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I saw my first jpop/rock-crush yesterday. T.M is so bloody awesome *o* It's actually hard to understand how absolutely mind-blowing he is and when he sings live...I dissolved XDD
I went there with Bibi, met up with Anna and her sister and Akiyo and I met Ceci, saw a few familiar faces and had a blast.
They preformed "Innocent sorrow" *bites lip* The entire crowd sang along and we jumped, and screamed until we nearly damaged our hearing for good XD;;;
There was this one guy in front of me, he had such a graceful way of digging to the music! XD And his haircut was made to be flown around like that.
The band was schmex on stage. No joke. With T.M up front they most definitely brought sexy back.

...*takes a minute to think back and drool*....

His Swedish is adorkable....and he threw his shirt to us *__* I didn't grab it but five other people did and they fought for it for at least fifteen minutes before they started to come up with ways for everyone to get a piece XDD Ceci and her friend got almost half of the shirt (Ceci grabbed my hand afterwards so technically I sort of kinda held his shirt too XDD;;...or not *cough*) Ceci gave her piece to another friend who's been a TM-fan since forever and he is hardcore too, so that was really sweet.

*drifts off to Dreamland"

I thought that I had a mellow weekend ahead of me. I went to the cinema with my family and a friend yesterday to see Micheal Jackson's "This is it". I loved the movie, it was cute and for the first time since first hearing about his death I realized how close I came to actually see him.
I have a friend that's a hardcore MJ-fan and he invited me to a concert, the thing was that I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to go...we were supposed to discuss it when I returned from Spain last summer but um, yeah...
Anyhoo, the movie was great. I was hoping that there would be people singing along or something but it was quiet for most of the time. There were people who cried o''o and as the ending credits rolled and they played "Heal the world" me and my siblings sang along and earned a couple of smiles :D

So, after the movie we were pumped and filled with energy and my cousin gives me a call asking if we want to see "Paranormal Activity". We agreed and me and my siblings went straight from Heron to my cousin's place (about an hour away with bus and train) and from there we went to Vällingby. We had a blast.
The movie...wow, if you want to get scared like never before, you need to see this movie. The movie was NUTS! We were scared to death. When the movie was over it was well past midnight. I think it ended 01:30ish and we were back at Nallie's place around 02:30...
Seriously, "Paranormal Activity" is so close to home it's freaky. It's not like classic American horror (that sucks) like "Halloween", "Scream", "*insert random American horror movie here". This was true horror. No gore, no limbs being chopped off, no lame plot...it was a great movie!
We barely slept. We went to sleep sometime around six in the morning XDD;; We were seriously scared shitless. I'm tired and I have homework to do that's due tomorrow *___*
Friday was a late night out as well so I'm sleep-deprived.

