Red Cheshire Cat

At the moment I'm pretty busy. I have lots to do at work and a freind of mine is moving into a new flat right now and we have to do a lot of things like painting the walls and such. Oh~ it is a hard time... (^o~) I'm covered in paint allover!! green, blue, red, beige, white... allover! that must look very funny! Now we have still to get her stuff into the new flat. Her timing is rather bad... she has to be out of the old flat on the 1st of August but up to now in the bedroom there still needs to be the floor being finished and she has just one week left to get everything moved and to prepare her old flat!!

The day before yesterday at night when we went jogging my sister and me saw a deer crossing our way just 2 meters ahead of us!!

It is so hot here... I hope I can sleep tonight.

baibai~

Gosh!! What a day!!

On the 7th I went to Berlin. I took special train offers for the world soccer champion ship which had been cheaper. But this meant that I allready arrived at the mainstation at 1 in the morning! (>.<) that's to early... I had planed to stay with my cousin but she only came back on Friday around lunch time! (she is working in her studiing breaks as a stewardess)... So I had to wait for a loooong time!!
While I had one coffee after another to stay awake an Italian guy came to sit at the same table. He only spoke Italian!! I did not understand anything he said. What I got was that he was in Germany for the champion ship and did not have a hotel so we "talked" for a wile in order to not fall a sleep. hehe It has been a funny conversation...
Around four in the morning I walked from the main station into the center(it's not far). I had breakfast at dawn on a bench at the river Spree (directly infront of the ARD). A very nice start for the weekend. After I locked my luggage at the next train station (the mainstation has no common lockers just a high tech department where you have to wait for hours and which opens only at 7!!) I went further into the city and had coffee at the starbucks in front of the Brandenburger Tor. While I was sitting there in the sun I saw a big truck come and stop at the gate. It had been labeled by one of the sponsores of the champion ship and when it opened it's doors houndreds of yellow footballs fell out!!! They gave them away for free as a present and all the people around tried to get some! A lot of people carried more than one! They came running from everywhere (even the french embassy). I managed to get one and brought it home to my sister Kory as a present because she could not come with me as she had to work. By the way I met the Italian guy again... he took about 10 balls?!? What were them good for and how did he intend to keep them or get them back home???

When I met my cousin (who had not slept as well because she just came back from a flight to South Africa) we first had to go shopping because she had nothing left in her fridge. Afterwards we chatted a bit and I only had time to take a short shower before I had to leaf again to meet my little sister on the trainstation and get her to Mounique's place. Tina had to work on Friday until in the morning so she came on her own. I had allready been dressed for the live and had full make up... AND it started raining!!! WATER FALLS!!!! (>o<)
Plastic Tree live was very good! Though it was a rather small audience the mood was great! The band seemed to be disappointed to play for such a small number but when they felt the excitement of these heating up the club they become very energetic. We didn't want to let the band go and asked for one encore after the other it was just bouncing and screaming allover! And the band seemed very happy and excited, too. A great live!!!
Ryotarou had a small piece of paper he brought forward orccasionally and read some German words from it! He managed to spell quite well and was rewarded with chears (^-^) After the first time he bugged Tadashi to do the same but he didn't want to! lol only after the second time he asked for the paper and tried himself, too. Akira has been persuaded to trie,too. Only Buchi did not want to! Though the whole audience called for him to try!
The band tried to do some breaks between but the audience was so wild and loud that Akira, Tadashi and Buchi had to come out again after not even 5 Minutes! They played the introduction to one song for about 10 - 15 minutes (ok that is my personal feeling it might have been shorter ;) ) What sounded awesome!! Akira's guitar play is really good! and the deep regular bass and drumms matched so well! Afterwards Tarou came out again and got into the song, too. By the way he changed into an Kimono. I think they came out to play encores two or three times... Really great! At the end Ryotarou bid us good by in German, too! He said "Tschüss!... tschüsstschüsstschüss"

They seemed to enjoy the live a lot really! Let me tell you Plastic Tree live is not to compare to their recorded pieces! They are really a live band! The quality might not bee 1A but -hey!- They made so mutch fun!! And they had a way to catch the audience from the first second!!

