Geht wählen heute!
| Date: | 2009-08-27 12:02 |
| Subject: | Job in Munich! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  relieved | | Music: | Soul Eater OST |
YEESSS! Finally! After two months of growing so tired to send out applications:
I did get a job! 
It's in Munich (one the most beautiful cities in Germany, with history, lifestyle, nature and castles all around - yes, I do need all that to live).
I'll start on September 1st and help in the product management division of a really famous, luxury enterprise specialised in leather & bags  .
It'll be for 6 months only so far, but I do hope to stay in the area of Munich after that.
So happy now, so relieved. ~ 
| Date: | 2009-08-19 12:40 |
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| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  determined | | Music: | A-Ha - Slender Frame |
Hi everyone!
I'm cleaning out my bookshelves and I throw out most of my manga collection.
I have some noticable YAOI stuff and older ones of other genres, too.
If you're interested in any of those, need more information or example scans, let me know :3.
( Manga Sale! )
| Date: | 2009-08-11 11:03 |
| Subject: | MY MINI MINE! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  satisfied | | Music: | Leonard Cohen - Jazz Police |
He's mine and he's love..
Since yesterday, I officially own a Solar Red Metallic Mini Cooper, Series 7
115 horsies under the red cover and two hands full of pretty gimmicks inside, we brought him down from Frankfurt yesterday. Oh dear goddess, this baby is made to speed and it did feel so very lovely to be able to keep up with all those fancy BMW and Audi and Mercedes I used to make room to when I still had my old Ford ^^;.
However - as time passes - old Fords tend to fall apart (especially when's you're in in the middle of nowhere as I experienced some months ago) and thus it was time for a new car.
And this pretty baby is just what I wanted.
He's got auto-AC, CD-player, seat-heater, bord-computer, speed control, ...
BUT! Enough with petty words!
( Boom, baby ~ ♥ )
| Date: | 2009-07-15 15:45 |
| Subject: | BOREDOM! (and a meme) |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  bored | | Music: | Dido - Mary's in India |
Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chichilein.
Done because I'm dead-bored, oh my!
( Meme )
A bit late, but ...
( Here are the first pictures from the School of Fashion Design - Fashion Show 2009 )
(That is, my outfits, anyway ;))
For all pictures of all outfits, go here: Homepage Modefachschule
Also, on a side-note: New mood set ~ ♥.. It's all from "Star Trek: Deep Space 9"
| Date: | 2009-06-20 18:28 |
| Subject: | True Power is Female! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  pleased | | Music: | Placebo - Every you, every me |
I chose this entry's title to unite two seemingly different topics in one.
However, united under the topic "True Power is Female", I think they work out, though.
First off:
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 ・Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)
I only got around to give this anime a second chance after season 2 was "suddenly airing" (or rather, it came sudden for me).
I think I watches the "first" episode the first time this anime was aired (for those of you who know the show: The "Mikuru-chan" amateur video thing Haruhi and her SOS-dan shot, though chronologically it would've been a later episode). Never mind that, though, I'll come to the timeline of that anime later.
Anyway, with sesaon 2 being fansubbed and whatnot, I decided to give the anime a second chance. I didn't get all too excited the first time and thought 'just screw it'.
Little did I know, oh boy.
For once the hype around "Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu" was well justified. Albeit the anime is seemingly your typical build-up of now ever-so-annoying cliché anime characters, the undertones, the hidden details, the snide remarks, the well-made animation all add up to one awesome show. I even go so far as to say this anime can be compared to "Neon Genesis Evangelion". Not in story, but in brillinacy, refering here to the two main characters and the fact that whoever pulled this anime off actually did have the "courage" to air the episodes all scrambled up, totally unchronologically (which does have a reason, btw).
And it damn worked!. How can such a thing work?! when you have a male main character (Kyon) who is even below your average school student, adding to the show neither with striking looks nor any kind of special power?! All he does is giving off sarcastic remarks with a lethargy and lack of enthusiasm that is almost painful.
But hell, it works. It works for me too. And I love, love, love Kyon and Haruhi. Haruhi reminds me so much of myself; a girl who wants the most out of life and whose believes and ideas are so strong, they quite literally materialize before her. Haruhi's a girl who cares in her own ways but who is unable to express her feelings. And in Kyon you finally have a character who acts as a normal male human being would act, without over-dramatizing stuff, without sudden emotionals outbreaks that annoy me so much in most animes.