Next weekend; ABINGDON BOYS SCHOOL!!!!! \(^_________________________^)/

I had quite a fun day today. There's nothing really special to rapport except for a talk I had with Matt on my way home. The talk was about another conversation I had with a friend today.
Last weekend there was a BL-convention and I went there with Bibi, we had fun and all was nice. I wanted to attend the second day as well but I was too tired to do so. Anyhoo, my friend whom I spoke with today and is in charge of the BL-convention, told me about the Sunday and how cool it had been. By what she told me it seemed great. There had been a concert, people had a blast.
When I got to the central station I got a call from Matt and I told him about my day and about the day at the convention I had missed and he actually got a little upset o''o
I told him that the band had worn uniforms that were similar to the Nazi's uniforms but without the swastika...I get why that would upset him a little. Maybe I should have avoided bringing that up. His grandfather was a soldier during the World War 2 and he fought many battles against the Nazis. Then I told him that Hetalia!Sweden had won the cosplay-contest and that the crowd had stood up and sung the national anthem, which I thought was really cute. Usually people think it's really lame to be Swedish and sorta reject anything that is "too Swedish".
Matt saw it from a different perspective than I. I'm not really sure how he imagined it to be when I told him about the convention but he asked me if I didn't think it was a little scary and I wondered what was and then he said something along the lines of, "You're telling me that there was a band with semi-Nazi uniforms at a Japanese convention with people proudly singing the national anthem even after all the heated debates about the racist-party growing in power here in Sweden,"
And well, I hadn't really thought of it that way. I mean, I know that there was no intention of making it seem the way Matt is making it seem. It was a normal convention with people gathering to have fun with no intention of making political statements....but when Matt said that in the way he did, I don't know. I felt sick. The kind of sickness I feel when I over-think about certain things.
The first thing that hit me was that maybe I am as ignorant as I sometimes think other people might be.
My baby-brother asked me once if he could buy a game that's set in WW2 and I read on the description on the back of it and it said "Experience WW2 like you've never experienced it before" as if that was a good thing and I told him that I wouldn't allow him to get anything that glorified that war. I told him that it was important for him to know and keep in mind that there was nothing that could glorify war, especially not that war and he didn't get that game.
Now, I watch Hetalia. I've never thought of it as something that could offend people since the show is basically all about stereotypes...and some are not even good stereotypes *cough*Sweden*cough*...but some people in the fandom kinda ruin the series for me or rather they make me question how much of a good idea the show is.
I once came across a post where fans where whining because they had been sent to the school councelor because they were wearing swastikas and they couldn't see what was so upsetting about it.
*sigh* Matt is probably the closest I've ever gotten to WW2 and I think that I feel that I might have been disrespectful and I also feel a little scared over how fast people forget, even such horrible events like WW2.
The more I think of it the worse it gets. Israel condemned Sweden not too long ago and said something about Swedes secretly supporting Nazis after an article about Palestine in one of Sweden's most known newspapers. It wasn't long ago the Nationalistic Party went out with a really scary article about Muslims being the reason to everything bad that's going on in society in the same newspaper, and they've been getting a lot of time on TV as well.

I won't be able to see Matt until he gets back from the States. He's going to be gone for Thanksgiving and he might not be back until after Christmas....He told be to be careful and not get involved in anything weird while he was away ^^;; I'm just hoping that this yucky feeling will go away soon though.

I haven't been updating but I have been baking. I made a drop-dead gorgeous cheesecake for my cousin's birthday party last Saturday and it went home alright. Thanks to the party I came home on Sunday morning and left me dead on Monday *yawn* but enough about me, let's move on with the pastries and also...I haven't written down the cinnamon bun-recipe, but it's in the making.

First off, the lovely creation that is Banana Cream Pie....Matt is behind that piece of sin, with a lot of nagging from my sister as well. I didn't have the usual camera at hand when I did this so the quality of the image isn't what we've grown accustomed to ^^;;




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Chocolate Lime Cheesecake



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There is mooore~ *__* But that's for later. Now I'm off to make a Kladdkaka *__* Klah-dd-kah-kah...that's how it's pronounced. *poof*

*is gone*

*ahem* I'm not sure if this is just a day celebrated in Sweden or if it's something global. I think there's been a Cinnamon Bun Day for two years? So this would be the third Cinnamon Bun Day...this is probably a publicity stunt made up by companies to sell cinnamon buns but ah well, it gives me yet another reason to bake.




It's nothing advanced. I'd say it's basic baking and it's a lot of fun too :D I made them bigger than usual mainly because dad doesn't like it when things are really tiny (it's difficult for him to understand the concept behind fine dining XD;;) and I'm not sure if Matt was being overly American yesterday but he wanted the buns to be as big as Big Macs -.- My siblings loved them....which leads to the conclusion "The bigger the better"? ^^;;

Next week I'll start baking for a café :O Twice a week *(or whenever I have the time) and the money I make will go to sponsor a trip abroad for my brother and his schoolmates. I'm hoping that I'll be able to bake once a week at the very least. Right now I have one school project to finish by the end of the week, one translating-project, homework in Japanese and I have to keep studying for the final exam I have in Japanese. The last one is in mid-December but it's important to start studying as early as possible. I've also scheduled fun-activities such as Abingdon Boy's School-concert, going to the cinema (there are so many movies I want to see), BSB-concert (I'm making a childhood-dream come true :P)...there are games I want to play but unless I want to give up sleeping I'll just have to save myself for FF13 and leave it at that.

