When I read this, my heart stopped for a moment. I thought it was a cruel joke by someone with really-really bad humor. I was hoping it was a hoax...however, it is not.
Jasmine, I will miss your blogs, miss your skills, your talent, your presense.
I send my condolences to his family, friends, and to the members of the band.
Well, it sure took me a good two hours to type this up. I hope I didn't leave out anything important.
Warsaw (2009.06.23-25.)
So where was I ? Oh yeah! Upon arriving back from Nova Rock on the 22nd I just quickly collected myself, checked on my e-mails too, slept about 3 hours, talked on the phone with friends and family, and I went to get Risa at the station at 04:14 pm. Of course her train was late and I was glad I told her to take this one. If she took the later train, lord knows she might've missed the train to Warsaw, which was scheduled to leave at 07:58 pm.Since we couldn't talk things over before I left to Austria we were a little disorganized. Risa left her bag at the place where you can leave your luggage guarded for a few hours and off we went to get my stuff from the flat. We also packed all the chips we could find for the 12 hour journey ahead of us. We still had to buy drinks at the station. Risa started to panick because our friend, Adri, had to work until 6 that day...and what if she arrives late, you know, just the usual.
In the end she wasn't late and we waited two hours at the station to finally board the train - which left almost an hour later then scheduled. Great. I was also worried whether Kyote would know when to come to get us in Warsaw, since in the hurry we forgot to exchange cell phone numbers. Luckily, I left her a MySpace message with my number before we left the flat, and sure enough she texted me when we were somewhere in Slovakia in the night.
She told us that Ra:IN (band of Pata of X Japan) is holding a free show in Warsaw on the 23rd and asked if we wanted to attend, and of course we said yes. The 3 of us were a little sad that we missed Ra:IN playing in Budapest on the 20th and now we felt like "here's the chance." XDXDXD
During the journey, as we traveled in a second class regular car with seats, the conductor came in every country to stamp our ticket. It made sleeping extremely hard, although there was only the 3 of us in a 6 person cart. We played our own version of 20 Questions for a few hours, then we tried sleeping while listening to our mp3 players. From about 6 in the morning we were actively agonizing. Also, during the night we had a German guy sitting with us for a while, who of course started to chat with me in German. He couldn't sit at his reserved seat becauase someone else was sitting on it, but after Wroclaw he went there. And a Polish old lady also came to sit with us in Cracow, and she was totally scared. xD Poor little lady. I don't remember when she got off the train, and I didn't know where we were on the map of Poland either. Outside it was raining for a while, and we could only see miles and miles of fields everywhere. We didn't stop at any city either. Poor Kyote, I sent her so many messages. ^^;
And then, suddenly the train passed a place that had Warsaw-something as it's name, and a short while after it went into a tunnel, passing some big houses, and just as we were about to pack our stuff, the train stopped. I ran out to the corridor and asked a random guy if we were at Warsaw Central, and he said yes, so we just rushed off the train without any second thought. I'm glad we didn't leave any belongings behind. I don't understand why they didn't announce we were in Warsaw. What if we stayed on the train and it took us to Minsk? Never mind now. We got off and soon enough Kyote showed up with another girl, Jimmy, who offered us her flat to stay at for the time being.After a quick tram ride and much dragging around with all our luggage (I had a suitcase and a huge bag since I came to stay with Kyote in Cracow after seeing Dir en grey) we arrived at Jimmy's place. There we met Amaya, Kyote's roommate. Jimmy also has adorable rabbits - much to Adri's delight - and a nice lizard called Waru-chan (because it's a girl).
I slept for about 2 hours, no longer, than Jimmy asked if we wanted pizza so we ordered. We ate and agreed to go down to "Arkadia", a huge mall, with her. Jimmy left us there because she wanted to help Kyote and Amaya with the falg they were making for Dir en grey in the name of the Polish Street Team. The three of us spent about 2 hours in Arkadia, I exchanged euros, we went into a shop that sells all sorts of Asian food goodies (I tried the coconut flavored aloe vera drink but it wasn't that good xD) then headed back to Jimmy's.
