Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Fangirl Session

As you can see, I changed up my blog a bit~ I've had this photo of the current background for a long time but i just couldnt let go of my previous pink one. I couldnt decide on whether to change the whole theme to a darker one... but here it is! I may still change some stuff though, it all depends on my mood. hehe


now, it's time for some updates on life.... let's start with some show and tell again before i get to the rest!

This was about 2 weeks ago i think, at church, with Thaniel's head at the corner. 

Nails~~! I miss having pink nails. This nail art is really easy to do. Once i saw a tutorial of it, i told myself that i had to try it out! Pretty nails make me happy. : )

This was taken last Saturday at church with Auntie Vincentia~ everyone knows I'll be going away soon... :(((
and it seems like i'm always taking photos in this dress. LOL i have nothing else to wear.... 

I like this photo of me and Nidia~ too bad it's blurry. my mum didnt know how to focus my camera.
she has such a small face... she's really small sized too. she's 14 this year though.

A photo with Stephanie and her mum~ I'm gonna miss everyone....
i'll still see them this Saturday though and the next.

during mass, Nidia and I sat tgt and we couldnt stop talking XD I was scared the ppl behind us would judge me for it. We kept talking about k-pop though and after mass, we continued talking and so my mum decided to ask Nidia's parents whether she could join us for dinner. Coincidentally, her parents were not free that night, so my mum offered to let her come over to our house while they were busy.
So... after dinner, we had a fangirl-ing session at my place! 
We took selcas, sang along to k-pop songs, and fangirl-ed over our oppa(s) while we watched their live performances. we went a little bit crazy that night. Nidia screamed when we were watching EXO and my mum thought she saw a ghost. XDDD
I went crazy over Beast because their How To Love stage that day was just awesome! I wont start fangirling now or this post would never end.

Nidia is a talented girl, she writes fanfics online (mostly one-shots) and i enjoy reading them~ She's really cute too right? It was really nice to fangirl with someone instead of always me sitting in front of my laptop alone... 

i had to sit behind her while taking photos because her head is just so small!
i dont know what we were thinking at that time, but we recorded ourselves doing the gwiyomi player. >___<
which i would never let anyone else in the world set eyes on it.

오빠 사랑해 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

After we sent her home, i removed my make-up, took a shower and went back to my normal routine. 



A short update of my life, I received an unconditional offer letter from Queen Mary, University of London. Course starts on the 16th of September. I'm not sure when i'm flying off yet because i need to wait till i get my student visa before i purchase my air ticket so.... I'll blog again when that happens. I'll be flying to KL tmr though, to get my visa done. I should be in bed now... i need to be wake up in less than 6 hours...
As for my results and feelings about studying abroad... that'll be in another wordy blog post soon.
For now, i need sleep, i hope i'll manage to get some sleep... this is not my bed time.... good night!

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Anime Craze

Due to the influence of a B2uty I follow on Twitter, I got introduced to this new anime called Free! . Yeah, the exclamation mark is included in the title.
I didnt really get "introduced" to it... I saw her tweet a lot about it so I was curious and decided to check it out!
I ended up loving it, all of it! The story line, the characters (which are really hot >__<), even the soundtracks. Sadly, there's only 7 episodes out for now... :((( I want to watch more of it right now!

Actually, i'm not much of an anime person. I havent really watched many animes before. I watched over a hundred episodes of One Piece but gave up on it because I was busy with studies and haven't had the urge to continue watching since. When I was younger, I used to watch Inuyasha and Shaman King with Nigel at night, I liked them but can't remeber much of the storyline... And everyone has definitely watched Pokemon and Digimon before right? My brothers were also crazy over Yu Gi Oh for some years, so I watched a lot of that too. That anime had some hot characters too, ngl. Oh and Prince of Tennis too! I used to like that anime. Watched it every week.... but once again, can't really rmb much of it because it was quite a long time ago.