But for now, let's relax a little and have a cinnamon bun or two!

I've been updating a lot lately. I'm not doing it on purpose...I thought I would update when I baked something new but Matt has been force-feeding me with stuff from Tokyo Game Show and some things are really worth commenting :D
So what is it now, you might wonder? Squeenix came out with a new trailer for FFXIII titled "Episode Zero -Promise-" It's a prettiful trailer. I'm not a big fan of the song used in the background. Not at all. They could have used another song with a little more oomph. You're trying to tickle the interest, Squeenix. Not trying to make people fall asleep.

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I'm loving that black-haired girl with the tattoo. And Lightning too. That boy has a cool voice *__* I'm so gonna get this game in Japanese and endure the beginning, hoping that "the woman" shows a little backbone.

http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/ - if you wanna spoil yourself a little ^^. Beware of shirtless Snow! (Snow would be the Seifer-look-alike)

Yesterday I baked the Mother of all Sins! Also I baked my first failure. It was supposed to be a raspberry-mousse-cake but it didn't go so well. But oh well, back to my success :D
The Chocolate cake I baked yesterday was nothing of this world. It melted in the mouth and there was an explosion of three different types of chocolates...SINFUL I tell you! Me and my siblings went to the gym today and we exercised until we dropped! Then we came back home and there was still cake left and my brother took a piece and then he took a bite, looked at me and said, "That was one hour of exercise down the drain.." XDD
My sister announced that she was not going to eat anything "unhealthy" unless it was Saturday, but we'll see how long that will last. I might do some cupcakes today and there's a pie I want to try out ^o^

But ohh, I have a ton of homework to get done o''o




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Squeenix is going to release a perfume, a Cloud perfume. It's called Cloud Strife Eau de Toilette, it'll cost 70$ and I'm sure it'll sell 'cause c'mon, who doesn't want to know what the man would smell like?
I have to say that I cracked a rib laughing at the reactions. People cannot possibly be as ignorant as they make it seem. This comment here made me cry with laughter...seriously.

"Toilet water?

I probably don't get it since I haven't played FF7 in full, but who would wanna smell like a toilet?"

X,DD GOD!! And there's a crapload of comments like that but for some reason this one got to me the most XDD

Mmmm~
I baked yesterday ^o^ There's nothing like practice! I heard that the cupcakes tasted like tiny bits of heaven ^w^ I only had a taste of my awesome blueberrypie *___* It's insane how tasty it turned out and I didn't even have much sugar in it!


piiiee~ Now I want to do a French chocolatecake, trifflecake, whitemousse-cake....I have to go out and buy some fruit to garnish with @.@ I won't be baking until Friday though so there's time!

Nyaa~

This is going to sound a little out there but um, I think I've made a decision! Right now, I'm focusing on my future as a translator and on my Japanese - which by the way will be my priorities for as long as I can plan, but (!) I want to have yet another diploma....I have decided that I want to be a pastry chef! ^o^ Aside from being a translator, that is.
I've been doing some research and I am allowed to apply for the pastry chef-education at the vocational school here in my community and last application date is on the 30th of September meaning that I will most likely apply for it next autumn because right now I'm having my hands full with Japanese and the translator-course and future Korean-history-course ^^;;;
I went to the doctor yesterday and got some tests done and it showed that I'm too stressed which has led to me not being able to breathe properly aside from the fact that I also have a fugly cold - so, adding another big thing to my schedule is not recommended I'd say ^^;;
^___^ I'm really looking forward to it though! Gah, my interests are scattered all over the place - my mom will probably just sigh and shake her head, but maybe she'll be slightly relieved as well. She thinks I'm too into Japan and learning Japanese and that's why I'm so stressed buuut I beg to differ as usual ^____^ Kyaah, it'll be so cool!
Jenny left for London already and I didn't get the chance to say good-bye o''o I was stuck here at home, coughing and sneezing while trying to sleep for a whole week - but then again, I might visit her in London if my budget allows me to ^o^ I've also been thinking of applying to Cambridge but as it is now I'm not sure that's gonna happen in at least five years. I have way too many things planned already and next to no time.
I can't believe it's been two years already. Two years I've spent at the university and time just flew by, it feels like I've been there for a semester, barely!
I'm still the youngest in my class! Or...well, I know I'm the youngest in the translator-class!! XD