After wards we went to an restaurant/bar to have some coctails and let the night pass.

On Saturday we slept in. Good we were all so tired.
We had a long and delicious breakfast in which half way through a friend of Mounique joined.
Afterwards we four went to explore Berlin again and spent the whole day outside. I was a fun day!
At 8 pm we went to the gate again to watch the match against Portugal with all the others! Oh gosh! There have been so many people! And the mood was just extraordinary!!! I could not have been better if this would have been the final! Really! Near us we had a Brasilian Group and in the break they played drums and danced! so cool!
AND WE WON!!
so exciting (^o^)
Our train back only left on 1 in the morning. So we had lots of time to enjoy the sensation of the partying people and to get our luggage back to the main station.
This time the train was no direct train and we had to wait in Hamburg for 2 hours. We only arrived home on 8 in the morning.

My little sister bugged Kory and me so long until we agreed to drive to Paris to see the band of Friday again! So we just changed and showered and started our trip to Paris. We drove hours! haha so crazy! but the weather was nice and if we wouldn't have been soooo tired it would have been an even nicer journey.
We had lots of fun on the trip and picniced on the way.
The band was great again. The live was in the Locomotive which is one of my favourit clubs. This time there seemed to be more people... but maybe it's just the club as the location is quite small and thin...The mood was great again! But Berlin was better!!

On Monday I had to work again... oooohhhh~ I was sooo tired!! I allmost did not sleep that weekend at all.

Oh... I just found further informations about Plastic Tree's "World Tour"...
I'm not sure if I have allready anounced that the German live will be on the 7th of July (o.O?)
... well... at least I do so now: the German live will be on Friday the 7th of July.

And though I thought it would be in Frankfurt it is not!!! (T-T) I was really looking forward to this as... well it's on Friday and I have to work and it takes just 2-3 hours to Frankfurt so I would have still been able to go there...

BUUUUT it's not in Frankfurt! It's in Berlin!!!!

Ok, if you ask me I would rather prefere to go to Berlin instead of Frankfurt, too (^.~) It just makes my live a bit more complicated in this point... aahh~ I have to take a day off on the 7th and the train to Berlin is going to be more expansive...

Hmm... but as I'm allways seeing the bright side of live (^o^)v

I could drop in with my cousin (if she's there at this weekend of course...) and we can have some drinks on Saturday and spend a nice day in Berlin again!! AND I could drink some beer at the concert AND I don't have to drive back home right after the live but just need to take a subway (^o^)!!!!!

So besides the higher costs it is going to be muuuuuuuuuutch more fun!!!!!

sooo... aaahh~ I have to work again....
damn it....

see ya!

These are the reasons why the soccer world cup 2006 in Germany sucks:

1st: there are everywhere building sites on the motorways which causes so many traffic jams no one is able to count (>.<)

2nd: the train rails are under construction everywhere and you have to take lots of small trains instead of one fast ICE... (-_-;)

3rd: Calmando Qual have canceled their tour!! (T-T) Yes, it's true (or at least what I translated from their official site...) they are very sorry but the tour got canceled due to the world cup... I'm not sure if it's from the organisation here or from the band's management but still it's a pity!!
I have really looked forward to these lives... I hope the new dates will be soon...

4th: I can still only watch it on TV though it is in my own country!!! (`~´)

THIS IS NOT FAIR!!!!!!

I will go and get some chocolate now....

baibai

Oh, that's sooooooo great!! I just came to know that Plastic Tree are going to play in Germany!! Yeeessss!!!
We don't know when or where... but they will come this summer!!! As it's seemingly the same company organising this live as who brought Deadmen and Ayabie here, I guess the live will be in Frankfurt... that would "only" be 3 hours by car! Well compared to Berlin or Munich that's really close (^.~)v

That's just to good! I would have never expected to see them!!
Unfortunately there is noone who wants to go with me (>.<) Maybe I can talk Christina in coming along... at least she likes their music, too.. she just does not have so mutch money... but let's see how expansive the tickets are...

