tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88701058179044711052024-03-04T20:45:40.976-08:00enter the voidYves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-54474244450088794862022-09-12T16:10:00.006-07:002022-09-13T12:52:37.399-07:00Fun gaming and fun reading.Dear readers! <div>It's been a long time but if you're interested in games, check out some of the articles I wrote below.
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Want to know more about the most powerful gods in Greek mythology? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gamersdecide.com/articles/most-powerful-greek-gods">Read about them here</a></div></div></div>Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-24443096808671904122020-11-23T09:09:00.006-08:002020-11-28T07:45:00.493-08:00To the end of the world & back [because we always go back]<p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">Seeing that blogger changed some of its interface I thought I better post the thing I wrote a while ago before my computer breaks down as it is probably coming to the end </span><s><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px; text-decoration: line-through;">of the western world as we know it</span></s></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">As much as I complain about travelling being overhyped, I still spend quite some time on it. Well, don’t get me wrong, tourism </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; margin: 0px;">is</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> overhyped. The way we approach it as spiritual journeys when all we do is laze around in some hotel and forget we have to go to work or make a living at all is just boasting. But it does not mean that there is not some trips, or some encounters that do give our life meaning or a different perspective.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">There is two trips I remember as changing my view on life, what’s interesting is both were in 2018: one was in April 2018 when hitch-hiked from Tokyo to Nagoya with a newly-made friend and another was May 2018 to Malaysia.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45M7Wg-NCEnOtq5_r9zzvv2trmaZkUaxtGCuseES3L5topOt9YvYDqLxiGA0Y4z9uAcOwB2_Mtg3UVcfq8tJ4jgTQhyhimMWcuhdgSpcS9FZb8S5msPiANNFWh23DTU3xMvyHOQG5fHI/s1080/167889bfabcce02d2bd32a8eff162ab0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">The reason why Malaysia in 2018 was a special trip for me, was, well, for once, it was Borneo. I had thought a long time about going there. I remember hearing about Borneo during my studies and being incredibly fascinated by it. The whole trip felt a bit off to me.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">First of all, when I was going to Kota Kinabalu from Bangkok, my connecting flight from Kuala Lumpur was severely delayed and I had to wait more than 6 hours from what I remember. The next flight I could catch was packed (pretty sure the prior one was cancelled because almost not one was on the plane) - and I immediately fell asleep and couldn’t even get a decent view from the outside.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnW6jQtBvtCbX_pfEUGq1GtGDIJPmQMA5djvhs4LIv-T7f-AFHvEF5wgdQNSKzdQUH-gJfNbmotvOMMnUZArUoPw828B5G5Jx1jCl2RpdV4SgeTyE9GK4U7xSHoThYIFu8H8nlsGtIlg/s750/d2f866325ed7c2416c56b219c0d0ee94.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnW6jQtBvtCbX_pfEUGq1GtGDIJPmQMA5djvhs4LIv-T7f-AFHvEF5wgdQNSKzdQUH-gJfNbmotvOMMnUZArUoPw828B5G5Jx1jCl2RpdV4SgeTyE9GK4U7xSHoThYIFu8H8nlsGtIlg/s320/d2f866325ed7c2416c56b219c0d0ee94.jpg" /></a></span></p><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"></span><p class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZBwgFrpBX6cchLHadwkCVu4LkUNRKnXzzmMxtMJBO9l62fmquYNJKoeN4_MWEhAF2aTqqmOPHMwb8igcHdggZHeczyYDVfC_3LQqKoF9aCn0s5esu8f7t_F4WNwOc9DJHdUdA8PBexY/s1080/7a0cb09594b5d9f35c9718878cdce687.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZBwgFrpBX6cchLHadwkCVu4LkUNRKnXzzmMxtMJBO9l62fmquYNJKoeN4_MWEhAF2aTqqmOPHMwb8igcHdggZHeczyYDVfC_3LQqKoF9aCn0s5esu8f7t_F4WNwOc9DJHdUdA8PBexY/s320/7a0cb09594b5d9f35c9718878cdce687.jpg" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tiga Island (I think), a day trip from Kota Kinabalu</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As you see this is the proof that you can sell dirt to tourists, you just need to know how.</span><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">Flying to Sandakan was also strange, we were not allowed to have our phone on during the flight, which is why I could not take pictures of the beautiful view outside. I remember it as the most beautiful rain forest I have ever seen - but I can’t remember it in detail to be honest. This is why we take pictures and why they are so important to us, I suppose. We want to be reminded of that feeling we had.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">Sandakan/Sepilok had a very strange vibe on its own. I could almost not get home at night from the Rainforest Conservation Centre - somehow it had gotten too late. But I was lucky and could catch a Grab (Asian Uber/Lyft). Walking through the forest itself was strange, I felt like I was mostly alone, though there were some people, at night there was almost no one.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZYh5bvEmGVnKdc7QyXQKpVBuOHQG5OaBM6b4Zfuu0yjt_pnmks84wpfVBpgaWTkuOqXgCTN6wMHSscQXw2yv7I-SYn5pvJsOINxoF-0MIR-ZScnbnIDxQWwvUC39Ty4vVd-NHZxIlzAM/s1080/f15fdd1dc771e603a2268210664ad5b7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZYh5bvEmGVnKdc7QyXQKpVBuOHQG5OaBM6b4Zfuu0yjt_pnmks84wpfVBpgaWTkuOqXgCTN6wMHSscQXw2yv7I-SYn5pvJsOINxoF-0MIR-ZScnbnIDxQWwvUC39Ty4vVd-NHZxIlzAM/s320/f15fdd1dc771e603a2268210664ad5b7.jpg" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirnW6jQtBvtCbX_pfEUGq1GtGDIJPmQMA5djvhs4LIv-T7f-AFHvEF5wgdQNSKzdQUH-gJfNbmotvOMMnUZArUoPw828B5G5Jx1jCl2RpdV4SgeTyE9GK4U7xSHoThYIFu8H8nlsGtIlg/s750/d2f866325ed7c2416c56b219c0d0ee94.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSoVHnFqEiH0AmRNjDW0RVGUN7796EdwFHldwT8oLvoxFf-bS1xERusmcELIfMsHd_DpB7gDCyuqp04YxzXQIRDHtfWKhu8SlZiLv9iAoyqRdbfqOrH_msF0CSXXNeSPjnAzfGT79RS8c/s738/d1e006cdd2a882ec2381c5b1b680b697.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="738" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSoVHnFqEiH0AmRNjDW0RVGUN7796EdwFHldwT8oLvoxFf-bS1xERusmcELIfMsHd_DpB7gDCyuqp04YxzXQIRDHtfWKhu8SlZiLv9iAoyqRdbfqOrH_msF0CSXXNeSPjnAzfGT79RS8c/s320/d1e006cdd2a882ec2381c5b1b680b697.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rainforest Conservation Centre</span><br /></div><p></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">Walking through the streets felt weird, by chance I met two girls who were on the Jungle Photo-Safari Trip with me (I don’t even remember what it was called: we were in a jungle lodge and then on a boat in the river from which we took pictures of animals - also weird. First almost no one talked to me and then when I gave up on make up, they were all greeting me from the morning).</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">Either way the two girls said why don’t we check out the rooftop bar? It was in a hotel and quite nice but the hotel was also spookily empty. I had to call my hostel for them to let me inside at night because they would lock an iron gate in front of the regular door, and I had to ask them to let me inside later when I rang the bell.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">We went „home“ each to their place shorty after midnight. The vibe was extremely strange, everything was closed early and the people who watched you were somehow not giving off a very friendly vibe - maybe curious, but not exactly friendly.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">Later I found out tourists in this area had been abducted. Ah yes, typically me, I wouldn’t even that kind of thing unless someone in particular told me about it. I thought the double-locking (the iron gate) was just how things work here and it was somewhat interesting to me.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">The constant possibility of „danger“ actually gave me a thrill on its own. But, the empty cities at night were also not very exciting in a way (of course on the other hand, they were). I got to know a Brazilian girl in the hostel and we watched a movie; one with Keanu Reeves (I swear his movies follow me on my travels for some reason) which was quite explicit and she did not seem to like it. The other one was fantasy which I did not like very much.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">We had our flight to Kuala Lumpur the same day and the same time, that’s for some coincidence (no, probably just not a whole lot of flights). When I trying to get up from the seat on the plane, something was pulling me back down and I had a strange feeling in my stomach at that. It was the strap of my backpack that had slung under the seat’s arm rest. As I realized it, I undid the entanglement and went on.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">In the hostel I was immediately greeted by a Philipino guy who said he was working there (which was a lie), and then I met two of the people again that I knew from the one day visit to Kuala Lumpur I made before: the hostel manager and a guy from Johor who had been staying in the hostel for quite some time. It was such a relaxed atmosphere, I still miss it.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyt6dIVrBR9_BOfJb6gTkvLJdQhRH5XmodQXIMjUKtU-qlJlnH7RO33gfjLjmow8jjb5_Yxfw_N9c8miqkgPxFx507Rf7nokf0NsjvUSSOdeyg2xRJIUxkLdRQg-yfxJw70SVkBTKgXn0/s1080/a781c2ef4dcb2dd434ca990d89bab857.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyt6dIVrBR9_BOfJb6gTkvLJdQhRH5XmodQXIMjUKtU-qlJlnH7RO33gfjLjmow8jjb5_Yxfw_N9c8miqkgPxFx507Rf7nokf0NsjvUSSOdeyg2xRJIUxkLdRQg-yfxJw70SVkBTKgXn0/s320/a781c2ef4dcb2dd434ca990d89bab857.jpg" /></a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45M7Wg-NCEnOtq5_r9zzvv2trmaZkUaxtGCuseES3L5topOt9YvYDqLxiGA0Y4z9uAcOwB2_Mtg3UVcfq8tJ4jgTQhyhimMWcuhdgSpcS9FZb8S5msPiANNFWh23DTU3xMvyHOQG5fHI/s1080/167889bfabcce02d2bd32a8eff162ab0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45M7Wg-NCEnOtq5_r9zzvv2trmaZkUaxtGCuseES3L5topOt9YvYDqLxiGA0Y4z9uAcOwB2_Mtg3UVcfq8tJ4jgTQhyhimMWcuhdgSpcS9FZb8S5msPiANNFWh23DTU3xMvyHOQG5fHI/s320/167889bfabcce02d2bd32a8eff162ab0.jpg" /></a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">These were both taken the night my phone got stolen</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyt6dIVrBR9_BOfJb6gTkvLJdQhRH5XmodQXIMjUKtU-qlJlnH7RO33gfjLjmow8jjb5_Yxfw_N9c8miqkgPxFx507Rf7nokf0NsjvUSSOdeyg2xRJIUxkLdRQg-yfxJw70SVkBTKgXn0/s1080/a781c2ef4dcb2dd434ca990d89bab857.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">So, what made the trip special was that. And, the fact that I got my backpack stolen at night. Me being me I went out really late at night (11?) through the markets, to some bar, then around in the streets with someone, then back to the market close to the hostel, then back to the hostel - where they ripped my backpack off my shoulders on the motorcycle. The hostel manager was so kind - she heard me scream and ran out of the hostel and around the corner: she knew the motorcycle would take a longer turn around the road so she could possibly catch him running in the backstreet to cut him off, but it was too late. She later said that wanted to throw the broom she was carrying in front of the motorcycle haha. Also, that she knew the instant I screamed that something important was taken from me. She went so far as to ask me to get in the car with her and go after them to maybe see if they had thrown out my backpack somewhere and only taken the things of monetary value. And all the aftermath of that, she and the other guy that was staying at the hostel helped me so much that I was honestly do not even know how to ever repay that karma-wise. But I suppose I will get enough chances.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">The interesting part was that I couldn’t sleep and eat much during that time but as I finally fell asleep, and then woke up after a few hours in the afternoon, I noticed a sudden downpour and the rain looked so.... amazing. Watching the rain outside through my hostel bed was such a ... humbling experience. I cannot explain in words how beautiful and real and refreshing it felt just to be in the moment and watch and feel what was happening. It put me back to earth. And I could not even take a picture of it but I remember I felt truly, really free. Free from most technology, free from money, free from worries. I started to wonder if that is what homeless people feel like. Is that why so many of them seem so happy?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">My parents scoff at me when I say it was a truly freeing and good experience to have my things stolen - probably everyone would, if they had to send me money and take care of things for me. But it was. I am also very lucky and happy to have my dear friends Susi and Tina who helped me as I contacted them in this difficult time, and Susi even came to meet me at the Frankfurt airport so that I, in case I could not get any money through exchanging it, was able to borrow some from her and get back home by train with it. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; margin: 0px;">Overall it was a very special experience I am thankful for, and I am most thankful for all the kind people that inhabit this earth and make it a better place for everyone.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By the way the hostel that I stayed at in Kuala Lumpur is called Paper Plane hostel. I remember it because they also had a restaurant/cafe called VCR next to it which had the best turkish eggs and a great view outside. Gosh I miss this! I am in no way paid for this review, I am mentioning it because this is all a true story.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-588728882256251952020-04-15T15:13:00.001-07:002020-09-19T11:45:51.306-07:00Revelations, the invisible wall & the Hada Labo Hyaluronic Acid Lotion (Light Type) Review<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Right, this is what I thought. Time to do what you love, time to get back your inner peace. Lazing around is also not so bad and you get the chance to explore awesome blogs and even read an academic paper here or there (although what I read was not related to my studies directly, I still felt... alive? Not productive, productiveness is such a pre-crisis thought hahah).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I was lucky to also stumble upon f.c.’s blog</span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> <a href="https://simpleskincarescience.com/">Simple Skincare Science</a></span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> and was absolutely in awe (someone give him a medical degree or at least an award please). There is so much info for people with troubled skin, it’s insane. So many theories and findings of medical papers are explained there that you will surely and easily learn a thing or two about skin care.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">It starts like every other story: skin-deep</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Truth is, at times I do happen to have terrible skin in winter, or generally in cold climates. Warm weather seems to do my skin good though. I have been to the dermatologist but since I mostly suffer minor outbreaks and, even though I still haven’t figured it out completely, some things break me out and some don’t, the dermatologist knows as little as me mostly when it comes to my skin. I got medication and that did not help me and I’ve had my fair share of other treatments and just got tired.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For some very strange reason, I bought a german toner (from</span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Alverde</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">, in dm) that someday almost completely cleared my face. Though I have to say I lived in a very "dry" apartment during that time and it was always very warm in it (lol, I know it sounds ridiculous but I swear a warm environment helps my skin).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When I moved to Japan to live for longer, I suffered from break outs that I only remember having in my younger years. That was mostly when I ran out of my cheap german toner and also tried new products for skin care, thinking I had "normal" clear skin, haha, yeah... no. I found out the hard way that I don’t and that the toner was my holy grail.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Still the winter weather in Japan outside of Hokkaido is the worst you can imagine because they do not have central heating (here is why I most strongly believe cold enviroment means big trouble for my skin - yes I do know how ridiculous that sounds given the fact I was born in Siberia but mind you, they have very good heating there).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">It’s like searching for the one until you know what you want: a phase of trial and error</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Yeah, come on, we’ve all been there in our early twenties. You don’t really know what you want. And even less so what you need. You might like that fancy products that everyone is raving about and it looks so shiny and popular but believe me: he, oh, I meant </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">it</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> is not the right for you.