Things of lately

Been quiet! But then again, I moved, and I have to get to know the people I live with now, right? Nah, just kidding, the guy helped me get sims3 working on my computer and I've really unsocial haha.

Right now my computer is in a pan filled with rice, cats woke me up this morning by tipping my glass over.. Eh, yeah, let's hope it'll turn on later. It was mainly the battery that got water on it, so..

Anyway, last weekend we went to karaoke + a stand up comedy festival! Surprisingly fun! Here's a few phone pictures!
(updating from my phone, but if my laptop works I'll be back shortly with pictures of recent buys and stuff)

A day in "town"

Today we went into town! Keep in mind "going into town" means traveling for an hour, haha. It was really nice, summer have finally come up here, so I unpacked a specially summery dress just for the hell of it! The town in question is really small, and thus there's nothing really to do there, but it's still more things to do and see than in our yard.. I guess!


I got to eat sushi for the first time since I came back to Sweden! A newly opened restaurant became the first restaurant in this municipality to offer sushi (and other japanese dishes).. Unfortunatly it.. wasn't really good. It's not that I'm spoiled by japanese sushi, because I've always prefered western styled, simply because they are just that, westernized. Lot's of salmon, "easy on the eye/mind"-pieces, and less brown-gunky-goo on top of rice. But this? Nah. But I'm giving the place the benefit of the doubt, they were just opened, we went during lunch time, and I'm kind of assuming the person doing them wasn't schooled in it.

It looked kinda pretty though, right? Btw, chives? And rom? On salmon? Huh?

Best thing of the entire day was without a douuuubbbt, the flamingo scarf!! I've been eyeing it for quite some time now, but today I finally had the money on hand to buy it! I grabbed it and ran! .. I payed inbetween those two actions though, of course. But seriously, it's so awesome! This is just a preview of the pattern (flamingos!!), I'll probably wear it alot.. It's really lightweight and soft, and Swedish summer can be quite cold, so I like to have a scarf along with me, haha.

One flamingo, two flamingo, a scarf full of flamingo!

 I totally forgot to take any outfit pictures today though, I had to rush from the minute I woke up, going somewhere with people ages 50+ means going at 09.00, no matter what. What's up with that? Haha, they didn't even have plans for the day, but it was really important that we got out of the house by 9! Oh anyway, but I did take a detail picture of the dress, I think the pattern is really lovely! Lightweight chiffon ftw!

 

And hey, Swede's, don't forget about Mothers Day!

Amazing dress and new protection

I decided to try and be serious about you know, pictures and stuff, use the camera instead of the phone. But then I found out that I seem to have dropped my camera one too many times on the floor, because the quality wasn't really that much better! Which sucks, it used to be a really good camera..

Anyhow! I'm super psyched about this dress! It's from the swedish store Gina Tricot, and a while back they had this dress in pretty much every color there is, and I used to own it in lavender. Unfortunatly, due to it being my go-to dress during several years it had become so ratty I had to throw it away when I moved from Japan.. But fortunately there is loads of people who doesn't understand the greatness of this model of dresses, so theres bunches of them on auction sites! This became mine for 6SEK!(approx 100yen), + shipping! Can't argue with that, seeing how it's seemingly never been worn at all, haha. And you know, it being THE BEST DRESS MODEL OF ALL TIME. Of all time. That I tell you.

When we went to Strömsund, we also did the mandatory visit to tThe Dollarstore, which is exactly what it sounds like, a dollar store. I think it's exclusive to the north of Sweden, or atleast it used to be. It's basically the go to place if you want cheap anything.
Stumbled over this silicone case and I've been looking at similar ones online, but for more than double the price than this one was, haha.

Hopefully a silicone case will help protect my phone better, as mentioned above I have a tendency to drop electronics on the floor repeatedly, and after six months I just discovered the first crack in the screen..
It's amazing it's still intact though, seeing how I've dropped it multiple times a day since I got it..  Well, knock on wood that it wont fall apart on me.

