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.

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

Giveaway Winners!!

The giveaway ended two days ago, and I was too busy to announce to winners! I wanna thank all of you for participating, I was so happy that there are many people out there who want to win the stuff. Speaking of this now, there were so many entries I decided to spilt the prizes up, as they are shown on the fotos. So, there will be four winners! I did his giveaway to celebrate my first 100 followers, now I'm getting more and more every day. Words cannot describe how many opportunities blogging has given me, it is so much fun and I've "met" wonderful people. Hope to see all of you in real life somewhere soon (hehehe, hopefully in Tokyo). But now, to the winners! 

The little stationary set goes to:

iluvmydady

The big stationary set goes to:

The Sopher Gopher

The Chiara deco stones go to:

Littledemonpixie

The jewelry set goes to:

Leah

Congratulations to the winners! I will write you an email and you have 24 hours to send me your contact information and shipping address to claim your prizes. If you don't respond within this time limit, the prizes will be sent to other winners. To all the others, don't be sad, I'll have a huge giveaway again when I'm in Japan this autumn, my blog will also celebrate it's first anniversary, so maybe I'll combine both events :-) Ahh, it will be so much fun to shop items for the giveaway then. I know many of you love japanese stationary and fashion, I'm sure I can find loads of cute stuff for you then :-)

I got a love package from Naka yesterday! :-) Thank you so much for sharing some love, my dear! I love everything you sent me, and please wait for my letter and return package (which will be sent seperately).

Lovely stuff, specially the handmade little pouch, usamimi and green ribbon!

I took some new purikura with my sis, too. The new puri machine is really great! (We've had this one in Tokyo already, though :-))

Purikura is really addicting! Can't wait to take loads with fellow bloggers in Tokyo thus autumn! :-))

Okay, that's it for today! Hope you're having a nice day! (I've gotta work so much the next weeks...)

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!

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)

About Snail Mail and Sara Mari's Giveaway

Hello everyone, are you doing fine? I'm okay, it has become so hot lately in Germany, and my room is like an oven, so I can't use the Net that often, and I usually spend my time in the living room. Part time jobs are really exhausting atm, specially with this weather outside, but I'll give my best again. At least my restaurant shift changed from 18 to 19 o' clock, so that leaves me time to watch soccer today. It's Japan vs. Paraguay today!

I was surprised as I opened my dashboard today to see that I've got 193 followers! What?? I can't believe it. Is it only because I hold a giveaway or could it really be that people actually really like my blog and what I post about?? That makes me really happy, thank you, readers!!

Today I wanna write about snail mail. Do you also like snail mail as much as I do?? I've been writing letters since I started learning to write, so that's over 17 years ago, hahaha! I am the self proclaimed expert on writing cute and (hopefully interesting) letters, and I wanna show you why :-) I love snail mail so much, most of my salary goes into that. No, kidding, I'm saving my hard earned money for my WH in Japan. XD

In our times of electronic communication, a handwritten letter is something special right? I love the feeling when I open my post box to see a letter for me inside, expected or unexpected doesn't matter. Sometimes a few lines from people you love or adore can really make your day. Okay, let the fotos speak!

Here are some of the letters I received from friends within the years (I own some more boxes full of letters :-)

Here you see some standard stuff I use for writing letters, glue stick, scissors, cute tape, loads of pens and colours, ink, etc.

Cute stationary (I used to own LOTS of more, but since I'm writing quite much, it's used up very soon. I'll pick up new ones once I'm in Tokyo again :-)

Same goes for stickers, I had tons of it! This is really a very small amount, just a hand full :) I really love decorating letters with stickers.

My collection of Shitakjiki!! You put it between the papers you write to avoid traces on the next paper.

And finally, this is how my desk looks like when I write, next to me is always my Care Bear agenda, to check up what happend the last couple of days and to probably write about it! XD

Here are some finished results without stamp, though. Sorry I had to censor the foto to protect the addresses privacy :)

I hope you got a good impression of how my hobby is like. It takes a while to write, though, but if you know there will be a happy person smiling while reading your words, it is really worth it. 

Oh, last but not least, enter one of my best Net friends Sara Mari's great Pack Your Bag's Giveaway!!! There are great prizes to win!

Did I already tell you I'll skip universtiy today?? It is too hot and I have to work in the late evening, so I better get some rest, hahahaha! See you next post!