Riku's Realm of Fantasy

I don't care.....

2012-01-25T17:36:00.000-08:00

Be warned that this is another work rant....
about that same colleague.....ok, lets just call him 'James' now...(coz i could forsee that there would be more to rant about him in the near future)

OK, James here......i can't bring myself to understand what is wrong with him. Yesterday, he disrupted my sleep, texting me at 7.30am, telling me he couldn't get up from bed, blablabla....
no seriously...HECK CARES YOU CAN GET OUT OF BED OR NOT....you're supposed to inform YOUR BOSS...not YOUR SENIOR....
and disrupting me at 7.30am? oh....boy...you're lucky that you're on MC...i'm like...Rukawa...DO NOT DISTURB ME FROM MY SLEEP...i'd beat you up if i have to...=_=

THEN, i told him to inform my boss that he is on MC...as a form of respect, you CALL your boss...not TEXT her....i don't care if you can't get up from bed, or your car exploded, or a meteorite landed in your room.....JUST CALL HER....
but NOOOOOOOOooo......you texted her....
so naturally, when you text someone regarding this...you'd expect a reply from the other side to confirm that he or she received the message...as a form of acknowledgement...

NOOOooo.......little 'James' here just left it at that, and didn't care about any replies from my boss..
How come such simple common sense could not be drilled into his mind?????

NEXT, today...he came to office...fair enough....1 day MC and you're back to work...i suppose you should at least do something before you show your 'sickness' rite?
NOOoo......little 'James' came to office, and SPLAT...lay his head on the table and continued sleeping...
JUST WHEN I TOLD HIM TO HAND ME A COUPLE OF THINGS....
and he told me..'OK..I CUBA'....(trans note : it means 'OK, i'll try)

ahem....seriously, i hate it when people tell me ' I'll TRY'.......it means that you're not giving it your all, and that 'I'll TRY' is a form of notification that ' OH, heck cares..i give you i give you la...if i don't, then deal with it...'

NOW, little 'James' is sleeping there like a log....and he has a couple of deadlines today...
i wonder how he is gonna 'vomit' out those deadline...

YES, i may sound mean saying all these....coz i mean, he IS sick..but you don't SHOW that you're sick at 9am in the morning......
His KPI is gonna be so screwed...and he is STILL on probation....

good thing he is not my subordinate.....i'm just helping my senior, who's on maternity leave..and by golly thank god she'll be back next week...
i can't take little 'James' anymore...

Listening to : Gravitation - In The Moonlight
Mood : Cranky =_=

Loser...in a good way

2012-01-16T07:51:00.001-08:00

It's never easy to drag yourself to gym everyday. Heck, it's never easy to say no to food, sweets, snacks and the like.

Imagine eating only oats...well, been there, done that.

People kept asking me things like
" Why do you slave yourself at gym everyday after work" or " why pay so much just to torture yourself"....

Er, my good friend, it's a lifestyle...yeah well getting into the drill is difficult..no doubts there...but it's the motivation that gets u started... The rest it's up to determination and habit.

So I may be a loser here, but I m losing those shackles that would cause me an early death. Had I not changed my lifestyle, I would've weighed more than a whopping 100kg now.

So all I wanna say is...it's never too late to change yourself..the first step is always the hardest..but get into momentum, and you'll come to realize that there's so much you could achieve in life. NEVER IN MY LIFE...had I imagine that I could complete a 12.3km run in less than 2 hours...but I did it....break the boundaries...if an oversized girl like me could do it...anyone can!

Ps : and my source of motivation?? COSPLAY.....:)

Listening to : aircond sound
Mood : sssllleeepppyyy!!!

Bonus or not, i don't care....SPENDING LIKE A BOSS~~!!

2012-01-15T02:44:00.001-08:00

Well, for the past week, i've been a bimbo....i was so broke, i think the theif, hacker or whatever would be so dissapointed, in fact, i think the thief would be richer than me..

i only have RM20 left in my bank account....and all of us (me and my colleagues) were all hoping that we'd be graced upon with the arrival of our Bonuses.....
we were told that we'll be getting it on the 15th..........or so we thought...

