Weeks go fast

Hi everybody~

Only a little less than two weeks and I'll be in Korea :D
So my this week has been quite busy. On tuesday I went to Jumbo mall with Annina because I needed to buy some things. We also went to eat lunch to newly opened Tamarin restaurant. It was great, I'm fan of thai food :P They also had very nice deco although the restaurant seemend a bit too stuffed to be honest. Aisles were too narrow to walk because tables were so close to each others.

On wednesday I went to just to do little shopping with mom. She wanted flowers for easter time so we went to get tulips.

On friday I went to Helsinki to first color my hair in the morning, my haircolor had started to turn too light brown and gold/yellow... I seriously hate that kind of shade >_< after coloring it has stayed a bit gold :/ but I'm happy because it's lighter shade afterall.
After coloring I met with Linda and we picked up movie tickets to Divergent: Allegiant movie which we went to watch in the evening. But before going to movies we went to eat to this new ramyeon restaurant called Momotoko. They had late lunch 12€ which was excellent, I ordered Korean Kimchi pork donburi rice which was kind of close to kimchi fried rice. It was very good and I was seriously full after eating only half xD they have very filling, big portions :) Linda had chili tonkotsu pork ramyeon which looked delicious also~

This weekend I have just been chillin and planning more about my trip to korea. I like to plan at least some days beforehand so I won't miss for example some sights I absolutely wanna see.
I will leave already on friday but because time difference and long trip (about 10 hours flight) I'll arrive on saturday morning. I have my first weekend already booked; on arrival day I'll meet my bf and spend whole day with him. On second day (sunday) I will spend with Anniina enjoying Block B's concert :P

And Anniina promised to visit Everland with me either first or second tuesday :D I finally get to see it! I have visited Lotte World and ever since first trip to korea I wanted to see Everland amusement park. It's just that it's a bit outside of Seoul. But finally going to experience it :D

And other planned thing for second week is on 13th when I'm going to watch Mata Hari musical with Anniina. My favorite person from idol world ever aka VIXX Leo will be in it~ and also Shin Seung Rok will be in it who played the bad guy in "You who came from the stars" -drama which is my favorite drama ever. I can't wait to see the musical!!

Whole last week I have been addicted to watching korean cosmetics reviews of what people recommend to buy especially from korean bb cushions. It's funny that before I wasn't even caring much about cosmetics. Like up to 24 years I used only a little of powder and that's pretty much it. But somehow skincare and makeup products started to interest me last year and I'm watching those review videos like "omg, I have to try that" xD
I still like natural look though. I'm not a person who wants to look like I have ton of makeup on. And I prefer pastel colors like really light. I don't like to attract attention >_<
And I guess interest for skincare came along because my skin is veeeery sensitive and after using makeup I have to make sure my skin isn't irritated. I hate my atopic skin =_= I'm also interested in korean cosmetics because they have nourishing and moisturizing makeup products, those kind of products won't irritate my skin so often as some western makeup products. Although I know some korean brands that tend to have products that causes irritation.

Anyway now it's propably a convenient time to move to cosmetics review :P

Etude House Princess happy ending Snow White BB cream
Price: 15€ / $16
Where can I get it: propably on ebay. This was limited edition so it's mostly sold out

Even though this is mostly sold out I wanted to do a review. I bought a light beige tone (there were only 2 tones available). It was very suitable for my skintone, it blended well. I fell in love with the packaging, it's very cute and because I loooove cute stuff I was like I have to buy this :D
Texture was very flowy but when applying it, it left kind of cakey feeling. I used this like couple days and I was yelling "yes, finally an etude bb cream that doesn't cause anything to my skin." I was too early to be happy about it.. on third time I used this and washed it off at evening my skin from cheeks was very red and full of small pimples. I soooo liked the packaging and the tone but I can't use this because it irritates my skin =_= Lucky, I got my skin calmed with my evening skincare routine.
Would I buy this again: if I even have chance it's a no. It left me with red marks on my skin...
Score 2/5


That's all for this week~
Lastly, I want to recommend a great drama that I'm watching currently;
Descendants of the sun. It tells a story of a special force soldier and a doctor; how they meet and how their lives mingle in time of crisis. It's very well written and sucked me in starting from the very first episode~ It has actually caused a huge hype in korea and I don't wonder why anymore. Definetly check this out!