The mix of those two characters, along with the rest of the crew and a brilliant animation, lovely directing and a powerful soundtrack sure does put this anime on the list of "10 best animes since the new millenium" (or anything along these lines).
Second:
Developement is female - Women in India
I saw this documentary film about Women's power in India on TV this week and I was very much moved and amazed by it. The Andheri-Hilfe Bonn helps women in poor villages in India to overcome injustices and supports them to re-gain their rights and power. With small investments, the Andheri-Hilfe helped to abolish temple prostitution, re-fertilized the land with making water-ways (and thus brought back many villagers from the slums of the city). They helped the women to form groups, and these groups handle everything from "grain banks", giving credits, building water-ways, organising villages, etc.
It was amazing so see what these freed women could do! Once forced to prostitution, raped and abused by men, they now handle every vital organisation and bring their land back to life. Under the Women Councils, the villages prosper, the land brings fruit and all children, be it boys or girls, receive education.
If there's an organisation out there that I will glady donate money to, it'll be for these projects.
In any case! This entry is for Gemma, though she doesn't even know I blog ^^;. But it's for her anyway ♥.
| Date: | 2009-05-10 15:13 |
| Subject: | JJ Abrams VS Star Trek |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  geeky | | Music: | Sting - Shadows in the Rain |
All right guys, this wanna-be Trekki's back from the newest Star Trek movie.
Directed by JJ Abrams.
Featuring "Heroes"'s mass murder psychopath.
Yeah.
( Quick overview of Pros and Cons and two I-can't-decides. )
| Date: | 2009-03-29 11:35 |
| Subject: | Music Video Rec Time ~ ! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  artistic | | Music: | Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice |
Rec-Time, folks, yabba-dabba-doo XD!
I was just skimming through some MTV music videos I have on my hard drive. And I felt like I should share at least two of them with you for now, beacuse they're just awesome, funny, one even artistic in a way.
The first one is:
Genesis - I can't dance
Phil Collins playing the fool, and damn he plays that so well. I saw this on a music channel on TV the other week and had to laugh so hard! If a band that famous who issued albums like The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway can still make fun of themselves like that, then kuuuuudos.
( Please watch 'I can't dance'! )
Number two is:
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
It's all about Christopher Walken. Really. The mere presence of that guy in this video ... wow. I don't think I need to say more.
( Here's the YouTube link to 'Weapon of choice' )
All right folks, that's all for now! There might be REM in the next entry, along with some more fashion stuff ;).
High time for an update, I believe.
What with me posting more or less random stuff in the last entries, now's the moment for more of the real deal.
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First off, movie recs!
There are two Japanese movies I've watched during the last two weeks, and albeit the occassions on which I stumbled upon them was both times absolutely different, I enjoyed watching them for equally different reasons nevertheless:
Casshern
( Van Gogh meets Steam Punk )
Detroit Metal City:
( Bully Herbig meets death metal )
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Second! Fandom!
Still high in my head: Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii version).
I'm through now with the game and I enjoyed it very, very much. If you guys ever need a rec for an Action RPG on Wii: Zelda. Defenitely.
I've heard from various sources and folks now that Zelda's really the best choice, not only for the mere genre-factor, but as a Wii-game in general.
( Pros and Cons )
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Otherland.
Orlando x Sam.
Always.
♥
Book three made me fling the whole thing in a corner, cursing Tad Williams and being very, very pissed in general.
Book four has me thinking again.
Anyway! Yes! I did manage it! I wrote Fiction :D! Hooray!
I will post it here sooner or later, I'm only missing the very last and very meaningful sentence x__X.
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On a more personal, every-day life note:
School'll start again on monday. It's gonna be peachy, I hope, because I worked a good deal during the holidays. There was more stuff I wanted to accomplish, but I was a bit chained to the Wii, so..... Yeah, I know it's not an excuse ~.~.
They'll lock us into the basement-computer-rooms from 8AM to 5PM for the week, calling it 'project week', yeahsuuuuure. That's gonna suck >,<*.
