Shibuya 109 Girls Festival 2012♥♥♥

Hello dear readers! ♥ Oh my! It really has been ages since I wrote an entry for the last time. Even the blogger layout has changed! Had to find my way first to the blog entry-writing part. Horrible! I'm sorry that I haven't felt like blogging at all. There have been so many things going on that I don't know what to do first and what last. Well now, here I am and I'm going to write about... tadadadaaaaa  

SHIBUYA109 GIRLS FESTIVAL 2012!

back in March there was some kind of a competition in 109, where you could take part if you had bought stuff worth more than 5000 Yen. Well I and a friend did so, subscribed on the internet and all. In the end of March I surprisingly got an email telling me that I had won 2 tickets for the event! I had already totaly forgotten about the whole thing, so you can imagine how happy I was! Not only because it was the first time in my life I had won something, haha

So on 12. May 2012 I went to the event with Severine. The bad thing, we didn't know there was already something starting 12 o'clock because on the ticket was written that the dooropening was as 16:30. I was more than just surprised when I saw pics on the Shibuya 109 Shop Facebook page of the opening. I was like "WTF?! SEVERINE!! LET'S GO!!"
Well, nice, the bad thing, neither of us was ready to go yet. In the end I was in Shibuya at 15h, Severine on her way, so I strolled around Shibuya 109 when I so that poster where it was clearly written, dadaaang! OUCH! Therefor I was able to see Anna the Garula Model at the store, but I didn't ask her for a pic.
 This was btw my styling that day, not really special :/

In the end we entered Hikarie at 16h. There wasn't really much going on at that time. We lined up in one hall for free Purikura while there was some special talk show going on of some models. We didn't care too much because we were more hyper about the free purikura, haha

 

This was the machine. They even had some special backgrounds with 109 and stuff you could choose. yay! Of course we had to try that out. I loved the machine! Sadly I haven't seen it anywhere before and according to internet it's not a new one. So no clue if it's still around somewhere in Tokyo. Would be at least nice since I'm a huge fan of the vintage style! ♥

Here's two of the purikura we took. Sadly I wasn't able to get more of them on my phone since I'm not subscribed there (always costs sth D:)

(le bitsch is btw an insider joke you don't have to understand :D)

Besides the free purikura there were also other stuffs one could get. For example a free Ghana chocolate bar, which later during the show saved my life, and instant camera pics! Very cool stuff. I bought one of them later at Big Camera, but I will write more about that in an other entry.

so at 16:30 was door-opening to the big hall. We somehow were too stupid to understand that we didn't have to line up as other people. We even had number 277 and 278. When we got there, it was already numbers over 600 who could go in. da-daaaang! Second OUCH! Since we had that great numbers we could have been in the first rows. However, shit happens. Still had could sight at everything going on.

 

It all with a video and one part of the fashion-show. Quite nice to watch. So from here on a picture overload. I just let the pics talk for themselfs. Hope you enjoy! ♥

And then after the the 1. part of the fashion-show, the first surprise... the two girls acting as hosts announced after some talking...

Tadadadaaaaaa

Tsubasa Masuwaka! Surprise surprise! My first thaught was, WOW! My second was "so.. small.." haha :D

Compare her to the other two girls, she really is small ;3

Although I'm not a huge fan of hers I still thaught she's kinda cute. So small, smiley and stuff

There was some kind of competition of young designers. Dunno 100% what it was about since I wasn't fully listening. I was dying because I was soooo thirsty and my feet hurt like hell. That's when the Ghana chocolate saved my life since I got at least sth in my mouth, haha :D

 I took at least one pic of the candidates entry. This one didn't win. It was a western style outfit that one a 100'000 yen price! Wow! 

From then on there was part 2 of the fashion show.. Many many brands were presented, from Egoist in the first part over Liz Lisa in the second part and moussy in the third.
So here now again a picture overload! (I don't know anymore which is from the second part and which from the third, so they might be mixed here!)