Ah~ That sounds sooo great!

baibai...

I have been soooo tired after this weekend... well...I still am...

On friday we all had to work so we could only start our trip within the night... around 2 in the morning Kory and mine sister Christina arrived at our flat and we three went to Essen where Tina lives and as four we went to Munster where Juna lives... actually we have planded to go to berlin with Juna's VW golf but good lord... this car is not built for five girls and all their luggage for a weekend... lol... we put everything into the car, sit down and left the parking lot... than we decided that we would prefere to take Christina's car which is bigger inside... So we moved everything back from one car to the other... and it has been raining all the time!!! Even the description of the way became wet so that the ink smeared everywhere! (>.<) too bad!!

I had to stay awake for the whole trip as I was in charge of the way... oh poor me! At least I needn't drive (^-^) The car was so full... it went so slow... lol it took 2 hours longer than usually... around 10 - 11 we arrived at the hotel. The Aletto is a youth hotel so less service but lower prices too... aaaand we had a 5 bed room! haha... the last time we have been there we had our room in the 5th floor and the house has no elevator!! That was hard! But now we had only to go to the 3rd floor. Unfortunately the room has not been ready yet so we left our luggage in the hotel and went to go to the city!!

(^o^) it has been so mutch fun... ok it was raining... but still we had so mutch fun!
First we went to Neotokyo store to collecto our tickets and go to the autograph session of Kagerou. It took (as expected) quite a while until we arrived at the door and the guy there told us "only two!!" But I had ordered the tickets for all of us and we had no original tickets to come in (o.0) So we tried to explain to the guy sitting near the door with the list of ticket orders and after he got my passport we got our tickets out and could go into the shop seperately. Kory, Tina and me got in together. Tina stayed in the back all the time and did not get an autograph lol that must have looked strange... Shizumi and Kasu have been quite calm, Yuana very... bouncy lol and Daisuke very nice thanking in German and bowing slightly when he gave back my book. Some time after us Juna and Christina got into the shop, too. Good... Juna had somany things signed lol... I would have loved to see the band's faces as she layed one thing after the other on the table... lol
After that we went shopping... oh there are somany nice shops in Berlin and you can get allmost everything... I defenetily have not enough money (^.~) Later on we went eating in a japanese restaurand and we had so tasty food! Only Juna was not so pleased as she is vegetarian and had dificulties to find something...
When we arrived at the hotel it has allready been 8 - 9 pm and we set down for a few seconds... well ok I fell asleep instandly and woke up half anhour later... Christina, Tina and Kory asked me if I wanted to go to a bar with them or stay in the hotel to sleep... I decided to come along so that only Juna stayed in the hotel...
Hmm... we found a nice cocktail bar and arrived right to the happy hour (^o^)v haha but we had been so tired that we only stayed for 2 hours and 3 drinks each and took a taxi back to the hotel... in Berlin the subway connections are really great and you can reach every place very soon but after that day we have been to dead to wait...