So we all basically stalked our bank accounts......and to our dissapointment (or rather MY dissapointment), i am still left with RM20.....

And then OFF i went to Pyramid.....
at first i was going all 'OH, NICE CLOTHES BUT I HAVE NO MUNNEEH~~~~'
'OH, IF I HAD MY BONUS I WOULD'VE BOUGHT THAT, I WOULD'VE THIS and THAT'....

then after that, i went....HECK CARES!!! i still have my credit card...
thus, i ended up with a pair of shoes, and a biker leather jacket from Forever 21....
IT WAS A STEAL!!!! i saw those jacket in Topshop, Esprit and the likes, and it was RM300+++
(WTF !?!?!)
but here, i saw...the last one, and it was my size.........for RM129....*grins*
it's like, it's meant for me..!!!!!
so yeah....when i went to the cashier, i just randomly asked ' Do you have....like, student's discount or sumthing like that'....that cashier said yes and i went OMG *grabs student card out*

WOHOOoo...at the end of the day, it costed me only RM116....BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!
for those shoes, it was a perfect fit, comfortable and it had slight heels...PERFECT.....(for my CF2012 cosplay)

besides that, i could use it for work..LOL!!!

SO YEAH...TAKE THAT!! EVEN IF I HAD NO BONUS, I COULD STILL SPEND MONEY..!! BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!! *shudders at the thought of next month's Credit Card bills...but..OH WELL....XD XD*

Listening to : Tales of Rebirth - Good Night
Mood : =)

Friday the 13th

2012-01-13T09:43:00.001-08:00

I feel whatever that happened today earned it's place in this blog of mine. From broken windscreen to missing earrings to eating rotten food, twas a day to remember.

First of all, what started my day was...my broken windscreen.
Was driving along NKVE heading towards Damansara when suddenly I heard a loud 'pop', and the next thing i know, my left arm was covered with shattered glasses.

(click on pic for wider image)

So started my bad luck streak.

Reached office, met a nooB and sorry excuse for a driver...she parks her car ON the line...I suppose she must've thought that her car was an airplane.

Then, halfway through the day, my earring stud went missing. Couldn't find them anymore...it was as if it fell into a dimensional porthole or something...

FINALLY, I think I must've eaten an expired bun pastry, which resulted in a rather bad tummyache.

So after the day is over, I bled a hefty RM400 to replace my windscreen. But the day became brighter with awesome company...they were there for me when I needed them, they assisted and gave me strength. Thank you so much for everything today. Grace, Jeslyn, Jillian....thank you, and thank you again my dear jie jie's...!!!

Listening to : -
Mood : Sleeeeppyyy

work rant....

2012-01-11T00:50:00.000-08:00

well, yeah...recently i was promoted to being a senior, and i tell you, it is no simple task to take on that responsibility. You're no longer the little junior colleague...everyone expects you to be able to perform....

so yeah, i have no qualms on that, in fact...i am well confident that i'm able to pull off whatever task that my boss throw at me.........
all, but one SLIGHT thing that irks me, is to designate task to my junior colleagues.

Currently, my senior colleague is on maternity leave, in which she'll only be back on the 30th of Jan. So most of the task will drop to my table, and to add cili padi to the already spicy nasi lemak, my boss had to go off on an overseas business trip...leaving almost EVERYTHING concerning the department to me..

well, no problems there also...communication has never been a problem for me....
ALL is well, except DESIGNATING jobs to my junior colleagues.
i have 3 junior colleagues.....2 of them i manage to convey the meanings of the task /concept/ jobs to them...

