Amid the myriad of sunlight

15th Japanese film festival

2011-12-20T02:42:00.006-10:00

Helooo, heello......?? Oh god im so lonely...

After exams, everything went by infinitely slower. But I finally gathered enough strength to go to the annual 15th Japanese film festival! Last year we watched Confessions :)

This year, I believe the amount of good quality movies increased. Some included Gantz live action, Buddha: The great departure, A ghost of chance and many many more.

We initially planned to watch The Secret World of Arrietty...

Except it was sold out ;-(

The screenplay was by Hayao Miyazaki! Who also made Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle~~

Now's a good time for a Howl inset!

Next year I'm booking a month in advance....
Anyway so we decided to watch a random movie where the title sounded cool.

Milocrorze: A love story

OHH WHAT LOVE STORY??

After watching the entire movie, it felt like something was missing...

NO, no, the only thing that stuck in my mind was the crazy man

extrait:Milocrorze: A Love Story

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I knew it was going to be something similar to The butcher, the chef and the swordsman.
BUT don't worry, it wasn't that horrid. The scenes weren't repetitive and as vulgar as the Chinese one. I guess Milocrorze would rate about 6.5 on my scale.

Again there were 3 stories which were in no way related at all. Except in the 2nd arc the man ran himself over(same actor lol) who was the samurai in the 3rd arc. The last arc was the most interesting. A samurai was looking for his long lost love-- who was taken away by aliens LOL. I won't spoil it for people who will watch but it was a fast paced, violent and sad arc. All the character's lives were either sad or silly anyway. The cramming of three plots into one which weren't related at all made the movie too blasé. You can't retain any feelings for the characters and it was pretty much a comedic impromptu.

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Anyway in between that we went to that Korean bbq down the dark alley just like last year ♡
I see this is becoming a ritual. Finally remembered the name lol, it's Kozy.

Our hot pot this time with kim chi and pork.

The seafood pancake was sooo delicious!

We drank soju again. For some reason my eyeballs felt like exploding.
Anyway this is with my friend I knew since beginning of high school.
Yet now I only see her 2 times a year :(

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Some other movies sounded very interesting.
I should have skipped work and watched....

It's about Kei Kurono and his friend Masaru Kato who die in a train accident and become part of a semi-posthumous "game". They and several other recently deceased people are forced to hunt down and kill aliens armed with a handful of futuristic items of equipment and weaponry. (From wiki lol)

It sounded like another version of The world ends with you - DS game. My friend who reads the manga said it is too violent and gory for silly girls. I asked how so and he said because aliens cut people up and vice versa ;( I will still watch it anyway because can resident evil can toughen anyone...

Another animation that got astounding reviews was

Buddha: The Great Departure

Such beautiful animation! And the scenes were well scripted too, I heard. It's based on Buddha but dramatised. It starts when Siddhartha, the Buddha, who starts to search for the truth in life and all the obstacles and betrayal that follow after abandoning his royal life to commence his great journey.

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A Ghost of Chance

Unfortunately this movie already screened when I found out about the festival. Ghost of Chance is a comedy involving a lawyer has acquired a murder case and has to defend a man who supposedly killed his wealthy wife. There are no alibis or clues................. save for a ghost only she can see! What will she do to save this supposedly innocent man and what shocking secrets will she unearth as she inquires deeper? Man I really wanted to watch this!

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A while ago I watched another Tetsuya Nakashima movie

Memories of Matsuko

(who also made the great psychological thriller CONFESSIONS!)

The description is as bland as always.

When the body of a female tramp is found in the park, her nephew, Shou, is given the burden of cleaning out her apartment. Shou was given the impression her life was meaningless and reflected in her apartment full of trash. The initial history of Matsuko's life was corny. She was a well loved school teacher but a few sandwiches short of a picnic. But why was she murdered?

The movie reflected what was beautiful about human life, the emotions and the events that even a nobody like Matsuko could achieve. It was so sad, you cannot stop tearing up at least once!!! The actress was amazing because she was bullied by the director so much to act the part he envisioned ;/ And in the end she said she never wants to work with him again even though the movie was a success lol.

I think this is the most beautiful scene in the movie, even though a body is there. Such a starry nights ✩~

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Anywho.. It may seem like my life is boring and only revolves around movies. But I still have friends and coworkers who kick the hikikomori-ness out :D

There was the annual Christmas work party again!! WOW time just swishes by!! Another year, another party. The bosses hired a place close by this year so it was much more easier to get to and it was much more fun because all the girls I worked with were there. Unlike last year it was just fobs :( AHAHA I won $50.. kaching!! :) then spent it all on perfume ;/

A boss whose wife I had once admired for her fringe is now pregnant!! She still looks so young and she still has that fringe which I still admire lol.
The workers from the other store seemed like they downsized..
The Yuki (from perfect girl evolution) lookalike had quit and my coworker said it was because she repeatedly called in 'sick' right before her shift and actually wanted to work at our store LOL. She even applied for our store first but got kicked over to there. If she worked here I can just imagine the staring I would give her...... "Your haircut is so cool! We are deprived of manly figures here!"

Anyway the oldest coworker is still there, and single I must add :D
and sometimes I still get pissed at her for no reason other than her looking pissed at me but it is her normal face... Hmm, it's just a clash of personalities ;/

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I am going overseas this year. It is exciting but anxiety inducing because I'll definitely become home-sick and get food poisoning and maybe some sort of incurable disease... Yes, it's time to visit family in China again. In complete honestly if I didn't have certain nice family members from there, I would HATE that place. It is the dirtiest, most repulsive and degenerate place on Earth!! Other than hating certain mannerisms, I also hate the pollution. I have to eat Yum Cha all the time(MSG overload!!) because my grandparents suck at cooking and will be meeting my cousins (extremely geocentric brats). Also people like to cheat you as often as possible and everyone showcases their wealth with LV bags which are like normal bags rolled in mud. Ok time to stop the hating :( it's just a love/hate relationship :/ I am going to miss my boring life in this boring country. WHICH DOESN'T stink or just full of rude people or dirty stuff.
I'm still excited!
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Time to prepare for New Year~~

Au revoir!

Japanese fiction

2011-12-01T01:34:00.003-10:00

*i wrote japnease in the title, please don't think im that illiterate.

There are plenty of popular and translated fiction books from Japan which have world wide acclaim. There are authors you can't look past when you are about to endeavor on the road of strange Japanese fiction.

The notable Haruki Murakami is unmissable. But what sets them apart from Western fiction...?

IS it the storyline? The writing style? Well I can't really tell because I haven't read enough highly acclaimed literature worthy books :(

BUT to me it's like reading graphically and taking the whole picture at once. Compared to western fiction which is like reading illustratively, the minute details seemingly an afterthought.

Whatever, with that explanation, I wasn't even talking about manga but it sounds like reading manga with only words, it's quite psychedelic :D

The first Japanese fiction I ever read (and notably remember) was from Murakami - Kafka on the shore. It is still my favourite now even though everyone likes the more mature Wind-up Bird Chronicle or Norwegian Wood (his break-through novel). This excludes 1Q84 the latest trilogy from Murakami because that hasn't been read yet and heard it's the highest selling!! Anyway, this is by no means a literature review post but to share some of my favourite books. Also the following basically depend on how good the storyline was and how interesting it was to keep on reading... :D

Also while I was browsing the free books section in the app store man im such a cheapo :'''( found some OH SO HILARIOUS fiction books. And other notable stuff. So please keep on reading :) :) ~~

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Here is a list of books I recommend.
Please be aware of some single mindedness and silly adolescent intuition, such that I'm still into fantasy, romance -- anything far from mundane life.

1. Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami

This is still my favourite because compared to Norwegian wood it is the complete opposite. The people in Norwegian Wood had substantial free will, except marred by a bad past which led to their unconventional choices. In Kafka on the shore, everything just flowed like it was part of fate. I could sense a happy ending! If you like reading about tragic dramatizations of life - and come out feeling better about your real life... this is not the book for you.

Anyway this is about a boy who has a strange father (who eats the hearts of cats), and a parallel story about an old man who is a container - but empty of a soul. The young boy, Kafka, runs away from home because he is adamant about filling a prophecy relating to Oedipus. And the old man really really likes cats
and I'm sure Murakami really likes cats too so he decided to include this amazing story of an old man who catches cats for a living.
Really, when you read it you'd want to become a cat hunter too!!

2. Spring snow (Sea of Fertility tetralogy) - Yukio Mishima

Just read this recently! Someone from kinokuniya recommended it on those slips of recommendation papers they attach to the side. I'm glad they did!

The plot is basically a complete tragic dramatization of life. This is, in complete hypocrisy, the core of what I would hate to read. It was very difficult to finish mainly because I would become as melancholic as Kiyoaki after being exposed to his exceedingly elegant depression.

The crux of the story is Kiyoaki being in a love/hate relationship with Satoko. Well actually, there is no other mentionable plot. Please let this eloquent gentlemen explain what is so significant about this novel:

"His characters are so tragic, yet so ordinary; so privileged, yet so doomed; so foolish, yet so much more introspective than you. "

The translator must have had a difficult time with this book! But he did a marvelous job and even retained what the author tried to convey.

"Mishima ... can isolate the most fleeting, awkward, and yet noble emotion, gesture, or thought, and hold it up to you like a jewel, and allow you to view it from all sides and savor it.

And he does not hold these gems up to show you how ugly they are; what is so beautiful about his writing is that even the ugliest, basest, most "human", emotion, he gives nobility and honor, so that his characters seem deific, holy... like we should see ourselves." - Ryan

DID I MENTION the author Mishima is of noble samurai bloodline and frequently expressed he would commit suicide after completion of this series. Which he did in 1970. I don't know why it is shameful to write this series because committing suicide would mean he did something bad to betray the emperor. But what a commitment to the series!!

3. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

A man who is simply the narrator works as a calcutec. Basically, it's like his head is a magical box who can attach and reattach itself (in the sense of being conscious) to make complex streams of coded data. Which he uses his hand to write out somehow. And this is a professional job.

Again this series of events is not because of free will. He meets a quirky professor who is into the research of sound. Including reading people's mind after they die because their bones emit a sound close to their memories.

The beginning is exceedingly slow. Even skipping pages should not be a crime when you say you read the entire book and said it was good. I am still angry and confused about the ending. Much like Inception. Please read to the end and skip pages and give it a second chance before putting it away without finishing!

4. After dark - Haruki Murakami

This is a short story about a girl who meets a guy in a cafe. None of this pulpy romance crap but a real, one in a lifetime snapshot of what could happen after midnight in a city like Tokyo. There are many questions still unanswered but still a very interesting read. And this entire story took place only in one night, wow such detail and introspection!

5. Memoirs of a Geisha

Well if you haven't read this, you sure are missing out.
And I am sure the in the book Chiyo's eyes aren't blue but grey like a wizards ;/

It might not be by someone Japanese, but it's still related.

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10. In the miso soup - Ryu Murakami
What a psychedelic title! Such a deceit!

Well, if you want sadistic torture to be part of your reading list, then you may find this interesting. I was captured at first. But then it went downhill and I was completely appalled, if only I could selectively erase memories. This seems to be sidelining fat, balding and weird smelling American tourist. Stop reading after they go into the hostess bar, skip that part, then go forward about 10 pages :) then it may be bearable. I like how he captured the sadness of the sex industry. It is a very sad world in there.

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Ok well these are the ones worth mentioning. SORRY they are just one Murakami after another!! But his works are so appealing without going overboard on the explicit stuff. I am just finishing 1Q84 book 1 and it sure feels like his magnum opus. After finishing I might knock off Kafka on the Shore as no.1 in my head :/

Here is a site for top 216 Japanese books by Goodreads
If you feel slightly cheated by my short list ;/ ..... please, quality over quantity.

It's rated by users and I am sure you can find one that suits your taste. Here is a short guide:

If you liked One flew over the cuckoo's nest but wanted more romance: Norwegian Wood
If you like Wuthering heights but wanted more melancholic feats of love: Spring Snow
If you liked Lord of the flies but wanted more violence: Battle Royale
If you hated 1984 and wanted a less depressing storyline : 1Q84

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Now to quirky fiction

I found some inconceivable hilarious but more-so mature books in the ibook free section - which I frequently browse.... for enlightening books such as Great Expectations or Price and Prejudice, and zombies.

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The Princess and the P****

A beautiful, chaste, and completely naive princess encounters a strange lump in her mattress. The lump soon morphs into a shape familiar to everyone but her, triggering her curiosity and her father’s greatest fears.

Aharhar, that was funny,,,,.

Meeting and Mating

The title is self explanatory. A lady wants to meet and mate with someone, namely vampires, who are quite common but out of reach in her society. Like Craig her vampire neighbour and a deliveryman who has been married 53 times.

But that lady has really funny remarks and the writing is complete comedy. Someone in our uni magazine who is part time stand-up comedian remarked they perform to smart audiences who don't walk out of your show when you don't say the word penis within 15 seconds. I assure you this author does not mention the word penis in her entire book unless you count dick which was only part of the word dickweed.

That's all I found unless you want some stupid mills and boons reading list which is only reserved for housewives and maybe old hags. I swear I've never read one and don't plan to.. till fitting in said criteria.

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Now go forth and read ~~~
If you are lazy and just want to watch the movie, it is likely you will never find it as fulfilling as the book. If only everyone were educated and willing to become educated. Then our society might be doomed because we could all become melancholic floor rags. Anyway, please read good stuff such as the above so you don't become clouded by too much introspection.

Au revoir ~~

Spring ~ Anna Sui

2011-10-22T22:01:00.000-10:00

It was raining a lot around here this week. I was totally looking forward to spring weather ;-( But the Anna Sui Spring collection were like a ray of sunshine~

And weather is actually suppose to affect people's moods. Sunshine weather makes people happier by 15% but gloomy depresses us much more, by 35%. Anyway if you are suffering from weather induced depression, looks like it's time forrrr...~~ a glow of hotness from your screen..

Looking like a goddess

This lady's dimples are so extremely adorable :O

While you may not work on a farm, this smock is widely charming to many.

After combining a rockstar with a country singer

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Rodarte's complementing collection in the same show:

The ziggy-zagginess hypnotizes people who look.

A wheat-field print on the dress

Found out they were from the 2010 Spring collection!! I'm still living in the past :( ...and under a rock.

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Here is the 2012 Anna Sui Spring collection:

Like a fashionable rockstar.
So many Mary Jane's that complement with the outfits!

Such a classy lady, but nicely downplayed with the shorter front and stockings.

First Asian looking model I've seen on the runway lol.

Like a sugarmama :D

To sexy even for the beach.

So classy she has a permanent pout.

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Lastly, a photo of Anna Sui herself!

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Au revoir~!

A holiday theme

2011-09-29T02:20:00.005-10:00

It's not even close to Christmas holidays yet but...

Time to plan and make nice decorations ♡

~to take with you when going on holidays~

And I mean stuff that makes you look and feel splendid :D When you are far away from home, feeling crappy and homesick. BUT it's FUN to feel like you're already there ~ :)

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Firstly, what do people really need when they go on holidays?
Yes! A suitcase!
To store all your necessary stuff~
Like panties ;D

Unless, you want to wear your Hawaiian shirt everyday. As a boho dress too!
"Time to be hated in Paris! >=D "

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Anyway this post will be about suitcases.
Not just crappy suitcases that are clones of each other.
When you are in the airport waiting to pick up your luggage, it's only typical to see a sea of black luggage before you. Maybe you took the effort to add something distinguishable to it:

But why not go even further and buy a good looking suitcase :D

After going through many, many crap suitcases, isn't it time to buy a good one!? Save the headache of it breaking then having to drag it around >;o !

SO, this post will be about practical and stylish suitcases~
This is a mainly for overseas travel and with the average limit of ~23kg on most flights. I usually use 60cm (24") tall suitcases. It is not much because you can only fit ~4days worth of clothes and other necessary stuff like personal/hygiene items and gifts too. But 23kg isn't much either.

I will also incline to present 4 wheeler suitcases. They are the BEST, it's like putting a leash on your suitcase and breezily sliding it around~

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Firstly,

Hideo Wakamatsu Sakura suitcases.

They are beautiful!!

The Sakura design comes in 85cm OR 50cm.
But just too big or a bit too small :( Looks very high quality!
~Australian store~

Comes in the ~wave design too! Only 50cm though.

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NEXT presenting,
Hey USA's Mickey Mouse Range:

It comes in
50cm
60cm
73cm
(20", 24", 29")

This depends on the store that stock it. I found these designs from someone selling in Malaysia for ~$300.
It's cheaper to buy from Hey USA and Amazon sites but SO many popular designs and sizes are sold out!! :(

Space-y~ Nice place for a nap :)

Stylish lock too!

An embossed pink version baby ;)

THE family!

Mickey comic style

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The following suitcase is what inspired me to write this post. It is so extremely, crazily super adorable~~!! I can just imagine in the airport, the suitcase shouting out to me (visually) like long lost lovers, finally reunited ♡

Mickey rainbow suitcase ☆★
So mature looking inside!

It is both a 4 wheeler and 60cm! Also avaliable in 73cm. OH SO perfect!
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But THEN.... akin to some korean drama tragedy >O<''', I couldn't buy it due to shipping areas...
DARN IT USA :(

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Anywho, now to plan B.....

Mature style ;/
"Classy Mr Monocles - my role model"

THIS is the polycarbonate icon spinner:
It may look bland but it is actually very shiny in real life. My mum approves :) It is very mature... and so everyone will respect you at the airport lol.

It comes in all the main sizes:
50, 60, 73 cm

Looks alright inside.

