Aki's Mission

2004-11-25T22:42:00.000+01:00

Thise site is closed from now on....my new one is up (^_^)

2004-11-22T01:28:00.000+01:00

test....???

D'espars Ray part 1

2004-11-02T19:07:00.000+01:00

Listening to: D’espairs Ray no gemini

Even though I hoped, that I would be able to publish my weekend review on my new website, I can’t because it still isn’t in a presentable state yet *sigh*
Let’s start in the right order.
First I changed my flight from eight o’clock to a later one (at 4) on Friday in order to be able to attend a course at university I need in order to get my pre-deploma in spring (^_^)
A friend of mine was nice enough to give me a ride to the airport Cologne/Bonn, so I didn’t have to organize some train or bus transfer (lucky me). I got to the airport like an hour early, so I had plenty of time to relax, but my journey did not start off to well, since I lost my boarding card….first time in my life something like that happened to me, but fortunately someone from the airport staff found it and handed it in at a counter (^_^”)
The lady behind the counter asked for my ID-card and when I handed it to her she was like “EH!” looked at me and smiled. I really look a lot different from that picture, so she really had a reason to compare my face as it is now and as it is in the picture (^o^). So I waited for my plain and as it has to be, it was running late, which sucked even more since I reached Berlin only a half past six that evening, so I couldn’t go and get my concert tickets that evening anymore which did not only sick because I had to stand in line the next morning, no it sucked even more, because the guys actually were at the store that night and I stupid bitch did not go *sigh* Okay whatever.
I reached the Hotel a little after seven. My dad had already warned me that the hotel is supposed to have some kind of socialist charm, but that was not even close. My room was as small as a tin and was ugly as hell. The bed was to short, it honestly sucked. But hey, I had a roof above my head and it was only two days I was going to stay in Berlin anyway. Since I hadn’t really eaten anything that day I called my dad to ask where some good restaurant was. I ended up in an Italian restaurant called “Bocca di Bacca” or something like that. Besides the fact that they looked at me as if I didn’t belong there the restaurant was really good. Very tasty stuff (^_^)
After that I had to take a trip to a gas station in order to buy a toothbrush and toothpaste. I always forget those two things! And I always forget to bring a hairbrush, too. *sigh* things like that don’t like me (-_-)
Next day I got up early in order to buy some presents for the guys from D’espairs Ray. Since I couldn’t think of anything better I bought 4 longsleeves with the Berlin pedestrian signal symbol on it and some of those Berlin Buddy Bears, if anybody of you knows what that is. The guy who sold the stuff to me asked which size I wanted to buy and I was like “it’s for a couple of extremely skinny guys”. He himself was actually pretty skinny and small, and he told me which ones fitted on him, so I decided to buy the same size he was wearing (^_^) I hope they fit (^_^) I got myself the same shirt only a couple of sizes bigger (-_-) (no comments allowed on that!). Off I went to the Signing. I reached the shop around 11 a.m. I guess. Of course I wasn’t the first standing there in line, but for sure I was the oldest! A lot of goths at the age of 16 or something like that standing around me. And I wasn’t even made up. I wore just normal cloth and normal makeup as everyday. Well anyway. As it is typical in Germany some weren’t queuing up and just went to the front and stayed there. How much I hate that. But one can’t do anything about it. The organisation of the Signing was a complete disaster. First they let all the people in who wanted to get their tickets, then they let all the people in who wanted to get merchandise. After buying the merchandise you couldn’t even get out of the store properly anymore, which really sucked. Then they let the fans in by tens to get their things signed and tried to get those who had their stuff already signed out the same door everybody was standing in front of. So you can imagine that it was complete chaos. Well, I got in, had them sign my shirt, gave them their presents and I totally forgot to look at their faces (-_-) I just glimpsed at them, can’t even remember the order they sat in, but fortunately I’m not the only one that happened to. I met a girl from Berlin there (19) and a guy from Cologne (17) with whom I went to some gothic store, cuz one of their friends wanted to buy some shoes. I hate gothic stores, but I went along anyway. Afterwards we went to some chess café and I had some coffee and talked to them. It was quite nice. Later we separated and I went to Friedrichstraße, which is a very famous shopping street in Berlin. I spent a little fortune on new cloths and some jewellery. Late I met up with a couple of friend from Bremen who joined me for the concert. We went to have some sushi and since I was extremely hyper I was talking all the time. I’ve never been so anxious to watch a band play live in my whole life. We separated to make ourselves ready for the live and met up again around 7 p.m.
We reached the club around half past seven and since I didn’t have a reason to queue up I just went into the front where that girl from Berlin was standing and waited for the doors to open. Of course they did not open until 8:30 and since they were checking every single person (^_^”)
I got in fairly quick and stayed in the third or fourth row from the beginning of the concert. It took them about two hours to get around 700 people into the club. While we were standing there waiting the kept on playing the “Interview with a Vampire” soundtrack, which was a bit annoying after the fourth time! But hey, there was enough beer (^_^)
I can’t give you a playlist, so don’t ask me, cuz I’m the worst when it comes to memorize names. I just remember that they played really kick ass songs right from the beginning and everybody was jumping and head banging from the first song on. It was really really cool, and I was wet after only four songs. The Berlin girl once said that they, that the guys where only human beings, too, and she is kind of right with that. But the truth is, as soon as they enter the stage and start singing, spitting and rubbing (!) (caused lot’s of screaming in the audience) they aren’t just human beings anymore. I don’t know what they become, but definitely not simple human beings. Zero (Bass) and Karyu (Guitar) changed sites only once, which kind of sucks, since Zero for sure is the cutest one in the band, but I like Karyu still a lot better, not only because he is freakin’ tall for a Japanese guy, but he is the cooler one, too.
Zero was wearing some kind of girly black top, a skirt or something like that. He doesn’t have his dread locks anymore, which I honestly prefer. He looks a lot cuter without them. And he has a really really cute smile. Karyu was wearing some white blouse, which made him look not as skinny as he really is until it got wet (^_^) yummy!!!
Hizumi was wearing some torn up top and some pants….platforms as shoes. I really can’t recall Tsukasa’s outfit. I don’t know why, especially since he is the cutest of them at all. He’s the hottest one. He’s just too cute (^_^)
Well, that’s it for today, I’ll continue tomorrow….see ya

