Forever disturbed and afraid of X Guns, as well as useless jibberish – Mazeltov Monday, hells yeah.

Kurono Kei is an anti-hero, but hey, I like him.

So, I finished watching this in the span of 3 days last week or perhaps the week before – I can’t remember any more, it’s been a while:

Yes, Kato. Watch your back – literally.

Well okay, all the wtf aside, this is a bunch of screencaps I made from watching Gantz, the anime.

I actually did know about Gantz for a while since it was an old project translated by Omanga (which *cries* no longer exists), but didn’t get around to it until I got reminded via sunrise on the beat. I thought that the anime would do, and at a neat 26 episodes (2 seasons, though long complete) why not – I wanted to see if the plot was as interesting as I first made it out to be.

Well, long story short – very violent, twisted, gory, adult-orientated and quite disturbing. It’s been a really long time since I’ve watched anything that has been playing tricks on my mind (not that I watch much of that stuff – but from memory I used to when I was around 16 years old – I was all “experimental” back then) and I found myself mentally drained every minute watching each episode. It’s really good though. The manga’s still not complete (it’s ongoing) – I might consider getting it provided a lot of the volumes have already been translated and in Chinese perhaps – but since I’ve watched the anime I think I’ve got the hang of it. I might lose concentration perhaps 15 volumes along the way because I have a tendency to no longer give a crap about the main protagonist if I feel I can’t identify with them any more.

Watching High School of the Dead is pretty much a comedy if you compare it to Gantz. Gantz just creeps you out and I’m not sure if it’s in a good or a bad way. If you were scared of zombies (which is a very valid thing to be scared of), be happy that at least zombies don’t have brains and there’s not really a zombie boss (there was one in Plants vs Zombies, but even so I think if a real zombie apocalypse happened, there wouldn’t really be a zombie boss considering all bitten humans would turn into zombies, so there’s a neverending army supply). Now, ALIEN BOSSES are damn creepy. In HOTD all you see is a bunch of people getting bitten and then crying asking to be killed before they turn into zombies. In Gantz however, you get to see people die in a variety of horrific ways that make you not want to watch the series after midnight, or with the lights off. Yes, and I’m the type that is not creeped out easily. I WAS BITING MY NAILS FOR MOST OF THE BATTLES.

Honestly speaking, the surprise factor in Gantz is so great that you can’t predict what’s going to happen at all- or at least that’s how I felt because I didn’t want people to die. It doesn’t follow normal principles of a traditional plotline, and the story itself is so intriguing yet horrific it raises various questions about society and what it is like after death. What does it mean to have a second chance at life? What is it like to suddenly value your own life and those around you, yet at the expense of other lives? Eurgh, it’s complicated – you’ll just have to watch it. But yeah – mature audiences please, mostly over the age of 18. I wouldn’t recommend this for a 15 year old.

On a related note, Gantz released its Live Action movies this year. It stars Kazunari Ninomiya as Kurono Kei, which MADE ME REALLY EXCITED, but the movie currently is not out with Japanese audio and English subtitles. What I did however, was give into temptation and I watched it with English dub, which was uber craptastic and super lame. Not sure if it was the dubbing that made it lame or if the movie itself wasn’t as fantastic as I hoped it to be – in conclusion, WATCH WITH SUBS, NOT DUBS.

SKIP THIS PARAGRAPH IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW MY OPINION ON THE MOVIE – simply put, it was bleh. There’s way too much stuff happening in Gantz for it to be squeezed into 2 hours, and that’s what they did – they did the first 3 missions in 2 hours, changed a lot of it to make it seem like it made more sense and all, but what’s missing is the deterioration of morality in society and the “I don’t give a crap” asshole-ishness Kei has. Kato is lacking a lot of leadership qualities, and a lot of it was either made unnecessarily gruesome (but nothing compared to what the anime had) or unnecessarily toned down to simplify things. The cast was also small/ tight and a lot of characters were missing. WHERE WAS SAKURAOKA SEI IN THE BUDDHA MISSION. WHY WAS KATO SO NOT COOL DURING SAID BUDDHA MISSION >:\ Gantz needs to be presented over a period of time (ie. manga, anime or tv series), because 2 hours isn’t cutting it. There’s a sequel, which makes it a total of 4 hours, but that’s still not quite enough time for it to make any substantial impact on anyone’s memory. In the end, the live action movie is just “yep, just another sci-fi movie” – it doesn’t deal with the intricacies that the anime presented and how twisted the “games” are. Oh wells.

Sydney got its identity confused with Melbourne and tries to ice its citizens

Recently it has been super cold in Sydney, and by this I mean 7-11 degrees in the morning with tops of perhaps 18 degrees (warmer in bits where there’s actually sun – RADIANT TEMPERATURE YO) so everyone has been getting out their large trenchcoats and scarves. Some insane people have still been wearing short sleeved shirts as well, but I was one of those who couldn’t survive the trip to work without a jacket, scarf and boots.

Summer came relatively late this year, and now winter is coming extremely early. I’ve been considering to buy a new scarf, but I’m trying to stop myself since I don’t think I really need one. We’ve been surviving at work huddling around our “heater” (which is where the computer heat sink is ie. in its CPU case lolololol) and drinking Chatime Taiwanese Ginger Tea (hot, extra sugar – the extra sugar is important) which not only soothes the throat, but also seems to do a job increasing your blood circulation. It does contain real ginger bits in it, so it might not be for everyone. I honestly don’t like ginger myself (I’m one of those people who pick out onions, garlic, spring onions and ginger out of their food) but I really like the tea considering I figured it’s actually good for health.

We’ve already hit such drastic measures and it’s only the middle of May – I wonder what it’ll be like in a month or two :S

Will post on Thursday night.

It’ll be a shopping post – namely that mysterious Louis Vuitton bag from yonks ago. Yes, outdated, but a post nonetheless. It’ll be to mark something or other – you just wait and see.

On a very side/ final note my tutoring sessions for HSC English have kicked off this past weekend and it seems good so far. I also got a pay rise because I’m on “contract” to work for my workplace for a year. Therefore, I’ve achieved my payrise resolution for 2011. YAY.

2NE1 reigns supreme

I now shall leave you all with the amazing four otherwise known as 2NE1 with their latest release. Bom needs to tie her hair up more often <3 The video ranked number one watched on Youtube in I think 13 countries, which is pretty amazing. Well, I’m jamming to it for now.

Mazel tov Monday – only, on a Tuesday.

Alright, I’m back into business but I’ve not a lot of time. I just didn’t want to flood email subscribers’ inboxes – not that I don’t flood them anyway – but hey, prevention > cure.

So I’ve been a bit busy lately with the whole opening the online shop kind of thing. Meh – that’s that – if you see something you like – go for it – if not, wait and we might post something else that might tickle your fancy. Who am I kidding?  Buy plzzz k thx. But anyway, Monday posts aren’t for that – I’ll write about my past week instead.

Weekend = working consistently

So I worked well during the weekend. Slow, but still alright. I’m still like “hur hur hur” over the fact that GO! (ie. Channel 99) is so awesome and is the only channel on TV to air The Nanny, Seinfeld and old episodes of the Big Bang Theory. There’s apparently another channel named “GEM” but I don’t know what number it is. If anyone knows, let me know – I’m hella curious.

I’ve been full of bloatsauce even though I’ve just started to work out again (yeah, I did sort of… stop and do it at highly irregular intervals), and I’m paying the price for it. I can see that the water content in my body is fluctuating like mad. I don’t really know why my body tends to hold onto so much water. Note to self: I drink water okay – stop retaining it ;_;

I couldn’t get my hair cut because of a bizarre calendar prediction, but it’s all good. I think.