Maa, time for some studying now!

Yay! They're coming to Sweden in November!! :D :D So I wanna see them and MUCC ^o^ MUCC in London hopefully and abingdon in Stockholm <3<3<3 Kyaaaa~!

And Sony's releasing the PS3 slim version @.@ and there's a crapload of games I want to lay my hands on....and school starts next week which means I have to buy a lot of books...

*glances at my piggybank*....I need money....

I've been searching high and low for any jrock concerts in Europe and I have found nothing interesting -.- Miyavi's coming here in September but yeah, I don't know if I want to go @.@ I would rather go to a concert abroad, meet new people, see new places and as a bonus get to see a great band or two. Sadly, Japanese-centric events died out with Japan-Expo >.< I was in the wrong country back then! Spain was fun but...ah well, from what I've heard there weren't any bands I've heard of at Japan-Expo.
I was gonna go to a Kingdom Hearts-concert with Arnie Roth today but the ticket was really expensive...and I overslept so no concert for me today.
As it is now I'll just have to go to London and pester Jen-chan during Halloween XDD That's gonna be great. London in the middle of autumn...*sigh*
I'm gonna do what Anna-chan did, work my ass off for a year and then go away for half a year to Asia...there are so many places in China I want to see...but Japan has first-priority! For now Europe will have to do XP
Hmm...Venice might be nice?

Oh my dauuumn I never thought I would see the day when I would find myself watching a tokusatsu-show and ENJOY it!! I am in shock! It's all Matt's fault by the way! That man has been corrupting me the entire summer break! First he got me hooked on Ghost Adventures....Zak is such an adorkable clutz named Zaaaak <3<3<3 (what? I'm projecting my fangirl-feelings for CCZack to Zak?? Nooooooo~!) And then he totally gets me hooked on paranormal-night on Discovery Channel when I'm sitting alone in a huge apartment which totally meant that he had to keep me company which brings us to the tokusatsu-shows....
He got me hooked on Kamen Rider Kabuto....I can't believe it myself but it's true. Well, it's sorta kinda true. I watched episode 1-3 without fast forwarding and I laughed a lot. It's cute. Their weapons sound exactly like this "Pew-pew-pew!" XDD and their costumes are ADORABLE! And the way they move when they fight...I seriously cracked a rib laughing....thing is that I could have stopped watching there, but then I saw this MV....and I fell in love with Kageyama *_____________* So I started to download the series....and I skipped a couple of episodes to see if he showed up in episode 13 and he was in episode 13 so I watched the entire series in fast forward with the exception for the scenes involving Kageyama...and Yaguruma.......why isn't there more stuff with Masato (actor's real name...Kageyama's)?!?! I'm actually watching Ultraman (or whateverman) Nexus because Masato plays Ren for 12 episodes and he is so darn adorable!!! And there's a movie that was released this year with him in it but I can't find it anywhere *__* And I'm thinking of buying it but I need to know how much Masato's in there first *cough*

I don't know whether to give Matt a big kiss for making me watch all of this and give me so much to fangirl about or if I should hit him square in the face for making me fangirl when I have a test in two weeks!!!!...

