I still can't believe it....

Really. I just can't. We got tickets for the Music Bank Kpop Festival in Paris in February! I'll see 2pm, SHINee, Beast and so on live on stage. Oh yeah :)

My friends and me are planing to stay in Paris a little longer to do some sightseeing and visit Disneyland.Luckily the semester at our Uni ends on the 2nd of February, and we can enjoy a little vacation right after we've finished our exams. I just can't wait!!

But right now, the semester has just started. After that disastrous last semester, I didn't choose a lot of classes and so my stresslevel is not that high yet. Let's see how everything is going in about a month. 

I've been meeting up with friends a lot in the past week... and I could show you some really funny (and embarrassing) photos. But I'm not doing it.

Hope I'll be back with a proper post soon :) 

Actually this post should be special because it's post number 300 on this blog, but since I'm a lazy b*tch and Uni starts tomorrow I'll make it really random instead.

Hello there, it's been some days since my last post. And to be honest, I should not be blogging right now but reviewing Japanese like a maniac. But I'm too lazy, and even if I started now, I don't really think it'd make a difference. So... yes :D

I'm back to Hamburg since last Tuesday, and I spent the last days catching up with my friends from University.  I really missed those adorable dorks.

Yesterday we watched the 6 hour "Pride and Prejudice" BBC Series. I hadn't seen it before and I LOVED it. Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy is just....the he always stares at Lizzy..and... I shouldn't even start about that :D




Hm...so what else is there to talk about. I finally watched Ponyo this morning. At the beginning I was really creeped out by Ponyo but ..yeah it was cute. (Of course it's cute, it's Ghibli xD)

I have something to confess. I bought the Garnier BB Cream. I've wanted to BB Cream for quite some time now, because many of my Asia-loving friends told me that it's awesome and kind of made me believe it would cause a Sailor Moon-like transformation xD. I'm not going to do review here, because I would be stupid with no BB-experience to refer to.  It smells kind of nice, the texture is okay, too.... haha omg I'd make a horrible Beauty-Blogger :D However, I didn't think there was THAT much of a difference. My skin is not that bad to beginn with and the cream made it look nicer, but it still didn't look as flawless as Jaejoong's (or any other  K-Popstar). Why Jaejoong? Because the BB Cream scene with Jaejoon in Protect the Boss was kind of burned into my brain. "I only wear BB Cream on special occasions". Anybody seen it? x)

In February there's going to be a Music Bank K-Pop Festival in Paris (2pm, SHINee, Beast and more are coming...ftw). I'm sooooo going to try to get tickets! I could live with not getting tickets for SM Town live in Paris, but 2pm brings this event to a whole different level. I really hope I can go u.u

Reunion, a traumatizing movie and that awkward moment when one of your favourite songs makes you laugh

Yesterday I met my beloved roommates from Tokyo, Alex and Mio, in Frankfurt. We drank bubbletea, talked about good old times (crazy nights out, the dorkiness in our apartment etc..) and had Tsukemen in an nice Japanese restaurant for dinner.

Tsukemen is a Japanese noodledish. The broth is served seperatly and you dip the noodles into it. This picture was taken by Aimi

It was extremely delicious and I had an awesome time like always! Thank you girls!


On friday I watched the Greek movie "Dogtooth" with a friend. The description sounded kind of interesting and a little freaky.... but the movie turned out to be much more shocking than we expected. I've seen a lot of strange movies, because strange movies come in a package with love for Asian cinema...but this surpassed everything I've seen so far. The idea of the movie is awesome. Three siblings are brought up by their parents being isolated from the outside world. They use the most ridiculous tricks to keep the truth from their children and protect the facade they've built over the years. As a result, the three kids (or better: young adults), two girls and a boy, have developed a lot of abnormal behaviour patterns. I'm not saying it'a bad movie, but it's really shocking, full of perversion and some scences might be hard to handle for some people. I don't really recommend to watch this movie...but some of you will probably think about it now. Actually, when people tell me how shocking they found a movie, I'm kind of tempted to watch it. When a friend of mine told me about the shocking scences in Lars von Triers "Antichrist", I really wanted to watch it...and I did xD

Random change of topic: The Japanese version of SHINee's Lucifer was released recently. I was really crazy about the Korean version in 2010. Before I wasn't really thaaaat much of a SHINee Fan, but after the Lucifer Album I went asdfhsakjdfue for them.
So far all of the Japanese PVs SHINee released were remakes of their successful Korean songs. I liked the Japanese versions so far, and was even content with the new one of my beloved song "Juliette". The MVs were really well done, too... but there's one thing I just can't stand about them: Taemin gets like double as much screen time as the other members. It's not that I dislike him... but I think it's a little exaggerated, sorry. The other members are equally talented, but have been kind of pushed in the background. Even some lines Jong or Onew (the members with the best vocals) sang before were transferred to him. That's just wrong somehow.... Besides I cracked up 10 seconds or so after I started watching the  Lucifer pv, because somehow the Japanese lyrics sounded really strange to me at first. Don't know why. After replaying the vid a few times I'm okay with them x)