1 more.....that 1 more basically almost made me pull my hair out.....
When i was explaining, the other 2, whom catches things quite fast...paid attention.....but THAT ONE, which does thing a bit TAD slow, was busy staring off at his own machine....

if you can't pick up things as fast, then you should PAY ATTENTION when i'm talking..
If you don't understand ask..!!!
after i finished explaining everything........he waited around 5 minutes,.....then only asked me what was that briefing all about.....

I WENT FUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!! you wan me to explain ALL OVER AGAIN!?!??! (which i did...=_=)

WE ARE NOT IN COLLEGE ANYMORE BOY.....GROW UP!!! THIS IS THE WORKING WORLD!!!!
you'd be left behind for being so slow......i know i'm mean, but hey..that's how the world works....

ok..rant over....back to work....=_=

Listening to : Miyano Mamoru - Rain
Mood : =_=...slightly cranky....

Tattoo Type 2...FINALIZED~!!

2012-01-07T00:39:00.000-08:00

After so many surveys, researches, drawing and referencing....finally, i got my tattoo type 2 design.!!!

well, not much of a self design...basically i plucked this off Fate Prototype.
The moment i saw the 7 masters' symbol, i was hooked.
And coincidentally i was searching for designs with Wings...but not too much of a fantasy element.
I actually tried mixing a few winged designs initially, but then none of them worked out...(more like, all looked mutated..LOL!!)

then when i saw Fate Prototype, i went HOMG NICEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! the placement of all the wings are FANTASTIC!!! i wanted to put ODD numbered wings above my ankle, but NEVER got the design right.

In case any of you are wondering how does it look like...here's the image of it.

I'm not TOO familiar with Fate Prototype...because mainly it's a prototype idea of how Fate/Stay night should be, UNTIL they scrapped the whole thing and turned Saber's character from a male into female....(AWWWWW SHUCKS!!! Sakurai Takahiro as Saber is totally DROOLABLE..!!! His EXCALIBUR beats female Saber hands down!)

This design is from the 5th Master's symbol....not entirely sure who the servant is, but then the master had this tattoo on her left cheek. I figured instead of my cheek (my dad would disown me if i had a tattoo on my face..=_=), i would put it on my left leg.

So..er..yeah..now imma finding people to go with me to the tattoo parlour..LOL!!

Listening to : Fate Zero - Memoria
Mood : Tired because its-that-time-of-the-month...=_=

WorldCosplay account

2012-01-05T08:06:00.001-08:00

Well yeah...I've jumped in the bandwagon and went ahead to create an account there.

Sadly though, I still am NOT familiar with how things work there. I will still use my CureCos account but I will be abandoning my Cosplay.com account now.

Most updates will still go to my DA because I will sometimes, if not MOST of the time, try to 'dissect' the photos, and I consider that editting part 'art'.

Still, if you are curious on how my WorldCosplay account look like, do go here....please pardon my amateurish cosplay（−＿−；）

http://worldcosplay.net/member/hitokiri_sien/

I m still in the midst of uploading. So it would look rather empty..lol

Anyway....dozo yoroshiku onegaishimasu!!! m(_ _)m

Comic Fiesta 2011 : Post Event Report DAY 02

2011-12-23T21:41:00.001-08:00

DAY 02....well well well...what can i say about it..
The mess that the KLCC management did for the first day was cleared off and well handled by the CF Comm...The crowd control went even more smoothly and there was hardly any crazy lines anymore......

I'm not entirely sure if there are any lines..(i'm sure there are a few long queues every now and then) because i was couped in hall 4 the entire day....
WHY? because mobility was.....hazardous...(no, not for me...for the people around me)
because i cosplayed.......
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Yeah..Uber Big huge wings.....=_=
If you've guessed it rite, then give yourself a pat on the back....
i cosplayed Yue from Cardcaptor Sakura...^^

I was with Team Clow the entire day.....and it was my first time at an event..BAREFOOTED...
wasn't a very good experience because i scrubbed my legs like hell when i got home..LOLOLOL!!

Still, here's my full team...