Monday was just making food – so that was one day which sort of went down the drain.

Tuesday aka today, I went to get my hair cut (separate post), my shoes from Gmarket arrived (separate post), my ad got published in the Sept/ Oct magazine of Wealth Creator (separate post) – by the way for those who are interested in my ad, open the magazine SMACK BANG in the middle where the staples are. This issue has NO plastic wrapping, so if you drop by to a newsagency, you can flick through one – just have a look please! You don’t have to buy the magazine You’ll see it in the middle – bought another magazine with a bag included to replace my lost one about a year ago (separate post – you can see I will have a lot of posts queued for this week and the week ahead). I have hair dye which I will review – when I dye my hair at some stage.

And not to mention I still have stuff coming in the mail. \o/ I think I need to start working full-time for blogging at this rate.

…and the weight is…

I’m not really caring. I gained 200grams, but what do you expect. My legs went back up like half a centimeter in circumference (thigh only). Whatever! It’s all water. Once it’s summer and I finally finish uni and get a job, all of that will be gone. BEGONE!

I don’t expect miracles overnight, and I’m almost willing to bet like, in 2-3 weeks time I would have lost like a kilo again. Measuring just PLAIN SUCKS.

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Sorry for this short post. I just don’t want to write too much because I have about 70 photos to process (not like I’ll be doing them all, but it’s a substantial amount of thinking to do) and given that I have a lot of stuff to do (uni work, and blogging), I can only just go by the premise that I’ll promise to give you all bigger and better posts in the days to come. Yes? For those who haven’t realised, my posts have been getting progressively detailed along the way. My poor fingers which do the typing – I kid

Here’s a photo I’m gonna spam the Internets with and to burn your eyes. Just kidding. It pretty much explains 2 posts I’m gonna post later this week.

And I wish that was a wig that I’m wearing. It’s not.

I can’t be bothered with blurring my face because the photograph is so damn grainy to begin with (sorry, that’s the downside of using a camera which doesn’t know how to focus on manual when you get into the frame – and auto went nutcrackers on me. I bet this was ISO 1600 or something stupid :\). I think P jinxed me because I ended up getting a fringe. Not that I didn’t have one to begin with, but it’s been a loooong time since it’s been THAT short. Guh.

Till next blog!

I am off to read the October 2010 issue of Sweet Magazine - IT HAS AYU ON THE FRONT.

Mazel tov Monday

Fierce. Fierce. And oh – fierce.

My favourite clip out of the 3 – they saved the best for last. I loved Minzy’s styling with the black dog – that was amazing – and I really really want to do my hair like Bom now – GEEZ.

Saturday

Didn’t go to Animania

But on the other hand, we took a lot of photos which should be coming very soon. I’ll definitely let you all know what it’s about and stuff

I walked around for 2.5 hours in my Gmarket heel boots – felt pretty self conscious because it felt like people were looking at my shoes since they were undeniably high (10cm with platform, okay) – but they were comfortable. I probably should have ordered a size smaller because my foot kept slipping – I got a grand total of 2 blisters on the one foot, which admittedly isn’t all too bad.

The bad thing is having to pop 2 blisters, which is really yuck. I just wonder why blisters even exist in the first place? They’re such a useless “invention” – all they do is make your feet hurt unnecessarily. *hmphs* But the great thing is I’d do it again I need those gel inserts – which I still don’t have, since I ordered the wrong type

Good and sad thing is that I now can fit comfortably into size 28 jeans. Not loose, but more comfortable than just tight. Other jeans are getting increasingly large. Even my shorts! I need to size down :\ That’s the bad thing – need more new clothes. Guh.

Sunday

Sunday was a complete mess of a day because I woke up with a headache, went to buy groceries with my mum, and then got home feeling pretty awful. Lasted throughout the day, napped late afternoon, ate half a dinner (so that the medicine wouldn’t go to an empty stomach) and then attempted to sleep at 10pm. Needless to say, it didn’t happen. I was awake for the majority of the night, having weird dreams or imaginations (couldn’t figure which one it’d be) and here I am now, wide awake, slightly disorientated and although not sleepy, probably a bit too tired for my liking.

I think I achieved nothing on Sunday, which is pretty sad.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately because I’ve been thinking about what’d happen after I finish uni and what jobs I’m going to look for. I’m a bit freaked out since I have admittedly been quite sheltered, but at the same time I am optimistic that I can start making a living (somehow) and be productive. I dunno. I just worry.

Monday

Woke up feeling like how I described. Not tired, but not energetic. Got plenty of stuff to do today, I think. Too bad the other things in my life aren’t keeping up with me.

…and the weight is…

So I think I’ve plateau’d – same weight as last week despite walking ridiculous distances in heels training my leg muscles and doing hula hoop sessions throughout the week.

My waist now however is about 26 inches, and I’ve lost 1.5cm from my thigh – so I’ve definitely slimmed down my legs in that department. YAY!

I guess it does pay off to wake up each morning with almost every muscle in your body aching.

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I’m very sorry again to have to make this post short – I really need to just get everything I need under control first and have everything organised before I make a decent choc-a-block post like the one I did on Friday. My life has been uneventful over the weekend – or if it has been (which Saturday, it was), I have no pretty pics to help document it in any way. I’d blog about what I’ve bought in terms of orders and stuff, but they haven’t been shipped or haven’t arrived, so that will suck. Majorly suck.

I will be back tomorrow with an awesome post. Promise. I just really need to get out of my place really soon – <3

Mazel tov Monday

Saturday

What is with the crap weather lately? I was meant to go out and buy a few things. Instead I succumbed to online shopping and spent way too much on 2 items of clothing.

But I bet they’ll be super prettysauce when I get them. *skips*

I was feeling super fat (actually, I still am) from sitting down for an entire week with very little to no exercise, so I took the initiative of doing 2 hours of hula hooping.

Good news – I think my legs are possibly just that little less swollen because I can kick slightly higher and closer to what I could do back in high school. Guh – unfitness sucks.

Chicken curry puffs – omnomnom – and fyi, they’re not French. I just like saying le this or le that. Why? Because I can.

With crap weather, good food is a good idea. Not my best batch because I’ve never tried making so many in one go – we made a total of seventy eight (78) of these.

Epic is epic. Noms.

Sunday

I went out – as you can tell with the previous post about Alex Perry for diva.

Random picture:

Missha Anti Trouble Patches – used to be called AC Patches.

I realised I had run out of the pimple patches I reviewed ages ago here. Lol – such an outdated product review. But now there are supposedly 10 – 6 larger stickers and 4 smaller ones. Not sure how it works and not sure if they’re as good as the old ones, if not better – sort of regretting getting so many, but I wanted to use my Missha membership card to get 5% store credit. Teehee!

And I also bought a copy of the Wealth Creator magazine for those who followed my Twitter, under the assumption my ad appeared in it. It appears that the “latest copy” isn’t on sale yet so I bought the wrong one. Eight dollars- gone! Also means I need to delay blogging about it Sorry peeps. I really wanted to write about it, but no! It’s not on sale >_>

INTERLUDE: 2NE1 1st album: 09/09/2010

Why HELLO THAR – why is red suddenly so attractive all of a sudden? And why do I want to also have red hair????
Img src: YG Entertainment

So, my favourite 2NE1 member Park Bom has dyed her hair a crazy red, but I’m loving it. The first colour I ever dyed my hair was red. Just sayin’. Never liked it much though because the colour washes out of the hair so much. But  now I’m having second thoughts. Do I want to give red hair a second chance? Yes? No? I’m split/ torn.

In fact, the whole styling concept of all 4 of them is quite interesting. I personally think that CL got the best concept out of them all.