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">We know so little about ourselves and in our daily life we get more and more out of touch with it. Only when we have time to rest, think, try to get to know ourselves without rushing, we give ourselves the love and time we deserve. Everyone talks about having a fulfilled life, but how can you be fulfilled if you do not know thyself? (Remember how Neo in </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Matrix</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> went to the Oracle and she hinted at the sign that says "Know thyself" in Latin? Yeah. That, first. And also the movies are awesome in general. Some genius ghostwriter must have been behind that.)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But back to the topic. I only found out a while ago that the oil cleanser I was using in Japan broke me out, though it was supposed to be one for sensitive skin with non-irritant ingredients only (the brand is called </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Arouge</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">). The soap of that same brand wasn’t for me either, it just never felt right on my skin. It was very gentle, but maybe too gentle? Either that or there was just something that my skin was not okay with (I still have to go to the ingredients of the cleansers - though I do currently still use one of the gels and it doesn’t seem to give me outbreaks on its own).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In Japan I mostly just gave up after a while. I thought it was also my diet (partly true), but there was so many things that seemed to influence it that I lost track.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Since I came back to Germany, it was on and off but mostly the same until I tried looking more into it and I recently started using the </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Alverde</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> toner</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> again. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Before that I even tried </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Paula’s Choice</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> a while ago (the liquid BHA exfoliants mostly), and it did not work for me, </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Simple Skincare Science</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> also had <a href="https://simpleskincarescience.com/paulas-choice-2-bha-liquid-review/">a post about this</a>. My breakouts got worse! It felt my skin got more inflammed where there was spots and at times itchy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Please don’t try this at home. Or at least be extra careful.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Once you know what you need, you will keep looking for it and trying to make it work</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Let’s be real here, all love is like that. And self-love comes first in our world of individualism. What worked for me was switching to</span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Clinique</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> (</span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Take the Day off Cleansing Balm</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">), though</span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Clinique’s Moisture Surge </span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">is NIGHTMARE for me. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mind you though, I can’t use most "fatty creams": it’s either a gel-like moisturizer or something like pure vaseline I can use, but not the mix that would be like most </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nivea</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">-type creams. Which means, most sunscreens break me out, too.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ironically </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Moisture Surge</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> has a gel-like texture. I don’t even want to go through all the ingredients to find out what it is, but sooner or later I will have to.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">What’s funny is that even the overhyped </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bioderma</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Sensibio H2O micellar water gave me troubles: my skin became red on the cheeks after a while of using it (isn’t that funny? I usually did not have redness and it gave me that - though it was supposed to take it away when you have it!). </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Eye make-up remover worked better for me when I used it on the whole face, but yet, here again, all Japanese branded eye make-up removers I tried gave me bumps on the skin! Now I make sure to stock up on the German/European make-up remover products when going there.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Long story short, if I learned one thing from</span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Simple Skincare Science</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> and all my trial and error the like, then it is that I should simplfy my skin care and limit products and ingredients. And as I saw a review of </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Hada Labo Hyaluronic Acid Lotion</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> on that blog, I checked the ingredients and saw that there is a light version that I then ordered.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Showdown: Hada Labo Hyaluronic Acid Lotion (Light)</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Isn’t it ironic that I wanted to try this while I was in Japan but back then I thought it’s Methylparaben that breaks me out (only thing in Japanese eye make-up removers that I thought could break me out)? I thought it would just end in one more failed trial. Well, that’s how life goes.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">What’s inside? I want to start here by listing the ingredients which are only slightly different from the regular version. During my time in Japan I hated looking through the ingredients lists but after some time I just got used to googling the English name (though it does take some time to find the name of certain ingredients).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>Ingredients</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> (in the same order as they appear on the Japanese package, so you can guess the percentage):</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">DPG (Dipropylene Glycol)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Hydrolyzed Hyaluronic Acid (Nanoized Hyaluronic Acid)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sodium Acetylated Hyaluronate (Super Hyaluronic Acid [</span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">yes, it really says that</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">])</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">From what I can tell so far it did not give me breakouts and it does seem to give a bit of moisture, even though not much. It is probably the amount you are looking for if you are looking to layer products. I put it on the part of my skin that had a healed off breakout and it was fine, maybe gave it a bit more moisture but no dramatic change. But that’s all I was expecting and I put a layer of the </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Arouge</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> gel on top for additional moisture.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Actually, that was my review already. Simple ingredients, simple review, no scent (only an "ingredient"-scent) and I like it that way. Isn’t it just so nice when everything is clear?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Did you have experiences with </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Hada Labo</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> or other Japanese brands? I find it really hard to find "the good products" so I would love to hear your experiences. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I also bought the Hyaluronic Acid Foam Facewash, which seemed also a bit harsh for me so I will try to limit the use. I still have to find a soap that does not turn my cheeks red, give me breakouts, and is affordable (I have found one in Japan but it’s a bit pricey to order from Germany). </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">Well, first things first: a long long time ago (I think I was 10 years old back then), there was the </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">original Deus Ex</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">. Apparently people loved it and it was a game changer back in 2000, probably much like </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">The Matrix</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">, with that upcoming heavy sci-fi/conspiracy theme that got popular back then. Oh, let’s not forget another of my favourite movies back then: </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: italic;">Ghost in the Shell</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">There was a sequel called </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">Deus Ex: Invisible War</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">, which was not very popular among fans of the original Deus Ex. However, like very few others, I find the story and the whole theme of the game got a step deeper and more detailed with the sequel (actually currently watching it - damn, female Alex D. is quite cute). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">Fast forward many years (and a little pre-prequel? named Deus Ex: The Fall) later, Deus Ex is reborn with the prequel </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">Deus Ex: Human Revolution</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"> and following years later, </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">Deus Ex: Mankind Divided</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">I cannot explain in words how advanced Deus Ex: Mankind Divded is. Literally there is only one tiny thing (or maybe two) that annoyed me with the game, which really do no impact its greatness. I do encourage everyone to play this game just for the superior experience created and want to give several praises to the makers of this supreme masterpiece (no, I am not paid for this. I wish I was, I could be paid in Deus Ex goodies).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">Now let me get this straight: Deus Ex is mostly a stealth game, and I suppose it is recommended to play it this way. However, there is a mission where you have a bit of gun training and let me tell you - I was in awe at this. Never have I felt that cool shooting a gun and seeing it run through enemies like butter (Armour Piercing Ammo), and it never felt as smooth in any other game - but hey, here I have to say that is probably also due to the cybernetic weapon handling (augmentation).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">A world of consequences and mistakes - just like the real world (but better, the real world 2.0)</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">Brings me right to my next point: this game is so much and so huge. In every corner lurks information about some citizen or character in the game. Or about the world of the Augmented/Non-Augmented people. About the whole political and social situation. Talk about world-building!</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">Yeah, yeah, such worn-out dialogues and these little speeches could be better - but honestly, it’s just how people would talk and react being in a team with him. You could still choose to ignore side missions and just be like: „none of my business“ (aka "I didn't ask for this"). But you are Agent Jensen, and you want to make things done wrong right. And this is the action RPG I was always waiting for, and I am sure a lot of (or at least some) others were waiting for it, too. You are this more than human-person and you finally have the powers and authority to change things in the world. Who the hell wouldn’t want to be in this role for once?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">What touched me deeply about this game is just the amazing details: the OST gives you all the feels. It got me from kind of depressed in the beginning to further and further excited. It really ignited a fire in my heart as I progressed but it took me a long time to get into it. Never played anything as immersive.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">Really, if you love the depth of games, this game is for you. I cannot recommend it enough. The game is short, but the more you explore on your following playthroughs, the deeper it gets. And it can't get much deeper than this. It’s like a small but deep crystal lake, just waiting for you to dive into it and become absorbed in the crystal clear and calm water.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">I can only give it a rating of </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">99/100</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";">. Months, and probably years after this game, the bitter-sweet aftertaste will still linger with me and I wonder if I will ever find a gem like that again. Though this is not a love story, this is the story of the love of my life (of all video games).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: "yes";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 9pt;">Did you enjoy my paragraphing style here? I tried to adapt it to what I found easy to read when I read articles online, so I wanted to try this out. Always happy to hear feedback - and even more so your own Deus Ex or other game experiences :)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-865633546940952562019-09-18T06:44:00.001-07:002019-09-18T06:45:14.695-07:00"always" chasing your dreams - what is life about?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:DocumentProperties><o:Revision>1</o:Revision><o:Pages>1</o:Pages><o:Lines>1</o:Lines><o:Paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs></o:DocumentProperties></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><w:WordDocument><w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel><w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery><w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>2</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery><w:DocumentKind>DocumentNotSpecified</w:DocumentKind><w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>7.8 磅</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing><w:PunctuationKerning></w:PunctuationKerning><w:View>Normal</w:View><w:Compatibility><w:DontGrowAutofit/><w:BalanceSingleByteDoubleByteWidth/><w:DoNotExpandShiftReturn/></w:Compatibility><w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom></w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><span style="font-size: large;">Let me tell you one thing, readers</span>. One life advice if you are like me and think „ain’t no shame in looking for a better world“ (as said Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2; incredibly dark game by the way, and it’s hard to set the lightness to something brighter and easier on the eyes).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Right now what I am doing is writing a book. The idea came to me in just a random moment. I had random (tv and video game) inspirations and I just started getting them down. And now I push myself to keep it going. It’s an idea. It’s a start. But most of all, it is doing something that I was meant to do.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Funny story, I wanted to go for a trip to the US this summer and I saved September for it. Originally I thought I could go even in August but then I did not manage to finish writing my paper early enough to leave early.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">September comes around and I am doubting myself. Then I am like - hey whatever. Let’s get the visa and make it happen. There I go, get my visa (well that ESTA thing anyway), want to book hostel and flight and realize my bank account is locked and I might not be able to access my credit card. Fast forward some phone calls, some more IT problems and me having to write a letter to get the account unlocked again, it takes more than a week to unlock it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In many ways though, LA felt like Germany. The people I met were spectacular - but the feeling was at times very European or German. All the stores seemed the same, the food was similar (only worse) and without the people it all did not seem so great. And if I don’t want to go for the place, it only makes sense to stay longer. I still dream of staying at least 3 weeks over there.... but with my scheduel right now and me being lazy to do the study work I have to do, I am not sure if and when I will make it. But as I once gave as an advice here: do not fear time. Keep looking at your goals.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As for travel itself, doesn’t it feel super overrated? I read all these people feel so inspired by travelling but I have yet to find a person who painted a great painting or wrote a book worth reading about their travels. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Do you know what the most awesome book about travels is that I read? Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. And that man did not even travel!</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now Steve Jobs got inspired when travelling. Oh hell yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me because commercial travel goes hand in hand with ideas for commercial business. But where’s the art in that?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I have never heard of anyone doing anything inspiring or great art or anything to ease the Weltschmerz because of their travel experiences. But please, prove me wrong. Maybe I am just trying to prove myself right here for cancelling the trip and there is people who got inspired by travel to do something big and meaningful. But people like the Dalai Lamah, Gandhi, or Martin Luther King? Or Jesus? You can answer that question yourself.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To be honest, being home feels better than any trip I think. I haven’t felt good on most trips for the past few years. I kept pushing myself out of my comfort zone but even when I was out of my comfort zone, most of the time (70-80%) I thought I would rather be home because life is not so much different there (still very happy for the great encounters in the US though).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We all long for something, but all that travel can do is make us look in the mirror to see if we are all dolled up for nothing. Do you really need to stare into that mirror again? Do you really have to constantly check your looks that much? Don’t you think it’s time to focus on something more real than commercial travel? (Again, maybe I am only telling myself that.) </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Can we stop making it look like travel is the path to enlightment and self-finding? Because it can be, in a Siddhartha way, but you gotta do much much more than just travel. And you will have to make it much less commercial and more conneted to yourself. While, you see, I usually get stressed out by my outer world to do and experience things too much to actually sit down and work on myself while I travel. So what’s the point, honestly? It seems like you will almost always be that chicken who runs with its head off... unless maybe you already made that place you visit a home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile - well, a bit random but - flawless skin in Ho Chi Minh City (right; left is industrial zone in a suburb. but I mean it. <b>Flawless</b>. Maybe it's the holiday/novelty effect though. Also love durian since I had it in Malaysia. Only can't eat too much of it or else I get sick again lol)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">While being in Vietnam, I realized I still had so many things that I wanted to do. The project was maybe way smaller than I imagined - and so are fieldtrips. They are way more ‘natural’ and not really as exciting as one would expect (God, I got sick while being in the industrial zone. Saigon/HCMC was surprisingly clean compared to it.) And while the project was good on its own, I can only hope it was bringing me a step towards where I want to be. And I suppose that is: no mediocre.</span></div>
Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-51199269937765328262018-11-10T08:25:00.005-08:002020-09-09T16:27:57.322-07:00Paris syndrome & the world as we know it<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It brought me to </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: italic;">Paris Syndrome</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which I have heard of before but never really thought about that well. Oh yeah, of course, Paris is just so different from what Japanese people imagine it to be that when they get there, they are shocked. But wait, they get shocked up to the point that they hallucinate, feel depersonalization, derealization and anxiety? About 20 people per year? Can that still be brushed off as a little thing or are we finally starting to realize that Japanese media and society is creating a huge, and I mean really HUGE, bubble around its people, so crazy huge that once you get out of it, you realize that you have been eating the lies that they have been telling you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Okay, enough truth bombs. I think I said everything I wanted to say with those newly named syndromes.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Though we do of course by the media of our own country experience a slightly different real world when we visit another country, I believe </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: italic;">Paris Syndrome</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> really hits the bullseye for the Japanese society: complete distorted view on France, and several, if not all other countries, in the media. Because Japan is the best anyway. Why wouldn’t you want to live in Japan? Oh right, because as a foreigner with a brain, you might get a mental breakdown including psychiatric symptoms like depersonalization, derealization and anxiety. While as a Japanese with a brain you might experience that very same thing ‘backwards’ when you visit another country and are not willing to lie to yourself (as I know some people actively, in and outside of Japan, practice DoubleThink and DoubleSpeak).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But come on now, seriously, why would you not want to live in Japan? Or Paris, for that matter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Remember that thirst, that unquenchable terrible thirst the last time you had Japanese food (preferably in Japan) or maybe even Chinese food? Ahh, the quintessence of all Japanese chefs</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’ compositions</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the tool that makes their creations so irressistable, the secret ingredient, the key umami component, the only thing that makes our taste buds dance at the first bite (because actually they have been poisoned, overpowered and numbed): </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">monosodium glutamate</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (MSG). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I am actually still shocked by how many people, especially Japanese people, seem to be </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">oblivious </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">to why their food is tasting so good. I am surprised that even Americans I have met rave about Japanese food that much and do not know that the secret umami is nothing more than that chemical compound. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now obviously, the world devides into two sorts of countries: those raised on MSG and those raised without the use of MSG. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Take for example Australia, where children are basically spoon-fed with MSG from childhood (Vegemite). In contrast to that, in Germany we do have MSG food additives in the form of sauces (Maggi Würzsoße) or similiar, but not many people feed it to their children. Which is probably why I experience some Australians realizing that the Japanese food is not actually good (also food quality in Australia is quite amazing, if you ask me).</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So think about it, getting MSG fed as a child, everything tastes amazing to you. As a Japanese (spoilt) child, you will get out into the world as a man-child and think: Japanese food tastes so much better! </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And you are so wrong. </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’s the MSG that makes the Japanese food taste better but if you take it out, you have some way more bland-tasting dish. However because of the professional brainwashing in this country, you will probably say that it still tastes good even if it does not (because people are social beings and tend to say it tastes good even when it does not but everyone else says it tastes good).</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Besides that, how are you ever going to know the real tastes of the ingredients if MSG makes everything taste so incredibly intense, as in it makes your senses drunk in a way? How are you going to know it’s not actually rotten or at least partly rotten food in your dish? Surely the MSG can mask the bad food quality very well because when your senses are drunk, you are definitely not going to be the sober food inspector. What does it mean now, if you can’t taste whether your food is fresh or not? Yes, literally, you could be eating food that has long since gone bad or even worse - is not even food at all but some sort of plastic or substitute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So can we please stop saying how Japanese food is amazing? Or can we at least start praising food that does not have MSG in it? And also let’s stop raving over sushi which is basically rice bathed in sugar (among other seasonings)? Eat high grade sashimi with very very little soy sauce (better yet: none, or at least organic) and you will actually be surprised by how ‘normal’ and not overpowering it tastes.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So I do hope we don’t kill each other with spreading MSG on all the bad stuff we should not eat, finally get back to eating ‘real’, adult, non-sugared non-MSG non-GMO food that we know the actual taste of so we can survive as a cultivated race who can taste every single ingredient as what it is - and not for the overpowering opium-of-the-people umami flavour.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I often hear or read western people saying they do not understand why Japanese spend so much money at these clubs. Obviously it is the same people who have no real understanding of the depths of Japanese society and about how messed up it is. Though, if you really wonder why these clubs are so popular, can’t you tell that there must be something wrong?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One of the non-regular customers I encountered at my own work place, a man who was born in Hokkaido, told me he was very tired of the standardized conversation he usually had at Japanese hostess clubs. It was that remark that made me a bit more awake, though I was already very tired and worn out of the amount of standardized conversations I had that week. I asked him why people have these conversations here in the first place, and what he answered was: “Because most people who come here cannot even hold conversations like that.” There, you see, the Japanese are in a way retarded (as suggested by <a href="http://japaneseruleof7.com/are-japanese-people-retarded/" target="_blank">Ken Seeroi</a></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">).</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Of course we all long to have a conversation sometimes, and sometimes small talk is necessary. In the countries like the US and Australia, having a bit of small talk with a stranger or with someone you do not know very well is considered polite. Even in Europe it is considered polite, but it really depends on the people involved and the situation. However, that is a few minutes of small talk, not 30 minutes or even an hour, as in the case of Japanese hostess clubs. It makes you wonder if the Japanese are okay in their head - paying 3,000, 6,000 or even 10,000yen to have small talk with a pretty girl for an hour?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal;">Azuma describes these “animals” of the Japanese society as Otaku. I go as far as describing the regular Japanese hostess club visitor as Otaku. He just wants his basic need for love met. In the BBC documentary “Storyville: Tokyo girls” that describes the lives of idols and their fans, one female commentator even goes as far as saying that these men do not want to put any effort into a real relationship with a girl, they want to be loved and accepted without doing anything for it (watch it <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tgsrz" target="_blank">here</a>;</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal;"> 38:59).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal;">Now though, what if we see this all in a postmodern way, and think about the Japanese society as evolved, with the Japanese Otaku, craving love and fulfilling that need with anime characters, idols, and hostesses? Indeed all the needs we have in life can be fulfilled artificially in that way, and there is no denying that we all want to be loved. Now if that love can be consumed, is that so bad or is that maybe simply less traditional? It starts to become a very Science Fiction like scene at this point, and if we look at new movies, let me here throw in my deeply beloved </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: italic;">Blade Runner 2049 </span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal;">as an example: it predicts a society where women, especially the ‘unreal’ women (holograms, androids), are consumable goods. Through making these movies, our society faces the change that is occuring these days: we forgot how to connect or we have no time to connect and build a reliable bond. Or are we simply too lazy and too self-obsessed to become anything more than Otaku?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal;">Personally I see nothing wrong with hostess clubs. After all, women can consume the same sort of love with male anime characters, male idols (movie stars and musicians) and male hosts. From my neo feministic point of view, this is all very equal and I cannot criticize the mere consumption of love. However, we all have to be aware that the love we consume from those places is fake love. It is love that is meant to be consumed, it is wrapped prettily and it is prepared to be consumed. It is not real mutual love with a deep meaningful relationship behind it.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: normal;"></span></div>
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Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-68262945752918316172017-06-23T12:01:00.000-07:002018-01-09T23:48:27.030-08:00Work smart, not hard - don't be a fool, buy cheap! Latest Japanese fashion trends<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><w:WordDocument><w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel><w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery><w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>2</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery><w:DocumentKind>DocumentNotSpecified</w:DocumentKind><w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>7.8 磅</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing><w:PunctuationKerning></w:PunctuationKerning><w:View>Normal</w:View><w:Compatibility><w:DontGrowAutofit/><w:BalanceSingleByteDoubleByteWidth/><w:DoNotExpandShiftReturn/></w:Compatibility><w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom></w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Guys, I</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’ve had it with Tokyo. No, seriously. I’ve had it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">Where, I ask you, is the time to find your own identity or fashion sense? Or fashion, for that matter?</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "ms mincho"; font-weight: normal;">And hence, what you see </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">these days is either the old gyaru-ish toned down, the childish-sweet inspired or the foreign inspired fashion. And by foreign I mean mainly European/American or Korean. I’ve mostly really seen a raise in Korean fashion (hence I probably don’t go out much anymore haha). There’s nothing much to see besides that. </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">But </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">at least it has become cheap! </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">Since the wages are dropping while taxes are rising (I feel like half of what I am writing should be put in a paper about Japanese culture), we can see that ‘I will buy it all as long as it is cheap & cute’ attitude. Fabric, quality, size? Yeah, don’t care too much about that, it just gotta be cheap.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">There there, girls, now let me introduce you to the shop that every girl and there Japanese mom is already shopping at: </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">Puci Puri</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;"> (actually: puchi pri taken from the french </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">petit prix</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">) / <a href="http://www.qoo10.jp/" target="_blank"><b>Qoo10</b></a></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">Also, want one of those trending mini Furla style bags but not spend all that $$? Save that money for your next trip out of Japan and go with <a href="http://list.qoo10.jp/gmkt.inc/Goods/Goods.aspx?goodscode=520083978" target="_blank">this one</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">I have bought <a href="http://list.qoo10.jp/item/%e6%9c%80%e5%ae%89%e4%be%a1%e6%a0%bc%ef%bc%81%ef%bc%81%e5%a4%a7%e4%ba%ba%e6%b0%97%e5%95%86%e5%93%81-%e7%b4%a0%e6%95%b5%e3%81%aa%e3%83%87%e3%82%b6%e3%82%a4%e3%83%b3%e3%81%ae%e3%83%90%e3%83%83%e3%82%b0%e6%bf%80%e5%ae%89%e8%b2%a9%e5%a3%b2-%e8%8f%af%e3%82%84%e3%81%8b%e3%81%aa%e3%83%87%e3%82%b6%e3%82%a4%e3%83%b3-%e3%82%bb%e3%83%ac%e3%83%96%e3%82%b9%e3%82%bf%e3%82%a4%e3%83%ab%e3%81%ae%e3%83%90%e3%83%83%e3%82%b0-%e6%af%8e%e6%97%a5%e4%bd%bf%e3%81%86%e3%81%ae%e3%81%8c%e6%a5%bd%e3%81%97%e3%81%84-%e9%80%9a%e5%8b%a4%e3%82%84%e9%80%9a%e5%8b%a4/511043636" target="_blank">these cool bags</a> myself and they were cheap considering they look exactly like in the picture! Of course the quality isn’t that amazing but how amazing do they look?! The design is just </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">art</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">! This art smells quite a bit of plastic though, so be warned. But then again, I've seen one of the other versions hanging on the shoulder of a young woman in Kabukicho just 2 days ago!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">Though be warned, that stuff is still cheap and that means </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">cheaply made</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">. Besides the bags, I have bought 2 pairs of shoes of which one was quite awesome and the other one rubs against my feet until they bleed but they also look quite awesome. I’ve also bought a shirt that I wasn’t very satisfied with, it had a way more unflattering cut than expected. So be sure to </span><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: bold;">always check the reviews</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">!</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-weight: normal;">Do you have any experiences with that site? I would be glad to hear about your experiences. To everyone else happy shopping~</span><span style="font-family: "ms mincho"; font-weight: normal;"></span></div>
Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-37271110939102455902015-05-17T16:04:00.003-07:002015-05-18T10:30:07.052-07:00the land of the eternal sun: egypt<span style="font-size: large;">Greetings</span> readers who still did not get enough of me!<br />
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Even in May, haha. Are you all enjoying the longer hours of sunshine these days? As for myself, it has already been sometime but roughly a month ago I visited Egypt. My parents paid for this trip for me as a birthday present and also came with me. As you might know it can be a bit bothersome to go on a trip with your parents when you are already older but I could enjoy it anyway and had a great time with a lot of cool memories. I also made the city trips on my own and they were very fun!</div>
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I will spam you with a lot of pictures now again and not too much text, I hope you can enjoy this too!</div>
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Different side of the beach, with a lot of new constructions outside of the hotel area</div>
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The trip itself was mainly just desert. Desert at night and then desert during day. I couldn't stop looking out of the window though because sometimes there was beautiful shores and beaches and sometimes there were cool hotel complexes (in the middle of nowhere, yes!) and then some interesting buildings solo. Probably for military purposes. <b>And I have never seen such a beautiful starry sky!</b></div>
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Sunrise... really beautiful but it was also really cold. </div>
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Actually just the guy asked. And then when we didn't really fit together in one picture he asked the girl to go away (& she did!). I was so shocked I just said no it's alright and went away saying bye haha. </div>
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I drank cocktails with my parents at the hotel before going haha </div>
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Hurghada is so greaaattt, so much love, such a great atmosphere~</div>
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That Hard Rock Cafe was obviously a club but we could not get in either (I have no idea why, some kind of contract issue with the hotel it seems). We went back to the other place which was now finally lit!</div>
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Then we danced, it was so much fun! </div>
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We went out and a guy from our group was like:</div>
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My last day at the beach! Oops you can see I had all-inclusive in this one haha. But I was so happy!</div>
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Also that last day I was swimming in the warm ocean and a jellyfish stuck to my body in thigh-high water. I was so surprised I almost fell head-over-heels lol. Wait actually I did fall head-over-heels but luckily not flat on my face haha.</div>
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At night I went out with one of the hotel staff who I became friends with (actually he said he wanted to marry me upon first sight lol) and we walked around the same area I went to during daytime before. </div>
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I love how crowded and full of life the streets were around 8pm. All the stores very still open and everyone was still doing business it seems. In the cafes there were not too many people but it was a Sunday night anyway.</div>
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You read that right. Sexy mexy.<br />
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I was surprised this was labeled as 'orchid fruit tea' because I expected something completely different. It tasted like rice pudding.</div>
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And that's all. You can see the outline of the place quite well. I loved it!</div>
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I can definitely recommend Egypt to everyone who ever thought of going there, it's such a wonderful, great place to stay at! </div>
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It is kind of a bit of a poorer country though so if you are used very high standards of luxury, maybe it is not the best place to go for you unless you want to constantly stay in the hotel area.</div>
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Oh but let me end this post with <b>something pensive & meaningful</b>. Have you ever thought that a place that you view as very interesting and exciting has a completely different effect on other people? That all your feelings and impressions and the taste of the air is literally invalid for the other people with entirely different views?</div>
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Thinking of that made me remember a quote of a book that I read recently and want to share.</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">'The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.' </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">―<i> </i>Franz Kafka<i>, </i><b>The Trial</b></span><i>
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Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-84934434979590398362015-04-21T07:21:00.000-07:002015-04-21T07:59:01.655-07:00dark star skies: tokyo winter adventures pt. 3 [psycho pass events, going out with friends, lots of food]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ohhhhhkay dear readers, since it's already the middle of April and I did not manage to
show you all of the pictures of my Japan trip yet WHILE I actually was
already on another trip somewhere else, I will show you the rest of my
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Just posting the pictures mainly this time... there is not
too much to tell anyway and you can imagine how I hyped about the psycho
pass events from my facial expression I think :D</div>
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Psycho-Pass event in Shinjuku where I went with Caro... at the metro promenade you could get your own Psycho-Pass scanned. Got 141! They couldn't read Caro's first because she was wearing a scarf (totally toumeiningen lol), then she got... 12? something really extremely low lol</div>
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We went on to the event at Lumine Est where you could search for the psycho-pass codes to get something in the end. We got stuck on the first floor where we could not find the code and gave up since the prize wasn't anything exciting as it seemed (something like 10% off when you buy something at the stores).</div>
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On a different day we went to Shibuya Tower Records where there was a Ginoza event (?) called 'Ginnocent World'. Taking the dominators in your own hand was cool (they were actually doing the user authorization talk!) but nothing too exciting. We did some selfies, watched the movie trailers and I bought a parka for more than 7,000yen that I am not wearing now cause it turns out the fabric doesn't really feel nice haha<br />
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Then on another day I had a casual dinner date with my friend in Shinjuku at Ootoya~ </div>
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Late night talking (or early morning talking? It was 5am lol) with another friend at an Izakaya in Shinjuku. The ikayaki was to die for!!</div>
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The next day I met that friend again and we went to take purikura, where we found 4,000yen at an exchange machine someone had forgotten lol... We took it unsuspiciously and went to have sashimi at the same izakaya (actually I was telling him the night before that if I have spare money I am going to order a big izakaya plate there and eat it all by myself... and then money came in right the next day!)</div>
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Onsen-like foot-bath with tea that heats you up! Wonderful experience <3 </div>
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More food porn: Yakiniku in Kabukicho </div>
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(looks like I only went to Shinjuku those days haha, can't help it, I love that place)</div>
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Ice-cream with Mochi & Kinako powder for dessert~ </div>
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Extreme delicious sushi in Nakano (Marui) I had on a different night</div>
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Random but I actually made chocolate (a really boring and easy one lol) for Valentine's day but later did not know who to give it too haha</div>
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Ate Fugu for the first time! Wasn't really exciting because it has close to no taste. The Kiwi collagen sour was amazing! Unfortunately they brought me regular Kiwi sour when I asked for another collagen later :< </div>
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A hotel in Shibuya... random but this looked so psycho-pass-ish/futuristic/enter the void-like that I just have to post it!</div>
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Lunch at the same sushi restaurtant in Nakano once more just because it was so good!<br />
That was the last day (Saturday) before my flight back on Sunday.</div>
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Cake at night with another friend on the same day</div>
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Matcha cake & Black sesame Coffee - Sweetness overdose!</div>
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Messy sharehouse in the back but my look for that day. My eyes finally got better then so I finally got the chance to wear lenses again! (I have red eyes now again though D:)</div>
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Food on the flight back! Doesn't look very good but was very delicious (better than the Fugu haha)<br />
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Hoping to come back very soon!</div>
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Now please be excited for the next post about my other trip :D </div>
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(expected to be posted within the next 2 years lol joking~)</div>
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First of all, I missed the departure pictures because they were in a different folder (the iOS camera seems to create them randomly...). So here is a quick outfit shot I managed to take before heading to the airport in the early morning (oh the weight you gain when being at your parents' place...) and some pictures from inside the plane~<br />
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I always praise Aeroflot and think they really have a bad reputation (a lot of people give Russia/Russian people a bad reputation but really f you, they can do a lot of think essentially right... never heard of any cancelled flight because of snow or people who want more money, unlike in uh, Germany!). <b> </b><br />
<b>But</b> the food on the flight there was not too nice. Last time I had marvelous dinner that looked like out of a restaurant. Regret not taking pictures. However the food was better on the flight back. The service is A++, as good as JAL, if not better. Never late, never impolite. Just because they don't always give you that overly fake smile, doesn't mean people aren't nice!<br />
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Random impressions from my first days spent in Shinjuku. The guy who handed out the tissues to me was actually taking care to give them to younger girls only haha<br />
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But let's skip again to the night when I met my friend Kana. We first of all met at the station of the city where she lives (she said it's really inaka but it turns out it's still one of the bigger cities in Saitama!). Then we took purikura that actually turned out alright~<br />
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We actually wanted to do the shrine visit during daytime but since I had that appointment and my friend Kana is usually busy on other days, we only had time to meet in the evening. It seems like on usual days, no one really goes to shrines at night though. Especially not in the more country-sided places I suppose.<br />
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I was glad this area was a bit brighter. I actually threw in a 5-yen-coin and made a wish. Kana had to first tell me the order on how to do it properly.<br />
I think I did it wrong anyway LMAO. If you insist on knowing what I remember, it was something like, throw in the coin .... spin around yourself five times, jump on one leg thrice, then somewhere inbetween ring that bell and clap your hands, close your eyes and make the wish. Then bow? And also bow before? Well I think I did things in the wrong order and maybe forgot some actions (like the bowing one million times). Maybe I didn't though, I don't remember. Anyhow! The wish I made sort of came true. I think. The Japanese Gods were like: We'll let that pass, it's okay, she's a foreigner lol<br />
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One very scary path (left) where Kana later told me something like a murder actually happened there a month ago at night. From what she told it seems it was just two people arguing and then it escalated. Well, then we saw someone coming through the gate and Kana somehow stopped talking because she got a little scared. So we actually decided to leave.<br />
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We left to the main gate and got out to a little side street, where we waited for the cab. You could actually see the stars out there. さすが Saitama haha<br />
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We went to an izakaya! Actually Kana's boyfriend works there (also worked there that night) and came to say hello. The atmosphere was really nice! One of Kana's friends came by and we drank until really late. When I had to leave for my last train, I ended up not leaving because talking was too much fun :<<br />
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We looked at that punch bowl in the menu and Kana was like: I am going to drink that all alone! (Though it said it was for three people). When they served it, everyone was like: ... . Then Kana looked at the waiter and was like: So huge! And he was like: Yeah, well, it's for three people! Me and the friend just stared at them while they were talking and then laughed haha. <br />
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I stayed at Kana's place that night and instead of sleeping we basically talked all night while sitting under the kotatsu (unfortunately it was still sort of cold haha). Her cats distacted us. Especially me! I am supposed to have a very mild cat allergy but never noticed it. This time I did though and I started sneezing a lot. Also the ginger cat (hime) was evil and hurt my finger when I held it out to her D:<br />
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I then went home in the morning. It was really damn cold and I was so happy to be back at my home where the heating in the common area is almost always on <3<br />
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Another day I met up with adorable Jasmin (<a href="http://kurogal96.blogspot.de/" target="_blank">blog</a>) & adorable Ramona (<a href="http://ramonavstheworld.blogspot.de/2014/09/hamburg-2014-teil-2.html" target="_blank">blog</a>) and their friends/boyfriend. We did not do too much but hang out at an izakaya and then at the game center. <br />
