Post Number 90

No travel post this time! :-) Sorry to dissappoint everyone who has been waiting for another one. I'll do a travel post soon again.

This week's going to be very boring, my sis left this morning for her one week excursion to England with her university class, most of my friends are busy or are not here atm, and I have to work only one time this week. I've made an "appointment" with Littledemonpixie for skyping this Wednesday (looking forward to that), anyone else who wants to skype or chat or write emails and what not with me? XD

Anyways, that leaves me time to blog more :-) Btw, this is my 90th post, just 10 more and I have written 100 posts!  This is the longest I've been keeping up with blogging. I once had a livejournal, but I gave up on it very soon, lol. Thank you for following and always leaving me nice comments! I love you guys!

I was browsing my pic folders again, and want to share some random cute fotos with you today. Have fun!

Rilakkuma Teriyaki-Burger, coffee and Onion Karaage-kun from Lawson. Too cute to eat it, right??

More Rilakkuma coffee and Korilakkuma milk

Rilakkuma chips and milk pudding :-)

Rilakkuma haul from the Ufo Catcher

Again Rilakkuma

Now you see where most of my money goes to whenever I'm in JP. I'm a hopeless bear addict, hahahaha! Actually, I'm also using all the bear stuff and not horting it in my treasure chest in my room :-)) I will hold back with buying so many bear stuff during my WH, but that will be hard... Do you also have something you're really addicted to and spend so much money on it? 

Okay, it's bedtime here in Germany. See you!

Travel Post: Odaiba

I'm back to blogging after a little break due to some things. Concerning my WH, there is a high possibility I will book my flight within the next 3 days. I've found a really cheap flight, but still have to carefully think about it. But then it would be settled then, as soon as I've booked something I'll let you know. 

Thank you so much for your respond to my last post, I will try to keep my travel posts balanced, writing about Tokyo and other places. So today I wanna write about Odaiba in Tokyo.

I guess many of you know about Odaiba, an artificial island in the south-east of the Tokyo Bay. It is a very popular place for shopping and amusement. I had the chance to visit it already two times, the fotos I use in this post are from Sep 2009.

  A map of Odaiba

You have to take the Yurikamome Line from Shinbashi Station to get to Odaiba. (Yurikamome means "black headed gull" btw). It's a train that has no driver, similar to the trains at most bigger airports which bring you to the next terminal. I really enjoyed looking out of the window while being on the Yurikamome :-) The only bad thing is that the tickets are rather expensive, for that price I could reach other far places in Tokyo :-(

A Statue of Liberty :-) You can see the rainbow bridge in the background

The Rainbow Bridge

Fuji TV building and a huge park. I remember seeing many japanese + their international partners on that day

Fuji TV building and Aua City, a huge shopping mall

Sunset

There are great shopping malls, which you can only find in Odaiba. I have been to Venus Fort, Aqua City and Decks Tokyo Beach. Venus Fort is so special because it is a recreated Venetian shopping street. The designs were really beautiful:

Yeah, that's really the ceiling!

A beautiful fountain

I also loved the light in the mall

Odaiba has also many attractions which I couldn't see yet. For example:

The ferris wheel of Palette Town

There are also museums, game centers, parks, Onsen and what not which I'd really love to visit next time. Because the tickets for Yurikamome are quite expensive, you should take a whole day to spend there, and to see everything you want to. I can only recommend Odaiba, anyone who wants to go there with me?? XD

Travel post: Naoshima (Setonaikai)

Today I browsed my old pic folders and thought it is maybe time to write a travel post again? I remember that I promised to write a post about the Konpira-san, too. Bad me, I just forgot! XD

So I wanna  write about the island of Naoshima my sister and me had the chance to visit in the Seto Inland Sea between Honshu and Shikoku. I bet most of you are going to Tokyo or Osaka when you visit Japan, but hardly get to see other places, right? Except for Hokkaido I've been on all three main islands of Japan, and I really hope to explore more of them in my WH year.

Naoshima is the yellow island :-) Actually we wanted to go to Shodoshima that day XD On the map you can see all the districts of Kagawa prefecture.