We didn't know where to get on the tram and the people I asked kept on misleading us because their English wasn't that good or because they were also tourists. Finally, a young lady helped us find the station and on our way there I nearly got hit by a tram! I didn't see it was coming because I don't have eyes on my back and it missed me with mere 2 centimeters.
Did I mention how chaotic the public transport is in Warsaw? It's like living hell.There are many trams and buses, and usually up to 10 trams use the same tracks, of course headed to various different parts of the city. On a tram or on a bus, if the bus driver doesn't want to drive any longer, regardless if it's daytime or night, he'll just say "koniec" (the end) and everybody has to get off and wait for the next bus or tram, which could take up to an hour. o.O
By the time we arrived back to Jimmy's place a terrible storm broke out. It was raining ice and we were afraid it might break the windows. Despite all this, we decided to go out and see Ra:IN, according to the original plan.
At around 8 pm we left the apartment. On our way to Hydrozagadka (the club where the concert was to take place) we met another girl, Jimmy's friend, Kinga. It wasn't raining much by the time we arrived to the place. It was nice to see the Polish JRock scene, if only a segment of it. The club felt familiar to the place we ragularly go to have concerts and parties in Budapest. Here we tried the local favorite drink "Desperados", which is no other then tequila flavored beer. During the show I met Joan Nez, or rather she came up to me. There weren't many people. I tried to take a few photos but the security told us to put away our cameras.
About Ra:IN:
They need an experienced and good vocalist. Instrumental rock music just doesn't have what it takes to move me. They weren't bad, they just don't play my type of music, that's all. And I was annoyed by the fact that they all appeared to be rather drunk...It's their job, playing concerts...imagine if you were a secretary for example and drunk on the job. See what I'm talking about?
In the end I bought their European Tour Special Edition EP, just to have it, to show my friends back home that I too managed to see Ra:IN, if not in Budapest. We didn't stay too long, we all had the next day in mind as we headed home.Twice we had to change buses, and finally we ended up walking because, as I said, the bus driver just stopped and told us it was "koniec."
Dir en grey As you all know, the show was placed from Progresja to Stodola. For our luck we only had to take tram No. 10. from Jimmy's house. In the morning Kyote and Jimmy set out to be there among the very first, so they were sitting in line since about 6 am. I got up at 9 and Amaya asked me to go with her, to change Kyote and Jimmy. It wasn't that easy to find the tram but we finally got to Stodola. Kyote came to great us, then headed back home with Jimmy to get ready. I also called Adri, to tell them to get ready and to bring some food. While sitting in a window waiting, Kyote's friend Mana and another girl came to us. We went to the nearby store together, where I bought same pastries, caramel, Coke, and energy drinks, then headed back to waiting. When Kinga came to change us it was already around noon. Amaya and I headed back to Jimmy's, the 6 of us all got ready, packed all stuff we felt necessary, and left to Stodola.
The rest of the day we spent cracking jokes, placing our presents in Kyote's official Present Box, we also wrote our name on the Street Team flag, and fooled around. I got a text message from Elloran that they're at the club, so I went around looking for them. At the back of the club I saw Toshiya and Die, who also nodded towards me. It was already soundcheck. In the back I heard Obscure and Dozing Green, while at the front Vinushka and I think Stuck Man. Too bad the blinds were closed, so we couldn't glance into the club to see what was going on.
The gates were supposed to open at 7. At around 6-ish an "every men for themselves" type of "standing in line" started, where we were being pushed by at least 2000 people from the back. I found the other 2 Hungarian girls in the line, also Anna, whom I couldn't meet at Nova Rock, I met and talked with Alexia, a Polish girl handed us some Red Bull because she was told she can't bring it inside the club. I chatted with two Norwegian girls pressed up against me from the left, who'll come see Miyavi in Budapest this October. Only person I didn't manage to meet in person was Mairead because they changed to the wrong train and were late.
