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 )

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

GDC - Last Day

Geez, I'm done for now!

☆

I'm sitting here, writing this blog entry with... well, let's say 'mixed' feelings. On the one hand, I'm so happy to have finished my duty on GDC, because it was a very hard time and I'm just...done. On the other hand, my team was such a great team and we laughed so much together, had great conversations and they were, well, I don't find another fitting word for that: great. My boss is also such a lovely person... and I know that I won't see at least 99% of them all until next year, because they're living abroad.

Anyway, this experience was priceless.

Boring me being boring |D

But, to start writing about this day's routine, I want to interrupt my 'nostalgia' (haha, may I call it 'nostalgia' already at all...?), here's what I experienced on my last day at GDC Europe.

I went to bed quite early the evening before, because I was tired as hell and my feet were killing me literally. That's why I woke up at around 8:00 a.m. already, even if my shift just started at 4 p.m. ... So I decided to watch some TV ("Malcolm in the Middle" and "Scrubs") while I was threatening my feet so I would survive the day. Someone gave me some "aromatic skin oils" before, so I wanted to try that on my feet. Actually, it helped quite fine! They still did hurt, but kneading my feet with it helped indeed to decrease the pain a lot (I'm sorry by the way, I also feel totally strange to write about my feet so much. Especially because I personally really don't like feet... %___% ).

My plan was to visit GamesCom before I take my shift, but when I hasted to the bus, it came out that it (which means: the bus) was FAR too late. So I didn't catch my train in time. That's why I decided to keep going by bus to the next town, where I could spend some time buying some food, a drink and new cigarettes.

I love apple turnovers!

Around 5:30 p.m.

Unfortunately, that's why I couldn't visit the GamesCom before my shift - so when I arrived at the venue, I just went to our office where they said it won't be that busy today due to the conferences would end today. Actually, we didn't have any other tasks then to be some kind of "security", so GamesCom visitors couldn't enter the GDC area, but we evolved into an information center quite quickly |D ! Lots of visitors asked us about the lifts, about where to get their catalogues, directions etc. It was quite fun because they all were so nice and hearty!

And then, there was a huge surprise for me: Spellbound's president came to me (I think because he recognized me) and asked me whether I could help him, because he somehow lost his laptop. Fortunately one of my mates (who was actually already quitting shift) took my place so I could take a look at the control room to ask for that laptop. It wasn't there, but they said they'd ask at all the lost-property offices to find that laptop. Et voilá! On the way back home, Spellbound's president came to me again, just to tell me that he got his laptop back. He was so thankful for that, even if I just did such a small thing .__.!

Quite half an hour later, our boss passed. She was so surprised that the workers already almost finished dismounting the conference rooms, so she said "They're almost ready!? Omg, why you guys are still working then? Please feel free to do whatever you want to!" At first I was like "WTF!?", but , yes, she couldn't have known, could she...^^;; 

Of course we finished our shift then and said "Good Bye" to all those other workers who were working with us since last Saturday. Same as I said before: with mixed feelings...

Buuuuut! We were allowed to attend the Gree Aftershow Party, to which we directly went ;)

At GREE Aftershow Party! ☆

At GREE Aftershow Party（´ω｀） 

I left earlier (even though I wanted to go back early) to see some halls of the GamesCom before it would be crowded from tomorrow. I didn't manage to do so, even though I just saw 2 halls T__T;!  But, ey - here are some expressions from my little walk (please don't forget that GamesCom was almost over, so it wasn't that crowded anymore).

GDC - Second Day

I'm finally 'enjoying' (at least trying to enjoy) a footbath right now. I must say that I'm absolutely tired now and my right feet hurts like hell (actually I really don't know why - it started yesterday already but became worse during this afternoon...).
Btw., that's one of the reason's I'm not attending the Crytek-Party, even if I was invited and changed numbers with some of my co-workers to meet up later at the party.... ;__;! 

Well, but actually I wanna start from the beginning.
So, I left the house at around 10 o'clock and headed off to the bus (which was absolutely too late... ) - anyway, Deutsche Bahn (Germany's number one train company) helped: the train was also too late, so I still caught it :')

 

When I finally arrived Cologne, there were already the first people who wanted me to help them. Seemed like the grey shirt kinda says like: "Ask me, I can help!" ... oh wait, it does indeed |D !

Before I started working, I just checked into my shift at the staff office. I was too early (which was because I left with around one hour spare time, just for the case my train would be late again, which indeed was the fact, as I already mentioned), so I was perfectly in time to have lunch with some other staff members who would change the shift with me after that.