Seoul, I'm ready!

Hello everyone!

So my week started with ticket panic. I'm going to see Block B Blockbuster in Seoul on April 3rd with my friend Anniina (who's in Korea in exchange). And on last monday they released ticket sale for non-fanclub members. Not all concerts sell tickets in global site but lucky for me this one did have global site sale. (Korean companies have often domestic and international sites because on domestic sale they ask korean id and phone number).

I have bought from yes24 before and I thought this will go with no worries. I was wrong. At first I got very good seats and noticed seats are going fast. When I was ready for payment the site complained I have to install their payment plug for my computer. So when I did, poof, the seats what I got vanished. It closed my whole internet and I had to go to booking again and as you can guess, I lost the good seats. I got another seats from a little upper stand but then the payment program crashed... I was like seriously?! Now I lost good seats for second time. Third time when I went to booking, all first stand seatings had been sold out... so I had no choice but to take seats reaaaaally far from stage. But I was happy I even got one. So a tip for those buying from yes24; go to some show's booking and "reserve" seats and go to payment. It will suggest you to install that payment program. So that way you will get the program before the intended concert sales starts and you will not lose any seats like me because of that program installing.

Anyway, I got tickets so I was happy~ but then on tuesday evening when I was curious how many seats are left and went to check, for some reason they had released really good seats on sale! So I cancelled my previous ones and bought the ones with really good view~ So I'm happy and my friend's happy :P At least I'm going to see one concert while I'm in Korea. Last two times I was so frustrated when two artists that I listen held a concert just before I went there...

But yeah, going to see these boys:

On tuesday I went to lunch with my parents. It has been so long since I went out to eat with my parents. Mainly because it's quite expensive here in Finland. We went to one luncheon in near city, Kerava. It was upstairs of one car center so it's quite hard to find and I think only locals know it. We got to know about it from my aunt who lives in Kerava :P It was actually pretty good lunch, for only 8,70€ you got main dish, side dish, soup, sallad and coffee. And the sallad buffet OMG it was HUGE! I bet you could be full even from all that sallad lol.

On wednesday I went to Helsinki with Annina. First I had to visit verkkokauppa.com because I had bought Sony headphones which broke so I got them changed to new ones. There was still guarantee left, lucky for me. They were expensive headphones so I would have propably raged if I couldn't have gotten new replacement.

So after visiting there we went to lunch in Morrison's. I have to say you will find best steaks and hamburgers in town from there! I chose steak and it was soooo good! And filling! And I absolutely love their potato wedges.

After being totally full and satisfied we headed to cosmetic sales in Sokos.
They were having this "Kutsu kauneuteen" which roughly translated means "invite to beauty." I had previously looked through their brochure and knew exactly what I was looking for but it was also nice to browse and just look what new things different cosmetic brands are bringing to europe. And why I say to europe because those trends have been in asia for quite awhile. Like the new Lancome oily lipstick which has been trending in asia since last year.
Anyway, I found what I came for; Sensai concealer brush in shade 1 and Biotherm Aqua-Gelee ultra fresh body repleshiner body lotion. (what a long name lol). I will review these some time, I haven't opened the body lotion yet. I tested it in store though and it was soooo good like I fell in love instantly! It was gel like body lotion that spreaded amazingly well and dried up in minutes, even seconds.

After being hyped about what I bought we went to just looking what new Body Shop, L'occitane and Yves Rocher has to offer. From Body Shop I found this English rose series that I sooo wanted to try but I just had bought cosmetic products and I have the upcoming Korean trip (where I know I'll go crazy with cosmetics lol) so I restrained myself buying anything xD L'occitane mannerheimintie has by the way nice new store! They have renovated and it looks so inviting~

On thursday I got myself travel insurance, finally. But it has gotten so expensive, it used to be 46€ for one trip that lasts less than 3 weeks... now it's 51€.. turva has still the cheapest travel insurance though. I always have gotten it from them.

Now I'm ready for Korea. I just have to calculate my budget for first week (because I will be getting more money on my account first week wednesday or friday). So I have to calculate spending money for saturday to at least wednesday from what I have on my account now (and I tell it's not that much being unemployed and all).

I have been quite hype about Korea this week. I have been linking too much cosmetics things to Annina (sorry :P ). But in Korea they have too many new things I want to try, a few being peripera cushion blusher, skinfood cushion bottle and banila co cleansing zero.