We took the ferry from Takamatsu City which took about 25 minutes to Naoshima.

Only water and some little islands around us

The special thing about Naoshima is that it is a kind of "Island of Arts". You can find funny sculptures everywhere on the island, and many museums as also. We were able to visit the Benesse House and the Art House Project. The entrance fee was about 1000 Yen each time, but it was really worth it. 

I just love the beautiful landscape

Me, my sis and our friend Yui next to a huge sculpture :)

I love this pic XD

A huge pumpkin sculpture

Pumpkins seemed to be popular :-)

Bonus shot: our dinner back in Takamatsu :-)

It was so unbelievably hot and humid that day, I even got lightly sunburned at my shoulders. But it was really worth it, having spent the day in such an sophisticated and cultural place. Normally I'm not really into arts and stuff, but I can recommend a visit to Naoshima, because there you can have both a visit to the beach as well as a chance to improve oneself further in regards of arts. Next time I wanna visit Shodoshima for sure! I'm already thinking about what to post next, what would you like to see? More from Tokyo or the countryside of Kagawa?? With this is mind, see you next post!

Cologne and a watch story

Hello friends! Are you enjyoing your sunday? I haven't blogged for a while cause this week was full of work, I had to work almost everyday, and when I returned I just managed to leave comments on your blogs and that's it. No email replies, no blogging and no other things done on the Net. I have to look for a flight now the next days, and make a contract for my international health insurance. My sis is leaving for Japan in less than 3 weeks from now on, can't believe how fast time's flying now!

Have some random fotos: On Friday (my day off work :-) I met my friend Anne in Cologne. She is actually my penpal for over 5 years now, but we became really good friend with the time and meet here and then. We went to a sushi bar, Starbucks and chatted a lot :-)

The famous Cathedral of Cologne

The running sushi bar! 

I just love miso soup, could drink it all day long!

Some of the sushi we had

Bonus shot: my Kitty bracelet watch

Some fellow bloggers wanted to see my Kitty bracelet watch, so here you are! There is an interesting story to tell about that clock. I have it since about 5 years now, and I still love it so much. The best watch I'd ever had. Some weeks ago, I put it into the pocket of my jeans, and forgot to take it out before tossing the jeans to the laundry. You can maybe guess what happened: it was washed at 40 degrees in the washing machine. I was devastated, of course it was kinda broken then. I wanted to take it to the watchmaker to have it saved a few days later, but then I saw it was working again! A miracle happened! Something similar happend to my ipod in February, too! Seems my electronic devices love me so much they return from the dead XDDD Have a nice start to the new week!

My Working Place

Hello everybody, are you enjoying your Sunday?? Here it is raining the whole day, and it is autumn like atm, but I like autumn better than the heat so I'm totally fine with that. 

I thought that I'd make a post about my part time working place, a jewelry concession shop called SIX. I am working there just once a week, and have to arrange the goods, keep the place clean, and if customers come, answer their questions and advise them in terms of fashion :-) Are you interested? I don't know if I can get pics from my other working place, the Soba Restaurant, so have some from the jewelry :-)

We have a concessions shop in a huge clothing store

Cute jewelry, it's irresistible, hahaha!

Turquoise seems to be popular atm

Bonus shot for today: my very simple coordination (chosen almost randomly from my closet on Saturday morning while being half asleep, hahaha)

Cardigan: from a random store in Paris

Floral Top: Olive des Olive

Skinny Denim: Uniqlo

Shoes: no brand

Bracelet with clock: Hello Kitty

You can't see it but I'm actally wearing the Hope Diamond Necklace I won at Rick's Giveaway :-)

Since I've started working at the jewelry shop I've got to like jewelry and everything that glitters, hahaha! What are your favourite jewelry pieces??

Btw, did you realize I've been quite active in blogging lately? Yeah, I'm so proud of myself XD Hope you are enjoying :-) Cause I don't know yet when I can post again next week, as I've gotta work almost everyday. Have a good start into the new week. I'm off to write some letters now.

