♡ SCREW EU TOUR 2012『蠍-SASORI-』♡

みなさん、こんにちは! 

Wednesday 30th May - Camden Underworld, London UK

Writing this post with a calm and steady hand is proving much harder than I originally thought. For the past 3 months - I had been preparing to see one of my favourite bands SCREW on their 『蠍-SASORI-』European Tour 2012. Originally I arrived in London the day before to stay at a hostel for a couple of days with my friends Ren and Emily and I swear I only survived on two hours worth of sleep because I was shaking with excitement and waking up around 6.30am on the Wednesday morning my nerves were certainly getting the better of me. Nether the less, I arrived at the venue around 7.20am and there were already a few people there including the wonderful Chriss who had, in fact, camped overnight! 

The whole day was spent making people write in the fan book I had brought along for the band and meeting new people and spending time with friends I had not seen for a really long time (the last gig I had been to was Versailles last October...) I remember the band arriving at the venue around 1.30pm and being dragged around the back where the tour bus was parked by the gorgeous Iku, I legit was shaking with fear and after the band walked past us as waved - I broke down into a flood of tears and cried onto Iku's shoulder, so I really thank her from the bottom of my heart for keeping me upright. Then it was around 6pm when the made another appearance, this time just outside the doors of the Underworld for a small photoshoot and all I can say is that when Manabu and Rui stood in front of me - I cried AGAIN. I didn't mind that I was being teased by other friends around me - mainly by Dayle - but being right behind these artists that I've admired for so many years was certainly overwhelming!

About 6.30pm, the Global Fan Club members - including myself as being part of the GFC - were allowed inside for the meet&greet that had been done for this tour and the heat of the small area of the Underworld was certainly overwhelming! We all had to line up to have a photo taken with all the members - everyone sitting in between Byou and Jin who were both very adorable - and whilst I was having my picture taken, Rui placed his hand on top of my head whilst Kazuki put his on my shoulder and I remember Byou coming in really close to me that it genuinely scared me slightly! Then after everyone had their photo's taken and so again we all lined up to have the cheki pictures signed by them. I handed the fanbook to Kazuki, who genuinely seemed surprised to be given it and he said "Thank You" and shook my hand really enthusiastically! After morning signing we all sat down for a very short Q&A session which the members went on to make us all laugh with their silly (yet serious) answers. Honestly, they're all so lovely and gorgeous in real life and even typing this all out my heart is beating extremely fast remembering everything!

As we were already inside, GFC members were allowed to grab a spot at the front and I managed to get a spot dead straight in front of Kazuki with a new friend, Zoe, right next to me and a facebook friend Golffy who was next to her! Weird that she was there and I didn't notice until after the gig but I couldn't find her to say hello! Soon enough, the rest of the crowd who were lining up outside were let in and in a short space of time we were all reunited with friends and at around 8pm, the lights dimmed down and the band entered on the stage and the most awesome experience started for the next couple of hours. The set list from what I can remember consisted of:

★ The Abyss
★ Deep Six
★ Brainstorm
★ Cursed Hurricane
★ Ancient Rain
★ Gather Roses
★ Wailing Wall
★ Vegas
★ Kairos
★ Vanquish
★ Jellyfish
★ Raging Blood
★ S=R&B

Encore
★ Scarlet
★ Zansatsu Fiction

During the gig, I got spat on by Kazuki with water twice and of one of the many times he jumped into the crowd he held my hand! Insert a tiny bit of a spazz session as I re-live that moment! Also when Rui came over to our side of the stage - in the space of a few minutes he managed to crush my hand against the barrier and smack my head with his bass guitar... so much pain from one person! I remember sticking my tongue out at Jin and he pulled a face back at me! Also, as I knew every single lyric to each song that was played, I sang my heart out and Kazuki smiled a few times when he noticed I was doing that. Legit, it was the best night I had ever had and one of the best gigs I had been to in an extremely long time! Despite my hand being in pain still as I type this blog post, I have the biggest smile etched across my face and I still have tears in my eyes on the amazing experience I encountered with my wonderful and supportive friends.

I'm sad that I didn't catch any plectrums but I did manage to snag some great merchandise of a giant picture (just a smaller version of a poster) and a couple of photosets - where I swapped a Manabu photo from the Cursed Hurricane set with Sharan for a Kazuki photo from their latest look!

Afterwards, I waited outside in the lovely cool air with a few people to wave them off on the rest of their European tour and they looked just as exhausted as we did but content at the same time

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xoxo

♡ Fashion Inspiration: Tomboy Style ♡

みなさん、こんにちは! 