It was from luggage gear and going for a really good price. In store it is double!

Some other mature, quite expensive, but diamond-like quality suitcases:

Studier looking than a block of steel!

All are Samsonite brands.

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Well, hope you got some insight that there aren't only black suitcases for sale in the entire world! Once a lady mistook my luggage for hers. She checked the tag then chucked it back onto the conveyer belt. I can't believe how strong she was, but I have delicate stuff in there too >=(

I seriously hope no one has the same suitcase on the same flight next time ~.~ And they take it when it's too late and my panties will be gone forever~~ :(

Next post I will seriously have some DIY action! With luggage tags. AND classy ones too :)

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Au revoir!

Baby stuff~

2011-09-01T02:37:00.001-10:00

Aranzi Aronzo DIY series now extends to hand-made baby stuff ♡

Mr Bear on the back.

From the people who previously brought you...
"Cute Stuff" and "Cute dolls " :D

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Who doesn't LOVE baby stuff!!

Especially baby wipes in your handbag or manbag.
They are so convenient!
Baby wipes I mean!

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Anyway this is Aranzi Aronzo's great description of their book:

"This book teaches you things you'll need to make for your baby. Well, maybe your baby won't really need them but they're things that might be fun to have" ☆

Even if you don't have a baby, this stuff is still super fun to make. And then you can stand back and admire your handiwork :)
And good practice for gift ideas before your family members, your friend, or even you, have an actual, real baby ♡

Here are some of the stuff you can make...

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Guess what this is~~

An adorable duvet~
Cloth nappies~ Or diaper pull-overs.

Cute DIY height chart

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As a sample here is how to make pouches to store baby stuff in:

Guess what each one represents!

Instructions and template:

Apologies for the slanty template! I used to have a scanner but it took too much space in my room so I put in in the garage. Unfortunately my dad gave it to Vinnies without telling me >=( Everything I put in his garage, he thinks belongs to him ;(

Anyway I hope everyone has noticed something different about these photos :D

A while ago a friend bought me this felties book:

Which I already had LOL. But in tribute of such a nice gesture I made another feltie, a panda from the book:

Even though it will just laze around my room. I have too many keychains :(
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In case you couldn't tell the difference between previous photos to these ones, I finally got rid of my shitty ass camera! Now I take photos with a camera the PRO's use!! Like one of those bulky ones with humongous lenses. Think it's called a DSLR, but this one isn't exactly.. More on that next POST~!
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Tomorrow is father's day. Hope you will all pay tribute to your father or grandfather or whoever... or even your single mom who took both roles. Because no matter what they say, if you don't get a gift, inside they secretly lose hope in you :'(
According to my dad, socks and ties are really gay gifts. So paid for a lobster dinner beforehand :D Because tomorrow I'm working up to 16 hours instead since the Moon Festival is on. Hope I don't die :-/

More nice photos to come! ♡
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Au revoir!

Stuff I bought to fill that hole

2011-08-05T03:19:00.000-10:00

This semester I only did 3 subjects but slacked off and only cared about making $. Because I am addicted to money ;-o And it pays for life saving coffee at uni.. Got passable grades but not good enough to make it into my chosen masters course..... My average will probably go down so I'm sad now :(

But I'm semi-RICH! Now time to buy stuff and feel like life is still enjoyable.... with materialistic crap, when your dreams goes down the drain.

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You can always find cupcakes in bakeries but now stores cater solely to selling artistic cupcakes.

Not only visually enticing, but these gourmet cupcakes are actually delicious! Not to the point of being overbearingly sweet.

Bought a sample dozen from the Cupcake Bakery at QVB.
Ate one on the way back lol

Now a cross section of the cupcakes to demonstrate their combination of flavours visually!
:D....

Tiramasu cupcake

This is supposedly the most popular: Red velvet.
It has cheese on top and a cupcake that's coloured red.
The one I thought was most delicious was the creamy cheesecake. May take weeks to work off the excess fat...

Compared to conventional cupcakes, these seem to be less sweet so, you can actually taste the delicate balance with whatever flavour you chose.. like cheese :)
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NOW to fashionable stuff :D

Perfumes which are described being oriental or spicy or fruity usually have weak staying power.
But I LOVE smelling like a refreshing spring breeze all day :(
To solve this problem, there are atomizers!
The original ones were like this:

Wow this lady makes beautiful porcelain stuff!

But I meant the portable ones which could be shaped like lipstick~

Travello popularized the sleek and no spill design:
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This one came from ebay

It's what they call an 'inspired' (rip-off) version. It has a white cap unlike travelo's black caps. Like most people complained about, this one also leaks a little from the nozzle after each spray. But hardly any from the refilling part at the bottom.

The see-through chrome-like window ♡

And this is how you are suppose to refill. It wasn't as fun as I imagined :(
Had to press like 40 times which got repetitive. There was a paranoid feeling that my hands will slip and I would press the nozzle at a wrong angle then spray perfume in my eye....

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I bought this off EkiLove:
Her packaging is meticulous! Made it look a million dollars :o

Putting it on~
IT'S AMAZING! When I held it, it was sooo light which made me think, WTF cheap metal! BUT my ear didn't react. AND since it was long but light, so you can wear it for ages without your ear being tugged and it will start to hurt, then give you a headache.

The purple part is really eye catching but doesn't look like cheap plastic because it is swarovski crystal :D This is so light that it practically floats on your ear! But just be careful with long earrings. When something dangerous might occur, like your crazy arm waving friend comes along, tying your hair with only the crown shows is still cute and practical :D

I got an expensive haircut too! But my fringe turned out SHIT because I said to the lady "Shorter! Shorter!" Because my hair grows extremely, crazily fast. Time to wait for it to grow out :D

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Intermission~~!

I finally managed to stuff Lilly in a mommy bag......

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Back when I had friends:

This is my friend's graduation performance:

After 15 years of hard work, she finally became a professional Bollywood dancer
Très fier ~! ☆

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Ok my fringe finally grew longer lol.

I think it looks best with your hair half tied and the earrings half *shine* through. Because it is very eye-catching, don't want to outshine the rest of your face~
Btw my fashionable outfit for today is pajamas :D

With long sparkly earrings, hair tied and long bangs makes a semi-casual look
Can't live without a fringe and bangs, because my jawline is so manly!!

Then couldn't think of what to buy next. So I got even sadder :(

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Haha this post started in June but it took ages and I decided I wasn't making progress with losing weight.......

SO NEXT POST....
Some purchases from the now defunct modebarbie.com.
I think a new one called badbarbie is in production :D
The webmistress has good style selection!
And some other cosmetics I bought off cosme-de. Lenses too if I can finally get over my eye-touching phobia >=[

Au revoir!

Rolling away...

2011-07-07T02:59:00.013-10:00

I'm a fucking fatass because Dunkin' Donuts exists

-by Jelly

I'm such a gluttonous lazy piece of shit.
Can I have more HAM?

Every morning when I get out of bed the first thing I can think of, the thing that moves me just enough to get my lard ass out of bed, is the new Maple-sausage-egg-sit back and feel your arteries clogging breakfast sandwich. Goddamnit those are good, but not without my triple sugar whipped cream topped coffee. OH! AND A MUFFIN. I usually finish these treats during my 10 minute drive to work. Doesn't take long for me to shove them into my face, they're SO GOOD!

Then I get to work. My skinny-ass bitch of a coworker's sitting there drinking her non-fat soy latte, smiling at me, mocking me I'm sure. As I walk past her desk I'm sure to let my tent, i mean tablecloth, i mean DRESS drag across her desk, and the fax machine, and everything else and knock it to the floor. Oh well, I can't be bothered to pick it up because I would fall over and roll away.

Finally I make it to my cubicle.....

Continue reading~! It's so funny!

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SO annoyed at fat bank clerks >=(

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I was sick the past week and had crazy water retention. My face was disgustingly bloated and I had a double chin even when I didn't look down. :***(
So that was an ironic turn of events... But I care about my job! I wiped the floors twice last night and mopped up an area even outside the store because customers would trip over. Someone dropped their happycup leaving a HUGE pink puddle outside. Actually a man came to scream at us for not moping it... Probably because he tripped. Blame the bitch who dropped it and left!!

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I hate rude customers. Especially customers who demand 2 bags for one item and everything cut into little bite sized pieces. HAHA some lady threw coins at one of the girls when paying and when my coworker did the same thing to demonstrate how rude she was, the lady came over and screamed at me!! She demanded the manager and pointed threateningly at my coworker. Can't wait to get out of that place.

But....... I love everyone else there :) Especially my new found anime enlightened and rock/japanese obsessed coworkers ♥ I can't believe how unique everyone is! SO sad when I finally leave.... But not sad enough to stay for another season. YAY escape plan initiating!

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Going through a lack of inspiration phase =o=
Time to eat omega 3..!

Photos time:

Bono the hypocrite
Bono the tax evader

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Started watching Fairy Tale! Pretty good anime!

Strange subtitles:

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Mere coincidence at the royal wedding?

Hobos - disturbing the aesthetics of our streets

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Whenever the song "underneath your clothes" plays on my coworker ipod, I shudder ;(
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Au revoir!

Moles

2011-06-02T16:44:00.001-10:00

Ages ago a coworker got rid of a mole on her back. It was a real big mole she had since she was a kid. I asked her if it was because it'll turn into cancer (which was asked jokingly! Cauz saying serious stuff like that is believed to fuel their subsequent occurrence!!) But already knew it was along the lines of her parents believing in Chinese superstitions lol.

"No traces of the scar!"
Lolol hope she never finds this page & thinks I'm a crazy ass stalker.
And I actually forgot what side it was on....

Anyway she said her mole meant, in life, she'll just have to try much harder than anyone else to get to the same level. Because the mole symbols a burden on her back... I completely believed her ;( ! She has the height, looks and charisma! Why is she even my coworker?!

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TODAY this post will be about freckles and moles. What has their placement got anything to do with your destiny, love life, money?! Or maybe, this is just a redundant ego boosting post. I used to believe looking up silly stuff like this was for insecure people. BUT NOW it is so fun just knowing and believing ONLY the good stuff which will surely add sustenance to anyone's self importance... :D

And this is also a small continuation of the past life post~~

" Some believe moles are suppose to attract luck based on where they are. Others believe moles on our bodies are in reality secret imprints carried over from our previous lives, stamps of some past karmic deed meant to ripen in this life, good as well as bad. "

There are various sites which have very detailed explanations:
WOFS
Personal development coach

For face

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This will be a summary of their prepositions:

On colour and size, some believe the larger and more prominent, the greater its power. Another popular belief are that lighter-coloured moles spell better fortune.

So the conclusion we can draw here is LIGHT but HUGE moles are extremely powerful and fortunate! But some sites said the smaller and lighter, the better it complements your life.

They said the placement of the mole at the front or back is also important. Front moles are generally good luck while moles on your back are usually associated with something negative.

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Details:

Analysis is divided between male and female.
Ladies FIRST~!

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Females: Front

1 Life will be challenging for you and sometimes things will not be easy. If the mole is red in color, however, no challenges will be too hard for you.

2 A mole in this location indicates that you get easily stressed out. Learn to relax and don’t take life too pensively.

3 You are a busy and popular person. Your actions are efficient and you are liked by many people. It is likely that you hold a high position with a lot of responsibilities because of your ability to make good connections.

4 This mole warns you that you should have good eating habits. If the mole is light, however, it means that you will have or already have a partner who loves you very much.

5 This mole indicates that you have the responsibility of taking care of your family. It also indicates that you will be good at that and will be rewarded for that later on in your life.

6 The mole in this location indicates that you are a very ambitions person and have big goals. If you have more moles of such significance, it indicates that you are likely to become a well-known person.

7 The mole here shows that you are a kind and generous person. You are fair with people therefore people trust you.

8 This mole means that your life will be easy. You will not lack support and you will be safe throughout your life. It’s one the luckiest moles to have.

9 This mole indicates your capacity to achieve great wealth. If it touches your navel, it means that you will become extremely wealthy.

10 This mole shows that you are a very passionate person and have a high sex drive.(The location of these moles on body can be slightly different to the ones shown in the picture.)

11 Your children are likely to be obedient and will bring you a lot of happiness. You will be (or are) proud of them.

12 This mole shows that you are going to have a good life. Everything will be relatively easy for you to accomplish but there will be some surprises along the way.

13 You will have a beautiful husband or wife and you yourself are likely to be good-looking.

14 You love your children and they feel safe with you. You have a close connection with your children.

15 You should learn how to manage money because otherwise it is likely that you will lose some.

16 You cannot keep any secrets because you love to gossip.

17 You are a happy person and it is likely that you are or will become prosperous.

18 You have some unstable traits and have a tendency to spend too much money.

19 You are a positive person to whom life will be easier than for most.

20 You treat everyone with respect and therefore everyone respects you in return.

21 With little work you will easily succeed in life.

22 You are a very ambitious woman therefore whenever you truly decide to set goals, it is more than likely that you will achieve them.

23 You can be quite a heartless and cold person at times. (The location of these moles on body can be slightly different to the ones shown in the picture.)

24 Your life is full of challenges. If the mole is red in color, it means that your love life will be successful but there will be only one problem, that your desire to flirt will cause you to have only short relationships.

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Females: Back

1 Your marriage is likely to be rather challenging.

2 You will have many responsibilities in your life and it’s a good decision to remove this mole.

3 This mole shows that you may be lacking elegance. Some people prefer to remove this mole because of this meaning.

4 It will be quite hard for you to stay in the same job for a long time.

5 You are intelligent, creative and it will be easy for you to become well-known and respected.

6 You will have an unstable career. It is a good idea to remove this mole since it’s quite negative.

7 You are a reliable and trustworthy person therefore your friends find it easy to tell you even their deepest secrets.

8 Your life will be safe and easy. This mole is one of the best moles to have.

9 You are a very patient person but if you are annoyed too much, you can snap.

10 You are very good with numbers therefore would be a very efficient accountant. In general, you are good with managing money.

11 You have great interpersonal skills and therefore it’s easy for you to make friends.

12 You have many reliable friends therefore this mole is considered to be very good to have.

13 This mole indicates that you can be quite insensitive at times. (The location of these moles on body can be slightly different to the ones shown in the picture.)

Males: Front

1 You get stressed quite easily and should try to take measures to calm and control yourself.

2 Your life will have some challenges but you will solve any problems that you will encounter.

3 You should make sure that you eating habits are good or your health will suffer. If the mole is light in color, it means that your wife loves you very much.

4 You will have a happy life and very little worries. However you should pay attention to your health.

5 You are a very ambitions person with great dreams.

6 You are popular and your life has many challenges. People like you and trust you. It is likely that you will achieve great heights in your career.

7 Your life will be easy and you will be safe no matter where you are.

8 Your life will be easy and there will be little unexpected problems. (The location of these moles on body can be slightly different to the ones shown in the picture.)

9 Your children are obedient and bring you much happiness. You are proud of them, or will be.

10 Your wife is likely to be good-looking. You are likely to be good-looking too.

11 You will enjoy great wealth and life will be easy for you.

12 You are likely to have many children.

13 You are likely to inherit a large amount of money.

14 The same as mole 13.

15 There will be some challenges in your life.

16 You will travel many times, both for pleasure and work. The smaller the mole, the more happiness travel will bring you. If the mole is very large, it means that travel will bring more problems than happy events.

17 You will be very successful and are likely to rise high in your career.

18 You are likely to do a physical work and you are a hard working person.

19 You find it hard to get much recognition for the work you do. (The location of these moles on body can be slightly different to the ones shown in the picture.)

20 It is likely that you will have a profession that involves dealing with money. This mole also indicates that you should take great care in dealing with money, especially if it’s not yours.

21 You love spending money and it will be hard for you to save money. You should therefore practice to save to prevent your money supply from ever running out. If the mole is on the left hand, it means that you spend more than you earn. If it’s on the right hand, it means that you easily attract money.

Males: Back

1 This mole indicates that you will have a comfortable life and it’s likely that you will become wealthy.

2 You are likely to suffer from backache. Your life can be challenging and therefore it’s better to remove this mole.

3 You will have many responsibilities in life.

4 Friends may back-stab you and you may experience betrayal. It is better to remove this mole.

5 Your friends are likely to back-stab you.

6 It will be hard for you to hold the same position for a long time. (The location of these moles on body can be slightly different to the ones shown in the picture.)

7 The same as mole 6.

8 You will generally doubt your own abilities to make sound decisions. You cannot motivate yourself enough therefore you require some push from others when you try to achieve your goals. On the more positive side, you will have a very good wife.

9 You are likely to be successful and wealthy and you will find success in starting your own business. You will be much better off being an entrepreneur rather than working for someone else.

10 You are intelligent, creative and wise. You are highly respected by people who know you.

11 You are indecisive when it comes to love and marriage.

12 You have a tendency to be messy.

13 You may experience a broken marriage or a very unstable relationship.

14 You will be earning a lot of money. (The location of these moles on body can be slightly different to the ones shown in the picture.)

15 You are a charismatic and popular person and you are likely to become very successful.

16 You are very intelligent and people find it easy to trust you.

17 Your life will be full of challenges. It’s a good idea to remove this mole.

18 You are a hard working person and this will pay off indeed. You will become a recognised person and will enjoy many great relationships.

19 You will live far away from your home. You are always on the move.

(Didn't just copy and paste, I spell checked and reformatted!)

