Hello, fellows.
Yesterday was one of the most awesome days in my whole life! I was at an Abingdon Boys School concert. The guys are on a European Tour at the moment and their first stop in Germany was Hamburg, 7th November '09. Of those 8 concerts in Europe, 4 are in Germany: Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Bochum. 3 hours before the concert began, my two friends and I drove to the small concert hall and sat, literally sat through 2 hours of waiting and then stood one hour, watching the staff members preparing the stage for our 6 boys. One breath-taking experience already occured while we were still waiting outside the hall. Those who managed to come early enough were able to sit on the stairs. I was one of them. Around 15 minutes before the doors of the hall opened, I stood up, preparing to run for my life when the hands of the clock reach 6 p.m.. Almost simultaneously, everyone's attention was at the doors, and they all stood up, facing upwards. I was like "wtf, there's stil time left... I kinda feel like an alpha (fe)male now. I stand up, everyone else does the same". Well, when it was finally 6 p.m., it was literally a run for your life. If you didn't sprint fast enough, you would have been run over. Nice! Luckily I was at the front. And so, we reached the stage quite fast.
Of course, the fan I am, we stood in the 2nd row (and during the concert, we kinda managed to halfway sneak to the 1st row).

At 7 p.m., the concert finally began and we were screaming, screaming like hell when Abingdon Boys School entered the stage. Last one was Takanori-kun, and the screaming became, obviously, louder. I guess around 4/5 of the audience was female. The guys were wearing their typical school uniforms (take a look at "Innocent Sorrow"-PV) and looked damn sexy. Takanori-kun definitely doesn't look like a 39-old man. No, rather like mid-20. He was so cute and barely 2 meters away from me. At one point of the concert, it was just 1 meter (his hand, HIS HAND!). <3

They opened the concert with one of my most fav songs: Strength (Soul Eater Ending). As awesome as I am, I recorded it, before one of the concert hall staff members came and said I should turn off my camera. He was really unfriendly said others who also had a camera. Due to the noise of the fangirls around me, I could barely understand the guy but it was obvious that I wasn't allowed to take photos or record something (not even for my personal use). I mean, yes... everyone wants to have crappy digital camera recordings. :P
Just for the records, afterwards, my friends said there seemingly was a sign at the entrance, a small, small, small sign saying: no cameras. Well, I doubt that fangirls eager to see a.b.s. have the time to look around for signs. Of course, a professional camera team was recording the performance for, I assume, an upcoming tour DVD. If I am lucky, I'll be on it. I'm not the smallest person and stood in the front. XD

Takanori-kun rocked the hall. The audience was screaming, sighing (and screaming) when he looked just so damn sexy and of course, singing along when they were able to. Fanservice... there was even some fanservice for us little girls in the show! Him halfway opening his shirt was just a minor thing compared to him seizing his balls or grasping the necktie of Sunao (I guess it was him) and getting quite close to said persons face. °//////°
Takanori-kun also greeted his German fans and talked a little bit, using Japanese, English and German. And I have to admit, his German was very good. Or rather, his pronunciation. "Dankeschön", "Ihr seid so geil!" and "Wir lieben euch" were used the most. XD

Unfortunately the concert itself wasn't thaaaaaaat long but it was awesome, wonderful, great and breath-taking. After screaming "Ankooru" for almost 3 minutes, they came back and sang three more songs. Among them was the full version of the Darker than Black ED "From Dusk till Dawn". The single will be released at the beginning of December. So, it felt really special to be able to hear the full song for the first time before many other people could hear it. At the very end, they thanked us, bowed several times and the audience screamed and applauded for approximately 10 minutes straight. Guess how heavy my arms were after 1 and half an hour moving them up and down above my head. Takanori-kun, before he left the stage as last one, made this heart-shape-thingy with his hands and we all died the fangirl-death.

Afterwards, I bought a fluffy tour shirt, a poster and their album "Teaching Materials". When we finally decided that it was time to leave the hall, we ended up enjoying the fresh, cool air outside, for it was obviously awesomely hot during the concert (and for the record: amazingly cold during the waiting time... blame my short skirt XD). While we were chatting outside the hall, a huge and comfortable bus caught our eye. And of course, it was the one a.b.s. uses to drive around in Germany. Freaks as we are, we approached the bus, hoping for them to come out of the hall soon to enter the bus. Their equipment was neatly packed away and after a hour waiting in the cold, the bus drove away... without Takanori-kun and co. The fangirls assumed the correct thing and ran around the building to the backyard were the bus parked. After waiting there for 2 hours, staring at the windows of the building, occasionaly seeing an a.b.s. member I was like "Nya, they certainly won't come out till everybody here is off, so, let's go.". And so, my friends and I left the small and tiny rest of the fangirl group alone. Maybe they were able to meet them... but I kinda doubt it. I think it would annoy me too if there were screaming girls waiting for me to come outside (at least they were waving from time to time). So, when my sympathy finally took over, we drove back home. Dead but happy! DEFINITELY HAPPY!