Sushi for free XD

First of all, I'm so sorry for the sudden problems with the new comment system and the inconvinience it has caused all of you. I checked Disqus site again and could restore some comments already, some of them are still missing. But it says that they are queued for importing to Disqus, so I think most of the comments will return, but it will just take a while. Thank God, I was so devastated about loosing the comments... I'm also sorry that there are problems to comment as blogger user as well, I made some test comments while logged off at Disqus and it seems you have to have to enter your name and email just once and then it will remember the data for commenting next time. At least it just worked a sec ago. If there are still any problems please let me know! 

About the title of this post: my sis and me went to a sushi restaurant yesterday, cause we got a voucher for a free sushi set! It was quite good, and we saved about 15 Euros with the voucher :-) And because I like to post food pictures so much, here you are! :-)

Yakitori

One of the plates was for free :-)

I was tagged by London's Beauty for a question and answers game, thanks for that! Here are her questions:

 

1)If your mum and your boyfriend/girlfriend jumped in the river, who'd you save first?

    I save my mum, cause I have no boyfriend, hahaha.

2)Would you rather be really white and pale or really tanned [tangoed]?

    White of course, I'm Asian, XDD

3)Family or Friends?

    Both, I can't decide :-)

 

4)If your boyfriend/girlfriend cheated on you, would you give him/her a second chance?

    Depends on the situation, but generally no, I think :-(

 

5)Hugs or Kisses?

    Hugs, I love hugs!

 

6)What country do you want to be in right now?

    Japan, of course <33

 

7)If you saw someone drop 5grand on the floor, would you chase after him and give it back ?

    Yes, I'm an honest person, and since I know how hard it is to earn money myself!

 

8)Strawberries and chocolate or strawberries and cream? :))

    I don't like strawberries :-)) But I love chocolate and cream! <33

 

9)If you were to bury something in the ground, wait for 30 years and dig it back up, what would it be?

     I don't know but maybe something's that is unimportant to me, lol. Don't wanna bury my important stuff in the ground

 

10)What do you do if you see an animal cross the road? [LOL my brother made this question up, I ran out of questions to ask, I think it was suppose to be a joke.]

       I'd try to rescue it, of course, without getting myself in danger :-)

 

Rules:
People who are tagged must answer the 8 questions, make their own 8 questions and pass it to 8 Blogger buddies, to continue the cycle!

 

Naka
Saving Capulet
Fellicia Marcelina
Angie
Riechan
Ami
Ken
Nic Nic

Here are my questions: (not very creative, I know, hahaha)

1) Summer or winter?

2) Lush or The Body Shop?

3) K-Pop or J-Pop?

4) Batman or Superman?

5) San-x or Sanrio?

6) Hägen Dasz or Ben&Jerry's?

7) What's your favourite bubblegum flavour?

8) What was/is your best subject at school?

 

Have fun answering! :-)

My new baby :-)

Hello, friends, my new baby arrived two days ago and I finally found some time to post about it! Actually I'm writing this post with it right now. I'm absolutly in love with my new laptop, it is so chic and easy to handle with. Have some fotos:

Still no stickers on it, but I will decorate it soon :-)

Sorry for the flash! (The right white one belongs to my sis)

Everything's just so new, I've gotta get used to it soon! :-)) I finally also installed Skype, so now we can also talk to each other! If you want, you can add me, of course, my username is thanh.thao14 (can't wait to try out my new webcam and of course to chat with you!)

Bonus pic for today! I got a cute letter from the wonderful Naka! Thanks my dear, I really love your letters and I've grown so attached to you, although we "only" know each other from the Net! I'll reply to you soon!

