20. Nekotalo pt2, bars and the GazettE's live

So so so.

I've happily moved to the second house in Nekotalo now and must say i prefer the current room so much to the one i had before! Okay its a little bit over clean if you can say that (the house was built only 2 years before, while the one i was in the beginning really was old), but this is also smaller so it makes me feel more like home in here. Tho i have no problems in adapting usually, home is where you have your stuff and that's it XD if i should choose between these two, i'd take this room.

Only the bathroom is a little too small imo. Well i guess we'll get along well~ Here we go with the pics!! finally took them today after having cleaned up hehe (the same pics went to my mom so thats why :D)

Dining-computer combination!! 

Kitchen and the small fridge~

I even have a 'wardrobe' here, aka dont have to use the luggage bag anymore, yea!

Futon and behind it the tiny balcony with a damn heavy door >,<

See what i meant with small?? XD

So here you see better the whole thing i believeeeee

So that about it!! I love the way it lightens up during days because of so many windows :3

(about friday) After moving in I showered etc and then met Chikako at Shinjyuku station, at last the bar round i had been waiting for :----D tho it was raining heavily and cuz i rode a bike to the station here in Koenji my hair and clothes got all wet D:: So much for amazing looks. Well well.

We changed the places a lot, i think we visited 4 or 5 bars altogether so i have no idea of the names anymore..! And I didnt take pictures of every place or drink so these couple pics will do. I think I used about 3000 yen during the night, including the bike parking (400 yen) and eating at McD's so about the same amount as it would cost in finland for one bar night~

I look horrible in this one XD why is my bearing always that bad, i really should start sports, and my head is enormous!!

I love the small pub-kind of rooms we went to~ in japan there is no law that forbids smoking inside so that is nice too, you didnt have to get any more wet....... >,<"

Too bad the weather was so horrible, there were no ppl (ok exaggerating but you get the point) in most of the places...!! so we decided to go again some other weekend when we have chances to meet some interesting ppl. In Japan the last trains and buses are really early, at 1am(!!!!!), so if you cannot afford taxi and dont want to stay for the whole night you just have to go home early. We already left at midnight because of the weather and i got bed at 1am so not bad at all!

I really love random drunk conversations with strangers and this one was really hart-warming :3 I left for a conbini to buy some food and on the way there was this host (shinjuku's kabuki-cho is known for its host- and gay bars) who started talking to me and i was like no i just go buy a nikuman im okay and dont have time right now cya thx, but on my way back i met him again and he offered me an umbrella and walked me back in the pouring rain so i didnt get that wet (well shoes through anyway but not a big deal -________-") and because i didnt remember the bar we were then (like i said we went to many places) he helped me to find the right pub XD<3 and then when we left for the station we got across again lol

Next day, saturday it is, i slept til noon and then had to hurry to make it in time to the Makuharimesse in Chiba, where the GazettE's live was held (nearly 2 hours from my place). Lately i havent been listening to vrock that much and hadnt been listening to gazetto either, but when i saw the first reitas in the train the warm and nostalgic feeling got back at the exact moment XDD<3

I went all by myself so i didnt get the hyperventilation-thing haha, just stalked all the good looking cosses - japanese really know how to do it believe me, they make 110% hard work to look exactly like their idol - silently muahhahhaa. I didnt even buy any goods because a) all things i would have wanted had been sold out at the time i got there and b) the goods were kind of disappointment this time.

I realized i didnt take a pic of my outfit so i did it on the road then XD love that new shirt of mine~

Outside the makuharimesse

Before starting

The GazettE is the only band i really do love and consider myself as a fan, and seeing them live after a year made me fall in love with the music all over again, nothing was different tho it was the important live (10 year anniversary, 'DECADE') and all standing, so it really got hot in there!!!!! Aaaaa the feeling during 'LINDA' when everybody jumps around crazily without any barriers between strangers, all as a big family is one of the best moments *www* And during Filth in the Beauty when EVERYBODY jumps and the furis and the screaming of HOW LONG, HOW LONG, HOW LONG lsjdksdlsdjfl<3<3<3

omg got distracted but a great live altogether!! It had many pleasant surprises, miseinen was the first song and in the last encore we sang wakaremichi all together ;_; the last song was shunsetsuno goro, and it was snowing during thatttt!! When i got a shower later in the evening the snowflakes dropped everywhere off my clothes XD<3 It was also nice to hear every member speaking in the end, and the traditional hold-your-hands-jump and aaa! I was so happy they played 'anatano tameno kono inochi', personally it's a very important song for me. Then there was 'Swallowtail on the death valley' and 'Psychedelic heroin' that always make you go all umzigaum♪ (*www*)

Encore! Encore! Encore! (im aware its forbidden to take pictures during live, i didnt take any of the members.)