Unfortunately we had to leaf the hotel at 11 the next morning... and five girls take some time to prepare (^.~) So we had to wake up at 8 in the morning... uuhh~ too early!!!
After breakfast we left the hotel and went straight into the city again! We visited the Brandenburger Tor and there has been a street festival! We did not know about that! But it has been a children's festival... but funny still! Oh and there have been so many tasty things... Crepes... fruits...
Afterwards we went to a Starbucks cafe to relax. As we sat outside in the sun we noticed that there have been lots of sparrows coming to each tabel after the persons left! we could see them all the time and they have been so many (°.°)... well ok, Kory and me new them from a previous trip to Berlin allready but it's so great everytime!! We started feeding them with our muffins and they really came so near to us that they got the cake from our hands!!! soooo cute!!! Later there has been a group of artists who played with a figure they moved it together with sticks and it has been amazing! So great!
Than we went to a theater store sell where you can buy stage decoration and stuff! this was so cool! everywhere the new-old furnitures stood around and we took piktures there! there weren't so many people so we had a lot of time and space!If you ever have the possibility to go to Berlin, you should defenetively go there, too!
On the evening we went to eat again... this time italian! noodles (^o^) mjam mjamm... so tasty, too... (you can say I like to eat ;) )
After the meal we went back to the hotel to change our clothes and such as we had to get ready for the concert. Quite nice of the hotel staff to allow us to use one of the bathrooms for that, isn't it?
Juna was very nervous and made us all crazy by hurriing us to be at the location early! So we arrived very early and it took soooo long to get into the hall... well basically because we have been so early! hehe
The concert was really worth the waiting! It was so mutch fun!! We have been in the first rows and it has been so tight and hot! oh! I love to go to lives! It is just so mutch fun to be in the front! Though it is hard to survife... as I'm small... and there is just one thing I can't stand on lives... boyfriends who try to bring their girl friends into the first row!!! I had such a guy besides, in front of or behind me all the time... the same... all the time... so annoying... but the live has still been so great!! The band played so good. And Tina got a pic of Kasu she gave it to Kory and me(^-^) It looks quite nice dark blue slightly purplish...
Right after the live we went back home... Unfortunately I had to work today... and the way back took even longer than before!!... but at least I could sleep this time...
Oh~ I'm still so tired... From Friday to Monday I slept about 10 hours totally...

I go to bed n...o...w... (-.-)zzZZZ

Oooohhhh~~~
It's here!!!!
YEEEESSSS!!!
It finally arrived!!!

I just received the parcel from Japan a friend of mine send a week ago!!
He asked me for a favour and I did it... but that's nothing for this side (^.~)
In return he offered to send me something from Japan and I asked him for the new single of CELLT! It's a limited edition and the last one has been sold out quite soon so I had little hope to get it!

And to day I received this big carton! My sister called me at work asn asked me "do you expect something really big from Japan? Did you order something I don't know?!?" and I was like (o.O)? "no?!? The only thing it could be is a single..." "That's a big single than..."

So I was wondering all day. At home I riped open the carton and it has really been the single "Paradise" by CELLT. And how sweet of him! He send lots of flyers from the shop with it! The flyer of Phylia instandly disapeared... And the reason why the carton is so big was that he sent a poster with it which came along with the single! (^o^)b
Oh Im soooo happy with the new single! I'm listending to it right now!

(^-^)

Oh, fuck... I have to hurry... I still have to pack for Berlin... (ô_ô)
baibai

What do you think?
I really like this picture! It is so mysterious... my compliments to the photographer!!
...Though I have to resize it a bit... so that it fits better into the background...
Maybe I'm doing some further artwork on the picture...
Yeeees... yes, I will do so...

back to work...

baibai~

Yes! Finally my Paypal account has been updated and my money arrived!!
But it won't stay there for long... I have allready forwarded it again...

I will get Panic Channel's new singles v(^.^)V
You know Panic the Japanese indies band? They are so good I love their music! Just to bad you can't get their stuff here... even though they have so many overseas fans!! I can't belive no european shop offeres their stuff!!!! I think a lot of people would like to get the original stuff but just don't have any possebility to do so...

But now things have changed... midnitestar7 and agentscuiy have posted in pink_cherry to buy the new singles and other merchandise in Japan and send them to us!!!! (^o^)
That's just tooooooo great! Thanks to you two again for arranging the shipping!!!!

oh... I have to work again...
work sucks!!!