Just chillin'

Hi everyone and sorry I haven't posted for awhile (or at least if feels like that for me lol).

I've had nice week. On sunday-monday night I was at Annina's place and we watched the Oscars. It was nice but because airing time was between 2am to 7am I was a liiiiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit tired xD So on monday I was like zombie xD

On tuesday I met with Linda and we shopped a little and went to eat Thai food nomnom. I found LP Seoul pocket guide and it was only 12,95€ in Suomalainen kirjakauppa so I had to buy it :P It's small so it's convenient to carry on with~ And LP does best travel guides!
Now I have about all ready for my trip to Korea. I'm only missing travel insurance but gonna buy it soon~

On wednesday I accompanied my mom to near mall. She had some things to solve with our phone operator and wanted me with her (because apparently I have bigger understanding how things work lol).

And now rest of the week I have just been chillin lol. Next week on monday Block B Blockbuster concert in Seoul tickets will be on sale so I hope to get tickets for me and my friend. Finally I'm in Seoul when there's a concert I want to see :P
And on wednesday I plan to go to Helsinki with Annina, there's cosmetics sales in one department stores so we're gonna check it out (I know I shouldn't buy any cosmetics but I saw they had Sensai's concealer pen discounted with a very good price!). And I should visit one electronic store where I bought my expensive headphones... because they broke :/ and I did use them only like 4 months <_< so I should go and change them since there is guarantee left still..

About last week

Last week was pretty quiet except for Saturday.

So last saturday I worked as part of Gloria's volunteer staff in History's concert. Here in my blog I'm going to tell only about my general work experience. If you expect to hear some juicy backstage stories etc. I have to disappoint you. I have professional attitude to every work I'll do and I'm very strict about keeping privacy of certain things.

Everyone who was working in there, knew somebody from staff (voluntary workers) or then were actually working there and getting paid. And all voluntary staff had been asked to work there, we didn't contact organiser or gloria ourselves. We got to hear that too many fans were trying to get inside to work there. I have to say to those who were sending too many messages; can you please control yourselves. Just because you're a fan you think it's ok to send billion messages to organisers begging to take you to work there. And the thought behind of all is that you could see the artist in backstage. Sorry to crash all dreams but it doesn't work that way AND you'll need a professional working attitude to work in a concert venue! You will not get anywhere by acting like you lose it every time the artist walks by. So if you know your favorite artist is coming to do concert, please stop harrassing the organisers with your messages! They will not look kindly upon fans who try to get to backstage by the excuse of asking to work in there.

My day wasn't very good to begin with, to be honest some staff treated us badly. I was there to work with couple friends and my job was to sell fan merch. And because of some fans tried to push themselves in as a staff there (by sending messages of "please let me work there"), some of actual staff showed bad attitude towards us from the start. I can partly understand that, it does not look very good if too many young looking girls are walking around in the venue. But we were still actually working there... and to avoid misunderstadnings they could have actually asked for example my age and what I'm doing in there because some of staff referred to me as "fangirl staff" or "that teen staff over there." I know I have a babyface and propably look like ordinary teen fan who got lucky and got inside through someone but misunderstandings could have been solved by just asking me with couple questions...

So my job was selling merch, I had my friend with me; she did all accounting. We were assigned to it because both of us has experience being sales assistants and handling money. Well, so has the other two volunteer workers xD but one of them were assigned to ticket selling and one was helping organiser. Because merch table was actually inside the venue hall we got to enjoy concert while selling fan merch. I have to say History boys were awesome, I wished I would have bought an actual ticket to watch :P But I have my Korean trip coming in a month so I have to save money. Anyway I was having good time watching concert behind merch table also. And we got good sales, every customer we got were great and no problems there :)

When concert ended we got no info when to pack things up. Meet&greet started a shortly after and during it we wondered if we should close now or not. We finally decided to close up when queue to m&g was almost finished. We were in a quite bad mood because we got no info, no official staff around who could answer our questions etc. So we decided to go up where propably over half of the staff was arranging m&g. I gave important things to head of staff when we found him and then we like were just saying that we're ready to leave when suddenly someone just grabs us and was like "go to line and go thank the artist" and all of us who volunteered were like what? And then suddenly I found myself shaking hands with History members and they said thank you to all staff individually. Because my day wasn't that good this brightened up my mood majorly! And after handshakes we got pushed into staff photo xD Whole time I was like what is even happening lol. And in that staff photo I have very confused facial expression, I almost look like somebody made me go into that photo by force xD I just want to say that History boys were sweet even though I didn't know the group before this concert. They were so down to earth and nice to fans and staff equally.

