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Today, I wore safari-inspired zebra prints with ‘khaki green’.
(Sorry, this will probably be the first and last time I publicly make a jab at Ris Low’s infamous video hahahahahaha XDD)
Happy H!!
Btw Super Fatty has passed the 10k mark. Now my pictures start at 0001. A’;kdl;sjkflns sia!!!!
Ugh I’m supposed to blog about a whole lot of stuff but I’ve been going out non-stop since Tuesday that every time I come home I just want to vegetate in front of the comp. Ade says that she goes out everyday when I complained to her today, but you have to know that my natural habitat is inside of a house, a.k.a. 宅女 (also termed by Ade).
Although I insist that I’m not really one, or at least hover on the non-extreme spectrum because a 宅女, through a brief Google search, brought about this definition:
“宅男宅女”新兴的网络语言，指“痴迷于某事物，依赖电脑与网络，足不出户，厌恶上班或上学”的新新人类， 他们过分沉迷于某种事物，例如动漫、游戏、影碟等。他们完全封闭在自己的世界中，不与陌生人接触，不爱结识新朋友。
“宅人”关键词：痴迷某事物、依赖电脑和网络、不想上班和上学、作息时间不稳定、极少出门、不喜欢接触陌生人、性格多少有两面性、收藏癖、体型偏胖、一般是独身、喜欢或有写日志的习惯、喜欢上虚拟的人物。
如果你符合以上多条，那么恭喜你，你是“宅男宅女”！如果你全部符合，并有更多症状，那么更恭喜你，你可是高级“宅男宅女”！
Basically the definition is in the second paragraph and a person is characterised as such through an obsession with stuff, dependence on the computer or the internet, reluctance to go to work or school, unstable working and resting hours, low frequency of going out, dislike of socialising with strangers, a tendency to have dual personalities, liking to collect things, a body which favours the plump side, is usually single, likes to write a diary or already has one, liking fictional characters.
Err.
Digressing, I finally cut my hair today after the failed attempt last week when Ti and I went all the way there only to find that the shop closed.
This is the last digital photo of my previous hair, taken I think two days ago:
And this is the first digital photo of my current one, taken today:
Please excuse the constipated faces and inability to look a camera in the lens.
Everyone who has seen me was shocked – Ade asked if school was stressing me out, and it did manage to elicit a few exclaiming shouts at home… the exception being Pa because he would only be shocked if I stepped in his general vicinity with dog shit smeared across the soles of my shoes. Shocked and then very angry.
Even the hairdresser was shocked. I remember asking her to cut it even shorter twice during the session when she paused to show me work-in-progress :P
$10 only! And I was so excited when she used a shaver to shave the sides at the back after I told her I wanted the back to be shorter XD (I originally asked for a ‘V’ shape for the back but it became apparent that she didn’t want to do it ^^;)
Also, she styled it for me with a dab of gel! $10 onlyyyyyy!
The general concensus is that it looks nice, with the exception of Brat#2, who maintains that it’s ugly and that if I wanted short hair, I might as well wear my short-haired wig. LOL!
Good things can only come out of this new hairdo:
- Less shampoo.
- No need to hair dry my hair because it dries fast.
- Earrings don’t get hidden anymore.
- No more eating strands of hair by accident.
- Time to wear scarfs on the neck! Because of the cold.
- HEADGEAR!!!!!!!1 Tried on some headwear at Pull & Bear and M)phosis today and hats that looked ugly with my long hair looks disarmingly agreeable now!
- I’m sure I could pass off as a guy if I dress right!
But there are some minus points:
- MY WARDROBE DOES NOT MATCH THE PUNKY DO. This is the most important.
- I probably need to go for a trim every now and then.
- I actually look a bit toot. This was probably the best photo which made me look more serious and un-dorky than I really am. Mum says I look a whole lot younger now, like 17-ish. She did comment that I didn’t like and even cried for having short hair when I was younger (but that was because I didn’t have a choice, Mum…)
Okay time to sleep now. Hair is dried!
And migraine right now. I think it’s the sudden change in weather. I just want to vegetateeeeee T^T
For now, something a bit more crazy from 4 days ago:
Gotta love <2mb super compressed .gif pixelation.
Also, looping this beautiful youtube video always almost has me in tears – The Day I Died by Just Jack.
Recalling the events that led up to the completion of a project that had forced me (and four others) to toil their souls out for the past two weeks is quite burdensome. I feel very tired just re-living the memories hahaha!
