New video!

It's really quite a bummer to know that you have so much work to do, but you just don't feel like doing it. lol. I have so much work to do but I just spent half my day making, editing and uploading my makeup tutorial.

Yes, another one! I swear, this one's way better. Much shorter, but more steps, better lighting, and more like gyaru. I guess the previous one was really bad because I left out a lot of steps for that complete gyaru look. This one, though, has all the necessary steps so.. I guess it appeared more gyaru HAHA!

And after making this video, I'm totally convinced that I don't look good without my spectacles. Well, it IS my icon afterall. Even Vanish's May called me "megane" LOL. I'm not actually sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing but.. ah, well.

Also, I almost finished my book cover drawing yesterday! I'm so impressed with myself!

If it looks like Hatsune Miku, that's because I used Miku as the reference for the hair. My story is quite twisted.. Like, I used BRS style of drawing and incorporated it with my own storyline. And I kind of got inspired by their costumes. I basically just edited it. Felt so bad but I'm just really bad at drawing HAHA.

I shall get back to my work now. Au revoir~



BTW! My remade gyaru tutorial! I think I look more oneegyaru here though ._. Maybe it's the hair..

Flaming Scythe's Journal

Haven't been posting much this week because I have been super busy with school work. I have so many assignments. Don't even have time to rest. Poor me ):

So anyway, these days, I've been drawing for my school work and I am, honestly, quite impressed at the rate that my drawing is improving. 

Latest to newest is from top to bottom, left to right. I really like the most recent one. I love how the hair flows. And I finally learned how to draw curls! Awesome!!

Today, I met up with Nimita at NEX to do work. Had to work on my story (for school) and finally managed to come up with a storyline. It was quite a terrible storyline but I'm pretty sure I can make the story sound more interesting than that. It's going to be a journal and my name will be 'the Flaming Scythe'. Cool, right? xD The first photo is going to be the cover page for my book. Like my previous book, I can't wait to get it done!! I love making books! Somehow, I feel that I'm in the wrong course. 

I was looking for my hair serum cos I was running low on it already, so I decided to go Sasa to get it. However, let me rant a little, alright. I hate how Sasa staff judge people. I have noticed this for quite some time already. If you're not wearing makeup and lenses, they won't greet you. If you're wearing coloured, iris-enlarging lenses, there is a possibility that they might or might not greet you. If you wear makeup and lenses, they will enthusiastically give you a "Hi, welcome to Sasa!" And because I am those kind of people who will or will not dress up depending on my mood, I've experienced this many times. Personal experience. Unhappy.

Anyway, so I was looking at the eyeliner, but I wanted to get my hair serum first in case I forgot, right? So I walked straight to the hair care section, took the hair serum, and started walking around to look at the stuff. At this point of time, one of the staff was looking at me, and following wherever I go. That, I understand. I used to work part-time in retail, so I'm perfectly fine with her following me. What I cannot stand is, I walked to the entrance area to look at the Dollywink lashes. Well, they placed it there. So I walked over and the lady didn't follow me cos she was busy with something else. But I walked to another section at the front and, from the corner of my eye, I saw her frantically looking for something, until she saw that I was still in the store.

Okay, this got me really ticked off. Did she think that I was going to steal the things? Come on, just because I don't look like I put makeup, doesn't mean I don't. Who ever said that females have to wear makeup, look formal every single day? It's really tiring and I just look casual today. Why would you dress up to go do assignments with your friend, right? Sigh, Sasa staff. Besides, it's not only one branch that does it; all the branches do it! It's frustrating!

Whatever. So I got my hair serum, Dollywink lashes #13 and PorePutty Moisturizing Makeup Base, and left. Nimita was late so I was waiting for her outside Sasa LOL. We then went to Watsons to look for stuff. I wanted to get lip color and eyelid tape, but I only got the lip color. Bought Candydoll Lipstick in ramune pink. Tried it when I came home and it's so pretty!! The pink looks super cute! Oh, and I was looking at Vichy skin care products because my ex-colleagues told me it's really good. I've been using the deep cleansing soap but it doesn't seem to work that well on my face. The lady there was super nice, though! She was telling me what I was doing wrong and stuff, and that my skin is dehydrated, so it didn't work. I got the hydrating skin cleanser because my skin is really terrible now. Haha! Hope it works!