If I haven't updated for a while, which I indeed haven't, then it's because University has taken over my life.
I never thought I would be that busy.... but I am.
Nonetheless, I'm going to the Abingdon Boys School concert in Hamburg today evening. <3
Looking forward to it!

So, three days of university already passed, I am a full-blood student for three whole days by now and I already think that holidays aren't that bad at all. Do not misunderstand me, please. Japanese classes are awesomely funny, I love them. But some lectures are kinda... well... let's say that do not stir my interest. Maybe they would IF I just nderstood what the teacher is saying. In my lecture on Monday about scientific basic ideas, I had (almost) absolutely no idea what the teacher in front of me was talking about. Words which I should actually know because I had advanced German class at secondary school and this lecture was all about syntax and strange stuff which almost sounded like metamorphosis XD. I appreciate the effort my teacher put into this dull subject bu I just couldn't figure out why the hell I need it.
And today, I had class from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. but, for it was only some kind of introduction lesson, it only lasted till 7p.m.
And so, Juliane and I asked ourselves "Why the hell did we attend?". Next Wednesday won't  be so short-lived though because practice class for math and economics starts next week. But, the teacher for our Wednesday evening lesson, which I just mentioned, is really funny and cool.
I'm looking forward to more, even though it's a class so late the day. .____.

By the way, after listening to the new OP song, Golden Time Lover, of FMA, I began to like it a lot.
And I need some new Break-icons after having read that mean chapter of PH yesterday.

Today at 2.04 p.m., my information week, primarily for my bachelor degree course but also for university itself, ended. The information days for my major "Japanese Science" was hold by the student representatives of my major and they did a great job informing us. Everyone is so nice and friendly in my major, do I really deserve to study there, haha? The university itself is really large, some buildings look like crap, some are really nice and a few are new... such as the building I will study in: The Asia-Africa-Institute (AAI). It looks fantastic! White walls, a good amount of light, everything is so new, clean and neat... and it's next to the university's main building which looks good, too, by the way. Quite handy.

I already got in contact with my fellow students, the student representatives and some teachers as well. And I am already on good terms with some of them. Juliane - a fellow student, really nice and cute - and I took some purikuras together, two times to be exact... within one week. It's so much fun to be together with her. We drive to school together via train, we have the same classes in major (she's got a different minor than I do though) and I already made a sandwich for her because both of us don't really want to eat every day in the canteen, though some of the food seems to be really nice... stress "some". During the information week, we laughed a lot, we kinda ate a lot of candies (thanks to the student representatives) and I am back to drawing Pokemon into people's books. The Japanese teachers are all cool, funny and cute. It's superb to listen to them, especially to my Japanese teacher Sugihara-sensei. She's so cute... and totally reminds me of Katsura Hoshino. Miyazaki-sensei however is like the master of all senseis. He's funny but strict and has his own kind of humour. Best sentence ever in the short introduction hour at the beginning of today's information day was by Miyazaki: "The book is not expensive. I want 35€ on Monday from you (and defiinitely not later!)." Ah~, that's a Japanese teacher for you. But the one who'll teach me is Sugihara-sensei. She's in charge of the freshmen this time. I'm really looking forward to my classes. Speaking of which, *takes a look at her schedule*... I'm going to spend my life in university as of now, and half of it in the library of the AAI, as it seems. Of course, there are a lot of classes (such as 3 hours math-lecture on Friday... yeah, my minor... economics...) but there are especially specially large breaks in between classes which are nonetheless not large enough to drive back home. I'll just kill time in the wonderful library with my laptop then. Furthermore, I wanna be a good student and thus, I wanna prepare classes well and not just half-assed. Will use the free time then.

Well, well.... onwards... to a good university time, I would say. I'm already excited

EDIT: New layout by  xnaixnaix and graphic picture can be found on pixiv (I assume).

First photos from Hamburg, guys! Though, just a tiny part of it.
On Thursday, I went to the cemetery in Ohlsdorf, one of Hamburg's many districts, with my roommate.
Now, you certainly wonder why I took a walk on a cemetery. The reason is simple: it's sight-seeing.
The cemetery in Ohlsdorf is not just a plain cemetery, it's the largest in the world! Vatican would fit in 9 times. And thus, it's common for people to come there to see it. Though of course, you should take care of those who mourn and show respect. Taking photos is allowed, as long as you do not disturb someone, f.e. in a funeral procession. Act properly!

