Moshi Moshi Japan!

I love Japanese culture, Tokyo is in my top 5 of holidays I must take! At the moment I can’t afford these mysterious things called holidays so for now it’s just on one of my many lists of things I must do.

In the meantime I am going to get my Japanese fix at Hyper Japan 2012 

Hyper Japan is the UK’s biggest J-Culture event with stands and shops selling and promoting all things Japanese, both traditional and contemporary!

Theres Japanese Holiday Tours and food, including Sake Tasting and the Sushi Awards 2012 are part of the event, films (including a showcase of Third Window films), books, comics, music, including performances by actress and J-Pop singer Natsuko Aso

 There is also going to be stalls selling Vintage Kimonos, Modern Street Fashion, Gifts and Home wares. I think this will be my favorite part of the show and I’m sure to spend a silly amount of money!

I can’t wait to see all the Harajuku and Lolita girls all dressed up! They put so much effort and detail into what they wear it’s so impressive, whislt on the subject of dressing up there will also be Cosplay events taking place over the Hyper Japan weekend. Cosplay is short for Costume Play, it’s a hobby where people make and wear costumes based on their favourite Anime, Manga, Film or Video Game Characters and there are competitions for the best costumes!

To get me even more excited and in the mood for some Japanese fun I’m going to watch the achingly cute but equally very strange J-Pop music video Pon Pon Pon by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

 

 

going home for christmas

Hello everyone, I’m so sorry I’ve not posted anything in the last 2 weeks. I have been off travelling around being the dutiful daughter & visiting my family.

Now I’ve already managed to make it sound like I haven’t enjoyed it, but i have, I really have. Now here I am the last day of the holidays & slightly dreading the return to work tomorrow, partly nervous because I’m starting a new job; thinking back over the last couple of weeks…. it all started with a trip to Cornwall to see all my family (apart from my Mum who is now based in Lincolnshire), where, apart from a bit for ice, was another world away from the rest of snow ravaged England. Of course the first thing I did is head to the coast around Portreath & Porthleven where the views are so achingly beautiful it almost makes me want to move back to the homeland!

After a couple of days of partying with my Cornwall based family, I headed north to what felt like a completely different country, Lincolnshire where my Mum now lives. The countryside is so completely different to the hilly, narrow, bendy country lanes of Cornwall, it’s very very flat & expansive & the roads feel bizarrely long & straight. Saying this it is no less impressive, just have a look at the sunrise on the first morning I was there.

look I’m driving in a winter wonderland!

After a few days of the necessary excessive eating & drinking with my brother & Mum I headed back to London for a pre new years evening at Proud Galleries watching my good friends band The Bela Lugosi Blues , it was a great night although quite terribly I have forgotten to take any pictures of them playing but instead everyone became quite distracted by a certain Red Brigadier Guards jacket that I had brought with me. I was actually returning it to my darling friend Ross who was very excited & insisted I try it on & have my picture taken…

… then everyone tried it on & had their picture taken…. don’t we all look terribly dashing!

Oh well enough fun time to get back to the real world & my new job…Wish me lots of luck! x

glorious glyndebourne

i am overwhelmed with sadness because there is a serious lacking of magical feelings today, i was thoroughly overloaded by them yesterday, when i made my first visit to the Glyndebourne opera house in Lewes to watch Rusalka. For the ones that don’t know Glyndebourne is part of ”the season” in the same realms of Royal Ascot & Henley. The venue itself is a grand house owned by family that built an opera house on site, which itself is breathtaking inside & out. The auditorium is entirely made of wood & has beautiful acoustics.

the event is basically a black tie  picnic / opera performance, with terribly civilised breaks between acts to allow for the tux & ball gown clad guests to tuck into their champagne suppers in the grounds.

the excitement began even before i’d got as far as Lewes, first there was the dressing up in my lovely dress, then there was the curious looks as myself & Seb made our way in gown & tux to Victoria. the closer we got to Victoria & then the closer we got to Lewes on the train, we spotted to more & more people also dressed up to the 9′s carrying picnic hampers. it was like we were all in on this big magical secret! i loved it!

the performance i saw was Rusalka a story of a water nymph who falls in love with a human with cursed consequence’s, you might know the squeaky clean adapted version as Disney’s the little Mermaid (there are no blood thirsty mischievous in Walt’s version). the performance, stage & costumes (my favourite part) were fantastic!! here’s a few pics

i can’t wait to go again! back to reality & not wearing evening dresses during the day :(

xoxo

the girls are in charge

tonight me & tammy went to see our friends band  ”what would jesus drive”, they had just gotten back from a tour round NY & LA in america & were all full of good news as they are releasing a single at the end of august & their album around the 14th september! you can see their cute little video for the single called “the girls are in charge” on youtube.

also look at my pictures my phone came up with, all blurred & smudgy!

check them out on myspace& join their group on facebook etc they are fabbo!

xoxo

freebie

woo!  last night me & Seb went to see the Noisettes in the iTunes festival @ the Roundhouse, it was all wonderfully free!

i’ve only heard a couple of their songs but i now am completely in love with them! the lead singer Shingai Shoniwa is now my 2nd favourite leading lady (after the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s front lady Karen O, who i think is unbeatable!). She was prancing barefooted around the venue, off the stage, on the drum kit, in the crowd in the coolest shiny hot pants & gold sequined bodice & cape, with the most impressive hair i’ve ever seen!

i love their 50′s rock & roll / motowny sound, complete with dancing backing singers & a string section. i am now on my way to the iTunes store to download their album! You get it too, i think it will be tremendous!

sorry for the fuzzy pictures my phone’s camera is a bit pants & i was too busy dancing to get a good pic!

xoxo