At the end of this post I want something that eat your kimchi's Martina wrote in their latest post (If you don't know eat your kimchi you should check out their blog and videos!). She's saying what I've been trying to say about Kpop and other music many times before, but in contrast to me she doesn't fail at it:

"We’ve taken a lot of flack from people who live in Korea and HATE kpop. They feel like they can only support everything which is Indie, and any support of a mainstream band is some kind of devil worship. We firmly disagree with this perspective and the snobby attitude towards kpop and anything mainstream. We, too, listen to many crazy Indie bands that are loved by a small groups of elite fans (do we announce that fact as if it’s some proud badge to be worn? No) but we also really love and respect kpop.

How can we come to grips with these two extreme positions regarding music and culture? To us, it’s the talent and passion of the members of the band that matter. Not everyone in the world can play an instrument, or sing, or dance, or write music. If you grow up playing the guitar and you form a rock band in your garage and fail for 10 years and make it in the 11th, we’re happy for you, but does that mean a kpop idol who trained to sing and dance for 10 years is any different? Yes, they have a label supporting them with money to get their names out there, but it doesn’t take away from the fact that kpop idols ARE talented. Opera singers don’t write their own music and are usually discovered only after appearing in many musicals backed by companies, but does that mean they’re not talented because they weren’t found singing Opera in a tiny university bar? Absolutely not. The same goes for many talented singers throughout the decades (even Elvis Presley).

The point of this long rant is that even though we can acknowledge that BEG and other kpop groups have big wig companies backing them, I’m tired of people immediately writing off kpop (and pop in general) because of that fact. I think the deepest irony in this whole situation is the very musician wants to be in the position of popularity that kpop bands have, but once they reach it (by their own means or via a record label) many fans will desert them, saying that they “sold out”. What you want to say is, “I’m jealous my special band no one knew is now know by many people. I’m sad they’re making money and supporting themselves.”

So true! 

10 points XVIII: Favourite songs of 2010

Yay finally a 10 points again. In English - just because I feel like it :D

Most of my favourite songs of 2010 were Kpop songs. I'm sure that -LIKE ALWAYS- some people will say that Kpop isn't real music, that I don't understand the words and that I'm superficial because just everything about these songs is soooo mainstream and so on and so an. And I basically have 1 million arguments against you ranting. But I won't say anything to defend the things I like anymore. Because I'm sick of it. And because, seriously, I don't care what you think about it any more.

• Robyn - Dancing on my own. Robyn's Bodytalk (pt. 1, 2 and 3) is my favourite album of the year. And one of my favourite albums ever. I could make this whole list just with Robyn songs. But I decided to take just 1 song per artist. Some more brilliant songs are: Cry when you get older, Time Machine, Indestructible, Hang with me, Criminal Intent, ect.
  
  
  
  
  

• SHINee - Lucifer. Because of the song and it's concept. Because of Jonghyuns and Onews voice. Because of Keys half Mohawk and his inner diva. Because of Taemins Dancing. And because Minhos is touching himself...xD

• The Wombats - Tokyo. My favourite Band. My friends gave me tickets for their concert in Hamburg in April for my birthday. If you love me let me go back to the bar in Tokyo where the demons from my past leave me in peace.

• miss A - Breathe. If you need reasons, read this.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Wir sind Helden - Bring mich nach Hause, from their wonderful album with the same title and a lot of goods songs. Went to their awesome concert in Hamburg in November!
  
  
  
  
  

• Taeyang - I'll be there (Korean Version). Sexiest Zombie Shit EVER.

• Big Bang - Lollipop. Perverted song with a cute video. It was stuck in my head for weeks... okay scratch that....months.

• 2pm - Without U. To be honest. I couldn't really decide if I like "without U" or "I'll be back" better. I chose "Without U" for three reasons. 1. Less Guyliner 2. Better dance 3. "I'm gonna be okay..without you" is a message I wanted to hear. I wanted to hear that they'll be okay as a 6-person-group. Because I believe, that even if they're not 7 anymore and never will be 7 again, they're still 2pm, and I'll support them.
  

• Vast - Pretty when you cry. I'm quite sure that this song wasn't released in 2010, but it was featured in the 2010 movie "Wir sind die Nacht" and that's where I first heard it. And started to love it.
  