Edit; I nearly choked on air when I suddenly realized one morning that Yaguruma is that dude from Ai no Kotodama....it just dawned on me from nowhere. I was doing something that had absolutely nothing to do with Kamen Rider when it just hit me. And I looked like a fish on land for a good few seconds before calling Matt to avenge all this corruption XDD

How is it possible to feel like you have a cronic fever?? I´m in Malaga right now, enjoying a two-week-long semester. Don´t know how that will work out seeing how the hotel I´m staying at has no Internet!!! *________* I´m downtown at an Internet Cafè.
I was actually looking foward to this trip. We decided to come here on Sunday and everything was fine and dandy until we got onto the plane!
They showed the saddest movie they could possibly show on an airplane aside from "The last samurai,"
They showed "Marley and Me" the one with Owen Wilson and the dog and Jennifer Aniston and GOOOOD it was so SAAAD!!!! I sat there CRYING!! And afterwards my head was about to explode and I couldn´t stop thinking about the movie and the dog and I just wanted to make the plane turn around back home so that I could snuggled with my cat ;____; and now I´m stuck here for two weeks....I hope I´ll shake this feeling off soon..stupid movie.
Had they shown AirCrashInvestigators I would not have had any problems at all, that´s a very interesting show and as sad as it is that planes crash it gets to me even more when stuff happens to a cute dog ;_____________;
To top things off I failed monumentally on two quizzes o´´o they´re not that important but still, I wanted top-score!
I have one left but I want to study to it before doing the test and then I also have to study Japanese liek whoa....

"Marely and me" is a movie you watch if you want to cry and feel miserable...me getting so caught up on it might also be because it´s about to be that time of month every woman has to go through but I think that despite that the movie was sad....

I´m hoping the Korean movie "Baby and me" is FUN because that´s what I´m going to watch a little later when I´m done walking aorund. Myuuup

BAAII

Be careful what you wish for - that's what they say and usually I keep that in mind when I wish for stuff but I never thought that me wanting to get my hands on more Sakurai-stuff would lead me to something traumatic >.>

As I was looking around on my f-list I saw this entry at the KKM-community and what do you know, there's a Sakurai-file up I hadn't seen before...it just so happens to be a H-scene with Saiga!!!!!!! I don't know why I'm being such a baby about it, I haven't even listened to it....I guess I find it more amusing than anything. It's like whatever cosmic power is watching us decided to slap me in the face XDD

Anyhoo, I think I want Souji to remain the girliest character I've heard her voice....and leave it at that XD;;

On another note, the European parliament enforced a law that forbids discrimination in working places. This has started speculations and maybe the Catholic church will have to accept female priests *_* I have my hands full with current projects so I don't have time to strive for that kind of career at the moment but I have always had a thing for biblical studies - and I also wanted to translate gospels that are still not translated and I also wanted to see the original gospels to read for myself what they were about....so I don't know...maybe in the future when I want to try something new :D

Gosh, what weird topics to smash in together under one post ^^;;;

I've fallen inlove and I've fallen hard *_*

Advent Children Complete blew me away. I had expectations for it but it took my expectations and ran away with it. The movie HURT, it was gruesome and bittersweet - it was very FF7ish.

I'm figuring Tetsuya wanted to make a tear-jerker after seeing what they could do with Crisis Core XD

But yeah, that's all I've got to say ATM....if you get the chance to watch ACC, take it! I LOVE IT!!!

Kyaaa~ I fangirled for like three hours XDD Bebe, lindo, IIIIH te voy a molestar con esto no se por cuanto tiempo!! XDD

<3<33<3<3<3<3<3

You're gone for a second and everything happens >.> Who knew Miyavi would tie the knot so early? And he has a visit from the stork scheduled in a couple of months too *_* I'm so not on top of things as I used to be :O

I went to a concert last Friday. I friggin' loved it! It was a Final Fantasy concert at KMH and although it wasn't up there with Distant Worlds it was still awesome. And the crowd was on fire that night XDD I met up with Bibi-chan (<3), I hadn't seen her in a while and Pandish was supposed to come but she had forgotten that she had already made a promise to another friend so she missed another FF-concert! *_*

I've been dying to read Heike Monogatari for a while now but I haven't been able to find the book yet and that sucks but in the meantime I'm reading about the Japanese Don Juan Genji...that's a man with serious problems where his snake is concerned, I tell ya. He's just spreading his seed all over Japan.

