What other better way to procrastinate?

Ker-boom!

Note that the lowest point isn’t really the lowest point considering there’s still 14hrs ’til the end of the day.

Well boy am I starting this post with a “boom” – for those who have been following this blog for possibly even as long as the entire year I’ve been writing (it could be 11 months, but I can’t be bothered verifying my claim), I’m obsessed with stats. Always have been and always will be.

Statistics was one of those math subjects/ sub-branches that I was actually good at – despite that I’ve forgotten all about it, but wordpress makes it easy by generating a graph (with its own limitations, of course), which I like to look at every day because graphs are pretty.

To be not so slack on myself I’ve still been getting mostly 100+ views a day, but lately what’s with those sub 90 stats?!

By the way, hi! I realise I haven’t blogged for a while, and disappeared off the face of the earth.

Okay I’ve been lazy, I admit it.

This is a general statement about me, and I know it myself. I have a stack of assignments that I’m slowly going through and not fast or efficient as I’d like. I’ve just simply gotten to that stage of life where I’ve been studying for far too many years in a row and having it take over my life to care about it. I always put studying first as my priority, even wrongfully so by putting it before friends and family. Perhaps it was the right decision at the time, but looking back at it, it really wasn’t so much of a big deal. I would very much prefer to have the other people around me happy, rather than just myself being “happy”.

I’ve been skipping exercise and doing it on alternate days; cold weather, and researching on the Interweb has brought my spirit down.

The weight I’ve been losing for the past 2.5 months wasn’t even fat – it was all purely water content. How, may I ask, did I get in excess of three kilograms of water in my body??

It’s a very scary thought, and it’s making me think about it on a rather concerned level. Considering that I weigh more now than I did in my high school days and I have literally NO love handles left, it means I’ve been carrying around ALL THIS WATER FOR ALL THESE YEARS – and it has been accumulating.

I don’t know if it’s the inactive lifestyle (which I’m hoping is the reason) or if it says anything else significant about my health. Worries are worries.

The fact that I sweat excessively during exercise doesn’t appear to be right either (that is, badminton, even just throwing basketballs for a few minutes, a few DDR rounds), and I’ve talked to my mum about seeing a herbalist and getting some medicine that will help me dispel this water content. I’m starting to worry that my legs which haven’t budged in size are full of water. This is why stretching feels weird, and my legs get fairly tired quickly.

Just to let people out there know – if you feel that you shouldn’t be weighing so much, and that it makes no sense you don’t shrink even though you’ve been dealing with your diet, look into it. Most likely it’s water.

I had no idea that I’d ever encounter this problem. I’ve heard scary stories about swollen legs and having to be hospitalised due to kidney problems, and I’m certainly hoping it’s not going to happen to me.

Until then, I’ll be trying my best to try and get rid of this water problem.

Hello, makeup.

Okay, for those who may or may not know, I started out with the whole Photography thing by offering to be…. *drumroll*… the makeup artist.

NO KIDDING.

I ended up doubling as everything, but I would always run away from modelling since I wasn’t happy with myself :\ (or when I did it, I never really felt comfortable 100%) I guess the water thing explains a great deal why I’d be feeling unhappy…

But anyway, I decided to just dig through my drawer and wow – I found so much stuff – unused lip glosses (I threw out my favourite Clinique gloss I think – or at least I can’t find it – because it was being used for too long)!

I usually have a normal routine where I fill my brows and put on bbcream. These days I’m so lazy that’s all I wear. Sometimes I even forget to do the brows since I’m in a rush teehee. It’s time to start using all that stuff and making a better effort. I have like 2.5 shimmer sticks to use, and I think I should use it since I bought it… I’m just not a fan of putting too much onto my face these days.

I also realised I have a crapload of samples I need to finish. I haven’t even finished my last set of Biotherm Acnopur skincare before they discontinued the line!

For those who are also battling the cold  Sydney weather, make sure to moisturise well, and also remember to exfoliate as well as use the sheet masks! I’ve completely forgotten about both exfoliation and sheet masks that last week was the first time in about a month I bothered to do anything. It should be weekly!

Hello, motivation!

Felt very craptastic on Friday because I was too busy working on *cough*Revit*cough* (by the way I just added the coughs not because I was sarcastic, it was in fact true – I just added them in for the heck of it), and didn’t get any feedback.

I’m possibly overthinking every possible thing that is expected. And you all know what the biggest problem about overthinking is – completely missing the point, derailing from what’s most important, and the best/ worst part – NOT GETTING ANYTHING DONE!

I’m not going to overthink this and just produce a mind blowing set of drawings, renderings, montages, diagrams and presentation and hope that it makes up for my bad verbal skills. I always find it frustrating that I have to work almost doubly hard to produce something visually provocative just because I tend to not talk about things (I assume it’s common sense, when it’s just a thought embedded at the back of my mind I haven’t actually spoken out loud) and am not good at covering things verbally.

My biggest concern is making at least an extra model for next week. Luckily for me, I’ve been offered some back up support – but first I need to resolve the design and get the drawings done before any model can be made.

I just have to do my trademark “pull everything together in the last week” and hope it works. Unfortunately for me, that Revit submission is due in and it means I get LESS than a week. In fact it’s olny 6 days now – I’m so very doomed.

Had dinner with Ramille on Friday night with the inclusion of P to discuss holiday plans. Sounds good so far! But how come he gets an extra 20minutes sleep and I don’t?! RAWR! Guys don’t need sleep >_<

Feels like insomnia – aaa

The past two nights I haven’t been able to sleep. I thought that my brain was working overtime, but when I put two and two together, apart from that there was another commonality – coffee.

I had coffee Thursday morning, Friday morning – and by 6pm I had a mocha frappucino because I actually forgot I had one in the morning. Double dosage? Double the insomnia.

Because Wheesung is so awesome.

Current Music

I’m a bit slow – usually I replenish my music once a month when my Internet is about to renew to a new month.

4minute has released their second mini album and I must say I like 3 tracks off this album in particular: I my me mine (super catchy, makes you happy), Bababa (pop at its bopping best) and 태연하게 당연하게 (ballad ballad ballad!). Not as catchy as their first, but still a good album. At the moment it seems that it’s being overlooked for the meantime. I don’t know of anyone recommending their songs or playing them around me, but I think it’s worth a listen.

Well this is the MV they released.

I don’t really like it. Costuming and styling is way too greasy, the dance is unappealing, and when I first heard the song I didn’t even know that the song was called “Huh” – it sounded like they were singing “say hyung” – OTL

But listen to the other tracks I mentioned lol – “I my me mine” is a really good track.

This is another really cool and trippy mini album I’ve been listening to, by new rookie boy band Infinite (인피니트).

This is the new boy band that veterans Epik high have been working on. They all have remarkable talent (you can hear it and know it’s so), and they have some catchy tracks. It reminds me of feel good old school pop (we don’t get much of that these days), but it’s somewhat fresh.

What do I mean? THIS SONG WHICH IS SUPER CATCHY AND IN MY HEAD.

I know how to sing the chorus! But I won’t romanise it because it will look like I’m typing in Japanese instead!

But I hope you know what I mean by feel good old school pop right? Even their dance is looking pretty trippy lol. I can’t wait for them to release more. They have some other really excellent songs on this album - GO LISTEN TO IT –

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I also saw the first album for T-Max (another guy group I haven’t looked into) and I will be going through these in the holidays.

In case if you haven’t noticed, I only really like a few girl groups (After School in particular, T-ara comes close and then 4minute/ Kara are sort of there but not really), but I like listening to guy groups! It’s because their songs are easier to sing! With the exception of One Way. You guys are freaky insane ._.

Hello, HOLIDAYS!

I know it’s premature to write about it now. But I know I will have very little time in the next two weeks to do something casual like this.

Go on a holiday!

HELLS YEAH! I haven’t stepped out of Sydney in AGES. By ages, I mean that last time I left “Sydney” was 2 years ago on a field trip to the Blue Mountains! And before that? I can’t even remember – Snowy Mountains? Before that? Hong Kong? Note that the last time I left this country was about 7 years ago! RAWR!

Currently in the “planning stages”  of going away for a few days Don’t want to write about it too much, but will blog when I’m out of Sydney even, perhaps! It’ll be a surprising trip because I’m going to be leaving at a very strange time (leaving me no time to rest from uni, but I don’t care!) but I can foresee it being a lot of fun

Get a casual job.