She sent me lovely deco sticker, thanks a bunch! I'll use them thouroughlly :-)

Okay, see you lovelies soon and let's skype! I've go no work the next two days. Yeah, so there's enough time to blog and skype :-)

EDIT: I finally managed to install the new comment system Disqus a few minutes ago, but by doing so all previous comments were somehow deleted :-((( I feel so sorry for loosing all of your precious comments, maybe I can restore them, let's see. If not I wanna thank you all for always leaving me your lovely comments until now, I've read each and everyone of them, and was honestly always so happy to have your warm words. Please continue commenting and supporting me and my blog. With the new comment system I can reply to your responses more easily and quick XD

Relaxing weekend

How was your weekend? I had a very relaxing one, my older sis, Mum and me went to the Harz Region in northern Germany to visit some friends. I took the chance to visit my penpal Melanie for the first time (we know each other already for 3 years now but never had the chance to visit), she lives about 15 minutes away by car from the place where my Mum has their friends. Melanie is such a nice person, she has a beautiful 8 month old baby boy! We had a lovely time, chatting each other's ears off :-) Have a foto:

Melanie and me. Don't mind my aweful bad hair day or how destroyed I must look like after a more than 3 hours drive in the car at 150km per hour, hahaha!

The air is very fresh in the Harz compared to the city where I live, there is so much green everywhere and it is so beautifully silent, hahaha! I sometimes miss this life, cause I was once from such a small village, too. But after moving to the city over 10 years ago I got used to it so soon that I can't imagine myself living in such a place anymore XD So much as I love being on the countryside, I've become too much of a city girl  :-) (Yeah, I will live in of the most biggest cities of the world soon). But for relaxing it is ideal, I spent most of my Sunday on the terrace of my Mum's friend's house :-)

Last Friday, my lil sis, brother and Lara went to the cinema to see Inception!  It was one of the most interesting and cool movies I've seen lately! I won't write anything about it here, maybe many of you want to watch it as well. I can only recommend it! I had to stare at Leo's scare above his eye all the time since my friend mention it before, hahaha! And watch out for a gy named Arthur, he's really kinda cool (just as you said, Käthe :-)

I ordered myself a new laptop which I will take to Japan with me. It also has a webcam on it, so I will learn how to use Skype to stay connected with my family and friends while I'm in Japan. So if anyone of you bloggers want to skype with me, feel free to do so, as soon as I've got an account! I'd love to practise some English with you! :-)) Oh, this is the baby I've ordered, it must be here tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Can't wait to decorate with stickers and stuff, hahaha!

Oh, just one more thing! To all of you who are in Tokyo right now, be sure not to miss Sara Mari's Lady Meetup in Shibuya this Saturday! Words cannot describe how much I wanna be there to meet all those cool and lovely ladies. Well, I'll be there in spirit! Enjoy the day, girls! Okay, that's it for today, I've gotta get to work now! 

About schedule books

Hello friends, how are you? I'm worn out lately cause I've gotta work so much, but that doesn't keep me away from blogging! XD I had some additional paperwork to do today for university, but now that's done too, I've got some free time again :-)

Do you guys actually have a schedule book or kind of calender in which you write down all of your appointments, doctor's visits, meet-ups etc? I use one every year since middle school, and I certainly couldn't live without one (not that you think I've got so many appointments :-) In middle school I had to use the boring plain students schedule books, but ever since I was able to go to Japan I got myself a new one there every year. The schedule books from over there are so much more cuter and useful than the ones we have here. Have a look at mine:

Kitty-chan 2007, Charmmy Kitty 2008, Kiki and Lala aka Little Twin Stars 2009 and the Care Bears for 2010

Have a look inside at random pages :-)

This week's page from my current schedule book

They are even useful! (Train map of Tokyo:-)

I'm so forgetful that these little books safe my life sometimes (for example when birthdays or events are coming nearer, hahahaha!) I'm already struggling with what to get for 2011. Maybe My Little Pony, Ado Mizumori, Disney or Sanrio?? The stationary shops have a huge selection!!

Bonus shot for today: my elder sister got these cute win passport holders for my younger sis and me! :-) I wonder what the immigration officers at the airports will say to these, hahaha!

My "beautiful" passport... I don't like the red colour. I'd love to have an American passport, cause I've heard they are actually blue?? Is that true? Such a beautiful colour.

Oh, yeah, two people didn't respond to the giveaway mail I sent them. Maybe I'll just give them one more day?? Let's see. If not, the two prizes will be sent to two other winners! Will be a surprise then, I hope to get to choose them soon :-)

Tomorrow will be a hopefully relaxed day with a lovely friends meet-up! Have a nice day, too :-) Hope I can post again the next days.