop! XD) I just couldn't resist and had to buy this from H&M!

Naka wanted to see a foto of my waternelons I eat every day, so here you are! While writing letters, what else? (Sorry for the mess on the table, it is our kitchen table)

The cupcake cafe we go to so often :-)

This times cupcakes!

Some Takoyaki, hmmmmm!

Ajitama Shoyu Ramen I had yesterday!

I have the feeling this is turning more and more into a food blog, hahahaha! See you soon!

Random Fotos

Time for a new post! I have been quite busy the last couple of days, and it was way too hot in my room, that's why I didn't use the PC so often. Thank you for all of your kind comments on my last post! I wish I could return all of them, but my comment sytem is just so bad. Maybe I should try a new one, like the ones Sara Mari and Tom use for managing their comments? But I guess I'm too stupid to install it properly, hahaha! :-))

Today I just wanna share some random fotos I made with my mobile camera (my sis took my camera with her, before I could upload, that's why I still didn't send you the fotos, sorry Tom!). Not that creative of a post, but I hope you'll enjoy anyway:-)

Oh, and yeah, my sis got accepted as a foreign student in Japan, at Meiji Daigaku! She'll be there from Sep 2010 until Sep 2011!! That really made my day, knowing that we will be in Japan for almost the same time! I'll be leaving in November though, 2 months later than her :-) 

Speaking of Japan, are you also following Sara Mari's blog Moments Like Diamonds? She is in Japan again right now, this time for awesome 6 weeks (I also stayed 6 weeks last year, enjoy the time it will be over way too fast! XD) Im checking her blog everyday to read her posts, it is so exciting! I highly recommend you to do so, too! :-)

Okay, here are the fotos! :-)

 Lara and me went eating sweets! I had an Italian Tiramsu!

Lara had rasperry cream cake :-)

A funny piece of paper I saw at the tram station. For all non Germans, it says: "Do you have a foto from me on your mobile phone? I was photographed secretly, without my permission. The text is also not from me. You were simply fooled" I have no clue what this is actually about! XD

A (very bad) new picture from me, taken in the elevator of my friend's student dormitory :-) Yeah, I was bored inside that elevator, hahaha!

I really love random fotos, what about you? I'll post more if you like them. I have tons of random fotos, also many from Japan! :-)

I realized that I'm getting new followers almost every day lately!! Thank you so much! :-)) I'm happy people find my blog interesting enough to read! :-)) I really appreciate it! I'm also thinking of using formspring for the first time, I've seen it on many blogs and I think it is quite interesting! :-) Are there things you'd like to ask me? XDD

Hope you keep yourself cool in these hot days lately! Im having a huge plate of watermelon while writing this! :-) The next days it's gonna become so hot again!:-(

Last but not least, thanks Naka for your lovely Rolling Stones postcard which arrived today! :-) I wanted to take a foto, but my mobile battery died on me a second ago :-( Thanks for that, I'll reply to you soon! :-))

Wanna eat some ice-cream?? XD

Hello friends, it's been a while (again). I am such a bad blogger not posting as much as I really want to, hahaha! Today I'm gonna post something fine for you!

But first of all, a huge thanks to everyone who took the effort to mail me their contact information for the penpalling thing! :-) I was so moved that many people want to have me as their penpal. Everyone who responded will get mail from me. But first, I'll send you an email back. I cannot promise to write that often, but it will be fun nevertheless! :-) Looking forward to your letters, and please wait for mine. :-)

Yesterday I had the night shift again at the Restaurant, and I went there without having taken off my flashy pink nail colour, ohohoh! When I wanted to, I realized my nail polish remover was empty! But my boss was cool, she let me work with those nails, I really love my boss, hahaha! But that will never happen again. I got a huge tip from a cute couple who have been eating japanese soba for the first time, so I had to practise with them holding chopsticks. Well, for me it is something so"natural", I mean the holding of chopsticks, that I totally forgot there are people who can't hold them properly, hahaha! It was very funny, we had a good talk as also (in my working time :-)

Today it's gonna get hot again after two days of normal summer weather! So what do we most do in summer? Eating ice-cream! :-) I have some fotos of ice-creams I had during my trips to Japan, so enjoy! :-)

We had all flavours of Baskin Robbins ice-cream in Japan! It was so amazing! My friend Yui spent so much money on them! Why don't we have that awesome ice-cream in Germany, too??? 

This is Maccha Kakigoori with Azuki beans as topping! It was so huge I couldn't eat is up alone! My hostfather bought this for us in Takamatsu, Shikoku.

This was Melon Soda with Vanilla flavoured Häagen Dasz eaten in Odaiba, Tokyo

Rasperry flavoured Kakigoori, also from Odaiba.

Mow's Milk Vanilla ice-cream (they had the caramel version last year, too!) Sorry for the blurriness!

Eaten at our homestay place in Kawaguchi, Saitama.

An ice-cream selling machine at the Onsen Resort in Kagawa, Shikoku, we went to. Of course we had to try this, too! I had the last one from the right of the second row :-)

Bonus Pic: Me (in Oct 2008 in Ai's house in Shikoku) eating ice-cream! Hope you enjoyed!

I'm looking forward to tonight's soccer match between Germany and Spain! I have many followers from Spain, but today I must say: Sorry my Spanish friends, Germany's gonna kick you out tonight! :-) XDDD

Oh, and yes, did I tell you I'm gonna be at the Cupcake Cafe I wrote about a couple of weeks ago again this Friday? I'll take more fotos this time. See you on Friday's post then! :-) Hope you enjoy some lovely sunny days until then! 

EDIT: Sorry I couldn't post the last days, it has been so hot and I've been kinda burnt out on blogging :-) Will be better the next days! As for now, I wanna share this awesome giveaway with you!  Sophia Alexandra is a very sweet Lolita!

Let's become penpals XD

Sorry I couldn't post again the last days, I was so busy! Another reason was the currently unormal heat here in Germany. I swear, my room has about 35 degrees atm, and my PC could crash any moment, hahaha! We had a thunderstorm last night, it cooled down a bit, but now eveyrthing started all over again :-(

It seems that you guys liked my last post, didn't you? :-) Thank you for all of your kind and nice comments, I appreciate each and everyone of them! Some of your words really touched me, and I didn't know there were so many other people who share the same hobby with me! So I'd like to say: Let's do it! :-) Everyone who'd like to exchange letters with me, can do so. You can contact me by my private mail address (see profile) and tell me your contact information. I can't say I can write that often, but I will of course try to. I wanna keep on writing letters while I'm in Japan, too, so that's the chance for you to receive even cuter letters with the wonderful stationary I can get in Japan XDD Cool, I'm so much looking forward to receive nice letters from my awesome blogger friends!

Tomorrow I've gotta work again, too bad! I'll try to post something interesting soon again! Hope you're enjoying a lovely weekend (and that you're not sweating like me :-)

EDIT: Enter Miruku's great giveaway!! There are great prizes to win! :-)

EDIT 2: I just entered Laurita's second Giveaway! There are some Loli goods to win! Make sure you enter, too!

Sorry friends I was so lazy to post the last days! I'll make sure to post something today (instead of doing all those Edits, I actually don't like! XD)