Jeremy Scott, hair extensions, visual eye puzzles and military jackets – oh it’s like jizz in my pants.

I can’t wait to hear their album – we need some music yo! The Kpop music scene has been a bit slow lately.

Monday

… and the weight is…

Cheh! I only lost 0.1kg since last week’s weighing. That water was harder to get rid of than I had thought!

I better start getting into the routine of daily hula hooping :S

I’m cutting this section short because I didn’t measure myself – I say it’s about the same.

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Cutting this post a bit short because I really want to go hula hoop now. My package still hasn’t arrived and I’m asking for a refund. If there’s no email reply by tomorrow, I’ll send out another one. Nothing on Wednesday? I’ll just file a dispute. HA!

Onto other matters, I bought myself a shoe rack today. I assembled it, and then it sparked a mini closet rearrangement/ cleanout where many empty boxes were thrown away. I currently have 12 pairs of shoes sitting on my rack, filling it up completely. The sad thing is, I have 7 other pairs elsewhere – or actually, make that 8. Oops! Maybe I should stop buying/ acquiring shoes.

Until next blog!

Mazel tov Monday

Saturday

Woke up early to go shopping with my mum. I was really really tired on Friday, and Thursday, and for the majority of Saturday. I’m not sure why I’m so tired – I’ve been having sleep, I’m eating enough too. I can only hope that it’s that I am growing; yes! It is possible to still grow even at the age of 22! Last year, I grew an entire centimetre, for those who are sceptical. If that’s the case, I wouldn’t mind being tired so I can grow more.

FACT: Hanging around attractive people who are tall (well okay, they don’t have to be attractive, you just have to like them) will make you (subconsciously) grow taller. If I had known this, I would be crushing on tall guys during high school – that way I would probably be a lot taller than I am now! Too bad I didn’t know any guys back in high school – albeit tall ones

C had a photoshoot with a young photographer by the name of I. If he has a blog or something I’d definitely link it but I don’t know of it – so it shall remain unlinked for the mean time DING! http://www.ifungstudio.com/ <– You know you want to click it!

Silly me, thought that he took photos of buildings and stuff, because C mentioned that he needed help (?) and that there were no models (?). Rocked up in a cream coloured sweater, acid wash jeans, black blazer and converses yo *facepalms*. Hair unstraightened, eyemakeupless, no blush, no accessories (I didn’t wear earrings or even my watch!) – I was sitting outside Town Hall for a very long time, absorbing over 1.5 hours of Vitamin D – and very possibly, loads of harmful UV rays. Yes, I’ll absorb it like I enjoy it.

Watched a lot of people walk past dressed for Royal Australian Fashion Week – I think I might very possibly consider buying tickets next year for it. It looks like it’s quite fun. Definitely a thing to go to for the fashion interested or conscious – for the meantime, I’ll just try to improve my wardrobe bit by bit. Also I cannot understand how people can wear heels so much - I think it’s time that I seriously start practising.

RANDOM SNIPPET: A girl asked me if I was there for Alex Perry or not >_>

Methinks it was almost beckoning me to buy a ticket. Next year!

I also saw a taxi drive with a flat tyre… >_<

Anyway, could you believe that I is only 17 years old?! Makes me an old fart in comparison. He was fully equipped with a very exxy camera, lots of camera lens, flash, and a backpack full of everything you need for taking photos – including a reflector and a tripod.

My job for the day was to help hold the reflector and reflect light I’ve only seen people do it before, but today was the first time I did it. I’m hoping that his shots turn out okay and that I reflected it correctly >_< That reminds me that I still need to buy a reflector – a tripod is coming my way in the mail *rubs hands* I’m pretty sure I’ll soon be able to conquer the world after I get a reflector lol.

Behind the scenes shot:

He’s very enthusiastic – in fact, he’s the first photographer I’ve met who’s so energetic to shoot from the floor

My contribution to the photography world:

There was another one equally as lovely however I realised I took it with the homeless guy on the bench in the background :\ I have a few more, but this was definitely my favourite out of the set. I took a grand total of 45 photos on Saturday – mostly because I was doing more reflecting than shooting

The day ended quite early however, since there weren’t many places with natural light that we could go to and shoot with few people around.

Anyway, find C via her blog here for more loveliness!

Sunday

Excuse the first person present tense change in tone – I’m typing this on Sunday, so of course, it’ll sound funnyn since I’m talking about today or tomorrow, when in fact it was yesterday. Did I confuse you? SUCCESS.

It’s “get all your crap together and start doing work” mode. About 40cm worth of paper roll later, I think I’ve finally figured it out. Not entirely, but it’ll do for now. I’d be very happy if I could finish the carpark tonight, actually – as well as the lobby. Then I need to look at the section, and then build it in 3D. Which I’ll probably do for tomorrow. Don’t worry if you have no idea what I’m talking about – just trying to get all of my thoughts together.

I’ve been churning through 3 tracks on repeat – Shayne Ward- Breathless (which I’ve blogged about, and a song I dearly love – I discovered it when I was watching You’re Beautiful – it’s the track he listens to before he gets chased by the pig ), Shayne Ward – No Promises (it’s a cover of the Bryan Rice - which I haven’t heard, but I am liking this song), and also Craig David – Fill me in.

Why, why is Craig David so understated/underrated?

I was talking to a friend (who also likes Craig David) and we were both wondering why people didn’t like his songs or why they never hit number 1 – the one that comes to mind is “Walking away” – I liked that song when it hit the charts! Not really sure why.

Wut?! Only just a little over half a million views?! Are you kidding me?!

Heard this song while I was eating in Ramenkan earlier this week and discovered it was actually his debut track. If you just have a listen, he’s incredibly talented and worth worshipping. Cannot believe how much better this is than some of the crap we listen to these days with autotune – but anyway, taking you back down memory lane. Check out Shayne Ward too, k thx – guy deserves more love.

For those who don’t want to listen to the song or want to know what the song is about before listening to it if you haven’t heard it (but I’m sure you would have! Somewhere!), it effectively describes a typical relationship where the girl’s parents are watching her every move and it’s affecting their relationship. I think it’s pretty real and can apply to anyone with strict parents. Got strict parents? Know someone who has them? Worth a listen.

Speaking of which I really miss music from 10 years ago – *looks at Destiny’s Child album on CD rack* – should listen to it again some time. Along with Britney. And that blasted Graduation song by Vitamin C.

Monday

…and the weight is…

I knew from the very moment I woke up that I had gained some considerable amount of weight. My legs were heavy, and I had barely any sleep – I planned to wake up early,  but I forgot to turn the alarm on. (I use a digital watch as an alarm clock if I need to wake up at any other time that’s not 7am. I set the time – but forgot to turn it on. D’oh.)

I gained 0.8kg which is not very good. I think this is largely due to me sitting down the majority of the week working on this submission – so yes, work does take its toll and I don’t like it. The upside is that after this, we have a week of holidays, so I’ll be leaving the house almost every day if I can to get some exercise. I’m not worried about the extra weight; I’m only worried if it’s something bad – but at this stage of time, it’s okay.

My waist for some reason measured at 26.5″ today – I think it’s water. (How else can you gain almost a kilo in a week, anyway?)

Just to let you all know, I’m still going to aim for the 26″ inch target, but afther that I’m going to aim for not 25, but 24″. There’s a news article or well, it’s a study known for a long time, in which waist cicumference to hip circumference ratio at 0.7 is the most attractive. Therefore, find your hip circumference, and multiply by 0.7 - I get arond 23.6 inches, but I’d be happy with 24. It’s a long shot – but I have the rest of the year to do it. I only need to lose about 2 inches – I could, in theory, achieve that in 2 months if I kept up my old diet of salads and daily hula hooping.