2004-10-26T21:22:00.000+02:00

listening to: SUGIZO no C:LEAR

Well, I know I said I'm not gonna post anything here anymore, but well......I will have to since my site is not really making any progress. No time, neither me nor the one who was supposed to help out (okay half of you will no the name now anyway) so I asked for more support but unfortunately there is a lot to do for all of us.
Well, I will probably have to publish my concert reviews....yes I finally made it...have a hotel in Paris, too, my flights are booked and I'm all set \(^o^)/....here (I need to end my sentences in a better way....I know....and I can't even use the excuse that it's late (-_-) cuz it's not *sigh*)
Whatever, nothing really exciting happend in my life due to the fact that I was more or less bound to do nothing exciting by the flew I caught. And since I didn't want to fuck up my weekend in Berlin and Paris I was just hanging out.
Today arrived the Vulgar[ism] DVD totally surprisingly \(^o^)/ only watched half of it though, I'm really bad at watching concerts all by myself, so I always grab the phone and call friends, but none of them had time....at least none of those who would be interrested in hearing me having spontainious orgasms on one of the member's looks....or moves *giggle*
But I really laughed my ass of by Tochis looks this time.....wow he really looked strange with this platted hair, holy shit....and those porn glasses WHY?????
But Shinya looked yummier than ever.....I really can't tell why but that's just the way it is, you will see as soon as you hold the DVD in your hands (^_^)
It's not one concert completely shown, it's two concerts (I think, since I haven't seen it all yet, I can't tell) cut together, really neat, since during one concert Kyo (京) has blond hair and during the other one black....or rather a really dark brown.....actually everybody has black hair...well mostly (^_^)
I know this is more a look-review, but the music review will be added later, I have to watch things like that more than once, to tell you what sucked and what was great.....right *sigh* my system so don't feel free to say it sucks (^_^)
And to be honest....the first thing you do as soon as they enter the stage is look at their cloths, right...the girls start drooling and the guys blush because they want to look like them (and are drooling, too) (^_^), just kidding.

Something else, finally Japanese class at university started again, too. Ahhh I was so much waiting for this moment, even though I'm not the best student, but I just loooooooooooooooooooove it (^_^)
Not that there wasn't enough work with Chinese Newspaper Translation class...yay 200 vocab in 2 weeks was just what I was missing in my life (-_-) So nobody ever dare to tell me, students have an easy life, since we can't go home after a 9-5 day and relax.

listening to: Silver Ash (nothing in particular)

Kind of couldn't stand Sugizo right now...so I switched to Silver Ash....anybody a clue who they are....right Chinese VK-Band from Beijing. So they sing in a pretty standard Chinese way....which means, with some effort you can understand what they are trying to tell you (^_^) as long as you study Chinese.

Well, there's not much to say.....I wish my mom a safe trip to Belgium, she's visting her mom......so yes, I'm half Belgian (^_^)

Anything else? Not really......not really exciting what I've been doing the last two weeks (^_^) but this weekend's gonna rock.....it's gonna J-ROCK \(^_^)/....okay that one sucked, but I'm really looking forward to my douple concert weekend. Wish me luck guys....I wonna have the best time ever

So that's it for today
see ya

2004-10-15T18:24:00.000+02:00

listening to: Duel Jewel no Lapidary

I'm going insane....okay, that aren't actually news, coz most of you already know that. Okay first week of university is over .....and I've been sick half of it (T_T)
Okay first of all, I'm closing this site, it will for sure remain here for quite some while, but I woun't update it any longer. But of course this doesn't mean I'm gonna vanish from the net....ohhhhhhhhhh no, can't get rid of me that fast (^_^) I will start my own real website soon, so you can read me there (^_^)
Hmmm ah yes, I finally chose my second major POLITICS (^_^)
Ah yes another thing...I'm actually really going to both concerts (and don't ask which concerts I'm talking about), the one in Berlin and the one in Paris, I only need to book my flight tickets and hotels, then I'm all set (^_^)
should I write them and ask if tsukasa will go on stage in a skirt \(^_^)/ of course I'm not going to do that, but I really hope he does

okay guys....I think that's it (^_^)

see ya on my new page (will post the url as soon as it's working *swear*)

2004-09-27T13:08:00.000+02:00

Sober again (^_^)

listening to: Dué le quartz no BEST ALBUM

while I'm listening to it I wonder why "Dear from....xxx" sounds so disordered??? I like the Miyavi solo version a lot better, it's way more melodic. Some of you will go: Miyavi....melodic....no way!! But in this case it's the truth.
And just right now I realise that there are some Dir en greyish parts in one of Dué le quartzes songs, too......strange it seems indeed. I think I never really listened to that CD before! Strange don't you think? Probably because I have a lot of way better CD's (^_^)

Urgh, by the way, my favorite website is closing (;_;) I'm talking ablout jrocknyc. I'm actually really sad according to the fact that I read nearly every entry the host ever wrote. It's really really depressing. That guy was an institution, but I guess he was kind of getting sick of it. We might never know the reason.

I recovered well from my little birthday party. Thank you guys for the great presents. They are really cool. And thanks for coming, especially to those who had to travel a little to reach my parent's house. I know it's in the middle of nowhere. For those of you studying with me and couldn't come, don't worry, I will have a little party at my flat as soon as the new semester starts (^_^) (why do I get the feeling that there will be more people coming to my party at my flat than to the party at my parent's house?????)

I was really sad that so many of those I invited couldn't come, I guess this party was kind of under a bad star (*lol* one to one translation of a German saying into English alsways sounds crappy, but I hope those who are native speakers just don't take it too seriously and forgive me)
To those who couldn't come because of illness, I hope you all get well soon.
To those who are moving....have fun...I know moving sucks like hell. I hope that everything went well.
To those who are taking exams this or next week and couldn't come because of last minute studying. I wish your exams go well, I will think of you all.
To those who had to work (only one I think) Buhuuuuuuhuuuuu I missed you Kitze, but I hope we manage to meet befor I take my things an move abroad next year.
To everone else....nothing to say (^_^) I guess everyone had a special reason not to come.

Of course I hope I will meet everybody once more befor leaving Germany for a long time (hopefully a very long time).

Thanks to my friends from Bonn I will have a lot of information before leaving to Japan in spring (^3^)
and thanks to my beloved hair stylist and his roommate my lonely hours will not be that lonely (^_~) And the pic will always remind me of the crazy days or nights I had in Bremen.
Thanks to my dear friends up in the north I spent a lot of time drooling over my dad's computer yesterday night (^_^) (I hope I can whipe it all up befor he come home again *G*)

I love presents \(^_^)/ I mean not only recieving them but giving a present is also great. I always end up sepnding to much money though, but I think it is always worth it when the one is smiling....urgh I'm becoming a softy (*sigh*) can't help it....I'm kind of happy today....maybe because of laughing so much reading "Gravitation" this morning. Small things like that can make me keep on smiling all day.