This one about face is pretty good too:
WOFS : Face

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To me, about half of my moles seem true. But the rest untrue or hasn't happened yet. So, it's easy to forget the bad and only remember the good when they come true! :D

The guide said I eat really badly (once I got 5+ cavities, in kindergarten).
BUT I have 2 moles in the same place and the other says I will be LOVED by people whom I love ;D

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For my coworker, she needed 4 stitches to close up the hole. Imagine HOW HUGE it was. Then it broke off because during work, we usually do a lot of lifting and stretching. It then got infected she she had to restitch it. But it's all good now. Not much has changed in her life except she likes wearing clothes that reveal her back more :/ ? AND maybe she got luckier, I dunno but she probably feels that way.

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Hope you get HUGE, LIGHT moles in the right places! ;D

Au revoir.

To do: pass out from drug overdose

2011-05-17T19:07:00.000-10:00

I could be happy everyday... if I could afford to go Max Brenner everyday.

Everyone was telling me to go to this amazingly addictive cafe chain which served everything with chocolate in their menu. You can't even escape eating healthy banana bread without an artistic drizzle of chocolate on top...

Anyway after ages and ages of broken meet ups, I finally accumulated the ultimate WILL to try Max Brenner not matter the amount of assignments due soon or whatever crap someone says about it ("The fondue makes my arm flab away in the wind"). Someone once convinced me to forfeit trying Max Brenner and go with Thai cauz "you can't go wrong with pad thai!!". What an exaggeration!

Max Brenner
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$6.50 Pad Thai
Darn is this the most unattractive photo I could find >;-o

Anywho, have to get to the main point, you need to add major overdosing on chocolate, a legal drug, to your bucket list. The prices at Max Brenner where quite high but since it was like totally a couples hangout (the saddest place ever to eat alone), splitting the bill is totally the way to go~~

This is the fruits fondue set.
It was like $18 but there was so much chocolate to dip in even though it looks small. The top tier contained milk and dark chocolate while the bottom 2 had a flame to keep the chocolate melted :D ...smart!
Chocolate coated strawberry was the tastiest!

"Bili showcases how to eat fondue."
We both have androgynous(more masculine actually) names lol.
Once another friend told her parents she was gonna hang out with us and her parents asked who with. She said our names and they didn't believe we were both girls.... AND SO, her parents didn't let her sleep over either ;(

This is my cappuccino. How artistic!

This is Bili's Mexican hot chocolate lol.
It is suppose to be spicy! Like paprika sprinkled everywhere. Bili has made a resolution to order the weirdest stuff on the menu whenever she goes out =/ Last time she tried peanut butter hot chocolate, and said it was very unique, overdose on peanut butter but alright tasting...

We ate by candlelight later when they put a small candle on the table and dimmed the lights as it got darker lol. So glad I didn't stomp in there, a loner, all by myself...

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I was still a bit hungry afterwards and we passed breadtop. Saw the infamous charcoal bun which looked like the failed dish on harvest moon..

Said to be dark from the addition of charcoal with some added garlic and butter.

Bili takes first bite in case it does taste like poo... she will be more elegant about it while I will probably spit it at passerby's in the street...

She didn't gag or or anything assuring it didn't taste like crap lol. Well I went ahead and ate the whole thing. Surprisingly all I could taste was the butter and garlic. There wasn't any burnt bread taste at all! So yeah, good stuff. Must be black food colouring.

AND that was a great dinner! I woke up the next day SUPER happy. I felt close to laughing like a psychotic manic after reading a comic strip. Close to being on marijuana :D But with chocolate overdose, unlike marijuana, it won't reallllyyy kill you, you'd probably just have diarrhea from the sugar.

Also it is the perfect state when you want to marry someone lolol. I finally married Raven in Rune factory:

She's so CUTE yeh!! =D
Not to make myself feel too gay, (damn coworker making me self concious!) I actually wanted to marry Gaius who is sooo sweeet :D and Raven who works with him was the closest~
He had the cutest quotes!
"I like to eat hot curry udon in front of the burning furnace on the hottest days in summer... and past out from all the heat."

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While in that state, I donated money to a certain person who was doing it for a good cause. Except the funny thing is an acquaintance from the past asked me to donate to his cause first. He was a nice guy (suspicious to me) so I was thinking it over... Then I decided not to donate to him LOL.

In my defense, during high school he smelled. Like soggy clothes and had BO. And living on less than $2 will only make it worse... But he got a lot of donations already so he will probably go on with his plight.... not to make myself feel bad for my wasted efforts, I gave it to a girl who had no donations. Gotta give encouragement to some people yeh. I shouldn't have put anonymous as the donor damnit! Had a really good pseudo-name: Monsier Moustache ;-{>

Anyway gotta save up for Lindt cafe / chocolate room (with addition funds for subsequent irrational actions) now :D

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Au revoir! ♡

Some outdated movie reviews

2011-05-07T21:27:00.001-10:00

Over the first half of the year, the only entertainment I bothered organising were going out to watch movies. Minimal effort required and long amounts of time wasted. Sadly, my taste in movies are becoming TERRIBLE *^* (apart from the time we watched Confessions)

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True Grit, why the hell didn't reviews say LEARN to understand American redneck language before watching. You will be sitting there clueless and missing out on all the jokes they make with their eloquent southerner talk. This story has zero action and the storyline was equivalent in real time to a trek through the middle of nowhere. Should have known from walking into the cinema it was going to turn out badly for us, the room was filled with oldies! I kept on saying (to myself) this will surely pick up in the next half hour... and it didn't.

WTH where was Matt Damon!? He must had decreased a lot of muscle tone for this movie...

The movie was disappointing because it was like watching in real life without the sugarcoating, all the mundane things and horror you go through being a cowboy. A borderline overweight cast with no attractiveness appeal. Only watch if you are a die hard FAN of the first movie...

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AND possibly the worst movie I will see this year...
The butcher, the chef and the swordsman

It was so cringe worthy, I shudder typing about it now. The jokes were so lame it could make you handicapped when you walk out of the cinemas. The butcher got WAYYYY too much screen time. He was both so vile and annoying and that his satirical looks only epitomized cheap makeup and wardrobe. The director could probably only afford his payroll(probably acting for free) to fill up most of the movie . The other guy, the chef (Ando Masanobu) was alright so nothing to bitch about there. He looks like a young version of Takeshi Kaneshiro.

Sorry Masanobu, this is not a good movie to diverge out to.

OOooo the similarity!!

The last guy who had a really deep voice (someone play "bad news" on mac's speech recog!) was the only professional looking actor there. He appears killing everyone with a skillful swish~ of his sword, bouts out some vengeful crap and then gets killed... how disappointing. His voice was quite mesmerizing!

Anyway I will not go into the storyline, because your mind would have to go through several seizures before being in par with the movie. The only worthy cinematic in the movie was during the flute playing lady's solo screen time (was she really a whore?).

She's an exotic dancer!

Please China, don't let this embarrassing crap seep into reputable film festivals. Even if it is experimental and can create a niche for the crazy people of our society.

A reviewer said about half the audience walked out 10 minutes into the movie. There was still 20 minutes of the fat butcher to watch until the Takeshi lookalike appears. Any reviewers recommending this movie for other unwitting viewers with disposable incomes and weak reasoning should go hide far away, in shame.

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The I went to watch Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest .. by myself.

Once saw a girl had the 'do and clothes like Lisbeth on the train and wanted to get her autograph and shake her hand and everything but I was too chicken in the end...

Lolol last time it was sooo embarrassing sitting next to couples who were all like hugging each other in the cinema, when the rape scenes were on. Went to watched the film from the corner of the cinema this time... AND it was pretty good. No rape scenes or extreme violence which looked really realistic in the first two movies. It was like watching the process of Ace Attorney in gory action.

**Spoiler** Lisbeth's "admirer" (or two-timing romantic/sexual partner) goes out to dig for evidence to try and prove Lisbeth almost killed her father out of self defense and not because she is psychotic. It turns out her father was part of a secret organisation and she makes a lot of enemies when trying to prove her innocence. LOL enemies her ass, they are just old men who are at the end stage of renal failure... AND that's why they are so dangerous! Who knew her elderly father (and friends) had black belt ninja moves and his super indestructible sasquatch henchman/son (with IQ 70) would follow his every mastermind orders **Spoiler end**

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Lastly, a short review on Black Swan~

It was so disturbing!! People who cut their nails with scissors should be abhorred. Also people who said the movie gave then a headache because of the handheld filming should get their eyes checked. It was barely noticeable... Anyway, good movie. Go see it!

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Nobody really cares, but it was my bday last week :D
I got a cake from work lol. I ordered it and everything but then I couldn't find it when it was suppose to come in. And then found out a coworker sold my bday cake ;-o !!
But I got an ice cream cake in the end. Yay!! Even though I liked strawberries and cream more =(

Hokkaido milk flavour!

Rotated to most 'attractive' angle

If anyone ever wondered the ice cream to cake ratio:
Surprisingly the entire filling was ice cream and not sponge...
Anyway, time to pig out :D

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Reincarnation - more proof than UFOs?

2011-04-12T01:15:00.000-10:00

Are all people equal when they die?

One of my favourite "FACTUAL" sites had a story about a funeral service for a wealthy lady. She spawned some rich businessmen children too who gave her a funeral service equivalent to a huge State funeral. She was just rich but not political influential or famous but her passing was still a superlative event.

They had people who didn't even know the family being offered a few hundred dollars to attend while carrying a candle for her and show respect for her photo on 2 humongous LCD screens. But anyway, after all that commotion, will her relatives bother visiting her grave in the coming years? And why make death such a spectacular event... does her funeral service make any contributions apart from possible inspiration for copycats and fueling the funeral service industry..?

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More importantly, does karma follow you?

There was a book about reincarnation and the theoretical length of time it takes for persons of different stature to complete a cycle (of life) and return to a new cycle. Musicians only took 40 years after death to be reborn again while theorists and scientists took over 400 years... They had no explanation for this nor evidence to back it up. But it was interesting to think so because Mozart said he was a child prodigy at music because his previous lives all contained musical influences.

If you read top 10 article on reincarnation, there seems more proof backed by experiments for reincarnation. while UFOs as always, remains elusive...

Especially interesting is the case of Glenn Ford, who while under hypnosis during the 1960s recalled a past life as a French cavalryman under King Louis XIV.
He only ever took basic French lessons but recalled a past life as a French cavalryman with ease. Further, when recordings of his regression were sent to UCLA for analysis, they discovered that not only was Ford speaking fluent French, but he was speaking the Parisian dialect from the 17th century not heard in over three centuries. Xenoglossia remains one of the more compelling evidences for reincarnation but unfortunately too rare to draw precise conclusions.

A greater extent of case studies for reincarnation focus on children. The reason for this seems to be an increased sensitive to "past life memories". A notable case is 6 year old, James, whose former reincarnation was a WWII fighter pilot. James knew many facts his educated parents didn't, especially details about planes. His memories went to the extent of uncovering his former identity, a pilot who was shot down in WWII during combat.

But as James grew older, his memories faded like other documented children. Explanation for adults rarely having any unique recollections of past life is that we become socially conditioned. Also many of us subconsciously influence reports so documentation becomes inaccurate.

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Studies are abundant in India possibly for their greater believe in reincarnation and documentation is more readily acceptable while in other cultures, it would be put down to influence from media.

In India, some people living well below the poverty line and are very isolated because of cast groups. They would be too poor to own a television nor live in a community with much outside influence. So cases are least likely to be from a imprint they saw somewhere else.

But an intriguing case came from a girl born in a prosperous and intellectual family. However her memories went far beyond remembering past places to knowing specific names of all members of her past family. It was from this interview with Dr. Ian Stevenson.

Her memories never faded and her past family even considered her in her former self because it seemed like her memories transferred into a younger body. Most children who remember past memories said by Dr Stevenson were people who died in violent deaths. She died of illness which was relatively peaceful though, compared to being hit with a sharp instrument. Most children remember in vivid detail the last moments of their life especially if it were violent and even carry birthmarks consistent with their past wounds into their new life.

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While some people dedicate their whole life finding UFOs, there is already goldmine of information for reincarnation and studies not restricted by some government agency or our primitive technology...

I find reincarnation like physics. There isn't concrete proof, but if you look around, proof does exist... It can explain some phenomenon's like strange phobia cases (water) or people who are extremely different to their family or child prodigies(Mozart). Reincarnation may seem like a loose and silly alternative to fall back on, that it is extremely intangible and prone to imagination. However the religion it came from does have a few thousand years to refine this idea.
But WHY isn't the Dalai Lama invincible :(

Anywho, some people may be hardcore Christians or whatever and start a long constructive argument against reincarnation. But I am borderline atheist at the moment and don't even feel like believing what I've written. However feel feel to express your opinions, unexplainable phobias or memories which seem mundane or violent and very REAL. To be honest the reason I started to write about reincarnation was when I remembered my dreams as a kid which consisted a lot of falling (or jumping) out of tall buildings. Lived on the 2nd floor during that time.. ;o

Anyway have to go off and study.. But am interested in readings of any recounts of your dreams ;)

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OMG wahhh Rune factory 3... SO ASHAMED, I have become a complete addict and have not touched homework for a week... DON'T play till you are in the all clear with a month to spare....

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freebies in magazine

2011-03-18T22:04:00.002-10:00

If anyone buys their magazines instead of downloading, you could have experienced the magazine in it's full glory. Shiny glossy pages, the feel of shiny glossy pages, the smell of it, and most of all.. useful stuff FOR KEEPS!

Sweet so far has the most issues with the best freebies... followed by Non-no.

Pattern isn't as ugly as the other ones..

I like Mina & Seventeen the most, but only for downloading..

Anyway the season's changing and people need inspiration to be good looking ;) And Sweet is full of good looking half caste models. After flicking through, the clothes don't matter anymore. Maybe like after spending it on a plastic surgeon will you be worthy of wearing those clothes... =/

"Her shoes are.. wonderful!!"

JOKES! Stuff them, the selling point are the freebies... =D

Tested by Lilly to hold just enough stuff.

They are trying to mainstream gypsy style this season and I can't tell it apart from the hippie style 3-4 seasons ago...

But good! Time to recycle~ I thought the hippie style was kinda hard to pull off so I sat out that season ;/ Not only that, but hippies are described as people of unconventional appearance with long hair and wearing beads, characterized by rejection of conventional values and taking hallucinogenic drugs.

WHILE gypsies are people who are characterized as living unconventional lives and involved with MAGIC!! Ohhh magical *o* It's like wearing fashionable rags instead of flower prints.

Or a mixture...

I accidentally threw the pull-out gypsy style guide in the bin.. but that lady was one real classy gypsy *o*

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Anyway more good looking stuff~

"She reminds me of those moody, suicidal HK movie stars"

Her suitcase is so cute!!

"Such stylish casual"

The colours blend so nicely~

Smart looking lady :D

Pretty hairstyle!
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Anywho, Sweet had lots of classy looking clothes and semi-expensive brands so it's more international. Emi Suzuki makes an appearance along with the Emi Suzuki lookalike! WOW the pages are filled with classiness!

Boyish Emi ^

You can tell them apart because her face is wider

"She looks almost completely like Emi Suzuki here!"

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My new goal is to find a good pair of Mary Jane Repetto shoes.

Or maybe flats if they are too high for everyday wear. I trek to uni everyday >=( Past druggies, hobos and aborigines.. Gotta sport a good pair of shoes in case I need to escape from some mad man. And they say Repetto make the most comfortable flats EVER.

OK! End of consumerism tendencies...

Please support Japan in sad times! :)
Someone wrote a pretty good comment that many were saved from debris and help of workers, but many millions were saved by good engineering.

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Anyway this month has been hard ;-(
So less time to update.
New lab partners and tutorials with no one who seems genuinely nice. It was like last year with pharmacy students who were super competitive. Some of them are really out there to sabotage your experiments >=( This girl with an annoying sing-song voice stopped talking to us because we weren't smart med students. Our DNA sample came out better than hers but it was conjoined to one photo which was sent to her. The day before our assessment she didn't even send it and it smelt like sabotage... But we didn't need it in the end~

Haha my friend made some random comments on science students. Chemistry are on average, borderline ugly, but usually nice. While physics had some pretty good looking people with a quirky humour ;) Pharmacy students are going to struggle finding jobs and that's why they are so desperate for good grades...

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Strange stuff happened too. Last week at work I was talking to one of my coworkers who probed on my relationship status. There wasn't much to say even in history and interests.... SO he asked if I was a chicken lady ;o
lolol and he meant gay - which sounded like chicken in Chinese.

I can assure a lot of people I'm not >=o
ANYWAY, I got a lookalike rash this week.

Who knew clinical blackhead removal is like STABBING YOUR FACE!
My skin had been pimply, dry and just overall terrible. So I went to a beauty centre and their diagnosis was too many blackheads. She gave me the "Snow white" treatment and what a LIE! At first it was all nice and calm with the cleansing and aqua purifier. Then she placed a cloth over my eyes to start the blackhead removal. She scrapped my face with something sharp which stung a little and the lady asked if it was bearable. I thought YEH this is nothing! But it was a cover up of the proceeding real pain :( Using her little stabbing stick and something else I couldn't see, she poked and pinched my face for half an hour. I had to sing nursery rhymes in my head to stop thinking how painful it was... The pinching was the worst!
Have to go in this week again... But must go to prevent becoming old hag in 20's...!

. . . Au revoir!

Babushka feltie

2011-03-13T20:02:00.000-10:00

To add a touch of folk-art, here is a guide to make a pretty Russian doll feltie.

The author, Nelly Pailloux released another craft book with a robot theme. It uses crochet hence slightly more skills required.. but the quality and effort of the product shows :)

It looks really adorable too! But if you are SICK of cute felties, then check out Zombie Felties..