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Later I bought cigarettes at the conbini that were advertized all over. The brand I usually always smoke (Kool) released two special versions called Miami Breeze and Bali Sunset. Actually now they came out as regular versions it seems. With this brand you really can do nothing wrong! I am really in love with the Bali Sunset one, it tastes berry-ish but still contains menthol.<br />
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Theeeeen we met for clubbing on New Year's eve! The streets of Shibuya were really crowded and FULL of foreigners. I guess we are so used to going out on these days that it seems like Tokyo consists of foreigners only. We bought something at the crowded conbini like everyone else and then started drinking in front of it and later moved closer to the club and drank more before we got in. I only got one drink for myself because I usually get drunk easily but then asked around for more sips from others haha.<br />
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Overall it was really fun and I enjoy myself so much when I can dance and let everything out, I calm down inwardly after that and forget all my stress! But... it was really crowded and there was quite a bunch of strange people. Getting to know interesting new people wasn't really what you could expect that night... still I am happy I was with my friends and could spent a great time!<br />
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On New year's day I just did some relaxing things at home since almost everything was closed anyway. The next day I
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It was very fun to meet up as bigger group on these days! Unfortunately that was rather rare for me later.</div>
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But that's all for now! I have some more adventures to tell you about the next time<span style="font-size: small;"> ☆</span></div>
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Since it's still cold outside, stay warm and healthy everyone<span style="font-size: small;">~</span> <span style="font-size: small;"></span></div>
Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-22578937575019437962015-02-26T23:34:00.001-08:002015-02-27T07:16:50.386-08:00dark star skies: tokyo winter adventures pt.1 [the glasses, nights out, psycho pass event]<span style="font-size: large;">Aaaaand <span style="font-size: small;"><strike>it's gone</strike></span> I am back.</span><br />
It took me really long to get back to this blog, I am very sorry about that (I hope someone still reads this!) but that has several good reasons. First of all I actually had a problem with my eyes (dry eyes, something like a chronic conjunctivitis) so I tried avoiding working on the computer and looking at computer screens in general. Still do, in a way, but it's hard haha. Then I was in Tokyo! Then, at least, I also caught a really bad cold and was, on top of all that, very busy with some essential things.<br />
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Well, well. I feel like I should all be saying 'my time in Japan was amazing' and yes, it was, of course, but going back to there every now and then has become very normal for me. Don't get me wrong, I still think it's the most amazing country I have ever visited and the country I want to live in but I have calmed down about it and can't 'hype' about it as much.<br />
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What I still hype about is great books or Psycho Pass! You can get me with that haha. But first things first, with photos in a chronological order, I am going to tell you a bit about my stay there.<br />
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The very first thing I did was getting new glasses in Tokyo! Cause they are so damn cheap there and much better compared to the ones I can get in my own country. I also got sun glasses (with prescription) but they aren't as cool actually. But they were cheap and I can wear them on lazy days off when I don't want to put on eye-make up!<br />
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Truth is, the sun glasses might look way cooler in the picture than they are because they actually cover my eyebrows if I don't wear them 'low' on purpose (I don't like how they sit on my nose :<). But yeah, just for those occasions it's okay I guess?!<br />
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Then went out a lot with mostly female friends. Did not have the nerve to hang out with guys. Actually because most guys always tell me to stop wearing glasses lol (passive-aggressive lol)<br />
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Last picture... can you spot the Brand X store? No? I couldn't either when I was first told about it haha.<br />
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Then there was a Psycho Pass event in Odaiba! This is the first event/goods shop I went to regarding Psycho Pass/anime... actually, yes, the first time in my life.<br />
There was an event where they showed the first 4 episodes of the DVD but it was rather boring...<br />
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Then there was a shooting event where you could use the dominator. It was actually pretty lame, too. So lame that our team mates (some Japanese girls) stopped making an effort shooting all the enemies at some point haha. <br />
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Bought some goods (spent 900yen on Gatcha and never got Ginoza or Togane lol), the post cards came free with the event, you could choose a character. Then also took a picture together with my darling Ginoza-san, for the first time <3 Just for this it was really worth going there.<br />
Want to make me happy? Go with me to Psycho Pass events hah. A few guys actually got it right!<br />
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Then a few days later I bought a hat at Shibuya 109 (1,080yen!) because I really like these kind of hats that have slightly longer... what do you call it, sides? And then the glasses combinations with it. It didn't look as expected and I will probably end up wearing it more without glasses but still I like it and you can't do anything wrong with what you like.<br />
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After my business-related event I met with my friend who invited me to her home in Saitama. I only changed my long pants to short parts and then went there directly.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What happened after is going to be in the next post! Be prepared for some spooky shrine visit at night!</span> (I always just seem to manage shrines visits at night/when it gets dark lol).Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-16570462424360156512014-11-05T04:59:00.003-08:002014-11-05T05:11:10.920-08:00progress is progress<span style="font-size: large;">Hello dear blog readers~</span><br />
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Big news for November! It took ages and a lot of patience (/nerves) but finally I could pick up my diploma! They handed out a 'basic' English version too... what a pity the grades aren't translated though. Nor the actual subject is. Is 'Asienwissenschaften' not the same as 'asian studies'? Really?</div>
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I was a bit upset about my 'plain' grade and 'only' getting 1,8 on my thesis because one of my professors obviously didn't like my work that much but ahh... can't be bothered now haha. Especially since doing Chinese class was my personal hell. And I remember that I started University thinking 'I can still quit halfway through!' and 'I have to get just through it quickly & I will be free again!' haha. And now I am! I am done! Finally! I am really happy but I have not found the right way to express this happiness yet... probably because of some - right now still minor - concerns about the future. But let's not ruin the present with that right now.</div>
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The day I picked my diploma up at the University I also got my iPod replaced at the Apple Store (two days ago, the home button was broken) and ran a lot of other errands, still feel like I am not really done with everything and getting to excited about my the upcoming months! So that day I also met two of my friends and with one I was having my time off, feeling so comfortable first chilling at a nice café where I had a sugarfree chai latte and then having dinner and beer~</div>
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Also I painted my nails with gradation nail polish I got in Tokyo (actually I got it for my mom but she rarely uses it because she has gel nails haha). I really like how soft the colours are! But it's too 'adult' for me actually haha.</div>
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Yes, that's all for now. Resting a few days now before I get down to serious business as in writing job applications and that kind of stuff. Ohh, we will see. I promise some prettier posts in the future, once I have something good to tell haha!<br />
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Take care and try to not get sick now that it's getting colder, dear readers~</div>
Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-91837672467267538472014-09-14T07:25:00.000-07:002014-09-14T12:55:48.348-07:00& the 'free' wig<span style="font-size: large;">Yay, new blogpost!</span><br />
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Just a short update but since I have nothing much to do anyway haha.</div>
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I got a coupon from PayPal for eBay and decided to buy just something really random I always wanted but couldn't really afford. A wig!</div>
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I always wanted to have this kind of style with curls so I don't have to curl my own hair (that takes ages and the curls never last in my real hair). Surprisingly it doesn't look so bad, compared to the first wig I ordered when I was 17 or so (it was pink and the hair was heavy & straight!), I am kind of glad I have a positive experience with a wig ordered online for once.</div>
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Some of you might have seen these pictures on FB already but I also have one additional picture of me in glasses for you. Also in case you haven't seen them on FB, I am not really wearing much make-up here (no foundation, just concealer, a hint of eye- and eyebrow liner & mascara), so don't be too shocked haha.</div>
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I don't know how to style a wig, I just put it on but I think it didn't look too bad! Hope to wear this on Halloween and other future events with more make-up :D</div>
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I really like this wig so much that I am even considering buying another one but on the other hand, man, I don't know, everything over 2$ is a whole lot of money. So I guess I won't. Or I will wait for the next coupon that will come in about 2 years, considering when I got my last coupon.</div>
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By the way, I took these pictures with the BeautyPlus app... but I still don't like the kind of pictures the iOS system takes. Why don't they work on making a better camera than on producing stuff like that Apple Watch? Or maybe they <i>want</i> to lose customers, for some reason~</div>
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PS. Before it slips my mind again and I forget to mention it in the next most... I am really happy so many people are following me even though in the beginning I knew almost no one.</div>
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Thank you for reading! If you want me to follow you back, please leave a comment saying so and I will definitely have a look at your blog, too <span style="font-size: x-small;">♡</span></div>
Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-21952213707404570202014-09-07T05:17:00.002-07:002014-09-07T05:42:33.891-07:00nails & dreams (+ sale promotion)<span style="font-size: large;">Hello dear readers!</span><br />
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Sorry for the long absence. It's September now, getting colder, but I am also getting closer to my goal because now I have finished my thesis and handed it in and I feel like a major burden letting go of me. </div>
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Though, I am still a bit nervous about the result and I feel like I can only 'let go' myself once I have passed. But soooo much disciple was necessary for me to pursue this one goal. You can't imagine what kind of fight with myself this was. Sometimes I felt like giving up and running away but I felt like I gave a promise to myself that I couldn't possibly break. Some things always reminded me that I am working for something that is worth it and that will bring me somewhere in life. I am talking like it's such a big business but I am not even sure if I passed yet... but since I already moved out of my apartment, I might as well show you what kept me going because I saw it on my way to university for the past 2 1/2 years. It's weird that it's on my bus route to University... in the first semester I lived somewhere else so I did not see this. But when I saw this every morning, I thought it had to be <b><i>destiny</i></b>. God, I am theatrical haha.</div>
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<i>I don't care if this makes me look silly</i>. Everyone needs something to keep them going, right? And it took me a while to notice him from the bus window actually but eventually I found myself looking for him every morning. I don't like original Yu-Gi-Oh that much but it made me thing of 5Ds (spin-off) so much. If you know a bit about the anime, you will realize it's about pursuing your dreams. It's about rising from the ashes, from being no one to be someone you want to be.<br />
If you are pursuing a dream, you might like one of my favourite characters, Jack, 'the fallen King' and his wonderful words:<br />
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<span class="st"><i>だからこそ自分達の手でやりとけたい!</i></span><br />
<span class="st"><i> That's why I want us to settle it by our own hands!</i></span><br />
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<span class="st"><i>俺は諦めん</i>!<i>俺達の夢を、こんなところで</i>、<i>終わらすわけには行かない!</i></span><br />
<span class="st"><i>I won't give up! I can't let our dream end at this point! </i></span><br />
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<span class="st">This is it. This is what I felt like so many times and I felt like I have to get up and get myself through it no matter what. There was no way other than to go forward for me at some point and after all of this is done, I will be sure I can do anything I want. I can achieve anything. </span></div>
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<span class="st">Even if you don't have money and can't afford to go the path you like, you can always find a way around it to pursue your goal. <b>Maybe it will turn out slightly different from what you imagine on the way but you can reach your goal</b>. Don't let <u>anyone</u> tell you you can't.</span> You wouldn't know how far it pushed me when people said that I can't do something or that something seems unreachable. </div>
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Also <b>don't fear time</b>. You will get older but dreams take time. It's the road to happiness that will make you happy if you don't forget what you are fighting for. You will get older, yes, but you will become happy on the way too. Each year you will look behind and realize all the amazing things you have done and achieved. <b>Don't fear change</b>, either. It will all be for the best if you work on it. And <b>even slow success is progress</b>.<br />
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Long deep talk. For those of you who have dreams and are unsure about things, I hope maybe this gave you a little hope that you are not alone.</div>
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Other than that, I don't have much to tell other than I have already redone my nails twice during the past months, haha. They're simple but I like how long they got!</div>
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I love the pastel pink and blue! Wonderful soft, feminine colours. Because I used a substitute for the cleaner, thumb and index finger fell off rather quickly and I had no chance to renew them while in the dorm... such a pity because my real nails were already that long.<br />
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I have been out sometimes, too, like yesterday when a friend went to a concert around my area and we had the chance to meet before that. But I forgot to take pictures because I got drunk after one beer haha. Well, I guess that proves I had fun!<br />
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Besides I found an older picture (from 2012) that I took when I wanted to sell some things. It was right after I came back from Japan. Look at that body!!<br />
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I am 'only' about 6-7 pounds more now but well, not that the exam phase and all the University stress is hopefully over I can get towards a body like that again. I mostly want to get skin like that again D: Which will be rather hard because that was mainly the work of my birth control. Oh but, I will push myself towards healthier eating and the life I want to live~</div>
