Learning mandarin with "Ni-hao, Kai-lan!"

YES.
I admit.
I´m learning mandarin with Nickelodeon. lol

I just started learning mandarin, and I will join a chinese language school for some beginner lessons by the end of this summer. =3

This morning, I had some time left to watch TV... while zapping, I heard some chinese words surprisingly - and I they were coming from a kid´s TV series on Nickelodeon, named "Ni-hao, Kai-lan!".


It´s a super cute animation in the style of "Dora, the explorer" or "Go, Diego, go!" - there are always 2 languages spoken - in the case of "Ni-hao, Kai-lan!" it´s chinese! These series are supposed to teach little children (at the age between 5 and 8 years) multi languages.

One of the best learning strategies I`ve ever heard, is the strategy my Honey is using - absolutely NOT learning languages, (Yeees! Sounds great, hum? xD) but experience them like a child.
Remember when you were a child? You were not sitting in front of a vocabulary book to learn your native language. You experienced it like every child does... and it´s working out pretty fine with almost every kid!
Well, there´s so much more to say about this learning system, but let´s stay with this short summary first. xD"

Anyways... this "childish" way of learning works out so fine for me from what I`ve experienced today! It felt really odd to watch kid´s TV again after maybe 12 years... but I learned so many new things! xD"
Most of the vocabulary is spoken very slow first... then repeat faster and with the right pronounciation. Then you´ve got some time to repeat the word yourself. And then... it´s repeated several times during the TV episode, so that you can easily remember it!
Okay... the TV show itself wasn´t that exciting for me, I must admit... xD" But at least I learned some new things... like a child! xD"

YES.
It´s embarrassing.
But it works out well for me! xD
And of course, I will use some other ways of learning as well. But watching "Ni-hao, Kai-lan!" is a very cute exercise for some free time, and I´m very happy I found it. ;D


It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

Masuwaka Tsubasa & Dolly Wink ♥

Favorite Song atm: Fukuhara Miho - Let it all out

Masuwaka Tsubasa is one of the most famous japanese gal models, mostly known from popteen magazines and famous for her unique duck lip pose (pouting lips)...

...and (it´s said that she was) gaining perfect beauty with at least 20 plastic surgeries. (I took this photo from the gyaru secrets community on livejournal)
She´s a great and super kawaii gal for sure, but definately not my cup of coffee... xD"
♥ Sakurina forever ♥
XD

Anyways. Tsubasa is featuring a line of false lashes and eye make, that is pretty popular for gal´s from all over the world - Dolly Wink.There are 8 types of upper eyelid lashes, such as different types of lower lashes, eyeliners, lash glue... and I`m pretty sure a lot more will come up soon. o.O

When I checked up on the lashes first, I felt like... wow, nothing special about this - except the price. xD" (¥1.250 each!! = ~12€. I used to buy cheap lashes from eBay or local drugstores that are around 4€, and I sometimes customized them... <.<)

BUT then... I got presented some Dolly Wink lashes from my dear friend Mai-chan (the most beautiful gal I ever met ♥), and my meaning changed immediately.

I`m super clumsy with putting on lashes, I must admit. xD" I always needed at least 30 minutes to make them stay in the right place. And after I won this war, my eye-make was mostly ruined. ~__~ I always thought that it´s my fault perfectly... but now I discovered that my old lashes were too stiff AND my hands too clumsy. ^^"

Dolly Wink lashes are super soft and so easy to apply! I combined the Top lashes No. 1 "Dolly Sweet" with the Bottom lashes No. 6 "Real Nude", they´re coming with a little tube of lash glue inside the box. (Sorry, no photos of myself wearing them. My camera disappeared in a moving box. Dx)


The top lashes were a tiny bit too long to my eyelid, so I had to cut them a bit - I saved the cut off parts and stick them on my lower lid later. Don´t waste the precious (...and yet expensive) Dolly Wink lashes. :´D

The lashes felt so soft in my hands, and they were easy to handle and bend round... and I was super satisfied with the lash glue! It´s so easy to apply, it gives the lashes a nice hold, and it´s even more easy to take it off after wearing! I´m definately going to buy a big tube of it soon!

Since the lashes were so nice and soft, they were really easy to apply - and they felt so comfortable and light on my eyelid! A whole new experience for me! XD Applying the bottom lashes was so easy for me... even though I`m so clumsy, and I have done it just two times before! A gorgeous experience - and I was perfectly satisfied with my look in the end!