One bad thing is I just am not in the mood to study Japanese. Maybe beause of studying Chinese so much this summer. I don't know, but I will have to start at least by tomorrow, or otherwise I will have a really big prob next semester. Urgh, it's going to be a really tough one, I can tell ya *sigh*

well, that's it more or less for today at least.....see ya around (^_^)

2004-09-23T20:22:00.000+02:00

listening to: machine no salvation D9

I've just been surfin a bit and what do I find out???? Some really really nice j-rock news....at least they are in my opinion!

First really nice thing: machine ( machine ) is back on and they playing live again \(^0^)/ (although not in Europe (;_;) )
I always thought they broke up....did they?? I don't know, but at least they are playing together again. Many of you are probably like: "who the fuck are machine"
I tell you! machine are Hakuei lead singer of penicillin (penicillin) (the best looking man in the whole wide world! I'm not kidding!) and Kiyoshi (kiyoshi), yes the guy who played guitar for hide together with spread beaver. Kiyoshi is the one guy everybody drops dead as soon as he starts to move his hips. Nobody moves like he does. Friends and me watches this movement in slooooooooooooooooow motion just to get every single bit of it! But he is starting to show his age (;_;)
I'm so excited....can they please have a live this spring when I come to Tokyo???? Harharhar I love those two guys.

To stay at least near to machine: penicillin's new album FLOWER CIRCUS is due October 20th. Guess what I'm going to preorder in the next couple of days (^_^)

And some more news: There is a special for foreign Dir en grey (dir en grey) fans again. October 23rd and 24th! Deadline September 30th! Unfortunately I will again not be able to go....(;_;) As lucky as I am all those bands will play live in Germany as soon as I arrive in Japan!

One more thing. Who else thinks that the new penicillin layout combines truly ugly colors? grey and orange....hello???? that gives me shivers in a not very pleasant way!

Furthermore I'd like to thank all of you who were thinking of me on my birthday and worte me an sms or e-mail or called. I know I haven't returned some sms yet, but please be patient. I will (^_^)

2004-09-23T16:19:00.000+02:00

listening to: Penicillin no Kakku

This is going to be a summary of best places to got to and stuff like that. Since Shang Hai is really big city with thousands of restaurants, bars and discoteques to go to I will only tell you the ones I liked most and the ones that sucked most. If you don't agree, remember this is just my opinion and you are free to think differently.

Best guide: DUMONT Shanghai (German)

Best weather: Windy, no sun, no rain!

Best place to hang out and relax: Beijing Gong Yuan

Best shopping street: Nanjing Xi Lu @ Jing' an Temple (going east!)

Best restaurants (not necessarily in this order):
T8 (Nouvelle Cuisine)
Yi er er yi (Shanghai)
Zen (Cantonese)
Lanteen (Japanese)

Best fastfood: Kimchi Ramen! (the only fastfood I ever liked in my whole life)!!!!

Best bars:
Luna
Star East
Randevous
Zappatas (Waiguorenbar!!!)

Best party streets:
Hengshang Lu/Dongping Lu
Maoming Nan Lu
Xintaindi

Best partyplace at all:
Lan Kwai Fok Entertainments @ Fuxing Gong Yuan

Best looking bartenders to be found @ Pegasus (the two guys with glasses) simply to die for *sigh* (I should have taken a pic.........)

okay, now the negative things:
Worst Restaurant: Darling Harbour

I really can't remember more really bad things, they will probably pop up some day again, but I'm quite good at forgetting things like that (^_^)

Respect to all those Shanghaians with real Bally bags!! I've seen many real ones around and I can tell you, they cost a fortune in Shanghai!

My impression: SHANGHAI ROCKS!!!!!!
I'm so looking forward to go back next year, you wouldn't believe it.

Another thing is, you learn a lot about yourself, when spending 4 1/2 weeks without much company. Only my teachers and the one weekend with my friends from back home. I think everybody should try it once in a lifetime. But actually right now I'm running into a problem, because I liked beeing alone, at least to some extend. I have to get used be back home again.

2004-09-14T10:17:00.000+02:00

Hello Everybody (^_^)

I'm back in good old Germany, just arrived this morning and sorted some of my mails out. Lot's of work, I can tell ya. Just wanted all of you to know, that I'm safe back home. What I did the last couple of days in Shanghai.....well....I'll tell you later, let me relax a little first.

So see ya guys

2004-09-09T11:53:00.000+02:00

Listening to: SADS no SAD BLOOD ROCK'N'ROLL

Okay, it's been a while since I posted, but I just had enough to do. So
let's get started.

Let's start with the things worth noticing that happened on Friday. I went
to California's again. I just wanted to be in a place where party was going
on for sure. I was standing upstairs at the bar in Park 97 when some
American guy came up to me and asked if I was from California. Since I'm not
(^_^) I told him that I was from Germany. He's like "Germany? Where is
that?" you guys can imagine the face I made hearing that. So I tell him
Europe and he goes like "Eh, small place!" (?_?)
Then a fairly nice thing happened. I finally flirted with a Chinese guy.
\(^_^)/ Not too bad looking, but he really had a strange way to dance. Not
strange in the meaning of interesting, but simply strange, therefore nothing
further happened. Sounds kind of picky, but what's the point in not being
picky?????

Saturday I decided to try out yet another bar at Xintiandi. I met a guy from
Southafrica and one from Scottland. Yay!!! They could be my dads but they
are really nice guys. Later I left them and went to Pegasus. It was freaking
empty, but 50 yuan entry fee was still worth paying. You wonder why? I tell
you why. There seems to be some secret rule that male bartenders have to be
as cute as possible in Shanghai. So if the guests look like shit, there are
still the bartenders to look at (^_^) But honestly, I've been barhopping a
lot during the last month and the Pegasus boys are absolutely number one!
I'm not kidding. They are tall, extremely good looking and so skinny that
you get the impression that eating is a crime (at least in Shanghai (^_^).
Those two guys are simply drop dead beatiful. And they speak English (^_^)
They look actually that good that I'm, thinking of dropping in for a short
time on Friday again, only to take one last look! Well, the two guys I met
earlier that night caught up on me and they took me to some Gaijin Bars
(okay since we are in China Waiguoren Bars) but now I can imagine what
Gaijin Bars in Japan are like, and I can tell you, that I already hate them.
The last one we went to was Zappatas. Can't say anything about the
bartenders, but the only Chinese guy guest I saw was extremely cute, but
only about 1,60 (^_^) okay, maybe a little taller, but I was wearing high
heels. And no, I don't feel ashamed wearing high heels in China! So much for
Saturday.
Sunday I went to that Xintiandi place again and met the Scott. He wasn't
able to remember half of the last evening, because he had been so drunk.
Nothing much happend later that evening.