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Also random side note: <a href="http://oi59.tinypic.com/ogckls.jpg" target="_blank">FB thought from my profile picture that I am Ageha model Airi Misaki</a> (who poked me once without me poking her!! omg! I like her haha). Now if that isn't a start to a healthier/greater self!</div>
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That's all for now! Messy post because my dreams are a bit of a mess still~ <span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But, if you are interested in Gyaru brand clothes <span style="font-size: x-small;">(d.i.a., Gravil/tutuHa, Ghost of Harlem, Taboo, Garula)</span>, please <a href="http://www.kleiderkreisel.de/mitglieder/131328-idolsuicide/kleidung" target="_blank">have a look at the clothes I am selling</a>! </span>Especially if you live in Germany or Europe! Most are in a very good condition/like new or completely new~<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Take care everyone & don't be afraid to dream a little bigger ♡</span>Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-45872831727989748762014-06-30T17:06:00.003-07:002014-07-04T14:02:50.097-07:00about badass women & my little hostsPlease dear readers, hit me with something (preferably soft) right now until I go to actually work on my thesis which I planned all along. It's like I have all the info in my head but I haven't properly sorted it and I just don't feel like sorting out all the quotations and finding a structure though I'm practically 60% done when I write down all of what is in my head plus quotes (which I have already written down by hand while reading the books). Having a lot of time for something really makes you work slowly on it, right?<br />
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But since I am here already, today<b> I'd like to write about powerful women</b>. The past weeks I have been thinking about what is the best way to overcome <i>the overly attached, unspoilt, cute, quiet, and sometimes annoying view of women</i> that a lot of people/men have and that is generally really popular in anime/manga/games and the Japanese culture.<br />
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To be honest, I am extremely tired of this perception.<br />
One of the things annoying me in particular is men ignoring women's real character, particularly Japanese men (probably because Japanese girls are so quiet?). I have even talked to man who dared to interpret a woman's characters in a completely twisted way - and while I didn't know what her true intentions really looked like, I was quite sure he was only interpreting it that way <b>because it fitted him that way</b> and pushed his ego (he basically said that she was sort of fond of him but she never spoke about him to me).<br />
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One example: By chance I read online (<a href="http://okwave.jp/qa/q2792065.html" target="_blank">true story</a>) that a Japanese guy asked for advice on a site where you can ask people questions more or less anonymously - something like yahoo answers. The title of his question was: '<b>Women who have no need for boyfriends</b>'. So he was telling his story of how he was in love with this girl and knew she broke up with her ex because she didn't need a boyfriend and wanted to have time to pursue her hobbies and find new friends (=totally understandable if you ask me). Then when the guy says when he asked her what relationship they have, she said she doesn't know and when he asked her what he is to her, she replied with 'important'.<br />
So the guy is wondering if the girl would remember him when she wanted a boyfriend and says that probably timing is important - and then asks the others what they think.<br />
And what is the second line (after the greeting) this j*** from the top answer says to him? <br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">'I don't think there is any woman who doesn't need a boyfriend.'</span></b><br />
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I really lost it when I read that. He didn't say that he doesn't think there isn't any girl who doesn't WANT a boyfriend, he literally said <b>he thinks every girl needs a boyfriend </b>(or else she isn't a real girl or what?)!! From what he wrote, this is one of the guys who thinks if they put kindness coins into a girl she will be what he wants her to be... that women can't manage their life on their own! While even from my thesis I read about researches that make obvious it is JAPANESE MEN who cannot get along in life when they get a divorce.<br />
You know, if it is some other sort of 'light' sexual harassment, I don't mind it as much as this. Attacking women to not be able to get along on their own is so terribly rude, I really start wanting to punch someone!<br />
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And this kind of thinking goes up to a level where I am ashamed of men, like when I <a href="http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201406190024" target="_blank">read this article</a>. I am particularly angry and willing to find way to change and attract awareness to what is happening because this kind of situation of women in the workforce is a part of my thesis.<br />
But that is also when I start realizing that by the years, there is more women working in full-time positions in Japan and having careers in typically male working fields.<br />
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One of the things that also made me realize Japan's society and perception of women is changing was when I was yesterday looking for an anime with an elder protagonist (one not in school anymore, I am tired of the characters with a childish mind-set), I was surprised to find one from the Sci-Fi genre called '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass" target="_blank"><b>Psycho-pass</b></a>' that grew more and more on me and of whom I did not strongly dislike any female characters.<br />
This is extremely rare because<b> </b><i>isn't there always some annoying, overly cute girl who speaks in a high voice and who's life has no use</i>? (Basically they are called 'Shojo' and there is research papers about them too!)<br />
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But while the female protagonist (<b>Akane</b>) in 'Psycho-pass' does have a higher voice, she is not a shojo with no use, she has a job and is considered calm and ambitious, and always did well in her studies during school/training. But the other girls in this anime are more mature, have a job and also make themselves useful for the society they live in. I was extremely surprised that I was becoming fond of all the female characters, even so the protagonist's friend <b>Yuki</b> who works as a <i>blue-collar worker</i> which is actually very rare because those workers are the ones that do manual labour - t<b>hey work with their hands, use heavy machines for things like construction</b> etc. Though this could be an 'easier' job too, this is the image you usually get when you hear from blue-collar workers.<br />
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And that's not all. Yuki is very considerate of the 'air' she creates
and how other people around her feel, though she might look a bit like a
selfish person from the first view. <i>She is soft, maybe a little cute but by no means is she the dependent kind of girl</i>; she does not have a boyfriend, and on top of that, <b>she does not mysteriously
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In fact, none of the girls in this anime seem to be
magically drawn to a guy just because he is cool or good-looking or
anything like that. It's the other way round actually - one good-looking
main character guy (Shuusei) finds most girls too intimidating and
tries to find a quiet, weak, calm girl for himself which does not really
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Another bad-ass woman is <b>Shion</b>, who does the analyst work (originally though she is a physician) and is extremely attractive if you ask me. Yet, surprisingly her whole team takes her seriously. She 27 years old, wears those
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She is also <b>very open with sexual topics</b> (saying things like '<i>I bet the bra I'm wearing today on this</i>!' in a public discussion) and <b>not at all intimidated by men</b>, taking sexual harassment - in the form of someone grabbing a girls butt at work - not too seriously ( if I'd be an anime character I think I'd be her haha).<br />
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There is more girls, but since I am still in the middle of watching this, I will stop here because I don't want to take the fun away for now. Let me only mention that the head of the police department is an elder women.<br />
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But while you might all already know that I am impressed with strong (blonde) female characters, don't you think these girls even go one step further with their whole being? <i>None of them cares about men and they all have work and focus on it or the way they want to lead their life</i>. <b>And men take them seriously</b>!<br />
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Seeing this anime made me really happy because not only that it is very interesting to see another Sci-Fi future, and follow the philosophical talk that leads you to think about how the world is working and how it should be working but it also shows <b>another future vision of strong women</b>. I really really hope Japan's society is going, at least with a few women, into this direction and if you want a good anime, please check this one out. I'd like it if a lot of girls watched this one.<br />
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If you are, like me, extremely upset with too young characters and weak female characters that are being nothing but useless (or maybe are only used as eye candy), this is really something for you. I was surprised myself how extremely drawn I was to this from the start (& after the 4th or 5th episode it gets really thrilling).<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, changing the topic slightly now - but not really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Other than gaining respect for a profession that you have to put a lot of effort into by studying, what is another way for a modern women to become independent and respected by others?</i></span><br />
You have an answer? - Well, there is more than one answer but the one I have in my head is: <b> </b><br />
<b>opening your own business</b>.<br />
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How do we do that? Well, I am not actually here to teach you how to open your own business because to be blunt, I have no idea haha.<b> But</b> you can practice this kind of thing<b> by opening your own host club!</b><br />
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Now what is this sparkly good-looking guy business here? It's a browser game you can play on ameba called 'My little hosts' where you open your own host club and manage it (by simple leveling up hosts).<br />
Actually the title differs slightly each time the event changes but it's something like<br />
'<b>Protect me! -kanji that are pretty badass & I'm too lazy to look up but that name the current event- My (little) hosts</b>'<br />
With that you get the idea what it is about... right? - But to be honest, when I first looked at it from the title I really thought that I was just some kind of help at the place.<br />
Usually, in host clubs there is no female staff (in contrast, hostess clubs usually have male waiters) so I was quite surprised that in the game you got to work there as a girl. Since I don't know too many kanji but could navigate myself through the game, I kept guessing that as a girl working there you might have some kind of accounting position in the 'back', which seemed the most logical to me ... until it came out that you can talk to the guys and <b>they actually call you 'owner'</b>!!<br />
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So that is how the story starts, you have this club and you walk around the street and recruit guys for it (I am quite sure it's much easier than in real life). They come up to you, most of them being polite but some, especially in the beginning, saying that a female owner is so rare... or something like 'Oh there is something like that, a female owner?' or 'Don't think you can become friends with me'.<br />
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Soon you will realize that most of the guys you recruit are quite nice to you. Each time when you are meeting a new face, <b>that person will come up to introduce himself to you and many of them have actually real voices </b>(some from very popular anime seiyuu I guess?).<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Guys who want to try working at your club introduce themselves to you first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Hosts that are rare have a voice attached during that, 'plain' guys ones don't) </span></div>
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On top on that, <b>you can unlock their stories by leveling them up and go
on dates with them </b>to make their charming power even stronger. When you
go on dates with them, you give them a call and you'll get a voice
answering if they have time for the date (when they have the voice
attached... some don't). <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">... unlocking & reading their stories and hearing their voice again when they have one attached.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Just giving them a straight call, you can invite the guys who work for you to a date (if you have a date ticket)! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>You're THE female pimp</b>!</span></div>
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<i>Then there is another kind of date</i>, or event that you can go to other
than to work. By going to the event (this was an event during rainy
season) you can gather experience points for yourself, as well as
rewards (roses) when the hosts protect you against some evil guy that is
trying to do you harm. The roses can be exchanged for random prizes
that are 'money', energy drinks to fill up your empty energy gauge or
something like new hosts. The hosts are displayed as cards.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">... some normal date (?) event and then a rainy day date event </span></div>
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There's also a way to have call battles (probably from 'champagne call battles' ?) where you can let your hosts fight (or rather drink) against another owner's hosts. Only the 5 most popular/strongest host will be doing this work, they will win experience and some kind of 'puzzle' bonus one can collect. Besides that there is also 'normal' work where you and your host can gain experience points and through which you can meet new hosts.<br />
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Actually, rather than me explaining any more of that, you should try it yourself if you want to be the owner of a host club for once! The downside is that<b> it is almost all in Japanese, especially the conversations</b>. You might get the idea if you understand only little of it though. And then there was this one Engrish scene that was almost perfect English but then they didn't make it.<br />
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I am being mean... but, instead of talking any more about it,<b> please check it out on ameba yourself </b>(it's a free Japanese blogging site). I think you need an ameba account to play it but you'll see the game right away in the games section.<br />
If you don't feel like playing it, this game actually seems to be modeled after an entertainment (?) TV show that is only on since a few months if I got it right.<br />
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It's a little different but then the girl seems a bit more powerful than usual real Japanese girls and the guys (especially one who sells flowers) are extremely surprised to hear that she is the owner of a host club which upsets the owner sometimes. It then gets funny when the hosts seem to be romancing the female owner a little but she also seems to have fights with the staff. <br />
To be honest, <b>the game seems more 'serious' to me with the idea of a female leader</b>. Then again the girl in the TV show doesn't seem to be very educated, so maybe there is a slightly bad view on her because of that and not only because she is in a leading position (hierarchies in business positions in Japan are generally really tough when it comes to someone's education/experience).<br />
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You see, there is many options opening up for ambitious women these days and I feel like these struggles to be accepted as a woman who is attractive, smart, educated and independent are slowing becoming recognized as we are little by little less discriminated by our age, too (at least I hope this is the direction it is going towards).<br />
<b>I hope women can be recognized as intelligent and independent even when they decide to care about their looks </b>& to be beautiful, and that women who are intelligent are not seen as men's enemies. And I hope that women set goals for themselves for the future other than watching their 'outer beauty' fade.<br />
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After all, I just hope that if hey wish to, women can get the chances to work in the same professions as men (e.g. managers, blue collar workers) and become proud of that, as well as I hope that men will not be discouraged to work in positions that are in typically female field (e.g. nail-artist).<br />