I overspent by a lot today! Can't believe it. But I'm quite glad that I managed to do some work today :) I'll end here for today. Got more work to do ): Ciao~!

Bulls in the Bronx

Another boring day in school. Wanted to make an appointment with Shining Nails so that I can get my nails done, but the timings.. Urgh. Too bad for me then. I'll just have to wait till next week.

Since I'm so bored, I just look for some pictures and I came across this:

Souji!!!! <3 Omg major nosebleed moment! He's so HOT. Okay, so this isn't how he looks in the anime and it's a fanart. This one's probably closer:

If I'm not wrong, this is at the end of season 3.. or something like that. Someone tell me he's perfect, other than the fact that he's not REAL. Sigh.

After lessons, I stayed back for drawing and some stuff, basically just slacking in school. I sketched this, but took in a photo before I drew in the face and ruin it:

Oh, and my dear Marcus came to Dover specially to pass me this! He just came back from Japan and bout the pretty Tokyo Banana for me! I'm so touched xD

And, it comes with a free... erm, earphone jack (or dust plug, pluggy, whatever you call it). In the same design as the spongecake on the cover! Even with the ribbon!! Just that it's blue. It's so cute! He also did ask me if I liked dogs or cats better, and when I opened the plastic bag, I found this inside:

It's so cute right!! It's also a earphone jack. It's so cute that I couldn't help but use it. Usually, I'd keep it so that I don't dirty it or anything, because I'm really rough with my stuff, but this is so cute I just HAD to use it! I'm really grateful that he came all the way down to find me. Really really appreciate it. :>

Source: 1, 2

初めての一歩

I re-dyed my hair yesterday! I'm so happy (not to mention satisfied) with my "new" hair colour. I dyed the colored parts to turquoise, but I didn't use bleach because I was too lazy to go out to buy. HEH.

It's so pretty!! It came out the nice turquoise that I wanted. Super satisfied with myself. LOL. I didn't really want to recolor it but my mom said the faded color looks like... the color of faded bristles of a BROOM. Gee, thanks, mom. I totally needed that. I guess my mom told me that because she wanted me to dye it back to black, but I misunderstood and recolored it to another wacky colour hahaha! Well, not my fault that I misunderstood. She should've just told me what she wanted me to do ._.

First day of school today and, trust, BDC is the slackiest module ever. You just have to sit down, and draw what you see. I kind of like it, but I can't draw so.. (sweat). And we got to learn a bit on photoshop today for GC. Fun, but slightly boring. Not to mention I was actually typing the draft for this post during lesson... and got caught by my tutor a few times (laugh). She didn't mind but was teasing me about it LOL.

I tried to be a nice person today, but this guy friend was like "Why are you go apologetic today?" First reaction - Wha-?? I was just trying to be nice! But people don't appreciate my kindness. Boo. Sad face ):

After lessons, I went for a movie with the class 51 people and 2 classmates. We watched Monsters University. God, it was so good!! Mike looked so cute in elementary school x)) I'm not sure if there's anyone who relates to the movie, but I personally thought it was quite inspirational. I'm going to spoiler the movie a bit. The dean student knew that Mike wouldn't be able to scare kids because he doesn't look scary enough, but he tried. He tried his best. And honestly, I think I can relate. I don't think I wanted anything as badly as this. 

It might be a bit thick skinned to say this, but I want to be lucky. I don't have to be so god damned lucky to the point where I end up rich and famous. I only want to be lucky enough to go study in Japan, and live the life I want. I've seriously never wanted anything so much before (other than wanting to marry K but that aside), I seldom spared a thought for myself. I care too much about how others feel. Some people told me I'm insensitive, but I was just being straightforward. To me, I'm not being insensitive; I just don't like to waste time so I just tell people what I think. Isn't it better to know the truth, rather than wasting time on examples, and the other party might not even get your point? This time, I just want to be selfish... A little bit more. There's a first step to everything, and I'm working for that first step. Hopefully, I end up with something good.

