Visiting Düsseldorf

I might have some great news to tell you soon :') Actually, I'm totally excited about sharing these news with you as soon as possible, anyway I think that it might be QUITE too early yet... (*´ω｀*)

I look quite tired in this pic, don't I ... well, maybe that's 'cuz I really was!  (^^ゞ

Anyway~ 

I went to Düsseldorf with Raya to meet someone special ( 　(^^♪　）and had some drinks at TOYKYO. I had some Sencha, which was tasty but VERY soft, if you ask me... but I really don't want to complain about that now xD  

After that, we decided to have some "dinner" at Maruyasu DON. Because Gyoza were out, I ordered some Kitsune Udon which was indeed quite tasty as well! (Unfortunately, we were so 'busy' that I really forgot to take any pictures _ _! AGAIN!!!  Stupid me! I'm sorry!! ).

Before we went home, we went off to the japanese food stores to get some - well - 'foods'. I bought Edamame (I really love them .w.!) and some instant miso soup ☆

I didn't try this type yet, but I'm sure that I'll like it |D (especially because this type is with green onions, too!)

Raya bought "Ichigo Mochi", which she gave to me after she said whe won't eat them at home. Lucky? Maybe?! (....in fact I decided to lose some weight again, since I was bodily quite lazy during my summer vacation... eeeeeh.... (^^ゞ )).

Poker, Television and Fun Fair ☆

A great weekend passed by again ;__;'
I'm already missing those great people, even though I will just have to wait around 2 weeks now to see them again <3.

On Saturday, Akira and Waru came to my house to spend the weekend with me/us to celebrate Waru's birthday watching "Schlag den Raab". Ralph and Raya also attended.  And because it was fun fair time in a nearby city, we decided to check it out in the afternoon. We bought some chocolate fruits there (of which I didn't take any photographs because we were quite in a hurry because there were so many people in the streets!) and went off to do some grocery shopping for the weekend and the little "party" in the evening.

There was a great energy drink (called "Rockstar") which had some limited edition drinks, with some printing of BATMAN ( ；∀；)　(I love Batman!). So I bought some, even though I don't have that much spare money at the moment. But, ey: It's BATMAN! (^^ゞ　

Before we went to the living room to watch "Schlag den Raab" at 20:15, we somehow prepared dinner, which consisted of some gyros, rice with some vegetables (mostly onions and paprika) and pizza (cream-cheese/spinach and salmon). I personally didn't like the salmon pizza (I usually don't like any salmon, unless it's raw), but nevertheless we all ate quite too much, I think! ^^;

We absolutely finished dinner in time  though! ☆　While watching "Schlag den Raab", Waru did my hair ! Geez, I'm totally golden-haired now! |D 

Anyway, I'm thinking about dying my hair again... actually I thought about some reddish ash color, but now I'm rather interested in checking out how I'd look with silvery hair (ﾉ´∀｀*)

After Raab won (as expected...xD), we played some POKER, which was totally fun! Additionally we had lots of different fruit juice, so we mixed our own cocktails :D ! 

I drank some Margarita, Cuba Libre (RUM! <3) and Pina Colada. Well, if I tell about everything we did, I think that  it would be far too much for this one entry, so I won't do that :'D Anyway, as a fact we went to bed quite late (or "early", which would be more accurate, if you ask me ... haha^^; ) and saw each other again for "breakfast".

We talked and laughed a lot while hanging out together <3 And we showed "Slender" to Akira and Waru, which was absolutely fun! |DD

In the evening, unfortunately, it was time to say "goodbye" again .___.!! It was quite too short!! T_T But we're planning to see each other again soon. As I already mentioned, maybe in 2 weeks :'3 I'm totally looking forward to that!

(Btw: I'm sorry that this entry is kinda "random" and doesn't include any interesting images... but I really felt like posting this, though |D ! Deal with it!! >o<!! xD )

Tasty Cologne-Day! ヽ( ´￢`)ノ

What a day! I really want to say that I totally enoyed this day, even though some things didn't work out as they actually should... actually, we had some date with a guitar guy, but he just told us he wouldn't come when we almost arrived at Cologne... the most bad thing about this issue was that I cancelled a date with a vocalist for this appointment _ _!   