After this week, though.

Onto other matters

• Might start the 30 day challenge that M did on tumblr. Maybe. Possibly later – I was going to do it during the month of September,  but seeing I’m busy until the 3rd, I won’t be starting it until the 3rd and it wouldn’t be so cool. Not even in November either, unless if I queue all my posts – because that’s when my final presentation is due. Maybe April?
• Sorry but no posts until Friday this week – I promise to blog a bit more after that. It’s because I have my first large presentation on Friday - so I’ll be extremely sleep deprived and busy until then
• Digital camera post!
• Some random beauty review – I’ll find something to write about.
• Will definitely blog about orders coming in. They should be coming today. GIMMEEEE NAOOOOOOOO.

So from sleep deprived me to wonderful reader you – enjoy your week!

Mazel tov Monday

Uneventful weekend.

So, on Saturday I went out briefly by myself in the wonders of self-therapy shopping.

It wasn’t without reason, however; you will be able to unravel the secrets within the next few months. Out of curiosity, how many Australian readers do I have who follow this blog via bookmarks/ any self governed way? If possible, leave me a comment stating where in Australia you’re from and what your interests are (Beauty, Fashion, Fitness, Music – whatever – or perhaps why you follow this blog – for Freaky Fridays or Mazel tov Mondays or anything random in between). Don’t be shy – I know of maybe one or two – but if you choose to be shy, that’s okay too Just wondering, tis all I’d be interested in knowing who is Australian, following this, and not from Sydney – but anyway, it doesn’t really matter all too much as long as you’re all having fun. Cookies to you all out there

Sunday was even worse – stayed at home and thought to myself that I’d start doing work – instead I get out my drafts, start blogging, and doing meaningless stuff like wallet-searching on ebay. I know, it’s a really bad habit. But I’ve been meaning to buy a small messenger bag (by small I mean 25cmx25xm at the very least)/ swing / sling bag. Mum will not let me buy something as small as a wallet sized bag. I weep in my sleep. (But I figured even if I did buy it she wouldn’t be able to stop me – hurhurhur)~

Pic/ Discovery of the Week

Sorry for the photoshopped image (removed the background and I did do a few tweaks here and there – but the outline tracing is all pretty true to the original pic, so I didn’t cut more background out to make myself look skinnier – dude, I have integrity, okay – but I did get rid of a few yucky bumps I forgot to smooth out – fabric only!), but I had a lot of stuff in the background I didn’t want to show in the photo. I figured it’d be neater like this. Clothing is washed out, too, because I tried to get the photo close to the colour of my actual skin LOL. I am petty like that.

FYI I do not use magic wand. I use the pentool to extract the background. Comes with years of making anime desktop wallpapers – oh Photoshop <3

Reason for posting said image is that I’m happy to announce that I can now fit into clothing one size smaller than usual!

HELLS YEAH.

I noticed my clothes were getting a bit loose lately. I was forced to buy a size smaller (thinking that it’s better to buy something smaller than bigger – I know, bad thinking – but I have friends who are small and can wear it ) and ooft – I can fit into it. Photograph is deceiving, it looks alright like that – side view is another story, because said dress is a bit short for my liking. I’ve been neglecting my hula hoop so I decided to give it some love on Saturday. Cannot wait to lose more inches here and there. Happysauce.

For those who are curious, I usually wear a size 10 (ie. size small/ S). I now can fit somewhat comfortably in a size 8, but I still have a lot of work to do!

So I’m now quite stoked – I can tell people I’m a size 8 But I don’t really care about that still. There’s still no way I’ll fit into size XS though. I’ll most likely still buy size 10 anyway even though it’s on the slightly loose side. I’d be gutted if I continued to lose weight and eventually be too small for size 10 – all my clothes would be too big! Not gonna happen any time soon, but hey, it’s possible! Worst case scenario is if I buy all size 8 and then gain weight – that’d suck big time!

But anyway just thought I’d share with you all. C has been saying she thought that I was a size 8, and I was adamant I was a size 10. Well, you were right girl! So to all you dieters out there, this is why I keep saying you shouldn’t overdo it – I think that I’m borderline overdoing it at the moment – I just wanted to slim down; I didn’t expect to or want to drop a dress size. I’m very happy already if I can look nicer in my usual size. I think I can still keep going for a bit more though, but my 10kg weight loss thing I think is a bit too ridiculous considering I haven’t even lost 5kg and I’ve dropped a dress size. Most I am considering is 7kg now, but of course, I have to lose my 5 first. Don’t overdo it!!

(PS: For those who think I’m a hypocrite telling others not to overdo it, put this into perspective – my measurements are still much more than those girls who say they want to “slim down” or tone up, and my BMI currently is 20.4. Methinks cutting down my BMI to 20 will not hurt; anything below 19.5 however is getting towards underweight and I am NOT going to put myself in that range. My message is directed to those people who are already borderline underweight or have tiny measurements and still want to reduce more.)

…and the weight is…

I won’t be disappointing you guys! I did weigh myself this morning!

So for 2 entire weeks I dodged the scales. My weight bounced up I think, but not by much. I’ve only done 2 hula hoop sessions in the past week (actually, make that 1.5 sessions since I only did 30 minutes for one). I don’t know what I’ve been doing – because I honestly haven’t been doing much at all. I’ve been eating icecream at Passionflower and I haven’t even been drinking stuff like green tea for metabolism. I have, however, been eating spicy foods maybe 1 in 3 meals. And I’ve been walking a great deal, too.

My weight dropped – I’m now only 0.3kg away from hitting my 5kg weight loss target. This has been the lowest I’ve weighed since I started my diet/ exercise routine. I beat my lowest weight by 100 grams so far. I’ve lost a total of 4.7kg, and that weight is here to stay OFF since my weight has been dancing around those numbers for the past month or more. YAY.

I also did my measurements again – my waist is JUST maybe 1/5 of an inch more than 26 inches – I honestly haven’t done anything much to reduce it! I think next week or the week after I’ll be able to already hit my 26 inch waist target.

You may ask, what next after that? Of course, aim for 25 inch waist. There’s no harm in that. But I’ll get to 26 first, even though it’s already almost as good as 26.

My leg measurements are still the same no matter what I do. But then I haven’t done any jumping exercises at all – if I did do them, I’d get faster results. So far though, they’re just firming up. I approve 8D

Hung Parliament? Facepalm.

I wish that they’d make a decision already/ announced a winner. AUD is going down because of the uncertainty of Australia’s Government – so if you wanted to buy something, I suggest you buy it either today or after the announcement and hope that the dollar goes up. Sucks.

However, this video effectively explains everything about the Australian Election in just one minute and thirty seconds.

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Alright, it’s going to be another post cut short – sorry for that. But I ordered a lot of stuff in so I’ll be writing about that when it comes…

Here are the posts coming up this week:

• Tuesday (tomorrow): Gakkenflex Bling
• Wednesday: Eyebrow pencil comparison; Christian Dior and Etude House
• Thursday: Unknown (will think of a topic then)
• Friday: Freaky Fridays

Enjoy the start to your week – I have my fingers crossed that I can do something productive in the next few days!