photo by Gloria

To finish this text I just want to say to those certain fans that please behave! Seriously. You're ruining other fans reputation. Do not send messages and harrass official staff and do not follow the artist around town, that's stalking. And it's especially NOT ok to look every opportunity you have to sneak to backstage and steal something that might've belonged to artist in question. I have been in concerts as a fan so I know how excited you get when you meet your favorite artist BUT it's still not ok to act like that...
And to some who might critizise me for saying this even though I got to work there; I actually got asked to work there instead of pushing myself in to work. And being unemployed I went there gladly. I'm tired of staying at home all the time so I was happy to get a chance to actually work and be useful. And just to say; they also confirmed from us that we're _not_ fans of History so it will not cause any problems (about how we act).

This week there is one winter market event in my town in saturday so I'm going there with a friend just to look. And then with my friend on sunday-monday night we're going to watch the Oscars :P yep, it's that time of a year again~ So at least something to look forward to.

Last week

Hi everyone~

I haven't had anything really special going on lately. Well, except last weekend.
On friday I went to movies to watch Deadpool with Annina. I actually liked it even though it was clearly directed to men xD I'm sometimes weird because I might prefer action over romance, so not girly :,D Before the movie we went to lunch and did a little shopping. I was saying to myself like mantra that "don't buy any cosmetics"..... well I bought anyway xD There was some really great deals! Like I got Cacharel's anais anais edt+body lotion package with only 15€. But after this I seriously reprimanded myself that now I have to refrain buying any cosmetics xD Because I'm going to korea in little over month and I know I'm going to buy soooooo many cosmetics from there (because there's quality products with cheap prices<3 ).

On Saturday I went to meet two of my friends I haven't seen for long time. They're leaving for Korea this week~ so we talked alot about travelling in Korea while we ate sushi :P
By the way I totally recommend this restaurant called Sushi House in Kerava. Usually sushi buffets are a little low in quality but this restaurant had great tasting sushi and many varieties! And there was some warm foods also included in buffet. And it was really affordable price; 9€/weekdays, 11€/weekends. Top of that, excellent customer service and modern looking interior.

14th was valentine's day and here in Finland we have a bit different meaning to it, it translates to friend's day. So in here besides couples celebrating, friends might celebrate too. I went to lunch with Annina and surprise surprise we ended up to that same sushi house restaurant I was the day before xD But it was soooo good! After lunch we just browsed shops a little bit and then decided to leave to home.

This week, well I'll tell about this week's weekend next week :P But I don't have anything special weekdays this week either :/ I'm just your normal bored unemployed person lol. I'm really fed up staying home =_=

Hello hello long time no see~

Sorry for being so quiet for awhile. It's just that there hasn't been that much happening in my life these few weeks :,D

Last week I went to movies on monday with my mom, we watched The Revenant. Let me say, do not spend your precious time for that movie; half of it was listening Leonardo DiCaprio breathing and walking in forest. I reeeeeally don't know why it got so many Oscar nominations, well maybe some people see something artistic in it. But for me it was plain boring.

On firday I finally got my Starlight package! To those who don't know, I'm a fan of one kpop group called VIXX. They're the only kpop group I actively follow and cheer on. I joined their official fanclub for second time (yes, official, in korea about every kpop group has official fanclubs) and got my fanclub package which contained my club card, photocard greetings and fluffy poncho. And VIXX's fanclub name is Starlight. And now because it's 3rd generation since first official fanclub opening, we are called Starlight3 (별셋). There are different benefits belonging to official fanclubs but I won't explain it here :P

Here's couple songs from VIXX so you'll know what they're about:

Last Sunday I went to chinese new year event in Helsinki with Linda. It was fun! First we watched couple chinese traditional dance performances and then we browsed through different booths selling either food or chinese stuff like chinese knots and chopsticks. We bought dumplings and chicken to eat, was delicious! I also bought monkey plushie which is very cute<3

After browsing we decided to head to Steam coffee kaisaniemenkatu which is one of my favorite cafes in Helsinki. I ordered matcha latte which is basically a green tea latte. I fell in love with green tea latte while I was in Korea and the latte in Steam coffee has pretty similar taste so I can recommend it to all who like green tea latte :) I also ate my first laskiaispulla (shrove bun) this year :P because here in Finland it was shrove sunday.