Almost month ago, I started watching Shingeki No Kyojin (Attack Of Titan)... I've heard so many ppl raving about it and at last, a friend asked me to watch it so I watched 10 episodes in one night because it was just so exciting to watch! I love the story but it's still not quite the type of anime I love. But i managed to keep up with it until now since every episode is just so freaking good and i can't wait for the next.  I guess i'm just more of a girly girl, so the guys in Free! just attracts me more than guys fighting titans do. hehehehe

I was browsing through some of the more popular animes on the website and found Slam Dunk.... I love Slam Dunk. So i watched the first episode of it.... and gave up on it after the second episode.... LOL It's not because it's bad. It's because i've read the manga 3 times already and I know the whole story line. I just found it a bit boring watching it since i already know what's gonna happen next. and Kaede Rukawa (my fav character) just wasnt as dashing in animation as on paper. and I didnt find any of the jokes and the funny stuff funny anymore.

I'm writing this post just because I wanted share my love of Free! hehehe I followed some anime related tumblrs just for gifs and edited photos of the Free! kekeke but here are some screenshots of the anime I took while I was watching it : )
Everything is just so pretty in this anime and I just can't control my affections for pretty stuff.


The main character of this anime -- Nanase Haruka. 
One of the things i love about this anime is how all the characters have different coloured eyes~

 the only girl that hangs out with these guys -- Matsuoka Gou. aka Kou~
she's so cute and funny, a typical teenage girl, i guess. 
and her maroon coloured eyes to match her hair are beautiful~

 And this cutest guy with pink eyes! I love his eyes ( just because they are pink LOL) -- Hazuki Nagisa~
he reminds me of Yoseob sometimes....

 kekekeke >____<

fictional muscles XD
Haru looks so small beside Makoto

this scene is so beautiful~ the guy pointing at the sky is Rei and i dont have a screenshot of him yet.....


 so pretty

 a screenshot of the president of Iwatobi Swim Club -- Tachibana Makoto. 
his green eyes matches his hair so well, it matches his personality too. 
i choose him as the most good looking character (for now keke)

and lastly, the guy with the red eyes -- Matsuoka Rin. i have a love-hate relationship with him.
the 7th episode ended sadly because of him... he's mean but he has a sad history so it's hard not to have a soft spot for him. and he's weird.... he has sharp teeth.... why did they decide to give him sharp teeth, i dont understand.... 





"If there's anyone that can bring change, it will be someone willing to sacrifice what they care for. Someone who can't sacrifice anything, can't ever change anything!"   -- Armin, Shingeki No Kyojin (Episode 20)


Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Show & Tell

Havent been blogging about life for a whole month now. Not much has happened since, but i did go for a few road trips with my family and met up with friends. So here are the some of the photos i took over the month~ Planned to do a post for each trip but... mehhh too lazy and i didnt take a lot of photos either, so i just compiled everything tgt~


i dont even rmb what was the date we met up...it was early July i guess. it was at Liberica. credit Hy for the photos~ it was fun meeting and chatting away after being away for so long. 

this reminds me that i took an instagram video that day but somehow just couldnt upload it and now it's just sitting in my files and cant be uploaded. TT____TT

The three of us reached at 7 sharp but the others arrived almost an hour later... zzzz


with Amy~

i told myself i'd clear out some of my stuff but until today, i've only managed to clear my cupboard...
and here are all my nail polishes~ i hope they dont dry out before i get to use them up. but even if they do, i can just add some thinner into it and it'll be fine. 

i rmb, this was taken on the first time i went to church after coming back to JB~ it was nice seeing all the familiar faces again~ Auntie Sara kept saying i lost some of my cheeks, did i really?
i weighed myself when i came home that day and i did lose some weight though. :D
oh and many ppl noticed the improvements of my skin! even Zacheus, who is a dude. LOL
i've been wanting to write a blog post about my skin and the meds i'm taking, maybe soon.... 