I had a Manicure and Pedicure on Monday. And I have to admit it was the
first time in my life that I was satisfied with the manicure I got. My nails
are just the shape I like them to be and my feet look great. So those girls
are really really good. I had dinner at a Thai restaurant that night. Wasn't
bad at all but not outstanding.

Tried yi er er yi aka The Dining Room out on Tuesday and it was really
really good. So if you have to rely on Restaurants with an English Menu you
should give the Dining Room a shot.

Okay if you wonna eat Chinese you are ordering more then one plate. You
order some meat, some veggies and rice. But normal portions are just too big
for one person. You can ask for small protions though. I haven't experienced
anybody saying no yet, so I guess it works in every Resautrant.
Yesterday was a really really great day. I had a fun time at school. I love
my teachers, these girls are just so nice. Then I decided to go to Darling
Harbour for lunch.....it sucked. But I was so proud of myself coz the
waitress didn't speak one word English, so I had to order my meal in
Chinese, and I actually got the stuff I wanted to eat! Big ego boost (^_^)
No need to say anything else, but since I was at Nanjing Xi Lu I found just
the best shopping malls ever. And I couldn't resist. I shopped my soul out.
And everybody who ever said spending money does not make happy! THEY LIE. I
was in such a good mood after spending a (little) fortune on accessoirs,
that I was smiling all over my face (^_^) Well I'm limited to buying bags
and stuff like that, since I'm simply too fat to buy any clothing and my
feet are to big to buy any shoes, but there are so many possiblities to
spend a lot of money in three shopping malls full of world wide famous
designers. So yesterday all I did was shopping. It was the first time I was
kind of happy being to fat to buy any cool clothing, coz god knows I would
have spent all the money I have. So lucky me this time. But still I know,
there is simply no way I will spend a whole year in Shanghai withought
buying any cloth, so I finally will have to lose some weight in order to
become a happy Shanghaian (at least for one year!) I hope I make it this
time. Wish me luck.
My day ended softly. I walked the whole way back to the Bund, snatched a cab
and off I went to my dear little Hotel. I didn't have dinner and I didn't go
out, cuz I didn't wonna ruin the great day I had by having a shitty night,
even though I was fighting temptation to go to Pegasus *sigh* believe me,
those to guys are just to die for (^_^) If they would mind me taking a
picture of them??????

Uhhh gotta go, school will start soon and I hate being late for anything, so
see you later

(^*^)

2004-09-02T11:10:00.000+02:00

Currently listening to: Dir en grey no Gauze

Been ill the last day, so I mainly stayed in bed and ate coockies. I stillhave little cold, but it is way better now. Due to my cold I sucked in classtoday, but everybody is allowed to have weak day once in while, don't youthink?I will take it easy today to, so I can party on the weekend (^_^)

Okay, harsh change of topic, but I saw the new Glay video now a couple oftimes, and I can't help it Jiro (the base guitar player) who used to havesuch a babyface, that telling his age was nearly impossible, well that guylooked old. I'm not kidding, he actually looks worn out an tired. What havethey been doing to that poor boy??????

And talking about J-Rock, I'm so excited....I really really wonna go to thatconcert (^_^) D'esparis Ray YAY. Nice look on the future....cute Japaneseboys in skirts playing the music I love so much in GERMANY. Yes you don'tneed new glasses....they play in Berlin on October 30th. Great ain't it?Either Paris or Berlin.....or BOTH YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY....that's thebest idea I've ever had.....both concerts harharharharhar (why did it takeme so long???????? I'm ill forgot?????)only two more month to go......and then JROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCK. You think I'mnuts......(^_^)........damn sure I am

Since it is a lovely day outside....no dunst, no clouds but yet not too hotto stay in the sun, I will go out and look at some hot chinese guys (@_@)

bye bye folks

2004-08-31T18:16:00.000+02:00

Listening to: PENICILLIN no No.53

There you are guys, I promised to keep you on track a little more often and
so I do. Remember that I wanted to try out some venues around Fu Dan
Univesity. So I bought a map in order not to get lost too much and I
didn't....get lost, I mean, and also I didn't find the places I wanted to go
to. The area around Fu Dan is not actually a hotspot.....people looked at me
as if I were an Alien. Not kidding there were like....."A! Waiguoren" They
actaully said it. For those of you who don't study Chinese or don't have
enought fantasy to imagine what those words mean here the translation: "Oh!
Foreigner" "Huch, Auslaender" "E! Gaijin"
So I was walking around Fu Dan Daxue, more or less in the middle of the
night, serching for Pubs.....after a while I gave up, took a taxi and went
to Californias again.

But I had no luck at California again. It's not that there weren't enough
good looking people around, but they just don't come up to me. So some guy
from Southafrika, having his roots in Arabia, talked to me the whole evening
trying to pick me up, he was quite nice, but not my type. But I was fair
enough to tell him after a while. So I went home at about half past
three.....kind of frustrated, kind of happy only for the fact that looking
at handsom guys makes me happy at an instant (^_^)

Yesterday I decided to go study at Xintaindi again. So I did. Later on I
went to Ark. Good decision. Two bands played. Both young (no cute guys but
good Rock to Hard Rock music) and outgoing. There weren't makeing me jumping
of my seat and start dancing type, but it was way better than staying at
home again.

BIG NEWS FOR EVERY J-ROCK FAN IN EUROPE:
D'espairs Ray are going to play in PARIS IN OCTOBER!!!!!!!! So I will
defenately try to get some tickets......I will go, no matter what day they
play. These are the best news by far! (^_/)/\(\_^) I wonna go so
much......please someone gimme a ticket PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE. Anyone
wonna join me???????? I bet there are some of you who would love to, and
even if noone will join me....I will try everything to get there. Strange
thing, isn't it I'm in Shanghai surviving of my poor Chinese and I get all
excited about going to a D'espairs Ray concert in Paris *lol* (^_^)

So that's it for today (^_^)

2004-08-28T13:46:00.000+02:00

I know I know, it'se been a couple of days since I posted, but believe me, I
don't have any time, so I won't go day by day. Some nice things happned.
Had to pee one day badly so I went to famous PEACE Hotel and asked the
Concierge where the bathroom was. I tell you, it was the best thig I've ever
done. That boy had a voice to melt. I was probably staring at him since he
did not only have a freaking sexy voice but also the looks. So if you ever
come to Shanghai, drop into peace hotel and ask the concierge something.