Back to topic, I took a bus home today and coincidentally, the bus was advertising for Monsters University! Honestly, coincidence? (laugh)

I've also just got a friend to help me with a mini photoshoot. Well, I need a photo for my blog header, right? (>_<) I also want to go for manicure!! I've always liked pretty nails, but my skin color never seem to match bright colors. Sigh, problems. 

I shall just end here for today. Going to relax for a bit. Went to sleep at 12am yesterday, but I couldn't sleep until 4am! It's terrible! I only had like.. 4.5 hours of sleep. Mentally exhausted already. Sayou~

Dreams

Everyone has their dreams. Everyone is working hard for it. They might not be able to achieve their goals, but as long as there's a slight chance of it, they cling on to that 0.01% of hope. 

The haze have cleared by a lot today, and the PSI level dropped to 170+? Well, it was 177 around 2pm. It's been good, but the heat. THE HEAT. It's the killer! My mom asked me "Would you rather have the haze, or this heat?" MOM. What kind of question is that? No. Neither.

I've been drawing for the past few hours since I woke up this noon. And I was drawing yesterday evening till this morning about 4am. I'm not sure why, but I'm suddenly motivated to draw lace, frills and layers. The weirdest part is, I'm not good at drawing. If I were to describe my skills, it'd be two words - beyond hope. Haha!

I drew the yukata one first, then the lolita, followed by fairy kei and decora. It wasn't an easy task for me because it's really hard for me to get body proportions right. As you can see the lolita one, the proportion is quite off. I was really just interested in drawing the clothes, hair and face. Not so much the body. I got a feeling I got myself into the wrong course and I really want to change, but it's too late.

Also, the fairy kei and decora one has similar outfits ~_~ 

Anyway, I just feel like doing something productive since I haven't been doing much during the holidays. I see my friends drawing and stuff, really productive stuff when they're bored, but I'm just sitting here surfing net, playing games, or out shopping. Wow, right.

Getting back to drawing so I'm ending here for today! Ciao~


Oh, and a piece of good news! I've finally made my first makeup tutorial! One that I've been wanting to do but never had the time to. I'm super happy but at the same time, confused, because I'm not sure if people would watch it. Sigh. I think I might remake the video since I forgot the inner eye corner D:

Neckache

Good evening!

The haze is here and seems like it's here to stay for a bit. So, I heard most of the masks are sold out in Singapore and I see a lot wearing the usual ones that people wear in hospitals. PSI level is at the current level of 153, way better than the 400+ this afternoon.

Jenna actually asked me yesterday night, if I wanted to go out today, and that Marc asked us out. I was very 'on' about it, because I'm usually the very 'steady' kind of person (you ask me out, I'll go). Naturally, I said sure. But apparently, Marc didn't tell us about the details at all, even until now! (Marc, you trying to act cute?) HAHAHA.

Anyway, I changed my blog template to a simple one. Spent quite a bit of time on it because I'm very (very) used to the classic template. You know, the usual ones where you edit the HTML. Yes, I'm used to that because I used to blog and change my blog template very often. However, I decided to change back to the default ones and edit it because it seems clearer. My neck is aching from sitting in front of the laptop all day ):

Also, I changed all the fonts from Arial to Times New Roman. Gosh, I love Times New Roman! My favourite font is still Baskerville Old Face though... This is getting weird, right? Talking about fonts and typeface... (laugh) Sigh, life of a budding designer.

Also, I just saw the trailer for White House Down. I so want to watch it!! Hopefully, the usual stay-back-people would wanna go too, and we can go together! I am also dying to watch Monsters University! And I know who would wanna watch it so I'm gonna ask people out soon :3

A photo for today's post:

Hahaha! This is from the Crazy-Make-Up photoshoot that I went for. I was helping out a friend (the 'guy' behind) since she asked. It's a SHE by the way. And that's me in pink hair, adjusting the wig. Haha!! It was so unglam!

Okay, so maybe one more photo from the same shoot, being the vain camwhore I am:

Such a pretty place to have a shoot at. I miss the clear skies. Sayou~

Thinking

"Why don't you do your best?" - Abe Hiroshi as Ueda Jiro in TricK


Good evening! Oh, lord. My head hurts so badly and my eyes are so irritated by it. Please tell me it will stop soon. Everyone's complaining about the PSI that's reached 300++ and stuff. Sometimes I feel like complaining too, but hell, what good is it going to do?