there was a public holiday (i think it was first day of puasa), so my mum suggested we make a one day trip to Singapore to Marina Bay Sands just for fun. Also, it was a time when Nigel and I were at home at the same time, so the whole family was tgt~

the weather was nice and hotttt.

i wasted my money trying to throw coins into that whole. =____=

 it was my second time at MBS. the first, i went with friends and didnt really get to walk around. that day, i dunno why but i just wasnt in the mood... so i didnt fully enjoy myself. I did have a cup of Gongcha there which cheered me up a bit. hehe


my bros. i had no interest at all and needed to wait for them while they fanboy-ed over this shop which added to the reasons i wasnt in a good mood. LOL

the view from the sky tower at MBS! we actually planned to go up in the evening where we could enjoy the sunset scenery but we went to Bugis for a bit before that and Nigel refused to leave the music shop while we were there which leaded us to missing the beautiful sunset view!

not a very clear photo but this is the Gardens By The Bay. Singapore's skyline is breath-taking. being there reminded me of the time i spent in HK. it was definitely more interesting than HK's skyline. the weather was nice when we were there too. 


it's like you can almost see all over to the other end of the island.

we spotted a bunch of ppl at the stadium rehearsing for their National Day Parade~
plus the Esplanade looks so pretty with it's color-changing top/roof~ 

 some of the photos were taken using my bro's ipad. they had laser shows....
and fire shows... and they even projected a movie/video against the water fountains so a lot of kids were watching it.

the view of the high rises from the other side of the sky tower.

with Mummy~

nice to not be the most tanned person in a photo. LOL this is where i belong~

after that we went to have dinner at the food court which was still crowded at 9pm. 

i dont know what you call this place, is it a courtyard? anyway, we went walking around outside for a while before we left.

uploading a second photo of this because of Thaniel's crazy eyes. XD




it looks so majestic doesnt it?
the huge boat on three buildings. some ppl say it's the ugliest building but i think it looks great and unique.


i am so happy that i got to buy these while we were there~ My mum was so generous to pay for them. i bought one from Watsons and one from Guardian just because they were cheaper like that LOL
my hair cant live without that hair mask nowadays. 

i dunno why i tried so hard to get hold of this poster, it isnt even very pretty. 
but beast.... sigh.....
i hate how they put their names next to each of them.

this was taken when i went to Kluang with my mum for a 2 days 1 night trip for a gathering with her primary school friends. i should've just stayed at the hotel or somewhere else and not follow her to the gathering because it was so damn boring and noisy. i was basically all alone for 3 hours with just my phone which was about to run out of battery. i couldve watched a few episodes of Downton Abbey if i had my laptop with me which was what i did for the rest of my trip there. and play Candy Crush. 

this is me everyday now. spending all my time in front of my laptop. i do spend some time reading though.

rmb the last time i said that our TV got strike by lightning last month? we sent it to repair but the guy said they are still looking for the spare parts, and the TV has been in the shop for almost 2 months and i just couldnt stand life without the TV at home so my mum and i went out to buy a new one, almost the same as the old one because my mum said no one else watches TV anymore aside from me.
i needed the TV to watch the 56GB worth of Harry Potter movies i spent 5 days to download!
btw, i just finished watching them a few days ago with Thaniel. he's my Harry Potter movie marathon partner.

i rmb the day i took this photo very clearly. i had to do the reading for mass because the Molek BEC was animating the mass that Saturday. and i havent been a lector for almost 2 years so i was a bit worried but tbh i wasnt nervous until i was seated in front of the altar, a few minutes before it was my turn to go up. 
I went to church at 4pm that day, because my mum needed to help out at Hebrews Corner, a corner in church for coffee and tea before mass. i hate going to church so early but i had no choice.... and the weather was so hot and humid.... anyway, i did fine with the reading. it was actually fun doing it again because who knows when will be the next time i get to walk onto the altar again?

