WHITEOUT 2011

Hi there and sorry for yet another long gap :3 The issues I mentioned last time are still around and taking more of my time than ever, and in fact some new things have come up... naturally just in time to distract me from writing my final essays and studying for my final exams. Why do these things always happen when I'm already freaky busy? I'm moving really soon, too...

I don't have much to say and even less time to say it, so just pictures this time, sorry. :3


Everyday outfits with relatively little make up~ I'm so tried in the mornings, I don't have the time to do much X___x


But on Saturday I did get a little more dolled up, because I went to Whiteout, a techno/trance/industrial/whatever rave party *w* It was awesome! The dress-code was, of course, white... but we all know I can only do black and white. :D


Finally got to use those goggles, though! YEAH!



The bags under my eyes tell everything about how busy I am and how little time I have to sleep, and my lower lashes have gone missing yet again, but I like the white stickers on my face. :3 They're actually nail stickers but I figured that what the hell, since I never get to do my nails nicely anyway, why not use them this way, then. :D


Stole this from the Whiteout Facebook page, so obviously IT'S NOT MINE. Copyrights go to whoever took the photo, forgot to check. With me are Aleksi (the tall one) and Katja, my former co-workers, and Jaakko, Aleksi's friend.

What do you think? I think I've managed to get rid of the orange tint where my hair used to be black very nicely, although as a result my hair is really dry and frizzy now and I don't dare to do much with it. :/

Six Feet Under

Umm... Hi guys, what's up? ♥ I'm sorry I've been kind of m.i.a for, uh, more than a month, but... as I've whined before, my school, work and social life are taking quite a lot out of me, and this spring it all just pretty much crashed on me, and with all the health issues going on right now I have to spend all my energy on things like school and work and they're still going like hell... and recovering, I guess. I got hospitalized for my allergies again, too, and failed two exams, which just never happens to me. I'm still far from being okay and keep struggling to get through every day, but I'll try to minimize my brooding here - that's what I have my LJ account for, in any case. (If you're, for some reason, interested, feel free to ask, tho. It's just that I don't like talking about personal things in this blog.)

So, since I haven't really been to any outings as of late, my outfits have been simple and comfy rather than showy, and I haven't put much effort into my make up or hair. Speaking of hair, though - I've gone fully blond again!


Bleaching the dark part was such a pain, though - it turned red first, and then I dyed it brown for a few days before going back to blond... My hair shortened by some 5 cm :D


As you can probably see, the former black is still pretty orange, but since my hair is so damaged right now, I want to let it rest for a while before I bleach it again. :3 So bear with it.



The reason I wanted to go back to blond was this: my new extensions! They were platinum blond and I couldn't find affordable black hair of the same length. And I must admit that the black-and-white hair was so hard to keep looking good, because I had to dye them at different intervals... and trying to silver shampoo the white part without getting it on the dark part was a pain, too.

Btw, the book I have in hand there is the Norton Anthology of American Literature. I just had an exam on it on Wednesday. I hope it went well, even though I think I misspelled some names...


Can you see what has lately become my favorite accessory? XD Since I'm in the habit of sleeping in, that hat is a lifesaver. It looks good with at least half of my wardrobe and saves me the trouble of trying to make my rebellious hair look even remotely acceptable.


Unfortunately, my b/w hair was my most admired hairdo ever. ;____; I loved it when people complimented it, and I loved it myself, too. But... it was just so much trouble - and I'd had it for more than six months, already, and was desperate for a change. Maybe I'll go back to it, some day, though :3



I also have an announcement: I'M MOVING OUT!!! I got a room in a student apartment of HOAS in Helsinki and will be moving in (... to live with two complete strangers, yikes!) on May 2nd unless something dramatic happens. 8) I'm so excited, but this means I'll be even busier than before - the beginning of May is pretty much when all the exams and deadlines are, so I'd better do them BEFORE I move...


And then, because I found this when I was going through my files to gather stuff for this post:

Lol XDDDD ♥ That's me in September (... I think...) 2009. I'd just found this fancy Sin City font and had to try it immediately.

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Maaaaaan, I'm so sick X____x My fever is currently pretty low but I still feel all shaky and achy... so since I don't really have the energy to do much but couldn't stand just lying on the couch anymore, I figured I'd drop by to post these and then go back to doing nothing.


