happy new year 2013 !

♥ happy new year my dears! ♥

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have you made resolutions for the new year?

why? why not?

my only resolution is to be happy and to make the persons happy that i love ...

may all your dreams come true ♥

strangeness and charms' end-of-the-year review 2012.

what a year. 2012 was full of impressions, discoveries and experiences. i want to share them with you.

so let's recall 2012!

- i created 'strangeness and charms' in march 2012.

- ... i made my very first outfit posts.

- i saw florence + the machine in paris.

- i saw florence + the machine in frankfurt.

- i visited frankfurt.

- i visited heidelberg.

- i visited praha.

- i visited spain.

- i ate delicious things.

- i watched great movies.

- i saw beautiful things.

what about your review of the year's events?

what have you seen, eaten, watched and loved?

outfit: a christmas song.

메리 크리스마스 ! ~~~
merry christmas ! ~~~

white rosette dress: ASOS

earrings: disney couture

double ring: ebay

bracelet: H&M

this is the outfit i wore for christmas eve.
what did you wear? ♥

food love: our christmas dinner.

메리 크리스마스 ! ~~~
merry christmas ! ~~~

merry christmas my dears! 

... for our christmas dinner we didn't have goose or duck as usually, because our oven is broke. but we had some fine korean and asian dishes and several salads.

we had so delicious beef steak with bulgogi marinade (불고기), mandu (만두, the korean version of pasta squares) with veggie filling, turkey with sweet-and-sour sauce, bean salad with mustard pickles, spicy radish salad and the obligatory rice (밥).

i ate mustard pickles for the very first time and it was SO delicious! it fitted perfectly with the sweet-and-sour sauce.

now if you look at the combination with asian dishes and the bean salad with mustard pickles this dinner was somewhat THE example a for fusion cuisine, or global cooking - don't you think? :D

anyhow this was a wonderful dinner - thanks mum! ♥

merry christmas 2012 ♥

메리 크리스마스 ! ~~~
merry christmas ! ~~~

... merry christmas to my dear readers and every other one, too! i'm gonna enjoy a delicious christmas dinner now with loads of korean dishes and champagne! 

have a wonderful and cosy time with your heart people and relations! ♥

and in every corner of my twisted soul it's you who takes me home.

so what is it about - this life. what's it about? what are we craving for, what are we hoping for? what are we suffering for? what's it for? ... lately i've wondered about how old i felt when i was 17. i've been longing for home, so long. when i was young i already felt so old. i wanted to get rid of everything i needed to endure. i wanted to flee this world - so hopeless and feverishly i sought for life in every corner of every second but i never found it entirely. i've never found it in reading in lives of others or inventing them or myself in poetry and art and storys. i lost myself in a twinkle of fate in the darkest shadows i roamed in for many years, many years ... i lost myself in you - oh love, love of my life. you created something new in this, my very lost soul, you gave it wings to fly above my imagination. you brought me into the breaking dawn - a new morning. hopefully, i'll never let you go - my dear, you ... you - my eternal significant other.

you light up my world like nobody else.

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christmas market ludwigshafen rheingalerie.

christmas eve is only 4 days away. is the christmas spirit already in you or are you still waiting for it to come?  me, i think i'm still not in the mood for christmas - still no christmas tree, no christmas light decoration ... and i haven't baked any cookies yet because our oven is broke ... maybe this year it just isn't meant to be ... but well, i'm still in the mood for love. ;) 

... here you can see the photos we shot at the christmas market at the rheingalerie shopping centre in ludwigshafen. some camera tossings and playing with effects. i hope you'll like them. 

camera tossing.

the ferris wheel looks so hyper-fast ... you could think the people were sitting in a rollercoaster XD

there's a ghost in this picture. beware.

so much more atmospheric than the christmas market at the berliner platz in LU. sooo much more ♥

rheingalerie from up above ♥