That aside, I really wanted to trim my fringe today! But looking at the weather... I'm not even sure if the salon I go to is open or not. Of course, there haven't been announcements where shops are closed due to the haze (or so, I think) but the salon I go to is a really small salon managed by 2 ladies. So I guess they can make their own decisions and stuff. Guess I have to trim my own fringe now, like always. (sigh)

Also, my friend just smsed me and told me that our class outing for tomorrow is cancelled. I guess it's for the best of the class too. With the haze like that, even if we went to air-conditioned place to meet, they still have to take transport here and there as well.



Out of topic, but I've been thinking about some stuff recently. I noticed that a lot of people that I'm close to have walked out of my life in a second. I used to be so close to some people, but they just simply stopped talking to me about the time I started getting busy studying. Well, I couldn't help it. I was studying for O's and, I dare say, it was the first time I've ever been serious about studying.

I'm just ranting but I can't stand it when people forget about their old friends once they have new friends. Why are there so many people like that? If it's people you don't want to talk to anymore, fine. But if you were such close friends before? What about friends you treat as siblings? People.

Ending here today cos I'm gonna go trim my fringe. Sayou~

YOLO

Good evening!

Went to meet up with some secondary school friends for lunch today. Went for Sakae buffet. We had so much!! It was really filling and I'm still feeling full from it xD

We were planning to watch a movie after that but we changed plans and went shopping. I wanted to buy this top:

From Lowry's under Heather. But the color was a really light blue and it was quite weird, pairing it with the pair of shorts I was wearing. So I gave up and went to Dip Drops to try my luck. Bought this really cute top!

Three words: I. LOVE. IT. It's really comfortable (mostly cotton, I assume), and it's super cute!! It says "NYC" with a small ♥ as a fullstop beside NYC. It's soooo cute!! Planning to go Dip Drops again to hunt for more clothes xD omg I sound like a caveman xDD

 After shopping, we went for this:

HAHAHA! We're so badass, but YOLO. We were sitting by the Singapore River, out in the open at 9pm, when the PSI is 453. We must be crazy. Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing with my life, but YOLO. haha! (Honestly, I think YOLO sounds stupid but I also think it's funny when it's said to troll.)

I tried to take photos and this were the results:

Color was terrible and it's slightly blurry.

Color was okay; not as blurry, but... PHOTOBOMB! (thanks, uncle!)

Blurry, again!! Okay, so maybe God hates me. Let's try it with a different background, yeah?

Not bad! Finally, one of satisfactory results. kind of. LOL. And I actually wanted to take a group photo this time. It's quite odd but.. XD

I swear, the lighting is terrible. Maybe it's just my phone, idk. But oh well, there'll be a next time anyway!

I think my OOTD is quite obvious for today due to all the photos, but here it is anyway:

I know, I know. I'm always wearing similar stuff. A loose top or tee, with shorts and boots, with the same bag most of the time. But I can't find skirts that I like. I do have a few, to be honest. But I never understood how people can look casual in skirts and dresses. Personally, I feel that I have to look more formal when I'm wearing a dress or a skirt. Maybe that's why. Also, I really like the casual and simple look so I tend to go for shorts to create that look. Hopefully I'd go do more shopping soon and find a skirt that's casual and simple.

Also, I really miss my old hair colour:

Even though I haven't changed the colour, it's now faded to green and a lighter red. I'm really loving it, if it wasn't for the fact that it was blue previously, I wouldn't have minded that much. I miss the intense blue and red though.

Again, ending off with a seruka. A very fail one, I'd add.

My hair color doesn't exactly look like the one in this photo because of the lighting, but it's somewhere near. And my fringe is getting so long! Going to trim it tomorrow (hopefully, since I have no plans tomorrow). Until then, sayou~!

Surreal

Met the usual stay-back-people for buffet today. Remember how I wrote in my previous post that we're going for BBQ? We changed it to buffet because the haze was just so bad. I was quite sad because I was really looking forward to the BBQ but the buffet was quite good. Guess that balances out? :D

Anyway, we went to the Sakura buffet at Dhoby Ghaut Green. It's right beside Dhoby Xchange. Quite interesting because it has a whole different view. Also, the food was relatively delicious. (I went for 4 rounds + 1 round of soup!!) It was super filling.