This is a must. I seriously can’t just study study.

Start dance lessons.

July. Seriously. Dude. GET UP AND DANCE.

DIY projects

Buy a sewing machine.
Make accessories – headband (at least two) – and some other special things. Mostly for photoshooting.

I had a great idea for a DIY project that I actually always had but never realised because I always thought that the things I needed weren’t enough for me to make them.

Go to an anime convention!

Would anyone like to come with me? Of course I have to dress up! I was discussing about it last night, and the easiest way out is a Lolita costume, but I’m not gonna pay $200 for a costume from Shibuya! I saw some at Paddy’s but I don’t trust the sizing. Perhaps I could also DIY this one? (By this I mean buying a cheap dress and altering it to look like a costume ;D)

And that’s all folks!

Sorry for the large bulk of text. As you know me, usually I have about 3-5 images per post to make it look normal, but I’ve spent a bit too long typing this entry up already. It’s time to get right into it. Wish me luck!

PS: Nails of the week coming soon at the end of June.

I know I haven’t painted them in a while and there’s no way I’m letting my money go to waste. Just after all this madness, okay?

HIRING: Concentration required

Sniffles

I’m not really sure if this is my sickness coming back or if it’s just the bad weather. I suspect it’s the bad weather and that it’s my sinus acting up, rather than coming down with the cold and all the funsauce-not- associated with it. Yesterday was fairly unproductive but I got a few things started. Nowhere enough considering I want to print this thing off TOMORROW NIGHT. Nothing on the sheet so far. I guess I’m a bit luckier than others because I’m capable of doing stuff on Photoshop with relatively little difficulty. I want to get this done! I still have a large model to make (I’ve made one building!) but the thing is, I’ve already made 2 smaller models already. That means I’ll be coming in with at least 3 models. I might be a bit hardcore and make 5, but maybe for next submission (means I need to spend more/ buy balsa – damn).

I’m just not really feeling the stress for some reason. I really cared about design last week but then when I realised that a lot of my problems were solve-able, I kind of jumped off the stressmeter. I was more stressed yesterday: felt sick. did little work, and everything crap that could possibly happen came tumbling down. So much that I only did 30 minutes of hula hooping too. I kind of just got tired and decided to call it quits (also I was asked to change a lightbulb at the 30 min mark, so when I got back I completely lost my momentum).

RE: “Fitness”

Oh feel free to skip reading this section. This is just me writing to myself to remind myself why I’m torturing myself. >_> If you’re looking to lose weight though, you could probably read on and question yourself the “necessity” of losing weight.

You’d think that it’s a bit ironic that I’m losing weight and generally you see on TV like on the Biggest Loser they’d say something like “oh after losing the 70kg I never got sick once the year I left the show! Back then I’d get sick all the time!”

This is why I was so reluctant to lose weight to begin with. Back then in high school I would literally fall sick maybe 5 times a year and I was particularly susceptible to the cold and flu virus. When I started to actually gain weight when I started uni, I felt like my immune system was better. I’d fall sick maybe only 2-3 times max, and in the previous year, just once. The sickness is slowly coming back to me. Only this time I’ve got my fingers crossed and I’ll take better care of myself and actually get fit and have a better immune system.

I guess one question that some of you might be wondering in your heads is, “if you weren’t even remotely overweight to begin with, why put yourself through all this?” – in fact it’s something I ask myself occasionally. Yeah, I was never overweight, and people didn’t really consider me being chubby either (though the photos I saw of myself I thought it looked pretty questionable). In fact in the top banner I’m the one with the black one shoulder dress with fluoro colour blocks.

I think this all has to do with a self esteem thing. I think I will look better and feel nicer if the weight is lost. Another thing that I encountered in the past few years (which I thought was rude) was people (namely male) making bad assumptions. I was told by someone who had never seen or met me in person that I had gained weight just because of one single photo. I didn’t know how to respond, and I never bothered to because I figured I shouldn’t let someone who has never even seen me to even judge me. I learned to ignore comments like that (though I only got one other one which really annoyed me, comparing me to a photo I took about 6 years prior – isn’t that somewhat remotely ludicrous?).

Now I’m just going to put my foot down and make a positive change in my life. If I see those jerks who made those comments to me (hopefully never in my life) I can tell them to shove it.

For any guys who are reading this and know a guy or have made comments like that to a girl concerning their appearance in terms of body image, I just wanted to let you all know that your comments are highly insensitive. You might think it’s a joke or a suggestion, but to a girl that will stay at the back of her mind forever. Especially in my case, my BMI was only ever as high as 21.5 – yet I got senseless comments like that. I don’t deny that some girls ultimately deserve harsh comments because it will do them good, but in my case, it really was unnecessary and has put me in a state of paranoia. If I don’t exercise for a day I panic; I’ve drastically cut down the amount of calories I take in each day – I’m still eating what I want, but I make a conscious effort to make sure I burn it all off and feel like my stomach is empty before I go to sleep.

I’m so paranoid about my appearance now that it even pops up in my dreams. I was just having a casual conversation about hair colours and last night I had this epic dream where I was colouring my hair, but didn’t have enough time to leave it to set, so when I washed it out the colour still wasn’t right.

To girls who have slight waists at 26″ or less and with BMIs around 21.5, you honestly don’t need to lose any weight. You need to tone, but not lose. Ignore any insensitive comments, and as hard as it is to ignore them and pretend people never said them to you, I managed to do so for at least a year. You can do it too, but make sure the changes you’re making to your lifestyle are positive, not extreme.

It perhaps would have been a better idea to take my own weight loss slower (3.5kg in 2 months is a lot, as slow as it is) so it wouldn’t have impacted that much on my life. But I’m the type of person to want to see results. If I don’t see results there’s little incentive for me to want to work. Even if they’re bad results, they’ll motivate me.

I have a lot of work to do even though my BMI is in a good range. I just want to let everyone know that you need to have a strong and good reason for dieting and know where to draw the line. Don’t do it in an unhealthy way. Exercise, eat – work it off. Drop your calories so you eat until you’re satisfied, but don’t ever starve yourself or leave yourself hungry. Treat yourself to something you love eating once a week. Take photos of yourself and reevaluate where you stand – sometimes looking at a photo is different to looking at yourself in the mirror.

Sometimes it’s good to just sit down, and think about your motives for losing weight. If you can justify it apart from “I’m fat” – then continue. Please look at your measurements, BMI and think about yourself in terms of a healthy perspective. Compare it to an idol if you must, but take into account their height, body frame and the fact that their profession involves spending every single day working hard to look good. Have a target weight loss. Consult it with a friend or someone (even on soompi if you must) and other people will give you a more realistic evaluation of what you’re trying to do. Simply put, stay focused but don’t get carried away. You sometimes just forget where you’re at. You just have to slow down sometimes in life – this applies for everything.

That’s all for today

Let’s mix up the routine!

Gym/ Cardio workouts start from June (late June), and I’m excited at the prospect of going to a dance class! Yes, M???

Next semester’s worload will considerably drop because I have 6 less units to complete (did them in the holidays 2 years ago), which leaves me a LOT of time for other stuff. I’m really excited and can’t wait for this semester to be over so that my life can be more normal next semester. You don’t know how happy I am at the thought – we’re talking 4.5 years so far of gruelling deadlines and workloads.

The best part about the dance classes is that they’re affordable and I bet they’ll be super fun. It’s one of those things you consistently have to turn up for (learning a dance routine for instance) so you can’t skip a single week. That makes me happy 8D Better than going to a gym because you have the option of not turning up. You waste your money though lol.

Let’s do it!

I’ve been meaning to do it for a while, but never did because I didn’t want to go alone to a beginner’s class *facepalms*. My friend from uni occasionally does dance lessons, but she goes to a different one to the one I’ve been considering. So yes, the more the merrier? I really want to nail this this winter holidays.

Gumtree

I browse on Gumtree as another site that I must go onto each day nowadays. If I find something good I will tweet about it, just in case if there was anything that you possibly were looking for. I only tweet things that I think are worthy of buying in terms of price. For instance, I saw a Holga 120 for $75, which is sort of alright, but I didn’t tweet it because it’s 2nd hand and you can get a brand new one for cheaper online. Just things like that.