I'm sending out job applications now, too. So keep your fingers crossed for me, yes? :).
The stats say, I'll either end up in Bavaria or New York City XD.
Come visit me in any case!!!!
Okay, now it's NCIS time (new eps, WTF, Zivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ♥)
| Date: | 2009-02-12 08:37 |
| Subject: | Sick ~-~ |
| Security: | Public |
Hey everybody. Just wanna let you know that a really sticky fever has gripped me two days ago ad won't go away. I can't do a lot more than drink water and sleep, so please forgive me for not answering to your journals/coments/etc.
| Date: | 2009-02-09 12:25 |
| Subject: | FOR THE LULZ! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  touched | | Music: | Joan Baez - Wings |
Okay, erh, this entry is gonna be mushy and not-very-much-my-style in its whole, but I think I have to say this to you guys.
This is adressed to the ones I talked to last week.
You, my friends, are the bestest guys in the world..
As you might know, I'm not the terribly emotional kind of girl when it comes to Real Life, but even petty me has to spill the beans at times.
And everyone I talked to about you-know-what listened so well to me and were so kind and consoled me in your own ways and advised me in your own ways. And I can't tell how very grateful I am to be able to talk about st00pid RL and its obstacles and setbacks with you guys.
So, this to you with all my love ♥
Anja loves you XD!
PS: If Life ever wants to get inside you too much, I recommend these lines:
There's no religion but sex and music
There's no religion but sound and dancing
There's no religion but line and color
There's no religion but sacred trance
There's no religion but the endless ocean
There's no religion but the moon and stars
There's no religion but time and motion
There's no religion, just tribal scars
There's no religion but the joys of rhythm
There's no religion but the rites of Spring
There's no religion in the path of hate
No prayer but the one I sing"
... this wallpaper I did because I fell in love with that one manga cover of Soul Eater tankoubon #8.
( 1280 x 800 - Nygus & Sid - ♥ )
| Date: | 2009-01-22 11:46 |
| Subject: | 'tis fine. |
| Security: | Public |
If this is the price I have to pay, it is only fair I guess.
| Date: | 2009-01-03 12:00 |
| Subject: | Blah, meme, shutup. |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  headache | | Music: | U2 - Bullet the blue Sky |
Shamelessly stolen from xryuux
( 40 things )
| Date: | 2008-12-23 11:29 |
| Subject: | Totally Look Alikes! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  amused | | Music: | Chris DeBurgh - Moonlight & Vodka |
My brother linked me that page yesterday:
Totally Look-Alikes
And I couldn't help but share some of the best with you ;).
Here we go .... Enjoy!
( Harry Potter Look-Alikes )
( Star Wars Look-Alikes )
( Anime Look-Alikes )
( Actor & Singer Look-Alikes )
( Other Look-Alikes )
All rights reserved, all pictures from TotallyLookAlikes.com
| Date: | 2008-12-19 18:16 |
| Subject: | W. T. F ?! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  giggly | | Music: | Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning |
Several ...erh, "disbalancing" matters have come up today that have resulted from me staying online for too long due to the fact that I am bored already. (did that make sense? Anyway, in short: Me. Holidays. Boring. -> Internet.)
One:
Shippuuden #89:
Kurenai is pregnant?! Woah. Cool. Cool as hell. She carries Asuma's child under her heart!
Love to you guys. Makes up for for the lame Sasuke-kills-straw-dummies-via-Chidori stand-in. Veeeeery clever -,-*.
Two:
Hetalia
There's gonna be an anime for "Hetalia" .. ?! Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
It'll air 29/01 and it's gonna be fansubbed by aarinfantasy! Oh the *LOL*-ness!
And, just to extend the fun, here's a bit about the seiyuu:
- Japan's gonna be dubbed by the guy who did Jounouchi in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters and (WTF??!!) Hisoka in HunterXHunter ... x_X;
- Germany (*LOL*) is dubbed by the guy who also acts in Bleach and, erh, a lot of other animeds I can't place right now ^^;.
- AND! This is really the end of the line guys: PAKU ROMI DUBBS SWITZERLAND! Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh x_X;
Three:
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Carly wants Jack Atlus' babies ....?! Gimme a break! There's a limit to how much I can take in YGO 5D's ^^;.