On my right a small Polish girl was talking to me, while everybody kept shouting "kurwa" at the organizers ("kurwa" means "whore" in both Hungarian and Polish,in case you were wondering). The opening was delayed with half an hour due to the fact that the online reserved tickets didn't arrive on time. But finally, as the water that breaks thru a dam, we were let in. Thank you Mr. Security for holding me, otherwise I would've been stomped over. And you had to show an ID! And who was the first one to get pictured? Yup, that's right, me XDXDXD Risa was quick to follow me as we rushed to the hall. Adri agreed to place our bags at the coatroom. Risa and I got quickly separated; me fighting for my place in second row middle, while she found a spot to the right where she could see Die, who is her favorite. Adri joined her there a little later.
It wasn't funny at all, how an hour before Diru came on stage, people from behind were trying all their nastiest tricks to remove me from my spot. From clawing at my back to trying to kick my feet from under me. I was starting to get this bad feeling. And I was also very thristy because there was no air. Luckily, the photographers (of Stodola and of rockmetal.pl) realized that this wasn't going the good way, so finally a door to the right side was opened to let in some fresh air (not that it helped much in the first rows during the show), plus they helped the First Aid guy who gave us water in plastic glasses. I drank a glass of water and I was already feeling better - while people around me kept fainting - and this tendency continued throughout the show. (I helped about 5 or 6 girls to get lifted out of the audience by security, right in front of Kyo's face.) Lucky I was clever enough this time to leave my glasses at home xD
I won't write much about the audience - I'm still trying to forget them. They behaved like animals, honestly. Screaming all the time, pushing, fighting, clawing, hell, there was a girl who clawed into my hair from the side, trying to pull me down. I elbowed her in the face and she claimed I broke one of her teeth. During Gaika the crowd just lifted me up about 5 centimeters from the ground, and while slowly pushing and pulling me to the back of the hall, they kept tossing me around violently. I was agonizing, having a long haired girl's ugly hair stuck to my sweaty body (I have a sort of phobia of hair on me, even mine, but especially someone else's) so I freaked out. And I couldn't breath and felt like "I'm going to die here, in front of Kyo", so I retreated back to the 10th row, where there was space to move, not to mention air, and while all the idiots kept killing each other off, one by one in the first rows, I could enjoy the show and have a great view of the whole band fromt he back. It wasn't that far from the stage, about 3 or 4 meters the most.
On the good side: while still in the second row, Kyo looked at me repeatedly and pointed at me during Toguro. Later, I cried so bad to Glass Skin! And I was shocked to realize that no one knew the lyrics around me, but I kept on singing. If you watch this video, you can hear my voice clearly in the background, especially at the beginning of the song - before I started crying (Glass Skin starts at halfway of the vid btw but it's worth to watch Toguro as well).
I could actually dance to Bugaboo...and then the band walked off stage. People went shouting DIR EN GREY, only I chanted ENCORE...soon the crowd picked up...and Dir en grey was back on stage. Last song was Clever Sleazoid. I didn't want it to end, I just started enjoying it, having escaped from the animals in the first rows who did their best to make this show as unenjoyable and miserable to the others around them as possible, and there it was, over. Kyo started spitting water, and I know I really shouldn't be proud of it but I was so thristy that I ran forward with the people around me to catch a few drops. Yup, so thristy that I drank Kyo's spit.