Fought for parcel

Uhh, one of the things I dislike the most about my current place of living, is that due to it being in the middle of nowhere, parcels and stuff takes much longer to arrive. If the shop says 2-3days, it usually arrives within 5-10.. Even EMS, which I was really pissed about, I mean, I pay extra for speedy shipping, and then it takes almost a week longer than it's supposed to? And it isn't even delivered, we have to drive for half an hour to pick it up :(

Uhh, okay, enough ranting! Reason for the rant? I ordered from H&M!

As usual, the kitty&photo rule applies, if you try to take a picture of your cat, it runs away, if you try to take a picture of something else, suddenly: CAT!! (The cat in the picture is named Pentax, and it's because she loooves photobombing)

Nothing over the top whootiwhoot, but man! I'm so happy anyway!

The reason I ordered this (and the yumetenbo order, tho it was partly my birthday present to myself), is as a reward. For what? Weight loss. 
When I moved to Japan and started living with my roomie, he introduce me to his decadent eating habits, which of course resulted in a considerable weight gain for me, since I don't have the metabolism of a young man :( And all that white rice. Every day, white rice galore.
That's pretty much the reason why I suddenly stopped wearing light colors, and opted for dark shades. I just felt like the michelin man, and since I moved to Sweden I just didn't feel like dressing up at all, because everything was unflattering and impossible and after a while I just stopped trying.

So, in about January I decided to stop moping around being unhappy about myself, and just do it. Since then, I've lost almost 10kgs! I've actually only lost 9, but I hurried the reward for this time to combine it as a reward for doing two essays and being a total boss on two math tests, haha.
So, I get myself a reward for every lost 5kgs, just something, not running out buying a car or anything.

There's still quite a bit to go till I'm around my desired weight, and I can't really say I see any difference in the mirror(that's why progress pics are a godsend!), I still feel like dressing up more often. Of course I tend to ragequit in the midst of dressing because of reasons, but I still manage to put something together, put on some god damn full make up with lashes n all, style my hair and go out. Allthough my outfits are a mess right now, I'm torned between light colors and dark colors, and those parts of my wardrobe doesn't really match.. Oh well, I'll figure it out! 


Long entry about uninteresting things, but.. well.

When you're 21 your no fun

So I've turned 21!

This Friday my friend treated me to the cinema as an early birthday gift, so we saw The Phantom Menace in 3d!
Last time we saw it was when it came out(12 years ago, omg), so it felt kinda nostalgic.

Bought my favourite cake and totally indulged haha! But hey, birthdays are always an exemption from diets and such.

I'm for once kinda excited going back home, because my bd gift to myself is waiting for me!
New shoes and a bag, I'll post pictures when I get back. It was my first time ordering from yumetenbo!

Oh well, I'll go back to listening to ladytron - seventeen now, haha.

300th entry and Happy New Year!

Happy new year everyone, I hope your new years eve was awesome!

The days leading up to new years eve was amazing, I visited the town I grew up in and got to meet my chums again! It's been over 2 years ago since I last met most of them!
But that's what's great, even though we haven't met, or even stayed in regular contact, we all just met up and it was like we were in high school again.


For new years me and Zara(who visisted me last winter), went down to visit another friend and celebrate new years together!
Of what I can remember it was a lot of fun, haha.

Anyway, this was what I looked like!
It was a house party(i.e: I didn't really feel like whippin' out the ball gown), so I might not look as fancy as most people did on NYE haha.

On monday school starts, and I haven't gotten hold of the books yet, ahh.



Annnd! As the title told, this is the 300th entry I made on this blog! Woh!

New notebooks and small towns.

Even though I don't go to school at the moment, I bought two new notebooks the other day! They're so pretty, and were just 100yen/each, so how could I resist?

Vintage labels and old maps!

And yesterday I somehow found myself at a concert. Upon arrival I found out that the bassist of the band we were there to see works at my konbini. The levels of embarrassment/surprise is through the roof! That man has seen me buy chocolate in the middle of the night, in my pajama, without makeup. Dancing, superdrunk, sick, dressed as a goth, etc etc. And now suddenly he was a real person, in a band that I was about to see. The situation was rather awkward, but he turned out to be a really cool guy, and his band really good!
Luckily for me, when people heard that he worked at "My konbini" at the after party, he was the one being bullied, not me.
Tokyo is indeed a small town, sometimes.

