Flying

Oh damn, I've gotten so busy again! D: No matter how much you like the books you have to read for school (and I like most of them this spring!), they still take TIME! And then there's work and social life and so on... Bohoo ;___; The weather has been awful, too, and doesn't really encourage to dress up nicely - or to do your hair, for that matter. (from Ms Oh My I Guess It's A Hat Day Again with love...)

I have had a few parties for which I've taken the time to get dolled up, but my camera's memory card ran away and I can't find it! (....................... wait. Did I give it to Inka? Hey, Inka, did I give it to you? XD I have another one but God knows where that is...) So there is no photographic evidence of me having looked even remotely decent. D:

EXCEPT for on Saturday, when I reunited with my gals for Satu and Miki's (don't know if she has a blog) studio photoshoot! As our poor heroines ended up taking some billion photos, they're naturally not out yet, so it might take a while before I can show anything - but with such amazing settings, awesome gals assisting, and amazing photographers I trust even my face will have to look presentable in a few photos!



All the other (drop dead gorgeous) girls had barricaded themselves in the hallway, but the four of us who came late camped in front of the only bathroom - and believe it or not, our Doppelganger Club (that is, the two Saara's, left and right in the picture respectively, and us two Hennas, the prettier of which can be seen behind the left-hand Saara) took up pretty much all of the room with our stuff. :DD I think the other Saara and Henna have blogs somewhere too but damn, I can't find them and I just spent 30 minutes trying to ;____; What the heck.


After the photoshooting it was straight to my workplace to ditch all my extra outfits in my locker, and to - gasp - resort to going out in my ugly-as-fuck work shoes because I was stupid enough to think I could walk all day in high heels. XDDDDD EW. Thank goodness I had the furry legwarmers with me so no one really noticed anything funny about my shoes, but damn I felt ugly and self-conscious walking out in them! However, I was heading to a party and the night had a chance to turn into a very long one, and since my feet were hurting at 6 pm I didn't really have a choice...

And it turned out to be a very good idea because the night was looooong and I do believe walking around in my killer heels might have been fatal by the end of the night XD Unfortunately my curls didn't make it to the party, but that's Finnish weather for you, yet again...




Then, while we're waiting for the photoshoot pics to come out, I think I'll just show some pictures I found in my cell while moving the Doppelganger pic to my laptop, mainly to demonstrate my mood over the last few weeks.




Sadness. I still think of this day a lot - that is, my Grandpa's funeral day. You're all probably sick of hearing about it, but don't worry, I'm not gonna get too mopey this time. I just wanted to show you what that day looked like, because even though it was one of the heaviest days in my life and even though it was also one of the coldest days this winter, it was also an extremely beautiful one. Grandpa was always a great friend of nature, and sentimental and silly as it may seem to you, I like to think that Nature kind of wanted to pay him her respects by dressing up in her finest on that day.


Insecurity. What do you think of this outfit? It's very special for me for several reasons I don't particularly want to elaborate here, but I'd like to hear your opinion. Sorry I don't have a better picture, though, and my hair failed a great deal too. .__.



Restlessness. This is Helsinki as seen by me one chilly Saturday morning from the rooftop of my workplace, Stockmann (a department house). You can see the Uspensk Cathedral back there, and a misty horizon that disappears behind the houses - that's where the Baltic Ocean is, near enough to be seen daily but far enough that I never actually bother going to see it. Every time I stand looking in the general direction of it, I can feel my feet itching to go, go, GO already.




Longing. I had a freaking nightmare about being back in Tokyo and it being our last day and me missing several trains on the way to the airport, until I finally ended up in a train that didn't bloody stop in Shinjuku and while I was beginning to fall in despair that I'd never manage to catch my flight, I also noticed that I had left my luggage somewhere. IT WAS AWFUL because you know, I missed home and I was terrified that I had been left alone and that my friends would make it and I wouldn't, but at the same time I was so damn happy about getting to stay there.

I miss Tokyo already. TT_TT


I also haven't been feeling too well lately, both physically and mentally, and last week I finally made the important decision to go to the health inspection my school offers. I haven't been to one for years and I'm terrified of what they'll find. o___o I'm in such a bad shape!

Anyways, I hope to get back to you soon with some hopefully successful shots from last Saturday, but until then - thanks for your support and patience, it means the world to me, and sweet dreams. ♥ See you guys later~

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead!

(3 awesome Halloween parties later...) [pretty much copied from my LJ entry because I'm lazy like that XD]

A MAJOR photo spam of my Halloween!! I was hideously busy yesterday, first with a Halloween-themed Gal meetup and then a Halloween party at Milla's place~ (not to mention organizing a Halloween-themed Christmas party for the people at my workplace on Friday!) but I had such a great time!! I seriously don't remember the last time I enjoyed my life as much as I did yesterday.