And suddenly something hit me on the right side of my head, hard. It took me a moment to realize it's Kyo's water bottle, right there, about to fall off my right shoulder. I made a quick grab for it, while everybody around me made a quick grab for my ribs. I felt like I'm going to die there, protecting the bottle with both arms. One of Kaoru's picks fell down in front of me but I had no chance to make a move for it, I was constantly under attack. Luckily a girl nearby came over and hugged me, to protect me from the people, before I made a quick exit, glancing back once to the by then empty stage, looking for Risa and Adri in the crowd that just started to move out. I was second one at the merch stand. I bought 4 Deadly Claris T-shirts, size S, one for me and 3 for Sayaka, Tachi, and a hoodie for Tachi, who gave me money to buy these things for them. Sadly, there weren't any posters anymore. While shopping, I stuck Kyo's bottle in my jeans, making a mental note to look for a cap because it still had some water at the bottom (it still has, btw).
I ran into Jimmy, who told me that Adri and Risa are at the bar in the back, so we walked there. Jimmy told us she's going out with Kyote, to the back, waiting for the band to come out. I drank a Coke, rushed to the cloakroom to get our stuff, rushed to the toilet to change, and went back to the bar area. The bartender guy was really sweet, he only charged me 4 zloty instead of 6 for my second Coke. :3 We sat there for a while, tired, I called my mom, Elloran sent me a message asking if I was still alive, I found a cap for the bottle. We saw Rick, Diru's American tour manager (who was organizing this tour instead of the German guy who usually does, so we were allowed to take pictures), the lady from Metal Mind, and another staff for Diru coming out from a small room not too far from where we sat. Only one security guard was there but he didn't mind us sitting, we clearly made no attempt to get backstage.
A little while later the merch stand started to pack and this security guy asked us politely if we could leave because the band was coming out through the bar. We went to the toilet, where I met Kiri and then we exited the club and made our way to the back, where we found Kyote, Jimmy, and Amaya. We didn't wait much long there for the band, rather we decided to head back to the apartment instead. On the way to the tram stop Risa and I collected the setlist and saved it in my cell phone. On the tram we were acting all foolishly happy. It really felt good. I promised both Kyote and Risa that I'm going to see Dir en grey with them once, and it came true. And I also had the bottle, a one-of-a-kind souvenir. But believe me, Kyo is strong. Lucky it was unintentional that he hit me on the head. I had a lump for 4 days afterward XDXDXD
Back at Jimmy's place I started to feel dizzy and nauseated, probably I had a minor concussion (not from the bottle but rather from the headbanging). Without properly discussing when and how we're leaving the next day, everybody went off to sleep.
Where do I begin, people? OMG, it’s been exactly a month, let me try to recollect all the things that occured. XD
Oh well, this year’s Nova Rock festival (Nickelsdorf, Austria, Pannonia Fields 2) took place from June 19-21. Free joyous days, spent with my faithful companions: Sayaka and Shizu, and of course Tachi, who joined us on Saturday and Sunday. But since Tachi didn’t sleep in a tent with us, didn’t trudge through ass-high mud with us, in short didn’t „djihad” with us…she’s not a „Djihad” member. All will be explained later, in due time.
Friday (06.19.)
So, Friday early in the morning I met up with Sayaka and Shizu, and we waited for the bus to arrive. Oh yeah, we travelled with a group of Hungarians. We were supposed to have reserved camping places for our tents, which upon arrival turned out to be non existent. u_______u
During the journey I mostly slept, and when not, I could listen in to the most „enjoyable” conversations about international travel by bus, between the manager dude, his friends, and the bus driver. Yay.
Finally, upon arrival at roughly around 1 pm it turned out we’re in the fucking Death Valley. It was so very hot, so very dry, the Sun was so unforgiving and unbearable, and the fine dust just penetrated our pores. I got an incredible sunburn by the time I managed to drag my military backpack and the tent to the campsite. I had a crown in my hair, Sayaka’s, so everybody called me „princess” for once *laughs*
First person to call me was Rhea but unfortunately we couldn’t find each other. Instead, we found some drunk Germans (presumably), one of them claimed that he’s gay but that with me he would make an exception XD Well, what do you know, I can even seduce gay men! XDXDXDXD
Finally we found a place for my tent – only problem was: we had two tents you see XD But never mind, the three of us fitted mine, even with all the stuff we carried. Quickly we changed into our bikini tops and shorts, grabbed my „Japanese Zombie Heroez” flag, and off we went. And just our luck we ran into a man with camera (probably making this year’s official Nova Rock DVD) and of course we got recorded.