So you can make it for a guy who is too macho for the previous felties :D

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Anyway this is what you need for the babushka feltie:

Instructions:
You can rearrange the bead pattern on her body. To keep a folk art air, use shiny beads.

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Apparently the Babushka tale isn't even of Russian origin. I always confuse this with Matryoshka dolls which are the ones that fit into each other. They have no special history though.

If you don't know the story, it is actually a sad one. The story here was rather long winded. It can be summed up in a few lines..

Babushka was an old lady who lived alone who one day was visited by 3 kings. They were looking for a certain baby, namely Jesus, and asked her to join their quest. But she was too indecisive so they left. In the end she decided to chase after them carrying a basket of goodies to gift to Jesus. But she never really found him and keeps on looking leaving gifts behind on every child she meets.

I wonder if it's a moral story about indecisiveness..
Which reminds me about why people are more inclined to believe lies than be indecisive about what they hear. When we were primates, any information we heard from like another primate were essential to ours and the groups survival. Hence any indecisiveness will cause a delayed reaction and so, the t-rex will eat you >=D And lying was almost non-existent, unlike today :(

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To conclude this extremely unfulfilled post, here are some Matryoshka measuring cups.
For the sake of souvenirs, I bought them at expensive tourist prices from the Victorian art gallery... But you can find them practically at any homemaker store.

The measurements were at the bottom which I found annoying. What if you went to scoop some flour then forgot how much that cup held. Then you'd have to pour it out and check -_=

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I hope the people in Queensland, New Zealand and Japan are doing ok. Good to see the benevolent side of people in these times :') It got me sidetracked and reading about reincarnation though. VERY INTERESTING. For people who believe in it anyway.

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Well uni just started and I feel like drowning in readings and lab work.
I'm starting to hate ethics. Too many readings. The 3rd years are like really gearing up now trying to get into masters. So it was a really bad idea to pick senior subjects now when I'm only in 2nd year=( Everyone made close friends already so when there's group work they already have partners in other tutorials so I'm also having a hard time finding someone for a pair project... Which reminds me about something mean a coworker said. Anyway that will be expanded in the next post.

Enough~! Anywho, doing another post to make up for this short one.
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Au revoir! ♡

Plastic bag hider

2011-02-15T20:47:00.006-10:00

Are you a hoarder?

Do those unsightly hoardings consist of plastic bags? :D

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Asians families (like mine) don't buy garbage bags from supermarkets. Instead we use the bags you get after a shopping purchase. So we end up hoarding a lot of different sized bags stuffed in another plastic bag and hung somewhere and looking real cheap. '*-*

SO I present the DIY bag holder!
Inspired by some home order granny magazines :)

You can also save the environment by re-using fabric from an old shirt :D And like balance it out from reusing those non-biodegradable garbage bags.

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What you need:

• 50 x 60 cm fabric
(I used a thicker one, think it's canvas)

• Ribbon ~1m total

TADA! All the materials you need!
Apart from needle and thread.
Or sewing machine and pins too for quicker finish.

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Instructions:

1. Cut out your 50x60cm fabric.

2. Fold the shorter edge in by 2cm.
Leave a 3cm gap at each end for later attachment.

2. For people who don't have the equipment which moves ribbons between long & close together gaps:

Twist your ribbon to make it smaller and place in middle of your folded edge.

3. Fold edge over and pin the ribbon in place,
so it doesn't get caught while you sew the edge over.

After sewing the edges that hold the ribbons, you can then attach the longer edge together ~
(from the back so it's invisible of course).

Then flip over and pull the ribbon tighter
VIOLA~! You get your double ended storage unit.

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Perfect for placing new stuff in at the top.

Then you use the old stuff first at the bottom.

Then you can easily hang it in places where plastic bags are needed the most..

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I should make one for all my neighbors, they are crazy hoarders. They need to learn to make their stuff prettier with DIY because they are really poor houso people >o> All I see when one man pulls open his window are stacks of cardboard boxes. Sometimes I hate my neighbourhood, lost count how many times a body has been found nearby. From drug overdose of course, not some murderous gangsta village here. ~ :D

LOL a friend who lives nearby recounted a funny time he walked past the creek.
(Which I assumed was the one on a newspaper about a dead body being found).

Some house was baking delicious smelling cookies as he was walking home. So he took a big breath while walking past the creek.. experiencing its maximum smelliness while at it. And made a rude comment on that family who just had to bake cookies nearby lol.

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Au revoir~

Lolita lempicka

2011-02-10T07:32:00.002-10:00

Scent should be as important as sight... for first impressions.

People are known to pick scents which resemble their own body odor. Making it easier for us to amplify our own biological makeup and attract the right person ;)
So I bought more perfumes. Also because it is addictive and you can experience different cultures and feelings stirred by the scent...

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Why does Lolita Lempicka have such a strange name?
It's the pseudonym for a French designer Josiane Maryse Pividal.

She was initially into designs inspired by fairytale and 18th century fashion but soon fulfilled her childhood fantasy of creating unique bridal dresses fit for a princess. However her unique and bold new clothes line catered mainly for the wealthy and ceased to be a powerful force in the fashion industry. Lol must be stirring another French revolution..

Lolita Lempicka soon after released her own fragrance in the late 1990's and allowing a greater share of the general public to acquaint with her unique style and inspirations.

Like the designer, her fashion creations play on contrast. The result is exquisitely feminine and seductive. The Lolita Lempicka fragrance collection is filled with stark contrasts brought together by subtle nuances.

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"Whilst perhaps not the most well known fashion designer Lolita Lempicka has become more well known for her perfume line and her perfume house is considered to be one of the most successful perfume houses this century."

Her style revolves around splendor and luxury, especially suitable for people who like to think they live in bottled sweetness, like a lolita.

Read more at articlesnatch

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This was a particularly popular perfume 3 years ago. A time before the recession... ;o

I bought the L de Lolita lempicka version. It was such a bargain!

Same place I bought 100ml $25 Harajuku lovers tester bottle =D
(Perfume connection at Market city)

There are four listed on the website, more on sephora:

First Lolita Lempicka (1997)

An enchanting and alluring fragrance that gently balances the sweetness of ivy leaves and aniseed, amarena heart with delicate violet and iris root, and finishes with a smooth hint of exotic licorice and vanilla, vetiver, tonka bean and musk.

Key: Pure, light, and endearing.

L de Lolita Lempicka

L embodies an ancient mariner myth, with the sea for a background and a mermaid for a mistress. The woman who wears it is untamed and precious, free and elusive. The scent itself is a passionate combination of everlasting flower, bitter orange, cinnamon, vanilla and precious woods. And like a treasure recovered from the deep, the aquamarine, heart-like jewel of a bottle is caught in a golden net. 

Key: Elusive, free-spirited.

I found this much too powdery for me. I'm a fruit person :D

Si Lolita

Put on an air of Parisian bohemian chic with a touch of little girl whimsy. This spicy-floral Eau de Parfum radiates a secret: its peppery freshness dominates across the fragrance. Spellbinding hints of warm florals emerge, including a light, powdery note of heliotrope.

Key: Spicy, warm, chic.

Fleur de Corail

Fleur de Corail reveals a new kind of femininity: instinctive and original, combining nature and sensuality with the warm, exotic scent of the frangipani blossom. This fragrance plays up contrasts. It's as fresh as a breath of air, yet at the same time it's warm and passionate. A voluptuous and sensual treat, for luxuriously scented skin, this sunny floriental fragrance sparkles like a warm summer breeze, and blossoms into the sunny fullness of exotic flowers.

Key: Ethereal, seductive, innocent

Forbidden Flower

Pure and sensuous accord based on Absinth Flower, a mystery that combines innocence and exhilaration. With Strawberry Leaf and Mimosa Stem, the Absinth Flower accord takes hold and emerges in an invigorating and acidulous pirouette of organic notes. The heart note combines Peony, a radiant flower of wild sensuality, with the powdery abundance of Violet. Aniseed Flower subtly melds with this bouquet of petals and then releases the intoxicating vapors of Absinth. The base note reveals a voluptuous warm fruity softness, with vibrant Musks of Almond and a Morello Cherry with accents of red fruit.

Key: Ultra-Feminine, enlightening, radiant.

Au Masculine

This was launched in 2000 and composed by Annick Menardo. Top notes are violet, ivy, basil, anise and licorice; middle notes are sandalwood, tonka bean and rum; base notes are vanilla, vetiver, cedar and praline.

Key: Light, warm, sweet

There are more perfumes by Lolita Lempicka, some being limited edition:

L`Eau au Masculin

Captures the strength and comfort of a man?

Au Masculin (2006)

More lemon/citrus version of first Au Masculin.

Minuet Noir

More potent version of 1997 Lolita Lempicka.

Caprice Violette

Limited edition original Lolita Lempicka with 3 other violet influenced scents: Caprice Violette, Caprice Reglisse (licorice and patchouli) and Caprice Amarena (almond and white musk).

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Anyway, hygiene is also important so I bought versatile paper soap at perfume connection too. When public restrooms are poorly equipped, this will come in handy.

Really thin soap which smells more like caramelized sugar and vanilla.
Delicious :)
It was stored in a plastic flip container making it easy to carry around.

Also got the newest craze ~ tablet face masks!
You place the face mask tablet into the packet solution. It is suppose to blow up into a full size face mask and then you place onto your face. (Like that magic towel I tried)

You can buy them from morning glory too but only with the tablets. Then place tablet in your toner or a self made solution. But those DIY paper towel face masks with Michelle Pham are way cheaper.

The mask was quite really thin but the solution took ages to dry. This stuff was pretty good even though the solution was equivalent to the viscosity of toner.

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Hope everyone has a new found appreciation for perfume!
Express yourself with Eau de Toilettes~ ~

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Chinese New Year already passed...
and I just compiled my new year resolutions =/

Scrapped losing weight off the list and would rather get fat sitting around studying HEAPS because all my friends have EXCELLED in their chosen career paths. =( I'm proud and all but who doesn't hate being the under achieving friend talked about in whispers during reunions =/ ...

I also had a goal of saving a few ks before the holiday ends to pay off uni fees for this semester. Unfortunately, fees have risen by $18 per subject >=o . Not A LOT LOL but I'm on a shoestring budget here...

So instead of paying the whole amount this semester I'll only pay half and leave it for HECS.
YAY time to carelessly spend money and pay off debts later~

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Au revoir!

Random haul

2011-02-04T14:18:00.003-10:00

Most ladies begin aging around 25.

But some people have nightmares of premature aging.. in their late teens *o*

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WELL, I starting stocking up on anti-aging and health pharmaceuticals this year! And also started reading newspaper clippings on ways to slow dementia.. :D

Everyone's skin is an investment and if you don't bother now, it's going to cost a lot later! Wrinkles are going to only get worse with time and your skin will sag at an exponential rate if you don't try to curb the onset and instead use expensive treatments later. Comparable to getting cancer if you don't put enough sunscreen on ALL the time. Or use bad soap and your skin will be scarred continually, and then, for life =o= . Ok lol enough scare tactics....

For me, part time work isn't helping at all! The girls who work there are mostly in their twenties and look like dolls~~!! AND then the bosses wives come by once in a while to grace us with their presence which is also quite depressing... x[ Gotta keep up with the competition lol.

One lady looks about 19 but she has 2 kids already... *o* She's mid twenties btw. Another looks like a Japanese model with the blond hair and super stylish fringe =o= . My dream fringe...

Wonder if it's a wig, so shiny and smooth.

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Anyway, this is the following stuff I bought to see if they can make me look like a teenager again :D

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Weleda cellulite oil

This Weleda stuff is made out of birch leaves!

And they can fight stubborn cellulite. It is suppose to make your skin firmer too.

BUT... does it work? I think it does lol. My thighs started shrinking a bit, and my pants start falling off too. Amazing! It is made in Germany too. Trust them to put in some potent stuff. You are suppose to use this for one month twice a day but I used it for 1 week and with the extreme dieting I've been through, my skin isn't saggy from weight lose =D

Makes skin firmer/toned looking and in the long term reduces cellulite. Their research said with 1 month of continual use, it will reduce your cellulite areas by 2cm. I don't need it that long with my mental will! Most people just said the best benefit of using this cream is the firming effect.

Anywho next:

DHC collagen tablets

I wondered if these collagen tablets combined with anti cellulite lotion would cause the 2 effects to cancel each other out. Like the collagen would go to my thighs =/ Since it kinda makes your skin plump.

Good thing it didn't. People complained about their face getting bloated from eating this stuff. I ate 5 tablets a day and actually chewed it up (tastes really gross,) because someone said you're suppose to eat it like that for maximum absorption of the collagen. Only ~3% of dietary collagen goes to your skin but it is also useful in many parts of your body. Like aging can cause your bones to become brittle from using normal amount of calcium but less collagen being produced. SO this stuff is good in so many ways..

Anyway, guess I really needed more collagen because it made my skin became smooth and quite illuminating with hardly any bloating. Maybe a few more pimples than usual but BB cream glides on nicely and my face glows too ~ Like a healthy teenager :D

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I also tried the vitacreme b12 too. But rotated it and I think the better one is the DHC tablets. Vitacreme is useless again my already over-hyped reproducing skin cells so I gave it to my mum who found it alright. It used to be a super hyped about product but it's now being replaced by improved stuff. Probably why cosmede is selling it for half price.

Smells nice but takes quite a while to work in making your skin look more illuminating. I had a burn scar from putting my face over hot steam and it healed slightly quicker when I continuously put the vitacreme b12 on. The scar actually became dried skin and I just peeled off o_o ...

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NOW for photo spam of models,
to make everyone feel like needing plastic surgery soon LOL.

How does Emi Suzuki keep on getting younger?

She's had photoshopping & makeup on for like 10 years but it seems like she is still getting more ethereal. Gahh making us all feel so insecure.. Oh well.. better to aim for something than become an old hag who lives with a million cats in a run down tin shack.

My new favourite idol is now Yukina Kinoshita. She may be deemed "plain" by readers of popteen, ranzuki etc. BUT she has such a cute, instinctive smile which makes her seem more natural amidst other beautiful but over-accessorized models. Kind of like Keiko Kitagawa. But she has a more sunshine look. But she is funny too. She was in a health advertisement for diarrhea medication and was tested in the spot to write the word in Japanese. And she got it wrong. No wonder she's in Pabo...

I though she was holding a dry banana lol.
Banana prices are now ludicrous btw! Damn cyclone in Queensland >=o
Best wishes to the people affected too ~

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Nozomi looks like she has a superiority complex when she smiles. But you can't deny she is so adorable!!

Who doesn't want to look like Ryutaro when approaching 40 ;-(

GET WELL SOON to Ryutaro ! ! ♡♡

He's got super rare Guillain-Barre syndrome. Why does he have the rare types of everything? Blood type and now the rare cause of paralysis...
Good thing they caught it early! ~ :)

He hopefully won't be in a wheelchair anytime soon ...

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Au revoir ~

On a get rich quick scheme

2011-01-24T02:28:00.001-10:00

Ever been tempted by excessive consumerism?

Wanted to have a bottomless purse filled with cash?
So you can buy your way to anything and be trouble free, away from the poor working population.
And with a click of your fingers, stuff just appears out of nowhere like that millionaire ad...

Lady Million de Paco Rabanne 2010

This ad is awespiring, it fulfills everything you need to live comfortably, and probably in seductive misery.

Anyway I have decided on a get rich quick scheme.. by trying my luck =D .
But will probably become a gambling addict if this goes on for more than half a year... No worries, default back to poor student mode later.

Not like this will be a crazy blind casino splurge. There is so much research on luck too. If I don't take risks now, there will be no learning curve at all! Smart people don't get rich because they are too afraid to get risks.. not saying anything about Bill Gates...

All research keeps on repeating their findings of the irrationality of the human brain. It is so annoying to keep on thinking how silly and insignificant our species are...

Like this study on risky decision making. The researchers are so smart in phrasing simple questions in their experiments and pinpointing our irrational though processes. They said we usually think of how much we lose rather than gain. Even to the point where loses are moderate but gaining is high but we still dwell on the losses and never take any risks.

Think of all those times we must have lost potential. Like the time I didn't buy that expensive limited edition pallet but it turned out extremely collectible and selling for 200x the amount on ebay.... They concluded that we SHOULD look at a problem based on the weight of gains rather than losses. It could be dangerous if you are in the medical field lol. But much better in decision making for people who just want to gamble money =D .

Getting struck by lightning is higher in chance than winning lotto so I'll stick to like, $1 scratchies. Wait NO, must not fall into this thought process again >=[

Then there was that study on people who consider themselves lucky. They usually engage in more risk taking behavior and probably exposed to more gains and opportunities. That cycle into more positive experiences =D .

You have to be smart but not TOO smart as well lol. Because the people with super high IQs don't engage in risky behavior for some reason. They are probably so smart they can calculate the exact values of their gains and losses but being typical humans only focus on the losses. So most of them never do anything because the losses always seem to overshadow the gains. By like 300% according to the above study.

A physicist/mathematician also once said if there is a chance of a certain event happening, even near infinite 0.01%, it will always happen at least once.. in the universe *o*

I'm inspired by Donnie Darko right now!

Off to buy a lotto ticket every week for the next 12 weeks

Update of progress if I win anything =D

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To continue off, these are some interesting reads: Top ten psych studies

Especially the one about personality and situation. People always act based on their environment and we judge them on the spot. That's unfair because it can stagnant future interesting conversations. Must say, I've tried hard to not do that =D
I hate Jessica Maulboy!

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Why bother reading psychology articles anyway?

Haha, I wanted to be psychologically inept! So the customers at work don't bully me =( ..