Now I do know that (for now) I am not the most fashionable person on the planet but I do have certain likes and dislikes about things. One of my biggest interest is street fashion - whether it is Japanese, Korean, American, British, European etc etc - I enjoy it the most. I've started to compile lists and pictures of outfits I would love to co-ordinate in the future once I have lost all the weight I need to lose and once I feel happy with who I really am. So looking through one of my favourite magazines - Kera - which is all about Japanese street and alternative fashion with the use of certain brands like Sex Pot Revenge, Hellcat Punks and Super Lovers etc.

Now the pictures I have collected I have put into certain... categories and today I am showing the style "Tomboy" which is where you dress boyish but you still pull of femininity - I think that is correct? It is basically blurring the line between femininity and masculinity. 

Looking through the above pictures, you can see what I am aiming for with the "Tomboy Style" and me being not confident enough to show that much skin - I feel that is a look I could easily pull off and so one day I shall be seen in public dressed to impress.

探していただき！

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xoxo

♡ Weekend Trip to Wakefield ♡

みなさん、こんにちは! 

Last weekend I travelled up north to Wakefield - which is near Leeds - to see my friend Toni for her birthday as well as to see a film I have been excited to see for an extremely long time - Avengers Assemble.

Originally it was meant to be myself, Toni and Ali but sadly Ali couldn't make it for the weekend - b'awh ( ；´Д｀) - and so in the end it was just the two of us in tow. I arrived at Wakefield around 3.40pm and after Toni arrived to pick me up from the station, we headed on over to the Travelodge where we were staying - seriously I have a thing for Travelodge's at the moment hurhurhur - and after checking in and dumping our stuff off, we headed back through town and towards the cinema in hoping of catching the 6pm showing of Avengers. Alas though, the screening had been fully booked up so we instead we bought tickets for the 7.45pm screening and headed on over to KFC for food. Our original plan was to see early screening of the film then head out for Chinese food afterwards but it didn't happen obviously ヽ(○´∀`)ﾉ♪

I swear down though, the thing I couldn't get my head around whilst being up North was in the fact the accents and how fast they speak ∑(O_O；) I had to ask the poor KFC man to repeat what he asked at least three times - but I'm glad he knew I wasn't from around that area! Also, I had only eaten my corn on the cob and started on my fries and Toni had already finished her food... WHAT WAS THAT (ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ it's like she inhaled it or something!

The movie was obviously AMAZING and I am halfway through the review of it to post on here for Movie Monday (yes I have neglected it a lot recently but I have two films to make up for it!) and I am still laughing to myself over certain parts of the film.

On Sunday, I went to meet Toni's family - ey up it must be serious the fact I met her parents *inside joke* （　´∀｀）and they were all so lovely and normally I get extremely nervous meeting my friends families but I never felt so relaxed in my life! Also I must admit being eyed up by an African Grey Parrot was a little - disturbing because it felt like she was going to slit my throat with her beak at one point! But towards the end she let me stroke her stomach and she seemed to enjoy me playing Yamashita Tomohisa and Vivid music to her （　´∀｀）

Also on Sunday (before we headed over to Toni's place) we met up with another friend Kitty - who works in Wakefield and didn't know that I was coming up for the weekend so we hung out in Sainsbury's for her lunch break. I must admit, I did buy a Thor figure from the store HAH

Umm that was about really it for the weekend as after we left Toni's house, we went back to the hotel and watched The Incredible Hulk on ITV2 followed by lots of Alice Nine Channels whilst devouring crisps and cookies and Monster energy drink ⊂((・▽・))⊃

It was a nice weekend away from my family as well as university work and job hunting and I would like to travel up North again but maybe this time to either Manchester or Leeds or Birmingham!

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xoxo

♡ Shopping Service Review Part II ♡

みなさん、こんにちは!

On Thursday morning, I was woken up at around 8am because of a very lovely delivery for myself from Kairai and my bad mood for being awoken so early disappeared very quickly when I did realise that the rather large box contained some extremely wonderful items that I had been aching to pay for since January! What I love about Kairai’s services is that he ships his goods using Fedex and being a person who usually use SAL to have things shipped to me from Japan, I might have fallen in love with Fedex and now will be willing to pay extra to have things delivered in 1-3 days instead of waiting a long excruciating week for items to arrive on my doorstep – see this just shows impatient I really am!