I really need to sell my oversized pants. Holidays Dx Guh.

Harikin!

Thanks to Ramille who dropped off 3 rolls of film to me the other day

Still feeling a bit jipped because they forced me to take their moolah for my film >:\ I’m SO GONNA SNEAK THAT BACK INTO C’S SPEEDY!

Unfortunately the weather has been sucky so I haven’t managed to get any great shots. If they were any shots they’d be rays of light poking through the clouds or maybe a really bad looking sunset lololol. Anyway, I’ve taken 3 shots so far – 2 of sky and one indoor shot (just to see the lighting conditions). I’ve tried to double expose the photos, but I don’t think it worked because it didn’t click lolol. I think it will take a while for me to know how to.

Otherwise the manual camera thing is all smooth sailing. I’ve never owned a manual film camera before, so it was interesting. The instructions were fairly easy to follow. I’m more amazed that when I turn the film thingy the turning thing knows when to stop! I sound like such a n00b.

Only thing – when I get the film developed I think I’ll just get them printed as well, photographic prints. I don’t trust their scans because they will scan at a low resolution. I’d probably get better quality scans if I scan it myself. I’ll ask them and see how they scan their photos I suppose. Take it as it comes >:3

 I’ll blog about it when I get my first roll done. It’ll be full of pics. YEY 8D

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Alright, concentration is dropping. It’s hooping time. Then it’ll be lunch and hardcore concentration on design presentation. I can do this! See you all for my next procrastination post Oh – PS: will definitely be doing nails of the week again this weekend. I think.

Priorities and Pet Peeve 5: “Memory says no”

Weight loss – priority for me, but for others…?

I lurk on http://soompi.com/forums just about every day. My favourite forums are Australia (though that forum is never active so I just look at the page and close it, but I must click it), Beauty&Fashion, Health&Fitness (this is a new category I like – I used to not lurk there), Current Events (because I love reading news), and Love&Relationships.

Recently there has been an implosion (?) of weight loss diaries in the Health&Fitness forum, which is really inspiring because I can read about other people’s progress and it motivates me in return. However there are a few new diaries that make me go… “huh?” because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

In 2 different diaries (one girl the same height as me, another 7.5cm shorter) both girls weighed more than me (marginally, had it not been because I lost a bit of weight I lied. Because I can’t convert weights ._.), but had tiny measurements like 26″ waist. I’m not sure if anyone can actually comprehend exactly how small a 26″ waist actually is. My waist currently measures just under 28″ and I’m feeling GOOD about it because I don’t ever remember being 26″, and mostly to do with the fact that it’s getting towards the slim side (give me another 2 weeks and my almost non existent love handles will be gone – that’s what I’m talking about). 

Their leg measurements were actually 5:3:2 or 5:2:1.5or2. If you remember from my 5:3:2 leg post way back, I actually held similar measurements to her legs – I was 5:3:2 – but recently for some reason why I now measure, I’m more like 5:4:2, which makes little to no sense. Perhaps I’m measuring the wrong part of the calf (it’s been a while since I’ve watched the video), but in all honestly I’m not out of proportion. I don’t think I am. And besides proportion is something I’ve been grappling and arguing about for the past 4.5 years – I’m an architecture student, I know about proportions.

But anyway, the main idea of this is that they all have smaller measurements – perhaps maybe yes they need to get fit (because there’s nothing wrong with being fit) – but losing more cms or inches? I don’t think so. With those proportions and measurements, I don’t even see the need to have a target weight for weight loss. It just doesn’t seem in my mind to be practical, because it could be bone density or whatnot.

I on the other hand have much larger measurements (2″ is quite some difference I must say) and I have a target weight because I know what it was like when I was 10kg (now 7.5kg) ago. I actually remember what it was like.

Anyway, my point wasn’t really to say “screw weight loss! It’s mine!” but moreso, if you’re going to keep fit and whatnot, do so in moderation. I read a routine consisting of 2 hours of exercise per day which was intense. I don’t really see it as necessary since that’s targetting weight loss and not trying to keep fit. Only about 3 hours of exercise a week is needed to stay healthy and fit, so yeah IMO that’s a bit overboard. In fact when I tell my friends I do an hour a day they think I’m crazy because I have such a busy workload.

Speaking of workloads and fitness, I was talking to my friend D the other night and he mentioned something that I’ve grown to realise in the past few months – “life > uni”.

I just find it so sad and unfortunate that in the course I’m doing the course coordinators and everyone expect you to put your uni work and projects as the uttermost priority in life and expect you to spend long hours (even if it means no sleep) to complete it. I honestly did not have a life until recently. This is the reason why the weight slowly crept up on me during these years – I had no other choice other than to sit at my computer (frying one in the process) and slaving away for assignments.

But in a way I’m happy and thankful now that it’s still not too late to realise that I can still find a bit of time to rearrange my life and get the priorities right. I’m still young, and I can still study and do other things.

UNSW related

Btw – UNSW Students, enrolment opens NOW! Enrol for Semester 2!

I almost forgot myself. Luckily I was reminded about it x_x

It’s pretty scary thinking that next semester will be my last semester at uni. I’ll definitely give the idea of doing another course (more graphics related) and I’ll also definitely be looking to see if I can find some random work. If a graphics company would like to hire me I’d be ecstatic. I’d have fun even just colouring in MANGA for crying out loud. It’s what I’m good at and for once I can actually say so. I’d personally wouldn’t mind working in retail depending on what it was I was selling. When I met up with my friend N last time, she was like, “retail?! Are you kidding me?” to which I said, “well yeah, like in a department store or something.” Then she said “ohhhh – well yeah okay, I can imagine you selling bags or something like that.”

Well. I guess that says a lot about me. Sort of I <3 N lol.

I also would not mind working at a cosmetics counter, though most of the time you need to have done some sort of beauty course beforehand. Well, we’ll see. I could get lucky and find a really fun job. I’d love to remove the stress inside of me that built up for many years on end.

Pet Peeve 5: Memory not detected.

As misleading at the Pet Peeve name is, how many of you have encountered this situation -

You are walking down the street, or having a meal perhaps, and you recognise someone coming in the opposite direction or eating on the table nearby. You’re not 100% sure, but you know they saw you. Just as you’re about to say hi, they walk right past you without even giving you a glance, or they leave without saying hello.

Yeah, those situations SUCK.

Recently I’ve been thinking about this because this hasn’t happened to me like once. It’s happened many times – countless times that I don’t even think my two hands could sustain the count.

I’m not too concerned with people ignoring me (despite knowing who I am) and walking past (that’s not my problem, that’s theirs, because I only make a conscious decision to ignore them back after they’ve made their decision, if that makes sense).

I’m more concerned with the fact that I’m starting to suspect that people aren’t saying anything because they can’t recognise me. But then that’s not the case either – one late night in the city 3 years ago I saw a girl who was out clubbing, and she called my name straight away. Needless to say I never said hello or anything to her in high school, in fact, I don’t even remember us ever talking. It was awesome though because I cheerily chirped “HI!!!!” back automatically without even thinking.

Unless if I look that different compared to 3 years ago, then I don’t really know what to say. I’ve lost a lot of my old photographs because my previous computer died (and the backup ones were on my stolen laptop – great), but in all honesty, I don’t look any much different from since I left high school. Yeah, significant weight gain, but appearance-wise, same old. Long hair. Fringe is slightly different but I’ve had this same hairstyle for the past what, 3-4 years already (no kidding).

In year 6 my classmates could recognise my baby photo from just the eyes alone (I had no idea how or why, but that seemed amazing to me), and the other day my mum found some old film negatives and through the light I could recognise my legs because my calves look exactly the same as they were when I was four years old. I think that if I can recognise these well enough, I find it hard to believe that other people can’t recognise me.

Maybe they are making a conscious effort to just not say hi and continue on (I know some people don’t like to greet others because they’re in a hurry or don’t want to seem rude by just saying hi and walking off), or there’s always the conspiracy that I’ve miraculously changed appearances beyond recognition.

Which is it? I’ll never know, and that’s why it peeves me off.

Until next blog!

Pet Peeves 4: People who stroll on the sidewalk

Why so slow?

I’m sure everyone’s encountered it before: slow person walking in front of you – and the’re not old or physically affected. They’re just slow.