Sometimes I shortchange people lol and they get really angry. Damn cheap asian customers. But being super tired at 8am in the morning, I get angry too and can't make them believe it was an ACCIDENT. It makes my day sour because I hate it when people get angry at me. Like the newest recruit. She told me off when I said don't bother cleaning those trays and clean something else. She was scary because she was like undermining my authority by saying another worker told me to do this. But she is a nice person when she's not under stress. Just the type who demands authority but does things her own way even though it's annoying for other people...

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At least it wasn't like my friend who started working at 14. She is super experienced!! Been through so much with her 3 bosses at a Japanese crepe store! Told me her first boss was alright but a total scammer. She sold it to the 2nd boss for heaps of money but some paperwork was missing and the store somehow ended up STILL legally in possession of the 1st owner.

BUT that evil 1st owner supposedly lied and insisted "I never sold my store to that lady!" And the 2nd lady already paid the entire amount, so they went to court. But for some reason the 2nd boss lost and the 1st boss got everything. What a horror story! Gahh never gamble with stupid paperwork!

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To conclude this post, I will instead show nice things to buy if I ever strike the jackpot. *o*

Visit Germany first!

Must build a replica of Ceuschwanstein castle!!!
And china replicas are not cool.

Why didn't I do architecture =*(
My friend said interior architecture has 90% girls...
and 8% gay guys.
Such gender balance *_*

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Buy an island
So I can go off and live like a hermit and eat coconuts everyday. Make friends with trees because I hate all animals apart from Lilly. And live in a bungaloo with no care for excessive facial hair =( .

Anyway can't think of anything else right now.
Ate too much and slept straight after which makes me have bad dreams >=o

Btw everyone is having babies. It's freaking me out =/

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Japanese bath house

2011-01-16T03:21:00.000-10:00

Where can you find a remotely similar Japanese bath house outside of Japan?

The Kings Cross one closed down a while ago in Sydney. You can tell by the location, some shady people go there not just to bath..... lolol.

So, we decided to head to a quieter and unassuming bath house down an industrial lane during our Melbourne trip.

We got on the tram and rode to High Street. I forgot the bath house address (and forgot my mobile that day >.<) and had to use someone’s mobile internet... If only one of us had a super versatile iphone =( BUT fortunately it was only a 5 minute walk to the left down Cromwell Street from the tram stop. That street was full of car repair shops and other industrial services. Such an unfitting street for a tranquil bath house!

If it weren’t for the humongous sign we would have walked right past it~

Inside you take off your shoes and we were separated into males and female washing and bathing/sauna rooms. The shiatsu masseuse was all booked out. We really wanted a painful sounding massage to complete our eventful journey in Melbourne =( . But the sauna was already testing our limits lol.

Anyway, we were given robes and towels and told to take off all our clothes in change room. You HAVE TO be naked in the change room~!

Floorplan - females only

The place was much smaller then we expected. No wonder you have to book in advance because it can only hold like 8 people every session.

From website, the bath and washing area.

I don’t know what the male one looked like but it must be similar. You wash yourself squeaky clean with the loofa. The wash room is in the same room, unlike large bath houses in Japan usually a separate room to the bath. I didn’t know how to turn the handheld shower on so only had the tap and bucket. The plastic stool was so daunting to sit on LOL. Because I’m sure everyone has a slight case of mysophobia.

Anyway after being super cleansed and free of make up and scaring people because I just got a boy’s haircut, got into the bath and just sat there. It was nice and warm but I wish it was foggier so we can pretend we are the only naked person in the bath >=/

Went into the sauna and it wasn’t steamy in there either. Even when I put like 3 scoops of water onto the coal. Made it super hot and my friend can’t stand heat so she went out while I stayed, moving around trying to find a cooler spot to sit and sweat and thus lose some weight =D .

That’s what you can do while there. It’s not coed at all. Until you change into those loose robes and meet in the tatami room. If it were coed that would be like a nudist camp =o= . The tatami room is just a quiet room with tables.

From their site

There was one in China which was coed and we had to wear bathing suits. Gahh there were so many people but luckily all of them were polite. I stayed in the jasmine pool for ages hoping to smell nice for a week after I came out. Well, it didn't work. The coffee one was nice. It was suppose to make you lose cellulite but my skin had a nice tan to it afterward... The most extreme was the ying-yang pool where you go from a 45˚C pool and jump straight to a 16˚C pool so your blood vessels get a work out dilating and constricting. It's suppose to ward off colds or something...

Anywho, we ordered some food there and cold tofu is so nice after hot bathing. You can also sleep there because they provided some bamboo pillows and bamboo fans too. So old school!

There are rules btw! You can’t do anything lesbian there and masturbate LOL.

We came out cleaner than we’ve ever been our entire lives... quite hungry too and decided to eat Japanese food to compliment our day =D

Came across Sushi Burger a while ago at the end of Chinatown and decided on dinner there that night.

I ordered a salmon burger while my friend had the teriyaki chicken. Her one was better than mine..

"What a cool idea!"

The bento was quite large but the tofu udon was so plain. Two thin slices of tofu with udon... pricy for $10.. Good thing I ordered sides because that wasn't worth eating anyway.

Later on, we went back to hotel and woke up next day for flight home ~ :)

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Here are some more bath photos.
Google it and heaps will come up, like authentic baths in Japan with sites in English!

I heard they ban gay and lesbians but only if you show inappropriate behavior inside. Also the normal people might stare at gaijin people LOL.

At least the one we went to looked really clean and not shabby or old. It was just small but tidy and comfortable. We only had 4 people in that hour but there bills must be gastronomical pumping all that hot water. We only paid like $30 for 1 hour of bathing and an extra hour sitting around in tatami room. Well I recommend this place!! AND crown complex, zoo and aquarium too. Visit if you have the chance :)

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Off on a self rediscovery... ;(

Au revoir!

Nintendo DS XL

2011-01-08T19:06:00.001-10:00

Yes! Time for a showcase on the sasquatch ds!

"Made for the manly man!"

Anyway, I bought a game even before I bought the ds XL!
Golden Sun ! :D

"Must refrain.. from.. being pedo."

Matthew is SO cute !

It came with a free world map and I placed it next to Plastic Tree =D
JKS! What retarded 10 year old child would do that! >o<

My one is bronze, a colour that is usually sold out as it is so popular ~
Midnight blue is always available for some reason.

So... this is why it's called bronze. Even though it's 75% black.

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Someone said DS games are REGION FREE! I could have just bought Golden Sun at amazon for only $32. But shipping is around $15. Still cheaper than JB HIFI. Some of those stores have the shittiest service too! It took me like 30 minutes to ask someone if they still have the DS XL in stock. Stores who advertise too good to be true deals (like JB HIFI) and drag lazy people like me to their stores only to be told, "it's run out..." are such bitches! Not once too btw.

There was a lady who wanted to buy an Xbox and told an attendant to get one for her after waiting a long time & only got the reply "Yeah ok..". THEN he disappeared somewhere and never came back...

Anyway enough ranting... I ended up buying from them anyway. But not the shitty southwest jbhifi store. >=)

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Anyway, this is a comparison of the ds consoles released so far:

Ok I take back ugly for the DS XL.
It is much lighter than expected for a console that size too.

It does not cause delayed reaction in movement because of the larger screen!!
There is actually better movement!!

After playing with this ds you will NEVER go back to DS lite or DSi. The screen is so much more generous that when you switch back to the smaller screens, you will start to squint...

Look how tiny its predecessor is!

Haha a friend's father said "Buy the ds XL because I don't want you to go blind! Then you'll have to wear glasses."

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I'm so happy I bought it ☆ ★ ~

It always makes my day better!! There are SO many good games on the DS to make you will forget anything that annoyed you... & the world could do with less pissed off people. >=o

Will make a shrine for my DS now!
Move over macbook~ >=o

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Now for a review on GOLDEN SUN !!! ♡

Since this is an immature girl's site, it will feature comparison of characters~

Gahh why did you grow a beard Isaac??

LOL the character development department must have spent a long time designing Matthew..

Ok unrelated photos time!

"Piers never looked this muscle-ly in the game! How scary..."

Felix reminds me of Haji from Blood+ HAHA!

But they are so opposite...

***SPOILERS!!***

It's basically the same stats as the first game's characters. You don't ever get to control the past characters though =(

You don't even get to see what Felix or Peirs looks like older! Not that they grow older anyway from the power of the Golden Sun! But there is just a small insignificant description of where everyone turned out to become. They all either travel across the lands and seas or stay in their hometown researching alchemy and the effects of the Golden Sun. Such a boring end for the retired characters.

Graphics look GREAT though with such stylish interface and good use of touch screen :)

The places you can go to are immense and quite a few side quests for armor too. Customisation of stats is based on the djinn system with lots of roles to uncover!

My friend said she finished the entire game in a week!! Either we increased in IQ by 500% or the game has gotten disappointingly easy. But still so addictive!

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If anyone is bored I have compiled a list of favourite DS games so far~
Kinda biased to role playing games ok.

1. Harvest moon CUTE!

The updated girl's version. Farming simulation lol and you can marry someone ;)
But in between there are lots of cool ways to make money and unlock secret events *o*
Sunshine islands is annoying though! I really like Island of Happiness actually!

2. Golden Sun Dark Dawn

3. The world ends with you

You wake up in the middle of Shibuya and no one notices or helps you. Frogs start attacking and you have no choice but to follow orders from a mysterious text on your mobile. SUPER awesome game! Heaps of side quests!! GREAT soundtrack too!!

4. Ace attorney!!
Lol who doesn't like the quirky humour in the plot and bright characters in this game! It can be very sad sometimes but funny the next.. but you still have to be smart to enjoy it :D

5. Final fantasy tactics - Grimoire of the Rift

Like a fairytale but you are a scrawny little boy with no muscles so you use magic to defeat everyone who tries to underestimate you. YAYAY..
Great customisations though!

6. RUNE FACTORY 3 ♡♡
(Don't bother with 1 or 2, they are so boring it's like a slow death)
"The characters are so unique!!"

7. Pokemon platinum

8. Cooking mama 2 + hobbies

9. Professor Layton

10. Super mario Bros

There are way more but these are the games which will get you hooked for hours...

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I just came back from a holiday at Mollymook beach and that was funnn! Relaxing times and good cooking by friends too =D

LOL I threw up after drinking one glass of alcohol. =o= But I was also being a gaming addict during that time (lol playing golden sun) and was lying on my stomach a lot....

Port Stephens has more beautiful water but Mollymook has softer sand =)

OK have to start that entry about going into a Japanese bath house!

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Au revoir ~

Spirit of xmas.. SALES time!! o

2010-12-30T06:56:00.001-10:00

Boxing day sales are when stores sell out the useless ugly items that no one wanted to buy, even for their in-laws in case of offending them. The best are the pre-christmas sales in December, when stores are gearing up for Christmas and trying to get new stock in by selling the current ones. So, to get lots of stuff while avoiding Christmas crowds and annoying sold out signs.. go PRE-xmas!!

But the best things are ones you can't buy in stores..

"Master the roundhouse kick like Chuck Norris *o* "

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YES TIME FOR EBAY!

So this is a continuation of the LYCEE (not lychee LOL) eye range.

I was transfixed by that advertisement, how amazing the bottle cap was in squirting and washing your eye and make it so sparkly ~~ ☆ ~ ☆

This is the 80ml one I bought, to try out first you know, in case it burns.. *o*

Rohto Lycee eyewash cleansing lotion

The instructions were to squirt some of the solution into that cap. So tempted to say rubber cap but heard Americans have a weird definition..~_~ Then place over your eye and squeeze the end. Voila! It actually circulates the solution around your eye! Only if you put enough though. It felt like a vacuum too, sucking my eye into the cap lol. Solution wasn't like cool, arctic winds at all. But smells nice! Like roses this time.

I didn't bother wiping my mascara off properly so some residue was swimming around afterward.. ewww! So yeah don't do that. This isn't a super burning kind of refreshing but eyes definitely feel more refreshed than before. Guess it helps tired sore eyes before you go to bed and soothes for better sleep.

AS FOR SPARKLY EYES... think I detected a faint glimmer in my eyes =D
OH SO faint =(

This stuff is better than sissy normal eyedrops you get in corner store pharmacies. Water could probably make your eyes feel better..

Like boiled water but infinitely more expensive.

So in conclusion, this eye wash is best if you use it every night continuously because that's when it has the best effect, before going to sleep. Don't be stingy and fill it halfway or the liquid can't circulate properly in the cap. I tried squirting it directly into my eye from the cap to see if it felt any more refreshed.. it was pretty intense, but wastes more liquid and messy too =( .

Best refreshing feeling is putting it in the fridge beforehand!!

Overall, this item will not be bought again because I like the feeling of my eyes being burned by the lycee eye drops but leading to extremely refreshed eye. This is just a waste of time being messy and uses more liquid which means heavier postage. Not worth ebaying for unless you can drag yourself to some corner store and buy it for a good night sleep. The eye drops is more suited for making you stay awake for a late night cram session or movie marathon. While this is less harsh, therefore made for chicken people, yes, this is FOR YOU~~! :D

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Anyway I lied about frequent updates, lots of drama happening in my life.. going undocumented. Like getting a NEW dog =o= Her name is Mello, short for marshmellow. I've been spelling marshmAllo wrong for 19 years lol, and won't bother correcting it. AND ANOTHER dog, called Lisa we need to look after for my sister's friend. She is a boxer, and we don't have a licence to keep her ;/

OMG got my results back.... Lol got worked up for NOTHING, that stupid mblg everyone thought they would fail in, well I did better than pass :) ...got cough yes, credit. But I still have to continue working hard part time =o=" Didn't qualify for scholarship =*( Gah so cut, again.

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Still hate part time because I still didn't get a raise lol. It's better than bumming at home but 14 hours a day is extremely lousy when it comes to payout and how much energy and psychological trauma you put into it. I heard my supervisor had to see an orthopedic because she was hunching so much from doing counter. Also lifting heavy trays. OMG 14 hours a day, 3 days a week. I'm sure she was traumatized from hallucinating due to lack of sleep and tiredness lol. I was close to it.. Wow I talk so much about her, ok gotta find someone else to expose. The newest member to our team is kinda scary. She is older than me and even though I know more than her she seems to get angry when I tell her this is where you are suppose this and this item. And the way she stuffs the items into bags is kinda manic. Those are delicate items lol..

Anyway g2g sleep and work new years day too. I feel like such a loser with no friends to hang on new years. But one of my friends came over while on my 14 hour marathon and it totally brightened up that crappy workload. THANKS :)

Ciao baby ;)

Happy NEW YEAR btw :-D

Melbourne

2010-12-22T19:00:00.000-10:00

Who goes there in Summer anyway =o= . Everyone who is cool enough goes to the Gold Coast.... Melbourne is just like Sydney but people are NICER for some reason... =/ Taxi drivers don't try to rip you off and people actually stop to give you directions! They also having higher chances of rain and way more classy Victorian architecture.

That's quite a murky lake they have...

WELL, there's classier people too, like 90% are dressed in suits on any weekday around CBD! The shopping wasn't as awesome as we thought and Asian restaurants only congregate in Chinatown. Whereas only sushi bars filled up the CBD and they usually aren't really value for money...

BUT not to be negative, in the 4 days we stayed in Melbourne, I accomplished visiting A LOT more tourist destinations than in Sydney...

Because travel posts are always extremely boring because it's like looking through someone's family album, I will only present the exciting and the worst of Melbourne ~ =D

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Day 1 - too boring to show everyone. We just walked around the CBD and everyone was complaining how boring it was. My friends also crossed out all the museums on the itinerary I wrote. We had nothing left to do except check out GPO and Rialto tower. *Expensive...*

"Rialto tower, such a fine work of art!"

Day 2 -

Skydeck 88

I haven't even been to Centre Point Tower so this is an exciting NEW experience for me! In the morning it was boring though. I'm not acrophobic or altophobic or whatever so it wasn't very adrenaline inducing ...

"Ooo.. makes people below look so insignificant!"

I recommend you use the binoculars to spy through office building windows and see if the employees are doing anything suspicious... that was the high point of our visit.. LOL nothing perverted =o= .

The cube (entirely glass room including floor) was $10 extra and the front wall wasn't even see through. We can't even take in our cameras into the glass room, making it a very forgettable experience. Unless you want a professional photo with that crappy gray wall at the back. It usually was suppose to look like this:

When we visited, the back wall was grey >=(

Only a hundreth as awesome as this.

But DW! If you go night time, it's much more beautiful. The gated outside area was so windy, it felt like you were on a mountain top too!

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NEXT!!

To the Aquarium ~ !!

This was actually fun! =D

The aquarium near the murky river.

I'm sure everyone's been to aquariums before unless you live under a rock like Patrick.. OR your parents were really stingy... But it's gonna be fun again if you've forgot heaps things back from childhood ~ :D

This penguin.. what a poser!

Anyway skipping a few, the cutest fish was:
This extremely hyperactive puffer fish.
It followed our fingers and kept on swimming towards us.
Reminded me of adorable, stupid Lilly.. ♡

Ugliest was...
This eel.. eww so slimy and wrinkly looking.

We came out only about 2.5 hours later and went to eat at a monkey bar. Thought it was a Japanese restaurant from the description but all they cooked were Chinese food lol.

Well the aquarium was worth visiting because they had lots on show, from angel to zebra fishes! They tried to make the displays interesting like adding haunting surround sound in the seals room. We learnt oysters were OK to fish because you can't actually fish them anyway and have to dive to capture them. While flatheads are NOT OK to fish... but they are delicious on bbq! =(

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ANYWAY NEXT......