Until I can sort out the pictures, here is something taken one day after the five of us handed in the project:
Goofy is back in school on a Saturday BUT NOT FOR THAT DARN PROJECT ANYMORE!!!!
Woohoo!
Actually I kinda miss the times we spent already :(
Today, best dinner ever.
Time has also stopped for me in custom-made black forest cake with lots of whipped cream (Yingz thought they were marshmallows!) :DDD
MLIG.
The Singapore Toy Games & Comic Convention happened last weekend and it was bigger and better than last year’s! (Although I don’t have pictures to show for it… three consecutive days of waking up at godforsaken hours does make me want to conserve energy so that I don’t faint on the street.)
Well I mostly say that it was better from a biased point of view because this time I went to the STGCC $200 conference for free and got great stuff in the goodie bags from Kidrobot (hello, setting the benchmark for goodie bags which actually include goodiessss, and lots to boot XD). Also, since it was a Friday, I could actually concentrate on getting around the convention hall instead of spending precious energy trying to breathe.
Taken by Z’s assistant :)
Of course I went to see if Z was there, and she was! To tell the truth I wasn’t banking on being recognised because we so rarely interact but I was quite touched that she remembered my mug :P And it was pretty embarrassing when she asked if I wanted to take a photo, because last year’s STCC I did take a photo with her and it seems like there’s an established link every time we see each other already. Well not that I’m complaining! XDD
On Saturday I had to do an emergency fill-in at the receptionist job, so I thought why not try getting Brian Bolland’s autograph since I was in the area?
That’s an awesome Joker he drew <3 although the ears look a little troubling to me BUT STILL AWESOME.
He talked to the people gathered around the table as he drew Tank Girl. And then he started talking about Watchmen and you know I can’t shut up when it comes to that topic and chatted with him on it. Glad to know that he hated Ozzie as well :P
Midway through his demonstration drawing, a group of Batman cosplayers came in and took photos and got autographs. This was the only lousy picture I got, but I’m sure there are better ones on the web. They looked great!
The finished drawing was to be auctioned at the event.
I passed Super Fatty to the helper in the booth to take photos after the autograph, but I think we had a mis-communication and he got trigger-happy XDD Not complaining! I’m quite shocked that that smug smirk was on my face from this moment on till the next day. Seriously get a grip girl.
Me, Tintin’s copy of Batman: The Killing Joke (of course I got it autographed for him in secret!), and Brian Bolland.
He also drew a Joker sketch on my new sketchbook! I was like, no need to sketch, because there were so many people queuing behind me, but I guess it was weird because I forgot to tell him my name and this wasn’t his works so he drew one anyway <333
Oh and those Daruma matroskas were from one of the Kidrobot tikam boxes in the goodie bags! Eh but the eyes of the Daruma dolls a bit the different from traditional…
Sorry for the pun :P
But anyway, Puey came back from her grad trip and bought £1 leggings from London! I have five. OH THE LOVE.
I wore two of them out yesterday, along with my new pink sale!skirt– I had a particular distaste for bubble skirts, but the colour and print on this was enough to override my prejudice :D
Lilac 50denier leggings that Puey’s sister rejected on grounds that it was too bright and argyle netted ones that she said no one else would wear ARE A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN. Puey, I’m not giving back the lilac even if your sis wants it back hor! HAHAHAHA XDD
Oh and those are gold nails :D
Being corny.
I positively need to go to London XDDD
In other time-wasting news, I spent the whole of today at TvTrope and it’s insane wiki-style articles (much like ED.com). Here are some I love:
✿ You Should Know This Already
Gabe: Yeah, the ending was kind of a low point. Everybody knows Kong dies, but…
Tycho: Kong dies? Thanks a lot, jackass. I was going to see that.
Gabe: Kong? You don’t want me to spoil Kong, a seventy-year-old movie? There’s a statute of limitations on this shit, man. Everybody knows he climbs to the top of the Empire State Building. What did you think happened next?
Tycho: I thought that, you know… maybe he climbed back down…
— Penny Arcade, 2005-12-05
This troper saw a poster for Fight Club, that named the actors “Brad Norton” and “Edward Pitt”, which highlights the identity confusion of the characters.
Likewise, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as originally conceived, was a mystery. You weren’t supposed to know Hyde was Jekyll all potioned up. Thanks to numerous film adaptations, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the phrase being constantly (mis)used in popular culture, it’s not a mystery any more!