A simple but warm everyday outfit for school on a freezing day - I tried to layer things so it wouldn't show. It was -25 degrees ;___;


What I wore to Leijo's b-day party last Friday. I really liked this outfit - the wet-look jacket had just arrived the very same morning, and it fit me perfectly. Too bad the webcam pretty much swallowed my lashes, but oh well - you know I was wearing them, anyway. :D

Ok, my head's beginning to hurt so much that I think I'll just head back to the couch now. See you guys later, when I feel a bit more alive... ♥

☆ SNOW WHITE ☆

Lol, Snow White is pretty much my least favorite Disney princess because she has no spirit or attitude whatsoever, buuuuut~~ in the spirit (and attitude!) of the last entry, I had to name this one after her. :D

Because the studio photos, part 2/2, is finally here, too! And I gotta say, I love them just as much as the ones in part two. I feel that the ones in my last post, curiously enough the ones with the pink background, are more rock than these, and these are more princess-y - perhaps because of the glitter and shine, lol. And while the pink ones have a slightly dreamlike and/or mysterious feeling about them, these here are more cheerful and spring-like.

All photos below are taken by and photoshopped by Miki Toikkanen. Accompanying me, again, is the ever-so-lovely Saara. ♥










There~ What do you think? I personally adore both sets and I'm very happy and thankful to my two talented photographers who took the time to take these and to photoshop these for me ♥ Awesome *w*

☆ CANDYPINK ☆

This weekend has been great. o3o No school or work on Friday or Sunday, and a nice morning shift on Saturday - yes, there have been some bad moments, like my knee bothering me again yesterday and general moodiness taking over my mind for a while at work today, but in general things have gone well, and I've managed to catch up with some of my reading and sleeping. I was, only two days ago, devastated that I couldn't even get my hands on the two books I had to read before Monday for my Gothic Lit and Children's Lit classes, but then a friend of mine gave me his version of the Castle of Otranto and I realized I already had Wind in the Willows and ta-dah, I was saved. ♥

On a downside, I have an exam on Classic Literature on Tuesday, and I can't seem to get along with Odyssey due to it being a poor translation. Or what I perceive as a poor translation...

But that concludes my literature snob-ing because I'm guessing half of you are already yawning. :D Now, I'm going to spend a moment being super vain because it's just so RARE that someone takes the time to take photos of me - and better still, takes photos I actually like *w*




So it's time to go PINK! in the form of the fruits of the studio photoshoot I mentioned last time. This time, I'm only showing photos taken by Satu, as Miki has yet to give me hers. Incidentally, they are all taken against a pink background... and unfortunately in almost exactly the same outfit, but that's mostly due to my laziness - I didn't want to change too many times, and it would have ruined my hair, too. XD

All photos below are taken and photoshopped by Satu Kaarnakangas; in three cases I have added some light and contrast because the original looked very dark at least on my computer. I hope you don't mind this, Satu ♥ This is in no way because I wasn't satisfied with your versions, because you did a wonderful job - I guess I'm just used to photoshopping my photos beyond repair to hide the dark bags under my eyes... XDDDD

Unfortunately, I hadn't really thought this through, and my tights look a little awkward. I wish I had noticed so I could have pulled them up ;____;

The same mistake again. D:

For the past few weeks, Saara and I have taken the habit to have lunch together on Tuesdays - which, naturally, lead to us talking almost exclusively about the week's g_s entry. XD How convenient. The funny thing is, it took a while before we realized we were doing that. This Gossip Girl photoshoot was inspired by this realization. ♥

I really like how we are kind of "black" and "white" here - but Satu was devastated because of course it was difficult to take a picture that shows both of our colors well... I think she did pretty well though.

This was inspired mostly by the colors of the fans clashing with the background so hilariously. :D


Saara described herself as a "monster" in this one - would that make my expression a "Lookie, even monsters eat from my palm!" one? :__D I personally find it adorable.


This one Saara described as a "incredibly cliche soft porn pic". I kind of have to agree. XD I still find it kind of cute, though.


And finally, my absolute favorite, even if it has my slightly retarded face in it. I like the pose, I like the colors, and I adore the photoshopping Satu has done to give it a slightly misty, dreamlike feeling.

Of course, after the photos she took last Halloween, I had no doubt about Satu's abilities - but still, I'm slightly amazed at how good I can look when someone like her is taking the photos. :o I guess it's because she's going to be a pro some day - but then again, school photos are taken by pros and I always looked HORRIBLE in them, no matter how pretty I looked otherwise!