...I need more tiiime. Where does time go??? *goes back to study*

The last remnant >>>> they gave the prince a British accent X,D I'm amused....and you can't "kick ass" apparently...one kicks "tails" XDD

But the most amazing part...it has dual audio!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOJIIIKEEEN <3<3<3<3<3

*ded*

I just had a slightly heated conversation with a friend who was very upset because some doujinshi-maker (can't come up with a proper word ^^;;) recently decided to not sell her work to anyone in the US or Europe simply because someone put up one or two of her works on the Internet >.>;;

She (my friend) was rabbling about how evil that person was and that there was no respect and a whole lot of BS...the woman sells her stuff in China and no offense to Chinese people but the piracy-market isn't one of China's best kept secrets so I think it's pretty stupid of someone to think that their work would be protected from the means of the digital age and also ban two entire continets because of what ONE person did.

Not to mention that she too is violating copyright laws by using characters that don't belong to her without permission and making a name for herself using these characters - and then to have the nerv to get pissed off when her works end up on the Internet >.< She probably had Limewire running in the background while writing the statement on her blog!
And I don't care how accepted the entire doujinshi-market is in Japan, from a legal point of view it's illegal to use copyright-material without permission! - You can't be a pirate "sort of", if you enjoy the convinience of downloading then you should also be aware there is nothing holy for pirates!!!

*is very annoyed* >______

God knows I don't really have time for this now but I must write it down so that I can read about it when I'm old and bored XDD

Yesterday I hanged out with a couple of ma' boys - I figured that it had been a while and Alex (man, I know a lot of Alexs *______*) was dying to keep playing FF7 so there we sat, in front of the plasma-TV playing a PS1-game XD

Anyhoo, since I was sitting there with two manly men it didn't take long before the conversation slipped into the classical "Damn Tifa has a nice rack"....and no, we couldn't actually see her boobs in the game but both of them have seen AC...
I don't mind that at all - having a conversation about boobies that is, but here's the funny part - after a couple of comments Juan just had to say "Man, if I was Cloud I'd be all over that,"
I don't know how disgusted I must have looked but I looked disgusted enough for him to ask me what was wrong to which Alex laughed 'cause we've been through by OTP many times before XDD
I only asked him if he -really- wanted to know why Cloud wasn't all over "that" and he just yelled "No, man! C'mon! Don't make him gay!!"
XDD
But it's funny! Because I had his same reaction but to Cloud being all over Tifa, seriously, I get the beejeebes just writing about it! XDD And I thought to myself that maybe it was weird to get wigged out...but now it's like a normal reaction. I was hanging at a ff-forum the other day to see if there were any juicy news from Squeenix and well, there's going to be an OVA about Denzel and there was a dude saying that he was hoping for some CloTi-moments and my brain went immediatly "OH MY GOD NO!!"

So, after a moment, Juan gave and asked me to tell him why Cloud wasn't being a manly man and then I "opened" his eyes to something we fangirls noticed a long time ago - Cloud's toast is buttered on the other side XDD
Juan's answer to that was, "What about Aeris then?"......if Cloti wiggs me out....even before my brain was completely corrupted, even when I first played the game I failed to see/feel any romantic vibes between them...Aeris is like Cloud's mom for god's sake *shivers*

It's kinda amazing how fascinated he seemed afterwards though....I pulled out my PSP to show him scenes from Crisis Core and even though he was still disturbed by the thought that Cloud might like 'em on his own team, he did admit that it would explain a lot XDD

Wah, look at the time - *runs like the wind*

~rabu