Photo credits : Izumi Fcf

Cosplayers :
Riko Kojima - Kinomoto Sakura
Kikyo Leng aka TPL - Li Shaoran
Diyana - Tomoyo
See Wah aka Michiru - Eriol
Yue - me!! XD XD

As usual, day 02 was when EPIC cosplays appear..(most probably because of the Competition....)
I was particularly awed by the CLAMP team....especially Himawari's Sakura because of the firey designs on her costumes (she cosplayed Sakura from Tsubasa Chronicles, fire kimono version) but it was regrettable that i couldn't snap any of her shots because i only saw her at THE END of the event.....

It was fun meeting up with old friends and getting Coscards..(SO SORRY I HAVE NONE TO GIVE OUT..!!! I'LL CONSIDER MAKING THEM...I THINK...><;;; because i feel no one would want my card, so i just figured..AIYAH..no need to make them la..hahahhah)

I didn't really collect a lot of coscards, but man, i have an awesomely great time during CF this time...

It felt almost like CF2005 - 2007 again..when cosplay was all about fun fun fun....(no drama, no politics, etc)

Here are the few shots i got (while running around like a CLAMP-ed up Yue)

DOMOKUN!!! <3<3<3

There were a lot more other AWESOME cosplayers, but then i only manage to snap these few....
Anyway, kudos to the CF Comm for being able to pull off an event of such international scale....
It almost felt like AFA.......XD
Still, the amount of attendees scared me a little as i ponder to think, how are they to get an EVEN BIGGER venue than this next year??
there were approximately 20,000 (if i'm not mistaken) attending this event this year (over the span of 2 days)

but all in all, i enjoyed this years CF A WHOLE LOT..!!
CF COMM, all of you, from President to the helpers and volunteers, you all deserve a pat on the back and AWESOME JOB!!!!! *thumbs up*

And here's to my awesome Team CCS...you all RAWK OKAY?!?! WE BE COSPLAYING CCS LIKE A BOSS~~~~!!! XD XD

Let's now start to plan for our photoshoot...XD XD XD
also, i apologise profusely should i bang into people or poke people with my wings during CF day 02.....I couldn't see, and it wasn't on purpose.....Sorry Sorry and Sorry again..!!! m(_ _)m

With that, here's a pic of my tako Clamp-ed up look..!! (courtesy of Ya Tze's iPhone..XD)

Listening to : Kuroshitsuji - Lacrimosa
Mood : Jingle Bell~~~~ XD XD

Comic Fiesta 2011 : Post Event Report CF Day 01

2011-12-19T19:00:00.000-08:00

Comic Fiesta came and passed us by in a flash...
It was so fast...i mean like really..to me it's like..
WHAT WHAT WHAT?!?!?! WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE WEEKEND?!??! WHAT?!?! it'S OVER???!?!?!?!

ahem~
anyway..
let me start off the report.....

Day 01
Our team debuted Team Reload....in our default outfits.
The roles were mainly :

Genjo Sanzo - me! XD
Son Goku - Riko
Sha Gojyo - Michi
Cho Hakkai - Tsu

Also Relyss reprised her role as Saitou Hajime from hakuouki but the Calendar version..^^

Well...i'm sure right now, everyone would've known how superbly messed up the queuing system was on the first day....
heck, it was so long.....the queue wasn't even in KLCC anymore..!!!
why? well...the KLCC management took over for crowd control and man...it was a mayhem....they should've left it to the CF commitees to do it...and the KLCC management staff showed no respect to both cosplayers and the event attendees.

I heard one of them scolding...like really SCOLDING the attendees......it was so rude of them..
i felt so much like twacking them with my harisen.....

