I absolutely love everything from this store and I was so happy when I found it in Kyoto. It's crazy expensive but this was a Christmas present from myself to myself!
Black americano at Starbucks.
It's funny because I was such a coffee snob from drinking too much excellent coffee back home that I didn't like Starbucks. But as I'm finding it hard to find excellent coffee in Japan, Starbucks is the best bet. And obviously they put some kind of drug in their coffee so I'm addicted now.
I've never in my life had such little Christmas spirit! It's kind of funny. I feel like this is just the one year that there's not gonna be any Christmas. Japan is full of Christmas decorations, Christmas songs and Christmas cakes but the Christmas spirit seems nowhere to be found!
But I'm not sad.I will be spending this Christmas in Sendai with my Icelandic friends. It's fun to go and see another side of Japan and I always enjoy seeing these people - and get to speak Icelandic! What a luxury!
This Christmas Godzilla is located in a shopping mall in Tokyo. I wish I had the time to see it!
I decided to pick this one as memory picture because I was actually today telling a friend of mine the story from when I shaved my head. I was 17 years. It was such an awesome mixture of freedom, independence and "I don't give a damn what you think of me"- feeling that I sometimes want to do it again.
But then again, I hated the "kiwi" stage. The stage when your hair is at this awkward stage where hair products don't work because it's too short but it's just up in the air, ugly and unflattering.
It was also really interesting to see how people who don't know you treat you immensely different looking like this. Before I had had dark brown hair and glasses and was this normal, next door girl. People's attitude towards me changed so drastically I didn't even believe it. Old woman were scared of me and thought I was some kind of rebel and many guys did only look at me to make a shocked face of disgust. And yeah, I also had one really uncomfortable and awkward moment when I met real "skinheads".
This is the best proof of how shallow people can be.
The cutest ship that sailed by when we went to Mt. Fuji the other day. This is at Yamanako lake.
Day 15 - Technology
Ok, I know this is not the best relation to technology, but it's kind of a boring topic anyway! A super addicting game in a japanese arcadium - pachinko! This thing requires reeeally fast movement as you're supposed to hit the buttons when pictures appear on them. Sounds easy, but you choose song and do it in the right rhythm to the song, and believe me when I say it's fast! And too bad, I suck at it. I feel kind of ashamed though, because it's a music related game.. haha! It's really popular here, when we were playing there was a line of people waiting for the next available machine!
Day 16 - Animals
This was my dog, Sarah. She died a few months ago, almost 13 years old. We got her when I was 10 and had been dreaming for a dog for such a long time. She was a really special dog, with a bigger character than many other dogs around and I have many great memories about her <3
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I know I've not been too good with this photo challenge, but I'm getting there. The last days just have been to hectic since I got a real music software to make music, recorded a cover song and a video an did my with my first DJ - set in Shinjuku - apart from being in school and having tests!
I'm reading a book these days. Written words. In a book. The book is called "The picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.
I just started reading it and haven't gotten that far but I absolutely love it so far. So many memorable quotes from it so I decided to write one of my favorite one for this days theme.
"Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. "
This is not the coolest picture, but I'm tired after a long day and I don't have the freshest imagination right now. But these are my hands, wearing my two favorite nail polishes these days, peach and glitter gold!
I'ts late late. I should be gone to sleep sleep.
xx
Today's theme was something old. I decided to find an old photograph of me from when I was living in USA with my family and i thought it was a lovely contrast to have me this photo of me, a lake and autumn trees - just as were in the picture as I had in the last post.
I obviously loved pink there as well. I haven't changed a bit!
Japanese autumn colors are very pretty. This photo was taken yesterday in a field trip with my class to see old Japanese houses. We walked through this small pretty garden where we found this pond and beautiful trees.
This one is hard. There are many inspiring persons out there and picking one is hard. But I decided to pick her.
I've been listening to her since I was a little girl. I remember when my parents bought Homogenic and I sat in the car on the way home totally hypnotized by the album cover and couldn't wait
to listen to this album because I had loved her other albums.
Yoga became right away one of my favorite songs and has been since.
I also love the fact how she is so truly original in everything she does. That is really inspirational.
For example her new Biophilia project. That is just so cool and far away from anything other artist have done up til now.
Well this is the book that i was using today. My kanji book. I like kanjis. There is something calming about sitting, writing kanjis, listening to good music and drinking coffee.
So I was studying for this test tomorrow and I finally learned how to write "singer". I guess that's kind of relevant.
ćŚć‰‹
I'm one day behind because yesterday, when I was supposed to photograph morning sky I forgot. And I forgot again today.
But instead I'll just post a totally unrelated picture that continues the elevator series. Here featured is my new favorite item, this white beauty that keeps me warm when Japan is getting cold.
Ok, to tell the truth, this photo is one week old. But it fitted perfectly to todays theme.