Since Manu forgot her Teddy at the hostel they were staying at, I picked it
up the other day and when I saw it, I was like HEY I know that one, I have
the same one.....cool thing! So I had a somehow familiar companion that day,
since I carried old little PEZI around Shanghai with me. I'm pretty used to
people staring at me without even trying to hide it, but you can't emagine
what people look like at you when you are a 1,83m tall, blue haired
foreigner who is carrying a teddybear around with her. It was quite funny.

Another nice thing is, since probably no normal beeing is staying at a hotel
for over one month I knwo the staff by now. At breakfast the two chiefs of
the room even talk to me and are like, hey how's your Chinese coming along,
if you need help just ask. So, service has improved a lot. Really really
nice. I love that kind of attantion (^_^)

One day I came to school and one of my teachers was like, hey my friend saw
you on TV. And I was like, yeah could be possible, because one day, when I
was again walking into the wrong direction on Huaihai Lu I passed a camera
team. When they saw me coming up, they just started filming. But I would
never have thought, that I would actually appear on National TV in
China....kind of cool.
Two days later one of my other teachers asked me the same thing and she told
me, that the show which it was shown at was about the colour blue and how
young poeple match colors. Yay lucky me, that I changed my haircolor from
pink to blue before coming to China (^_^)

Yesterday I went to Fuxing Park in which a bar and disco complex is. Really
cool place. Lots of good looking people willing to spend a lot of money. I
saw one guy that was just to pretty to be real. I'm not kidding. But you all
know me....I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay to shy to
go over to somebody and just say hi *sigh*
But I shouldn't complain, one guy was talking to me half the evening and at
the end he told me that he thinks that I'm pretty much like Chinese people
because of being to shy to talk to others. I guess it was a compliment, even
though I don't really feel comfortable with beeing that much like Chinese
people. Despite my looks I'm not really outgoing. But hey.....maybe it's not
the worst thing in the world.
Looks as if the next three years are going to be pretty lonely ones (-_-#)
I'm just not able to change and I don't know why. Regection is just a really
big thing to me, so not asking or rather not aproching means not beeing
turned down. Maybe I should get some plastic surgery done.....just kidding.
I'm not in the best mood right now, so I really hope something cheerful,
besides buying some Jade stuff, happens to me today.....like loseing 10kg at
once or something like that (^_^)

Tonight I wonna try out partying around Fu Dan University. There are
supposed to be some really cool places with lost of young people willing to
chat. Maybe I'm lucky tonight and there will be someone willing to talk to
me......argh.....probably not, but not going out is no opportunity.

I have to say I got used to Shanghai already. It's a really cool place and
right now I'm more like....shit only 2 more weeks left, than ........urgh 2
MORE weeks to go. I think that is a good sign. I will miss the crowded
streets. I will miss the fact that you can buy drinks at every street
corner. I will miss the good looking Chinese boys (^_^) even though I only
look at them. The pleasure is all mine *g*

Okay guys, I hope you enjoy reading this and I will try to post a little
more often.

I will go and buy a map now, coz I don't wonna get lost in Pudong right
(^_^)
have a nice weekend guys......and think of me....at least sometimes (~_^)

2004-08-23T13:05:00.000+02:00

Well, well, well I know I haven't been posting for a couple of days, but
guys believe me, I've been very busy.

I ate at a really neat restaurant on Thursday called T8 at Xintiandi (UME
Coplex Tai Cai Lu) Since I was alone they placed me at the bar and people
believe me, it's the best place to be when you're alone, because you can
watch the cooks making the food, and boy that was delicous. Really, really,
really good. There is nothing to complain about. Afterwards I went to ARK
live house, which is a neat bar in which bands are playing. Really cool to
go to when you're alone, because the bands are interesting to watch.
Here in Shanghai everything in bars is about live music and that's actaully
a pretty cool thing. I love it.

On Friday I met to fellow stundents from Bonn. Linda and Manu which was
really really cool. Been wondering around Nanjing Lu and so on and got some
really cool things to eat. I will post the pictures of that stuff as soon as
I'm back in Germany.

On Saturday we decided to go to Suzhou, so we met at 9 o'clock in order to
get to the Shanghain Zhan (Shanghai Station) we got there around 10 and I
tell you it was packed. It was so crowded that we had a hard time getting to
the counter we needed. When it was finally our turn we learned that the next
train was only going at 13:15 so we had about three hours to hang out around
Shanghai Zhan. We visited the Shopping malls and went to a really cool Fast
Food Place called something with Sumo, really cool, since the food was not
only healthy but also really really tasty. Getting on our train we
recognized that we had bought tickets for the better kind of train. Reserved
seats really neat for 22 yuan, which is a bout 2 Euro....IMAGINE 22 yuan one
way and the train was way better than the DB trains (DB=Deutsche Bahn) It
was really cool. Girls running around selling warm food, fruits, toys for
the kids and drinks the whole ride....that's what I call service!
After an hour ride we reached Suzhou and rushed through two parks since they
all close around 5 p.m. Since we've been walking all the time we couldn't
bother to walk to the inner city in order to get something to eat. So we
hired a Riksha. That poor man had to transport all three of us, but that
actually had the effect that he was getting admired a lot, since he could
handle it really well. Had really good food again and wanted to go home, so
we walked back to the Station just to learn, that the next train would leave
only in 2 and a half hours, so we decided to sit in front of the staion on
the ground, just as many others did, but boy we were cinema to all the
Chinese people.
When one guy came up to us with his children and asked for money in order to
buy them food we made the mistake and answered him in Chinese. Now
everything started to run wild. First only a couple of guys gathered around
us and looked at us as if we were some rare mokeys. After a short while more
and more people gathered around us in order to watch uns and listen what we
were saying. One guy started asking us questions in Chinese. Eager as we are
we tried to understand what he was asking us and tried to give our best
answering. BIG mistake, within second about thirty people stood around us.
Many just watching and listening to what we've been talking about, but some
tried to talk to us. In the beginning it was quite pleasant, but when more
and more people gathered around us it became kind of strange. When a beggar
came up to us the police showed up and sacared some of the people away. But
since one of the guys, who was actually pretty polite and was trying to
speak as clearly as he could, kept on talking to us more and more people
gathered around us, drawing nearer and nearer and after two hours sitting
there, about a hundred people had gathered around us, asking us questions
and nearly sitting on our laps.
One of them tried to speak English with us, which was rather funny since he
started off with those typical text book sentences: Hi I'm such and shuch,
what is your name, where are you from. But when he was finished with this
typical introduction, he gave me his ID and told me that he was a single.
Just like, hey I'm SINGLE look at me. It was the funniest thing ever.
The police came once more to scare people away, but hopelessly they tried
and nothing worked. After two hours we got kind of tired talking to those
poeple them getting closer and closer so we decided to stand up. When we
were walking up to the station one of the police officers kind of dragged us
into the station in order to get rid of the duty to protect us from the
masses. It was quite funny, since we now can imagine how it must be like
when you're a star. People desperately wanting to talk to you, wanting to
touch you and stuff like that. We were pretty happy that none of our "fans"
wanted to got to Shanghai, too.
That was my wierdest experience ever in my life.
On our way back we had a less comfi train, but it only cost 7 yuan, so no
complains about that.
it was about midnight, when we reached Shanghai and since Metro was closed
already we took taxis back home, got ourselves dressed up to party and went
out.....kind of. First I again had cab driver who kicked me out some place
pointed into a direction and again it was the wrong one, so I came 20
minutes late to our checkpoint. ten to two I met Lina and Manu outside Ying
Yang some bar and disco, but it was quite empty. Drank a beer and decided to
take a cab to another disco, which is supposed to be the biggest one in
China. When we reached the venue it was about 2:45 a.m. NOONE there. So we
asked a cab driver where to go and he told us that everything closes at 2 in
the morning. That sucked so much, but we had nothing else to do than got
back to our hotels and get so sleep.
Sunday was the first rainy day in Shanghai.....and when I say rainy I mean
it was raining cats and dogs. We still decided to go to Yu Yuan, which is a
the old town in Shanghai. Really cool place to hang out, if it is not
raining! Even though we had bought some umbrellas as you can imagine they
weren't the best ones in there world so after a while the rain was dripping
through them. Fortunately after we decided to have an early dinner at 5 p.m.
and got out of the restaurant around 7 p.m. it was barely raining anymore
and we didn't need our umbrellas. So we all went a little shopping which was
quite fun. Afterwards we walked back to Fu Zhou Lu in which Manu's and
Linda's Hostel was. A really neat hostel. We restet shortly and diceded to
go to Xintaindi (UME Complex) to party that night. So we found ourselves a
neat bar with really cool live music performance, had 2 pitchers and got to
know each other quite well.
When we left Luna (the pub we went to) it was pouring outside again. Said
good bye quickly, since they left this morning to Beijing. I hope they have
great time there.
Funny thing, that I didn't know Manu well and Linda not at all before coming
to Shanghai. Linda and I in fact never have talked to each other before!
Cool thing that I got to know them both. Now partying in Bonn we be even
cooler than it already is (^_^)