Between the second and third fashion-show there was a live performance of the singer Alice! I didn't know her before, but I have to admit that she sounded quite nice. Guess I will be searching some of her music on youtube to listen closer to it. Sadly she only performed 2-3 pieces.
That was also the point when my both mobile phones died down. And dumb me, didn't take a camera. That's why many pics from Severines camera were also taken by me. We cannot say which pics she took and which I did take. So we just said we'd share them. So definitely also check out her BLOG!

Well since the fashion-show pics above are all mixed up, I skip the 3rd fashion show part at this point. After the 3rd part followed a special guest concert, KANA NISHINO!! YAY! The main reason why I had wanted to come to this event. I really love her music and style. Although I felt like leaving (I felt like dying since it was hot and I needed sth to drink), I stayed because I definitely didn't want to miss her. Luckily I was able to take some pics with Severines camera before some guys came in the crowd to say it was forbidden. Urgh! They didn't mention it before anywhere.. D: But yah, here my two favorite pics of her 3-song performance:

(Still wanted to upload a video from her show here, but the uploading system sucks right now, I'll try it tomorrow again ;D )

The concert was short, but I was really happy to see her live. If I get the chance to go to one of her concerts, I surely will! She's an amazing person. She even took it easily and "hihi"-like when there finally was an announcement that it was forbidden to take pics and film. Just looking to my left I could already spot at least 10 peops filming the performance.

At the start we also got a bag full of coupons for 109 stores. The best one is a 1000.- yen off coupon for any store in 109! I'm surely gonna use that, yay! Also after the event on the street we walked across Nicole, but since we're both looking like crap on the pic we took with her (it was taken in a hurry), I'm not gonna upload it here, sorry. Later on we also saw nemoyayo and (I guess it was her) remi. But since Nicole already didn't seem very happy about us asking for a pic, we didn't ask them. Because we were waiting with them at the lights to cross the street I just told them that the show was amazing and thanked them. Well yah, they were kinda "wtf?" and in a rather pissed mood. Totaly understandable after working that long and then even crappy girls come over to talk to you, haha :D
However, was an amazing event and I was soooo happy that I had won the tickets.

Hope you enjoyed the entry, finally something interesting I could talk about.
And again, check out Severine's BLOG, she will surely also be writing an entry! ♥♥♥

Thanks for reading ♥

Purikura overload!!

Hello dear readers! ♥

I haven't been posting in ages, aiaiai! So it's time to write a little bit again. Since I'm always busy and all the time going somewhere I nearly don't have the time to write anything. But because I'm feeling kinda ill today, I'm gonna stay in bed all day long and tadadadaaaa I've got the time to write something.

I have to admit that I haven't been carrying my camera around with me, why I don't have many pics to share. That's why I decided to make an entry with Purika. I'm really a Purikura-Lover and we're taking them eeeevery week! the first 2 months we took puris nearly every day!

So that's now for that, I'm gonna share now some of my favorite purikura with you! ♥

This one was taken on 31.12.2011 if I remember it correctly :D
ok haha, it's even written on the purikura itself, stupid me

On 12.01.2012 with Conny! One of the only puris I have with her D:
I couldn't get the other ones on my keitai back then, since I still had a crappy prepaid one, argh D:

This was when I went to Asakusa and Ueno with Severine! We had soooo much fun that day!

This was when we went for a hairmake and new nails! The day was awesome! Also went clubbing afterwards. I'm still gonna do an entry sometime about my nails I have had recently ;D

With Nicola! She's always soooooooooooooo sweet!! ♥

These purikura were taken after clubbing at 4AM!!! in the morning. Severines sister and friend were visiting her here in Tokyo! Clubbing was so nice ;D
First when we went to the club (one I also had never been to) we were all like "huh? this club is baad!" but then the music started to get better it was actually very much fun! ;D

Some of you might now that at some purikura places one can rent cosplays for free? Well that's what we did! :D Gooooosh! I felt so weird, but it was really funny! Before we had been playing ufo catcher (I'm addicted!!! D: ) and won those cute bunnies ;)

this was just recently when my friend (top left) from Switzerland was visiting me. We went for Karaoke and afterwards took purikura. I just loooove this puri cuz the guys are looking funny and Severine & Nicola are looking sooo cute! Don't particularely like myself on it, but since I like the other ones it doesn't matter : D