This photo is not just taken at some random place. It's taken in one of the creepiest place I've been to. The Aokigahara forest, which is famous as being the most popular place for people to commit suicide in Japan. Second most popular in the world after the Golden Gate bridge. It's eerily quiet in there and really easy to get lost. Compasses don't work there because of high iron altitude.
We went there with our Folklore teacher last week because we were learning about the folklore surrounding Mt. Fuji. Actually half of our group got lost there and it was kind of scary because naturally - just to add to the creepiness, our phones did not work in the forest! But they found their way out.
I tried to take loads of pictures but some how I thought that I couldn't capture the ice cold, scary feeling of the forest.
In the forest there are many hand made signs telling you to think about your family and suicide is not the right way. When I saw these leaves that had formed this little pretty flower, I kind of got the feeling that this was nature telling you that life is too beautiful to do this to yourself...
if you want to read more about Aokigahara, read this.
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P.S. If you read blogs, like you are doing now...use this tool, Bloglovin. I love it. I even bloglove it...eheheh.
Today's happiness includes my new vice - black ice coffee (yeah I have to take back my words that cold coffee sucks, Japan's got me hooked!), plus a sandwich at my favorite coffee place in the neighbourhood. Thinking about last night makes me happy. Even though I'm trying to study at the same time.
Went to Eberg, Casiokids, Reptile and Retard and LCMDF in Shibuya. Met a bunch of new and awesome people, went out for really good food afterwards and came home very late, but it was so much fun!
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P.S. and yeah...i finally have Twitter. Follow me!
Wow, I really tend binge post here. I don't post anything for days and then I feel like posting 3 posts in a row. That's why I'm inspired to take part in this here
I'm trying to cut down on sugar because I feel like I have been eating way to much sugar since I came to Japan.
It's hard.
Japan seriously has the best cakes :(
I really like Kid Cudi and have listened A LOT to his album Man on the Moon, but always just in my crappy computer speakers. I was really surprised when I listened to it for the first time in actually good headphones the other day and this song is absolutely a whole different song in headphones. You have to listen.
And yeah if you haven't got good headphones, buy Sennheiser. Absolutely love mine. I have one studio quality headphones and others to walk around with ( both big and closed though) and they seriously make all music better. They're definitely worth the price.
And no, Sennheiser did not pay me to write this!
xx
Went to a Halloween party yesterday and wanted to wear some sweet costume that didn't cost a fortune.
How to make your own Princess Leia costume: I went to a second hand shop, bought white maxi skirt, white turtle neck and a silver belt. Easy. Then created the Leia hairstyle and that was so annoyingly hard! I was almost going to give up. But i finally managed with the help of socks, billion hairpins and hairspray.
My new favorite safari animal jumpsuit. Bought in a second hand shop in Machida that was so crazy well organized and filled with such nice and new looking vintage clothes that I didn't realize it was a vintage shop until after a while browsing through. Haha. I think that's something you could only find in Japan.
...is definitely one of my favorite shops in Japan. Everything 105 yen. Which is in a way kind of stupid if it's called a 100 yen shop, but whatever. I bought these totally awesome watches there.
And no, I don't normally wear them both at the same time. I'm not that weird.
xx
P.S. This photo is taken with my new Macbook Pro. Luvs it!
Well, as you probably all know, Steve Jobs died today.
I'm a big fan of Apple and have been ever since I remember. We had an really old school Apple computer that I played computer games on as a child and I remember staring at the the rainbow Apple logo thinking how cool this machine was.
I'm not going to convince you to like Apple, I couldn't care less. I'm not going to write a blog about Steve Jobs.
I'm only going to tell you to spend 15 minutes to watch this video. It doesn't have much to do with computers. Even if you don't like this man, watch this video and then see what you think.
I had never heard this speech until today and I'm so glad that I heard it exactly today.
I love inspiration, wherever it comes from, and I can truly say that this speech inspired me and reminded me of the things that really are important.
Most of these things are things we're told over and over again, but the way he puts it is so powerful.
This speech was exactly the kick that I needed today.
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Went to Shibuya for the first time last week and actually went two times in two days! I love this place, great to do some international shopping (huge Forever 21 and H&M), get lost, eat food, cross the streets at the huge Shibuya crossing (you've seen it in Lost in Translation) and hang out.
Me and Alyssa were kind of lost trying to find H&M when we accidentally found this shop that we couldn't resist because of all the bright colors!
The front of Arton. Nice tee meet you!
We went inside and the shop was divided into an art gallery and then the T-shirt shop.
Really loved this wall.
We went inside the shop and were handed an iPad right away which had their catalogue.
Endless of cool designs for shirts. Then you chose from different fits and colors what kind of tee, sweater, hoodie, tank you you wanted.
Alyssa having a blast.
Yes I love mirror photos. Though this one is kind of awkward...haha!
Endless opportunities.
Finally, I chose my print. I tried to resist all the cuteness and got a very simple triangle that caught my eye right away. I thought it would be nice on a gray tank top.