The overall placing placing of the booth were not bad....as you entered the hall (if you managed to enter THAT IS..=_=), on the right side were the sponsor booths (which sold an array of ACG merchandises....) straight on was the stage and then on the left was the doujin booth...
It was easy and straightforward. It wasn't as packed as last year too....(maybe because of crowd control?? i dunno...=_=)
I bled.....i bled well at the doujin booth.....spent RM50 on mugs, but those were for my colleagues's farewell gift.....and i spent another RM45 on the CF T shirt.....><;;;; (it was compulsory to get the t shirt..!!! it's an annual thing okayyyy..!!!)
Kinda sad because most of the doujin booth sold only button badges and bookmarks...

However, my overall experience during the event was awesome because Ceui and Mikuni showed up almost on time...

Ceui sang 5 songs...all of which i'm not very familiar with..most of them were from the anime 'The legend of the Legendary Heroes' (i think)....an anime i've not seen yet...but maybe i would after this..haha...
Mikuni on the other hand sang songs from Full Metal Panic and Genso Saiyuki (WOHOOOO!!!!)
she sang her album rendition of 'Alone', 'Sore Ga Ai Deshou', 'Tomorrow' and one song i'm not too sure...
I left the hall when she did the duet with Ceui...T^T (we were hungry..T^T)

When the mini concert was ongoing, our team stood at the far end of the doujin booth's side, because that place wasn't too crowded plus we could see the stage from there...(perspective ppl...i could see mikuni and ceui dancing around on stage from there..and there weren't any crowds around)

We werent posing or whatever, we were actually watching the concert..but we have a lot lot lot of people coming up to us asking for photos..
As we were all very well aware of the rule 'NO PHOTOGRAPHY AROUND DOUJIN BOOTH', we had to decline a lot of them......SO VERY SORRY FOR THAT!!!! THE COMMITEES TOLD US NOT TO HAVE OUR PHOTO TAKEN...so we had to keep our promise..!! ><;;;
(we can't do anything about 'snipers' though...=_=)

After that, we went into hall 4.....and OH MAI GOD..there were so many people around HALL 4..!! cosplayers AS WELL AS event go-ers....
(well, the KLCC management did a 'GREAT' job keeping everyone locked in hall 4..=_=)

However, this CF was a different one for me.....usually during events, our team would've NINJA-ed through everything....without being able to meet friends and take photos of other people...
BUT, this CF..i met a lot of old friends, as well as spoke to some random strangers regarding our fandoms....
it was like..CF 2005 all over again.....^^
There was a Singaporean Dude who i spoke to regarding our fandoms on Saiyuki....it's SO DIFFICULT to find a guy who loves saiyuki..and that guy was very friendly....LOL..
ALSO, i had a cosplayer expressing her love to me..=_=....i went WTF????

LOL...so all in all....it was an awesome CF2011 for me.....yeah well..parking didn't kill us that much because it was RM20 shared out with all of us...so we didn't nearly died..hahaha...

Do look into my FB page for pics....
COMIC FIESTA 2011
(though, it's more of Syiok Sendiri photos...=_=)

stay tuned for day 02's report..!!!

Listening to : Miyano Mamoru - Ai ni iku yo
Mood : XD XD

Comic Fiesta 2011...EPICLY HUGE EVENT!

2011-12-11T00:49:00.000-08:00

17th and 18th December...the day where you'll see lots and lots of colorful heads and extravagant costumed people walking around KLCC...

Yup, next week is Comic Fiesta....one of the biggest ACG event in Malaysia. This year, the event will be graced with the appearance of artists Mikuni Shimokawa and Ceui.....
I dun really know anything about the latter, but Mikuni Shimokawa has sang one of the best songs in anime history, and to have her come for our Malaysian event is like a dream come true.

Well, it wont be a full blown concert, but hopefully she'll sing a song or two..
hopefully she'll sing 'Alone' from Gensomaden Saiyuki.....somehow, comparing FMP's songs and GS's...i kinda prefer her 'Alone'....