Sorry for the extreme randomness of this entry. XD
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| Date: | 2008-12-07 20:52 |
| Subject: | しんじられない。 |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | amused |
I'm going to do this the old-fashioned, Japanese dorama way:
I am going to bake him cookies. Period.
In the vain hope he'll get the hint then *lol*.
Can't believe I actually begin to like this guy a bit more than I should. To hell with denial now, really.
Guys, ignore this entry, it's terribly kitchy. XD
But it feels nice. Now more than ever, knowing there's actually someon out there who just calls me out of the blue to talk about our dreams for the future.
| Date: | 2008-09-25 14:50 |
| Subject: | You Don't Know Digimon! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  silly | | Music: | Amy McDonald - This is the Life |
[Sorry, German Entry!]
Nach einiger Zeit hab' ich mal wieder mein urarlt-Windows95-Game "You Don't Know Jack" aus der Versenkung gezogen.
Und prompt kommt in der ersten Runde folgende Frage:
Kommentar? *LOOOOOOOOOOOL*
Let's continue with Osaka, Tokyo and Yokohama ~ !
Osaka
... is where we spent one day running around, asking poor, startled people where the Mandarake is. Erh.
Osaka is - if you compare it to Kyoto and Nara - very loud, very young and very modern.
There's a part of the downtown city that's called "America-mura". You'll find tons and tons of extraordinary clothes shops there, small restaurants, bars and whatever else belongs to young life and nightlife.
In the end, we actually found the Mandarake (= manga/anime store), but it almost made us miss our bus to Tokyo x_X;.
Unfortunately, we only spent one day in Osaka and so I didn't see much more than a Manga shop from the inside and how my Okonomiyaki was made.
Tokyo
... began with the longest waiting time in my life and continued with the biggest event in my life. Heh.
Since we arrived via night-bus at 6:00AM, and were only allowed to check in to the youth hostel at 3:00PM, our first day in Tokyo turned out to be a fight against sleep, the desperate longing for a shower and the repeated worshipping of books and Starbucks as a blessed means to pass time.
However, when we could finally move into our room (which was a four-beds-room only, jackpot! Usually, the rooms in the YH house up to 8 people), we were pretty much awake again and set out for some dinner.
The YH facilities are located on the 18th and 19th floor of a tower building right on top of the Iidabashi station, a train stop in the Shinjuku-district. It is very very convenient, since you have access to various train lines that take you to about everywhere in Tokyo, as well as a nice shopping lane right on the other side of the street with kombini stores (super market), restaurants, drug stores, manga cafés, Starbucks and McDonald's. They even have a Book-Off! (you can get used books there, usually very cheap, and yes, that includes manga), but this one seemed to have a clear "no-BL-manga"-policy -,-*.
Day 1
However, the relaxing didn't take very long, no, not if you have to get up at 5:30AM to stand (sit) in a line for three hours, only to see your favourite doujinshi-ka on the 74th Summer Comic Market.
So - with the help of a Japanese friend, Comike Pro, really - we had all the necessary instructions we needed and could cozily join the other 150,000-and-something people that also waited for the gates of the Tokyo Big Sight to open at 10:00.
As annoying and hot as the waiting was, it did pay off. Albeit our hopes were almost crushed at the sight of so many people ahead of us, it turned out we were indeed one of the first to enter the halls and -yeeesssss- got to meet RAPAN-sama (H. Shizuku) *_________*! ♥
Himuro Shizuku-sama is the one doujinshi-ka that will always make my heart melt and whose art inspired me a lot and - for me - counts to the most aethetic ones I've ever seen. She does Yu-Gi-Oh, and now very recently Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's as well. My friend and I even talked a little with her! :heart:
After getting our RAPAN doujinshi and a really neat RAPAN-bag (w00t, I'm SO going to show off with that, muahahahaha!), we set off to hunt down a species of doujinshi-ka that we only stumbled upon after flipping through the Comic Market Catalogue
(which weighs 3kg [~ 6.6 lbs] and counts about 1400 pages...):
CSI, NCIS, Numb3rs, Supernatural, JAG, Star Trek and ER fans. Yup. They do have fan-comics to those topics (they also have doujinshi to German soccer leagues and Japanese train companies, but more about that later on).