Cant you feel the atmosphere in this picture!??! ;_;<3

After the show the place was all white!!

Hahaha some drunk dude was tightly asleep..

After 3 days it still hurts a little to turn my head lol XDD it was real sporting, and the feeling of pleasure when i was sitting in the train back to home at night, all tired and my hair exploded but still so happy. I wonder if i should write a live report for JaME Finland, i used to write those but now havent been doing anything for quite a while.... i dont even know if there still are ppl who read J-rock news since it's not that popular anymore in finland.

Sunday i just slept, i was so tired of all the partying and already the day before i had had to take a bunch of painkillers to stop my head aching... So after all the headbanging it wasnt that much better XDD

But yesterday i went to shibuya to do a little shopping and found perfect jeans/leggins aaaaaa i am in love! I havent posted any of the new things bought here so i could do an entry of them next time :33 All the stuff here has been just about what i've been up to lately.. I also ate out in this italian restaurant and then went to karaoke and just sang sang sang gazette and larc en ciel XD At home I've watched some big bang theory hehe<3 must love the series.

Here's some live feeling for you too, Swallowtail is a song i just cant listen to without starting to move and sing along!!! Those guitars aaaa. I chose this live because rukis hot looks hahahaha if the guitars are not enough his hair kills me!!

Hahaha i remember when i showed this live to obaachan a year ago and when okaasan came into the room she (obaachan) was all like "check this out, that person (ruki) is amazing!!!" She is 85 years old XD<3 gotta love my host family :33

Enough fangirling for one post!! Have a nice week, maybe i'll be back tomorrow with more reasonable entry XD til then, luvz from koenji~

16. Walking around Tokyo

Asjdaksdjsa Im sorry for not having posted for a while. Its not that i'd have been that busy or anything but i havent just felt like it ""<,<

Feels like id have far too much time for thinking lately and its kind of making me crazy, i just think and think and think and re-think stuff. So in the end you'll lose your touch to reality and just keep on.. i dont know, making up stuff by yourself, you wont know whats real and what isnt anymore XDD

But yeah to the stuff i've been up to lately~

My finnish friend Erica happened to be in tokyo for a week so we met twice. Crazy how all come here now that im here too o.o"" But anyhow i met her at her hotel in roppongi on... umm not sure it must have been wednesday? No, thursday. The hotel is one of the oldest in japan, a really expensive and fine place, so i felt like i wouldnt belong there at all haha XD i couldnt find the room at first as i was in a wrong building and got a cute hotel staff girl walking me all way across the hotel to the elevator, i just kept on apologizing and she was like "no no no please come this way, no, please take the escalator i'll walk the stairs next to you" .____________. i felt like making her suffer and she just kept on praising my japanese skills and smiling :__D

The hotel Ookura.

From the hotel room window. Misty as you can see.

So i found the room (late as usual), we had a breakfast and then went to roppongi. For me, roppongi is a part of 'real tokyo'. It's a business place with highways in many stories and expensive bars for foreign workers on their business trips. Roppongi hills is very expensive and has a cool observatory tower with over 50 stories. It was rainy and misty so you couldnt see anything that day, tho.

I showed Erica around in Harajyuku and we went to the smaller alleys with not that much ppl. It was cool, walking in places you dont normally walk, i have been to harajyuku so many times its starting to lose its magic. Anygays, we ran across a REALLY cool figure shop!! So many and well made figures that we hesitated at first, but after entering it was a good decision XD Expensive as u might know, but we found those cool star wars chopsticks that were only 1050 yen~ totally made my day :D

Harajyuku's main entrance.

This building is a okonomiyaki restaurant, very delicious and not that expensive. Plus interesting design! On an alley in Harajyuku.

Figure shop 'Toy Sapiens'

I wanted to show my number one shop in the city so far, so we went to omotesandoo hills right next to my former school~ i had forgotten how great this city really can be, and walking there again made me go back in time to my exchange times ;_; i was so lucky to get to Aoyama gakuin (its a famous school even inside of Tokyo,  and i havent met a japanese who wouldnt have heard of it.) So Kiddy Land is where we ended up!!

The most expensive foreign shops can be found there, prada, chanel etc.. 