... not that I actually did look very pretty back then. ;___; Do you guys ever wish you had dressed differently in past? I do, all the time. I really regret not going all the way with all the visual kei stuff and so on, because I'm perhaps a bit too old to get to it now... But I was way too shy and considered myself rather ugly at the time. :/ It's kind of sad, don't you think? (Of course, I was also too poor to afford it myself, and Mom refused to fund me... :_D)


So, what do you guys think of the photos? ♥

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~

Snow Can Wait

Not much to say except that uni life + work are getting ready to kick my ass again for the next few months! Still, at least for now, I've managed to find some time to meet up with friends... or some of them at least. On Friday I had a drink and some two hours of awesome gossiping with Elsi, and on Saturday I went out to celebrate the beginning of the spring semester with my Eng Phil buddies, with Emma as my date. I guess that strawberry from the cocktail was perhaps one shot too much, but I had a great time partying with my favorite gal for the first time in looooong while~ Although one of my overknee socks (I wore them outdoors but took them off at the club) sort of didn't make it back home... xDDDDD (I dropped it in the crowd at the cloakroom and couldn't find it anymore, mind you. It's not like I went stripping all around the city. :D)

Too bad my cameras have been kind of m.i.a. so even though I've put some effort to dressing up I don't have any photos ;___; Except from yesterday, when Inka and I FINALLY got our skinny butts up and dragged them and our cameras outdoors while there was still enough light for some photoshooting!



I'm afraid I didn't look at my best, though... but my defense is that I'd been partying the night before, had only slept a few hours and was slightly hungover in the morning, thus the ridiculous amount of make up. :D My hair is a horrible mess (and my roots span a mile!!) because I didn't have the time to re-curl my hair properly, so some of it is from the night before...



Inka, of course, was dazzling as usual. ♥



The place we picked was a playground called Etanapuisto (Snail Park aww XD) near our houses, and of course our inner children went all wild~



Ahhhh my hair looks horrible. Don't look at it. X___x Anyways, some kids had carved their names in the wood and it looks like there's a little girl called Neea somewhere in the neighborhood who's really popular among the boys! Haha how cute is that. XD

No one ever carved my name and a heart anywhere ;____;

By the way, I just realized that my spring term will be mostly about awesome books! I get to read stuff like Peter Pan, Jane Austen, various versions of Cinderella, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, classical Greek drama such as Medea and Odyssey and so on! Books and books about fantasy, relationship drama, gods, devils, monsters, sinners, saints, fairies, and madness! No linguistics, no phonetics, no god-awful translations, but children's literature, Gothic novels, Victorian literature and Greek drama! Call me a nerd if you want but I very much prefer doing my homework and essays on Dracula to the structural analysis of English language (which, unfortunately, is one of my courses this spring, but that's one against four!)

So if I appear somewhat absent-minded and even weirder than usual, it's probably because I'm up to my ears in escapism. ♥


ps. Minä haluan isoimmat ja kauneimmat, eikä niissä saa olla säröjä!

Tokyo Dec 25th - Jan 8th

Uh-oh! HUGE post, and very much picture heavy. (If you guys know how to do a "cut" in blogspot to hide the photoflood, pray tell me. I don't suppose the LJ one works for blogspot. XD)


WHERE: Tokyo, Japan; Higashi-Nakano to be exact
WHEN: December 25th 2010 to January 8th 2011
WHO: yours truly, Rikkis, Milla, Vili and Toni (I think Toni has a blog but I can't remember the address to save my life.)
WHY: Because us girls had been there in 2009 and had been wanting to go back since then, and because Vili had been there the year before, and because Toni wanted to go. Duh.
WHAT THEN: Rikkis called me one day when I was at work and said, "There are a few more tickets for 25th. Want me to buy you one?" and I was like, "HECK YES." and a few minutes later she texted, "K, done. Ordered you a gluten-free meal. You owe me 595 euros and 23 cents. ♥"


I'm not going to give a detailed report, so let's hope one picture can tell you more than a thousand words!

Higashi-Nakano, some 15 minutes from Shibuya and Harajuku

This is where we lived. ♥ It was small, cramped, freezing cold and there were no lights in the shower, but I miss it already. ;___;


Crepes at Harajuku! Passing a crepes stand is always so hard to me because they smell so delicious and have just about everything I can't eat. ;___;


@ Harajuku


We had no mirror larger than a A4 paper in our room, so every morning we had to take these pictures in front of the house to see how we looked. XDD


With so many geeks traveling together, spending a lot of time at various arcade halls was inevitable! I love playing but I suck at it, so I mostly left it to my more experienced buddies, excluding a few times of playing Butterfly together with Rikkis~







While the boys and Milla played, Rikkis and I usually ended up spending our coins on the purikura booths nearby... They had an uncanny tendency to wipe out my eyebrows. And after all the effort I put into drawing them all pretty in the mornings! How unfair is that? T_T


When not playing, a sure place to find us was Shibuya! It took several tries before we actually got to see the lowest floors of Shibuya 109, because we always started at the top and were dead tired by the time we reached floors three and two. Eventually we had to start from the lowest floors to check them properly...