I would've loved to bring some of those exemples back, but unfortunately, they were not very high quality and most of them were novels only. However, it was great fun to check out those 'fandoms' (they even have RPS doujin ... ! Bwaahahahahah!)
So, yeah, that was the first day of the Comic Market for us. Our feet hurt like hell, our arms gained length due to carrying around 3+ kilo of paper, but nothing could've been better XD!
By the way, day one covered doujinshi-ka for the following "fandoms":
- Manga (i.e. series that first showed up as manga, not as anime),
- Shônen Jump series (Naruto, One Piece, Full Metal Alchemist, Hitman Reborn, etc.),
- Music
- TV shows.
And almost all of it was BL (YAOI) stuff! Yup.
And please keep in mind that I'm talking about doujinshi here. That means 200-and-something circles doing Hitman Reborn. Half a hall for your J-Pop-Slash needs. Any Naruto pairing you can think of. And so on, and so forth. :D
Day 2:
The next day was a bit more relaxing. We entered the "holy halls" at around 12:00PM and looked around for a bit for Kingdom Hearts and Digimon. And I actually got myself probably one of the best Digimon doujinshi right off the artist's desk, yeah :D~!
Day two was reserved for doujinshi covering the following topics:
- Games (anything software)
- Anime (i.e. where the anime was aired first, w/o a manga to be adapted from, like Code Geass, Digimon, Pokémon, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, etc.).
And yes, here came the hentai doujinshi. Hence about 90% more boys than on day one, *lol* ~.
Day 3:
...was the most relaxing day of all. Since this day was reserved for professional manga-ka who either sell doujinshi to their own series or any other fandom and any other fan-magazines you can think of (not only doujinshi but minor trade journals, also accessoires, dolls, etc.), my friend decided she'd stay in the YH and I met up with Mio alone. Mio is the "Comike-Pro" I mentioned a few lines back and since she knows several doujinshi-ka, she got super-cool VIP tickets that made us beeline happily around the already growing queues and enter the halls earlier.
Thus, Mio and I - both devoted fans of the popular BL manga-ka Kazuma Kodaka - were the very first ones to purchase Kodaka-sama's doujinshi (well, Mio did. I settled for her original manga later in the book store ^^;). But anyway, I got to talk a bit with Kodaka-sama, w00t! ♥ Mio actually told her, I'd come aaaaaalll the way from Germany only to see her *g*. XD
We called Katha and met up with her in Ikebukuro to follow Mio down to the "Otaku Road", a street where all the manga and anime shops are neatly lined up wall to wall, satisfying your every otaku need. They even had two whole stores only for BL Doujinshi! Heaven!!!!:worship:. I was palled with BL after that day then, really x_X.
As for the following days, we spent one of them for major!sightseeing, including the Asakusa Kanon Temple with its famous lampion and the "omiyage-road" (souvenir-road) that is located in front of the temple.
We took a walk through Ueno-koen, the Parc in the district of Ueno. It is - if I'm not mistaken - the largest parc in Tokyo. It has a lake that is in one part covered with some kind of huuuuge water plants. Very impressive!
We also went to Shibuya, Shinjuku and the Ginza to do a bit of window-shopping. On the Ginza is where you can find the Sony Building. On about 8 floors you can play around with Sony's newest "toys", such as cameras, Playstation, TVs and cell phones. Geez, that was fun XD ~
Our last full day, we spent in Yokohama. It takes about half an hour by train to get there and although the city of Yokohama and the city of Tokyo are now melted into each other, Yokohama with its seaside is starkly different from Tokyo downtown.
Yokohama has a very airy, spacial feeling. It has broad walkways, many trees along the streets and an overall international feeling.
Right beside the Sakuragichou station is a nice little amusement parc with one of the world's largest ferris wheel. I took a ride, and some photos ;).
And! We finally managed to see the Naruto Summer Movie in the cinemas in Yokohama :D! W00t! Geez, that was fun. Very fanservice-y, I must say. But it has a cute story and it has Sasuke in it. I believe that's all the average Naruto fangirl needs *coughs*.
All right, so that was my Japan this summer :). Hope you enjoyed this report a little.
( Oh, and please enjoy some more pictures ~! )
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