So this is it.. my most liked puris atm.. Hope I didn't bore you too much since I wasn't writing too much and only posting purikura, sorry D:

Ikea + Onsen

Hello Dear Readers! ♥

So it's daily life here. Still it doesn't feel like I'm really here. I don't know. It's somehow wierd. Do you know those moments when you're just standing there, in a crowd of people, still, and it feels like your in some kind of a bubble? Like if you weren't there. You just imagine it? Or dream it? It sometimes feels like that for me. Hard to explain haha :D But I just sometimes feel like it's not the reality. I still can't really get it hahaha
Been talking about it for years and now I'm here and can't realise it, just too awkward haha :D

Well now, since my apartment had only the necessairy things I went to Ikea with my friend Severine in the first week of January just after school had started. Just bought diffrent things I "need" for daily life. Yeah a plant, hahaha, I need that for daily life. No, that was actually to bring a little bit of life in my lonely apartment. Since I'm living alone here I feel a little bit lonely sometimes, but because I'm kept quite busy it's not that often.

Do you know what the weirdest thing was about ikea? THE FOOD! It was sooooo weird to eat the meatballs there and they just tasted EXACTLY the same they do in the ikea in Switzerland. Well of course they do, but still. It always has been so european to me, haha, strange right?

You can see my little planty! It's now on top of the mini mini mini TV I have in my apartment. Just for that plant I'm opening the curtains every day so it can get some sunlight. If it wasn't there I think I wouldn't open my curtains at all! :D

These were the houses near ikea. Honestly, I wouldn't want to live there!

Since Severine and me had been kept so busy and Severine still had some trainticket, she asked me to go to Hakone together with her. Of course I agreed! Ok, I wasn't sure at first, since it took us over 100minutes to go there, because we couldn't use special lines, ONLY JR. But I'm happy I agreed since the Onsen was aaaaawesomeness pure and just what I needed after those busy days.

Hakone Station from the outside where our bus left.

Hakone is really diffrent to Tokyo, although it's not that far away, it's much less noisy and more quite. Also mooooore nature like. We went there to a Onsen place called Tenzan. The price wasn't expensive at all. About 1200yen without time restriction. One can also buy a towel there for like 350yen. So really not expensive. The onsen can be reached by a short busride of 10 minutes which only costs 100yen. Honestly, I've neeeeever been in a bus that small! Or well, at least that low! Like you all know I'm not the smallest person, so when I was standing on both legs, straight, my head totaly hit the roof! So I wasn't able to stand straight lol. Besides that the bus was sooooo packed, that we didn't have a chance to get a seat. It was a uneasy ride, but luckily it didn't last long.

Arrived there we had to get our tickets out of machines like that. Sorry for the blurry pic. Took it after leaving from the onsen and then it was already dark, so my keitai didn't wanna take a nice pic..

However, the onsen was awesome! Before entering the hot springs we washed ourselfs very well. Stupid foreigners as we are we wanted to enter the hottest spring of them first, lol :D Since we didn't know that it was the hottest. I really couldn't enter because it hurt my feet like hell! x__X Luckily a woman was kind enough to explain us in english, that it was the hottest and we should start at one outside. Said, done. Muuuuuch better! There were many mothers with their kids, oh god, we really had cutness flashes hahaha

We enjoyed staying at the onsen, and I've never felt cleaner than after that. One plus point was also, after onsen I was 300g less heavy :D

So if you ever get the chance to go to Hakone, I can warmely recommand you to go to Tenzan. Really quiet and nice atmosphere. The staff were really friendly and kindly helped us when we had questions. The only minus point was, that there was nothing written in English, but that's nothing new in Japan, so one just has to cope with it. We for our part didn't have a problem with it

Hello again blurry pics haha :D

No pics of myself here since I was so tired on that day and was looking really messed up. To be honest we went clubbing from saturday to sunday (sunday was onsen-day), so yah, you can imagine what I looked like after not that much sleep ;D