Crown complex =D !!

Lol another stolen professional image of this building!
I told you my camera is a piece of crap anyway..

Inside:

They had way more interesting, architecturally designed Christmas trees =D

What a crazy place! There were a lot of people gambling that night and made me feel so POOR! I only spent like $10 on the pokies BUT with combined team effort we won like $30.

But everyone wanted to keep on pressing so we ended up with $19 instead.. Then this guy appeared out of no where and asked us to sign up to the Crown members card. We get $5 FREE, like cold hard cash.. SO, of course we signed up. THEN we each used the $5 on pokies and lost it ALL LOL.

The pokies extended throughout the floor so you could walk for 5 minutes plus through a neverending streams of pokies. A lady shoved me out of the way to get to her favourite pokie machine. Haha, I heard in Star City they have auspiciously lucky car parking spaces too! But someone did a psychology report on scientific traits of people who consider themselves lucky. The only reasonable way of describing a lucky individual was someone who took RISKS.. !! =D

Watching the high rollers table was so exciting! Except for this guy who was on the blackjack $100 table... He played 5 games within like 2 minutes and lost $500! OMG my entire fortnights pay >o< ! When we were about to leave, the same guy who told us to sign up for their card appeared out of no where and asked how we were doing. HAHA, he must have been trying to sow the seeds of a gambling addict and gave us a $5 voucher for the table games. Anywho, one of us went and played on the $15 poker tables (lol lowest paying table) with the voucher and in like 3 minutes he lost all his money and quit.

So we got drinks to drown out losses instead.. =D Whisky is so disgusting! I bought mocktails instead and recommend the watermelon surprise =D . I think the surprise was a hint of chocolate. Mmmm...

We went back to SKYDECK 88 before this for night viewing!
It's a way better time to look down at the city from the 88th floor!!
Sadly my camera is the shittiest camera ever, (samsung is worthless!) so no photos to capture the beauty...... =(

Except this!!

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Anyway that's the end of day 2.

Back at the hotel, we trained ourselves in blackjack and poker and bet on our arms and legs. I won EVERYTHING!! >=D But then lost it all the next night to Bili =( .. I'm sure we won't win against those dealers.. They have something about them that makes them SUPER lucky. One dealer got blackjack 3 TIMES in a row!!

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Coming up!! A visit to the Japanese bath house~!!
And the zoo lol. Some of us were neglected children...

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Life story so far! Lots to catch up on >=D ~

WELL after coming back I went to work the next day... Then we had the annual work party and went to eat at a seafood restaurant. OMG ate a humongous oyster!! Lobster too. I won $20 from the raffle!! The highest was $200 in which someone commented "I won't go to work tomorrow if I won it". Haha the bosses were funny stereotypical people too because they all had beautiful wife's except one boss who didn't bring his wife but his kid is so cuuute!

Anyway, it was awkward though because almost everyone was a FOB and didn't speak english =( . HAHA I haven't told everyone about this guy I mistook for who LOOKED LIKE YUKI in Perfect girl evolution !!

It took me a while to determine this guy at work is a GIRL LOLOL!!!!
I'm sure this lady will never find out I wrote about her because.. she's a fob =D .

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Have to go sleep early! Working Christmas eve whole day!! Wahh 14 hours =( . Hope my bosses never find this page. Because I'm considering quitting. BUT after I find another job. Everyone is nice and stuff but OMG so tiring!! Last week it took me 2 VITAMIN PILLS to restore myself to my former glory! it must be killing my liver too.

Also feels like I'm not progressing with my future career by working in a food chain. They hire mainly FOBs whose english extends to sufficiently say "$5 total please". But at least I learnt in life how to endure 14 hour shifts. AND learnt from ex-supervisor who was super resourceful like findng empty vegetable oil drums and put a plastic bag over it to sit on. =D Feels like sitting on the sultan's throne after standing for 10 hours straight.

HOWEVER, this job is seriously stunting my above average intelligence and future prospects. Modest much! Anywho, research shows you do better in life if your aim is betterment of the world. While people who only think of money after they graduate do significantly worse during their course. SO, I don't want some job that has no significance in betterment of the world... Aged care felt that way too =/ ... Got to keep on looking~~ Meanwhile, have to find some way to liven up my current job =(

Play psychological mind games with the customers.. =D

People are more likely to believe you if they're distracted.
Gotta wear something sparkly to work...

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. . . Auf Wiedersehen!

Japanese film festival

2010-12-09T01:23:00.000-10:00

At the end of November there was the 14th Japanese film festival which completely out-shadowed the Korean film festival. But a summary of almost all Korean movie plots can be found here:

Anyway we only wanted to watch one which was completely SOLD OUT... >=O From the director of Kamikaze Girl's and Memories of Matsuko, he made a new, extremely interesting, plot riddling movie. That expression was pretty shoddy but to sum up, better than Inception in retaining your attention. The storytelling was well mastered and most scenes were pretty intense. That movie was...

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Confessions (2010)

How did we even get to watch this sold out movie?? LOL we put our names on the waiting list and waited from 2pm all the way till 9pm. It was that popular!! But the ticket lady saw us hanging around for an hour for extra seats and probably thought we were weirdos... But the media who were late and in the end didn't show up, freeing up some seats for us! But it cut off 10 minutes of the beginning >=( Still worth my $13!)

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In between that time we watched Harry Potter which was GOOD too! Even though they ended up not doing much for most of the movie.

How they managed that and still retained our attention must have meant some weird hypnotism took place. Nah, this movie sure isn't meant for little kids anymore, it was much darker. Good for mature aged people who like mature aged themes and not some little kids movie.

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Hehe and in between Harry Potter and Confessions, we went to a Korean BBQ down that dark alleyway... Delicious hot stuff~

This is the pork one and in such a large pot!

Way better than single meals which were already like $15
My bibimbap~ very bland without hot sauce which was not provided.
But the hot pot was already super spicy.

Our side dishes =)
Annoying friend's hand blocked the delicious kim-chi!! >=o

Our bottle of Korean alcohol ^_^
Better than whisky which tastes like shoe polish.. but still tastes like ethanol down your throat. We're lab partners btw and used to smell a lot of ethanol during practicals to get dizzy =D

We shared 1 bottle between all 4 of us and we became quite red faced. While the person at the next table had 3-4 bottles to himself and looked OH SO normal! He was hot too. Sigh, so many pretty FOBs hang around there =o=

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BACK TO CONFESSIONS!

The summary in the guide book was uninteresting and expects you to have low standards. I was about to say "Let's go home!" not wanting to wait till 9pm for a boring sounding movie, even though I organised the whole thing xD . But in the end, so glad we stayed & didn't watch it pirated lolol!

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Anyway this is the main theme: **** SPOILERS!!***

Students kill school teacher's daughter.
Students let off because they were minors and could not be convicted.
School teacher gets revenge.

But the revenge part is phrased in an uninteresting way: She undermines the situation to find out the real killers... like some typical detective movie. But it was actually a revenge movie.. They had a fair amount of black humour, not to the extent of gruesome but actually funny in a quirky, cute way like Kamikaze girls.

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Some other interesting movies that won awards and totally deserved it include:

The Girl who leapt through time.
The events in between were quite typical of someone who could travel through time. But the ending made it heart-breakingly adorable =**(

***END SPOILER***

Another movie said to be good was "BOX!"

The volunteer told us it was good. And he was a friend of a friend so he must be telling the truth... It was 2 tickets for 1 though because there was a glitch which said only 50 tickets sold to everyone. SO everyone thought it was a crappy movie no one wanted to watch it. But it was actually a very motivating and well executed movie.

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Another sold out movie was Shodo Girls.

But it sounded so corny. High schoolers in the calligraphy club trying to win a competition by performing in tune to music. And with some comedy/romance sandwiched in between... But the drama was supposedly really good.

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Well that's all I had time for... Before launching into a tight workload. Anywho, I HATE tiger airways!! The advertised flight to Melbourne is like $20 but then it's +$30, +$10 +15 etc.. hidden weird fees like check-in and more ambiguous check in fees.. Which meant the final price was about $70 one way, almost 400% the advertised price .. >=( The reviews where terrible too! Seventy percent delays to their flights, comparable to cityrail!

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So I decided to work lots and lots in case there isn't enough money for holidaying AND Summer school. Because I'm pretty close to failing one of my sciences =( GAHH I hope results never come out and dampen my happiness and ignorance while on holidays~~

Our supervisor quit today too =( She was such an interesting person though! But I'm sure I'll see her around, internet has let us all easily become stalkers. =D

Wahh there are mean customers sometimes at work! Like one lady who said she wanted a box and got angry when I gave her a smaller one. She was about to like, stamp her feet! >=o But a larger box wasn't going to fit in the largest plastic bag and she would have to hold it ^.~ So in the end she got the large box and awkwardly carried it away.

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GOING TO MELBOURNE NEXT WEEK! Can't wait! Gonna hang around Crown complex and try to stalk mychonny xD ! Lolol well I saw community channel once on george street.

Hapi holios~

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Au revoir~

Harajuku lovers

2010-12-01T00:16:00.001-10:00

Gwen Stefani sure knows how to market out Harajuku culture almost forcefully into Western consumerism....

"You can't deny I look more fashionable anyway with such ridiculous clothes"

After her solo from No Doubt and many hit songs later she started the clothing line LAMB in 2003 with inspiration from Tokyo fashion. Later in 2005 the Harajuku Lovers line was released, focusing on the cuter side of Harajuku. Many, manu girls must have been sucked in by those adorable products... ^O^

Today this will be about the HARAJUKU LOVERS line which retails slightly more than LAMB. However Harajuku Lovers it is a bit more childish and may not suit most people. But the bags, shoes, stationary and other accessories are still so adorable!! Also for LAMB and the price it's worth, the quality should be higher. But HL is ok priced.

Snowbunnies collection

Cute and punk!

These bags retail about $40-70.
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One of the most commonly known accessories of the Harajuku line are the perfumes.

Left to right:
LOVE , LiL' ANGEL , G , MUSIC , BABY .

From wiki lol:

Love ~ ♥ (Maya Chino)
Represents a nice, soft, caring person. Floral fragrance.

Lil' Angel (Jennifer Kita)
For someone who has always cared for others but is not a saint. It has floral notes but has a touch of fruity fun.

Baby ♡ (Mayuko Kitayama)
Innocent and exciting with floral and woody musk notes.

Music ♫ (Rino Naksaone-Razalan)
The strongest of the three fragrances, Music also has floral and fruity notes like Angel. But stronger and mysterious.

G (Gwen Stefani)
Floral/fruity scent, it has been described as "a modern and lively scent".

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Pre-Christmas sales are the best. =D

I got SUNSHINE CUTIES (2009) MUSIC but in a tester bottle for only $25...!

100ml bottle of EDT spray.
Haha I thought it was the original Harajuku Lovers MUSIC but in bra & undies to make this seem more like a cheap tester bottle.

It's not like anyone will see the actual pretty bottle in my room, unless I just want to show it off in the blogosphere..
But it was so worth it for 100ml even in a boring tester bottle!
For $30 you only get 10ml with the nice bottle:

Original HL MUSIC.

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For Sunshine Cuties Music, the notes are...

A sensuous floral Top: Juicy Pear, Granny Smith Apple, Dewy Freesia
Mid: Tiger Orchid, Jasmine Petals, Honeysuckle
Base: Cashmere Woods, Creamy Musk, Precious Woods Perfumer: pears

I don't know or care what that means & won't try to sound like a pompous perfume addict.
It is SWEEEET, for someone who is cute but DEMANDS presence. You know, those emo cute people. It isn't soft sweet but quite fruity. I can't get enough of that apple smell =D....
*delicious*
Someone said it's similar to the original granny smith DKNY.

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That's it for TODAY...

BTW fragrancex.com is a sham.. a SHAM!
They state "we sell no fakes" but I got a very dodgy looking bottle.
The return address was in Hong Kong for some reason AND it took 3 months to get here!

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Work is going to take up LOTS of time right now. I need to save up before heading to MELBOURNE! Yay, finally get to going outer state after all these 15 years of never traveling anywhere.. except Asia.

I calculated how much my supervisor worked and it went to FREAKING 60 hours per week! During our exam period I think she worked 70+ to make up for less people. She still gets classified as part-time casual even though full-time is already 35+ hours. Found out she was quitting today! GOOD for her seriously!! There is so much more potential out there for her. Working in an RSL has more than double our hourly rate... =( But excuses, , excuses. I just started anyway and the people are nice. I get free leftovers too and can't deny they make really nice food. Won't bother getting another job till I get access to the cd player lolol. Climb the ranks till I get to blast some jap rock >=D .

EDIT: I did get too lol and people were probably freaked out. As a joke on my ipod, I put Lilium (Elfen Lied opening) at the end thinking it will never get that far on the list before I remember to take my ipod out. Then it started playing and I was so embarrassed... the cooks were looking around because the atmosphere seemed to turn real emo like a funeral...

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Dolly beauty tips

2010-11-25T01:57:00.000-10:00

Thanks to my disposable income, which is quickly dwindling btw, I decided to go on a trashy magazine spending spree.

October 2010 issue.
Vanessa & Zac are such a perfect couple! =)

So I bought Dolly. The magazine had the usual boring stuff which cannot ever rival those Japanese flashy and seizure inducing layouts. Some interesting things were their real life stories like a victim of child abuse and also on teenage mothers. It only makes up ~3% of all births but they still get a bad rap. But it has added benefits like a kazillion times less chance of birth defects because the mothers are young and healthier and the teenage fathers usually have better sperm lolol. There was a documentary about a Singaporean sperm banks and they said most males over 40 years old have ~2% population of two-headed mutant sperms. Haha reminds me again about that silly noble prize sperm bank...

Anyway the best part was the beauty tips booklet.

If you have blue veins under your arm you are cool toned. Or if you're green veined then you are warm toned. And you should go get a tan because it would look better on you.
I am warm toned :) and seriously need a tan >=o

They had a skin type quiz but you don't even need it to work out your skin type. Just the products recommended are useful.

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Here are some pretty good ideas for DIY masks :D

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Wow, you can frame your features by balancing them all out simply with your fringe! (unless you have a crap hairdresser)

Pixie cuts look adorable even though she has such a fine chiseled jaw. =D

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Haha I started reading trashy teen novels as well. Don't get offended if you're the author! That's how review sites describe the sweeping prevalence of immortal teen dramas... Firstly there was Fallen by Lauren Kate. It was like a twilight novel being replaced by angels. Then there was Blue blood (not true blood which I mistook it for lol). We are already drowning in vampire novels but this one not only increases the pile, it was like a rewritten Gossip Girl series replaced with vampires.

If you want to read about extremely unlikely things because your life is so mundane, these are the novels for you =D

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Happy reminiscence!
Hamish and Andy are so funny xD

Au revoir~

Feltie Keychains

2010-11-20T17:54:00.000-10:00

Ever thought your bag looked damn plain and ugly and needed some extra decorating?

Is your deco phone missing a personal mascot? A mascot which is made not by underage kids in factories in China but by YOU...! (lol at the new Simpson's beginning credits)

Are your keys or other loose items looking very lonely? Or you just want to do some extra pimping... :)

Then this book is for you~ !!

Make 18 different feltie friends which are both simple and aesthetically acceptable =)
Even if you are an amateur sewer.

As an example, I made one called the polar-roo.

It's a polar bear crossed with a kangaroo!

The instructions are really simple and even if you don't know any English (or can't be bothered reading their lengthy, detailed instructions), you can follow the picturesque instructions.

What you need: (click to enlarge!)

Detailed instructions:

For the facial features you will need to know some basic visible sewing techniques.

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This is the polar-roo I finished:

Aww it looks sad because I didn't sew the eyelashes right. The head looks like an onigri and I contemplated turning it into one...

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Added a keychain to polar-roo mascot. It is about 10cm in length.

Hanging around...
I bought that blue bell keychain to the left for $4 with Jasmine tea. It was such a rip-off but bells bring good luck! =D Add bells on your keychain for extra uniqueness, and superstitious tendencies..

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secret obsession with seventeen

2010-11-19T03:05:00.000-10:00

Seventeen always has such unique and vibrant models...

Even though it shouldn't be for over 19's anymore, it's hard to resist their beautiful clothes! The models themselves are quite young and already so tall. I heard from my friend, you have to be at least 160cm by age 12 to cultivate a career in modeling =O

It looks like they were searching for a new model, the yearly one which most famously, Keiko Kitagawa once won. This is Seventeen October 2010:

Shiori Kitayama (she is my favourite =D )
Age: 15
Height: 168cm

Mami Nishino
Age: 14
Height: 160cm

Ayaka Miyoshi
Age: 15
Height: 170cm (monster! ...jks)

Aoi Monikawa
Age: 15
Height: 155cm

They will all probably go on to make multimillion dollar deals with such towering heights, long limbs and good looks. Apart from Aoi who will instead strike deals with all the kawaii product companies with her uber cuteness.

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In the July edition, it looked like the photo-shopping department went on holiday.

Cover looks good but...

You look like an OLD hag...

The fringe makes her eyebrows look so bushy!

She has the look of a cross dresser no matter how many times I look..

Apart form the god damn annoying tag, the lady's face look stoned

Here she is again, looking dopey...

I want to eat my hand! >=D

Is that a double chin!? Those are not possible in magazines! She plays SUNAKO btw, did a good job being quirky though =D

She will forever be a staple at the end of magazines to wake readers back to reality....

