[13] Finals, more finals, birthdays and drama.

 

School is finally over and finals are now a thing of the past. Everything is good in my life --kinda, but I might talk about it later in this post. I don't really know, I'm still deciding. Its kind of a stupid thing that has effected me...

Anyways my school has this really pretty grassy area and my fiends and I always joke about how its going to be destroyed because my school never wastes space (they aren't really going to destroy it).

 

I had to wait for my parents to pick me up after my last final and it was so creepy being outside at school after dark.

 

Four years ago, I stopped watching Tsubasa, but I had all of the books but one. So I decided to finish my collection but it was so hard to find a cheap new one. I was looking around and the cheapest I found was $23 but the most expensive was $2,000. $2,000 for a 250 page book. INSANE. Luckily one day I was looking around and I found one for $19.

 

It was my birthday on Sunday.

One day my cat just fell asleep and I thought it was one of the cutest poses ever. She just passed out and didn't move for an hour or two. So I took my chance and got a picture.

So you guys can skip this if you want. Its my little rant of whats been bothering me. You might have noticed my love for EXO and if your currently in the EXO fandom, you should know whats going on. As I like to call it: The Kris Situation. Its really bothering me because I've been a huge fan of EXO since the teaser era. I will never blame Kris or call him selfish nor will I ever hold anything against the members but just the thought of having a member leave is really depressing.

There are people saying that hes just fixing his contract or whatever. But still, its insanely depressing and I could never imagine EXO without Kris. At some points I hope he fixes his contract and stays with EXO but at the same time when Kris left for that month and came back a lot of the members ignored him. I'm afraid that its going to happen again so I'd rather have him leave and be happy rather than stay and have his members be mean to him (I'm not saying that the other members of EXO are terrible. In fact my ultimate bias is Lu Han and Sehun is a close second). Either way, I wish him the best!

[12] Arizona Matsuri

Its already March and almost April! I made it a point to blog after New Years, but it didn't work out. Technically though, I still am blogging after New Years... heh. I'm more than half way through the last semester of my first year in college! I have to say that it is a nice experience and even though I only met one new friend and my hatred for dorm life continues, I'm glad I decided to go to uni.

Hopefully this summer will be exciting! I might get to go abroad and teach English in South Korea. Depending on if I pass the interview and the mock teaching lesson. And if not, i'll probably be going to New York (maybe). Its all still up the air though.

In late February my friends and I went to the Matsuri in Arizona. Most people who go there are cosplaying, including my friends, but its not my cup of tea. I don't even go trick-or-treating anymore. I just steal the candy from our stash lol.

The festival is always so busy with cosplayers and their massive outfits. I've only really been to Matsuri twice and both times it was super packed. I normally go there to stock up on some Japanese candy. And then eat it within the day.

I always tell myself that if EXO comes out with something that is not a CD or DVD, I wouldn't get it. But I tend not to listen to myself very well and I ended up buying a key chain.

The iPhone case was something I bought 9 months back. But inner shopping Anna told me I had to have it even though I didn't have an iPhone5 at the time. ahaha I want the new EXO First Box but I keep on holding myself back thinking that I can ask for it for my birthday and keep my money for their new CD. I had to talk myself out of buying the EXO STARDIUM tote bag by saying it was just a canvas tote with a broach. I could make it. But of course I'm not going to.

I hope you enjoyed this slightly more personal post. I bought a memebox recently and I hope that I can do a review on it as well as (maybe) the Naked 3 palette and some Madewell clothes

New layout, new year!

[11] Soooo.... I wanted to take photos but...

 I've been gone since September aha...

/ignores

For Christmas I got an Canon 40mm lens and I wanted to take some pictures. But I never leave the house so I decided to take pictures of my cds 

yayyy

I've always thought that I had quite a decent collection of kpop cds and its true. Its grown a lot since I first started collecting in February 2011. My Grandparents had given me s $100 gift card to Best Buy so like each week a new Super Junior cd was coming. My first ever cd was SJ-M's Perfection Repackaged albums.

More recently though I have started to collect EXO's albums. and my recently I mean I've followed them since the teaser era and I always pre-order their cds so its been like a year+

Lets start with the beginning of EXO...

I know a lot of people do not have these since they are going for around $100 now. I bought my History CD for around $75 because it is slightly damaged on the inside and my What is Love cd was bought for $80. These are pretty cool but after a bought them I was always thinking "Why?"

Buyer's remorse.

But sometimes I look at these and I am really happy that I bought these.

My favorite era ever was the MAMA era. The song, the MV, and the clothes were all awesome and I don't think anything could top it. The album was designed in a very cool way.

After the year-long wait EXO released the XOXO album which is my favourite album song wise. I loved every song that was in this album. 

Since XOXO has most of the songs that are in here other than a few. But the new ones that were included were not my favorite. They didn't appeal to me, and that includes Growl. I admit that Growl is a good song but it is just not my style and XOXO and Lucky are songs that I haven't gotten into yet...

MID is such a cute album. All of the songs are adorable. They really put a lot of time and effort into this album for the fans. Sooo many ballads...

The Luhan MAMA photocard is my favorite. When I first got it and held it I immediately put it back in the album and it didn't register in my mind that it was Luhan's until like five minutes later. Sehun's is the only one that I actually purchased. I also have the group and Sehun for the snowglobe standees for my MID album.

And everything is stuffed in a Madewell shopping bag lol. Everything used to be set up in like a "kpop shrine" format but then there were too many EXO cds and I had my Japanese magazines siting right next to them so I started to run out of room.

I was thinking about switching to a wordpress blog but I don't know where to host... Site5 has pretty cheap rates. I might do it when I finally get a part time job. also the domain is now sehun.org. It used my be my tumblr's domain but tumblr had a hard time loading straight domians so now my tumblr is main.sehun.org because subdomains work. and i also have blog.sehun.org which is more fashion.

[6] Japan Trip Part 2: {Traditional} ♥

This being said I wanted to post the three Japan trip posts one-after-another but do to my birthday, my brother's birthday, graduation, and my graduation dinner (and my dad's birthday this weekend) needless to say that I have been pretty busy.

My birthday and graduation were both fabulous and I'll probably post about them later after my last Japan post.

 Also I ordered EXO's 1st full album:WOLF. Which I will probably take pictures of and spam this blog and I also have ordered my first pair of circle lenses. (They are actually my third but I never wore my other ones due to school.) They are the Royal Vision Cinderella Gray. Hopefully I will be reviewing them soon.

Now onto the photos~~

I'll honestly say that during this trip I never really took any pictures of temples of shrines. I mean I did but I didn't care enough to memorize the shrines nor did i memorize the cities. Most of these were from Hiroshima, Kyoto, Tokyo and Miyajima. During this trip I was mostly attracted to shopping, Tokyo, and Osaka. I have more photo's but I believe that these are the best ones.

While making these posts lately, I've been going around and studying other photography and fashion blogs and I noticed that most people have their own editing styles. Light, Dark, Black & White, Textures, Purikura effects and Soft Focus; and I think its really cool how people define themselves through their blogs and also how they edit their photos. I just think that its cool and I don't think most people recognize that kinda stuff.