Monthly Collection February

Okay the second of my month end photos :D I know this one is quite and really K-Pop biased but my month was filled with K-Pop that's why. So what do we see. In lieu of anything better to represent Music Bank at the beginning of this month you see our awesome Sistar fansigns that were shown twice! in the documentary about it :D

Next up you see Lyza's Sistar album marking that we now own all of Sistar's CDs, that we saw them live and they are awesome.

The book in the left upper corner is the last one missing to read for me from the newest set of the three investigators books :D

Under this are the CN Blue Socks from Jungshin and Jonghyun. We lovely call them eonni (older sister because of Jungshins hair being longer than Lyza's and no he's younger than me XD) and the childeater (because Jonghyun has this smile where he looks totally insane and as if he eats children for breakfast) also showing the band that has slowly without me really noticing slept it's way up in my bias list and their concert DVD was the highlight!

Continuing with the B.A.P Album representing my new favourite band, some really good music and our first Gmarket order(and the second as it was ordered the day before yesterday and Greta is getting the album as well).

In the middle you can see both new nailpolishes I bought this month and I love them both deeply!

The Etude Sleepingpack is also from Lyza but she allowed me to use it and I am looking forward to write a review about it (since you only find reviews to the geen one I think) once I used it for at least a month (I am at about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks).

That's all for today.

Weekends coming up as is my birthday. I am also contemplaiting making an a photo a month month starting tomorrow. Let's see how I feel about that tomorrow morning :D

Good night everyone!

Love,

Maren

My Gmarket Haul #1

Hey everyone! After posting the picture of our complete haul a while back I now finished the complete review. However I will not show you everything we got, since three people were involved in this order but just the things I got for myself. If you want to see what Greta and Lyza got for themselves you can either read it at this Blogpost or watch the video we took, but that shows only the things Lyza and I got. You may also be interested in the second video we recorded where we talk about ordering and recieving from Gmarket in general.

Okay so if you want to know how to order at Gmarket you will be able to find lots of How To's online, if not and you think I am the right person to ask, just do it. Or leave a comment under the video, through this it will reach me as fast as possible. Another thing that may come handy is being able to read Hangul/Korean Characters. You don't have to be fluent or something it will already help you to google Hangul Chart then you should be able to translate most of the things written on Gmarket, Google Trans helps as well, even I use it.

Last but not least: If you live in the European Nation and buy something from Korea which was also 'Made in Korea' you don't have to pay anything but 19% (even they want to tell you something else) at customs. That's because Korea is a preferance country.

Now our fist time ordering went really good. We placed two orders and combined shipping on the 30th&31th of January. It took some time to get the goods to Gmarket because two items were only being released on the 1&2nd the longest time however took a bag we wanted to cancel because the seller didn't ship it out until the 3rd. We contacted Gmarket but it still took some time for them to cancel the item.

So everything was brought to the airport on the 6th and arrived in my hometown on the 10th where it got stuck at customs still the 14th which was the day we finally were able to pick it up after some really stressful days with the local customs but we already talked about that everywhere else.

Yes I know all that talk for not even that many items but I hope you enjoy it anyways so let's start with the pictures :D


This is everything we got once again, I know you know the picture but this time it's bigger.


These are all the cosmetics we got, I however only got a set from Tony Moly and two nailpolishes from Etude.


These are the nailpolishes the violet one is called LUCIDarling Fantastic Nails Shimmering #2 Lavender Purple and the green one is Petite Darling Nails GR607 Sandgreen. I adore both of them highly and used them both already. I will post photos of them used in a while.


And this is the Tangerine Handcreme, Mini Lip Balm Berry and Mini Lip Tint Set. The handcreme smells heavenly and will be a good replacement once I finish my Bodyshop Almond one. The Berry Balm is really lovely as well and gives your lips a nice shimmer. I was really excited for the first tint I ever bought and am not dissapointed. It's really small but I think it will take a while until I use it up anyways.


Sationary we got :D


Lyza and I got some stickers. She bought herself two really cute packs of Anne Travel Stickers one for only Korea and it's regions and one for Europe. I got a set with three sheets from My little Friend. They are really cute and I can't wait to use some of them in my calender.


Greta got herself these really cute Notebooks and I decided to go along and got myself the dark green one (matching to the nailpolish from Etude I bought :3) It's kind of small but has 208 Pages! I'm really looking forward to use it soon!

Now we come to the reason we ordered in first place I think! Kpop!


This picture is missing the heap of socks Lyza and I ordered but I'm going to show them to you later :D


B.A.P is a band who just recently debuted but we are already crazily in love with them so of couse we had to get it right when it came out :3 We also got the posters with this Album but forgot to take pictures of them. I will also contribute it when I post longer reviews about certain items. However these boys are a must hear. Next to their title song Warrior there is a song called Unbreakable on their album. Do me a favour and listen to it once!