After the dinner, we went to Plaza Singapura (yes, again. I know.) to meet Jenna. I guess you can say she's one of my closest friends ever since I got into school. We're almost like sisters. Both small sized; big eaters. Anyway, we just walked around a little after that and I headed home because I was really, really tired. My eyes were irritated by the haze, no joke. Yes, I know, I know. I've been complaining so much about the haze. It's really bad though!

That aside, OOTD! I'm not sure why I even bother posting about my OOTD when it's really nothing special and nothing much to look at. People who see me will probably just walk past and be like 'oh, look. another passerby'. Nah, who am I kidding? They probably don't even think of anything as they walk past. To think I even went through the trouble of coloring the background white because there were so many aunties at the back =_=''

Also, I bought a new bottle of nude nail polish the other day when I went out with Bunny. It's called Ultimate Nudes by CATRICE cosmetics. Went to put it on yesterday and, oh, God, it's so pretty!!

I really love it so much!! Ignore my ugly hand but the color looks so compatible with my skin color! I don't know why, but I never could pull off those really bright nail colors. Even the really dark nail colors don't look good on me. It really sucks because I LOVE having black nails. Sigh, God forbid ):

Ending off today's post here. Going to read Ibitsu, a manga that my friend recommended. He says it's a horror manga but.. I have my doubts. The other time, a friend of mine introduced me to Junji Ito's works. He, too, told me it's horror, but it wasn't scary at all when I read it. I just finished Gyo and Uzumaki (both by Junji Ito) yesterday. And a few days before that, I was reading Tomie. I never got to finish Tomie because I was so bored by it. Among these three, I like Gyo best, Uzumaki second. But I still feel that his best work is The Enigma of Amigara Fault. It wasn't horror. More like gross; not horror. Anyway, I'll be heading off now. Sayou~

Leap of Faith

"Sometimes, you should take the leap of faith first. Sometimes, the pillar of trust comes later."


Starting off with a quote today. It's from Man of Steel... or at least that's what I remember. The quote, I mean. I don't remember the actual quote but I thought it was meaningful.

This morning, I stepped out of my house to this wonderful sight.

Beautiful, isn't it? It has the dreamy effect, like one right out of the television screen! And the best part is - no filters used!! Isn't it great? The view is absolutely AMAZING! So, if you want to take such dreamy photos, you should grab your camera and do it quick before the haze leaves! Or you'll have to wait for another year for this phenomenon to come by again!

Oh, please. Sense my sarcasm. This is the kind of weather that greets me in the morning? No, thank you. It's a rare thing for me to wake up in the morning during holidays, and I get? This. The Lord is testing me.

And I began my really long day. Went back to school to meet Bernice for our presentation preparation. We had a lot of time (and still have) but we just wanted to get it over and done with, pronto. So we started today. We spent about 4 hours on the slides alone. It was terrible! I thought I was able to get it done in, at most, 3 hours, but apparently not... It would've been easy, but the topic was on Vitruvius' Ten Books of architecture, and we were supposed to describe and explain how the measurement of human body affects the proportion of buildings. Seems easy? Seems.

It is way more complicated than that, because there are all sorts of things to write about. - The chin to the summit of your forehead is 1/10 of your height; Chin to crown of your head is 1/8; Middle of your breast to the crown of your head is 1/4; The foot is 1/6 of both your arms stretched sideways; etc. I was totally convinced that the Lord is testing me by now.

After that, I had to rush to Plaza Singapura to watch Now You See Me with Jax and Nimi. We were late by about 5 mins because of me and, trust, I feel really horrible about it. Not only because we missed the front, but also because we had to get to our seats, right? We troubled 2 other people because we had to get in. Gah.

It was a relatively good movie. I wasn't really surprised by the magic tricks though. Maybe because I'm a HUGE fan of magic tricks, I thought most of the tricks were quite expected. Overall, an undoubtedly well-planned, well-thought storyline though. I love it when the storyline is fantastic. For a person who doesn't watch movie often, I'd say that the visual graphics were really cool.