ANYWAY~~~~
why did i say CF2011 is a HUGE event?
first, they managed to get 2 international artists here..(kudos CF TEAM!!)
secondly, it'll be held in the heart of KL, and one of the most prominent venue in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Convention Center...
(though, parking would definitely kill all of us, but oh well....^^ once a year..i suppose it's worth it..XD)
3rd...
HOLY THE PROPS FOR THE TEAM IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST EVER IN OUR HISTORY OF COSPLAY.....
well, i know it's miniature compared to the rest of the AWESOMEWTFBBQPEWPEW cosplayers out there, but for us...it's considered huge..LOL..

and this year we are lack of 2 team members (the Yeoh sisters flew off to London for their brother's convo....)
so we're a bit SHORTHANDED...LOL..hopefully all goes well next week..LOL..

AAAAA........my costume is still not ENTIRELY 100% done yet, because i need Riko down to help me sew it..(i HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SEW INSANG PARI....=_=...the only sewing i know is Jahitan Kia...=_=)

so err..yeah..
and i can forsee, the least i'm spending at CF this year, is RM100..that's the least....oh boy~~~~~

Listening to : Tiger & Bunny - Missing Link
Mood : EXCITED~~~~~ XD

Plain SUEY~~~~

2011-11-30T18:05:00.001-08:00

'Suey' is a local term used here...it simply means 'UNLUCKY'..
Okay, why did i use this word on me?

For the first time, after getting my drivers license since i turned 17, i finally got my first traffic summon....
And all because i parked at this stupid roadside to get a quick bite before i go for my weekly badminton session.

I was in fact trailing my other colleague's car because i wasn't too familiar with the place there. When they decided to stop at the roadside to park the car, i went 'huh? why park here?' but then decided to follow them anyway.

BY GOLLY was it a wrong choice. when we came back to the car after our pre workout meal, we find a yellowish crappy paper being slipped in between our wipers..
i immediately went FUUUUUUUUUU~~~~!!!!!

Now, i'm not too sure how much the fine for this offense is. I checked online, but some could fetch up to RM300...
WTF? parking illegally and a RM300 fine? WTF IS THIS?!?!?!?

Gah.....suey is SUEY.....
And this month has already been my 'broke' month, with Comic Fiesta and Christmas/ New Year's eve gathering popping up, i think i'm gonna go........sell myself or sumthing...=_=

AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! KILL ME PLEASE!!!!

Listening to : Hitomi Kuroishi - Stories
Mood : CRANKY....like EXTREMELY CRANKY..!!!

AFA 2011 - my thoughts....

2011-11-15T07:58:00.000-08:00

hmm...this is more of a OPINION blog rather than a rage one....
why did i say this?

well, first off....i didn't experience this myself, rather, i read this from misc blogs and notes around FB and the net.....
OKAY...
the whole issue with AFA 2011....and why the Malaysian Community is raging over it...

Apparently, in a video on youtube, when they were introducing the teams (i'm not sure if it's an official video though) there were only 4 Teams, when there should be 5...
BINGO~~ they left out good old Team Malaysia........

Apart from that, other countries were given at least 2 months to prepare for their regionals, but Malaysia only had..what..like..3 days?
Other countries had stages, halls, proper events for their prelims, Malaysia had.....a Shopping mall, and a SMALL connecting bridge at that...no bigger than a normal school classroom....
Stage? WHAT THAT?

Come AFA, ALL contestants were dumped aside at a corner of the hall where it is DARK and had NO LIGHTS...there was a toilet (DING DING!!!) but wait.....THAT TOILET WAS LOCKED!!! =_=

THEN, i came across an article that said Team Malaysia did an 'ORIGINAL COSPLAY'.......er...i thought that if it's original, wouldn't they be DISQUALIFIED in the first place?
And then, during the Q and A session, Usagi, one of the judges, mentioned that it'd be better that Team Malaysia's performance were longer.......

But they kept to the criteria, and that was a 3 minute skit.....i believe only Team Malaysia and Singapore followed the 3 minute criteria......
The rest of the finalist had more than 3 minutes, and no penalty points was taken....(or so i've heard)
So there might've been some miscommunication with the judging criteria? no?