I just realized I got quite a big bunch of Kpop Albums :D I already own the first album from B1A4 and I have to say, Music wise, I like it better than this album. But! This one comes with a 100 page photobook which is really pretty and was the sole reason why I bought it to be honest.


Infinite's First Invasion is the last album that was missing from a whole collection of Infinite (minus the Japanese singles because these are so freaking expensive D:). This album has both She's Back and Dashi Dorawa on it and is really cute to look at to see how much the boys have grown since their debut.



Okay I went a bit crazy and got myself T-Ara's John Travolta Wannabe and Funky Town Albums. They were really cheap and I enjoyed both songs Roly Poly and Lovey Dovey so much that I saw a reason to get them. Even though this buy was really impulsiv I find myself enjoying these two albums nearly the most. FT has photos from the girls taken so that they look as if they are a bunch, of really good styled, girls out having fun at a club and as if they are really good friends. JTW is even more awesome because the photos are taken to look as if they are from a while back with the girls wearing longer skirts and stuff I really really love this album!


This is a picture from all the CDs we got again but I really liked how it turned out so I'm going to show you.


Lastly Lyza and I got a bunch of Kpop socks :D We really enjoy wearing couple socks XD One of our fave pairs we have is eonni/the childreneater try guessing who we are talking about! Just to clear up if you don't recognize someone: CN Blue (twice top left and bottom right) Jonghoon from FT Island and Jang Geunsuk as well as Shinee.

Okay that was my haul for our first Gmarket order. I don't really want to say but I think I have to: we are already planning our second order but that's just because my birthday is in March and I decided I wanted to get some things from Gmarket. This time the whole order will be smaller though (but more stuff for me anyways I think XD) So stay tuned for that as well!

Love,

Maren

PS. If you have any questions, like links to where I bought something, more detailed reviews, anything, like I said write me here or just comment on one of Meron Satang's videos or our offical facebook page.

Paris Part 1, The Around Stuff

Oh my guys! I just realized the last post was my 5oth! Let's celebrate! Anyways today I bring you the first of two Paris Posts. I already posted this post on the official Meron Satang blog post but I'm pretty sure nearly no one is following that and I really need to update this blog so you will get it here :D Have fun and please leave a comment if you like what you see / have any questions or anything else!

So this is the first of two Blogposts about our time in Paris and the Music Bank concert. :D This one is probably the more boring part for most of you, but we took some nice pictures and wanted to share them anyways.

Before I start rambling: We already went to Paris about a year ago to see the SM Town concert. If you want to check out the Posts we made about that please click on these links. [Maren Paris Everything Else] [Maren's Concert Post] [Lyza Paris Everything Else] [Lyza's Concert Post]

Okay that said I will start talking about everything surrounding the concert :3 (so yes this means I won't talk about the concert in this post) However, let's begin:

We started our journey to Paris on Tuesday the 7th of Febuary before taking the bus at around 10pm we had the splendid idea that we, at least, needed Sistar Fansigns. Said and done, one hour before we took the train to Dusseldorf we started cutting out neon paper and gluing everything together. But it was worth it because first of all the girls actually noticed our signs and waved at us and second we were actually recorded and you are able to see our fansigns twice in the official Music Bank in Paris video that aired on the 18th.

Anyways we took the bus at 10 and for me it was just sleeping through until we nearly arrived in Paris at 6 am. We bought tickets to get to the station Bercy but nothing was really open. We finally figured out that McDonalds would open at 7.30 so we went to the nearest and had a nice cup of cappuccino.



We also needed to freshen up and change clothes. But we did not have an own hotel room for the night, we slept in the room of a really nice friend but she only arrived when we were already waiting in line. In the end we just used the McDonalds Toilet to do the necessaries. Here a picture of the table we hogged (you can also see our fansigns on this one! As well as us using the free wifi :D)



After that we went to the Kpop stores, we also recorded a video how to get there which will be up sooner or later, we went there more than once but here is the complete list of what we got. Three Sistar Albums: The first with Push Push, third with How Dare You and the fourth and newest with So Cool. A CN Blue Bracelet for Lyza as well as a CN Blue Clearfile for her. Three posters: Infinite's Sunggyu, Infinite's Dongwoo (both Photos from the Paradise Repackage) and one with CN Blue. One Infinite Handy Chain.



Around 1pm we decided to bring our big backpack to the hotel because we heard that you could put it in the storage room as long as you knew the person who rented the room you're staying in's name is. We did that without any problem and then just wanted to check out the queue but I will write about this in the other Post I'm about to make :D

Soo we met up with Nadine, the friend with the hotel room, after the concert and went to get a snack at the only open cafe around 12pm and then, after some fangirl talk, went to bed.

