Succesful adulting

 

 

The title.
I mean, everyone is there like having a balanced life and I'm here like eh what,
all that escapism (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

So, to celebrate, I bought myself some stickers:

 

I love stickers♥ these were so cute I couldn't resist.

8 sheets of cuteness! I just don't know how to use these...

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One recent and one older outfit, both lazy:

I'm wearing mainly my healthcare uniform in school and there haven't been any freetime activities, so I haven't chance to dress nicely... -__-

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I have ruined my life completely now.
 

 I started playing Touken Ranbu.
You know, that browser game with handsome sword boys. I fell in love with characters at first sight, so I just HAD to start playing the game. I certainly am a sucker for cute anime boys....

It could be alright if I was playing just one game, but I'm also playing Love Live!.

It's a rhythm action game. I watched the Love Live! anime last summer,
but I have been playing the game only since last November.

 

Events are killing me, I mean, there is a chance to get my favourite girl Nozomi, but it really takes effort to get her... When there was Nico's event I played like crazy but still didn't get a doctor Nico card. ;__; But I will fight hard for bunny Nozomi♥


Call me a trash if you want, I'm okay with that

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I have been trying to eat more like vegan.
I eat mostly lacto-ovo-vegetarian food (fish and chicken seldom, only when I visit my parents), but I want to get rid of dairy and eggs... I just need more good and easy recipes.

Udon with roasted vegetables and mushrooms

~☆~

 

Today we made some (late) laskiaispulla

(traditional finnish buns with jam and cream). 

 

~☆~

Photo-shooting is always fun but such a hassle.
 

 

bye!★

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The Chaotic Brilliance

 

It's already January!
January has turned out as I have feared - it's cold outside (-25 °C) and I'm busy.
In addition to my studies, I'm working half-time. We have one course in school in which we have to be prepared to be on call up to 50 hours in a row for one assignment..... which is pretty insane. Luckily that task was really interesting, and I got away with only 24 hours.

Christmas went past like always, spent it with family.
 

Nails for Christmas:

 

For the New Year:

 

(I didn't get better pictures, the nails were already so ruined and fixed so many times that ombre was gone and snowflakes were not looking like snowflakes anymore.....)

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Before Christmas, I bought present to myself:

Urban Decay De-Slick Makeup setting spray!
- review -

De-Slick claims to "weightlessly control oil, deflect surface shine and keep skin looking beautifully matte".

I have already mentioned that my skin is oily, thus makeup doesn't stay put.
This product is really good - my makeup stays on miraculously well!
My makeup looked good even after a match of floorball, so this can tolerate even sweating.
I like how this takes powdery look away. The finish is just amazing. The mist feels light on skin, not sticky or tight, just like there's nothing extra.

However, honestly speaking, the spray doesn't help to get rid of shine completely.
My face still starts to shine, but the shine is postponed and minor.
I really like the product a lot, and would like to love it, but oil control isn't that great. There indeed is some but it's not enough. I'm still going to use this since this helps my makeup to stay put (I have looong workdays) and see what's going to happen. At first I suspected that this caused breakouts, but I continued using this and more breakouts didn't emerge. So, after all, I'm quite happy with this product, it's not awesome, but still helps so much.
 
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My christmas presents were mainly useful stuff that I had wished for,
but some surprises also, like this:

Avon pink bronzing pearls from my sister!
This is my first blush of this kind, i have always loved pearl blushes~ Color is lovely too~

And Avon perfume. 

I have to confess that this is my first perfume ever (okay, I had a Snoopy perfume when I was a child...). I prefer mild fragrances, so this is just perfect. Elegant, not too overwhelming.

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We tried making okonomiyaki!

Since we happened to have some kimchi, those ended up as kimchi okonomiyaki.
Instead of iron plate we obviously used regular frying pan:

 

So yummy!♥
Sadly we didn't have neither bonito flakes nor mayonnaise (and no hashioki..).
But we had real Japanese okonomiyaki sauce at least!

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I have a weird feeling that something is wrong, but I don't know what that something might be.
 

 

bye!★

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Travel Diary: Tokyo part 6

 

 

Day 6: Ikebukuro.

 

We wondered wether to go to Ikebukuro or Koenji, and picked Ikebukuro just because I knew something about the area.

So we left for the search of the flying vending machines and headless riders.
#drrr

 

 

That day was rainiest day during our trip, so I don't have much pictures.
We didn't have much plans, so just strolled around and visited interesting stores like Tokyu Hands (and Book-off again).
 

♥_♥



Starving, we decided to try an Okonomiyaki
(a Japanese savoury pancake, which consist of eggs, gabbage, flour and variable ingredients).

I have wanted to try okonomiyaki since I first time saw Ukyo making it in Ranma½! :D
the nostalgia
I don't remember the name of the restaurant, but there were stairs to basement in the corner somewhere near Uniqlo. The restaurant was almost empty; besides us there were only a bunch of high school boys.

Sneaky pictures: there you can see iron cooking plates.

First we picked what we wanted to eat, then waiter brought us two bowls of raw ingredients, which were to be mixed and grilled at tables. Waiter brushed the surface of the cooking plate with oil, then he was nice enough to show us how to cook the first one, so I was able to grill my own okonomiyaki myself.