Actually, it was kinda tasty!  Had some noodles with chicken and chinese 'bami goreng'. 

 

Due to I had a shift as a runner, I was just between "OMG HURRY!!" and waiting until I almost slept while standing |D So when we got some spare time in between, some of my mates and me went off to the different exhibitors' booths to check about new developments. Of course they had some nice give-aways and I was almost spammed by that!! But some of the stuff is just really cool, to be honest. For example, Softlayer gave away free ice cream with strawberry and chocolate pops.

(I know, it looks kinda messed up... but that's because I already had a lick on it before I remembered that I wanted to take a photo... sorry, stupid me! _ _! )

Anyway, I want to share some of my further GETs with you as well:

To sum it up, I got four T-shirts, several ball pens (as usual, I think they're quite popular give aways, aren't they?), some Batman-3D-flyers (I think it's sad that you can't see it's actually 3D ;__;! ), lanyard keychains (I especially like the one from Crytek, who presented their new engine, by the way! It's amazing!! ), a 2K Czech key charm (including a bottle opener at its backside), a drinking bottle and lots of other stuff I'm too lazy to enumerate now... ^^

The little orange heart (if you mentioned at all, lol! ) is chocolate~ ! I also got another piece of chocolate by Wooga, but my dad already ate it! :'3

Well, to be honest, I'm totally wrecked now. And I kinda wanna cry if I think about that I need to get up in around 4 hours again o(TωT)o

But excepting this fact, I totally had a nice day. I really enjoyed the last hour of my shift, due there was lots of free time to spend it with my co-workers! We just stood outside at the big Piazza in front of the Congress Center, talking, laughing ... it was really fun!
I really hope to be able to keep some contact with those people even afterwards, because they're just so lovely and nice...! 

I think that's all for now. I think that I could write screeds about today, but I should go to bed urgently ^^;!

Good night! ☆　

I survived!

As I told you two days ago, it was my sister's birthday yesterday! 

The day started quite early for me (at least it felt like that... eh, eh...) because I needed to get up at around 11 o'clock even though I worked until almost 7 a.m. ... I really felt like I was dying  ﾍ(;´Д｀ﾍ)

So I decided to drink some MONSTER Rehab (which consists of tea, lemon and energy drink).  Even though there isn't any gas (which is - in my opinion - quite unusual for energy-drinks...) it really tasted surprisingly good! But maybe that's because I'm really used to drink tea, which doesn't contain any gas either, in fact... ^^; Whether it gave me some more energy... I really don't know. I'm too used to drink energy drinks and coffee, so I think it didn't have any effect 

（*/∇＼*）

After that, I got ready to bake the cake that I promised my sister: Strawberry Cream Cake. The Cake had three layers with different cream: 

• vanilla cream with strawberry pieces

• strawberry cream

• (lighty) milk flavoured cream with strawberry pieces

Additionally, of course I used some strawberries to decorate the cake... and to keep my promise, I want to share a pic of the result! (*´∀`*)

For dinner, we decided to do some barbecue, which I personally didn't claim in this situation, due to I didn't feel like eating anything (well, the cake was my "breakfast", so to speak, haha!). Anyway I really enjoyed some pasta salad someone brought (I really don't know who it was, anyway: thanks! It was delicious!). 

For dessert, we ate some water melon which I bought with my sister before (it was really big and absolutely tasty! ☆ Maybe that's the greek style of choosing water melons at the shops? (/ω＼)

Later on, Ella (a girl from Kazakhstan) tought us the game "Durak", (which literally means something similar to some nasty word I don't want to write down into this blog |D ).

Anyway, the game was fun! 

At around 2 o'clock, most of people already went to bed (or fell asleep even in their seats (´∀`) ) - anyway Johnny and me were just debating about several things until almost 4 a.m. before we went to bed as well (which is another argument to proof that 4 a.m. is the loneliest time!! *derp*).

When most of the guests left, we still had some nice time talking with my sister's boyfriend and Ella, who didn't leave until 7 p.m. today.  Because of that we were able to enjoy another dinner together - we prepared the meat which was left over from yesterday, I baked some feta with onions and tomatoes and some potatoes. 

Adding some tomato-cucumber salad, this was a quite big meal if you ask me!  （＠v＠）

We couldn't finish it all - AGAIN. 

Even though it was a very nice day/two very nice days, I really enjoy having some time to calm down again now. Especially because I'm quite sure that I can sleep a little more this time! ^^;