Mazel tov Monday

Saturday

I had a really bad start to the day

I won’t go into details, but I was feeling gloomy because I tried to look nice, then I saw someone wear the same dress as me And yeah – argh – it just ticked me off

I sat at Starbucks Coffee with yet another Tall Green Tea Frappucino to pass some time since Ramille weren’t going to be in the city until another 40 minutes or so – just when I was on the brink of despair they arrived and saved me – yay! (FYI there was a kid going “MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM” even though she wasn’t crying – she wasn’t even looking at her mum even! She did it out of boredom!! I was surprised that her mum didn’t really make an attempt to quieten her down – I kinda turned around to look at what kid was making the noise (mum pretended to hush the kid) but I spotted the mum was sitting at a table of 5 or so talking to her friends while the bored kid was just staring out the door onto the street, and probably absent mindedly making noise because of boredom >_< Uhm, I guess if I ever have kids, I’ll definitely not let my kid disrupt the peace and quiet of any public space…

We went to the Apple Store to see if there was this accessory for R‘s iPad, but alas it still wasn’t there.

However, there was something else awesome at the Apple Store.

What’s in the bag???

Ohhhh it was a temptation – I probably would have wanted them for myself – but alas I am saving and I don’t really use headphones I still need to sell my headphones… argh.

Dr Dre Beats headphones yo! In the special edition red!

Man, I’m one jealous girl lol, I really liked the headphones myself. I was seriously thinking that if these guys weren’t gonna get it, someone else we know should *cough*maybe me*cough* Haha! I kid  It’s a beautiful glossy red and the headphones fold up (compact storage) and all. Comes with a case and the quality is top notch since it’s in high definition sound and blocks out all the exterior noise!

I was going to post up the entire process of R opening the box and all – but I won’t put it up. You can read C‘s blog whenever she decides to update with the whole oohs and ahhs of the packaging It’s really nice. Just that box is to die for. Cuz I love boxes. Literally.

Lunch consisted of 6 chicken nuggets at McDonald’s; I know it’s not the healthiest, but I didn’t feel like eating anything else.

P came and then we all decided to head off to our destination today – Luna Park!

Luna Park

I’ve never been to Luna Park before, so this was my first time. I seriously thought that it would be situated on an island though since the ads were deceptive – but instead it’s just in Milson’s Point lolol wut.

Seriously, this is one heck of a playground. PS: the architecture here is pretty awful, lolololol.

It’s just 2 train stations away from Town Hall, and the walk is 5-10 minutes away from the station. There are lots of rides and stuff there, but to be honest, it wasn’t really my thing. I guess the theme park just wasn’t large enough? I didn’t go on the rides either – I figured that since I get motion sickness it wasn’t a good idea. I also spent extra time this morning to get my hair painstakingly perfectly straight, and didn’t want it messed up But no, seriously, I got dizzy just watching the rides spin – imagine me being on it :O

I was saying how horrible Luna Park actually looked – I’m sure most of you would agree it’s not the prettiest thing in the world. There were these expensive harbourside apartments overlooking the water… but in between the water and the apartments sits Luna Park =_= I guess it’s alright – looks beautiful at night.

Very beautiful indeed. But I also meant that Luna Park looked beautiful at night lol.

I did go on one ride though thanks to P‘s pass – the Merry-go-round! The last time I went on one, I can’t even remember; I used to go every weekend to the one at Darling Harbour. I think there’s just something really magical about the thing. I think the horses are so pretty, lol.

Okay, I didn’t watermark this photo because it’s not as awesome as it could be due to said pole in the foreground on the left – I swear I didn’t intentionally make it look like it was spinning at 100km/hr – seriously!

Unfortunately though, even though I’m now getting old, the Merry-go-round seemed to be spinning way too fast and I was actually too scared to get off my horse, while C hopped off her horse to a rooster – then to the back to the carriage and then the swan >_< Every time I turned around she was on a different object, lol! Let’s just say I’m really not too good with the spinning things and things where balance plays a part – >_<!

I captured some really cool shots from Luna Park though – I was playing with my camera settings and all. R showed me how to do the night shots (which I kinda forgot/ didn’t really know how to do hehe) and awesome! I had lots of fun doing that

I FINALLY MANAGED TO DRAW HEARTS! I’ve been trying for a while, but I’ve gotten there now.

I think after this I’m going to not only dump my photos onto Tumblr – I might post them up on Flickr? I dunno. Seemed like a good idea until I tried to retrieve my Yahoo ID which has consequently expired after me not using it for years :S

I just really am proud of this set of photos okay – reminds me of those old black and white newspaper shots – something quite eerie about them. Unphotoshopped, by the way – only added text and cropped.

This was the second last ride the wild ones went on. It’s like a swing, and you’re lifted off – then the thing starts spinning so you’re kinda thrown to one side (outwards of course). Warning – you may get a wedgie so try not to ride this if you’re wearing a short skirt or a dress or something lol.

We left Luna Park at around 7pm and headed back to the city for dinner.

Anyway – so much for taking photos – the wild ones went for the rides!! Hahaha <3

PS: I have a lot more photos from the day, but they either didn’t turn out as nicely as I hoped, or most of them looked the same (ie. all of them were of the ferris wheel, and ferris wheel is pretty).

Yi Jia Chinese BBQ

- Dixon No. 1, Dixon Street, Sydney. (…or at least I think that was the name of the place)

Mmmmm – I wasn’t really sure of what to expect from this place, but we walk past it all the time and eat at ROLL+ instead, but we decided to try it out.

You add oil to the pan and you order meat – my suggestion is to have each person pick a meat, and everyone should have a bowl of rice, as well as a drink.

We didn’t have a drink – but we should do it if we go again!

We tried: Black Pepper Beef ribs, Yi Jia Special lamb, Pork Belly and the Honey ?? Chicken Wings. + Sweet Chilli sauce and Teriyaki Sauce ($1/ sauce) – apparently the chilli sauce was too hot, but everyone seemed to like the teriyaki sauce a lot.

The beef was really chewy, so that wasn’t that great – but the others were soooo awesome. I’m particularly impressed with the lamb because it doesn’t really taste like lamb – we later asked for another plate of it because it was really good! If you try the special lamb, I suggest you sprinkle some salt onto it when you cook it – it makes it a lot tastier because it’s not really marinated

Left: pork belly; Right: Honey Chicken Wings

The pork belly was yummy – the wings were really hard to cook though – we had to cut each wing into half (separate it into the two separate bones) and then put the meat down (not skin) onto the pan. Apart from that, the wings were HAIRY?? They didn’t clean/ pluck the wings properly >_< But you can just peel the skin off. Otherwise the chicken tasted pretty good.

All up for the 4 of us it was $48.50! That’s rockin’! We each had rice too, so I’m fairly impressed and I would probably go back since that place wasn’t too bad.

Of course, with all BBQs, there’s the problem of the smell – my hair and everything smells like BBQ at the moment. MMMM smells good/ yummy, but keep this in mind if you don’t want to smell like food afterwards!

All in all, I had a great day guys, even though it started pretty crap!

Interlude: Music Video which plays mind games on me

Sorry I am too lazy have trouble embedding this video – it’s SHINee’s Lucifer MV.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Dww9UjJ4Dt8?fs=1

I’ve been trying to catch up on video clips – and I must say I’m not really a follower of SHINee – however I really admire their skill and talent because I’ve seen them perform live – they dance like robots and they sound almost exactly the same as the track when they perform live.

This song however completely confuses me beyond words – how can every single damn verse sound so different? If I’m correct there are 2 sets of “verses” that sound similar, but they’re not really. Some verses get extended longer and longer – D: I’m just like… “?!?!?!”

I really applaud them for having such different sounding verses every verse, so much variety shoved into the song, and then not only that, the dance is so complex that it changes and it’s just so mesmerising to watch. It’s one of the songs I think you could replay over and over without getting sick of because you finish listening to it and you think “… how did that part go again?” *replay* – seriously.

It’s really mind boggling.