Fireworks and meat coma

Today has been great, but I'm in such a meat coma I can't think straight.
What I did was to go to the Sumida River Fireworks Show, and afterwards I ate Shabu Shabu.

Hoards of people waiting for their turn to watch the fireworks.

Kirin City in Ikebukuro!

First time I ate Shabu Shabu!

In total we ate 20 plates of meat. No kidding.

These legs are tired.

Exciting times! After a long time of social withdrawal, I actually went out and met some friends today!
Met up a friend who stopped by Tokyo for a day on her way home to Korea after a very eventfult eurotrip, and in lack of better wording, it was truly delightful to be out and about!
I can't really remember the last time I actually carried a conversation in Japanese, even though I live here. Terrible, I know.


Long time, no purikura!

First time I took purikura without the "bihaku"(beautiful white) setting, I didn't see which level they put it on so I was kind of afraid it would be the level that adds a fake tan, haha.

Shimamura, you beast.

Went to Takadanobaba today with my friend Malin, for Shimamura and the freshly opened Donki.
I finally got my hands om some collartops! (although the navy one is from a shop in Nakano, and is a dress), a nice airy chiffon skirt(with dots! and pleats! and width!) and the best of all, a flowerprint bag. Been eyeing these kinds of bags for quite a while now, and also wanted a bigger bag. I found one at Shimamura, where it hung high over my reach. Fortunatly Malin is taller than me and she managed to knock it down, along with some dust. How long had it been there?

Over at Donki I found the Diamond nose shadow-set that was released a couple of months ago, seriously, it's been sold out everywhere since! I've looked high and low for it, but finally I found it. Hopefully this long wait is gonna be worth it! 

If you want to see the pieces one by one, check out my pupe!

New stuff!

Finally, some new glasses! My old one broke some days ago, so I promptly went to buy new ones.
A friend recommended Zoff, and I will too recommend it. Cheap(mine were 5250 incl. everything!), and super fast, 40 minutes after choosing I got my glasses, and easy, just write down your name and telephone number. 

 

 

I know they're huge, but thanks to that I think they go greatly with any style. Hipster/vintage, fashionista, gyaru, even grandma-style, a style I rocked when going to the konbini this morning.


Also, as you might notice, my hair is a bit lighter. Not what I was aiming for, but well, I'll roll with it.

Oh and lastly. Went to Shibuya yesterday(first time in ages!) with my roomie Martin, decided to go buy H&M for purely patriotic reasons, and stumbled upon 100yen sales stuff! No idea why I bought the red tights, but hey, 100yen!

Discovered 2 months ago that I'm sensitive against nickel. Thankfully, H&M's jewelry are all nickel free!

Thursday night

Went with some people to Oretachi no Toririn, it's another branch in the "ore"-network(remember my old hangout place Orenchi Koi in Takadanobaba?). As with the other location, the feel and staff in the place was awesome. Spent a few hours there being confused over that the names of the cocktails was changed around, and played cards(I became president!).

12 aces!

Coffee and Cigarettes

Few things beats a late night Fika (Definition: Fika is both a Swedish verb and noun that roughly means "to drink coffee," usually accompanied by something sweet.) with a good friend.
And hey, I drink my coffee black nowadays!



Oh and the movie I stole the title from is recommended to watch.

Tokyo Disney Sea Souvenirs

My friends Martin & Malin went to Tokyo Disney Sea with their school yesterday, unfortunatly I couldn't come with them, bills to pay, etc. But, all is good! They bought souvenirs!

 

The Aristocats figurine set is actually from Disney Resort Paris! Import and all that, wickeed! The child in me screams "OPEN IIT!" the adult collector in me says "Keep it mint condition!!". Decisions decisions. 

And a Duffy bear! Finally! Since I first set eye on the cuddly amazingness that is Duffy my heart has been crying for it, and now I got my very own, in the perfect size to attach to my bag and always have with me ♥

Duffy♥

Back from Korea

So, on friday night I came back. It was a nice trip, and especially nice to meet some friends I haven't met since the eartquake!

I suck at doing touristy things when touristing, but I did see two statues, and went to Myeoung Dong(the tourist trap of Seoul).
The rest of the time was spent in Hongdae and Dongdaemun (recommended).
I won't write about it really, but if anyone has a question, just shoot!


