Random Post =)

Thank you for kind words on my last post, I'm really happy I could share that moment with you. It feels great to have an acadamical degree now, but on the other hand, I also feel like nothing really changed. I'm still the same person I was two days ago. Anyway, I hope this will make it easier for me to get a job in Tokyo, as I also speak quite passable Japanese and even look Asian, hahaha! Speaking of  WH, I will get some new passport fotos this week, write the letter the motivation and then finally apply for the Visa at the beginning of next week. I've got less than 4 weeks left now, so I gotta hurry up! XD

As I couldn't upload any fotos yesterday (thank you Blogger) I just do it today!

A random poster I saw lately. I think it was an advertisment for some radio show or so. Just thought it was funny. It says: "Don't worry Be German - An American becomes German". I wrote one of my uni papers about stereoypes presented in the japanese popular culture, and it seems the japanese and german way of a stereotypical American would be like this XD 

As I've got only 4 weeks left, my Mum says I should start packing my stuff now, or I will forget many things :-) I always reply it's too early, but Mums can be so strict sometimes, haha! I thought I just take this opportunity to show you my travel luggage. I have a big Swimmer travel bag and a pink suitcase which I both bought in Japan. It looks so small on the foto but it's actually quite spacious. As I'm an expert on how to pack stuff efficiantly into a suitcase that it won't explode when you open it, I think I'll manage to get everything I need inside those two pieces. I'll also be allowed to have one more handbag, but I didn't decide yet which one to take.

For all the people who are still waiting for a letter from me, I'm so sorry I haven't replied yet! But I will do so this week, so expect the letters to arrive at your places in about 7 days, depending on where you live =)

For my next post, I'll write about something very typical for/ in Tokyo which I actually like but I know many people who don't, so that may become interesting.

Post 98: Random update

I've got some great news from Japan! My friend Ai gave birth to a beautiful baby boy called Hinata yesterday, 21 September at 09:43 PM local time. She sent me a foto, and he's just adorable, he's got much black hair! Mommy and child are doing well. Congratulations, Ai, I can't believe you're a very young Mommy now! I shall pay you a visit asap.

I was awarded again, which makes me happy everytime cause lovely bloggers think of me :-) Thank you, dear NeNe for two awards at the same time!

 One Lovely Blog Award! 

 

Here are the rules for accepting this award:

1. Accept the award. Post it on your blog with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2. Pay it forward to 15 other bloggers that you have newly discovered.

 

I don't think I even get 15 new bloggers together cause I'm always following the same blogs:-) Everyone who thinks he/she is a new reader shall be nominated.

 

A Blog with Substance Award! 

Here are the rules for accepting this award:

1. Thank the blogger who gave me the award

2. Sum up your blogging philosophy, motivation, and experience using five words

Friends, Share, Love, Respect,Happiness

3. Pass this on to 10 other bloggers that you feel have a substance in their blogs

 

My blogging philosophy:

I started blogging just out of boredom and fun, but it has bestowed me with so many new friends, who I hope to meet in rl soon. I wanna share everything with my readers, as I love them so much. I have a high respect for other people's blogs, as each of those are masterpieces of their creativity and way of communication. Let's spread happiness and brighten up each other's days.

 

I think every blog has a substance somehow, and therefore you all shall be nominated.  

 

Another topic: do you own points card? They are not so popular here in Germany, but slowly most of the shops have point cards to attract customers. In most cases you get points for shoppping, and after reaching a certain amount of points you get a discount or something for free. I must say, I wasn't a  fan of point cards (you have to carry so much junk in your wallet already, so where's the space to store some more??), but after having been to Japan several times I grew very fond of them! I'm looking forward to make many point cards when I've settled in Tokyo, so that I can say "yes", in case they ask for one at the cashier, which they do actually most of the time, doesn't matter what shop I was in :) Now I also know why Japanese women need such a huge wallet, haha!

Different kinds of point cards and yeah, that's my wallet atm!

 

I really like the point cards from Restaurants or Cafes, since you usually get a hot drink or something to eat for free after a certain amount of points. I love food so much, hehehe, one could say I'd think with my stomach XD Hey, it's better than nothing, right? At Starbucks, f. ex. you have to drink 7 coffees, and the eighth one is for free. Too bad they don't have the point card at Starbucks any longer XD

 

Okay, that's it for today, I must hurry now if I don't wanna come late for a dinner with friends in an Izakaya, which I will post about tomorrow! I'll also answer to your comments from the previous post then! See you!

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!

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.

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

I-article

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! :-)

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! :-))