So I received an email from Kairai on Sunday saying that he had posted off my items and gave me my tracking number – which I honestly never use because it makes the wait more unbearable – and the package arrived on Thursday so that is really quick and amazing delivery in my honest opinion for an impatient bugger like myself! I have a strange obsession with amazon boxes from other countries and this is my first amazon box from Japan so I carefully ripped off the packing tape (as I needed to save the order form on the front for banking reasons) and gleefully diving into pieces of Japanese newspaper, I pulled out bubble wrapped bundles of heaven for inside the box was a collection of Alice Nine cds and one of their live dvds! Altogether there were 10 cds (so 11 items altogether) and there were a mixture of singles and albums all ranging from 2004 – 2007 and in the picture below you will see what specific ones I got:

☆ 名前は、未だ無ひ (2004)

☆ 祇園盛者の鐘が鳴る (2004)

☆ 九龍 Nine Heads Rodeo Show (2006)

☆ Fantasy (2006)

☆ 絶景色 (2006)

☆ Number Six (2006)

☆ White Prayer Regular Edition (2007)

☆ Alice in Wonderland (2005)

☆ White Prayer Limited Edition (2007)

☆ Jewels (2007)

☆ Hello Dear Numbers Live DVD (2006)

So as you can probably tell I am one happy person at this specific moment in time ヾ(*´∇`)ﾉ I have officially fallen in love with Japanese auction sites because of the fact I can find my favourite things (cds, dvds, clothes, make-up etc) for such really cheap prices! Oh and Kairai is an amazing person to be able to do this for me ( ﾉ^ω^)ﾉﾟ

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xoxo

♡ Friend Date! ♡

みなさん、こんにちは!

On Wednesday; I went and met up with my school friend Frankie, who I have known for almost 12 years now (crazy shit) and we spent the day in Chelmsford town centre doing some shopping, having some lunch and just a general catch up as we haven’t seen each other since New Year’s Eve. It's nice to see her because I can be myself around her without judging me and she understands some of the situations I have been in because she has probably gone through the same thing. Also we can have a good laugh and take the piss out of people without actually saying certain things (like names etc)

ANYWAY ( (ﾐ´ω`ﾐ)) we met up at Starbucks for a nice coffee - something I have not had in a really long time - and I actually had a medium sized Chai Tea Latte and in the end I wished I had ordered a small because the actual size of the cup as well as the sweetness of the Latte was overwhelming and I actually couldn't finish the drink (つω`*)
We mooched around the shops in High Chelmer, going into La Senza (so I could find out about the job going on in there) and then Republic (for eyeing up and wishing of lovely clothes) followed by Boots - where I felt I had bought the whole makeup counter because I had run out of every makeup source possible and the last time I bought things like that was back in January... so much makeup was needed ヾ(･ω･*)ﾉ

As it was around 2pm at this point we headed over to Prezzo for a delicious lunch. Frankie and I shared a bread board where there was tomato and pesto bread, mozzarella and garlic bread, ciabatta and music bread with balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil to dip the bread into. I wanted something filling yet healthy to eat and when reading the menu I had noticed that there were calories put next to the food and I couldn't resist eating a pizza! I chose the QUATTRO FORMAGGI which had gorgonzola, goat’s cheese, grana padano AND mozzarella cheese on... I was in a cheese heaven ヾ(×× ) ﾂ and I had a side ceasar salad and the whole calories for the meal was 800 - it seems high but it was all I ate for the rest of the day and I couldn't even finish the pizza.

After lunch, Frankie and I went walking about again to burn off our food (we weren't overly full but full enough you know?) and walking through an ally way to get to the main high street I saw a Banksy still street art with some cruddy written quote above it and I suppose I just couldn't resist taking a picture!

More shopping was involved as I needed some books for my Japanese studies and Waterstones had a pretty large collection - for once - and so after much deciding I chose Berlitz's Japanese in 30 Days (with a cd) and Essential Japanese, the Oxford Japanese Dictionary and a Japanese for Busy People workbook - they had other books from the "Busy People" range but I chose the workbook and have decided to get the other two when I am next in town!

As you can tell from the picture above; my makeup collection now vast and wide with some pretty colours! I mainly stuck to a couple of brands because I know they won't cause my skin to break out (as I've mentioned previously about my sensitive skin!) and I would list them all but I need to write another blog post that is linked to something I wrote a couple of months ago (?)
Argh! I keep saying I'll write certain things but I just keep forgetting! Silly memory ヽ(ー_ー )ノ

We also went into Topshop because I wanted to see if a bag I had seen online - but sadly was out of stock - would be in the shop but alas again... no such prevail ; 3 ; but I did buy a couple of hairbands and some earrings for half price and a nice skull top! Also getting student discount in Topshop made the purchase a little better and made me feel less guilty for such frivolous items!

The last shop we went into before I had to go home (boo) was Paperchase because I had to get a scrap book for a project I am doing (might write a blog about it... not sure to be honest) and a bag for the presents I am organizing too! ヾ(*´∇`)ﾉ

I think I have covered everything... long blog post is long though (_ _") but oh well! Have a picture of my face to finish it off Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ

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xoxo