My school station!!

Cute puppy with the same birthday as mine ;;_;; I still cannot find it acceptable to keep pets in these kind of tiny boxes D:::

Kiddy Land, might sound stupid but it's an awesome place *www* the main store is under construction now, but it would have 6 stories of only toys and crazy stuff!! One for disney, one for snoopy, one for figures etc!!! Now it wasnt quite that big, but still worth it~ Erica found some moomin stuff and I keep on dreaming that someday i'd by the biggest Kapibara-san they have there ;_; I know nothing cuter (except puppies ;wwww; miss my ruska!!) and am in love with the character. I already have Kapibara-san bentoo box (food box) and a normal box you can put some stuff in :33 And a tiny version of my great love, but i need more yet XDD

I must buy this next time!!

Iphone core O.O !! cool

THIS.

Have you ever seen anyhing so cute ;_;_; me neither.

Pens!! So many different kinds of!!

Erica was here because her mothers boyfriend is a jazz pianist and is touring in Tokyo now, so we went to see the concert too. Tho i'm more the rock type i've always liked the way the instruments sound like having conversations in jazz, and it's not like classical music where all play just the same thing (well its not that simple but still :P). Also the club was veeeeery fine and expensive, luckily i didnt have to pay for the night >,<" We also got free drinks and food *w*

The Jazz bar 'Blue Note' in Omotesandoo (one of the most expensive areas).

Candles and all! Note to myself: would be the perfect place for a  romantic evening, with a live band and all. 

At Omotesandoo when going back alone at night.

At the backstage with my hair after a long and rainy day out.

The next day (friday it has to be) i finally got my own cellphone (prepaid for softbank, my old docomo phone doesnt work on prepaid basis so). I havent done anything for it yet (okay i bought the monjyayaki (a kind of food) thing you can see in a picture but nothing else). And i dont like it as much as my old one, i took it with so you can see it too D::: my poor baby iphone still not working :/

So boring >,<"

But this ;_; with a mirror and all :/

The round thing on the keyboard is a mouse!!

You could also watch the TV by turning the screen.

I still killed some time decorating new covers for the iphone~ here's a pic but i think i should still add something as im not 100% satisfied XD a little miracle i made it, i hate anything that takes a long time and you have to work on small things with your hands so.

Tadaaaa.

Then yesterday we went to Akihabara, first time for me too (well we went there with YFU for a matsuri (=traditional japanese party where they carry the temple with them and sing.... dont recommend it tho XD), but i dont think that really counts)!! So many game shops and maid cafes and otaku stuff, i dont read any manga or watch anime but it was amazing for me too..! I made Erica come with me to a maid cafe because i always wanted to see one, and it was a nice experience lol. In maid cafe there are cute girls dressed in tiny skirts and ribbons etc serving you and calling you their master if someone isnt familiar with the term. In the cafe we went there wasnt as many strange old men as i had expected, but we still were the only female customers and in the next table there was a lonely man hahaha..... They also served meals, but we only stayed for a drink as it was the cheapest thing you could buy :_D 700 yen for a gin tonic, and you could sit there and chat with the maid for an hour.

From upside!!

From down.

The maid cafe.

No cute maids in this pic :/ (it was forbidden to take pics)

Many ppl out on a rainy sunday.

In tokyo all the city centers are different (the town is different from for example Helsinki, not only one center but a group of them with different kind of stores in every part of the city), and Akihabara is where the nerdy otakus hang out, the guys who dont have social life but only play games and their only contact to the opposite sex are the maids in those cafes. There were more than two enormous sex-toy/fetish buildings too. You just cant understand it before you have seen with your own eyes. Japanese culture can be really breath-taking........................... For 'normal' ppl Akihabara is known as an electricity equipment center that sells anything. Anyway i liked the place~

For women.....

...and for men............................... dont know if i should laugh or cry.

.......yup. You must be desperate. Or pathetic. Or both.

Only three days and I'll move to my own, I'm looking forward for it so much!! I love it here with my host family, we really are a family and i love talking with okaasan and the food is great, but i'm very excited about having to make it all by my own! I will be doomed hahaha someone come and cook for me and keep the place neat and make sure i wont just sleep the whole day... We have already made plans of a night in Shinjyukus bars with chikako :---D

Aaaand some purikura. I didnt have my cellphone then so i couldnt take them to my phone.

So many pictures this time, im proud of me!!! I'll see you soon again (  ´,`)~ have nice time.