Ending gives me hopes

Today is New Year's Eve.

The word "New Year's Eve" reminds me of that awesome movie I've watched ... 4-5 years ago, on New Year's Eve with my single friend.

I still love that movie, I should rent it and watch it maybe over next New Year's Eve night.

2015 was HUGE. It has been so dramatic, I would say it was 4 years put together in one year.

My 2015 has started off with snow.

I got up at 5, headed straight out with a camera, found out it was snowing...

It's safe to say, it was snow storming.

Traveled down to the harbor, where I wanted to see the sunrise.

Obviously, couldn't see a thing and saw many people waiting at the ferry terminal sleeping or walking around.

Apparently, the ferries couldn't depart due to the heavy amount of snow.

When the sun shined through and the sky went all beautifully translucent, I swore to god I will benefit someone this year, I will work hardest I can ever do.

And it really did make me believe it was going to be an amazing year, and it did, end up being an amazing year.

It was snowing on the way or snow was blocking the way or something and.. we were stuck in the bus for 15 hours on the way back to Tokyo.

I love night rides, it didn't bother me at all and I rather enjoyed the view from the window as I could see - Mount Fuji, Beautiful sky and bird, snow... on every other suburbs.

I've started instagramming in April,

I almost forgot what I have done in 2015 but instagram is a great way to keep track of it.

 Instagram was the breakfast I ate to inspire myself in every morning.

It really opened my eyes wider and made me feel so comfy to be connected with incredibly inspiring people.

 As always, I was melting in summer but it's a good memory now.

I am really cold-tolerant but heat impacts me so badly.

I just can't walk outside when it's... humid.

Simply, humid, and warm.

I think I have taken photos of girls this year as well.

Properly got back to painting.

Been so workaholic that I couldn't get manythings done this year, possibly.

But really it was a great time to start/restart everything I was staying away from for a while.

So I can go accelerate harder in 2016.

Boxing day lunch with grandma♡

She looks like Christmas! Cute red overcoat.

I have been asking her about my genes.

Apparently our family has a thick artistic blood flowing.

It's really either.

Hater or Euthusiast.

My grandma is a calligrapher so looking to collaborate her calligraphy into painting next year.

None of my family members is a coffee enthusiast.

I am the only one with espresso flowing in my veins.

Now I miss coffee already.

I will pour one as soon as I wake up tomorrow morning...

First cup of coffee of the year!

Started taking photos from rooftops or high places,

"ONLY" to keep my friends away from Japan missing Tokyo.

- http://instagram.com/annakirishimaphoto

And it's been quite successful!

I have been getting "Aw, now I miss Shibuya!"

Come back~ Come back~

Anyway, 2016 will start in a few hours and it will be a wild year.

Thanks for reading my blog, staying in my life and spending time with me.

I am so happy to have lived 2015 and hoping to spend more time with you.

May your holiday and new year be filled with love and miracles!

With a lot of love

Anna Kirishima

Yokohama Walk Two

Firstly... 

I have recently got Tumblr and Flickr account!

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Flickr : Anna Kirishima

Stay connected♡

So this is the second article of Yokohama Walk♡

It might go over another one more... so many photos!

Hope someone enjoys the Japan photos♡

This is Motomachi shopping street.

Downtown-like but posh♡

This is where I come to, when I want to see the roses.

Yamashita-Koen ( Park ).

This green... aw, so soothing.

I was too late to go there but usually this place is a huge rose garden in May.

Beautiful Sunday♡

The photogenic water fountain is in the middle of the park!

Other side of the road, there are beautiful buildings.

Wedding photo~♡

Hydrangeas started to bloom....♡

The white ones are called "Annabelle" which is my favorite.

June will be an exciting month too!

It was a real hot sunny day...

And I walked back to the station.

Minatomirai Station

Amusement park!

Looks like a little town♡

Inside a shopping center~♡

Yokohama is a place where industrial things and nature meet.

I find it beautiful, there are skyscrapers and... flower blooming.

Well, surrealistic sometimes.

This summer feels♡

I want to go up to the top of that balcony! that's so cute♡

I was so, so tired after walking all around Yokohama and...

went home, realized I got so sunburnt.

Haha :( Need to be real careful this summer!

Thanks for coming by and hope my information helps♡

Please visit Yokohama when you are ever in Japan♡

♡

Anna

Yokohama Walk One

I was born in this place called Yokohama.

Which is located a little away from Tokyo.

I was born there and spent the first one month of my life there.

Watching factories' night lights and smoke coming out of chimneys.

Just like the photo above.

I was born and watched this coastal industrial area every night.

Yokohama is absolutely a beautiful place.

It's chilling and quieter than Tokyo.

The roads are wider and the green is greener.

People are friendly and you can see the sea.

I love it, still.

When I was in Sydney I lived in Bondi.

I guess I really like to be near the ocean.

Yokohama is a romantic date spot.

Especially Minatomirai. ( Check it out if you have a date, really. )

This is a rose garden and a quiet fountain.

I always drop by here whenever I come to Yokohama.

This park is called Minatonomieru Oka Kouen.

Really really relaxing place, Yokohama.

My crush and I are both from Yokohama and

went to Yokohama for our 3rd date

I was walking around alone last weekend and

I just wanted to come back here again with him

and he said yea let's~ :)

So... that's really driving me #HopelessRomantic again.