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This was a very long post, <strike>oh my god, I always have so much to say here</strike> but I hope you can take something from this with you and expand your horizon.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you like, please also share your opinion in the comments, I am really interested to hear it ♡</span>
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I wanted to write about a lot of things actually but either I was busy with something or I did not have my laptop with me or I was in pain... well, lately, it's allergy season for me and on top of that there's always something annoying me, I have no idea why I am sick that often. It's just a thing that comes when I have a stressful time I guess. And you know, I am one of those people who set high goals for themselves and want to have everything (minus the not so important things) finshed not one day in advance but like 5 weeks in advance? Yes, honestly, that's me.<br />
What's been helping me through this phase has been my favourite doctor haha. I've been watching House M.D. in 2008 already but since it was on tv I didn't watch it regularly and did not see every episode. I can say the first 3 seasons are definitely proving this was at least one of the most promising shows I have ever seen.</div>
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Honestly how can you not like this guy? Unless he was your actual doctor... that would be a bit of a pain maybe. But uh, there is some kind of wicked philosophy in him that I cannot resist.<br />
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Besides this, when I had a bit of free time I decided to do my nails. Since they grew a bit longer I first just wanted to put a gel coat but when I finally figured out what I was doing wrong all those years (and why my gel nails fell off so quickly when I did them myself) I decided to have them a bit more fancy. The result was that they lasted longer than 2 weeks.<br />
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But then I stopped doing my nails... and now I am not having them so fancy. Even though I want my nails fancy, filing them off takes so damn much time and during class I don't want people staring at them too much... for some reason. I'd want to do them more fancy again when in Japan though! My current nails just have a different glitter and are a bit longer. My natural nails are this long.</div>
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I was lazy with filing. And I wanted to do different nails but I need to order coloured gel because all my colours have gone bad (rather you can't see the colour anymore) ... but oh the money. Currently trying to save up on so many things (TT)</div>
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And before I forget it, there was the Japanday event which I usually don't go to but there was a band playing this time and also I got the chance to meet a friend I didn't see for a long time. So here are some pictures! My allergy wasn't that bad back then and the weather was really nice until the sun set. It was a nice day overall though and I could finally relax and just stop thinking for some time.</div>
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Also met Jasmin that day for a bit!</div>
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And here you have one more selfie I took when I still had exte and then I am off before this post gets even longer. I feel like all my posts are messy? But that's probably because I have to keep my tidyness for all the other tidy things I do for university (read: thesis) haha.</div>
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Oh my god in this picture I can see I am aging though! </div>
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Or maybe I just had a long day? I hope that's it!</div>
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I hope I can post again soon because I am planning a game review of some Japanese mini games I found lately. Hope you are all looking forward to it!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">PS. I have a fernopaa/gravil dress for sale <a href="http://gyaru-com-sales.livejournal.com/1892496.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Take a look if you're interested?</span></div>
Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-35057964258364044712014-05-08T19:18:00.000-07:002014-05-08T19:44:30.570-07:00coffee & orange juice: amsterdam's secrets<span style="font-size: large;">I am back from Amsterdam! </span><br />
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And wow, I mean wow, it was really a wonderful trip. It was more of a spontaneous, planned two weeks in advance idea but I always always always wanted to go to Amsterdam just like I want to go to South America haha. Amsterdam was more realistic because of my student budget of course. And I didn't think I would like it that much but I did! In fact <b>I like the city more than I thought I would</b>!
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Either way, our trip was from April 30th in the evening until May 2nd. May 1st was a public holiday and my two friends and I had off on Fridays (well I have technically off everyday besides Tuesday and Thursday but anyway 8D).</div>
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I will spam you with all the pictures I took. It is quite some time ago that I felt so much like a tourist and I actually wanted to take even more pictures. </div>
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After some time Sarah felt not so energetic anymore. First I was the one who was pretty down. I don't know why but I felt cool and calm all the time until suddenly a sudden 'shot' hit me and I had to lean against the wall and I couldn't even say a single word because every word took so much effort to be said. I wanted to say so much but it all felt so heavy haha.<br />
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Then after a while I felt okay again and started talking more but then Sarah felt bad and I could see that she had the same problem as me because she did not talk at all and just made 'yes' and 'no' sounds. Everything was funny to me during that time and I kept laughing but then Sarah felt nauseous and I went out with her and she puked. I first though I had to puke to when I saw that but then I kept laughing again. Now that I remember it nothing was really funny and the things we talked about were not really funny either but I was really laughing non-stop. Ah, it was great.<br />
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'The Dungeon' in Amsterdam was pretty scaring actually. I recommend it if you like scary things!</div>
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We walked around the city/red light district... I wanted to take pictures but we walked past everything really fast. I wish we would have gone there at night again but my friends did not want to and I felt awkward going there at night alone.</div>
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The two went out for a boat trip which I didn't join because it was 10€ and I really did not want to spend my money on that lol. I went around the city and bought cigarettes and water instead. Also Sarah had mentioned a coffee shop named 'Goa' and just the name made it sound so overhelmingly good to me. And then, by chance, on the way back to the hostel, I found it! It was on the same street as our hostel! Unbelievable.<br />
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Also the cigarettes they have are the same as in Japan! We don't have those in Germany.<br />
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I wish they would make something like this more like a psychedelic club! Then I would definitely have to live there though haha.<br />
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First some weirdos talked to us but then some nice guy actually come up to me (even though I was wearing glasses and felt like I had really greasy hair lol) and we talked a bit. He was french and he was actually good-looking. I didn't know good-looking french guys exist. I wanted to talk to him more but it was already around 3am and my friend Kasia felt like she got a headache from the beers she drank before and so we left. The club was supposed to go only till 4am anyway but... I wanted to stay actually (TT)<br />
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Also, here is two videos of the club so you can imagine what it was like - just my kind of club. <br />
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The next day consisted basically of walking around and buying souvenirs. I was pretty annoyed of that because it was really damn cold too. But I still loved the city and after the club experience I decided that I might want to actually live there in the future!<br />
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At last, cake for me. One special cake and one carrot cake on the way home to get down again haha.<br />
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That was it. It was a wonderful trip and I would really love to go back again! So far Amsterdam is definitely my favourite European city.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">On a sidenote, is anyone else annoyed of blogspot? The normal posting gets so ruined when you chose different fonts, it's like an old version of livejournal, only worse ugh. No wonder I never post here.</span>
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I am going to annouce it right away: Last Wednesday (9th) was my birthday!</div>
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I turned 24 already, holy. No wonder I am starting to understand what is so interesting about Sex and the City hah.</div>
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I was so so so so damn thankful for all the people thinking of my birthday and congratulating me.</div>
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The best thing was that my friends actually took time for me. They went out with me for drinks and even though I said I really did not want any presents (since I didn't pay their drinks or anything) everyone gave me something anyway and it was really sweet of them.</div>
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But most of all I was happy everyone took their time for me. I really love them all.</div>
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The place was not too good but it was not that bad either. The cocktails were fun and being with my friends was great as always! </div>
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I had such a great time... Tanita then even invited me over to her
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Then on Friday my friend from Hannover came over to my place and we did just some random fun things. Before that I cleaned my apartment... and I swear it has never in my life been this clean haha. </div>
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Mainly we just walked around and I showed him the area, then we went out for dinner and watched some movies and shows. It was great overall to just be together constantly. I miss this kind of feeling. Haha, now I feel kind of clingy... maybe time to go for a random boyfriend again! No, I am joking haha, I don't have the nerves for that now.</div>
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I just feel like I want to spend the rest of my life with my friends cuddling and being together and doing stuff haha. If I could I would marry them.<br />
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But let me end this post with selfies before I feel too awkward to post them haha.<br />
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With that I hope everyone has a good start into the next week.<br />
Don't catch a cold everyone, it's getting colder again so wear your winter coats as long as you have to D:</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I should be doing more for my thesis but instead <span style="font-size: large;">I am here, and I decided to blog. </span></span><br />
Here we go, my procrastination blogging comes again. And I am picking very random topics, too!<br />
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It's weird but since I came back to Germany and did not go to my parents place yet but stayed at my apartment dorm in Bonn, it has been so quiet and peaceful and <b>some days I woke up and felt like I was in Tokyo</b>. A year or so ago I felt the same before falling asleep in this apartment.<br />
But now everything is just so peaceful, there is no stress, I am very very slowly working on my thesis peacefully (I've read like 40 pages so far /nervous laughter) and every now and then I met a friend and had just a great time talking. ... Life is so different if you don't live with your parents and do not hear much from them.</div>
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My friend and I met casually and I told her to try the wine I bought for the casual dinner we had and she just drank it right out of the bottle haha. No we did not do anything special but hanging out casually, last-minute, that is what I miss a lot in Tokyo and generally in my life!</div>
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Enough of Germany and some more of Japan. I tried to not spend too much money but ended up somehow broke just paying for food and transportation and all kind of things I actually needed. Then, one night when my friend and I decided to hang out and another male friend joined, I ended up leaving my coloured contact lenses at that one friend's place because actually he did not have anything to store them because he wore 1day lenses... ah he gave me a pair of his 1day lenses that were actually too wear for my eyes but at least I could see something and then I went to ALTA in Shinjuku to buy myself some 1 day lenses for the rest of my stay in Japan. I had been wanting to try the Ageha 1day lenses for some time and decided for <b>the brown version which claims to make you look ハーフ... half-japanese and half-foreign</b>. Obviously that doesn't work for foreigners. For some reason the people asking me if I am half-japanese/half-something else have increased incredibly though. Lately it happens almost on a daily basis, depending on the make-up and lenses I wear and in which light/scenery they see me... I suppose it is because of my Japanese skills and they want to be nice? <strike>I am a bit proud of my Japanese skills though there is still so damn much I don't understand haha.</strike> But enough of that.</div>
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5 pairs... of which I have already used up 2, 1 is not shown because it was and is still in my handbag for the 'just in case'-case that of course did not happen again after that one night haha.</div>
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<b>The diameter is sooooo small somehow</b>! Somehow they made me look... well... I don't know, foxy? I thought I looked so vamp-ish but at the same time it suited my natural dark-brown eye-colour very well. When I was wearing my Garula clothes it totally totally totally matched my animal-print, slightly d.i.a.-ish but more classy style! </div>
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The diameter though!! But they were extremely comfortable, I also went clubbing with them.</div>
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I will give you some purikura with them because I actually did not have time to take selfies with them on. Yes you read that right. That is how little time I had when I was signed up to that University program.</div>
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Small diameter, right? My eyes are sort of big so they sort of do not even look like circle lenses and give me a very natural look. I wish they were just a tiny bit bigger but the fact that <b>I can wear them really long </b>is of course making up for it a bit. I am not sure how much I like these... But judge for yourself whether you think those are worth buying!<br />
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<b>Speaking of purikura now. </b>What happened to all the machines?!<i> </i>I really don't like how I look in the first purikura and I actually over-edited most of the pictures (<b>one of my eyes/pupils was bigger than the other in some angles!</b>) because those damn machines made my face so full of shadows... what happened to the machines that make you look Ageha-model like? What happened to super-kawaii light skin purikura? What happened to kira kira stamps? o(;△;)o<br />
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<i><b>What is happening to the Shibuya subculture?</b></i> I miss the 2010~2011 times! At least they still shoot from above for the full-body shot but everything else is becoming so natural, soon we can take just simple pictures with our smartphones and purikura-like cam apps...<br />
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Ah well, besides I am a bit a bit upset guys which might be nothing too new.<b> Lately I think I will never get along with Japanese guys</b>, first breaking up with my boyfriend, then having this trouble with the guy I met last summer... well, he never had time and wanted me to come to Shinjuku at like midnight to meet him! When I didn't, he was upset and called and messaged me everyday to make sure I had time to meet him the week after... only so he could stand me up!<br />