The cemetery is a wonderful place... well, "wonderful" as in "pretty". The cemetery is really well-kept, silence dominates and the landscape is beautiful. It's a great place where you can think about stuff, relax and enjoy the silence. It's a place of dignity and respect and this is mirrored in the way, everyone acts and treats this cemetery. Here are some beautiful photos, taken by my roommate. Click on them for full-size.

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And so, it ends. An entire exciting, wonderful era.
The last chapter of Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE...
Aqi, Mandy, Jov, Ju-chan...

I can still remember the point of time I first came in contact with the manga. I guess it was a sunny day, or at least it was not raining, I was sitting on my desk, which back then still faced the window in my room, browsing through a kinda old preview booklet for upcoming manga in Germany. That was when I first got in contact with Tsubasa. I read through the first 3 or 4 pages of the first volume that were posted in the booklet and thought to myself: "The story sounds great and CLAMP's drawing is so fabulous. I have to buy it! Immediately."
The next time I went to the book store, I bought volume 1 to 3 and read through them in one go. The manga immediately won me over and I was eager to buy more and collect this series - which I still do now of course, volume 24 just got released here and 25 is supposed to come out this month, too. Fai quickly became my favourite character in the book, for he is so mysterious and inscrutable. A guy with a sorrowful past - exactly the sort of character that appeals to me.

And so, it was just a matter of time until I found my way to the Tsubasa group on the Minitokyo site. I soon became an admin there and got in contact with some friends I still hold very dear after all those years: Mandy, Aqi, Ju-chan, Jov. But I also met nice people like cutesherry and zaira. One day, Aqi asked me whether we shouldn't open a group dedicated to our most beloved character Fai. I was as keen as mustard and slowly at first but then quite fast and steady our group grew and grew. Soon, we needed some more  mods and admins, and so we recruited Mandy and Jov of whom former also was a moderator/admin for the aforementioned Tsubasa group, just like Aqi and my humble self. Between adding new decorative and informative stuff to the Fai -"the hottest magician on earth"- fan page and changing the layout from Aqi's flaming red to my sky-ish blue one, Aqi, Jov and I began to write a story about Fai involving the three of us, wreaking vengeance on all those who hurt and intended to hurt our precious Fai. We were three time and dimension travellers just like our dear Tsubasa crew who, during the long run of our story, eventually found a new love (me who found a guy called Takashi or so if I am not mistaken) or left the group in order to stay with family and friends (Jov). To take a trip down memory lane, I will open the file which holds our fanstory and is safely saved on my comp and even burned on a CD again and read through it. Writing this was really a great part of my fandom-life and I enjoyed every minute of reading and/or writing it. It really brought us together, didn't it, Aqi... Jov...? And my Fai-obsession was also a great part that added up to our path of friendship, right, Mandy? Though, our MSN convos, flushed by our obsession for a certain dear Prince of Britannia, our fantasies and our Empire of Stolen Icons, let alone the change of our last names to "vi Britannia" - and this era is still going on - certainly are the biggest part that brought us together.

All I can say, I am really, really grateful for Clamp's wonderful piece of work, even though it got really confusing in the end. It is a great story with great characters and it wrote a fabulous and unforgotten story for my friends and me in reality. I bow my thanks to Clamp and also to my friends, especially Mandy, Aqi, Jov and Ju-chan, who are definitely an enrichment to my life.

Thank you, Clamp.

Day 7: Whatever tickles your fancy

Hm, let's see.
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Have to change my icons after a while....

For one week, recommend / share:
Day 1: a song [ Pavane - Rurutia ]
Day 2: a picture [ Pandora Hearts ]
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic [ Hetalia fanfic: The Sea Cook ]
Day 4: a site [ Because Himaruya Hidekaz rocks! ]
Day 5: a youtube clip [ Psych! ]
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

A quote... a quote....
Ah, you probably already know this one but I think it's quite impressive:
"There's nothing neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare

I know, I  missed one day but my roommate moved in yesterday and thus, I had no time to update. *bows*
 

For one week, recommend / share:
Day 1: a song [ Pavane - Rurutia ]
Day 2: a picture [ Pandora Hearts ]
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic [ Hetalia fanfic: The Sea Cook ]
Day 4: a site [ Because Himaruya Hidekaz rocks! ]
Day 5: a youtube clip [ Psych! ]
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy

The clip always reminds me why I love Psych so much. I hope I'll still have so much fun in my life, too... when I am slightly older~
P.S.: Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn~
P.S.2: *points at icon* Breaaaaaaaak~ <33333

For one week, recommend / share:
Day 1: a song [ Pavane - Rurutia ]
Day 2: a picture [ Pandora Hearts ]
Day 3: a book/ebook/fanfic [ Hetalia fanfic: The Sea Cook ]
Day 4: a site [ Because Himaruya Hidekaz rocks! ]
Day 5: a youtube clip
Day 6: a quote
Day 7: whatever tickles your fancy