It’s a growing trend in young people these days – just walking extremely slowly at snail paced speeds. For no reason other than lethargy. I think.

What can possibly be worse than one person walking slowly in front of you? Well, two things:

(1) No room for you to overtake them OR
(2) More than one person walking slowly, forming a wall so you can’t squeeze in between them or around them!

I’m generally a fast walker and I try to overtake anyone if they’re slow and blocking my way. Even if I’m with a group of people I will eventually lose the rest of the group because I’m so anxious to beat the slower people in front of me >_> And there’s also a third negative in this if you’re not walking behind them but behind a wheel:

(3) Waiting to turn when a slow person very slowly makes their way to the other side of the road.

I’ve been behind the wheel before, and as a pedestrian, I’m a pretty well mannered one. I quickly get to the other side of the road. I don’t like having cars wait for me, so I quickly just cross. If I have to jog a bit, I will. Mostly because I really hate cars creeping up on me as I am about 1m away from the kerb.

However it’s not uncommon when I was driving to have an idiot pedestrian slowly walk across the road (even when my light is green, pedestrian light is red) and not hear me coming (I mean wth, I can’t really honk because I don’t want them to bust my car, but at the same time I feel like making them scurry across the road – either way I don’t like to take chances), or just take their sweet time reaching the kerb. By the time my car has crept just behind them I hit the accelerator so hard it makes that lovely engine rev noise.

Seriously, some slow pedestrians seriously – though this is not written seriously so don’t try this if you’re driving – are asking to get themselves run over.

Anyway, that’s the strange but true Pet Peeve installment. FYI I haven’t encountered any slow walkers recently, I just felt like writing about it. If you have an interesting experiences with slow walkers in front, give me a holler! I’d love to hear a rant and join in on it

Sex and the City (The movie)

I watched the movie last night because I was bored and I also saw the trailer (or rather just a small news installment on the new movie) about fashion and stuff, so I gave the movie a go.

First thing – insanely long. 2.5 hours?! Wow, that’s a long time sitting there doing NOTHING but eyes glued on screen :O This is why I don’t like going to the movies that much, because I feel fat sitting in the one place without doing much. I also can take a toilet break or whatever if I’m at home or singing at karaoke, but not at a cinema lol.

I know this movie has received mixed reviews but I’ve never seen the series to begin with. Overall it was quite tame (they weren’t that crazy, but then I’ve never seen the series – they were all relatively well behaved for the whole movie), but some parts weren’t funny at all but were supposedly meant to be funny.

I’m not too sure if I was a fan of the shocking nudity scattered throughout the movie (esp Dante - wtf? Even so, the part where the little Chinese girl comes out topless – OMG – asking for pedophiles much??) but there wasn’t quite enough fashion. The camera never really was still enough for me to see what the things looked like. All I got were glimpses of colour.

Overall it was an alright movie, and it was kind of nice (concepts and all – I really quite liked Louise) – but yeah, very fictional and a bit too dramatic at times. It just didn’t feel realistic to me. It was a bunch of “OMG RAGE /QUIT” and then it didn’t matter at all after all. It was alright since the plot was directed and there was a point, but I think the ending just undermined the fact that they made it such a big deal to begin with.

Kind of makes me want to see the second movie just to see what they do, but meh, probably not at the big screen. Maybe on a lazy day at home

I’ll be bahck. Asta la vista baby.

I’ll be back tomorrow since it’s the weighing day. I’ve been a bit AWOL because I’ve run out of things to blog about and I didn’t do anything or go anywhere spectacular this weekend. I spent my day at uni attempting to do work, if that puts things into context better. I might be gone for the next week or two because I do have a submission coming up, but as you usually can tell, I always find the time to blog at least once a week. But hopefully I’d have something interesting to write about.

See you all again tomorrow

Stole C’s idea lol, and Samsung NP-R580-JS02AU laptop review

Banner-rama!

Because the café at the cinemas had nothing in there except for the Berry Blast – sigh. The bar is seriously really sexy and nicely lit for a nice ambient atmosphere, but NO DRINKS? FAIL! I WANTED A BANANARAMA. Anyway -

Everyone please check out C’s new banner on her blog HERE! It features the extra saucy leg shot I took on our USYD trip

I was browsing through my wordpress settings and then I realised that I had the option of updating my banner because this theme allows me to do so for free. YAY! \o/ I couldn’t believe that I didn’t realise this earlier. So in a way I sorta copied C’s idea lol (sorry! >_<) – but to make up for it, the banner utilises L’s awesome photograph taken of us earlier this year. LOVIGANS! That’s bound to please everyone lol.

If you’re a bit confused about the banner credits and why I put myself as “photo extension”, it’s because the banner had to be 720 pixels, but the photo itself was maybe 600 pixels? I extended a bit of the photograph using my painting skillz on Photoshop. Nah, I actually really suck at digital painting. I’ve done it a few times with limited success, but meh, I might master it one day.

Sick

I’m sick of being sick. This morning – yep, the works. Blocked nose – changed voice – but surprisingly I feel really good compared to the last time I was sick. I think my immune system has improved. Must be exercise. As a result, I didn’t work out last night and I’m doubting if I want to work out tonight. Tomorrow when I step on the scales it’ll be the moment of truth *gulps* This is why when I honestly say “I get sick before it’s my birthday”, I really mean it. It has been without fail the case all these years. Hoped that this year would be an exception – but NOPE!

Follow me!

For those who haven’t noticed anything different other than the banner, I’ve now signed up for Twitter! Yes, on the left hand menu right at the top, I am on twitter!

Admittedly I won’t really be using twitter much except if I really feel like I have to (I don’t use Internet on my phone) – but if you feel like the occasional tweet to holler at me, you know where to do so.

My twitter is located HERE.

If you’re wondering why I have such a weird username, it’s the usual gibberish username I use when ‘kuroimisa’ is not available. I even tried ‘kmisa’ but it didn’t work. I even tried ‘mimimisa’ and that still wouldn’t work. OH I SHOULD HAVE JUST USED MIKETSU. DAMN, I AM DUMB.  Not so dumb > http://twitter.com/miketsu – believe it or not, someone living in Japan apparently also has an obsession with the name “miketsu”. Something I’ve been using for the past like, 6-7 years?! Amazing. Oh well.

Admittedly I only signed up to write to Nichkhun of 2PM in response to his tweet wanting a tan since he was “as paled as a boiled chicken” (paraphrased).

I tweeted back saying: “RE: boiled chicken/pale comment – but you can be an awesomesauce boiled CHICHKHUN 8D~”

Geddit – CHICHKHUN?!

I thought it was funny at the time. So did M. OTL

Samsung Laptop Review

Image credits to official Samsung Website; specs can be found here.

Do not worry. The laptop is nowhere as red as it appears on the image above.

As the link is up there, feel free to click for the specs – I won’t copy and paste them here to bore you. AND HERE’S THE FUN PART – MY CRAPTASTIC PHOTOS! (taken with a Samsung phone).

What happened was after my failsauce Asus laptop purchase, I took it back to the store. I played the sales assistant the video on my phone (he was like o_O) and then went ahead and said I could exchange it. Once again as previously mentioned, my customer confidence in Asus was low (though I did notice in my studio on Friday that two of the guys in my class both had the same ASUS laptop) so I wanted something different. Too bad for the backlit keys though – they were really awesome.

Although the box for this laptop was much more understated than the Asus one, the oldschool brown card looked appealing still. One thing to note is that the box is much lighter than the Asus one, so I was excited that this laptop was going to weigh either the same or even less than the Asus. I’m fairly sure it’s lighter than the Asus one even though they are both estimated at 2.6kg \o/ SCORE!

Although we saw the Asus laptop being taken out of the box brand new, the carry case did not come with a seal – so it was unclear where the entire box actually came from. However with this laptop, I could rest easy at night and be able to dream of fluffy sheep and grassy hills – there was a seal closing the package, so it put my mind at ease. Definitely brand new and never opened. The box itself was in immaculate condition with no kinks or  bumps.

Yeah well, okay, the presentation of the inside wasn’t that fantastic – but then again, this isn’t Masterchef or something where presentation counts every step of the way - I just want to know that my laptop is safely and nicely packed, and in this case, yes, it was. Although the Asus laptop was presented nicely, I mentioned that it failed to have any sort of cushioning for the laptop in transport should it encounter any physical impact. This laptop however DID have the foam, which was a really nice thing. I was relieved to see it, even though it wasn’t as ‘neat.’