And here it is, an okonomiyaki!! (I'm so proud)
 

Mine was a Kimchi version. So good~~ 
I regret not having okonomiyaki earlier, I could have eaten it more than once ;__;

 ~~~
 

There is an area called Otome road in Ikebukuro. It's full of otaku stuff aimed at women. The area isn't that big and distinguishable as Akihabara, so it took me a lot of time to find it.

 

 

We continued wandering. For a snack we went to Mister Donut, which was full of Japanese teenagers (suddenly the teens were basically everywhere).

 

 

Some of my favourite shops in a same shot:
 

 

I absolutely Love Matsumoto Kiyoshi, which is a cheap drugstore.

I can also say that about Book-off. There you can find tons of used books, manga, magazines, cds, dvds and games. It took me a long time to get rid of the earworm tune that they play at stores, and now it came back again...

 Don Quijote, Donki for short, sells a large variety of goods, like everything. The stores are full of products, from floor to ceiling, and they are real mazes. Their mascot penguin Donpen is so cute ♥ 

(you can find the stores all around Japan and Tokyo,
so you don't have to go to Ikebukuro to find them!)
~~~

Welcome to Japan, to the land of inventions:

This machine in Seibu gives a plastic bag to cover your wet umbrella. The name of the machine is kasapon, which is very Japanese too (for the onomatopoeia).

 

  

Ikebukuro was an interesting and crazy place. It has like everything you could dream of. From high-end shopping malls like Seibu and Parco, to shady hostess bars and game arcades. It also fullfils your otaku needs.

Man can't simply speak about Ikebukuro without Izaya:

The night was full of packing, since our flight back to Finland took of at 11.00 am next day.

Tokyo station from the Yaesu side - it's very different compared to other side seen in this post.

It was a great trip, a short period of time, but full of adventures!♥
I'm already planning my next trip back there!

~I hope that someone enjoyed my diaries or found them useful.
I'm going to do a haul post next~


bye!★

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Travel Diary: Tokyo part 5

 

 

Day 5: Asakusa and Akihabara

 

We entered the temple area of Asakusa through Kaminarimon.

 

There was a cute (?) police box too!

 From Kaminarimon starts Nakamise shopping street, leading to another gate,
behind which is the main temple. 
 

 

It was so sunny and warm day ♥ (like most days there really)

 

The five-storied pagoda

 

Senso-ji

 

 

There is also an old amusement park in Asakusa, called Hanayashiki.

 

 

There is many smaller temples and statues around the area!

 

 

Around the temple area, in addition to tourist shops, you can find many shops selling food:

 

 

Ningyouyaki and Suguremon

 

 

Melonpan! It was so good ♥_♥

You can eat fresh and still warm melonpan in Asakusa, it was so sweet and fuwa-fuwa~~

 

We also tried some age-manjuu (fried rice cake with filling). So tasty!

 

Mine is anko again, the another one is matcha

 

 The little side streets around the temple area were interesting too, and in one of those I found...

 

 

...some mochi! ♥

This is the same kind of anko mochi than before. The one I ate in Oiwake Dango in Shinjuku was so much better because it was fresher, but this was also good~

 

The variety food you can find there is very large; in addition to ones early mentioned, you can find nikumans, rice crackers, anmitsu, ice cream etc etc!

You can easily fill your stomach with just snacks!

 

It could have been nice to explore Asakusa more thoroughly, but because of the lack of time, we visites only an area nearby the temple.

 

From Asakusa, we headed to Akihabara, the center of otaku culture.

 

 

... First thing we did there was to eat again ^_^"

Even though I wasn't hungry I couldn't resist a taiyaki! One sees them so much in anime and manga, and now I finally got to taste it!

 

blub blub it was so cute~~

 

 

Maids, anime, games, and electronics everywhere!!

 

 

 

One of my destinations in Akiba were this store:

 

 

Gachapon Kaikan!

 

The store was filled with gacha machines (capsule-vending machines) like this:

 

 

Make sure that you have lots of 100 yen coins with you! The machines don't accept other coins. Most of them cost 300 yen. Playing gacha is so much fun, I could have spent more money there but I was too stingy. I even left without any Kamen riders noooo!

 

Also went to Book-off again. Sneaky pictures:

"Please refrain from stand-reading the comics"
 They just standed there in the aisle, reading manga the whole time, and forming a human wall. This wasn't even as bad as it was in the Book-off of Shinjuku, where they blocked the aisles completely. Lol the Japanese respecting the rules, but well, it's a common habit there :'''D
 

 

 

Akiba was a really fun and colorful place. Because my companion isn't interested in anime, we didn't visit many of those stores...

 

Instead of proper meals, we just ate the snacks... that day I really ate enough anko ^^"

...so, some food from 7/11.

 

Mild Strawberry au lait (looks better than it tasted),
Mushroom Inari sushi (rice in a fried tofu pocket) and
THE MOST DISGUSTING food I ate while in Japan; Mochitto Hokkaido Melon pan. I don't know what that green thing was, it was so artificial and just plain bad.... I couldn't eat even one bite.

 

To be continued! 

 

bye!★

＊・゜☆.。．†：＊・゜☆．。†．：＊・゜☆．。†．：＊・゜☆．。†．：☆.。．†．：＊・゜☆．。†．：＊・゜