Oh I want to mention something. Chinese men are looking at your face
first.....and that at your boobs! Great isn't it! Not like European guys who
sometimes seem to forget that a woman has a face, too!

Today I had a shitty start. Two taxi drivers didn't want to drive me to
school. So I was kind of demotivated when I reachen TLI finally. But my
teachers are all so kind and nice that your spirit gets lifted the instant
you get into the school rooms. Afterwards I decided to walk around Pu Dong a
little. Good choice. Pu Dong is quite a cool place to hang out. It's the
future part of Shanghai. Saw two Malls with Gucci and stuff, walked to pearl
tower and decided to visit is some other day in the evening, since you have
really cool frew from one of the upper pearls. You can look all over
Shanghai and it's beautiful way to be lit at night. I saw it in some of
Lind's pics. I took tourist walking tunnel to the bund, which everyone
should at least try once. A cool way to get from Pu Dong to the Bund.

Well that's it for today......See ya guys

2004-08-18T16:15:00.000+02:00

Currently listening to: Miyavi: -gagaku-

It's a lovely day. It's rather cold today, due to a fresh wind blowing.
Humidity ist barely existant today, so no major sweating to be done (^_^)
School war all right today. My pronounciation sucked though. Well maybe
tomorrow will be a better day, who knows. I will go to Nanjing Dong Lu
later, to check out some more stores and hang out at the bund, maybe I'll
dine at M on the Bund, but I don't know yet. Let's see and wait.

Okay, where did I stop yesterday? I honestly don't remember and cuz I can't
look it up either, there might be a little gap, never mind it. Well Saturday
was a rather good day I think. Nothing special happend, so I guess that's
good. Who knows. Well due to the incident on Friday night, I did not feel
like going out on Saturday. I stayed at the hotel and watched Cannel [V].

Slept nearly all Sunday and went out at 4 p.m. because I was in the need of
food. I hadn't eaten for about 24h at that time, so I was starting to
getting hungry as you can probably imagine. I decided to get dropped off at
Nanjing Dong Lu again and walk the way to Huai Hai Lu. In oder to understand
more people or to find out things, I baught an electronic Dictionary. Of
course it's on Chinese, but a little klicking here and there makes
everything work (^_^). After I've been looking for one of those things I
finally found it at the Foreign Book store. And since it is a law, once you
find the thing you want and you buy it, you see it 5 mins later for less
money all around (-_-#)
On my way to Huai Hai Zhong Lu, I was wandering if I'd find some real
designer Stores, and BAM I did. Great, nearly all the major designer lables
at one place right at the beginning of Huai Hai Xin Lu (^_^)/ YAY So of
course I went in and took a look around. Found THE STORE for handbags,
honestly they had the cooles handbags I've ever seen, except Moschino's of
course. But just like an other rule. Ther really cool things are really
expensive, so I did not buy one........yet (^_^), maybe I'll make up my
mind.
By then I was starving and decided to take another chance on Ashanti Dome,
since it was Sunday. And after a nice lady showed me direction (the right
one....not like that taxi driver) I actually found it. It is in a
neighbourhood, you'd never expect a decent french restaurant. At the
beginning of the road garbage bags were laying around and did not look to
welcomeing. But wenn I saw the yellow Umbrella's of the Dead Widow Champaign
I knew it was what I was looking for.
At the entrance the waiter asked me, if I wanted Frebcg Cuisine or Spanish
Tapas. WHO would EVER choose Tapas above French Cuisine, when really hungry?
So I went for the French Cuisine. I need to explain, that Ashanti Dome is in
an old Russion Orthodox Church. So if you want to see the colorful church
windows, you have to say you want to eat on the upper flor. The waiters were
fairly trained. At least good enough to satisfy me.
A little starter came and it tasted like crap. I'm not kidding it was
nasty.....mainly because of the lack of salt!
Then my actual starter came. Oisters coocked in their own water, topped by
Belugar Caviar. THAT was really yummy. Not kidding. My main dish was steak
Tatar. BIG mistake. The cook did not know how to do that thing the way it
was supposed to be done. Okay, beeing the fair person I am (actually I'm not
a fair person at all, I think) I have to say, that I'm used to probably the
best Steak Tatar in the hole world. Served at the Dicke Matilde in Oostende,
Belgium. Back to the one at Ashanti Dome (already the name sucks hell) the
French Fries were good, and salted. Since I love Creme Brulee, I had to go
for this one as desert. There were little pieces of something, that does not
belong in a Creme Brulee in it, so again a big DON'T.
So if you're used to real French Cuisine, don't go there. If you're in
Shanghai and sick of food you can't identify, go there and try it out. If
you've never eaten Frech Cuisine before and are used to dine at Mc Donald's,
you probably gonna love it.
So I wanted to take a little walk and ended up in UME Complex. Fucking cool
place to hang out in Shanghai. Lot's of little bars, restaurants, cafes and
so on. It was really crowded, too. Had a couple of drinks there. The crowd
hanging out there is really relly nice, too. So no drunk foreigners wanting
to beat you up!
So Sunday was really a nice day, but I couldn't fall asleep at all, so I had
a hard time getting up on Monday morning and not coming late for class. They
erally have a lot of extremely nice teachers there, and their English was
really great. And then I discovered, why that I was actually the only
foreigner from Europe. All the other students are from JAPAN.....can you
believe how lucky I am. Did not see a really hot one yet, but wish me luck.
Ahhhhhh and I only have female teachers (;_;)
Well, at least I'm not going to hang drooling wise above my teacher now.
I have to admit, that 3h of pronounciation training one in a row is really
tirering for my voice, but it's the best training at all. And god know's how
important it is to hit the right tone, otherwise you probably end up beeing
stared at even more.
After school I went to take a walk at the Bund's waterfront. Sat down
somewhere and went through my new textbook. Really good one that is. Sitting
there, about every ten minutes somebody was shyly sitting next to me,
getting a picture taken. Sometimes they asked if I was fine with it,
sometimes they just did it. I was kind of becomeing a tourist attracktion to
the Chinese people from the country. Felt really really strange. I actually
thought they got used to see tall European women allready. But maybe not too
many with blue hair are running around.
Nothing else exciting happend that day, so actually not much more to say.