So yes – there you have it – a lovely laptop with a small small power charger. Apparently it’s standard for them all to be this small these days – which amazes me since laptop power cords were freaking HUGE for many many years. I’m keeping that plastic sheet on the cover – I can’t afford to scratch the cover. I’d be devastated.

The thing about this laptop is that I absolutely adore the keys. There’s a number pad, and the keys are so cute like little Scrabble tiles! The placement of where to turn up and down the volume and stuff is easy to follow and overall it’s a pleasure to use. And this photograph shows the colour quite accurately. It’s more of a dark red than a bright red.

EDIT/ I realised someone searched how to control the volume – use the function (FN) key and while holding it down, control it using the arrow keys left and right – left is volume down. Right is volume up. Similarly you can use FN + UP (brightness of screen up) and FN + DOWN (brightness of screen down). I wasn’t used to it, but it’s super easy after you study the keyboard a bit.

The touch pad isn’t too scratchy (my old laptop had a really scratchy one and heated up so it felt like I was constantly running my finger on sandpaper) and works exceptionally well. The corners of the touch pad light up when in use so you know the full scope of where the pad is – especially at night. This baby can run my CAD and Sketchup with almost no lag at all, which really impresses me. The speakers are understated but okay, and the CD drive works fine (no flimsy feeling springy noises unlike the Asus one). You can control the screen brightness down to zero and overall, a very very sound quiet laptop. No overheating. The fan is located at the back. The power charger however is located on the left, which is a bit strange, but I can live with that (makes sense since your mouse is usually plugged on the right, and you might want one less cord when opening and closing the CD drive).

The only problem with this laptop is that it comes with 4GB of RAM but runs on Windows 32bit, meaning I can only get a maximum of 3GB. I’m surprised and confused by Samsung’s decision to not use 64 bit. I might upgrade to 64bit at the end of this year. I’ll format the entire thing perhaps. I’ll think about it. And of course, no backlit keyboard lol – which is okay! Less battery consumption

Comes with bluetooth and HDMI. Unlike the Asus, this doesn’t play Blu-Ray, but who cares? I don’t own any Blu-Ray discs, and we have a Blu-Ray player at home anyway.

The battery life like all Samsungs is quite exceptional, at around 3.5hours.

Overall I’m very pleased – I’ve had 2 Samsung phones – though I wasn’t pleased with one of the sound qualities, the looks, craftmanship and general useability are quite well done and reliable. Very nice, and recommended.

Mazeltov of the week

Hi all!

I’m blogging from my laptop for a change, not that it makes any difference for you guys as readers, but this is just to let you all know that I have no images on this computer!

It’s been such a long time since I was going to write about my past week that I can’t really remember what really did happen lol. I suppose I’ll just have to pin point all the interesting bits. And yes, I am procrastinating

From I think Monday to Thursday it was just working on design, and so to recap on what happened from then on (which is nothing remarkable, at all):

Friday

Was a cruncher for design. I can’t really say much about it other than that it was an extremely long day.

Saturday

WE HAD AWESOME FUN!

Met up with Ramille and we had the best fun ho ho ho ho.

It’s R‘s birthday today! On the Saturday I gave him a Holga 135BC TLR. I’ll update some other day with a photo of it (only took one with the Instax), but you can read about it here: http://camillesioco.tumblr.com/post/531890085/misas-holga-birthday-surpise

We had lunch at ROLL+ and I am currently craving for their salmon salad. I swear, I won’t ever order anything else different from them! It was a pretty good salad I must say, and it also is good for the diet lol.

We somehow ended up cooking dinner together that night, and we had pork belly spring onion beef flavoured soup noodles with fried pork ribs (looked a bit like dog biscuits though lol). The noodles were surprisingly spicy, but it was good! Because it didn’t take like flavouring at all, considering we made it out of the stuff from the 2 minute noodle packs >:3

That night we watched Iron Man, Family Outing (featuring Tiffany from SNSD and Nicole from KARA, and also the episodes featuring Dara from 2NE1 and UEE from After School).

Nicole is so CUTE! She just randomly squeals because she’s excited to eat meat LOL.

Watching the Family Outing episode with UEE in it also made me appreciate UEE more – she wasn’t annoying at all and it goes to show how hard she tried in You’re Beautiful to act the disliked Yoo He Yi lol. It was such a funny episode too – the dances were so ridiculous we were all cracking up XD

 The night ended quite late at about 12:30am, but we had a good night of random Family Outingness and Bejewelled roulette lol.

Monday

Upon taking Ramille‘s suggestion to start measuring and weighing myself, I think I have lost about half an inch from around my waist and possibly an entire kilo. I’ve only been hula hooping and doing normal exercise (walking to uni, taking stairs) for 3.5 weeks, which isn’t all that much. I haven’t cut down on any foods or made any adjustments to my diet (I never really snack or eat sweets or drink coke or anything), but I’ve been sleeping earlier and I think it’s starting to pay off.

I’d love to lose more than the 5kg that I was planning to lose. Well, I’ll keep at this hopefully for the rest of the year. If so I’d smash beyond 5kg and I’ll be back to my normal self. YAY.

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NOTE: I’ve now put up a new page called “Diet Diary” at the top of the page on the top link navigation bar. I’ll be monitoring my process. The dates were approximate, but from now on the dates will be accurate since I will be monitoring the weight loss program I’m undertaking.

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I’ve also asked Gmarket to cancel the last shoe order that was supposedly going to be sent in yesterday. Like I said, I highly doubt it is due to an increase of orders, because printing a label and packing a pair of shoes will NOT take an entire week. I’m very disappointed in the seller because of his poor communication. But I guess it’s a lesson – cancel anything that doesn’t come in after 3 days, there’s no point in waiting for it.

I’m annoyed that I went for it because I could have gotten something else, and I would have gotten more comfortable shoes to wear for this week. Ugh. Oh well. Can’t be helped.

It’s currently cancelling which is good – I think it’s in the process because they’re trying to get my money back from the seller – see this is what I don’t understand, why a seller wouldn’t send their goods when they’re making money out of it >_> Sigh.

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Alright I think I’m done procrastinating lol. See ya all later!

Stuff in the past week

Mazeltov of the week!

It’s actually been a while since I blogged so I’m gonna open up my diary and actually read what I scheduled because I can’t remember

Well actually, I think I’ll just talk about my little field trip to Mount Druitt on the weekend. I won’t say which day, just to leave y’all hanging

So, C invited me to MD (it sounds so nice abbreviated) for a day, and we met up to have lunch along with R and well. The place isn’t that bad – possibly because it was a weekend. I encountered 2 lots of obnoxious groups of guys on public transport (yes, bus and yes, train) but in the end I got to MD in one piece and alive.

I was actually panicking because by the time the train got to Rooty Hill I was like “omg – did I miss the stop?! Surely not…” and turns out MD was the next stop. In a nutshell: it takes too freaking long to get there. And I thought that Parramatta took yonks, boy oh boy. I even took the express train which made it even more interesting. Still, it’s not too far, but I perhaps expected to get there earlier. *shrugs*

FASHION. GLORIOUS FASHION. I bought a dress and a skirt (the skirt fits! C showed me this method and it did work!) and C also got herself the same dress in a different colour (we can have an ‘almost matching’ outfit day *chuckles*) and also got me a dress because it was in size medium.

Actually, the size medium dress was almost a perfect fit on me >_< The thing was, I didn’t notice that there was a zipper on the dress, so I kind of just put it on like usual, but I could still squeeze through. This happens with my jeans too (I don’t need to button or unzip, I just pull them up) – so you could say it fits me, or you could say it’s a size above (it’s supposed to be tight and unzipped so you climb in and then zip it up snugly I suppose). Thank you so much!

I guess the only thing I didn’t like about the dresses was myself lol. I need to get into shape. Or invest in one of those body sculpting underwear thingies people wear under body hugging dresses. Now if only they sold those for like $10. I saw one in Marie Claire going for $90 and it wasn’t even a body sculpting thing, it was just a super high waisted pair of underpants

Sorry no photos of the clothes – don’t want people to catch onto the fashion trends If y’know what I mean

Had awesome scribble and drawing time with L and witnessed a disturbing make out session. Well it wasn’t disturbing disturbing. I’ve just been getting no action for too long XD it’s just been a while since and besides it was unexpected.