On a side note, they made Minho really pretty lol. I think that hair suits him a lot

Sunday

My chillax day. I can’t really remember what I did – though I did a lot of photo processing – oh, and for those who wonder how I can afford to make Monday posts so damn long and detailed (not to mention, they’re getting better, aren’t they? ) it’s because I’m starting to draft my posts up. I would have done it ages ago, but once I wrote a draft for a competition and then wordpress published it for me without me realising – a few people got the post in their email, so that really sucked. Had to do it again >_< So yeah, don’t draft things that are meant to be confidential, or announcements as such D:

For those who have noticed the changes in my side bar, I’ve now made a Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/kuroimisa – there’s nothing much on there so far. I think I’ll slowly build it up and start posting photos taken by my camera that I like. If you like, give me some love on Flickr –

Did I have the resolve to do skipping etc? No, I didn’t – I stayed at home :\ However, I did do an hour of hula hooping. Then I indulged in Jdrama until 1am in the morning.

Monday

…and the weight is…

I’m sorry guys >_< I know some people might visit on Mondays just to read this section but I’ve failed you all again by not weighing and measuring myself this week. I’m currently buckling over/ writhing in pain. It’s past noon and I’m still in my pyjamas.

On the up note though – I might be able to try out some Zumba lessons (omgwtfbbqyay??) – I still need to enrol in dance lessons *throws M a glance* – and I need to start skipping. Eurgh. Either way I promise a weighing and measure next week. PROMISE!

Awesome things possibly planned for this week:

• I’m going to maybe have icecream this week But for those who have got time, Sydneysiders and Melbournians – FREE ICECREAM AT BASKIN ROBBINS for Katy Perry day – this Friday 20th August at Baskin Robbins from 4:30pm-6pm (I think that’s the end time anyway). You need to mention Katy’s name for free icecream! I know there’s no way I’ll even be able to battle the long line, so we’ve decided we’re just gonna go BUY the icecream. Not like it’s that expensive anyway (lol that and we can’t be bothered waiting, and because it means I have to jig half an hour of class to go) - but if you’re free and want free icecream around that time, go for it!
• Maybe a shoot. Maybe. No promises.
• I’ll be posting up a drama review.
• And I’ll keep y’all entertained somehow.

Thanks for reading this week’s instalment – thanks for the comments and questions – keep them coming, even if they’re about Zipia or Gmarket – I can answer them. Always make sure to post with a valid email because I tend to usually email you the reply as well in case if you don’t check back. Until then, be safe, keep warm and enjoy the last month of winter!

PS: If anyone was wondering about Gmarket, no, they still haven’t given my voucher. It’s because they forgot to. I’m just going to wait until next month and pester them again - usually they give you the voucher before they announce the winners (or it happens at the same time anyway). Argh.

Adios amigas/amigos!

Mazel tov Monday

So, I’m back after the weekend – I’m hoping to make this the best post possible for your reading leisure.

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Saturday

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ATTEMPT#1: GET INTO SMASH! 2010 ENTRY – FAILED.

Well by the time I got to the city, the tickets were all sold out I have no idea how an event like Smash! would possibly sell out (considering you’d think that the general idea is that they’d want to sell as many tickets as possible to generate the highest amount of revenue possible…) but it did. This year it was held at Town Hall, and I couldn’t get in even though I really wanted to Next time, perhaps?

I didn’t take any photos because of obvious reasons; I would have gone nuts though if I had a ticket to go inside >_<

I was always wondering the possibility of 2 people turning up to an anime convention wearing the same costume – I saw 2 people cosplaying as Miku from Vocaloid at the very least (actually, I didn’t see them in person – I saw one, then I saw photos of another – I knew it was a different person because the dress was different :\) – so uhm yeah. I guess sometimes it’s not a good idea to dress up as anything too common

Instead, had lunch at Ton Ton, did lots of shopping (window shopping), failed miserably at skill testers but won some lollies instead.

Red Skins! I haven’t seen these for a while. I was lucky because I got 2 of these in one go. Then I got a minty the next lol. I sucked at the machine – oh well – lollies Expensive =_= But meh who cares

Before that though, R saw the Kara boxset for sale at the local DVD store – C came out and surprised me by handing me a roll!

With every purchase of a CD you can get a poster if you add $2 ^^;; This was a pleasant surprise – but of course, it wasn’t really a surprise what the poster was

It’s T.O.P!!

Thanks so much <3 <3 <3

The poster was printed on slightly heavier bond paper and it was A3 – lol – I’ll print you guys a poster next time I see you

I put this photo up hoping to get the Kara boxset (you can kinda see the roll – well maybe not) – I like the photo though! No photoshop. R‘s awesome shoes yo lol. And don’t try smoking kids!

And then that was the day actually – I find it hard to find anything to do in the city which is interesting lol.

But here’s a random photo/ portraiture of the week:

Zipia blazer, military style dress, black opaque leggings (also from Zipia), brown wedge boots by Zu Shoes.

This photo was taken by the lovely C! Uhm – I’m not doing the Sorry Sorry dance where they go dan dan dan da dan dan da dan dan! part -  it looks like it though /fail. Lol – it was a pose I was told to do

I finally managed to get my hair curls to hold! It was because after all these years (like what, 4?) that I never turned my hair iron hot enough – LOL. Either way Remington sucks – once mine breaks down I’m definitely getting a GHD.

Also on second thoughts, I’m slimmer than I thought I was. Hmm.

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Sunday

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Nails of the Week

OMG FINALLY \o/

I’ve been highly uninspired and was never convinced my nails were long enough to do them again. It largely had to do with my painting nails every single week for about 2 months straight. I have fairly strong nails, but they seemed weakened, so I stopped. Then I also had the theory that if I had pretty nails I’d be less inclined to want to do work.

I got a bit bored and felt like I wasn’t doing anything, so I decided to paint them. Heheh.

I’ve been really obsessed with lace lately (there’ll be another post coming soon on lace) so I decided to do a lace theme on my nails. This is a lazy inspired diagonal lace french tip with glitter on the very tips. The thumb however has the lace going along the centre. I used a base coat, Konad special polish in white (and I think the template is m57 – I’m too lazy to go check up on it though, but it’s one of the lace ones, any will do – I just felt like using this one), 2-3 top coats of Konad top coat/ clear polish, and then some cheapo glitter chunk polish on the end. The other hand is the same but inverted.

Apart from that I started to watch Three Kingdoms the drama and so far it’s like D:!!! Lol. It’s just very cliffhangerish

Missha PROVICE Inner Cure Serum Hair Treatment

I’m not going to include a picture or a photo – you can search it up. The main reason why I’m not putting it up is because I wanted to blog about the awareness of having a treatment as opposed to not having one.

The Missha PROVICE range has long been discontinued. I spent over $400 at Missha to get $20 store credit (I know, this is how die hard I was back when I was just 19 years old) and with that I got a bottle of the Inner Cure Serum. There are olive extracts and other awesome things that claim to rejuvenate your hair.

The good thing about it is that it works. Doesn’t really leave your hair oily, smells good, is light  and the price isn’t too bad – it was $14.95 for a 100ml bottle (which I redeemed with my store credit).

The bad things included the pump bottle (means you can’t get all the product out unless you hack the bottle with a saw), leaves a slight residue (my hair feels a little bit heavier – and I’m not sure if it’s the moisture being inserted into my hair or if it’s product sitting on top of it, but yes it is softer) and you need quite a few pumps for this to make any difference, especially if you have long and thick hair like I do.

Missha hair products are really not bad. I’ve tried their shampoo and it’s pretty good.