Before I left, of course I drank some coffee (out of my popular "COFFEE" cup |D and, yep, my desktop looks quite messy, haha ... ^^; ). 

When we arrived at the station, I decided to buy some new cigarettes at the local tobacco shop, where they offered me a free cigarette of Benson & Hedges' new cigarettes as a sample. We headed off to the cities then, checking out Claire's and Forever18 whether there'd be some nice stuff for Raya. When Raya was inside of Claire's, I decided to try the cigarette. It wasn't bad, actually, but I prefer smoking menthol cigarettes instead still  \(//∇//)\ 

Even though I didn't think about buying something for myself, I found and bought a nice thing (at least for me, haha!): Some new sunglasses! (I really LOVE sunglasses, by the way... |D). As a surprise, they were totally cheap!! I bought them at Forever18 for only 2,00€ !!!

On our way back to the station, where we wanted to meet Sofi later, we stopped by and went into the big and popular Cologne Cathedral for some time. Isn't it just beautiful...? Of course we took some photos, because it's been such a long time since both of us got into that cathedral... it's just so impressive and big! If you're planning to visit Germany, please consider visiting the Cologne Cathedral was well. It'll be totally worth it.

When we met Sofi, we directly went off to eat something (anyway I was the only one who really ATE something... I feel to be a glutton ゜(´□｀｡)°゜ ). The girls just had some tiny side dish, while I enjoyed eating Himitsu Udon (= with chicken) at BentoBox, which is NO Japanese restaurant, but rather a Japanese inspired "trendy" and a little lofty style fastfood outlet. So please consider this if you are intending to go out to eat there... you shouldn't expect the food to taste "Japanese" either. If you don't, you'll probably have a nice "Japanese inspired" meal anyway :)

As a dessert, we decided to buy some drinks at Starbucks. As for me, I bought "Java Chip Chocolate Frappuchino" (without lactose, due to my lactose intolerance ヽ(´Д`；) ).  It's not like I can't drink any milk, but I really need to be careful about how much I drink (one little glass of milk is okay for one day, just one gulp more might be too much for me ._.! ). Nevertheless I ordered whipped cream, even though I personally didn't eat it [I won't peach on the culprit!].

After some time of "just sitting and talking", we checked the time and were kind of surprised how fast the time already passed by. That's why we decided to start going back to the main station slowly, checking some stores and buying some ice cream (for me it was melon and lemon ☆　I really felt like getting something fruity after such a big shock of chocolate ... ^^; ). 

 

It was the first time when we met Sofi after she came back from her holidays - and, WOW guess what!! She brought so many things for me ฅ(๑*д*๑)ฅ!!  Unfortunately, it's all about food.... (well, I say "unfortunately" because I really know that I'll just eat too much of it, because all those things are f*cking delicious!!! )

(Do you know any of these foods? They're from Greece! ☆　I think Greek food is one of the best foods all over the world (*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡ )

With those impressions of food (and being hungry AGAIN because of talking about it =A=;; Geez, I'm gonna fatten up a lot, I think T___T;!! WHY GOD WHY!? ), I wanna leave you for now with this... let's say "messed up" photo from tonight. (I already brushed out all of my hairspray and I really look weird in this pic,  but I think that the sunglasses kinda save the situation, lol .. ^^; (at least they try to do so! Friendly glasses, aren't they? |D ).

Inoran concert @MTC Cologne

Yush! I'm just back home from a great day/evening... and I'm tired as hell, acutally! (｡・ε・｡)
But nevertheless ... I just wanna share this day with you ☆

I think it's hard to decide where to start... because my day was quite long and busy, and so I didn't even eat anything until I arrived at home at around 11:30 p.m. (and, yes, I did the worst: Pizza at midnight, yooosh! σ(^_^;) ).