Apparently my outfit was successful too!! My self-confidence went from six feet under right through the roof because everyone was so nice to me and I got a lot of compliments! o3o I've been so down lately, this was exactly what I needed ;___;




This is how I looked at the party on Friday! I'm so bummed I couldn't find a nice jacket so my outfit was kinda lame... But I really like how the military hat + eye-patch thing worked out 8) I don't have any photos because I left my camera at home... I'm hoping my co-workers will upload some later, if they're any good I'll show them then ♥


The Gal Meetup @ Happi

I was the Wicked Witch of the North ♥ XD

On Saturday, 12:30 pm, we met up at the Helsinki Central Railway Station as usual, took a subway and headed to have a Halloween gal party! I'm too tired to write a full account (and what would you do with one, really?), but let's just say I enjoyed it even more than last time because now I got to know some girls better. ♥

Emma braved the lions' den and came with me, this time~ But she had to leave in the middle for work, so she couldn't do a Halloween costume

"Hey baby did you hurt yourself when you fell from Heaven? ;D"
"Bitch, PLEASE! Remove yourself from my personal space, I'm not interested!"

Great minds think alike, so it's no surprise our costumes were alike as well! We had feather boas...


... cats (and a mouse!)...


... and of course, witches!!

I had a great time and I was so sad I had to leave so early D: But I hope I'll be free for the next meetup! ♥


The Party @ TilQ's


So, after the flight with my fellow witches of the West, the East and the South, I headed out on a heroic adventure to find my way to TilQ's place in the dark! I was successful until near the end, where the evil night made me take a wrong turn and get lost lol XD After walking back and forth for a while, I found a familiar crossroad, promptly walked to the wrong door and retreated before ringing the doorbell because there wasn't enough noise coming from behind the door... Milla lived in the house next to that one. XD

Having finally gotten to the next level, I was now faced with another challenge: monsters were pouring on me from all around! This is what greeted me when I came in:




The food was really gourmet: brain muffins, a hand-shaped pizza-kinda-thing and candy worms (below)!

After a while, this is what the pizza-hand-thing looked like...

Waterfall!!

The most intense moment of the night: the Terminator slays the innocent maiden!

That's about it ♥ Meetup pictures are taken by me, Satu and several others who we trusted our cameras with (including Emma and Ella). Party photos taken by me, Milla or... well one of our guests. XD

Next on Stage: Justin Galber!!

Hiya~ I've been so dolled up these past few days that I now feel pretty naked without contacts or extensions... :'D I don't wear them to school when I'm going to the gym/work/both afterwards.

First, a super random outfit pic:

Because maaaan, I love that hoodie *w* It's cute and warm. Hair looking like whatever again, though...

So, on Saturday I went to see the new Resident Evil movie w/ Emma, because Milla Jovovich rocks and kicks some major zombie ass. ♥ (First there was Shibuya, which went kaboom, and then there was Los Angeles, which had already gone kaboom. They ruined every place I love! XD Excluding Prague - and Finland, of course. Finland usually goes untouched in American movies.)

While I was sitting at the Railway Station waiting for Emma, I noticed four young Chinese people standing nearby, glancing my way with a map in their hands. I figured they were lost tourists and asked if I could help, and explained how to get to Kamppi so they could catch their bus to Turku. Then they suddenly asked if they could take a picture with me! I was like "... :o" and probably came off as a really smart person, but we took a couple of pictures, and just when I was writing down my email add so they could contact me, Emma joined us, and the two girls in the group practically dropped their eyes because she was so gorgeous. XD More picture-taking ensued. It was really weird, nothing like that ever happens to me, and I was so flattered >3< Plus they were really sweet and kind. ♥ The guy who took the photos actually contacted me through Facebook the next day. :D They'd been to Tallinn and had missed their train back to Turku.





Then, on Sunday: the 3rd Gal Meetup!

(This photo was taken with my camera, and within the ten hours it had been in web, someone was quick enough to edit it by circling four of us with red and posting it in gyaru_secrets with a "out of all these gyarus only a few did something to their hair. Did you all have a bad hairday or something?!" I felt like my photo had cheated on me, lol XD)

Since it was the first I attended, I was ridiculously nervous about everything and I think I talked a bit too much. But everyone was so cool and beautiful, I felt like a total noob! Luckily they were also very sweet and easy to get along with, and everyone took me into their discussions and all. I didn't feel left out at all ♥

Photo taken by Pin

My hair kind of went flat sometime between my home and Happi, but I still got a few compliments so I guess it wasn't awful :3

The Meetup divided in two: Pt. 1, the Brunettes ft. Pin who couldn't decide which photo to be in :'D

Pt. 2, the Blondetourage ft. Pin. :D Photo taken by Amanda, I think.

lounging~ photo taken by Satu ♥

I played football w/ Tiia. She won. ;__; photo taken by Satu~

Then we were divided into groups and told to decide on a theme and take a picture together. Ours was the court of a princess. This is an offshoot picture, so it doesn't look very princess-y. XD

Me and Marinka lounging with Pin and the Hat Girl (Anni? Most of the girls were all new to me, so I only remember a few by name, I'm sorry ;___;) in the background. Photo taken by Satu :3

I have a zillion more photos because as usual, I went paparazzi all over the meetup, but I think I'll leave it here. For more, check out our FB page! ♥ I had a great time, thanks to everyone who attended - I was worried I'd be so bored/intimidated that I'd have to leave in the middle, but I ended up being one of the last ones to leave - and I'll def be back for November's Halloween meetup!