Yesterday I was just tired and did not do anything else but going to class.
I did not even go out for food. Room Service had to do it that night.

And today, who knows, being finished with todays entry I guess I will take a
cab to Nanjing Dong Lu and walk to Huai Hai Lu. Try out some marked places
and a couple of drinks at UME Complex maybe. Not too many though, because I
have to review class tonight.

Okay guys....have a nice time (^_^) I certainly will

2004-08-17T10:57:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody
(^_^#)
You can't believe what my mom and my ex-boyfriend have actually been through
to get this blog going. I really hope you apreciate it, because it made my
phone bill raise to to no extend!
Well, everybody knows that the internet is not completely working in China,
so I wans't able to use neither my usual mail address nor can I post
directly. This is how it works now: I send an e-mail with my daily posting
to my ex-boyfriend and he is publishing it, since e-mail publishing doesn't
work either.
Okay let's get started, since there is a lot to tell....couple of days
already *G*

Got on my plain on Tuesday afternoon from Bremen to Frankfurt in oder to go
to Shanghai. Well...already checking in did not go as the usual. I HAD TO
PAY OVERWIGHT FOR MY LUGGAGE. Can you believe that. They wanted to charge me
even more than my freakin' ticket cost in the first way! Flight was
allright, even though Economy Class for such a long flight sucked majorly.
Lucky me, there was noone sitting next to me, so I was able to strech a
little bit at least.
Food on the plain was YACK. Flight was pumpy, but I landed securely in
Shanghai on Thursday last week. Everything went all right, except my
transfer to the Hotel. Got ripped off badly by some pseude cab driver, but
hey I at least made it to the hotel. Which is kind of not what I had
expected. Okay, those of you knowing me better know, that I'm a rather
spoiled brat, but it is only one month, I can do a month with a not so good
hotel (who am I trying to convince here?)
Arrived at the hotel, got into my room, took a shower and slept, cuz I
haven't selpt all night.
Went out......first food. Crappy Japanese Restaurant. Very bad mood!
I don't think I did anything else that day. Was around 9 or 10 p.m. anyways.

Next day: Friday: Majorly sucking day. (-_-#) not kidding. Got up early and
had breakfast. SUCKED. no realy, the only thing you can actually eat is
fruit, anything else tastes like shit. Okay, spoiled kiddo arlarm again.
Then I wen't shopping, or at least tried, but I did not find anything at all
to buy. First of all I can't find a decent cd-shop to buy some new good rock
music, and the receptionist at the hotel can't help much, to be honest.
Their English isn't the best, neither is mine, and my Chiese skills are
improving on a daily basis, which does not mean that they are good, they
still suck! So Chinese is not really an opportunity yet.
Well, at least the cab drives understand it, when I ask them to go to a
certain road. (^_^)

Ah I need to tell you this: Chinese people are not small, at least not in
Shanghai. I'm not kidding, I walked by so many tall guys, taller than ME!
and I'm like 6'1". They are tall, many are good looking, too! Okay, everyone
of you knows that I fall for Asians easyly, even though I still don't know
why. But they are half of me. I wouldn't consider myself fat, but copared to
Shanhaiens I AM (;_;)

Well my day wen't by and I was getting hungry, so I wanted to try out
Ashanti dome, since my tommy wan't gonna take much more strange things that
day. The taxi driver kicked me out in the middle of nowhere and pointed into
some direction. So I started walking, and ended up not finding what I was
looking for. But I found something way better. Been Cafe. I's a really good
restaurant....don't know the street it is in, but if someone really want's
to know I certainly can find it out. Really stylish place, nice waiter, menu
in Chinese and English, and if uou don't know what to eat, just ask the
waiter to recommend something and he will. He chose some fried pork sticks
with chillie sauce....really yummie, some potato stuff, at least it said
potato, even though it didn't taste like some. And for dessert some sweet
bean stuff. Everything was really really good.
If you wanna dine in China, you better get used to the fact that everything
comes at once, even though that doesn't meant that everything should be
eaten at the same time! So I was stuffed and in a really good mood. Took a
cab to my hotel. Made myself up and off I was to my first night in Shanghai.
Went to Maoming Nan Lu because it is said that this street rocks. It was
actually kind of empty. Beeing a coward that day I went to a bar which is
known for many foreingers going there. BIG MISTAKE. Not kidding. NEVER go
where many foreigners go! NEVER! That bar was called Manhatten and was
packed with Westerners hitting on Chinese grils and them taking advantege of
those guys, by letting them pay for their drings. Talk about 1 minute and
leave for another one to get a drink from. And all those supid white men go
for it. It was kind of funny to watch, but then one of those tried to hit on
me. HE was drunk out of his mind and spoke a really poor English with a
heavy German accent. Of course I did not tell him I was German, too.
Actually I tried hard to ignore that sun of a bitch. But he was some
persistant little wrack. He was like "why you look so angry" I said nothing,
but he kept on asking the same shit over and over again. Grrrr why do guys
like him never get it, when Someone does not want to speak to them??????? So
I told him, that I did't wonna talk with him and he completely freaked out.
I'm not kidding. He started talking to me in German, not knowing that I
understood every single word he said. Telling me, that he had never
experienced such a thing, and that I was a bitch and ugly and blablabla,
whatever guys say in such situations. But the best thing was yet to come. He
actually said, that he would redesign my face if it wasn't for my braces. He
really said he'd beat me up. Can you actually believe this? I mean, I've
said way worse things to guys, and never ever had a similar reaction.
Actually I'd never say anything obviously mean to Asians, but to a German
guy? If he behaves like that in Germany, too, he probably got a couple of
drinks landing in hin face!
I emptied my bottle of beer and left. I've had enough for that day.
At my hotel room, I was still so angry about that guy that I didn't fall
asleep until 5 in the morning.