Instead, it’s Dramatic Irony.
✿ High Heel Face Turn
(a female take on Heel Face Turn)
Related to Beauty Equals Goodness and Double Standard – both henchmen and ugly, older Rosa Klebb type villainesses seem far less prone to being redeemed. Interestingly, the Beauty Equals Goodness aspect could be read as yet another way in which this trope might be considered sexist: Pretty women who are appealing to men are much more likely to be redeemed than less conventionally attractive women.
In the film version of Titanic, there was a scene with Leonardo DiCaprio telling Kate Winslet to get on the daybed in preparation for him sketching her nude portrait, saying “Get on the bed — errr, couch!” According to the director’s commentary, the original line had no reference to a bed, but DiCaprio’s nervous flubbing of the line seemed just too perfect to leave out.
The actor playing the drunken uncle in Its A Wonderful Life is accompanied by a loud crash on one of his exits; the noise was actually caused by a grip tripping over a prop table and scattering its contents, but the timing was so serendipitous that director Frank Capra decided to use the take anyway.
- The way I heard it was that they were GOING to re-take it, but the actor playing Uncle Billy shouted “I’m alright! I’m aallllll….right.” That saved the take, as it made it look like he’d just done an off-screen collision with a garbage can.
In Disney’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Phoebus naming his horse Achilles was an ad-lib by Kevin Kline, first cropping up in his line “Achilles, heel!”
Speed Racer, probably. Honestly, who names their kid ‘Speed’?
Speed: What kind of a name is “Spritle”? That’s not even a word!Spritle: You think my name is bad? Your name is the rate of motion expressed via distance traveled per units of time!
- The kind of people who’re prophetic enough to know that their son will be the greatest racer ever. (And they themselves are named “Mom” and “Pops”, so…)
Pops: What do you guys have to complain about? My wife’s name is “Mom”. “MOM”! Do you have any idea how awkward that is? Do you have any idea how awkward that is during sex?
The IT Crowd gave us Peter Phile, who was unfortunate enough to be paged over an airport loudspeaker.
:DDD
Have some flowers at the entrance of Fort Canning Park.
This is probably the most acceptable sharpness I’ve ever taken with this camera :(((
Tramping along the filth that the orchids grow XDD
Meet Uncle Roy (so named by Brat#1 and now everyone knows the bunny that Tintin bought from Taiwan as such) and my new yellow Kube that Mum bought from 7-11 ($35). IT IS AWESOMELY CUTE! Only gripe is that I wish it had a shuffle and a lock option.
An online review described its size as being half of a thumb. Uncle Roy says hallo.
Once I said in public that I slept with Uncle Roy, and then I realised too late how wrong that sounded. =_= The names the people around me give my things! Ade I’m looking at you.
Also, the very day Mum plonked the Kube at me, I charged it and went out. That night I took the train home and a malay guy opposite me kept making eye contact. Me too once I realised that he had the same tell-tale yellow pair of earphones as the ones that was plugged into my ears.
OMG WIN!!!! But the yellow version is still the nicest of the lot so I get why he had the exact same colour as I did :P
This was four days ago but I got lazy >_< Aunt Serene made an oreo cheesecake the day before, because Brat#2 wanted his birthday cake to be that, and I came to the conclusion that I would never have the patience or willpower to bake. Eating is perfectly fine for me.
Brat#2 looks like an ah pek.
I need to lay off the shallow dof. Am obsessed :S
The cheesecake turned out to be less appetising than it really looked. Because quite a few of them don’t like cheese, Aunty Serene made it less cheesy. In the end they still complained about the cheesiness while I struggled to be satisfied with a less-than-cheesey cheesecake :(
Erm I first mentioned making earrings at the end of April, and probably made these babies in early May… I guess you’re all attuned to my procrastinating habits :P
This symmetrical one was made with gold.
This asymmetrical vanity pair was made with silver.
This was for my aunt. She wanted a conservative pair, and I used my precious jade lotus beads with rustic gold.
Another symmetrical gold pair.
Rustic gold green rings and the last of my lotus beads.
This rustic gold super asymmetrical pair is my favourite and belongs on my ears :DDDD
That’s about it. After this batch I bought more beads and pendants but I haven’t been in the mood to start making somemore.
Perhaps it’s because, unlike the last time, I have now exhausted One Piece episodes to serve as background noise. orz
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