Anyway, after the movie, Jax and I went for dinner together while Nimi had to rush home. It has been a lot of rushing and sweating and the haze made everything worse, not to mention that I'm still not done with the presentation, but I really enjoyed myself today. I'm usually home during holidays but this time has been rather eventful. Really appreciate the people who asked me out.

Will be having a BBQ outing with my schoolmates tomorrow. Looking forward to having fun eating. I offered to help buy the food but... starting to regret it now because I have to wake up super early. (Well, for me, it is early. LOL) Well, no pain, no gain, right? Ending off the post with another seruka. HEE. Such a camwhore xD

Okay, so maybe one more, cos I'm such a camwhore xDD

One more, OOTD!

One of the tops I got from Uniqlo when I was in Japan (the one I was talking about in my previous post). Simple and casual today because it's a long day and, I reiterate, THE HAZE. The PSI is 155 now. Hope it doesn't go any higher anymore because it's been gradually increasing since this morning.

Sayou~

Chapter 1

Hi!
Oh gosh, I haven't written a blog post in English in so long that it feels completely weird doing so. That aside, it feels awkward for a first post so.. I'm just going to give a short introduction I guess?

I've been blogging in Japanese (you can find the link in the linkage tab, as JBlog) for a good 3 years now. This blog is just going to be an English version (with blog posts which are much longer due to obvious reasons) of it. I don't really have a motive. I just felt that since English is my first language, I can express myself better compared to Japanese.


So here goes.
I went out with one of my closest friends, Bunny, yesterday. We didn't have a plan; I just asked her out because I haven't seen her in a long time and I wanted to catch up with her. Anyway, we had lunch at the Marina Square PizzaHut, and headed to Starbucks afterwards. Didn't plan to go shopping but we were getting bored just sitting around, so we went to walk around. In the end, we each bought a top from New Look. Mad love it!!

Love the cutting!! And the design was, I'd say, easy to match with.

It's actually really hard for me to find clothes I like because it's either the cutting I don't like, or the style I don't like, or the design/print that I don't like, or the price is a no-love for me. As long as there is a small detail that I don't like about the clothes, I wouldn't buy it. Also, if it's cute but not something I'd wear, I wouldn't buy it. I guess that's what they call 'practical', huh? (bitter laugh)

Another thing about me choosing clothes is that I don't wear tops with human faces on it, because I think it's simply... what's the word... Weird?

It might sound like a good thing because I know exactly what I want, but I can guarantee, it's not. It was the same when I went to Japan (for the first time!) recently. I wasn't able to find clothes I like, even after walking Harajuku and Shibuya for so many times! It was terrible. (cry) I resorted to buying clothes at Uniqlo in the end. (;__:) I didn't want to buy clothes that I could find in Singapore, but oh well... It was super cheap so I guess it's fine. I bought 2 cropped tops from Uniqlo at 990 yen each, when it's SGD$24.90 in Singapore! I bought 2 of it at the price of 1 in Singapore. Mad cheap, or what?

There was also the other time where I walked Harajuku, Shibuya and Ikebukuro, only to find 1 top that I really liked. Here's the one:

Bought it at ANAP for 1544 yen. That's half the original price, by the way. And in case you're wondering, the cross part is made of lace, so I had to wear another tank top inside. But it's so cute! Yes, I like clothes that can match with anything at all, which explains why it's difficult for me to find something I like.

It's 1:06am and I should be sleeping because I am meeting my friend to prepare our presentation tomorrow. After that, I'll be catching a movie with 2 other friends. I'm excited because I've been wanting to watch Now You See Me for quite some time already, but didn't have the time to.

Speaking of which, I just went for a movie with a group of friends the other day. We caught Superman: Man of Steel and it was, trust, AWESOME. The visual graphics were just awesome! It's really not an easy task to do such stuff and I can't believe they made the movie so well!! (Not to mention the lead actor looks HOT. But I still think he look better before he shaved. He looks well with the rugged look. And also, he's too buff for my liking. Overall though, HOT.)

Can't wait for tomorrow. Super excited! I'll be ending off this blog post with a picture of myself. (Because I am such a camwhore when I have make up on :D)

Goodnight, people!