Then we headed out to the city and Prize Paradise’d. That place = GRR! So hard to win stuff T_T

I somehow managed to get a monkey embedded into a carrot. Even my mum thinks it’s cute lolololol.

We then watched Clash of the Titans because R wanted to see it, and I’ll say the movie was alright – moved slowly at the beginning, and apparently, it wasn’t the true story – more so an adaptation than anything else. The main guy also had this really thick Australian accent which I think he should have tried curb to a slightly pommy accent to fit into the movie a bit better. Also, too many panty flash scenes. From the guys, that is. They were wearing skirts.

Skip below if you haven’t watched the movie to where the asterisks are.

The thing that made me not understand this most was the part with the Crackum (sp?) and Medusa’s head. If Medusa could not kill the charwood desert guy, since he wasn’t technically a man but more of a creature, then what is the Crackum? Is the Crackum a man? Well, the Crackum to me was more of a beast or a creature than a man. Despite saying he was Hades’ son/ child, just uhhhhh the Crackum is NOT a man. Why on earth would Medusa do the trick? Made no sense to me. Well more like, the movie writers did NOT consider this part well at all, which is why the ending was rushed – too slow at the beginning and too much rushedness at the end. Ah well.

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Went home – thanks Ramille for a great night!

Sorry I’m going to cut this blog post short, but I will blog once I have more pictures and funky things on the way. I would update with the nails but they’re still short so I haven’t been stamping them at all! This week I simply used Konad’s Pink Pearl

Have a great week, I’ll be back in a few days or so

Recount of the week and possibly stuff I learned, if applicable

I know y’all be sick of me repeating the same shiz over and over, but I have pics to make the post look pretty XD

And if you haven’t noticed, I’ve changed my blog layout. WOOP! Looks a lot neater, but a lot smaller too. Because I’m blogging on a Monday, I get to do a Mazeltov and go from Monday to Sunday

Monday

I cut my nails because well, the design was coming off and my nails seemed to be too long anyway. Cuticles do not look very healthy.

On the flip side though, orange pearl Konad polish is a really lovely colour. I’ve tricked you all here because I’ve edited the photo, but it is an orange. The lovely thing about it is that you can clearly see the silver glitter and it’s such a light springy summer kind of nail colour. Too bad it’s autumn now and it feels more like winter, but still, I really like the colour. Surprise surprise though, I didn’t like this colour at all when I got it in the mail, but I’m starting to think I’ll definitely be using this a lot more.

As you can see I’m starting to use my cher <3 diary – I love doing little doodles and sometimes I take notes in it. I’ve also marked above the 28th my first day of hula hooping XD And FYI – yes I have been hula hooping every day without fail.

Tuesday

Had gloomy weather and I basically did nothing. I know this isn’t interesting at all, but I thought I’d just share that with you

Wednesday

While the weather was better, I accidentally stumbled across something I did not want to see. You could almost call it a breakdown. Needless to say, Wednesday was not a good day for me. But on the flip side, the Lovigans made plans to go to noraebang (Korean karaoke) for Thursday – YAY!

Thursday

Went to class and then we went to noraebang! The city’s nightlife is really different. I rarely hang around the city at night – but it was packed with people and people lining up to get into bars or clubs, and yeah. I already blogged about noraebang, but you should all visit C’s blog right here because she talks about the night in much better detail – she took more instaxes, and they actually show something lol – unlike my fail instaxes I couldn’t even put a picture to my blog T_T Also check out L’s awesome tumblr for photos of the night (mostly uploaded on the 2nd April 2010).

I’m going to steal this Instax of me and post it up here (so I get a picture here too hehe)

Credits: www.camillesioco.tumblr.com

I know it’s a cheeky photo becauses I was wearing something that covered my arms (plus I’m in all black which made me look more like a ninja more than anything else) but I think I am possibly losing some weight. 8) I don’t weigh myself, by the way. But seriously, photos from the week before were like D:!!! in comparison just to the ones before that. Sad sauce, but I’m going to bump up that cardio and burn some fat >:\ And I got the Belle Instax XD Hopefully I don’t end up with a Beast though >_> LOL GEDDIT… BEAST… OTL

But I see my Domo necklace >:3

But seriously, we all really did have mad awesome fun – best 2 hours of karaoke that went by so quickly, I’m not kidding. Luckily we didn’t go clubbing because there was still a line when we drove past on the way home… this was past midnight, too… but next time!

Friday

I woke up sick :\ As a result I couldn’t really do much work. I was just feeling crappy.

What was even crappier was this that I mentioned briefly in my Friday blog:

Yep, my polaroid bag has one of the straps slightly coming out. I carry my handbag like bags too much like a sack way too often, which is why it resulted to this. I’ll fix it up later at some time. Untouched photo. Cuz it has sexy light.

Saturday

I madly finished my computing assignment and finished around an epic time of perhaps 1 or 2am depending on how you want to calculate daylight savings. It was frustrating, but at the same time it was really satisfying, because the component I chose to model was actually a lot harder than I had expected it to be. I thought it was supposed to be easy but uh – no, it wasn’t. I’m feeling quite 1337 that I even managed to get it done.

Sunday

I handed in my assignment and then Ramille came over because they wanted to park their car over near my place for a day or two. Unexpectedly though (well to me), I found myself in the city (guys, had I known I would have worn a jacket instead of a vest XD) and we were at Capitol doing our usual thing. Only I couldn’t get this darn teddy bear out of the machine Sadsauce.

We had some icecream at Passionflower though!

By the way, for those who have been thinking “hey cool perspex (well actually they’re polycarbonate) chairs!” at Passionflower, can I please tell you that you are sitting on a chair worth approximately $450AUD? By the way, I looked it up, it’s actually $530AUD – I knew it was somewhere near the $500 mark, but I only knew it was +/- $100. To be safe I just went under or else you’d all be like PSH SO IT WASN’T WORTH ALL THAT MUCH. I found out it was $530 from this article which is a bit of text, but if you search for the Louis Ghost chair, you’ll find the price.

Yes, this chair is worth several hundred dollars because this is a designer chair.

BET Y’ALL DIDDUN KNOW THAT?!

I actually didn’t realise until yesterday because I never paid attention to their chairs. It was only yesterday that I realised my researching of chairs for my desk made me realise that this was the Kartell Louis Ghost chair by Philippe Starck.

If you’re interested, you can buy these chairs from SPACE FURNITURE or Kartell. They have a Kartell store in Bondi Junction Westfield. I remember the first time I walked in I was freaked out at $600 plastic chairs, but these are well worth it. They’re durable, light, look good, relatively comfortable (but not good as a desk chair as C agreed) and the mould is expensive to make, therefore the hike in price. I looked carefully at the chairs and they’ve been using them for quite a few years – no scratches. Pretty good.

This is what you’re paying to sit on when you eat your icecream lol. $15 dollar icecream!

Left: Heartbreaker, Right: Lasting Love

So C got a Heartbreaker while I got a Lasting Love. The irony. What was even worse was that I have a dollop of that strawberry icecream tucked into the back and my icecream eventually turned into a Heartbreaker Sucks. But the mango sorbet was really nice! It was like eating a Weiss bar – and strawberries – nomnomnom.

For those who are wondering why the quality of photo for the Louis Ghost and Icecream photos is different, it’s because I bought a DSLR. No, I’m just kidding, I took them with my phone camera, actually. I’m amazed at the clarity D: It could possibly end up taking better photos than my Sony at this rate >_<

We then went to a few other places,  but mostly Lumiere.

I finally got my Palty hair dye. I bought Honey Brown. Sorry for the blurry photo. This is where the irony kicks in – I took it with my Sony Cybershot, yet my Samsung phone photos are better >:\

$19AUD @ AKA Cosmetics. They had a LOT of stock like just the week or two before and now they’re almost all gone! I chose this colour because I like my browns to be ashy and not orange. I do not want flaming orange hair.

R was made of awesomesauce and won me a Doraemon – after the past week of being teased by a certain somebody about owning a yojigen pouch because I lug large bags around, I guess I’m stuck with the little “feline robot”. It’s really cute though XD And once again, R also won me the Domo pouch, which is actually a key holder! Thank you!