I will definately go and get more Dolly Wink lashes and the lash glue soon! Great quality item, and it´s worth the high price.
I fell in love with Dolly Wink ♥


It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

Moving ♥

I`m currently moving to another appartment... I´m so sick of packing moving boxes now! x__X

This is the first time that I really hate my shoe collection (3 boxes!!1! dammit. xD")... I packed them so super carefully, because I`m afraid of even just little scratches on it... I started hating this kind of perfectionism after box No. 2. xD" It took me 2 hours until every pair was carefully wrapped and packed... damn. ~__~

Yay-moment of the day: I found a yumetenbo sales promotion flyer with lot´s of Sakurina photos between my documents! lol
One of her photos has got poster size, so I definately know what I`m going to put on the walls of my new apt first. :´D
Nay-moment of the day: ...shoe box No. 3? xD" Aaaah, no - I accidentally broke the glass of my coffee can. How am I going to survive this whole moving process without fresh coffee??! Dx

I´ll write the next post at my new apt - so wonderful ♥



It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR!!!11!1

lulz

I definately know who´s going to get these shorts from me - and I´m sure he´ll look a thousand times sexier in them! ♥ (Don´t misunderstand, this model guy is quite pretty - but my Honey is definately on a another, way higher level for me ♥)

Just a quick post, I`m running out of time a bit right now!
See ya later ;D


It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

New header! ♥

I just added my new header to the blog... isn´t it cute? :´D

I love my new blog design... so pink! so kawaii! so... over the top! xD

I really like how everything looks together now. I can´t do it better, anyways. xD"

Now that I´m satisfied with my blog´s look, I can go to bed and sleep peacefully. :´D
Gute Nacht! ♥ (= good night)

It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

New Background - DONE! :´D

Just a testing BG, I will work on the design some more, I think. =3 (I`m not perfectly satisfied with how it came out in the end... but yay - good start for a N00b like me! :´D)

I haz raided curvy´s rakuten shop for kawaii decoden images. lulz

It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

pimp my blog

My blogs looks really boring, don´t you think so? =/ I can´t stand this design anymore.

Unfortunately, I`m a N00b when it comes to layout, software, Html and such stuff. ^^"
Well... that´s basically why my blogs looks like crap. ^^"

I need to make a change! Ò__O/

I already started with setting a new flag counter, since my old ones weren´t working out perfectly anymore (the site I´ve got them from is down every once and a while, very annoying. <.<).
I will try to design my own background now... I want pink, I want glitter, I want Hello Kitty! >///<

Wish me luck ♥

It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

odango love ♥

Since I`m working as a nurse, I have to follow strong rules about styling at work - such as wearing an uniform, tie the hair back, no jewelry, short nails, no nailpolish... it´s very hard to bring some kind of individual styling in here. =/

I can´t stand my boring "@work"-look anymore. x__X
And since my hair is still too short to do any cute updos, I need some help to make even a tiny bit change. ^^"

I`m thinking about getting a prisila hairbun...
As you can tell, I really love half-wigs. xD"
I already bought from prisila a lot of times, their items have got great quality! Everything looks exactly the same as in the picture, and the fake hair is super easy to handle.

I can´t make big changes, since my hospitals rules are very strict. But such a neat and cute hairbun should be okay. ^///^
Time for wigland shopping now! ♥

It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

pHoToSpAm

Just a simple Photospam... please excuse super bad quality of the photos. I don´t have a camera except my (cheap... really cheap... I mean... extremely super cheap. xD") webcam. ^^"
Pictures are pretty mixed up... old ones and new ones, but all of them taken within the past 3 months!

As you can see on some of the photos: I´m currently trying out some different gyaru styles... as you can see, I mostly fail. xD" But I wanna try hard to improve my style! =)

Oh, by the way...Favorite Song atm: Super Junior (슈퍼주니어) - Shake it up
LOVE it ♥

Yukata time! =D (really simple styling, though. xD")

My original hair length

Straight long hair (extensions. lol)

Super extreme fail at gyaru hair. lol

I really liked my outfit that day ♥

clipped in bangs and long curls

no comment. xD"

Kind of... side-tail? <.< (doesn´t look that good with short hair, I confess. =/)

Latest photo - I think I´m improving my style a bit! =D Still have to work on it (especially the lashes), though. =/

It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?

And god said: "Let there be bling!"

2 minutes of silence, please. Those shoes are worth it... :´D

Wow. I mean... WOW!!
Those shoes must be made of an angels teardrops ♥
Somehow... they remind me of Cinderella´s glass shoes. xD"

I would love to wear them... but I`ve got no dress... no no, wait. I´ve never seen a dress that does those shoes justice. xD"
So I will just continue staring... 2 more minutes... or... even more... myah... how beautifuuuul ♥



It´s such a sweet, sweet life, isn´t it?