baibai~

Oh.. who would have thought that?!?
Reading the famous/infamous teen-magasine BRAVO obviously makes one more smart... (^.~)
I just found on their web page some very interesting stuff concerning j-music... or better visual kei! (^o^)v
There are some live pics of DéspairsRay's live last October in Munich... and a "startalk" with all members of MUCC from last August (too funny!!) that defenetively is worth a visit!! Aaand... a list of all up coming lives in Germany until August 2006!
But not enough!!! Belive it or not...
they even had a ...
"BRAVO J-Rock Map 2006" (jeees... what a name ~ rofl!!)
But the best thing is... I now know that the mysterious town of "Hunbulg" (where Calmando Qual are supposed to play in June) is indeed Hamburg!!!
I'm still wondering where the l comes from... maybe they are secretly a Chinese band and just pretend to be Japanese? or somebody made a mean joke with them... lol... ahh~ well... we are never going to know the truth...

Ok... so here's the link to the fabulous BRAVO J-Rock Map 2006!
=> www.bravo.de/online/render.php?render=11413 <=

baibai~

Out of curiosity I visited the official homepages of Calmando Qual...
and got majorly shocked!!

These guys have just arrived back in Japan and now I see that they have updated their schedule and have three more lives in Germany in JUNE!!
Oh boy! That's early! They are going to be at the Wave Gothic Treffen on the 2nd of June and than do two regular shows. One in Munster (5th) and the other in a town called Hunbulg (3rd)...
What the ... should be hunbulg?? Does anybody have an idear? I think it sounds similar to Hamburg... but why adding an l? So I searched for hunbulg in the web and on maps... nothing...
straaaange...
Well.. I guess these lives will be organized by Astan again (good luck in June it is supposed to be mutch warmer (^.~)v !!) so this mystery is going to be solved soon...

Maybe these guys got addicted to German beer?
Somebody should tell them they can buy it in Japan, too...
(^o^)/~~

Well... I will defenetily go and see them on one of the regular lives!

bai bai~

So I did it! I went to see Calmando Qual again...
Originally my sister wanted to come as well... buuuutt... she seemed to have cought the cold while waiting on Friday (-.-)... too bad... so now I had to go alone...
Did I ever mention I hate going to cologne??? Nooo? So let me do that now!
I HATE GOING TO COLOGNE!!!!
No matter where I want to go to... I will drive wronge somewhere! Honestly! Every fuckin' single time!!!
That's sooo mean....
But guess what! I did find the way (allmost) without any problems!!! Who would have ever guessed that?
I even found a payable parking lot! So allthough I have been late again... it has to be something genetically... yes.. really...
But hey... I had to work and than dressup as it had dresscode... so i AGAINE was late...
but...
you won't belive it...
I had to wait again...
When I was finally in...
GOOOOOOOD IT HAS BEEEN SOOOO COOOOLD!!!!!
I looked on my mobile to check the time... half past eight... it should open on 7!!! and I even arrived half an hour later... I bet now I will finally get ill, too!!!
But at least inside it had been cosy and warm...
Well after all the "order your tickets early!!" I thought it would be full... but (I counted!) there havejust been around 30 people... but at least I saw 4 guys! Yay!! That are more than 13%!!