Anyway, picturees(stuff I bought will be in another entry):

Mandatory wing-shot.

Travel company, Siouxsie and the Banshees

Amongst the malls/markets in Dongdaemun.

Completly legit restaurants.

Early morning in Hongdae.

Insanely true words in the menu of a Swedish-themed restaurant.

Sunday Chillin'

 

Cleaned up the area around the bed, put together a bookshelf, and gathered some ivy sticklings to put in a vase. Looking good!

Topped of with tea and Ghostbusters II.

Nakano Nakano Nakano Nakano

 Decided to try and be a bit more active, not blogwise necessarily but more.. life.. wise..
So I went to Nakano today with Malin, and was later joined with Martin.
Nakano is, really, a great place. Cozy atmosphere and so much different things. Clothes for all tastes (second hand shops, brand shops, military shops, etc etc), nerdy stuff, music(one of my favorite music shops is in Nakano, called Mekkano, there they have electronic music from all over the world), and much much more. When you're finished shopping it's also filled to the brim with bars, izakayas, host clubs, well, anything really.

Anyway! Did some shopping at my favorite places, and as usual I wasn't let down! Three dresses and a skirt for 2000yen alltogether!
Here's some of it.

Mint/White jersey dress. 500yen! Whaat.

From Claires, but still.

And todays outfit with an awkward pose!

And if anyone has some trick to make your shoulders NOT appear a mile wide in pictures, please do tell! (No seriously, my shoulders= WIDE. I look like superman when I don't balance it out with clothing/angles)

Book shopping

Yesterday I went bookshopping with a friend, oh how I've missed it.
There's a great used bookshop in Takadanobaba that sells english books.
Got hold of a novel collection with Robert Louis Stevenson, Journey to the centre of the earth by Jules Verne and after looking for it in two countries for one and a half year Fight Club. My roommate wont allow me to watch the movie until I've read the book for reasons only he knows, haha.

I enjoy to buy books second hand, I don't mind that they are worn out, it makes me feel connected to other people who's loved them as much as I do.

Ameyoko

Today we took a trip over to Ameyoko(market street from Ueno to Okachimachi). It's always fun going places you're not used to, and Tokyo's so big theres like a million of those places.


Anyway, I found something I've been lusting for a really long time,
a silver ring with amethysts!
Finally it's mine!

Awesome surprise concert

For a few weeks now my roomie had been bugging me about this upcoming concert.
Telling me we really really should go, and that he thought I'd really really like the band.
He never told me the name though, or gave some more info than "they play with other bands you like!".

So yesterday we went to Ruido K3 in Ikebukuro for this "secret" live where I found out the band name was へーけ(Hke). Didn't ring any bells. However, in the queue I was thinking "What a diverse fanbase!" since there were both young people and reaally old people and all that.
When we got in he immediatly said "let's go to the merch table!", and there were 2 CDs, an armthingy and some chekis(polaroids).
"Look closer at this CD, check the track list!" I did. Kotani Kinya covers. Wtf I thought. Looked closer. "Remixed and mastered by RIU" ..
RIU. RIU. WTH?!?!

Yeah! The live my roomie had kept so secret for me for so long was infact the second live of my biggest idol of all time, RIU(ex. Metronome, MaitoreiA).

Jikes! I grinned like this: ^___________________^ the entire evening.


So へーけ? It consists of Riu on bass, Kotani Kinya(you read right!) on vocal, Takefumi from Filter Fish on guitar and a support drummer I really recognize. Since they're so new they mainly play anime covers, Kotani Kinya covers and.. metronome covers!

This isn't a live report since I suck at that, but. At the first encore, noneother than Fukusuke showed up in casual clothing drinking a beer, hurridly changing his name to Korosuke to match the others (Kotani Kinya's bandname is: 平の怒っ涛 The raging waves of the plains, Riu's 平の奇天烈 The strange thing from the plains and Takefumi is チャイナの焼飯 China's fried rice for short Dottou, Kite & China)

It was.. so really awesome.. Best thing in a long time and you can BET I'll be there for their upcoming lives too!