We got up early again the next morning because we wanted to go to the Kpop store again with Nadine and since we expected everyone to go there one day after the concert we decided to go there as early as possible. We arrived there and looked through the two stores again before deciding to get a Bubble Tea. The interior was really really pretty *3*





After that we grabbed some Macarons from McDonalds (yes in the French McCafe they actually sell really nice Macarons! I would kill to have some here right now D:) and then went to the hotel where Lyza and I checked in into our own room we had booked for that night. Nadine wanted to go and pick up her boyfriend who was just arriving at the train station and we decided to go looking for the Baby the Stars Shine Bright shop :D After some walking around cluelessly we actually found it. Guys it's so perfect D:




After that we met up with the two again and went to a Korean Restaurant we looked for online. The name of the restaurant is Shin Jung and if you're in France and want to go eat Korean you should give them a try the foot was really really delish! I can't seem to find their Online Page though :/



Mandu

Lyza ordered Bulgogi which was so tasty!

And I get myself Bibimbap

Normally there is at least one thing from the Banchan that I'm not really fond of but all of these were delicious as hell!

After that we did the romantic over kill and went to the Eiffel Tower! I've never been there before but it was really nice to go there once :D



That was really nice the only problem was (not only for that evening but the whole time) were the temperatures being below 0°C. It's really not nice, neither waiting six hours in the cold nor being on the Eiffel Tower.

We got up the next morning at 5.30 to get our train at 8 am (I still don't know what made us book a train this early but we managed it). The three-four hour train ride was okay but the aircon was broken thus creating only cold air which was really uncomfortable :/ But it was okay and we got home safely.

Just because they don't seem to fit anywhere else: This is a collection from cool 'graffities' around Paris that I needed to take a photo of ~





That's it for the around stuff I hope you enjoyed this even though it's not really about Kpop :D. We also made a video concerning all this which you can watch here:



Love,

Maren

PS. I hope the next part of this will be up soon but I still have the Gmarket Review in Queue and I think I'll try getting this up today plus the two videos we took for it so Part 2 about the concert may take another while. But yay!

Our GMarket Stuff Arrived!

Okay this is just a short update :D But finally after sitting about one week at the customs we were able to pick up our GMarket Order :3 I will make a bigger post for all this (and Music Bank as well) when I find the time, not sure when this will be though.

Anyways here is a preview picture of all the stuff we got (sadly half of it isn't for me or Lyza D:)

Bonjour Paris ~ Annyeong Hanguk!

Just a short notice that Lyza and I will be gone for the next four days starting tomorrow evening. Where are we heading you ask yourself? To Music Bank in Paris :3



Oh yes I am so excited already :D However before we can take the bus tomorrow we still have so much to do Q-Q One thing was post another blog post and here it is :3

Since my mind is pretty much occupied with the upcoming concert I will just talk about this :D. So who is coming?

Sistar - The main reason why I'm actually going there :D I'm soooo looking forward to see their gorgeousness on stage *3* I love them so much and seriously Soyu is such a wonderful woman, they all are biuhdiusd so happy! My fave Video of them. Once again it's hard to choose I love all of them.

U-Kiss - Mh ... Ukiss. I was really fond of them at one point and well then they added Hoon and AJ and I really don't dislike them but I'm just indifferent about them. And their Fans are starting to go on my nerves. My fave Video of them.

T-Ara - Ahh my love for them is growing steadily! So much! They have such fun choreographies and their songs just make me happy maybe their music is not the deepest but I enjoy it and sometimes that's more important for me. My fave Video of them. But actually you should watch all their other videos as well.

Shinee - Already saw them live but enjoyed it :D (especially Taemin hrr) I am really looking forward to see if they changed, grew more confidednt to act with their audiece since last time. My fave Video of them.

4Minute - Saw them as well and am really looking forward to it! I mean after their concert I was so hyped about them because I enjoied them so much on stage and they were really cute and passionate! My fave Video of them.

B2st - They are still one of my favourite boygroups out there and they are the only band I own all CDs from so of course I'm really looking forward to see them again maybe they will communicate with their audience more this time, I would really like that because that was the only thing that miffed me a bit :/ My fave Video of them.

SNSD - Ah gorgeous gorgeous SNSD girls. I'm not really their fan but I love Sunny, Hyeoyeon and Seohyun so I'm really happy to see them and I mean most of their outfits are HOT. My fave Video of them.

2PM - A few years ago I wouldn't even have dreamed of seeing them live, outside of asia but here they are coming to our neighbour country. I have to confess that I kind of forgot about them since their songs started to get slower/more drepressive beause I really don't like that kind of music but with Hands Up they were totally back on my radar. Even though I think Electricity is an even hotter song and I could listen to it all day :3 My fave Video of them.

So that's what I have planned for the rest of my week :D What about yours? Am I going to see anyone at the concert? Of course I will take pictures and make a post about the concert afterwards but I think that will take atleast until mid next week. We will also make a video for Meron Satang which I'm going to link here once it's cut and up :3 I'm really enjoying this whole vlog thing!

That's it for today Lyza demands we get started on all the other things on our to do list (Oh one more thing! Do you know Listography? It's awesome I found it a week ago and already have a gazillion of lists, I'm a list person I just can't help it. Here is my account if you want to be creepy and stalk me XD)

Love

Maren