On Friday we watched a bunch of bands: Sonic Syndicate (very extremely shitty in my opinion), Black Stone Cherry, and Disturbed on the Blue Stage (that’s the main stage), and later Gogol Bordello, and Faith No More on the Red Stage (the „small” stage). Some drunk German guy asked me if I wanted to walk into the Sun with him. I asked him if he meant THE Sun, he said yes, then I asked if he brought a ladder with him because otherwise it’s pretty far by foot. He couldn’t say anything to that. Also, I met Elloran and Steph while on our way to see Faith No More! Love you guys! Steph showed me her pictures of the Zurich and Munich Diru shows. They’ve met my alterego in Zurich o.O
By that time rain was heavily advancing, with forceful and cold wind. I had dinner, sitting around in the grass while Faith No More played. Hilarious! Think about it: after 12 years they played together for the first time, and there I was, eating my yaki udon I bought at this wok stand, completely enjoying myself. XDXDXD As I was sitting and eating there, someone also wearing a hoodie from behind touched my head in passing (as if he/she wanted to ruffle my hair). I can’t tell you who it was, it was dark and I only saw his/her back. It better wasn’t Toshiya or Die! Also, some drunk bastard wandered onstage during „Easy Like Sunday Morning” and the vocalist just laughed and asked if anybody else wanted to join him XDXDXD
When Faith No More finished, Sayaka had this idea to have us check out Slipknot on the Blue Stage, to see if any member of Dir en grey was by any chance there. Bad timing. Bad idea. When we got to the Blue Stage there were gazillions of avid Slipknot fans, wearing masks and huge, armor like dangerous wristbands and they just covered everything. They stomped down the security and the fences. We joined hands, me leading the way, as we made our way through all the people. Someone stomped on my left foot and I noticed that it started to bleed (I wasn’t wearing any socks and the blood leaked thru my Cons), so we stumbled to one of the remaining fences. I asked about the tour buses, but the security guy apparently thought we were groupies. I took off my shoe to do something with my foot, and as I was about to sit down, this guy ordered us to move so I jumped around on one leg, while struggling to put my shoe back on. Manners people, manners -___________-
We decided we’re much too tired for Metallica, not to mention we could hear both stages in our tent astonishingly well, so we walked back. We got lost in the dark, and at one point a guy joined us and asked if we wanted to buy weed from him. I told him, as politely as I could manage, that we don’t need that, we just want to find our tent. He left us alone.
After walking around a lot we finally stumbled upon our tent. We climbed in, cleaned ourselves as best we could with wet sanitary towels we all brought (thanks mom!), and changed into our sleeping clothes the storm started. The wind was quick to pull off the waterproof outer tent halfway but I couldn’t possibly go out to fix it, the wind nearly pulled us with tent and with stuff from the ground, and the rain started. Heavy, hard, ice cold. I couldn’t sleep in the storm.
As far as I know, Metallica stopped playing around 4 in the morning. I slept about one hour… and had this weird idea that I need a shower. Again: bad idea and bad timing.
Saturday (06.20.)