One of Linda's friends joined us after awhile. We were pretty much just spending time talking while waiting fireworks event to start. Finnair sponsored fireworks to chinese new year event and it started a little after 6pm. It was arranged in Töölönlahti bay and even though weather was really cloudy and foggy we still enjoyed the fireworks!

Nordic travel fair weekend

So yesterday I went to Matka 2016 - Nordic travel fair in Helsinki. Two of my friends, Annina and Linda accompanied me as well as my mom.

We were there about 12pm and started our tour. Firstly we were greeted by Spain booth with flowers, so nice! But I ruined my flower like in 12 minutes :( well, at least I have pretty photo about it xD

We started just looking around and found Estonia's booth after Spain. I went to talk about Tallinn because I plan to do 2-day trip sometime this year. So I got couple brochures (they had alot about Tallinn so it was extra nice!) and then after small talk session we went forward.

We ended up to Iceland's booth and I got some more brochures. I'm interested about Iceland and I defiently want to visit there in near future. It was pleasant surprise that Iceland had big booth with Icelandair.

Then we just walked and looked around while my mom visited couple booths to ask about living abroads (mom was interested in spain and portugal which were easy to find and the assistants have lots of advices).

After walking around near Argentina's booth we spotted Korea~ Had to go there and just grab every brochure available xD They had this yellow Subway partner brochure which I browsed through and I found it really useful! I don't have better singe photo about it now in here but it was yellow and kinda small. Everyone, I advise you to grab it with you because inside was like with which line you will get to most famous places in Seoul and which exit out you have to take. It's size is very practical, you can basically have it with you while you're travelling in Seoul without having to carry large travel guide just to know which line and exit you have to take to go for example gwanghwamun square.

After visiting Korea's booth we looked around long-haul destinations part. We visited Panama/Costa Rica's, Thailand's, Malaysia's, Japan's and Indonesia's booth. Thailand showcased their handicraft again and I can't help but silently admire that kind of amazing work. Japan had a small robot show going on and it was so cute! Japan had big booth and lots of info, Linda was excited because she's propably going to Tokyo this year and she got many brochures about Japan and Tokyo.
Then got some brochures from Indonesia and also got memory stick, which was interesting wooden model. My mom visited Bali's booth in the meantime.

After hanging out in long-haul destinations area and getting tea from Sri Lanka's booth, we walked towards Finnair's booth. They had this fun competition, you can win flights to Asia if you post photo of yourself in plane seats (they had couple seats from their newest Airbus in there). So we took couple photos and took part to competition. I really wanna get one more trip to Asia this year! :P

Then we just walked aimlessly through some european countries booth's and decided to stop by and eat beside Greece's booth. We ate one greek dish I already forgot xD Sorry~
 After being full from eating good meal, we walked a little in Finland's section and talked how we could promote us much more to foreigners than what we promote now. Also, we talked how finnish people often say to foreigners in abroad "Finland is boring, don't go there." It's really bad advertisement for us so next time you go abroads, try think something positive about Finland when somebody asks "what's Finland alike?"

We were getting pretty tired already, Annina finally found Czech which she had been looking for all the time and I found Croatia which also interests me from europe. Then we pretty much stopped to listen Forex bank's program for a few moments and then decided that our concentration is starting to falter so it would be best to go home. 

I'd say this year Matka was more bigger than last year. But long-haul destination part was more smaller while europe section was more bigger. For me, I would have wished the other way ^^;;;
Because I'm mainly interested in Asian countries I found it a little disappointing for not finding for example Singapore. My mom wanted info from Phillipines but they weren't in Matka 2016 either.

But all in all, we enjoyed more than last year, for me Korea's booth was a definite plus and I liked how almost every worker in every booth were ready to give you information. From europe's section I think Iceland and Estonia had the most interesting booths!

I got excited with brochures xD

That's all today~ I'm going again tomorrow with different friend :P So let's see what is left because some booths run out material yesterday already. I guess Matka 2016 is more popular this year? ;)