... And when not shopping or playing games, we were eating. We ate a lot. And then some more. Seriously. XD This is from our favorite place, Sukiya. I miss their food almost more than anything else from Tokyo...

What? I'm food-oriented. XD


The nights, of course, were reserved for karaoke! It was my first time at a proper Japanese karaoke, and I loved every moment of it. *w* Too bad they don't have places like that here in Finland...


NO CARAMELLDANSEN! Que horror!


My worst joke ever: this explains the high suicide rates in Japan. There, there, you don't have to laugh, it was pretty bad...

The reason I love purikura so much is that it totally hides all your imperfectness (as well as your brows), from pimples to dimples, which I don't have but I'm tired and lousy puns amuse me. :_D Take this place for instance: if it so happened that you had a miserable hair day when it was time for some PURIKURA, you could always wear some fish and chips!


... And end up looking like this! Seriously, the day they come up with a way to airbrush your face irl, I'm buying. Awkward curls are awkward, though; not even purikura can change that.


OH MY GAWD! Homos on the wall! And in public places, too!

Oh, Hachiko. D: When I'm dead I hope people will pose in front of my statue, too, and be touched by how faithful (or stubborn) I was.


And then I hope they'll pose some more. ♥

I'm really satisfied with my outfit for that day, btw. AND the greatest thing about it was that in the morning, when we went to Starbucks for our morning lattes, I WAS MELTING. I took off the jacket and the cardigan under it and sat there in a tank top and (the most expensive) shorts (I've ever had the heart to purchase), sipping on ice latte and with the morning sun warming my back, and for a moment I could almost imagine that it was summer. ♥ o3o

Oh, look! If it isn't my favorite subject, FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD! No, really. On the 1st of January, our guesthouse organized a party to give us a chance to try traditional Japanese food. We were a little wary about going there, but I'm glad we did - the food was delicious (though a little weird!) and since the staff spoke English very well and explained things about them, even I could try them! Apparently the holey thing in front of me is some sort of root, and you're supposed to look through the holes to see your future. I tried and saw Vili, so I suppose we won't become mortal enemies anytime soon. Yay!

We also got to meet other guests of our guesthouse, among them a Finnish guy who totally freaked us out by asking in Finnish, "Where are you guys from?" just when we were about to say something really gross or stupid in Finnish, lol XDDDDDDDD And we had just gotten used to being able to discuss anything from porn to popcorn as loud as we cared and just about anywhere we wanted! Ouch...

Prettiful lightses in Shinjuku. ♥




Don't you just LOVE them? They make me think of snow. And cake, for some reason. I could EAT them, and I don't even eat cake. ♥


The day after New Year (spent partying at Shibuya Crossing, at Club Atom, and all over Shibuya with random Spanish and Australian dudes who gave us plastic flowers, and this tiny little Japanese guy who came over, could barely stand straight for being so drunk, and did a somersault to entertain us :DDD) was spent very creatively. In case you're wondering, it's an egg. And it took a leap of faith the next day when Milla opened the fridge, and ended its days on our kitchen floor...


Another thing we did on the International Hangover Day was sing Justin Bieber. "Baby, baby, baby, OWWWWWWWW!!!" going on at the moment - they sang with such feeling that my heart pretty much melted. ;____; My ears certainly did lol XDDDDD

On the lucky bag day... shopping happened. While poor Rikkis queued for a D.I.A bag we didn't get (;_____;), Milla and I went wild in the upstairs - along with a few thousand other girls. I swear I've never seen people go so crazy over a few bargains! The shop staff was screaming into megaphones, standing, dancing and jumping on tables, music was blaring, girls were pushing and pulling and trying to get their hands on everything, boys were running after their girlfriends dragging their purchases... I hear the whole thing was a lot more civilized in 109-2, the boys' department. In 109, the lines started in floor 1 and continued up the stairs until floor 5 - and from floor seven began another line that went down on the other side of the stairs until floor three or something. I probably looked like a fish for all the incredulous gaping I did, and sounded like a psycho for the random crazy fits of giggling all this caused.

I had originally had no intention to buy anything immediately, but the mass-hysteria was creepily catching, and I left Shibuya with a Twisty bag, a Golds bag, and half of a Ma*rs bag and a JSG bag - and I returned later for 100 euros of Liz Liza Doll. On top of those, our combined purchases included the other halves of my Ma*rs and JSG, another JSG, a Glad News, a Gilfy, a Cocolulu, and an Xfrm bag. Vili's face was priceless when he saw us. XD

This is what our room looked like, post-fukubukuro. :D The shiny thing in the middle is our heater, fondly rechristened Toaster and Cow's Breath for its looks and the warmth it provided us in the cold hours of the night. This is only mine and Rikkis' side of the room. Oh, and Vili's, I guess, but it got overrun by my stuff... a lot.