My message is though, you might not think about your hair that much because it looks good when you straighten it with heating instruments, but doing hair treatments is essential! I use the WHITE Shiseido Tsubaki hair treatment but that’s not enough once I rinse it out of my hair (it’s like conditioner) – having something like the Missha serum will benefit your hair in the long term (you put this treatment in damp hair before you dry your hair completely).

There are plenty of hair masks – for Asians, vinegar substantially helps your hair. Egg masks, avocado, olive oil – even hot oil treatments.

I’ve never had a treatment done at a salon, and I’m thinking I probably should. For the meantime though, I encourage you all to invest in a hair treatment product – I actually really care for my hair, but I don’t care for it quite enough!

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Monday

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… and the weight is…

Uhm, well, unfortunately for you guys, I kinda forgot to weigh myself this morning.

I woke up and knew I had to measure myself and weigh myself, but as soon as I walked into the living room I saw an empty bowl with a spoon in it, and a bag of cereal beside it – and I just thought it was breakfast time. Started eating and after I finished I was like “ARGH I FORGOT TO WEIGH MYSELF”. My mum told me to weigh myself anyway, and I gained just 100 grams to last week’s weighing with food. I’m assuming a bowl of cereal is about 250g, so I didn’t actually gain any weight – I will however weigh myself next week LOL – silly of me. Sorry guys.

Banking blues

Uhm, I don’t think I’ll ever open an account with ANZ. We got a letter fairly late for our term deposit so we couldn’t renew it on time. Unlike in the ads how they help you and everything all the bank manager said was “oh the grace period is over, there’s nothing we can do.”

If anyone works at ANZ or intends to work there – do me a favour and change the STUPID “you have a 7 day grace period to make any changes” to say “5 business days” instead???

It looks like it’s generous being “7 days” but the banks don’t really operate on weekends, so it’s just pointless. And even though they were supposed to send us a letter 2 weeks in advance, we didn’t get that one – the bank just didn’t want to take any responsibility whatsoever and blamed it either on the mailing system or for us not keeping track of our accounts. I mean yeah, okay, but think about old people who are just forgetful…? It’s not like we intentionally skipped it – when we got the letter it was Friday 4:30pm after the bank closed! Argh. I’m not happy either way.

New photoshooting location!

Seems like my friend has found another awesome place to go shoot at. Will see if we can go some time later this week lol. I would have went with him, but I was hungry and went home. I didn’t tell him that, of course Hopefully I’ll have a day to go. I’m excited – it’s really close to where I live! According to him, he said that the place is “fantastic” – and if that is coming from him, most likely it is. He rarely gives compliments >_> But I’ll try to get some work done in the next day or two lol. I really need to get working o_o That’s not gonna help with me getting 13.5gb of videos today though -  J-DORAMA HERE I COME.

Rapidfire random stuff about me lately:

• I’m doing fine and I’m well.
• I just got some money – YAY! Unfortunately most of that goes back to paying myself back (this is ridiculous – at the beginning of the year I wanted to save $2000 and I’m sure I need to save maybe $5000 to save my own ass at this rate )
• The charity flyer is going well and I’m surprised because I think at this moment in time the flyers have been printed – I’m going to design (or rather rework the existing one) into a magazine ad!
• I really need to get a job lol. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know. I’m only interested in doing one day per week, which is the funniest part of the equation.
• Scrap that, I need a resume first.
• The replacement memory card should be coming soon – by that I mean they’ve finally processed my form, but they haven’t dispatched it.
• I really want to bake some cookies.
• I am craving Sweet Chilli and Sour Cream Red Rock Deli gourmet chips (trust me, these are the best)
• Need to find a Chinese community Christian church in the city - so far I’ve got the one in Surry Hills (it’s a Presbyterian one). Does anyone know of any others? It has to be in the city though, because that’s the closest to me (unless if you know anything very close to that). I would like to go maybe a few Sundays just to sit and listen to their service.
• WTF ANIMANIA TICKETS ARE $35??? RIP OFF OR WHAT? Screw that – I don’t think I wanna go. That’s too expensive! I can get a haircut!

Sorry this post is so disorganised, long and choppy – but I hope you all enjoyed your weekly Monday read! Have a great start to the week (uhh okay I’m a day late, but whatever ) – until next blog!

Mazel tov Monday

Well, it’s no surprise that after an uneventful weekend, I’m back with yet another uneventful post.

This is just getting beyond ridiculous.

“Giveth mine memory card, or the force which should be used for defense shall be unlocked upon you I’ll use.”
Img src: http://www.taehahime.com/perm/hahhah/domo-yoda.jpg

My memory card? Still not here. Freaking customer service seems okay but it’s so poor since they promised me to email me a form (which I have to consequently sign and return – and guess what, that’ll add an extra day) but they DID NOT EMAIL IT TO ME. They take one business day (in fact since they don’t operate over the weekend, means I had to wait the entire weekend)  just to write a response, and they DO NOT DO THEIR WORK. Seems like it’ll take another day for it to happen, hmm? If so, I’m definitely going to blow up at customer service and I’ll most likely even bitch about it on their Facebook page. I am NOT a happy camper. A memory card does not take up to 3 weeks to ship especially when their warehouse I probably can literally see from my place! “LOST IN TRANSIT” – do they realise that it’s virtually IMPOSSIBLE for items to get lost in transit unless it was so poorly packaged that the address is either unreadable or the packaging is completely ruined?! Are you kidding me?! I KNOW how the postal system works! This is a load of crap! Whilst the money I paid wasn’t that much, if they weren’t going to be competent enough to send it out to me in the first place, do me a favour, let me know so I can actually go somewhere and just BUY one instead of having to wait for… let me see… NOTHING?!

This isn’t just an “inconvenience”, it’s a complete waste of MY PRECIOUS TIME. I rather be sitting doing nothing peeling an apple, than to have to chase up for something that I’ve already paid for – it’s MINE. If the company had bothered to ACTUALLY SEND IT OUT VIA EPARCEL LIKE THEIR WEBSITE PROMISED IN THE FIRST PLACE, then NONE of this would have to happen. I’m simply just fuming because people entrust this place to send out their items SAFELY (their website says yadda yadda everything is insured so that it will get to you and they’ll replace it if it gets lost in the mail) when they turn around and then say “OH UH SRZ LOLZ WE SENT IT OUT VIA NORMAL MAIL CUZ WE WANTD TO SAVE MUNNEH – DIDDUN THINK U’D NOTICE” – WTH!?

If I still don’t get an email tomorrow, I will definitely not be happy. 3 entire weeks since I’ve paid and local ground mail does NOT take that freaking long. In fact I’ve made overseas purchases which are faster. I have no problem if they don’t want to deal with a dissatisfied customer, because I’m more than happy to take my business elsewhere. ARGH – FRUSTRATION x 10000.

I’ll write the full details on this place as a dedicated post another time. Be very wary buying from them – it’s NOT worth your trouble! I could have given my money to charity instead – this is just disgusting!

In fact right now I’m considering taking this to Fair Trading. This is just absolutely ridiculous.

… and the weight is…

Well. Bloatsauce. Comes as no surprise – I gained 0.6kg. Sigh.

My measurements are the same as last week though – no change, which means it’s just a temporary bouncing of weight here and there. To be honest I can’t be stuffed doing the 5kg weightloss target thing. I’ve lost 4kg already, and it’s just been dancing around those numbers. I think at the end of the day if my measurements are looking good then I don’t need to be too concerned with how much I weigh, yes? But in any case, I’ll still aim for those blasted 5kg and 26″ waist target – I’m still doing okay considering I’ve only been doing this for a few months… but anyway. I shall continue on with it.

Boys can be, and are ridiculous. Hence they are boys.