The inside of the pouch is so cute! There are little Domos in different poses hahahaha.

I didn’t realise until after we left the place, but inside the Domo pouch there was a golden egg inside. There wasn’t anything inside the egg or anything, and now I suspect that this is a promotion thing going on at Prize Paradise. Hopefully I’m heading out to the city sometime soon and I’ll give this back to the counter. I hope it means a prize 8D But if not, they can reuse it for next year lol – I swear it wasn’t intentional that I took it with me, I just didn’t know it was inside to begin with o_o

So because Ramille were parking near mine, I am babysitting their Domo-kun that sits in the backseat usually.

Craptastic blur. WHY?!

Their Domo-kun is so huge in comparison to my little Domo <3 But the cousins are hanging out together temporarily ^^

I decided to watch UP and it was so lovely! The graphics were so well done and I cried during the movie. The idea was just so beautiful ;__; It was so sad! But I really loved it.

By the way, R, I’ll have to side with C on this one – the kid from UP is definitely Asian because he has Asian eyes. Also his “mum” clapped like a Japanese lady They also got a Japanese kid to do his voice, so Russell is Japanese-American XD

http://images.hitfix.com/photos/59456/RussellUpPoster_gallery_primary.jpg

He has almond eyes! Only Asians have them!

Today, ie. Monday

Anyway, I’ll be watching movies for today I also checked your car, Ramille, and it’s clean and fine.

Today I’ll be starting my 30minute hula hoop sessions. I can actually hula hoop non stop for 20minutes, so I’m gonna bump that up to 30minutes now. And I’m going to spin faster, too. Hehehe. And yes, the hoop does work!

Hope y’all enjoyed this long ass post. Is this a better structure than my usual blogging? If so I’ll continue to blog like this, because this post took me a lot longer than usual to write.

Until next post!

PS: I am 100% sure that I left something out that I was supposed to write about. But I forgot. Hmm. It’ll come to me – later. OH YES – I have a few things to sell ._. Self reminder to post here and on Gumtree.

Things I learnt this week (and foresight into the week ahead)

I think I should categorise these into my ”3 things” category rofl.

But anyway, HI ALL. Remember last Sunday I wrote a post about stuff I learnt in the past week? No? Well I’m going to do it every week anyway

Korean Hula Hoop

If you’re interested in knowing how this baby works, follow this blog and take yourself to the “FITNESS” category because I’ll be throwing in all of my fitness stuff into there.

The problem with me and fitness is that I’ve maintained a miketsu blog for about what, 5 years? No, it must be 7 years at the very least. For the past seven years my new year’s resolution always said “lose 5kg”.

I don’t really need to say much, but it’s kinda obvious – it never happened.

At the time when I wrote the resolution, I was actually about the right size. I just wanted to slim down. Now when I’m finally being proactive about it, I’m more than just slimming down, I really need to shed off those kilos (I’m not really chubby and I’m not overweight, but I will get chubby if I don’t get a move on – I felt the beginning onset of chubbiness about a week ago and I was NOT happy).

I don’t have anyone else to blame – oh wait – yes I do! I was going to lose those kilos in the summer, however I had to stay at home every single day because I just had to -_- Then new neighbours moved in – BAM – cigarette smell in the living room? I couldn’t even do my marching on the spot after dinner. It became a situation where I couldn’t even maintain – so now that I have all my troubles out of the way (well uni has started), I can actually start to burn some serious calories. That way the jacket I bought from secret stall might actually fit me better. Hehe.

On top of that I want a flat stomach. And tone up. I want my pointy face back

So I have set myself a realistic goal (magic number in kilograms, which I will not disclose), and because I’m assuming there’s no way of me changing my diet except on the weekends when I eat out, I have to exercise. That’s the only way.

I bought a Korean Hula Hoop on Saturday from Morning Glory.

Best. Fifteen. Dollars. Spent. Ever.

I don’t really remember buying anything else for $15 that is of equivalent awesomesauce. To those who don’t see it for $15, get it for $29 – it’s worth it.

What you need to do is essentially get over the first day. For C, she told me that the second day was worse than the first. Considering I haven’t woken up from the second day, I wouldn’t know, but in my experience, my second day has been awesome.

First day – I didn’t really know how to spin a hula hoop. It’s been years since I spun one as a kid, and even so I couldn’t really do it because we had those light cheap plastic ones that look like toys. This hula hoop is quite large, and the hoop has some considerable weight in it. Whenever I spun it (be it half, one, two or perhaps if I was lucky, five revolutions) and it fell, it’d smack my leg as it fell to the ground.

I’m not kidding when I am typing this – only after five minutes of hula hooping (this is the recommended first time period on soompi, but you could do more if you wanted to), I ended up with 12 bruises on my legs, and one on my elbow – 13 total.

After that I still didn’t know how to spin the blasted hula hoop, but I did sweat a bit and I was feeling the effects somewhat. My waist was warm and tingly (skin slightly red) and I noticed an immediate difference to my waist. It felt more curvy. I originally had a waist anyway (just my stomach keeps bulging… FML Dx), and I’m after working out the stomach muscles (C says it will give you abs!) so I’ll do it!

Second day – woke up – in muscular pain. My back muscles near the waist area hurt (which is a really peculiar place really) and strangely enough – so did my legs. I wasn’t sure if the muscle pain was from the hula hoop or from lifting  weights, but yes, remote muscle pain. And I like muscle pain because it reminds me of sport during my high school days. This is why I like to go jogging even though I have zero stamina – I’d do anything to make my stomach muscles hurt >_>

This time though, I could spin the hula hoop. And it’s easy. I can go for about 2 minutes without stopping, and it doesn’t really hurt either – it hurts on the first 10 spins perhaps (it helped that I didn’t know how to spin at the beginning, so I would stop after 3 spins and rub myself and then start again), and then after that it’s all smooth sailing.

I’m bound to get another I think two to three bruises on my leg and at least 2 on my left wrist – but I am 100% confident now that I can spin the hoop that I can minimise bruising to practically never, really.

I hula hooped on and off for about 30 minutes, because I was feeling particularly happy that I could spin the thing. It’s a really good workout. I might replace jogging with hula hooping, but of course I will still walk to uni and back home and I’ll be climbing the stairs instead of taking the lift (I’ve been doing it without fail for the past three weeks anyway). I sweated a lot (not as intense as other stuff, but it’s comfortable and within my limits – I’ll be spinning more and faster and longer as each day goes).

PS: My waist is starting to look a teeny wee bit sexy from back view – HAHAHAHA. Cannot wait to use this thing every day. Easy, enjoyable, and workable.

PPS: I think I will get some bruises on my waist. But it feels comfy still. Slight muscle pain, but I don’t mind it.

Long nails can be dangerous.

I’ve scratched myself before, but today I dropped my lip gloss and in an attempt to grab it, I scratched my leg. It actually started bleeding :\

Therefore I had to cut my nails today. My cuticles were begging me to do so anyway - damn I can actually touch the keys with my fingertips now. Heaven.

One Way is made of awesomesauce.

Yeah yeah, M has called me slow, and about 3 other people have suggested I listen to them, but I’ve been trying to cut down on Internet usage (I haven’t downloaded any new music or anything) because uni has started and I don’t want slow net. The university just switched to a new teaching platform and it’s a nightmare to log onto when my net is slow – the older platform ironically enough loaded much faster because there were fewer fancy scripts and features.

If anyone’s wondering, 2 of the guys are from Sydney. OMGPLZCOMEHERE(Sydney)FORACONCERT? Later of course when an album or two has been released

They sound absolutely amazing doing Taeyang’s cover. This was the first thing I watched of them because I was so curious how they’d do it. AMAZING.

And I’m currently really obsessed with their song “MAGIC” – I know most people like “U DRAG”, but I LOVE “MAGIC”.

They do the T.O.P hand spinning point thingy, but still, they are awesome nonetheless. I love this song >_< It’s screaming for me to ringtone it I think I might – when I’m bothered It’s a beautiful concept and MV as well – if you haven’t seen it, please do. They sound awesome live as well – just check out their Youtube channel and you’ll find their live debut.