What the hell is wrong with Japanese guys? ((>д<)) It's like when you do something to them that isn't the best thing to do (OR THAT SIMPLY IS SOMETHING YOU WANT AND NOT THE GUY WANTS) he pays you back 3 times worse with his <strike>narcisstic</strike> humiliating behaviour. I don't know how to deal with men. I am attracted to them but they have such downsides I can hardly accept.<br />
I am naturally forgiving but if someone is trying to use me, I can't let that happen. And it seems Japanese men (especially the young, eye-candy type...) are just generally using women?<br />
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But I am not their typical gyaru or whatever Japanese girls they are used to, running after them just to get a bit of their attention, I'd rather stay single and go out with my great friends then letting men take advantage of me. Hell, guys aren't worth it. He isn't worth it. He sends me those weird attention seeking mails and messages on LINE, calls me but hangs up after a few seconds because he gets bored. He gets bored right away, you know?Or he at least acts like that. And he has always at least 10 girls (mostly gyaru) commenting on his timeline updates, means he probably talks to 100. Ah, damn those players. I wish I could just show him what kind of good time he is missing. But oh well. Even though I am always too nice and forgiving, my time will come eventually.<br />
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<b>Maybe someday I am going to understand guys and find a proper way to react to it.</b> Unlike commonly believed in Japan I try my hardest to realize I am still young with my 23 years (and soon 24), I still have the best time and the best experiences ahead, we all do. Besides that I am having a really time enjoying myself while being single. So with that I hope my readers don't have to deal too much with jerks and are enjoying their time too, haha. <span style="font-size: large;">Keep yourself away from trouble if you can, lovely readers~</span>Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-26775367252569022312014-03-20T07:27:00.000-07:002014-04-21T15:27:15.152-07:00back from tokyo & the big mountain!<span style="font-size: large;">Aaaand spring is almost there!</span><br />
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Here in Germany since a while and slowly in Japan too. (I get so pissed off when Japanese people talk about weather though haha!)</div>
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I meant to update more, right? But somehow everything got so めちゃくちゃ right before I left to Japan, I don't even remember what I was doing. Then once I was in Japan I wanted to do so many things and party everyday but I ended up doing much less than planned and doing very different things.</div>
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First of all. I have been accepted to this program at a Japanese (girls) University for 10 days for which I received a scholarship. I won't put up any names here, don't want do get any bad reputation and I really have a lot to rant about haha.</div>
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<b>So why am I back from Tokyo and 'the big mountain' you wonder?</b> The station where the dorm was located was called that way in Japanese and it was just this tiny little terribly cold, old lonely place. My first impression was that I, coming from a 10 days stay at a hotel in Ikebukuro (close to the central station), was too spoiled to get used to that kind of dorm where I did not have even an own shower. But I was so tired every damn day and this Japanese schedule and way of making tours just tired me out so damn much and I was so damn angry everyday because they did not give us enough time to sleep or eat, some days I was literally fearing I would hurt someone.</div>
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No, seriously though, the dorm was even worse than probably an usual prison room! No internet and no private shower, constant cold and <b>if you go out or inside of the building at 1am to 5am an alarm will go off.</b> Hell yeah, you read that right. Sort of like a prison!</div>
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Okay, I have gotten over this experience because the other German girl who I was doing the presentation with was with me and tried to calm me a lot of times. Because of our insanely long schedule (some days from 9:30am till 8:30pm!) we were constantly brain dead. When writing our review and filling in the survey for the scholarship, we were already falling asleep on the keyboard (we had to use the computers in the common area of the dorm, great deal haha /sarcasm).</div>
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My friend was filling in the survey thing for me... originally I told herto write 'Because of my financial situation' but she just happened to accidently smash random buttons and it turned to 'mz <span class="st">¥</span><span class="st">¥' hahah we were laughing our asses off.</span></div>
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<span class="st">Then we kept being more silly because I had talked about how I wanted a proper shower and wanted to go to a love hotel just to shower (and I was sure nobody would believe me if I make that propose!) so then I was mentioning how Uguisudani had really cheap love hotels. And my friend said she knew and then the conversation went like </span></div>
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That is not your usual 'watch your step' hole between the train and the platform.</div>
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Ehem... some crazy stuff! Including a trip to a shrine at midnight.</div>
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On the way back home to the mountain after clubbing!</div>
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(My friend called it retard-mountain and retard-train line haha ... then she was like 'Take picture of me next to the retard- train line!' and then I wanted to have on like that too hahaha) </div>
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The classes consisted really just of saying your opinion and asking questions (and if no one had a question, they picked someone random to say something!) but how can you say your opinion if you did not read into the topic at all? Also the students did not seem to learn how to properly gather information, at least none of them seemed like they really knew how to write and present on an academic standard... <b>as a result of a presentation where you describe the current situation/problem in the world just saying your opinion is a NO-GO in Germany! </b>That is not (!) a result. </div>
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Ah well. It was worth that experience. I am glad I am studying in Germany and actually have some sort of standard and don't go living my life like a brain-dead zombie. Sorry Japan, but that part of the education you are getting wrong. And even though I knew Japan's education system was messed up, experiencing it in real life was a really big shock the first days. People constanly asked me to say my opinion towards that topic but <b>if I did not have the chance to read anything about it yet, what sort of opinion can I give you?! </b>And yeah, I just thought to myself constantly that loose lips sink ships so I better shut up about everything I wanted to say into their face, about how unprofessional they were and that what they were doing was not going into the direction of proper eduation at all. And I just kept my opinion (about everything) to myself. All I did was sometimes explain the situation in Germany and that is it. <b>I am not going to sink onto an unprofessional level saying my opinion that has nothing to do with the topic.</b></div>
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I could rant about this forever. Nobody seems to knows anything, or at least they cannot give a proof or some proper quotes or anything like that. Probably that is why a lot of people in Japan do not seem to know anything 100% for sure. Everything is so vague. Maybe that is a bit of a new culture shock but oh well. I guess I can live with it. Just thank god I was not brain-washed into this education. Thank god I am studying at a proper University.</div>
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So thank you for reading all my rant haha. I think I got to know a different side of Japan (probably the one that should actually be called the dark side!) and I have personally grown with it so I am glad I could gather this kind of experience. I hope everyone else also has the chance to experience different sides of Japan.</div>
Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8870105817904471105.post-19997976682789143102014-02-04T14:50:00.002-08:002014-02-04T15:04:33.586-08:00and again happy new year~<i><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, happy new year <u>again</u>!</span></i><br />
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Haha, actually I never really care much about the lunar new year but this time I couldn't help but notice the start of it because I took chinese class last semester (I hated it though haha) and there was some sort of little festival about it too. Besides, it's the year of the horse ("my" year as I'd like to say)!</div>
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It's kind of funny because after the 31th of January things went a bit more easy going. Or maybe I just thought they were... I could not be bothered much about exams but still lately all I have been doing was studying and trying to eat healthy... more or less. I feel like all I am doing lately is peeling carrots, I am so tired of it!! But baby carrots are twice as expensive while a pack is much smaller... ugh.</div>
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I thought that if I kept eating just vegetables with hummus I will soon be too weak to cut carrots haha. But I also made rice pudding often! With whole full-fat milk (I hate skimmed milk so much omg) but sweetener instead of sugar. It tastes great, you should try it! The only problem is you have to make sure the milk does not burn ... that happened to me. It's not a nice thing to clean up later (TT)</div>
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Enough of my healthy (and not so healthy, that I don't show) eating habits. Also enough of exams even though I still have one to go (and am really crossing my fingers to pass all of them because I really didn't study much at all)...</div>
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Actually I wanted to show some of the pictures I took when I
was <b>at my friend's place</b>! We agreed to spend new year's together (the western new year I mean haha) and it
was great great great great!<b> I went to Hannover</b>, the city where he lives
together with his girlfriend and where they work (as assistants in the University and on their PhD). <br />
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haven't seen him for a while but <b>we know each other since I was in high
school and he is basically one of the very few close friends I have</b>. All
we did at their place was basically playing games (and they had tons of
board games which are just really really fun with the right people) and
eating. But we also went to a some sort of garden (I forgot the name...
it was basically too cold for me to care about anything). Well, you can
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<b>We made salsa!!</b> (or rather they did, as they cooked for me the whole time ; A ;) Excuse the drawn on hearts, I have seriously no patience to download brushes for photoshop or put this on my iPod to put on filters or anything but I hope you get the impression of the wonderful time I had!<br />
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Besides, on the first we went to a <b>steak house</b>. I thought I can treat myself just once a year with a good steak. It was so expensive that my jaw almost dropped<b> </b>(about 30€), but I tried to keep composure and it was a set-menu so then I thought, come on. But my friends insisted to pay for me (TT) I felt so guilty but at the same time so happy and <b>they told me I shouldn't look at the price and they just wanted me to enjoy the time while I am with them</b>. I was so extremely happy. And I was so full with good food - with good meat actually, that I rarely get to eat lately.</div>
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Ahh and of course I started eating first and then remembered to take a picture. It just looked SO good I could not resist!! <b>And it was good, my god, I cannot remember when was the last time I ate meat that was this delicious</b> (probably when I had kobe beef... I think they sometimes have it as an offer in this restaurant too!). <br />
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Then there is my friend's steak and his girlfriend had the same. I tried that one too and it was really really nice, too. <br />
Since I had watched the whole Matrix triology over christmas like 3 times (because it was on TV during christmas), we kept remembering scenes from the Matrix and then I was trying out how much of the exact dialogues I know by heart... and <b>I tried playing that scene when Cypher eats that steak when he meets the agent in the matrix</b> and talks about how delicious it was. It was so fun haha.</div>
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More food they cooked for me (the pasta sauce was so spicy and soooo delicious!) <b>and then board games</b>! This game was funny because we just kept making stupid jokes and basically my friend was sort of lying on the floor/carpet and when he had to give other players the cards they had earned (he sort of was 'the bank') he kept taking the cards from the bank and put them on the floor, behind the table (where only he could see them) first because it was easier to grab for him that way - but it looked like he was cheating, especially since he kept humming while doing that sort of thing happily hahaha. It was really amusing.</div>
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Then, I already went home soon after. I just stayed three days over all and when my friend brought me to the station I was already getting a bit <b>nostalgic</b>. When I sat down in the IC train (so much warmer and way more quiet than regular trains, I was so surprised), I still felt really comfortable and tried to read a book for my studies but only got through 20 pages. </div>
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But then, once I arrived home, I was feeling so down, I could almost not handle it. I am generally a slightly melancholic person and I like to be alone sometimes but that sadness <b>crushed</b> me. It was the kind of feeling that I get when I come back home from Japan most of the times. It was so disturbing, I could not even watch my favourite anime Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds because I just wanted to linger in the great memories.</div>
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What I enjoyed most about this trip is that I could have so many great talks with my friends and I forgot totally what it is like to first think about what you are going to say<b> </b>because I directly just said out loud what I was thinking and they listened to me and I listened to them and <b>we could talk just like civilised people</b> about all kind of things going on in the world (even though inbetween we were making fun of russian swearwords and how funny they sound haha). </div>
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I know this sounds like this is a rare thing but actually it is to me! I do not want to sound like a snob but what I mostly miss in my life is intellectual conversations. Not the kind that are on TV and in university (though sometimes!), just the<b> pure thoughts</b>, just <b>people letting their thoughts wander</b> and think about stuff and <b>getting sad about thinking too much</b> and<b> letting it happen</b>. I could enjoy that with my friends because I felt like they are so open-minded and think about new ideas and ah, this is just what made me happy at my heart.<br />
<i>Talking to people who are just on the same wavelength,</i> as one of my acquaintances would put it.<br />
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I<b> </b>enjoyed this so much that of course I keep this as one of the greatest memories.</div>
And if I don't end up in Japan after all, I might actually just ask my friends if they want to adopt me or something. I'll just be their puppy haha.<br />
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Yeah, this is the story I basically wanted to share before it is too late and I forget things. I think it is really important to treasure the people who stick with you after all, even if you become a completely different and maybe partly terrible person. I do hope everyone else has these kind of people in their life, too. Actually maybe this is the kind of people I always wanted to have in my life and that is why I adore(d) Yu-Gi-Oh and Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds so much, because they are stories about real friends.<br />
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I will stop here but there is some more things ahead of him this month which means you will hear of me soon again.<br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Take care and have a good year of the horse!</span> </i>(<b>read</b>: enjoy 'my' year! haha)Yves A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04485419954345754270noreply@blogger.com2