Someone just told me that guys don’t get girlfriends because “they have other things to do with the time instead of having a girlfriend”.

Forewarning – Mazel tov Monday should ideally be renamed “Bitchy Monday” – but I woke up on the wrong side of the bed to begin with this morning. Apologies, my lovelies.

SAY WHUTTTTTTTTT?!

Does anyone else agree with me but does that sound ludicrous or LUDICROUS?!

So in other words, from what I gather, other things may take priority over having a girlfriend. May I please ask, what kinds of things take priority over having a girlfriend?

This is what I immediately thought of:

Playing Starcraft II.

Img src: http://sui-ngau.xanga.com – two thumbs up – one for the username (Buffalo), and second thumb because xanga surprisingly still exists. No thumbs for the game itself, as this is the source of late night gaming, thus releasing tons of carbon/greenhouse gases into the atmosphere with the fuel needed to be burned to help fire extra CPU and graphics card for those millions playing worldwide. And for the girls who are burning photographs and voodoo dolls of boyfriends who left them to play this blasphemous game.
Just kiddin’, it looks freaking awesome.

So very possibly instead of having a girlfriend, a guy would rather play Starcraft 2. Well okay, it’s not surprising – it’s been a long awaited game release, and it’s so extreme that one of my friends actually called up EB Games at midnight, asked when they’d close, and ran downstairs to buy it – he bought the game 5 minutes past midnight on the day/ night of its release.

Usually you’d think that at midnight you’d be at home cuddled with either a bunch of soft toys (if you have no significant other) or your significant other.

Some guys would rather prefer to stroke their keyboards and mice all night long baby. Alllll nightt longgggg.

PS: The guy has a girlfriend, but I’m just saying that a lot of guys who don’t would still prefer to play SC2 over having a girlfriend.

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Making a sandwich.

“Wait till I eat you… mmmmm nom nom nom.”
Img src: http://www.geeksugar.com/Cell-Phone-Rant-Guy-Making-Your-Food-Rude-One-2336574

Farfetched, but possibly for some guys, making a sandwich is more important than hanging around with a girlfriend.

And by sandwich, I really meant the food consisting of two slices of bread. Just sayin’ for those who are thinking otherwise…

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Watching a game of football. Alone.

Ass grab, yours sincerely from miketsu blog – taken from the “Stumble Stumble” MV (D-NA)

Or possibly with a beer with a few friends. But generally, alone.

And generally quite close to the screen.

Hmmm.

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Seriously, the idea is still ridiculous in my mind. We all have our own lives and we have plenty of shizz to do every single day. There are things we need to prioritise, and perhaps a relationship really isn’t one of them. But saying that you don’t even have time to go out and see your girlfriend maybe an hour once a week because you have “other things” to do (note the list above)…?

No wonder some guys remain single.

Posts coming up in the next week or so -

Sorry this is going to take a while to complete – especially the long awaited DO-NOT-BUY-FROM-THIS-PLACE review, but the list of items I’m going to review/ talk about will entail (over the next month or two, depending on how long the list will be):

• SK II Skin Treatment Cleanser (well I think this is the name of it anyway)
• Skinfood Wash-off Rice Mask (I possibly got the words around, but meh you know what I mean)
• THEFACESHOP sheet masks
• Aveeno Dry Skin Body Lotion
• Shiseido Benefiance
• And at least one mystery slimming product. – perhaps 2, depending on what I feel like.
• Something really awesome.
• Etude House Easy Brow pencil (in comparison to Christian Dior eyebrow pencil)

I think that will suffice for now. I will have fun trying to think of how to review and photograph the above items over the course of the next month or so – for now, Monday will be my last “resting day” before I get cracking on my design work. I can’t work knowing I have at least a pimple on my forehead. I will feel too miserable to want to do anything.

In fact, I think I’ll review the SK II later today.

Once again this is a short post – sorry about that. I just really have nothing to talk about since I stayed at home all weekend lol.

Hopefully my next post is less grouchy (but then I guess you’ve all learned to not take me too seriously) Until next time!

Mazel tov

… and the weight is…

Well, new week, new goals – but achieve the ones you set in place first!

Stepped on the scales to lose another 0.1kg (100 grams) – in other words, it’s not water bouncing around any more (not at the moment anyway) – I’ve sort of hit a limit. I only did ONE hula hoop session the past week (I’m quite ashamed actually – I should start it up this week again) but only because I went to the Biennale and I was walking around the city for another 3 extra days on top of that. The funny thing is that I did my hoop session on the night I took my mum out… instead of the day I was miserable and stuck at home. At least, I can’t remember if I hooped or not, and if I can’t remember, let’s just say I didn’t.

I’ve been feeling bloated lately – poor sleep (lack and lack of sleep – it’s turning into a bottomless pit of insomnia and not-so-delicious [literally] dreams about zombies falling in love with humans and having indecent requests – oh how I loathe my dreams and capacity to imagine) and ridiculously unhealthy eating habits. One day I binge on rice and fried dumplings – fast forward a few more days I’m eating nothing but a mere salad. If I were my stomach, I’d hate me.

But the measurements aren’t bad – waist is now 26.5″ which makes me a really happy camper (this is disregarding the fact that once I eat my waist is nonexistent due to stupid bloating) and my leg measurements are all the same, just less jiggly.

I am also fitting into a size small with zero difficulty. Not that I had trouble before, but I didn’t like how I had a nonexistent waist and there were unattractive bulges in the wrong places. T_T

Me and my Gakkenflex – I gave it a strap and it’s all DIY and super pretty. Will post photos of it again later for another day.

I’m wearing a dress I bought yesterday. It amuses me how well the buttons are secured onto this dress, opposed to my zipia blazer which I lost a button of in recent weeks. (And yeah, sorry, my dress got scrunched up lol, it’s not meant to be :\)

I’m also amused at how fast my hair grows – or rather, how fast time flies – I dyed my hair in April already, with the generous help of C – it’s almost the end of July – wow, 3 months. No wonder the regrowth is about 2.5cm long And if anyone was wondering if I did anything to my hair, I didn’t. I rolled out of bed like that :\

Excuse the shoes. I actually took a semi decent photo of myself using the self timer with my shoes on – then when I was about to transfer my photos into the computer I accidentally deleted them all before I copied them to my harddrive

I’m starting to quite like the capabilities of my camera – but yeah, I’m posting up just this one because the rest of them turned out blurry Boo.

I was talking about it just last night about doing portraiture shots but after the amount of sheer failure shots I took just today, I’m not so optimistic any more I didn’t photoshop the image above in terms of trying to make myself skinnier or anything by the way. That’s exactly how the shot turned out (colours a bit changed and cropped) – I need to work on those arms and legs badly. If only I grew another 5cm, then my problems would be solved Dx

But yes, I tried to buy a tripod today but then the ones that were nice and tall were so expensive ($100+)… gotta think of a cheaper alternative.

But anyway, this photo in relation to weight loss – not an accurate photo (the camera was sitting much lower than me), but after losing something like 4.6kg, this is what I look like. People say they can tell how slim I got, but when I look at a photo like this, I don’t think much has changed. Sadly, I still have a lot more work to do.

Phone strap blues

Well, I had a phone strap but it snapped a few weeks ago when I dropped my phone onto the floor lololol. I had to fix it again (the second time already!) and this time I was armed/ equipped with more materials.

I reused my rose mirror and this is what it looks like so far. Kinda matches the colour scheme of my phone, with the exception of the little bow I didn’t make the bow – I bought it like that lol. They were so cute I just couldn’t resist.

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Rainy weather today yo! Can’t do anything more and can’t write anything more about today. I should start my hula hoop session fairly soon now.

Until next blog!