So there I was, around 6-ish in the morning, in my tracksuit (the one and only), flip-flops, towel and stuff in hand…in the middle of a fucking puddle of mud! All over. The Death Valley has evolved into the Danish Swamplands overnight. Just add water, you know, the rain. Oh, did I mention it was cold. I was shivering all over and had to struggle through a puddle that reached up to my knees by the toilets (content: I rather not go there) and it turns out the showers are closed until 7 am. Oh great. So I went to at least wash my teeth. And this one guy walked up to me there, clearly drunk, and he starts talking to me, saying: „You’re the singer of ’Straw’, right?” I look at him, asking „What the hell? No!” But he kept going on about this. I explained to him that if I was the singer he claims me to be, I would be sleeping in a comfortable tourbus and not struggling through mud and god-knows-what else to brush my teeth at 6 fucking am. And still he wanted me to give him an autograph, with my toothbrush! XDXDXDXDXD
I struggled back to the tent, finally, after about an hour. The more people started to wander around, the more unbearable the mud turned. When I arrived back to the tent Sayaka was wide awake and horrified by what awaited us outside. Just then the rain started to pour down.
We got dressed and I put this Arabic-style bandana around my neck which we call „Djihad scarf” in Hungary. And so, from then on everything wickedly bad and aweful, just as much as everything awesome was „djihad.” We were „Djihad people”.
Soon Shizu woke up, she also got dressed and until the opening of the gates at 11:30 we stayed in the tent, telling weird stories and listening to UROBOROS loud from my cell phone. Oh my god, the neighbors must’ve hated us, but who even cared at that point. Then Tachi called, saying she was on her way. We agreed to meet with her at the Red Stage, saddled up, and struggled there. Lucky I bought a raincoat.We watched every band that played before Dir en grey: Centao, Eisbrecher, Atrocity (this last one only played covers, with two ugly gogo girls as stage elements – it was terrible), but we got 1st row middle!
And finally DIR EN GREY!!!!!! Oh sweet holy mother of Christ! I’m still at a loss of words. We had our flag of course (the rain washed the black all over but you could still read it clearly), and so Diru’s photographer took a picture of us from onstage, and later a closeup, and Die’s roadie, John said „One Two Japanese Zombie Heroez” during soundcheck. Nora taped down Kyo’s crate, put out a glass of beer for Die and one for Toshiya….and Sa Bir started to play. Just then, I started crying. Kyo came on stage, and he was right in front of me! I will never forget how he stood up on the crate, parted his hair to see what was going on (the rain was still pouring BTW) and he recognized me. And he locked eyes with me and we held the eye contact for what seemed like the longest time, honestly. He also pointed at me, and also at the 4 of us during the show. I’m not going to write a detailed review, I rather stay subjective. It was good to see them again, all of them, not just Kyo. All the doubts from earlier about whether I should embark on this journey, this tour, they’ve all became nothing, as if the rain has washed them away. Speaking of which, it stopped during Vinushka after Kyo pointed at the sky XD I was told by Gratiela that I was on the big screen during The Final, that’s how she found me after the show. I managed to take many good pictures, even tho my camera broke as I hit it accidentally to the rail. But I took out my cell phone which saved the day! You can find and download my pictures here: Flick Set
It all went by so fast. I don’t remember much from the rest of the day. We didn’t go see any other bands, we bought XL sized tour shirts (the one with golden letters in the front) and I also got myself a hoodie, the one identical to that which Toshiya has. I also finally met Rhea and her sister, Irina.
Sunday (06.20.)
As the name says, the Sun decided to come out. No sign of rain, just the cold wind. We were too tired to do anything. I went to buy food for us at one of the stands and I drank two Red Bulls quickly before I met up with Tachi, who came to see Bring Me The Horizon. I was the only one who went with her to see them. During the show someone kept throwing huge rolls of toilet paper onstage XDXDXD I also met my friends in the crowd. Could someone tel me what’s the use of the „death wall”? You know, people running at each other int he crowd, beating each other up? Oly Sikes asked for this many times and the crowd obeyed u_____u
The rest of the day we spent in the tent, doing nothing, waiting for the festival to be over. Tachi went home earlier. I saw something of Trivium as I went out to buy food again, but I quickly hurried back as Dimmu Borgir was next and I was too afraid to stay. We listened to a strange remix of Dimmu vs. Limp Bizkit, from the two stages.By this time the area was a battlefield on the Moon: tents, intact and destroyed alike lay scattered about, abandoned. BTW, did I mention that someone cut a „window” overnight in my brand new tent? The first door. I still don’t know how to get it fixed.
