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Good morning, boys and girls!
I'd like to begin with the story happened to me actually on Friday. I hope it will teach you something and you will not do the same thing ever.
My lovely Irina asked me for some help - she wanted to make a surprise to her boyfriend (they had an anniversary on Friday). He is a physicist as well and lives in the same dormitory as I do. The surprise was to cook a dinner for him - nothing serious, just Caesar salad and an apple pie. We needed pieces of toasted bread for the salad, so I suggested not to go and roast them at the kitchen (which is just horrible in our dorm) but to use microwave oven. I put pieces of bread to the oven, chose the maximum power and left them for 5 minutes.
Oh my God. When I've noticed the smell, it was already too late. When I've opened the oven, awful yellow smoke came out. The plate cracked, bread was all burned down. But the most serious thing was that the fire alarm responsed. Also, we can't open the window in my room, girl from another room was sleeping. Ira felt sick immediately because of the smoke. Fireman and other people came, so I had to explain what happened and write an explanation paper...
I smelt like a giant toast for a while. Our oven still smells although I've washed it twice already and one more time with vinegar.
Please, be careful with such a things if you don't want to burn down your flat, dorm or whatever.

Sorry for depressing post, but I think it is really serious thing to mention here. Now, something more cheerful. I've bought myself a new pair of UGG boots, cause it turned out that it's the only way to survive severe Russian winter, This time I chose Bailey Button Triplet ones and just can't wait to wear it!

evening with mom

Yes, as you can see from the title, this post is supposed to be about my evening with mom, but I would like to begin with other thing.
While cheking my blog's statistics lately I've understood that actually there are much more people who visit my blog than it was before, especially when I was silent for a few months... and it is so exciting! I want to tell a huge THANK YOU from the depth of my heart to everyone who had ever visited my blog. I do appreciate to read every single comment from you guys, and if you find anything nice, funny or even useful from my blog (the last would be a real surprise for me!) than I'm truly happy with what I do.
From the very beginning (like a year ago, wow!) when I started my own blog I always knew, that it won't be super-popular and won't be one of that endless amount of fashion- and beauty-blogs. Don't get me wrong, I love these blogs, there are a lot of them I do follow personally and they are really inspiring. I'm just not a person with unique style to share with other people, and my blog is just something to store my life in. Also, from the very beginning I wanted it to be international so I've never posted something in Russian. Though, if it is needed, if there's somebody russian who whould enjoy reading it in his native language - just tell me, it's definetely not a problem :)

All in all, I want to say once more - thank you for visiting me and my lil' world here, inside funkyjoleisa.blogspot.ru!

And, as I've promised, I shut up and show you a few pics from the evening I spent with my Mom at a sushi-bar. Nothing special, just nice time :)


Love you, Mom!



And I've also added my e-mail at the left bar, so if you have any questions, comments or suggestions, feel free to use it!

first snow

First Snow is one of the events on my faculty I didn't tell you about before. It's an art festival for whole university, organized & bazed on my faculty (Faculty of Physics, to remind). There are a lot of contests whithin our festival - music, songs, photography, literature and etc. The newest contest is freezelight - if you are not familiar with it, it is "drawing" with light in front of the camera in darkness. I've tried once, and it is very funny.
Every contest has it's host from organization comitee, I'm the host of dance competition (what a surprise, no? :D) This year I had twice more participants than a year ago, and, as always, I'm very proud with my winners!
Also, I'm the host of Final Show - this is a show where we reward winners in every competition, and the ones which can show their performance (like song or dance), do it to public. This year we made our show at Moscow Hall - a nice club in the center of Moscow. Unfortunately, weather was awful, there was snowstorm for two days, roads were a real disaster, so there were not as many people as we expected.
But, all in all, it was real fun, I'm very proud to see so many gifted & talented people from my Uni.
Here are some pictures from the event, unfortunately, a huge minus of being an organizer that there are usually no photos with you :( But I managed to do one, yeey!




Dancers - winners of my competition. Again, how proud I am! Every years I feel like they are my children :)

Here you can see my "shade" on the stage while rewarding girls.


One of the two photos with me! Another one is horrible, sorry! You can chek out the amount of badges, a transmtter and other staff hanging on me. Every time I went to the stage, I had to take everything off and than on again...

Also, it is not seen very well on the photos, I was wearing my new red Zara peplum skirt which I'm actually in love with.

A better look of it, except that mine is red :)

dress(es)

New Year is coming, so every Cinderella needs a dress (and a prince obviously, but we'll talk about it later :)
My Mom (thank you, Mom!) found me a dress while browsing nearest to her workplace shopping center. Last weekend I went there to try it on. And I bought a dress. Two dresses. Both from Promod (thank you Promod, as well!)





You can find red dress here and black one here. Now I have two upcoming events soon - my friend's birthday party and pre-New Year evening in the theatre, jazz style one. I've actually made my decision about what dress I will wear to what event - and what is your choice?

new in

As one of the presents for my birthday I got a sertificate for one of the most popular russian cosmetic stores, L'Etoile. It meant that I can spend there some amount of money according to the sum of the sertificate. So, I've waited a little to understand, what do I really need - usually I buy make-up staff really rarely, cause usually in the morning I'm in such a depressive mood that I can't do any make-up (not to mention choosing nice clothes instead of picking the first thing I find in my wardrobe). It leads to my lipsticks, mascaras and etc. finish very rarely, I have quite a lot of things which I just don't have an opportunity to use in everyday life.
Here's what I came up with, hopefully I will start making make-up more often, cause, to be honest, all this doesn't fit into my cosmetic bag already...


L'Etoile Stylo Correcteur - manicure correction pen. A must-have for a persons like me (who has hands growing from the wrong place, as you would say in Russia :)


Bourjois Liner Feutre, shade "Ultra Black"


Bourjois Blush, shade №32
Taft set. Ok, I bought it only because of the brush, which I actually cannot use because I don't have any face powder :) I always knew that all kinds of special offers are made for me.

parov stelar

At the Parov Stelar show in Izvestiya Hall on November, 16. They were amazing!!! Thank you guys for the show!

Sorry for my phone photos :)



Me and Irina


Marcus Füreder aka Parov Stelar

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On a birthday party of my friend Dasha a few weeks ago :)
That was a great day, definetely. Lots of memories. And some hangover - just the next day after night spent at a bar.


Adorable Dasha wearing adorable red dress

Wearing jewellery bought for my prom night. I need a reason to wear my prom dress. I love it so much!