And than I got the bad news... they would film this live... (o.O;) oh fuck! I hate beeing on films!!! You just can't controle how you look like... So this became an uneasy live for me ... a camera.. taking care not to get into the view of the camera... and only a few people...
But hey still the band was sooo great!
They played great!
After the first few songs they had a break and Hibiki called one of their rodies up stage to translate his message into english...
he said that they are calmando qual but that we would probably know that...
we: yeeeah! of course!!...
(so we should proofe that...)
he said: on Keyboard:...
we: ...??
(we did not notice what he wanted us to do... so Task was like (o.o;;) lol WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE!! everybody seemed to be quite amused...)
he: on bass...
we:... kenka... KENKA...
he: oh... there's an echo! (he mimiked our call kenka [few voices] ... KENKA [all]
he: on guita...
we: TAK! (It finally worked out!)
he: on vocal...
we: HIBIKI!!
lol luckyly all members seem to be in a good mood and took it with humour... good thing...
Oh the audience was soo slow this night... me, too!!
Tak throw a pic first... and ... he throw to far... all turned their heads and it landed at somewhere at the end of the club... lol... I guess all our faces including his have been worth a million!
Too soon hibiki said last song... and they vanished back stage...
we have been told we have to call them back on stage if we want to have an encore! But that they really only could do one as they would fly back next mornig at 10!!! (@o@) poor guys...
so we screamed! and Hibiki showed up in the entrance to the stage...
and...
vanishe again..
he did that three times!!! LOL such a tease!
He would have done it again but the guy from astan stood in the door frame so he had to stay upstage... than the guy said that Hibiki has a small present for 10 of us!
And Hibiki started to give away tiny bubble-gum-mashine-plastic-rings... lol!!! Too funny!!!!
Than they played again...
Afterwards there has been a signing session again... and this time they did not take so long... i stayed in the back of the line and it went smooth... i thought... but when I got the autograph from Hibiki and Tasc the line suddenly stoped... so about 2 minutes I stood infront of Task and we all were waiting to go on... when I go the autograph from Kenka I saw what had caused the traffic jam! He took so mutch care to write nicely and blew on his wrinting to make it dry!!
lol very thoughtfull! thanks for that! And he thanked in German! Too nice!

Oh I allmost forgot to tell... we have been informed that there is going to be a live DVD limited to 100 pieces or such and the people who have been to the secret live have pre order right!

Oh~ yarn~~
I have to go to bed now....
baiba~zzzzZZZZ

Yeah! What a night!! I went to the Calmando Qual Live in Münster...
But it should not be an easy thing to see this band!! It started with haveing far too less time to get ready for the live... makup and such... everything in a haaaaaste!!
As if beening late allready would not be bad enough... noooo... we got into a traffic jam... so I had to drive with 140 km/h all the way... about 1 1/2 hour...
I HATE DRIVING SO FAST!!!!! I tensse so mutch when I do... now my shoulders still hurt from the tension...

Even though I drove so fast we arrived too late! At least the rout has been correct and we found it on the first try... good luck too, that we found a free parking lot near the location... than we had to go by foot... and searched the club... but we could not find it... we even called a friend who was allready there... and she tried to navigate us... hehe... but tricky as the club owners are... the club is not on the basement but in the fist upper flor! Aaaand they have even changed the name!! (o.O)
But we found the location ...and guess what... we still had to wait for half an hour for the doors to open... though we arrived half an hour too late...

so GOOD LUCK we arrived later! It has been cold as hell (at least on Darkover...)...

But the live was worth the chivering... the warm up band was quite good... Arcorais (http://www.arcorais.de/) was their name... good metal! Give them a try!

Than the main act started... their entrance was quite uneventfull... besides the guitarist triping over some stairs... no big show or such... quite charming if you ask me... they shortly tuned their instruments and when the singer arrived they started.
Really good rock! They played a number of hard songs...really great! If you ask me for the spot lights of this live I would say... the balad they played... so toutching... that they asked us to choose the second last song... well it took some time to find the right song (^.~) ... and the bass solo! awesome! I want to play like this... though... he played wrong once... but he made it bet by this solo... hehe... nobody is perfect!
Really great job for the whole band! They all seamed to enjoy it as mutch as we... hehe
Later on there should have been a signing session for everyone... but as the way back would take even longer we decided to have a drink somewhere else and than drive home...
Back home it has allready been something after 3 in the morning... we seem to have taken some time to chatt and drink (^o^)v
Well this live has without any doubt been worth all the driving!!
...
I'm even thinking about going to this secret live in cologne on Monday...
Yeeeesss.... I think I will try to figure out how to order the ticket...

baibai and goood night~

ok changed back to shades of green... the pink did not match witht he fox's colour...
Aaaand the fox is soooo cute, ne?

Baibai~

yees.... it's done! My first Journal!
Well... ok, I have to work on this one a bit more... and the design and the icon has to be changed... but that wil take some more time...

At least I'm here!
The newly red haired cheshire cat Jun~

Baibai!!