Subscribe to their channel and uh rate all their vids 5 stars and fave them all. I’ve started (I think? I can’t remember) but I will when I get onto the “awesome” net >:3

Btw their song “CASINO” reminds me of Teriyaki Boyz in a good way. It’s been a while I have heard something so fresh in so long. <3

But yes, MAGIC and the remix will be playing on REPEAT TONIGHT. I WILL PLAY IT UNTIL THEY GET 5 STAR RATINGS ON WMP. YES I WILL. <3

I cannot contain my excitement for these guys >:3 Seriously, you guys are awesome. Kudos from Sydney!

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I was gonna post a photo of my bruises and scratch on my leg, but I can’t be bothered uploading lolololol.

I’m out – there’s probably more I could write, but I can’t think, so I’ll just leave it. I’ll update when I can remember what else there was. I’m sure there was more.

Oh and shoutout to those who are searching up “miketsu blog” – makes me feel kinda happy people even remember the name of this blog.

Until next time guys!

Nails and lots of random stuff

Hello my furry little friends – HAHAHA NO I KID – (that was fairly out of character from me)…

I realised that my last blog was almost a week ago. So I guess this files under “I’m alive not dead”.

Sorry to those who get my blog entries via email subscription – I tend to rarely edit my posts until I hit the Publish button, so if there are any mistakes, you’ll just have to come to my blog and see the mistakes edited I generally fix up typos, grammatical errors and anything else weird within 2 minutes of posting >_> But just yeah. I don’t like proofreading so sorry! ;_;

What happened after the submission and the little shoot at USYD? Well, let me just briefly categorise and break down this post in order during the week so that I don’t get myself confused. I’ve been lacking sleep (or rather, lacking energy – or both, I’ve been sleeping at like 1am-3am these days) so there’s something wrong. But anyway, let’s start! I still have design to do, though I have a few hours until class. I love actually doing my work.

Sunday

I slept in and I didn’t do anything productive. In fact it was so unproductive I can’t remember what happened.

Monday

Went to uni, printed off whatever else I needed to print off, and started reading like mad that night. C posted off some notes (haha ‘some’ is such an inaccurate word to use to describe the notes) for me and it was like all smiles around

Tuesday

Went to uni, because I had to start working on design. What happened was our tutor thought that graduation project ran for one semester only, and crammed the schedule so that there was something due every week. When I read through the brief I thought it was a bit hectic, but what do you expect, it’s graduation – then he realised after L  pointed out that by the end of this semester we would have finished everything including the design, so what was going to happen next semester? So yeah, he’s going to reschedule the work so it runs over a year – but he didn’t change the submission date for this week. So in pairs, we had a week (or well, in this case, slightly less) to read over 200 (if you include the council meetings, then maybe 450) pages of council documents and make it into a powerpoint. And a report.

We’ve almost finished the powerpoint and we have a bit of the report to go. And when I type that, I mean that’s where we stand now as I am typing this post >_< But we’ll get through it. I have a few hours to kill, and we have tonight and tomorrow morning. It’ll be ok. And it shouldn’t be assessed, either. Fingers crossed – if it is, I hope he gives us some time to patch it up, considering we’ve only gotten a week.

I got C’s parcel in the mail Yay for Express Post - though it must have cost a bit ._. 3kg satchel… omona :\

This is why I have not been blogging. I am not exaggerating when I say I literally have 600 pages to read.

HOLY?! When I got the parcel my mum was like going to me (when we were driving home from uni), “was that all? 600 pages? Seemed like it wasn’t 600 pages.” I was like “no way, it must have been” – I get home and it was HUGE. My mum was like “ORLY?” =_= I still have yet to bind this thing. I PROMISE, NEXT MONDAY. And lookie – nail tips! Also from C Thanks times a gazillion! I’ll play around with them on Friday night after design – ho ho ho ho. Not sure what to do with them, though. I don’t wear false nails.

I was tired and I was supposed to start another essay due for Thursday (that is, today), but I did my nails instead.

Nails of the week!

Do NOT buy the Konad pink special polish. I’ve said this before, but I’ve just gotten even more proof that it’s crapsauce.

(1) The stamp cannot pick up the entire stamp because the formula for this is WEAK. The colour does not show up as vibrant as the others.
(2) The stamp is pink too.  You can’t tell if the stamp is imperfect until you stamp it onto your nail. It was extremely frustrating finding that half a strawberry was missing.

So, I gave up the strawberries, and I used the template I got last time – m71 (lace) and polka dots from m79. I said that this was an absolute fail and that I wanted to get rid of this set ASAP but it’s not so bad any more. I think everything looks better in daylight – including photos of things. Sorry for the slight blur – I was lazy and didn’t want to use super macro. However, I now Photoshop my photos beyond a clone stamp tool to clean up my messy polish hehehe. And I was just playing around with the sig to trick you all.

Click for a larger image!

I know, the photos are washed out, but that’s the feeling I was trying to aim for. I used Konad’s Light Beige polish as the base colour, the plates as I mentioned before, pink and purple special polish (only the polka dots were pink, everything else was purple) – for the polka dots I used pink Konad rhinestones (really pretty and they are staying on quite well – I love how they were freebies too. YUS), and also these pastel purple hearts that C gave me in this Korean Cute Art Nail kit.

The biggest fail about this set was that for some reason I thought that the nail kit had purple hearts that were 3D, but they didn’t lololol. I don’t know why I thought they had it >_> But anyway.

Love it? Hate it? Let me know.

Everyone’s getting engaged these days – I found out that a fellow student L recently got engaged – CONGRATS! I feel so behind. She’s only 2 years older and she’s already engaged – I’m still single D:

Wednesday

Went to uni. Continuation of design. We then went to the city to take some photos for our powerpoint. On the way of course I couldn’t help but snap some random stuff.

This is the set I’m putting together. Not for design or anything. Just for myself lol. I quite liked these photos in particular. And yes, I’m no longer going to post in standard photo size if I don’t want to. I think it’s rather silly to keep it at that size, to be honest. I don’t print these anyway, so I’ll just let it be like this. I should start saving my photos larger. I don’t actually save the base file when I edit the colours lololol – oh well.

Jelly Belly!

L went to buy some at a convenience store and the guy was nice – he asked her how many friends she had waiting outside and she said 3 – so we each got a packet! These make me nostalgic. I think one of the first ever birthday presents I got was a jar of Jelly Belly <3

I then saw a few photos of me from USYD flying around tumblr - yay for the polaroid one that L took of me in the airy room! However one thing I noticed was how incredibly fat I’m starting to look :\ I don’t remember looking as fat just the week before at Cockatoo Island – was it uni?! Either way I’m quite depressed seeing the photos – they are lovely, but they are also telling me to start exercising like mad. The thing is half the time I’m in denial because in real life/ person, I don’t appear to be chunky or as chunky as I believe I am. Then photos… IN MY FACE Dx

Actually, it must have been. Just last week I was staying up late, having poor sleeping patterns and not to mention I had a bout of crazy metabolism. I need to do something :\

MY ASSIGNMENT GOT AN EXTENSION! Originally I had a computer thing due in for Monday, but since it’s been extended, I can go out on the weekend. YAY! I better lose weight and be more active :\ Imma play that basketball thingo every week from now on >:\

Thursday

So I decided to start exercising. I did some jogging this morning and to help me I charged up my very dead Nano.

Yes, I have an iPod, and it’s an old Generation 2 Nano. (You can tell I quite like green since my folder is also green on the lower left, though I didn’t buy this, this was a Christmas present I received a few years ago)

It’s ALIVE! I generally rarely use this. I used it when I would walk to uni and back home, but ever since I stopped charging it, I guess I just stopped doing it. I am planning on bringing this with me and updating it with good music so I’m motivated to walk.

I’ll also be lifting some weights maybe after lunch or something so yeah.

It might sound like I’m making excuses, but recently the new neighbours next door moved in and they are smokers. I used to walk off my meals in the living room, but ever since they moved in, I can’t hang around there any more. It gives me a headache.

I didn’t take the Nano with me this morning, but even though I was only out for 15 minutes, I covered quite some distance. My biggest flaw is that I do not jog – I end up running. Eurgh.

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So, that’s my week from Sunday up until now. I’ll blog again most likely Saturday morning and/ or night (I’ll blog in the morning if I end up doing any nail sets on those nail tips, at night if I am still awake by then).

For now I’ll be making a pot of green tea every day and hope that it’ll boost my metabolism.

Until next blog!