Friday, May 22, 2009

Photoshop fun!

So I took a pic of myself. I am wearing make-up but not alot. I liked the pic so I played with it in photoshop. What I fixed could have also been done with make-up and better lighting. 
The funny thing is I think the photoshopped pic looks more like me. Like how I see myself. XD
Photoshop is fun! :D

Monday, May 18, 2009

Tickets booked! :D

Yay, finally I booked my ticket to Japan!
I'll be there from August 9th to September 18th. :D
It'll be the longest vacation in Japan I've had. Hopefully they'll keep getting longer and longer until one day I'm actually living there. ;) Haha!
First I'm going to Osaka for a couple of weeks.
I'm gonna buy a cute yukata and celebrate obon with my friend. Finally I can go to a matsuri! 
Can't wait!!
And maybe after that I'll go to Okinawa for a few days. I really want to go there so I hope that won't be too expensive.
After that I might go couchsurfing in Tochigi. I love the countryside and I know a great place in the middle of nowhere where I can couchsurf. While I'm there I'll go to Nikko.
Then I'm going to Tokyo for the rest of my trip to hang out with my friends. <3
And shop! XD

Oooooh I'm so exited! lol

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Sweden <3 Japan = true


I was watching this awesome okinawan enka song.  Then it struck me that the rythem and sound of the strings sounded very similar to a type of swedish folk musik. "Gånglåt" I thought.
So I searched youtube for "gånglåt" to compare. And what do I find?!

This!! :D
And japanese ppl dancing swedish folkdance. Wearing traditional clothes and everything! lol
I was very surprised. And I guess it strengthened my theory that maybe our traditional music is not so different!
And it made me wanna dance folkdance again. I used to do it when I was a kid. It's fun!
Also I used to play that song on the violin. "Gånglåt från Äppelbo"

But this next song is more what I was thinking about when I heared the enka song.


Anyway.
I feel awesome. lol

Good night!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Enka!

This is one of my favourite songs right now. Mikawa Kenichi is awesome!
I wanna be an enka singer in Japan. :D
Lately I've been listening to enka alot. I really like it. Especially the more traditional sounding older songs.

I'm so tired today and I hurt my arm somehow. It just hurts. I don't know why.

I feel like singing really loud right now but I don't think my neighbours would like that. ;)

Anyway I'm gonna make another cup of tea. Sencha <3
And eventually I'll go to bed.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

I need more time!

There's not enough hours in a day.

I want to study japanese but I want  to be good at singing so I'm doing that instead.
Improving my voice and skill is something I've always wanted to do.
I wanna be a good singer! I know I'm not bad but I'm far from great. lol
Singing lessons would be awesome. I need to learn some techniques I think.
I post the stuff I'm fairly pleased with in the playlist at the bottom of this page.
Still needs alot of work. XD

I think my diet is going good.
I'm so gonna win! :D I hope.

Rawr!