And oh so many men were peeing over at the corn field after the fences been torn down to walk on them, instead of the mud on Saturday. But even before that, they always peed out the fence holes. How very graceful of them, especially near the toilets. -______________- But what am I expecting anyway? They’re only men, and this was a rock festival in a corn field after all XDXDXD
Late at night we packed our stuff, put away the tent and left – only to wait 2 hours in the freezing cold for the bus to arrive. I’m pretty sure that was when I caught my bad cold.
On the way home I nearly killed a girl on the bus. She came to see Dir en grey with her boyfriend, listened to them over 12 thousand times according to her Last.fm, and still she claimed she only knows two songs, doesn’t know the member’s names, and she was disappointed because she wanted something like the Macabre Tour, with fake vomit. And her bf kept saying „vomit” all over until I jumped at them. And still…a few days after, he commented on my Last.fm „VOMIT” No comment. Honestly, do they breed these kind of people somewhere? If you happen to know the place, let me know, so I can drop by and have a bloody massacre.
We arrived back to Budapest at around 6 or 7 in the morning. I only had time to finally take a shower, wash my hair, pack my stuff into my suitcase, eat, sleep a few hours, and off I was to Warsaw the same night. But more on that in another entry, later.Conclusion: If Dir en grey decides to play at Nova Rock again next year or anytime, count me in! Only I would rent a room and not stay in a tent.
~To Be Continued~
Yes, that's right, I'm back home from my 3 weeks absence. Actually, I arrived from Cracow safely last Saturday. I was just too tired to update.
Dir en grey was fucking kick ass amazing!!!! Both at Nova Rock (despite the heavy rain and the cold) and in Warsaw (although there the audience was terrible and I was agonizing with lack of space and air). I still can' believe it's over and now I have to wait for them to come back yet again.
But thanks to a friend of mine who's an aKnot member, I'm going to have the FEAST OF FIVE SENSES 09 aKnot only DVD
You can find both my Dir en grey and my Cracow pictures here: My deviantArt Gallery And if you would like to download the Dir en grey ones, here: My Flickr Set
I also recieved Matenrou Opera's album, ANOMIE and ever since I first heard it, I'm in love with it! Thank you guys! You're great!!!! Keep up the good work!
I've been away for so long....
I have no idea what my last post was about
鳥渡忙しいだった でも大学の学期終わりです 楽しみ
So now I can start preparing in earnest - in 8 days I'm going to see Dir en grey at Nova Rock! Finally! After almot two years. It's been awhile. And when I come back, I just take a shower, change clothes, and travel to Warsaw to see them one more time. This is going to be funfunfun ヽ(ﾟ◇ﾟ )ﾉ
Also, I'm staying in Poland, in Krakow until July 10 - I'll arrive back home early on the 11th.
So I won't be around that much. Especially not since I might have to send my laptop home with my mother next week. The radiators are going to get changed and compelte strangers would intrude my room at the apartment...and you never know... I hate the idea of strangers in my room. It's my room, my private sphere after all. (x_x；)
Oh, here's the half-ready flag I'm making for Dir en grey:Click me!
I plan to paint the letters this weekend since the weather was horrible last week and I couldn't do it indoors because of the paint.
Aside from this, I'll almot have everything ready for the trip. Almost! I just realized last night that I forgot to bring along a few things. (_ _。)
Oh, and I forgot this! I got a new haircut Monday --> see my new profile picture! Okay, it's actually back to curly now because I washed it and I didn't want to straighten it all the time. But I look good with straight hair, ね?
そして、今朝... しまった!!!
I cut my finger this morning with the aluminum foil on the yoghurt. It's a nasty cut so I have a band aid on now for a few days. It doesn't hurt much, luckily. Or I'm just used to pain like that.