Took a 12 hour nap, got up, tried to go shopping in Nanjing Lu, again
nothing. Ate a little dish at a Cafe, went back to my Room and watched
Channel [V]. Some Asian Music Television. Went back to sleep.

Okay that's it for my first posting....I guess tomorrow will be the next one
(^_^) Still have to catch up with a lot of things more or less worth telling
them

So bye bye for today (^_^)

2004-08-05T21:54:00.000+02:00

Currently listening to: L'arc~en~Ciel - Heart

Yay, I'm at my parents' place now. I simply love it here in the country side, even though I'd never choose to live that far from a decent city in the next 20 years. It's definitely something for older people!
The departure from my home turned out way more difficult than I thought it would (>_<) My last examination was a verbal examination, I just had to read a text out aloud (in Chinese!) and than had to answer some questions, either related to the text I had to read, or just on whatever our Lecturer felt like asking us. I don't know if I did well, but I will know at the end of September. Well this examination was kind of running late. I was schedueled for 10:25 a.m. -I think- and I finally got in at 12:15 or something around that (>_<)
I still had to pack all my clothes I'm planning on taking with me to Shanghai and squeeze it all into my little car *sigh*
Just the second I wanted to leave for the Autobahn, I realized that my bycicle was gone. Somebody STOLE it (;_;)
Well but everything went all right on the Autobahn (I did not crash into anybody (^o^) not that this ever happend on the Autobahn, but I'm always happy coming home in one piece)
Well, since then I've been relaxing at my parents' place until today. Today was the New-Hairdo-Day; so I spent like 5 h at my hairdresser's (who's a really good friend, too). I went from my totally washed out pink and hairextentions (removed (^_^)-yay) (see the pic!) to a blue and black head (pic comming soon) without hair extentions. You can't imagine how great it feels after half a year with hair extentions, to run through your hair and feel nothing but your own hair \(^O^)/
I'm planning on getting some white hair extentions at the End of Spetember though......I like it strange (^_~) (in every way)
I did not know how my parents would react, but they are used to my constantly changing hair colors by now and the LIKE it (^_^)
First my mom was like What the f**k, but then she said that it looked great. Even my dad said so.
And I went shopping today, since I don't think my sice will be available in Shanghai (I'm not actually slim (;_;))
Tomorrow the only thing I will be doing is laying in the sun and study, but mostly laying in the sun and getting tanned.
And now I will go and watch a DVD......

2004-08-02T02:11:00.000+02:00

Okay, I've been editing this blogskin like the whole day and now it is early in the morning and I just hope that it works out fine. I will have a friend to look the Teplate over though, since he knows a lot more about all this stuff than me, and don't forget, I'm just getting started (^_^) There will be some changes in the skin's outlook during the next days, but I hope you don't mind to see a different blog everytime you visit mine (^_~)
But actually, I'm having fun creating things. I never thought it could be so much fun typing some commands, but when you see how it works out it doesn't seem that dull anymore, actually it isnt't dull at all. But this is it for today....well tonight
good night

2004-07-30T16:58:00.000+02:00

Ahh *sigh* my last exam should have been yesterday, but some problems came up so now it is next Tuesday, which kind of sucks, because I was planning on going to my parents' place on Sunday ( --)//~
Well, since I can't do anything about it I will stay until Tuesday and try to make the best out of it, which means I will have a BBQ at my place with some friends, using the last chance before leaving to Shanghai to torture them with all kinds of visual kei stuff (^_^)
Even though they've never been confronted with such kind of music before, they got used to it pretty fast and now everybody begins to like it. Some even became quite nuts about it, too. Ahh I'm such an overtaking personality (just kidding) I'm so eager to get new stuff, even though I didn't have the time to watch all my new DVD's or listen to my new CD's because I studied like 24/7. Still my exams did not go well at all due to my lack of brains starting to study continually and not only at the end of the semester (>_<") But even though it did not go well, I'm just happy it's over for the moment. I will have to study a lot all summer though, and I don't mean that Chinese course I will be attending in Shanghai. I'm really looking forward to it. It sure means a lot of work again, but I don't like too much spare time anyway f(^_^) I just hope they let me have my lessons in the morning, not too early but just before it gets really really hot. Shanghai is going to kick ass. The first week a friend of mine will be there, too, so I wont have to stray around the city by myself. Checking out Shanghai's nightlife all by yourself might get a bit boring, but with her it's going to be just fine \(^o\)(/o^)/ But I made a decision: I promised myself that I will try and talk to people (in Chinese, English, Dutch or Japansese, whatever they prefer) and try to make some friends, because even if I embarrass myself, it is quite unlikely that I will meet that exact same person again in a city with a population of about 16 mio people, right? But whether or not I succeed, you will be able to read it here (^_^) I'm really happy this whole journey worked out anyway, because I was kind of running late organizing it. I only started about three or four weeks ago, but it is all fine now. The only bigger problem was to get a flight back to Germany, which is the reason why I'm staying 3 days longer in Shanghai than I was originally planning on, but I don' really mind at all, would you? (^_^) I can't wait for going shopping in Shanghai, I'm going to blow all my money (^o^)

2004-07-27T15:35:00.000+02:00

yes I do have braces at my age

2004-07-27T14:21:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody (^_^)

welcome to my blog \(^o^)/

I'm a Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese studying girl from Germany.

Since I will be traveling around the world in the next three years, this blog will tell you wherever I am and whatever I do (if I'm willing to post it ;) )

It will be on my experiences of living abroad, therefore mainly about how to party in China and Japan \(^o\)(/o^)/

You will get to know my daily adventures and me.

So have fun reading this!