( Blog title don't lie! )

There are really... a lot of photos of Yokohama so

I am writing two articles for this Yokohama walk♡

Hope someone enjoys my hometown♡

♡

Anna

Chanel Mademoiselle

I watched on TV

Marilyn Monroe said she wears Chanel No.5 in bed

when I was young as 9 or 10.

And I started wearing it ever since

until 18 when Mademoiselle came out.

Mademoiselle was exceptional.

I fell straight in love but was still in doubt.

Then my classmate(M.) came up to me and told me how amazing Mademoiselle is

and I needed to go get it.

And I did.

I am 24 and I can not think of anything else as a replacement.

There are a lot of beautiful scents in the world though.

I was in the store and found this amazing Mademoiselle-Body oil.

As you know, ( maybe you don't ) I am an oil fetishist and I love to drench myself in oil.

Like even olive oil could do. I just love the feel of it.

Is there any reason in particular I don't get this fantasy?

It smells like Mademoiselle, feels like mademoiselle and it's oil. ( Importantly. )

And what's so good about Chanel perfume is that everyone around you notices it.

"Hey do you wear Chanel?"

"Is that CHANCE?"

Well it's not, but I guess they are a bit similar.

I love belonging to this scent and love taken over by it.

Happily ever after~♡

Website: Chanel Mademoiselle

Anna

Laline Strawberry Milk

Laline is my favorite body care store of all times.

I dropped by there last night as I was running out of body scrub and I am a Laline addict.

How always so sweet is this store.

Just looking at it and staying here makes me happy.

( You can buy these lovely present boxes too! Which I am keen on collecting. )

 This time I bought strawberry milk body scrub♡

I still have the Vanilla body scream and they go well together♡

Can't wait to use them♡

Look at the Chanel Mademoiselle... I seem to really like these pale pink colours!

Laline Japan Website

Anna

Kick start of a long weekend

Good evening from Japan.

The most exciting thing about the long weekend holiday was the sleep over at my besties

even though we are great friends, we don't really get to spend two days together in a row so

and it turned out to be great!

We met at Omotesando station and went to Urth Caffe Omotesando.

I went there once when they just opened a store there and we thought it would be crazy packed but we could grab seats in the backyard.

Nice view♡

Even nicer view♡

We worked hard,

Mina has just started working in Japan for the first time in her life and

I got so much to do at work this year and...

we were exhausted, in a great way.

It was a huge break for both of us.

It was obviously a great breakfast and

the place was so... so relaxing.

Just didn't wanna get out.

That's how we started our incredible two day holiday♡

Aw how I miss it already!

I have been thinking about what exactly this blog is about and what category it belongs to

and I didn't think it belongs to fashion blog category or lifestyle blog category...

It is to me a blog of me blabbing all about my crush and how I am still mad in love with him after 4 months of just talking and just meeting every now and again and nothing happening.

I think I will be still talking about him for another few months, and this is where I let it all out I guess.

So... I call it either a #HopelessRomantic blog, or my-crush-and-I blog maybe.

I like to be inspired by all the fashionistas and lifestyle bloggers on instagram are just absolutely amazing and it's bliss to be able to interact with them.

But I am just a girl next door who is just fancying this guy who definitely isn't a Prince Charming or provides you a perfect movie romance, and I am loving it.

I am not a romance or lover addicted person at all.

This is the first time I fall for somebody in 5,6 years and I am feeling like a teenager again.

A workaholic 24 years old Japanese girl ( who has grown up in Australia ) now, going totally crazy for a 32 years old Japanese hair dresser, isn't that interesting? I find it is.

Well... I would appreciated it so much, if you could wish me good luck♡

Anna

Early Morning Glory

There is this friend of mine

who I met when we were 2, and hung out until 10 ish

then we didn't for ages... and

we got back in touch for the first time after 15 years ish recently.

He apparently works far away but he was back home for a couple days so

we caught up casually in the morning at 4 and drove to the harbor.

Random drive!

We literally didn't meet for years so I didn't know what he was doing but

he said he takes photos too so... we were hanging around doing some photos there.

Hmm sunrise♡

Cardigan : Forever21

Tops : ZARA

Jeans : ZARA

Accessories : Bershka and forever21

This is my favorite place to see the sunrise.

We often come here for the first sunrise of the year, I think I did in 2014.

Morning high.

This area is called Minatomirai.

Which is a part of Yokohama and Yokohama is my birth city so...

Basically it's like my home town!

I used to come here every week and hung around myself for hours...

just like walking around for 7 hours with my camera- or even without it. I am purely in love.

We all need that Heineken, don't we?

That always makes me pose next to it and take some tourist photos.

( I've done that a couple times ehehe )

Beautiful sunrise and... the morning glory I am deeply in love.

( The best spot to see the sunrise is Osanbashi-Bridge, check it out when you are up there! )

How I wished I didn't need to go to work afterward.

Waking up at 3 and finishing work at 6pm. huh.

Well I did it.

Photographers~♡

I am 5 foot 3 short/162cm.

My grandfather is a photographer and I use canon camera.

I work full time at the office.

I mostly wear pink and white and a bit of blue♡

A little bit about myself:)

Thanks for reading♡

Anna