Well, due to some building works in my village there are lots of problems regarding the bus schedule: the bus is often very late, since the driver has to deal with the temporary traffic lights causing a lot of delay sometimes. So I was absolutely lucky that a friend's father brought me and my friend to the station!

When I arrived at Cologne, I met Steffie, who invited me to go with her to the concert! We met some hours earlier, so we could enjoy the nice weather outside, enjoying some drinks at a near café as well. As for me, I drank some Kölsch (for those who aren't familiar with that: Kölsch is a popular beer in and around Cologne's area　☆ It's absolutely delicious! If you've the possibility, please try it! )

Suddenly, Steffie just put out a little present which she brought for me: An electric fan from Final Fantasy XIV which she got from GamesCom before!!  (As I mentioned in one of my blog posts before, I wasn't able to visit the GamesCom as a visitor because of my foot .A.! So I'm really happy Steffie thought about me and got 2 of them (・∀・) !! )

When we entered the venue, I met several nice people and had some little chats before the show started. The support band was a band from Italy, called "DNR" (=Dreams not Reality). I knew Seba, their keyboarder / second vocalist before from Ameba, and got to know Kira (bass) through him. Both of them are absolutely nice people!  Anyway, Seba couldn't attend because he's in Japan right now, but I said "hello" to them and had a little chat with them as well. Kira, the one I talked to most, introduced me to the other members. They seemed a little bit shy - or just tired! ww

Actually, I liked their performance. But the sound was absolutely awful (ノ◇≦。)  When I had my gig at MTC, our sound engineer (Florian) did a VERY good job I think - but this time, there was no Florian to save the situation. My ears hurt a lot when I heard the high-pitched sound, still ringing in my ears _ _! And Kira also told me that they had several problems on the stage, because the monitoring was bad and even failed completely in between. :/ What a shame!

While we were waiting for Inoran to enter the stage, some Japanese friend bought me a beer to "DO KAMPAI!" ([/quote]) with me. Haha, he's just so crazy!! о(ж＞▽＜)ｙ ☆  We promised each other to go to Karaoke together soon - I'm looking forward to that! 

 

Last but not least, I want to share this special photo with you. As some of you might know, LUNA SEA is my top favorite band since... well... almost 14 years now (!?!?!) Which is quite a time for such a young age, if you ask me (let's call me "young", please...! (ノД｀) ).  So I think it won't surprise you that I'm SO HAPPY ( (/"&§)("="/=&!!! ) that I was able to meet Inoran in person and even could exchange some words with him (≧▽≦)

And, well... this picture just was made after that. Even though I think I look like a derp, I really like this pic (・・。)ゞ

White Knight Chronicles II / Resonance of Fate (?)

Well, even though my heart started bleeding while I came to this decision, I resolved to stop playing White Knight Chronicles II now. Why I did so...? Well, I'll tell you why.

I'm tired of running around like a retard and fighting the same monsters over and over again. I'm tired of the SAME MAPS (!), taken from WKC (Yes, it's the same maps. The only difference is that you need to pass them in another order... ). And, well - even though I think it's only around 2-3 hours to go, I really can't pick myself up to launch that game another time now. 

I'm kinda ... let's say disappointed.

I wanted to know so much more about several characters... _ _' But it's QUITE too less for my taste. 

The story is still great and interesting, and the fights as a Knight are still great and exciting. But, as I said, I just can't get up any energy to restart that game from my latest saving point. 

Maybe it's my fault that I played both games in a short distance, anyway I really think that even a sequel should be more varying... but that's just my personal opinion. I want to stop playing for now, and I don't know whether I'll start playing again to finish the game finally (for those who're interested, I just saved that little bunny-guy in "Van Haven Waste").

Well, so I want to start playing another game soon, which is - hopefully - different, even though it's also a "J-RPG". The name: Resonance of Fate. 

The style is kinda steam-punky, so I'm looking forward to that. And I really hope that this game won't let me down D: ! (Buhuuh, Caesar....! T_T I miss him, already! ) Dunno when I'll start, though. (And actually I don't want to promise that I'll play it completey, but at least I want to try it since I think the mechanisms in this game are very individual).