Shorter hair

My friend Franzis inspired me to cut my hair a little shorter last Sunday. We were chatting about how tired we are tired of having the same hairstyle for years, how annoying long hair can be at times and how nice it would be to have a little shorter hair now that it's getting warmer. On top of that I had no idea what to do with my hair recently. The ends were dry and damaged because I bleached my hair 2 years ago. I'm currently letting my natural hair color grow out, so I seriously considered just chopping the damaged ends off. And on Sunday I spontaneously did!

After washing my hair I combed it, made a ponytail and cut it off. Xin helped me to touch up the hair I couldn't reach by myself and it was done! Gone is a hair length worth of 1 year of growing, haha! But I don't regret it. It's not that short now and it's a lot more comfortable.

This is what my hair looked like when it was dry: 

And after straightening:

I think we did a pretty good job with the hair cut! Maybe I'll wear it short until my natural hair color has completely grown out, and then consider letting it grow long again. I'm just sick of the bleached blond... at least it doesn't look that bad anymore. The 10cm I cut off looked a lot lighter than my natural hair color, while now it looks more like a soft ombre. I think I'll cut it again when it's getting warmer!

Happy new year!

I know I'm pretty late with this, but I hope everyone had a nice start for 2015! ^.^

I celebrated with my parents, brother and my nephew, so it was just a small party.

Midnight was special to me, because that was the moment when Xin and I became a couple - 7 years ago! He's currently in China to visit his family, so of course I felt a little blue on New Years Eve, because we couldn't spend this anniversary together. But he promised we will celebrate as soon as he's back! =) Which is pretty soon, too! I can't wait for him to be back. It's tough when you spend every single day together, and then you're seperated for a whole month. I do enjoy being with my family though, and I'm happy so is he. <3

Oh, and he bought me a really nice gift in China! I will show it to you as soon as I get my hands on it, hehe. But Xin has already sent me some photos and I'm really really excited!

Another wonderful thing is that I was able to meet my best friends again. <3 They live far away and I can't meet them all the time. T_T So I enjoy the few days we can spend together.

Franzis and me trying on weird hats, haha! The ones on the first photo don't even look that bad? Aside from my bangs which look horrible due to stormy weather and wearing a hat all day.

But what is going on with the animal hats? Do people actually buy these? Well, you can find them at New Yorker if you're interested! :D

After going shopping we went to have a drink...

They look cute, right? But they were freaking strong! I wish they would've tasted more fruity. -_-

By the way, I've burned my finger on New Year's Eve, by lighting fireworks. -_-

That's the lowest I can move my finger now, even after more than a week.

It hurts whenever I curve my finger a little. Not too bad, but it's extremely annoying.

On this photo ypu can see how swollen it is. (The finger is shiny because I put cream on it).

I hope it'll heal soon! T_T

This was my start of 2015 in a nutshell! ^_^

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Chinese mid autumn festival - mooncakes and hot pot

Do you know about the Chinese mid autumn festival?

"The Mid-Autumn Festival is an official harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese peoples. The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar and Vietnamese calendar, during a full moon, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar, within 15 days of the autumnal equinox. The holiday is also celebrated in Korea [Chuseok] and Japan [Tsukimi]." - Wikipedia

Altough we are living in Germany, this year we also celebrated the mid autumn festival. My husband suggested we should invite some friends and make our own mooncakes (it's Chinese tradition to eat them with your close friends and family on mid autumn festival).

We got all the ingredients, but unfortunately it was impossible to find a mooncake former in our local Asian supermarkets. But you know what? It was even more fun without one! We planned to just make round cakes without a certain shape or extravagant pattern, but our friends were really creative as you can see!

I love this photo because it made me so happy to see our friends (who didn't even know each other before) were being so creative together, drawing cute patterns on the mooncakes and even even making them shaped like flowers!

This is what they looked like after frying them:

Sadly the patterns disappeared after frying, but hey, we knew they were there!

They didn't exactly taste like actual mooncakes, but they were still pretty good! haha

We made a red bean paste filling with several kinds of nuts. Some had egg yolk in them but I didn't like those. >_<

We also had mochis, look how cute they looked!

Altough the mochis on the second photo had an artificially sweet taste. -_-

In the evening the six of us went to Essen because there's a Chinese restaurant with hot pot buffet and oh god, we were eating so much!

Selca with my friend~ we look so pale, haha!

Today is her birthday, hope she'll have a lovely day! ^.^

After this huge dinner we all went home tired and full, it was a very nice day! We already have some plans for this week as well since today is our 5th wedding anniversary! Waaa 5 years already... time sure flies! It sure didn't feel like such a long time. To be honest we don't have certain plans for today yet. Xin has to work and I don't need to go eat at a fancy restaurant just for the sake of an anniversary. Especially since we already went out last weekend, and this week we'll also go out to celebrate my friend's and also Xin's birthday, so... As long as we'll have a comfy and romantic evening it doesn't matter to me if we eat KFC or at a fancy restaurant, haha~