On the lucky back day there were several others on the move, as we saw in Harajuku.

And from the stands in front of the Asakusa Temple I finally found what I'd been wanting to try for YEARS: candy apples! They also had strawberries, like Vili's, and even mandarins covered in hard candy. *w* It was heavenly, but by the time I finished I had candy and apple all over my face from nose to chin...


Then, of course, as devoted Digimon fans, Rikkis and I had to get to Odaiba!! The photo is taken from the monorail, Yurikamome, that took us there and back again.





Odaiba is the Las Vegas of Japan - that is, it has everything from the Statue of Liberty to Colosseum to Venus Fort, a mall modeled after an ancient Greek forum - a place where the sun never sets on the Classical era!


It also has the Rainbow Bridge, which I saw by night for the first time. The view was breathtaking and incredibly beautiful and the poor quality of my photo doesn't do any justice to it.



I have no idea what this place is, but some guard dude came and told us to not photoshoot here. D: I bet it was someone's tomb - but it looked like the kind of elevator thing that in a video game would've taken us to the next level. I was so disappointed when it didn't move.


Freaks ahoy!



Japan! The Land of Rising Sun - the promised land of single-packaging, where tea flows and rice-balls roll! As seen from the Government Building in Shinjuku.


And a random dude having lunch, as seen through the zoom of my camera. Remember, kids, to always shut the curtains. You're never safe from creeps with good cameras. And mine isn't even that good...


Then, because we all know that my trip fell 1500 euros, an ambulance ride and a night at the hospital short of perfect, here's my patient wrist-band thingy. They excluded my family name - apparently it was way too confusing to them. I wanted to keep the band, but they took it away and gave me a plastic customer card instead, listing my birth year as 01, which confused me infinitely until I consulted my Japanese teacher today and was told that they sometimes count years from the day their current emperor took the throne. Isn't that confusing?


This is how I celebrated my having avoided the grave the next day, when they let me out and my brave comrades took me back to shopping. I had gone three days without shower, thrown up half of my dinner the day before, eaten nothing since the sesame sauce that almost killed me, and worn my extensions and make up over the night, so I looked just as horrible as I felt, and resorted to applying my falsies and tons of make up in some back alley of Harajuku because I didn't feel like showing my face anywhere like that. Ironically, I've never received as many compliments from strangers as I did that day. I felt tempted to tell them I'd just been allowed out of the hospital and that I'd almost died the night before, just to see their reactions. :D


Some more lights, this time in Akihabara.


Tired travelers. ♥


The last night was spent packing and trying on our outfits for the flight. Convinced that our bags weighed tons too much, we tried to pile as much as possible on us - which, in my case, meant several tights, jeans, three pairs of socks, two tops, a long-sleeved t-shirt, a hoodie, a jacket and a coat + two belts and two scarves. At least we weren't freezing on the way back! Unfortunately, most of this layering was in vain, because all of our bags were under 20 kilos... We started screaming and dancing when we saw the numbers. XD The girl on the other side of the counter looked pretty amused.



Bang bang bang! The last night was, of course, spent at the karaoke near our place, accompanied by Maria, a friend of Vili and Toni~ We sang until we could barely even speak anymore, danced to Caramelldancen, partied all through Vanilla, Telephone and Living on a Prayer, got a little misty-eyed at Cassis, screamed Zombie and It's My Life at the top of our lungs, and finished with Cartoon Heroes, and I swear I've never loved singing so much.

There! I hope you weren't too overwhelmed by the amount of photos, my spelling and grammar mistakes, my miserable jokes, or, well, anything at all. I'm proud of you if you actually read it all, I would've just watched the pictures... :D

I ♥ you (and Engrish), and now I'm outta here and going my way because I have things to do before bedtime~

//edit:

OH! On the first few days, a girl came to talk to me in Shibuya 109, saying she recognized me from some Tsukicon photos or whatever. She or one of her friends was from Peru... I think. I'm ashamed of how little I remember, but I was so seriously stunned that someone recognized me on the other side of the world (because you know, that kind of thing just doesn't happen to me!) that I was barely even listening, so I don't even remember if she said she followed my blog or if she'd seen me somewhere else. I saw her again some other day, but didn't get the chance to talk to her again ;___; Anyways, if you happen to read this, rat yourself out, girl! I didn't even ask your name!