Back from Korea

I am finally back from Korea after 4 weeks.

Graduated

My name is Monica. I have officially graduated and I am officially unemployed. 

Welcome to the Second Chapter of my life

One Piece hard cover case for Note 3

I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 because my Samsung Galaxy S3 decided to stop functioning and that's sad. It made me collect some of my guts for a few weeks to decide - "yes, I am going to spend so much money and buy a new one". I even realized how silly my life became without a (smart)phone. Not silly, but how inconvenient my life was. 

The case is obviously a fake one piece case. What mean with the word 'fake' is, it is not officially released from a Japanese company which collaborates with Oda Eiichiro (I think...). I bought it because it was the most acceptable One Piece case out of all cases.
The case is a hard cover case (as described in the seller's description box), the material of the case is matt plastic which is a pleasant feeling when you're holding the phone, but the downside with the texture is it attracts easily to dust or dirt for instance in your pocket or bag.

I bought it from Ebay. The shipping was faster than expected since it was shipped from Hongkong. One more plus with the seller is you'll be able to communicate with her or him.


UPDATE ABOUT MY LIFE:
24 days left until I graduate from high school. 14 days left until prom. I have already applied for universities. I know what I am going to do after high school, but I don't have a backup plan if plan A fails. The risk of plan A fails is quite reasonable.

The urge to post something here occurs from time to time. What stops me is my English. I realized how much I've lost the sense of writing English, almost completely gone. I want to catch it up next month when school is over. I am going to pick up books again and read in peace and joy.
Let's hope it'll work. Good luck to myself.

ONE PIECE Metal Logo silver case for Samsung galaxy S3

Have been longing for an ONE PIECE case and it is so gorgeous! I could have ordered a Naruto case but ONE PIECE is cooler, isn't it? That's just a personal opinion. 

Except the metal logo, the rest of the case is very plastic and it gives me a hard time taking off the case from the phone. 

As usual, it's from Ebay and the shipping is fast considering from Hongkong to Europe. Order date: the 15th July and it arrived yesterday (23rd July).

I don't have any complaints about the product nor the seller. It says 1 product available and it's the same with me, so I guess the seller restock only 1 product after one is sold out.

The last few days in pictures

Note: the picture on the book page doesn't have any deep meanings with my day except doings (well, I was reading a book that day). Just a random picture.

My day in pictures: the 8th of July

Supposedly today was going to be warmer than yesterday but I felt like yesterday was better than today. Weather talk in Sweden is a have to since the weather here is hard to predict.

Anyway, I went to the mall (One and a half hour of travelling from my home town) to buy ONE single cardigan and usually when I'm going around the mall alone I always end up in the bookstore.

I found Peter pan (the novel version) and The secret garden, the two books which I have been longing to buy. However, the cover is just too childish so I didn't end up buying it.

My plan was to go to the library after the little shopping and in the library I found the manga version of '5 Centimeters per second'. I skimmed the book because I didn't find a reason to read it when I've already seen the movie but I did find stories in there the movie didn't include.

The ending from the manga was no different from the movie = the author left you with a question mark. Of course I borrowed the book from the library because the stories which were not included in the movie may give me a plain conclusion. 

Why am I in the library when the weather was so nice? Peace and silence were demanded today.

(Otaku)June 2013

Movie: (click on the picture and it'll lead you to the trailer and the film title will lead you to the full length movie)

Hotarubi no Mori E
Speechless... in a good way. Not much to say about it but this is in my "you have to watch before you die"-list. 
And yes, I did cry.
RECOMMENDED!

5 centimeters per second
This film was listed as 'One of the animated film you should watch before you die'. I watched 'The garden of words' before I watched 5 centimeters per second and what I can say about 'The garden of words' is I didn't disliked it nor liked it, it's meeh. 
5 centimeters per second is one of the most successful or popular work from Makoto Shinkai. I admit I didn't understand the concept of the movie until I read the comments and it made me wonder if I really was stupid. Even though I didn't understand much of the message, I enjoyed every single moment of the movie because the art is immensely.. Beautiful. There are better words than beautiful but I can't dig it out from my brain right now. 
Every single second from this movie can turn into a wallpaper. It'd be amazing if I watched it on the cinema rather than at home. 
And no, I didn't cry. RECOMMENDED!


Anime:

ONE PIECE! 
I guess watching One piece was one of the best decision of mine ever! 
If you are planning to watch Naruto and One piece, watch Naruto first before OP. 
I'm a shoujo and romance type of person but I think One piece will suit almost everyone's taste since it is darn funny and refreshing. RECOMMENDED!
UPDATE: One piece has over 600 episodes and yes, that's not quite but very a lot (haha I know the mistake there). I was having anime-talk with my friends yesterday and one of them hasn't seen One piece but Fairy tail and Naruto and it kinda surprised me. 
I told him to watch One piece and he responded "I don't know if I've the energy to do it, it has too many episodes". 
What I want to tell you guys is, you SHOULDN'T let the numbers to stop your from watching it. I do agree it's a lot but as soon as you're watching it, it'll feel like 600 episodes are not even 600. At least it's like that for me.
A good anime won't make you realize it's over 100 episodes. 

Kimi ni todoke
I've read the manga but I didn't know the anime existed? Kazehaya is damn handsome there. 


Manga:

Akagami no Shirayukihime
if you liked Kaichou wa maid-sama, I think you should give this a try since it is quite similar to Maid-sama... I guess? 
The biggest difference is, Akagami is not a comedy and it's "calmer"-version of Maid-sama. I don't know but it's a good one. Give it a shot! 


Book:

To kill a mockingbird written by Harper Lee

I didn't get it or like the beginning of the book. Correct: first half of the book. After around chapter 15-18 which started to get REALLY interesting and I'm glad I didn't drop the book in the mid-way. I came to like the book pretty much. If I recommend a book, it means I fairly like it.

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird" - this quote is stuck in my head for some reason. RECOMMENDED!

Music:
SISTAR - Give it to me
Boa - Between heaven and hell
Yanagi Nagi - Last smile
Yanagi Nagi - Owari no Sekai kara
If you're planning to listen to one of Yanagi Nagi's songs, you just HAVE TO watch the music video and read the english 
translation in order to achieve the right emotions. 
Nishino Kana - watashitachi
Supercell - Giniro Hikousen
Sogeking
Compelled to add 'sogeking'. It was stuck in my head even though I never played the song alone. I still can't stop laughing when Chopper asked "sogeking": Where is the island of snipers?
sogeking: it is.... inside your hearts
OH MY GOD! 


Overall:
This month has been a otaku month which only consisted animated characters.... Even the songs.... I guess if that's what inspires me then I'll keep doing it.