• 2NE1 - Can't nobody. 2NE1 is awesome. Period. (even if minzy's part in this mv is a little bit too ganster for my taste)
  

Okay probably I forgot some songs I really loved in 2010... but I can't check which songs I listened to the most because my laptop broke down. dun dun. u.u

Meat balls, a new mobile and the student dorm

First thing: I decided to write some of my posts in English and some in German. I really get the feeling I'm slowly forgetting my English. I hope nobody minds...

On Thursday my new mobile finally arrived! Yay! The Motorola Flipout is PERFECT for a social network addict like me. Thanks to the feature "Motoblur" I get all messages from Twitter and Facebook as well as my e-mails and of course my SMS directly to my display. And as a bonus it looks quite cute. I really la-la-like it :) Unfortunatly the camera isn't that good...but nevermind, I got a digicam for pics with higher quality.

Friday I drove to Hamburg together with my mum to move my stuff into the student dorm. The student dorm is located in a really nice area and my room, even though on the fith floor, is quite nice. But you know life wouldn't be life if everything went smoothly. A nice and cheap room in a nice area...and a nice apartment?! No. The apartment is defintly not that nice. Some people who moved out some weeks a go left a lot of waste, basically destroyed one of the bathrooms and stuff like that. I hope the caretaker will take care of those problems ASAP =/
I already met two of my new flat mates and they seem to be really nice. Of course they are annoyed by the current condition of the apartment as well. It seems like there's a Korean girl living in the apartment, too. I haven't even met her but it makes me kinda happy :D

On Saturday I took a look at my University and I got sooooo excited. In a week I'll finally be a University student and live in Hamburg and meet a lot of new people. Hehe I'm not sure if I was more nervous when I left for Japan!

Saturday evening me Ka and me watched "Cloudy with a chance of meat balls". We wanted to watch it for quite some time and yesterday we finally did. And it was really worth it. The movie was lively, crazy, super creative and really funny. I really recommend it even though it's not really famous. At least not here :)

Omg a friend just sent me a message that SHINees Minho got a nose job?? Is that true?!?!? xD I'm so shocked right now. Honestly.

miss A - "Breathe" (und sonstiges Kpop-Gelaber)

Eigentlich wollte ich nicht zweimal hintereinander über Kpop posten...aber heute morgen hab ich gesehn, dass das neue miss A Video draußen ist - und ich kann einfach nur sagen I LIKE! (sogar mehr als 2ne1's Comeback)
Ich fand zwar den Song "Good Girl, Bad Girl" auch ganz nett, aber "Breathe" ist einfach soo viel besser!



Pluspunkte:
+ es ist ein Ohrwurm Song
+ der Tanz. Ein bisschen bitchy und ein bisschen spastisch aber die 4 rocken ihn einfach *wackel wackel*
+ bunt bunt bunt
+ ich liebe die Klamotten. Die Outfits bei "Good Girl, Bad Girl" fand ich nich so super, aber in diesem Vid mag ich fast alle Klamotten und auch das Styling gefällt mir (abgesehn von Min's Military Outfit und Jias schwarzer Zottelfrisur). Ich liebe Jias gestreifte Hose, Mins orangenen Lippenstift und das bunte Shirt dazu und Suzys ganzes Outfit mit dem Fusselrock :D.
+ außerdem wurd in dem Vid auch der Humor nicht vergessen. Das mit der menschlichen Kanone und auch den Schluss find ich echt witzig und gelungen :)

Naja, wenn das jetzt schon ein Kpop-Post ist, dann kann ichs auch durchziehen!

Ansonsten haben SHINee schon am Freitag (1. Oktober) ihr Comeback mit nem Song namens "Hello". Wär hätte das gedacht, dass sie so schnell wieder nen Song rausbringen. Bis vor zwei Wochen oder so haben sie ja noch Lucifer promoted... aber naja. SHINee ist mein liebster "guilty pleasure"... ich freu mich wenn ich sie wieder rumhüpfen seh. (Info und Foto von allkpop)

2pm haben jetzt übrigens demnächst offiziell ihr Debut in Japan. Toll. Hätte ihnen das nicht ein halbes Jahr früher einfallen können, als ich noch dort war? :( Frustration! (Website zum japanischen Debut hier)

Tut mir Leid, dass es heute schon wieder um Kpop ging....aber...das musste raus :D

Boy, you work those shades ...

you seriously do.

Ich weiß nich mal warum, aber irgendwie lieb ich diesen Fotoshoot. Sehr.
I don't really know why, but somehow I love this shoot. A lot.
SHINee for High Cut.





Warum können aufgeblasene BWL-Studenten nicht in SOLCHEN Lacoste Klamotten rumlaufen? Oder aussehen wie SHINee? Sie würden mir dann um einiges weniger auf dem Keks gehen!