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Dienstag, 18. September 2012

I love fishies


I don't really know why, but I've always loved fishes ^^ Even when I was a kid and my Mum would go to the Aquarium with me I would stare at the fishes in awe. Especially sharks  ♡ I don't really know, but I've always been attracted to them. My Mum told me recently that she had to drag me away from the shark tanks. Because I would just stay there and stare at them and even now when I go to the Aquarium I could stand there all day and watch them (well not only the sharks obviously).

 taken from Shark-Ray  

Taken from Shark-Ray

I also have a little soft spot for clown fishes, sea horses and Siamese Fighting Fish ♡



taken from Beyond the Sea

Taken from Beyond the Sea


These are the pictures I took while going to the Zoo with my bestie.














So I guess these are enough pictures for one day ^^ I would love to post more pictures and spazz a bit more about fishies, but I have to return to my vocable cards now >.<

Take care ♡
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Dienstag, 28. August 2012

A Trip to the Romans


Last week, me and my best friend Laura (she is also the one, who took the photos ~ Thank youuuuu <3) decided to make a trip to the well known Archaeological Park in Xanten - one of the most famous Roman cities here in Germany with roots back to 2000 BC.


 This are the ruins of an old Temple. Sadly it wasn't known which god it was dedicated too.

  
They rebuild an old Roman House (pretty right? I wouldn't mind living in a house like that )


These is the Amphitheatre

The ruins of Old Sewage Pipes


And these were about all the highlights there.
To be honest, I was quite disappointed in the Park, since I thought there would be more ruins and/or rebuilds of Roman buildings. Don't get me wrong, it was really nice and fun, I just don't see myself visiting it again. 

 After we went to the Archaeological Park, we also went to a large lake called "Südsee".




                          


Beautiful right? These are the pictures she took while we took a walk ^^

Afterwards we sat down at a little "beach" and I had really fun throwing rocks into the water, while  Laura was trying to photograph it.
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Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012

The perfect evening


After I went out yesterday and spend an awesome day with one of my best friends, I decided to give the day a perfect ending. After thinking for a while, I decided it finally would be time to have "the perfect Drama evening" that I plant for quite some time. So I took out my small bottle of wine, which I originally bought to celebrate the end of my exams with, and continued watching "Rooftop Prince",



I really do have a little soft spot for rosé wine, eventhough I don't drink it that much, cause much to my dishonour, I have to admit that I was. after drinking this small bottle (0,25l ), quite drunk. So the last 10 minutes of the 2nd Episode of the evening, I somehow concentrated more on Park Yoochungs nose than on the plot.

                                                                      (taken from here)

I really love this Drama. Yoochun is such a great actor.
Even though the time sliping plot is quite popular these days, it is my first time watching a Korean Drama with this theme. So it is kinda new to me.

In more detail, the plot is about a Joseon Prince with the name Lee Gag, and his three retainers who travel 300 years into the future, after finding his wife dead in a pond, and barges into the rooftop apartment of Park Ha. Park Ha is a cheerful women, who eventually becomes a guardian for them.
In order to return to Joseon, Lee Gag firmly believes that he has to find the murderer of his wife. While doing so, he meets her reincarnation Hong Se Na (the sister of Park Ha) and finds out more of the murder of his reincarnation Yong Tae Yong.


Well basically that's all I can tell you now, but if you want to, I can write a full review once I finished watching it =D
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Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2012

Taking a break ...

Study, study and study! I feel like that's all I'm doing these last days >.< So today,  I decided to take a break  and meet up with a friend from middle school and have breakfast with her and catch up on what's been going on in our lives recently (obviously not to much in mine). Eventhough I have to admit the breakfast in our local Café wasn't the best ....

And I wanted to ask you guys, since I am currently on a writers block, what would you like to read? Do you have anything you'd like to read about ?
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Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2012

[Review] SHINee Lip balm (# 5 Taemin’s choice) ~ by Etude House

After I found my favourite Korean Brand brought out Products in cooperation with one of my favourite Korean bands, I just had to buy at least one product of the line. So around 1 and a half month ago it finally arrived. The SHINee Lipbalm #5 picked by Taemin and as you can see on the picture,  the cane has a few scratches since  I always carry it around with me (I could kick myself for not taking better care of it, now it has scratches Y.Y)


The Packaging is so adorable ! It has mint green and light pink stripes on it and in the middle there is a logo in pink, which says “Shini Star Lip balm” in white Letters. On the side it says in gold Letters “SHINee Special Editon”. on the inside the container is also gold.




The Lip balm has a light pink colour and gives my lips a really nice and subtle light pink shine. I also really love the smell of the product. It smells really sweet and remindes me of a fruit, which I can’t think the name of right  now >.<




Personally I love the glossy shine it gives my lips, almost as if I’m wearing Lip gloss =D

Would I buy it again: Guys,  it’s from the SHINee Edition! Of course I would!

I also wanted to buy the BB Cream and the powder. Did you guys try it ? Can you recommend it?
Did you try any other Korean products that you’d like to recommend or that you hated?





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Samstag, 19. Mai 2012

Sleepless …


…  no not in Seattle, but I really can’t sleep right now. The thing is I react to caffeine really extreme and even though I just drank 2 cups of cappuccino this noon, I’m still wide awake now (4.40 A.M) and watching reruns of Bayern Munich vs. Real Madrid. Since one of the TV Channels here has it's Football day and after broadcasting the final of the Champions League, there now airing the semi final reruns =D  Actually I thought about studying a bit, but at the moment, I really don’t want to 

But I really want to share a video with you though. Lately (these last months) I’ve become quite obsessed with SHINee’s Maknae Taemin and while clicking thru youtube videos, I found the most adorable video ever:



Do you know the problem of reacting this extreme to caffeine ? and what do you think about  our adorable Maknae ?
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Donnerstag, 12. April 2012

[Review] Etude House -Follow me Tint #2 Tangerine

Today I want to review a lip tint I bought a few weeks ago. It's the Follow me Lip Tint #2 Tangerine Follower, from the Miss Tangerine collection by Etude House. I have to admit, I only wanted to buy it because Etude House choose 2NE1's Dara to be the Model for this line =3


What Etude House says: Energetic lip expression with trendy, UV Protection tint colour. This cool, glossy tint stick goes on clear but changes shades according to your passion.






The packaging has cute stripes on it in different light orange shades, as well as a lovely Logo in an darker orange colour as well as cute little drawings of Tangerines. There is also a description of the product in Korean and English as well as the hint that the lip tint has SPF 13.





The container is white and his little light orange dots on it, as well as the product and line name.

                                                                      (without flashlight)

                                                                      (with flashlight)

The Tint has a really nice tangerine colour which isn't too obvious and a bit glossy.
It also doesn't fell sticky on the lips and I only have to reply it once or twice when I'm at University.

So over all I have to say, that I really like the product. The colour is amazing and matches the tone of my skin really well. I also really like the fact that it has spf 1,3which comes in really handy especially in the summer month =3  and I really like the design of the lip stick. A fact that I dislike is that it's  sometimes  hard to get the right amount of color on the lips due to the fact the color does depent on the body temperature.
Would I get it again? Yes, if it weren't for the fact, that there are lots of other lipsticks/lip tints out there, that I wanna try.

Did you guys try it? What do you think about it
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