土曜日

Saturday, I went to Stockholm to buy some new accessories and jewelry, since I don't have much to choose from at home and I needed to expand my supplies. I met a new friend for the first time, as he was kind enough to be willing to hangout with me and show me some stores. Very nice of him. (^-^)

Anyways, I bought some new earrings, necklaces and bracelets. It was all pretty cheap, nothing too fancy, I just wanted some new stuff!

Here's what I got:

This random lady came up to us and asked if she could take a picture of us and post it on Instagram, haha!

でわ、また・・・

NEW CDs☆彡

Today I got 2 new CDs in the mail.

BORN's new single「Devilish of the PUNK」
and LOCUS' new album「UGLY CROW」

LOCUS is a pretty new band, formed in January last year. They have only had one release before this album, which was a demo single, so I felt the need to buy this since I wanted to hear more of their stuff!

I have 2 other orders that's been shipped to me, hopefully they will arrive this week as well! The beginning of 2013 is exciting. A lot of bands are releasing new stuff. (^-^)

誕生日おめでとう！

Yesterday was my birthday. I went to Stockholm to meet my aunt with my mom and one of my older brothers to do some shopping! I bought a lot of new clothes, more than I deserve. Not going to show any pictures of what I bought since my camera suck and the lighting in my room is REALLY bad. But I'm super happy with what I got^^.

We also went to a Japanese restaurant called Blue Light Yokohama (the best one in Stockholm, if you ask me). I went here last year for my birthday as well. Their food is superb and the restaurant itself is extremely Japanese, compared to other Japanese restaurants I've been to.

I took some pictures of the food I had.

Aburi nigiri

Yakiniku

Buta kakuni

Sake clams

And of course coffee afterwards!

Receipt（゜◇゜）

I had a wonderful birthday, couldn't have asked for more. It was nice to get out and be with my family for a while, I've been so stressed lately.

I need to cut my bangs...

Dying~

でわ、また

恋の予感

Koi No Yokan Limited Edition finally arrived this week. I've never waited this long for an overseas order before. orz

CD, album t-shirt and a pretty big lithograph was included.

Shirt looks the same as album cover

I also received MEJIBRAY's latest single アヴァロン (Avalon) earlier this week. It's pretty amazing and I really like it. Can't wait for their next single, DIE KUSSE, which apparently Sophia-sama (ex. Blood Stain Child) is going to sing in a lot! She did the intro for Black Baccarat in one of their previous singles, Sadisgate. Although if DIE KUSSE is more like EMILY (i.e. calmer), I don't think I'll be buying it. 8D

I've also been watching this live stream marathon event called "Awesome Games Done Quick 2013" all week. Literally all I've done is eating, sleeping and watching this (also some studying, but not much...), and I've gotta say, it's one of the best weeks I've had in a long time. XD So Awesome Games Done Quick is a charity event run by this site called SpeedDemosArchive, where they speedrun a whole variety of games for an entire week. 24/7 (a speedrun is obviously a play-through of a game with the intent of completing the game or a specific goal as quickly as possible), while taking donations for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The marathon was held January 6th through January 13th and in 155 hours they raised $420k (holy crap!! also, pretty epic number^^), and their viewer count peaked at 55k viewers (I think it was during Octodad, lmao). This is the third year in a row they ran this marathon and it was the most successful thus far, last year they raised around $150k, BIG improvement! I really can't wait for next year, I can only imagine it's going to be x10 more awesome!

OH, and I also changed the entire layout of my blog, as you can see. (^-^)

NärCon

I got a ticket to NärCon Vinter for Christmas, so I'll be there in February! I'm probably going alone this time as well. The last convention I went to (UppCon 12) I went alone, but it was fun nevertheless and I made some new friends. But if YOU are going there and want to meet, please let me know! :)

I didn't get much else for Christmas btw. A super comfy blanket, slippers, perfume, tobacco (wot), Tekken Tag 2 and candy. That's it! Only thing I really wanted was a NärCon ticket, everything else was just a plus. I'll probably get some more stuff at New Year's though, from grandma^^.

みどりがすき

Update on hair

My hair dye arrived in the mail last week and I dyed my hair on Friday. It went very well and I'm extremely satisfied with the result. It's exactly the colour I wanted!

It looks great, right? Here it looks more blue than green I guess, the colour is like teal and it looks different depending on lighting.

Closer look with less lighting, the colour changes slightly!

Saturday, I went to Stockholm to see The Hobbit! Funny thing, when me and my friend arrived at the cinema, we lined up to pick up our reserved tickets (we hadn't payed for them yet). This girl in the line next to us starts shouting "Does anyone want 2 free tickets for The Hobbit?!". My friend immediately reacts, which results with us getting 2 free tickets for The Hobbit! It was at another cinema, but it wasn't far from where we were, so no biggie! Anyway, the movie was incredible, I really loved it. I dare say I liked it more than Lord of the Rings. The first movie in the trilogy is my favourite because it is more adventurey, while the others are more epic with big battles, etc. The Hobbit is more adventure, which is why I liked it more. :)

After The Hobbit, we went out drinking. The weather sucked and my new hair got totally obliterated. It was snowy and windy, and ugh!!

Look at this shit!

Bleach

Some weeks ago I cut my bangs by myself and it did not look like I expected. :D At first I thought it looked kinda bad, but meh, it will grow back. Then a few days later while looking at myself in the mirror, I thought, 'hey, my hair kinda looks like Takemasa's (from 己龍/Kiryu) now'. So I thought I would do my hair just like his, because why not?

I first dyed one side black and then yesterday I went to the hair salon to bleach the other side. I've never bleached my hair before (or dyed it in any other colour than black for that matter) so I thought it looked really funny. Here's how it looks.

Anyways, I've ordered 'Special Effects Sonic Green' hair dye, the various results from it looked the most similar to Takemasa's hair. Will probably be dyeing it this weekend or next week, I hope it turns out okay!

I wonder where my Koi No Yokan order is? Deftones released their new album 'Koi No Yokan' 12th November, and I ordered the Limited Edition Koi No Yokan Bundle which includes CD, Lithograph and a T-shirt. I ordered it 14th November I think, but it still hasn't arrived? Should send a mail or call them or something soon...

Hey, I finished Fate/Zero! Kinda disappointed to be honest. I thought that it would be mind-blowing good, looking at the ratings and shit on MyAnimeList. It was good, but it wasn't THAT good. I liked the first half better, I enjoyed the character development between servant and master more than the action, even if the animation was superb. While Fate/Zero is a great example of an anime that focuses on multiple characters, I would've loved if they did it even more with some of the more interesting characters. There was too much focus on Saber, Rider and Archer in my opinion. Would've loved more Caster (this character was my favourite) and Berserker. It's definitely worth a watch though! I did like it. :)

ALSO, my favourite band BabyDollSymphony is releasing their new album December 10th!!! It's their 2nd original album (they've made 2 cover albums as well) and I'm super excited. Although there's no site that ship outside of Japan... So I asked the keyboardist in the band if he was willing to send me a copy, and he said yes. Yay! Check out their homepage if you want → http://babydollproject.com/bds/

Or check out their live!

では、また！