These are just shoddy remarks at minor, insignificant details.. but Seventeen seemed to have lowered there standards this issue. But no worries, it's gone back to the usual amazingly beautifully photoshopped photos.... =)

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OMG 4 months holiday. I will update a lot since this is the gayest time ever when I don't have anything cool to do and resort to dangerous activities to keep me entertained. Needlework is pretty dangerous.. D=

MUST MAKE OVERALLS!! Jill is so damn cute. Why can't I become a farmer and let all the sprites do the work ='(

I saw a high school student who got wore a private school uniform and he was hot =( . WHY was I so deprived in high school.........

Off to get a tan. A fake tan actually. Sick of looking fat in my pale skin. Kim Kardishan has such nice skin~

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truly seriousness.

2010-11-11T02:18:00.000-10:00

Studying like mad because your parents say they can't afford you when u turn 30?
..and have no life

Getting a spine akin to hunchback of notre dame from memorising your notes?

Getting fat from cramming food/info,
your twirly chair creaks when you twirl?

YES IT'S TIME! To look at unrelated stuff..

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lolol got this off a facebook friend. She's into the cutest things ^o^
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Masterchef, a better kid's version

Stupid titanic

Think she wore a wig but it got windy so it flapped up in the air lol.

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I have planned to buy something majorly expensive, in terms of a poor student. Can't decide if it should be the Nintendo XL or a netbook. Just in time to play GOLDEN SUN DS on a HUMONGOUS screen =D (looking good in imagination)

"OHH SO much bigger! "
But the downside is more hand movement required and your reaction will be delayed. Unless you have humongous hands already. This ds must be made for Sasquatches.

But I'm not anticipating the Golden Sun storyline =( It's set 30 years after when the main characters are all middle aged and their kids continue on the quest~ It feels like I have grown up too slow ='(

NO, I will keep on shamelessly reading Seventeen till the day Emi Suzuki /Nozomi /Yukina /Tsubasa make a super combo magazine.

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Yay for disposable income. Got a pay rise last week even though I melted all the ice cream =D

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I just thought of something GAY. Cough, GLEE. During that sudden scene where the bully kisses the gay guy, my siblings and I said "Ewww!" in unison. It was just an awkward scene for Asian kids... DW gay people are cool.

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Ciao.

Amigurumi dolls

2010-10-30T01:06:00.000-10:00

Amigurumi is like knitting but with one needle. Found some really great templates generously given out for free. I'm justing reposting because the photos are so cute xD !

Needlenoodles
These are the main dolls you can make:

Scary dolls just in time for halloween:

Friend who made her own:

Sesamer oad

This puppy dog is super adorable!

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Because Halloween is tomorrow on Sunday, I will stay at home and study instead because Monday's are cheap movie days =( save the horror movie till later~

Exams are looming so gotta go into hiding for some time.

Terrible things happened at work. I didn't know how to use the counter well and counted a very expensive item twice. Then when boss checked it, they were short $300. Which didn't mean I over-changed someone or steal from the till (wahh! there's a camera anyway), just messed up the inputting again =( .

Then forgot to turn on the fridge and all the ice cream melted x( ... Man I hate people who don't tell me I gave them extra money. I run after people who forget their change! Gave a guy an extra 20cents then realised my mistake and called after him but he ran off >=( .

BUT going well for uni lol. I love tutors who mark easy!! Met nice people this semester too. Bet everyone is thinking "OH SO MUCH people! Someone will surely come up to me!". But everyone is thinking the same thing and waits for someone else to start the conversation.. & end up making no friends =( .

Sigh, I asked my mom if I were strange because she made a comment on someone the same age as me having a boyfriend while I don't bother with that stuff... She told me instead about a guy who has 2 wives and lives in the same neighborhood as us. I thought my family was retarded but wow polygamy still exists around here?! =O But they're a happy family so good for them. I still can't believe how common it is that city dwellers have a family in the city then they go on "business trips" to the country. But they actually visit their second family instead of their coal mining business they supposedly own... Not a nice feeling when you find photos of them by accident and its a much younger lady. And whose fault is it.....? The man who got depressed because his wife couldn't have a son or the lady who accepted and knew he had already had a family. That sounds bias anyway because I'm like that during sad days.
Sorry to put such sour stuff at the end of a pretty picture post ;( . Being single is the best ;)

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Feel like going off to an island and eat coconuts everyday. Why is life so .. icky =(

Au revoir ~

Halloween !

2010-10-18T00:42:00.001-10:00

Who goes trick or treating even after turning 18 years old ;/

"What? This isn't the kkk meeting place =("

YES I'm talking to all those people who like free cheap candy =D

You gotta impress those house owners with your costume so they won't be stingy with the candy~

OHH what to DO what to do!?

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Well, this post would OVERFILL with ideas...

SO this will be an entry on scary ghost stories >=D

It has nothing to do with craft but who cares~
(craft stuff next post!)

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DO YOU believe in the ethereal stuff?

By the end of this post you will find yourself feeling less geocentric and more anxious than ever... so don't read if you already have high blood pressure or have A type blood who supposedly are more prone to anxiety... (more about that later)

Anyway, my family is really religious and while burning piles of papers and incense comparable to a small smelter company, they said "Don't take photos.... Or you'll carry something into your film..." Or along those lines (because we all have digital cameras) and they whispered it like something might get upset making it even more scary >=(

WELL someone actually had the nerve to film a religious festival for the dead. After watching this I felt like taking my army of tofu pillows and hide... =*(

Can't embed but here's the link: Qing Ming

Can u see her!! She's right in the middle!!!! OMGOMGOMG =**(

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Stupid paranormal activity 2, don't see it. For a movie that cost like 10cents to make minus the camera and editing fee by an amateur, the only scary thing was the vertigo when falling forward.. from sleeping.

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Who likes looking at horrorscopes =D
They have been proved extremely unreliable many many times... =(

BUT don't worry there's something else which can predict your future ♥ life !
Your blood! It probably influence your personality more than silly stars a kazillion light years away.

From Japan Visitor:
Blood-typing is used to determine compatibility for marriage and romance, and also for career paths, since it is believed that type A make the best managers. 1n 1930 companies started asking for blood-type on application forms, a practice that is still sometimes used today. As with any system that categorizes people into types, some blood groups are seen as inferior. For a while, some companies tried dividing their employees into work groups based on blood type, and no one wanted to work with the AB group. Almost all Japanese know their blood group, and if a foreigner is asked and doesn't know his or her group, it will likely be believed that they really do know it but are ashamed of it.

From issendai

Type A

People with blood type A have a deep-rooted strength that helps them stay calm in a crisis when everyone else is panicking. However, they tend to avoid confrontation, and feel very uncomfortable around people. A types are shy and sometimes withdrawn. They seek harmony and are very polite, but all the same feel that they never really fit in with others. A types are very responsible. If there is a job to be done, they prefer to take care of it themselves. These people crave success and are perfectionists. They are also very creative, and the most artistic of all the blood types, most likely because of their sensitivity. People considered classic "type A's" are stressed and conscientious. Traits: Calm, composed, serious, reliable, perfectionist, arrogant, suppress their emotions.

Well well, guess who's type A.

Type B

People with blood type B are the most practical of the blood groups. They are specialists in what they do. When they start a project, they spend extra time understanding and trying to follow directions than others might. When they are doing something, all of their attention is focused on it. They tend to stick to a goal and follow it through to the end, even if it seems impossible. They tend to be less than cooperative, as they like to follow their own rules and their own ideas. They are individualists. B type people pay attention to their thoughts a little more than their feelings, and therefore can sometimes seem cold and serious.

People with blood type B are often considered more relaxed, freewheeling, and unconventional than other types, although not necessarily to an unacceptable degree. In anime, the genki, off-the-wall types are type B, along with any kind of well-intended character who's ruled by their impulses.

Traits: Curious, bright, cheerful, enthusiastic, superficial, unreliable, selfish.

LoL! "I have had women tell me flat out they don’t date blood type-B guys. They say we are selfish and hot-headed," Lee said.

Lol type B and 158cm.. poor guy.

Type 0

People with blood type O people are outgoing, energetic and social. They are the most flexible of the blood types. They easily start up projects but often have trouble following through because they give up easily. They are flighty and not too dependable. O types always say what's on their mind. They value the opinion of others and like to be the center of attention. Also, people with O blood are extremely self-confident.

Type O, the most "average" blood type, is considered the best type in Japan.

Traits: Carefree, generous, independent, flexible, clumsy, flighty.

OMG arm so... SKINNY.

Type AB

People with blood type AB are hard to categorize. They can have characteristics on both ends of the spectrum at the same time. For instance, they are both shy and outgoing. They easily switch from one opposite to another. AB people are trustworthy and responsible, but can't handle it when too much is asked of them. They don't mind doing favors or helping out, as long as its on their own conditions. People with this blood type are interested in art and metaphysics.

AB is considered the worst blood type.(Nooo Ryutaro is super extremely cool!) In predictability-loving Japan, they're loose cannons. They also like to set their own conditions and reserve the right to drop out when things don't meet their expectations. They're known to be sensitive and considerate—at times—but it just isn't enough to balance out the flaws in this blood type. For a while, some companies tried dividing their employees into work groups based on blood type, and no one wanted to work with the AB group.

Traits: sensitive, considerate, careful, efficient, strict, moody

Matches ♥ :

A is most compatible with A and AB.

B is most compatible with B and AB.

AB is most compatible with AB, B, A, and O. (score! ^o^)
O is most compatible with O and AB.

We haven't quite cottoned onto the idea that blood type is related to personality, but there's a growing belief in fad diets that teach that each blood type evolved at a certain point in human history, so people with that blood type should eat the diet most common among humans at that point.

Nicely average O's are like savage cavemen hunching around the fire and tearing at hunks of meat; solid-citizen type A's become "docile vegetarians" as well; bouncy type B's get to indulge in ice cream and cheese; and type AB's, as always, are half one thing and half another, and get to eat vegan food or dairy-and-everything-else—IF it suits them.

To find out your blood type FOR FREE go donate blood!!
Red Cross

Hope no one thinks we can now make a new society based on blood type because it explains more that astrology. =D Just like that myer-briggs personality test, it doesn't work. Because the test shows a person can change personality every day if they retook the test everyday...

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Anywho must get prepared for Halloween. Gives me an excuse to dress up where no one will recognise me. Then I can egg the neighbors I don't like because their dogs are so f*cking mean =( My Lilly and Tommy aren't that b*tchy cauz we're not sadistic owners.

ciao. ✌

Milestone

2010-10-07T13:27:00.000-10:00

This week has been wayyy too crammed. Feels like a year of usual uni work squished into a week.

Because I got a job. My grandma came over at the same time too and she bought me my beloved seaweed... and stockings. =)

Oooo Emi on the cover of a pirated version

Yay and beads! Time for craft~

Then we went around to all the tourist hot spots but they weren't impressed because they've seen the best of Korea, Japan and everywhere in China.

Boring... this must be what Parisians think of the Eiffel tower.

They told me about a guy who went to tour with them in japan who thought "OMG $1=Y100!! I'm RICH! I'll bring like Y600 for now." Then he got thirsty and went to buy a bottle of water which cost Y700 and couldn't afford it. AHAHA what an optimist...

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Anyway back to my job. It was pretty good at first. So many new people and new stuff to do. LOLOL scared a certain someone might read this....

BTW my workplace reminded me of southern china airlines.
All the girls I work with are pretty AND hardworking because they usually stand for 6 hours straight and fill every second with work or the security camera will catch them out... Oh and they are all nice which is much better than my mum's workplace when I asked if I could work there & she didn't let me cauz im so sensitive >=(

But china airlines hostesses are so up themselves and give all the economy class the worst service thinking it's like a diseased class or something. I've only ever flown economy and hate flying with them soooo much. I carry a heavy backpack on the plane a lot but on SCA, when I tried to lift it in the cabinet and couldn't reach, the hostess standing behind tsked and smirked at me because I was holding up the passengers behind. Stupid git, she didn't even help lift it and stood there looking annoyed...

But read somewhere in the reviews it's a totally different story with first class. The girl's probably suck up to the rich business men... I heard the girl's are so aloft and shit because there's a criteria they have to be TALL and covertly discriminated in the selection criteria to be pretty too. So they think they are set for life being on a grand pedestal for all to admire as a charming beautiful hostess instead of being the drink refill lady they were hired to be... Like they are too good for the smelly economy class.

Sigh, guess it's all good since my job won't spoil me.

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On a happy note I won a free cherry ripe bar.

I hate cherry ripe but yes, glad to see I'm a WINNER =D One step away from the lottery. ;)

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Anyway more stuff to do this week. After all that crap is over I will celebrate with a halloween DIY post =D

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Au revoir :)

Long animal scarf

2010-09-29T21:17:00.000-10:00

Finally a finished project!!

Meet the Mr Neko and Miss Lapin scarf ~

I am too long to lay flat!

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This is my sisters.. but she only made like 20% of it.

I even made my brother sew an arm but he did it wrong & I told him not to help anymore and he went away and cried =(

This is what the cat scarf is supposed to look like.

I purposely forgot the tail because it will turn out horrible with my visible sewing skill techniques. Yellow was used instead from leftover pikachu fabric. =D

The design is from this post back here: Aranzi Aronzo - Useful stuff

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This is what it looks like on a person:

It can wrap all around your neck and about 1.5m long. Unlike my sisters which just drapes across your shoulders.

This is what it looks like on a dog:

OMG so much cuter!

Lilly becomes really sleepy whenever I put it on her =/ Maybe it's chocking her lolol.

LOL so emo! Think she wants an afternoon nap with my scarf being so comfortable ~ =D .. or she was tired from fighting with Tommy... Gosh she becomes so agro when Tommy wags his tail and it hits her in the face..

This only takes about 2 hours. The most important thing is drawing a straight line on your scarf because mine came out slanted and the end of the scarf became smaller. Also positioning of the arms and legs needs to be really specific or it can turn out one longer than the other. AND that looks really silly, I've done it before. Just pin it in place then flip over to check if it's in the right place.

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Anyway the topic of castles came up a lot so I decided to post photos of beautiful castles for everyone's enjoyment =D

This is so worth visiting Germany one day!

(same castle further away.. so beautiful!)

Disneyland castles do not count because they are not authentic enough to be situated on a humongous hill or surrounded by a really deep looking moat.

My mansion looks like this!
...in sims 2

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Well off to save up lots of money ~ !!

Au revoir!

Classier than emos? Yes! Gothic lolita~

2010-09-26T21:36:00.000-10:00

The Autumn 37th edition of Gothic Lolita Bible is so beautiful!

But it's very hard to discern if they are both guys.. (no offence!)

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Angelic Pretty have such over the top adorable dresses!

(click to enlarge & see pricing and such)
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Time for Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere~

^ The castles on her dress jumped out of fairy tales ~ !

Most of the models used violins as props.
But that lady makes trumpet players look stylish =D

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Kanon's new album "Shoujo Shikake no Libretto" is more upbeat than her first.
It's different in a good way because her cello still makes EXCELLENT music but this time much catchier!
Her hair is so long and shiny! I always had a paranoid thought when violin/cello players play a very demanding piece, they would get their hair caught between their bow and accidentally start a fire or cut it.

Ryutaro also makes an appearance =D
I am so jealous at his youthful looks! (He's already 37 ;o)

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If you want to live the lolita lifestyle this magazine is for you! They have the best brands which is what lolita's strive for. You don't settle for second best and look as aristocratic and as classy as possible =D .

But if you don't want to make a bottomless hole in your purse, time for some DIY action!!

Unfortunately it's harder than it looks!

Patterns can be found in the back of magazines like Gothic Lolita bible but you have to be very good at maths to scale it to size or fit western body types. Also the material used it very expensive and the designs are generally hard to make.

This looks simple! =D

^ Star purse

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Vanilla_loli explained "If you have some basic sewing know-how, the dresses are too hard to make. If you don't know how to sew at all it may be more of a challenge of trial and error." Skirts less so.

Cost for each dress~
Again this answer is totally dependent on you and your tastes. If you are going to make a dress out of brocade type materials that could be very costly - with all the notions and materials probably some where in the vicinity of $100 or more. If you are going more basic cotton then somewhere around $40.

If you have never made the pattern before and aren't completely confident that you can manage it without any major snags considered purchasing un-dyed muslin fabric to make a "mock-up". Muslin fabric can be as little as 99 cents a yard and can often times be purchased for as little as $15 for the a complete bolt.

Days to make~
Depends on your sewing ability and the simplicity of the dress. I have a skirt pattern that makes a very cute Lolita skirt that takes about a half a day to make. My friend who created the pattern can complete the skirt in about 3 hours. She is a very accomplished seamstress. I can complete the skirt at the same quality, but I have to take a little extra time to ensure I am doing it right.

For a dress - expect to spend a few days on it or at least one whole day if it's rather simplistic. It's better to spend a few days on it, take some breaks in between and have a great dress rather than rush and end up with something you're not so proud of.

Where to buy pre-made dresses~
I have purchased from In the Starlight and have worked as a model for J-Chan Designs who will be featured in the August issue of Anicoz magazine. (In the starlight recently shut down).

If you are looking for something that looks more like Japanese brand but are willing to sacrifice some of the quality for a lower price may I suggest Anna House. The quality is actually good although the fabrics are a little thinner than couture.

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That lady is so helpful! Anna Fashion house looks very professional and not as expensive but now you know why!

But still so detailed!
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If you want designs for dresses, there were a few on the back of gothic lolita bible but it was in Japanese and you need to understand the instructions as it's very complicated. Meanwhile EGL tutorials has a jumpskirt design fairly easy to understand.

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Au revoir!

On an unrelated note...

