One of those days

Hey folks!

After finally having submitted all my assessed work to the department I can finally breathe again. Which means I'm all up for the fun stuff in life! 

First of all I'm going to show you my look from the Placebo live in Leeds I went to this Monday with one of my flatmates. It was good fun, I'd definitely see them again someday if I get the chance!

 There we go! I went for a really striking eye make-up, but apart from that I kept everything relatively simple and natural. My flatmate told me I had 'vampire eyes', so I guess the look was successful. I just love the craziness that is those super-full fake eyelashes from Eyelure. I need to get another pair sometime soon! If there's anything I adore (besides my babe and fencing, mind you), then it's looking absolutely otherworldly... 

 The photo of this delicious treat is from today's outing with three of my flatmates. We wanted to have a proper girls' day out before each one of us is going home at the end of the week, so we headed to a famous café in town and stuffed our faces with cakes and other sweets.

 Also, the tea was absolutely divine! I guess you can never go wrong with rose petal tea anyway, though. I might go back someday soon and buy some tea leaves so I can re-create this goodness back at home in Germany. 

We spent the day chatting away, shopping and braving the cold weather in fancy attire.  I dare say we were the most beautiful girls out in town, everyone put so much effort into their looks ( I looked like a potato as always, but I woke up too late this morning so I didn't have time to get ready properly).

And the not-so-glamorous yet tasty end of the day: Pizza! We actually wanted to have dinner with everyone of our other flatmates, but unfortunately some of them were out, so it was only us four plus R., one of our guy flatmates. We chattered about random things, as such as history, university stuff, politics and genealogy. Turns out there's quite a few former aristocrats in our flat, including me. Yay! 

Well I guess that's it- see you again soon.   

I think I'm turning Japanese...

Hey folks!

Seems like this post is turning into a collection of overdue travel photos... oh well, nevermind! Let's just remind myself of the glorious time I spent in Japan last year with my babe, lots of friends and shenanigans. It was a crazy, happy, nostalgic, memorable time and I hope to be able to meet everyone over there again someday in the near future.

 Like I know this looks disgusting, but my face shows the sheer amount of delight that was this wonderful chocolate pudding.

 Looking rad on the first day- I convinced a bunch of Japanese girls that I was actually a man (in the girls' bathroom, how pervy) . Well if that doesn't explain my smug face of accomplishment.

Please appreciate this wonderful ambient shot of a chandelier in a shisha café. Endless kudos for my friend Y. to showing me this delightful place- I mean, smoking plus free coffee? Here I am!

 What would Beyoncé say? Never drop that (cherry-flavoured) alcohol!

 I'm still not entirely sure why they put chickens up on a sign saying "The garage shop". Anyone have any suspicion or clue what that might mean? 

 A typical sunny day in Nishi-Ikebukuro. Looks like the setting of "Ikebukuro West Gate Park", right? It probably is as well.

 I was trying my luck becoming friends with a cat- the cat didn't approve.

 In Japan, even the construction sites are cute. Well I wouldn't be angry about a pathway diversion if it was presented to me as cute bunnies either...

 Probably shopping in Shibuya or Harajuku... I mean, what else would a culture-lover like me do in Japan? /irony off

 Does anyone here even appreciate my new make-up? I'm afraid not...

 Occasionally being a good "boyfriend" and showering the babe with love. 

 Shinjuku at night- what else do I need when I can sing karaoke up above the streets and watch the city lights until the morning comes?

 Occasional culture/nature influx- Kyoto. 

 You better wear good shoes when you're there, so much uphill walking to do... the view is worth it tho.

 I scream for ice cream! Even if it's artificial...

 Kind of proudly showing off my hair styling. I'm surprised it lasted through the horrible downpour of rain that day.

 Another awesome view of Kyoto- how can one not love this city? 

 Anyone feel reminded of the Ghibli film "Mononoke-hime"? I do. 

 Back in Tokyo, trying to drink peach-flavoured water and terribly failing at looking cool. Well nevermind, possibly peach water is not the manliest thing to drink.

 Cherry blossoms at night in Ueno... just magical.

 This is even more magical, if that's even possible.

 Moving away from the serene beauty of cherry blossoms to... hanami(a.k.a. getting pissed under the cherry trees in good company)! In our case, I'd rather say we ate so much that we literally rolled back home...

 That's not all of the munchies! My friend Y. got us a whole other bunch of stuff, including fried chicken and sausages. Take a whole lot of alcohol accompanying all this and you can imagine very well how the evening ended. 

Rain, rain, falling down... even that can't stop us from looking smug. I have no idea why I look so tall on this picture but I won't complain.

That's it! Looking back at this always makes me nostalgic, but isn't that also a good thing?