Auntie Pat and her husband treated us to a very sumptuous dinner after mass~ 



there was one night where the power went out at midnight and only came back at 2.30am. i was attacked by mosquitoes that night to the extent i had to hide out in my mum's car... i should've just done that when the power went out instead of sitting at the dining feeding myself to bloody mosquitoes.

there was one Friday night when Nigel was back from Subang, we went out for coffee at Carffee. My mum, Thaniel and I reached at around 10.30pm while Nigel and Sara reached an hour later because of the traffic jam. 
we had a nice time~ i didnt do a lot of talking, i just enjoyed my Peppermint Latte and cakes hehe
we ended up there until 1am... 

i think this was the Saturday before the last, and it was that rare occasion where most of the kids from our Molek BEC was gathered tgt! Normally Dominic and Zacheus have school on Saturdays so i dont get to see them but didnt have class that day! I'm not close with all of them but i've known them for a long time and we spent quite some time growing up tgt~  i've been getting closer to Nidia (the girl beside me) recently because she is also a huge kpop fan, EXO biased though. she's a sweet girl and with all the other youngsters being boys, it's nice to have a girl to chat with~
i feel old when i'm with them.... because i can say that "i've seen Nicholas (Nidia's brother beside her) grow up, i still rmb the day he was just a toddler!" TT____TT


Met up with Hy and the guys the other day at Carffee before she had to leave for KL again and look what she got me~~~~~!!!! 
this is a very advanced bday present and before she gave it to me, i (almost) immediately knew what she bought when she asked me to guess what it was! I've set my eyes on this ever since i first saw it in Starbucks months ago! I rmb that day, i walked into Starbucks with Hy i think.... and i always browse through the cabinet where they display all the Starbucks tumblers and i saw a new bright orange one, which is bigger than this pink one, and i thought in my mind, "if they had a pink one, i'll definitely buy it!" A moment later, Hy called me over to the counter and asked me to look at something and it was these pink tumblers all displayed on a table and i was like, "OMG!" (aloud) and the barista heard me and went, " Yeah! Pink colour ones~ We are now having a promotion....." I've been seeing so many ppl owning one online but sadly, i never ever had extra money in my bank acc to buy one so i'm so thankful to Hy for buying me one!!!

ooooh Beast's Hard To Love, How To Love album~~~ it's so pretty~~~
those big photo cards are gorgeous with the different coloured flowers for each member!
i'm happy i got Yoseob's photocard because his message behind it is so sweet but still a bit disappointed i didnt get Dongwoon's....

their poster is pretty too~ btw, Hyunseung isnt that short. 

there was this photo frame thing that came with the album where you can fit the photocards in~ 

A photo of aunties and an uncle XD. this was taken last Thursday when my family made a trip to Kluang again. My mum wanted to meet up with her friends again and decided to make it into a family trip. The first day was tiring, because the night before the trip, i only got 3 hours of sleep. and this make me wonder how kpop idols like Beast survive their busy schedules with just 2 hours of sleep.... crazy life styles....
i managed to get some sleep before dinner though. 
the photo above was when we went for lunch. after lunch, we kids went to the mall to eat ice cream and buy snacks, there wasnt much to do in Kluang so we went back to the place we were staying and i spent most of my time on the laptop complaining about the slow internet speed....
i'm so so so thankful to have Unifi at home. i can download two movies within an hour with Unifi while with the internet at Kluang, i had to dl an 1.3GB file using 5 hours. 

the next morning, we kids woke up late and had McDonalds for lunch while my mum went out early in the morning to have bak kut teh with her friends. 
after that we went to meet Auntie Pat and Auntie Sara tgt with their families at Gunung Lambak. they went there early in the morning and spent 4 hours climbing up and down the mountain. we then had lunch tgt although i didnt order anything. the adults wanted to chat more and  have coffee but unfortunately the place we wanted to go was closed so we went home and there was a jam before we reached the highway.... it was almost 3 hours to reach home.




phew.... that was a long post... that's all of the photos for now though~
will blog again soon!