2010-09-23T00:18:00.001-10:00

Why is there so much lost potential in the world!?

"If they didn't find the amazing effects of eyeliner, lenses, foundation, lip gloss.. this could be a very disappointing loss for mankind!"

Especially Uruha who is astoundingly different compared to magazines!

"Oh look - amazing after photos! Definitely no lost potential there!"

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The domestic Asians in uni have such childish fashion sense =( . Compared to the national students who look like they came out of Super Junior MVs. Except for the guy who wears tight pink pants and carries a Louis Vutton bag. My friend said her tutorial buddy is like that because he smokes weed before coming to class =D .

OHH & I read somewhere that you shouldn't EVER put your bag on the floor like on trains or buses. Because it's a bad omen that your purse/wallet will never gain more money and spill out cash instead. ALSO Gucci and Guess are auspiciously unlucky, according to the Japanese... & Louis Vutton is supposedly a lucky brand! No wonder I see sooo many Asian international students wearing LV bags. But LV, reminds me of old lady handbags with their signature muddy brown... Burberry is much more enticing.

AND to add to lost potential of the human race...

I wish people who at least try to be MORE hygienic when they are on public transport. It is especially bad if they are emitting alcoholic, cigarette smoke & sweat ordours.. EWW so smelly ~.~

Once, my friend told me about this guy in her music class who is really weird. He doesn't seem very hygienic and she sat one seat away from him because he forced himself to sit there. One day they were doing compositions and he had a jacket on and she looked over to her female friend who sat next to him (how unfortunate for her). Suddenly she spotted something moving around on him.... and saw a COCKAROACH crawling inside his jacket!! EWWWW*shudder*, he didn't seem to care even after they screamed. That person is never going to find a girlfriend unless he goes to a reform institution! It still causes me to shudder whenever I imagine it =/
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Stupid stupid people who smoke. Especially the hobo people who want you to "spare some change". Arrggg stop buying cigarettes then! I don't care if they have no education or it's because of some psychosocial shit. Join the hobo club, which has a similar criteria if you want to join poor students club.

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Losing respect for some old people...

Then there are the old cranky ladies. Stop lecturing me on the cleanliness of the trains like you want me to pick up someone else's filth. Or associate me & my friend (who looks like the epitome of geek) with those filthy, loud school students. I NEVER litter on trains except leaving around magazines or newspapers and the occasional sticker =D . But that should hardly be called littering. I'm providing others with free entertainment when leaving! Stupid racist old lady who think the majority of rude people and litterers are Asians >=(

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Started volunteering at that aged care place. If I ever get a PAID job, even over $20 an hour, I will NEVER work there willingly. It is so freaking depressing and I had to play bingo for a LONG 1.5 hours which was embarrassingly hard for me. The man said it so quickly and they are really religious so he said "clickity click" for the number 66. There was this tiny, frail gnome looking old lady (under 4.5 feet) but OMG she was so mean >=o She wouldn't eat anything and told me off when I turned on the radio and she had such knarly toes when she put them up on the couch.. eww. Like the real life grandma from George's marvelous medicine.
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Not to leave you with a bad image ~
Yay my grandma's coming to visit! I told her to buy some leggings and hopefully she bought nice ones like the S-leg ones Tsubasa is marketing. But they might be too outrageous in such a casual city like mine... unless if you can pass off pretending to be an international student.

BTW! Don't worry I love u, i love everyone, i love old people. I really like my grandmas. Sometimes too much in a week tips me off.

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Au revoir!

Lychee eye drops

2010-09-18T23:49:00.000-10:00

The lychee(opps it's lycee!) eyedrops I ordered off Ebay FINALLY came in! Two long weeks later...

Well at least they look quite authentic. =/ There were so many protection stickers and wrapping I'm sure no one tampered with it.

How did Nozomi keep her eyes open after putting this in her eye??

The first time using these lychee drops, it felt like someone squirted lemon juice into my eye *o* . I didn't open them till like 10 seconds later. But I'm also the extremely chicken type when it comes to eye products... =( Can't even put in eye drops like a normal person and instead drop it under my eyeball then blink furiously.

The strength was 3 out of 5. The last level must be like toilet cleaner. But afterward they felt super refreshed for half an hour. It wears off like all other eye drops but there's a lot (8mL) so you can keep on doing it. =D To get that feeling of cold arctic winds blowing into your eyeballs. >o> But maximum 6 times a day. It's probably best for people who stare at the computer 24/7 and there's a less stronger one for contact wearers which make your lenses "glide on" and feel silky. *.*

Someone asked me a very good question! Why does it have to be lychee? It's not like someone wants to smell your eye or lick your tears LOL.

*Haha velvatacide corrected me for spelling LYCEE wrong and it's actually rose scented =D

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On another related note, I bought my first ever pair of geo lens.

This is like a milestone for any Asian girl.. and they're purple because Jill's/Sunako's eyes are purple =D .

Yay 100th manga chapter is out!!
They pretend to be classy in front of rich people. But then go into the fetal position when out of sight from all the pressure...

Unfortunately, because of my extreme phobia of anything touching my eye, I kept on trying to poke it in but my eyelids unconsciously shut every time. I also have a panic attack whenever I try to pry them open. Well here's what they look like in the case:

Geo nudy purple

This is what it's advertised to look like:

But I don't know who this pretty lady is so can't credit her for her perfect eye makeup ~
It's hard to match colours for purple or some weird colour like orange. Brown is the easiest because it automatically makes you look warm and huggable like a teddy bear. =D

Blue is supposed to be for the nymphos... JKS! It's a very flirty colour ;)
I used to think black circle lenses makes your eyes look like a coal mine and always wondered if there's anyone alive in there... SO, it's a very captivating, deep colour!
Grey looks really good because it makes you look mysteriously sexy =D
Like Ruki

"Ruki's golden, shiny hair defies gravity"
(Like Cloud)

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Which reminds me!
They did a tally for the correlation between eye colour and IQ on Test labs. Sorry I'm so obsessed with IQ! It's just interesting even though it has nothing to do with success. It's like looking at horoscopes to me xD .

Grey eyed people did the best. Maybe they think they are wise and stuff always looking at their wizened grey eyes in the mirror.... But a random colour, probably like red for albinos, had the lowest average.

Haha & despite blond haired people being thought as dumb, they didn't come last! Black haired poeple did! By country, Phillipines did the worst but probably they've been hard wired as hunter gatherers or fishermen since they live on islands and such. Because they did a study of memory using leaves and twigs instead of numbers or letter which showed the Aborigines did much better at it then Caucasian people. Asian people are like, good at reproducing lololol. JKS, they are good at many other things =) Wow and they showed wearing glasses does mean you might be slightly smarter by 1 point too!

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Well enough rambling. Hope everyone had a super awesome Moon festival =D It's like the Chinese version of Valentines I hear. Except you give those disgusting mooncakes to other people which are made of yam instead of beautiful roses and yams make people fart.

Yay almost holidays so I will continue my journey trekking through the wilderness like a true man...... & become OH SO toned for summer =D

Au revoir! :)

Animania

2010-09-13T01:37:00.001-10:00

Went to animania last weekend ^o^. The line was super long even though if we pre-ordered. There were so many great cosplayers I was so glad I didn't dress up in my silly costume xD . No harvest moon cosplayers at all! I was really cut the night before when I accidentally made a hole in my shirt. How freaking stupid =o=

Well I should be posting super cool photos of people cosplaying but........ but I didnt bother and only got photos of AMAZING looking dolls. They are so pretty!

These were people's own dolls at animania put on display. Found out they were over $400 and each costume costs $100. What an expensive hobby =o= !

A Cloud & Zack doll. Zack's hair looks funny xD

That white haired lady is my favourite!
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Life sized props:

In real life it looks better, being life sized and all. AND shinier~

But in imagination, Snow's motorcycle looks .. *drooling..*

Complete Haku from Spirited Away cosplay!! It was for sale ^o^

We saw PEDO bear but forgot to hug him >.>

Well you can go see last years one here >> moemoerabu

One of my friend's sister is in there as a maid =O Wow what a coincidence I found her =D

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We ate some delicious japanese things which sounded like teriyaki. They were soo goey and I think it has lots of umami (savoury) additives to it.

It may look absolutely disgusting here but they were....... ~ *o*
Look at the crab claws sticking out! It's almost like we're rich enough to afford cavier.. But they were cheap ~ $1 each!

This is some random soda milk. Gross, milk and soda... It's actually 3% milk powder. Tasted Ok...

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We got bored so decided to play the mini-challenge and win a free souvenir! It was just 6 challenges we had to complete to get a stamp. I was sold at free =D Because I didn't buy any collector's figurine or posters since there was no NOCTIS figurines that fitted my $$ range. And I don't like the idea of having half naked people as display figures like the female ones...
*0* Noctis is so beautiful...... lololol

"Time to brighten up this blog!"

Anyway back to that mini-game. First we went to arts section and had the challenge to make 8 paper cranes. That was super easy because people had left their cranes around so we stole some and counted it as ours =D

Next was food stores and we had to work out how to open this:

There's a marble under the cap held in place by the soda. You push the marble down & it acts as a cooler or something.

Skipping a few, we saved the worst to last... Karaoke =o="
OMG we had to sing some anime song in front of everyone to get that ultimate FINAL stamp =(
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Not letting some stupid stage fright stand in the way of my free souvenir, we sang Sailor MoOn ★☆. (Fighting evil by moonlight) There were 2 guys with us who probably felt like extreme fags after they sang the song... which they said they were out loud.

YAY 6 stamps!!!

Then we got this:

all that dangerous, humiliating hard work for this phone strap.
...so worth it =D

The winner of the comedy sketch was a parody of ACE ATTORNEY!! The game who convinced many people doing law was actually cool even though they are usually the students who get passes for 24 hour access to the library.

They made fun of Edgeworth... is he GAY or is he just European??
Watch it for all the opera singing and well placed OBJECTIONS!

Which reminds me. My friend and I signed a petition for equal homosexual marriage rights. Then we went to eat at a Christianity bbq.
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Well that's all for the day. As a bonus, here is my friend being a Japanese lady of the house made obvious by her tea pouring. The man of the house not only wears pants but has a humongous sword.

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Btw, I went to a certain revue to stalk a certain guy and decided.. NO. He does not look like Figaro Ceng afterall. Me and my poor eyesight xD ..
But the revue was GOOD, naked people dancing (no kidding) and random acts of violence (kicking people in the balls)...
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Au revoir! ★☆

très décevant

2010-09-04T21:54:00.000-10:00

I went to buy some lychee eye drops the other day but sadly, they were sold out. Now my dry eyes have to endure for longer till they arrive from ebay =( . Why is Nozomi so persuasive?

Sasaki Nozomi : ROHTO Lycee 2
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After watching the advertisement, it’s like my own eyes feel soothed. There’s a youtube video that makes you feel cold too lol.

And this squirting bottle cap is amazing! Trying it would be so cool =D

Sasaki Nozomi : ROHTO Lycee

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Started making the costume of Jill from Harvest Moon! =D The same store I bought the fabric from, for my pikachu costume, had such crappy service. They have good prices but you have to buy at least 1 metre. Ok this is really gross! I found a pubic hair on the plastic bag once =S I’ve had it! I’m going to spotlight where it doesn’t smell.

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Uni life can be so shit sometimes....
Assessments and stuff piling up.
Expensive train tickets.
Losing your weekly ticket when it’s only been used for a day.
Long coffee lines >=(
Then there’s those annoying people who talk in lectures when you actually want to learn. But the courageous person who told them off gets told off instead and laughed at by the majority.

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ON A GOOD NOTE, let’s have some inspiration for achieve your best =)

Ms Universe 2010 was really interesting. They made a pretty good effort documenting it.
The pageants sometimes seem rigged (hardly any Asians win, cough) but it's still fun to watch. See all these beautiful people from different countries dress up in culturally beautiful clothes and the entire show is just so glittery *o* ...

Australia keep churning out surfer/beach looking girls. =D

What beautiful detail!! I think this is Brazil ..

She looks like the queen of some country!

Ms Finland (or whoever) was commenting on the national costumes and her accent was really cute but she said something like " Everyone was so nice and beautiful, like Ms America with her BIG American EGO". But she actually said American Eagle. =D

Her glamor shots had this beautiful corset!!

In that Eddie Murphy movie where he tried to sell a haunted house, she looks like that elegant lady ghost.

But she can pull so many looks off =D
Looks a bit like Vanessa from Gossip girl there.

Once, there was a pageant where Ms America was extremely perfect! She was blonde and really beautiful and was doing some major university degree. played the piano and helped out at her local shelter. OMG can you get any more angelic than that?! EXCEPT she came runner up!! Beaten by Jennifer Hawins xD

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Miss China 2010 looks really pretty, reminds me of a Seventeen model!

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But during rehearsals she looked so squinty =o=

And normal looking... but taller.

She might be beautiful closer up but probably make up helps a lot. Don't let those photo shopped magazines fool you into plastic surgery >=o She probably put on some eyelid tape and a push up bra...

Oh and Ms Mexico won. I should be celebrating since it is my home country ;D

Her mouth is so big it's like inviting a fly into her mouth. That happened to a news reporter in Taiwan. But she was hospitalized... =( LOL weird news asia has the best news =D

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Oh and guess this riddle! It shows you've been stereotyping too much if you can't figure it out:

A man and his son were in an automobile accident. The man died on the way to the hospital, but the boy was rushed into surgery. The emergency room surgeon said "I can't operate, that's my son!" How is this possible?

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The surgeon was the mother.

さようなら!

Time to stop living under a rock

2010-09-02T21:17:00.000-10:00

What’s this?? SPRING TIME ~ !? =D

Yay!! Time to shave those hairy legs and wear some shorts!

For girls, a new season means new wardrobe =( . Time to make some NEW clothes if you want to ^o^ and express your beautiful creativity and keep that sewing machine from rusting...

For people who are going into Autumn, this is the time we can share fashionable clothes ^o~

Overalls look so cute and they're casual comfortable too. Execpt it's annoying when you want to go toilet =o= But anyway it's still good looking =D

It takes like 10 years off you real age!

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Another model takes on a more cuter look and mature look.

Very simple dress.

There's more from the magazine "Sewing" Summer edition 2010.

Think this is called a boho dress, not hobo...

That skirt is so pretty!

Lovely colour purple =)

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Au revoir!

brb orchestrating a villanous scheme.

2010-08-19T20:40:00.000-10:00

The weather is getting to people =(
Time for some photo spam I have collected over the ages.. =D

Like Kick-Ass!

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I had been reading this book called fire and rain. The storyline consists of revenge plots after revenge plot, more drama and selfish idiots. I hate melodramatic plot lines that hold optimistic readers captive because they force us to keep on reading to get to the long awaited happy ending. But the stupidity of the characters always ruins it.

I will tell you what it's about anyway. =D In middle of the 20th century, a girl and her mother were kicked out of their homes to live in the poor, harsh scums of Taiwan. Her father had a new beautiful, younger wife and decided to dedicate his wealth to his second family. So Ping and her mother were thrown from a lavish lifestyle into dirty, commoner's scants and forced to beg for money from her father. Because they are like too weak or some shit to work for themselves... Anyway, one day a handsome man comes along and is targeted by the evil stepmother to become the trophy husband to her boring, ordinary daughter. However, Ping, the rip-off Asian Cinderella, also encounters this handsome, rich man. He finds her so much smarter than that Mills and Boon daughter because Ping has a brain and a hinted Caucasian nose. But the evil stepmother is intent on being a pain in the ass and decides to ruin Ping's chances as much as possible.

The rest you can work out what happens.... But it is actually more complex and long winded with all the repeated backstabbing, revenge and stupidity of Ping.

It should be thrown into the incense burner! Yay ghost festival coming up ^0^ . But it's also painful not to read >=o I want my happy ending!!

Reminds me of this warped love story:

Seduction and Murder: Hired Marriage Wreckers Exposed in Japan

That site has the dodgiest, most entertaining news you'll find in Asia.

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Salt is so awesome. (But not as good as Inception)
Angelina Jolie should cross dress more often =D

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Yay! Almos Spring-time!! Time for my routine bob cut. ^O^

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I'm off to the commerce revue!

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Might go hiatus because my SUPER ultimate plan on stalking a certain student has forced me to reconsider time spent on other silly things. They never do work out well though... I don't care if he might be gaaaaayyy. Ban tofu for men >=o He's a freaking Figaro Ceng lookalike *o*

EDIT: OMG OMG i hope you never read this... embarrassing teenager talk.
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Au revoir! ♥

Amid the myriad of sunlight

15th Japanese film festival

Japanese fiction

Spring ~ Anna Sui

A holiday theme

Baby stuff~

Stuff I bought to fill that hole

Rolling away...

Moles

To do: pass out from drug overdose

Some outdated movie reviews

Reincarnation - more proof than UFOs?

freebies in magazine

Babushka feltie

Plastic bag hider

Lolita lempicka

Random haul

On a get rich quick scheme

Japanese bath house

Nintendo DS XL

Spirit of xmas.. SALES time!! *o*

Melbourne

Japanese film festival

Harajuku lovers

Dolly beauty tips

Feltie Keychains

secret obsession with seventeen

truly seriousness.

Amigurumi dolls

Halloween !

From issendai

Type A

Type B

Type 0

Type AB

Milestone

Long animal scarf

Classier than emos? Yes! Gothic lolita~

On an unrelated note...

Lychee eye drops

Animania

très décevant

Time to stop living under a rock

brb orchestrating a villanous scheme.

Seduction and Murder: Hired Marriage Wreckers Exposed in Japan

Spirit of xmas.. SALES time!! o