But no doubt about it, Team Philippines was AWESOME with their performance.....but truth be told, Malaysia did their fare share of fighting too....it's not always Armory cosplays that require more work...sometimes, props that aren't armor based has LOTS to do too.....
It's good that one of the judges noticed the hieroglyphs on Team Malaysian's props....GOOD JOB JUDGE!! (lol..i dunno his name..hahahah..)

but all in all, there were lots of miscommunication from what i've read from the wallpost of FBs here and there..

HOWEVER, i still did not regret going down to AFA 11....in fact, i feel even more proud now because i was there, giving support to our fellow Malaysian team.....(though, i was sitting WAAAAAAAYYYY behind...i couldn't move around easily because i was wearing heels..><;;;)
I just wanted to say....TEAM MALAYSIA.....you guys RAWKED THE HOUSE..!!!! awesome awesome awesome performance from you guys.....
*standing ovation*

Listening to : Brave Story - Ketsui no Asa ni
Mood : - _-

My life so far~~~

2011-11-03T05:23:00.000-07:00

i see everywhere on my FB...countdowns countdowns and countdowns..

OMAIGOD why do you guys love to countdown so much???
all my CF props and costumes are not entirely done yet, and with that said...i dont even dare to tell people who i am cosplaying...LOL..

it's my principle...if i don't have it ready to go, meaning i'm not ready to go..LOL..get it?
haha.....unless i have everything ready..(wigs, boots, costume...parts, and props) i wouldn't claim i m going to appear as so-and-so....

i'm no seamstress in this area, so i practically suck in sewing...
i'm having a hardtime figuring out how to 'pencilize' my pants...
lol..you know those pencil pants?? those that looks like a carrot cutting?
i need to shrink the bottom part of the pants..and that alone made me @_@;;;;

and my mom has been bugging me to edit the photos from my bro's wedding..
GOSH....it's like a mad year end rush!!!!

But, on a sidenote, I FINALLY CLEARED MY CREDIT CARD BILLS!!!
OH MAI GOD...after an excruitiating 4 years with 4 digit debts, i finally cleared it off..!!
so heed my advice young ones....it's fine getting a credit card, but YOU HAVE TO MONITOR WHAT YOU SPEND IT ON!!! if possible...use CASH...the 'Ka Ching' is always better than a CREDIT-LOAN-SHARK that's hidden in your purse....LOL

I will most probably update this blog with more cosplay tutorials in the future..there are a few on hand, but i haven't really compiled the photos yet..LOL!!

till then..~~~XD
CHEERS~~~~

Listening to : Rookiez is Punk'd - Song For...
Mood : ~(-_-)~

Agitated....MUCH!

2011-10-11T08:00:00.000-07:00

RANT POST AHEAD~~~~~

well, i thought my therapy of going for a weekend vacation could mend my lethargy and tiredness of making prop..turns out, well...it did take my mind off certain things, but new things popped up and began messing with my mood..

I was originally ok with everything....but turns out, i think i know why i can't find a suitable partner after all these years..
I think it's because of my.....how do you say it...'compatibility-duration'...
i need time out for almost everything......that being said, i can't spend too long a period of time with selective people....
i dunno how to explain this, but it does get frustrating at times...

NEXT...
it's regarding my costume that's coming from China....
I have no idea what blunder happened, but in the end it was my costume that was left behind in China...
and MY COSTUME is the one that has the most alterations to be made....and THAT PARTICULAR costume had to be the one to be left behind..
talk about SHITTY luck........
and to add to the shitty luck, China had to go on a 1 week holiday...and with that, my costume is being held back another 1 week.....TOPPINg up with the amount of time needed to reach my place, that'd take almost half a month.....

I wouldn't wanna be pointing fingers here..all i could blame is my luck that hasnt' been too good lately...
Maybe i should go pray in the temple or sumthing......

time to sleep....=_= totally lost my mood for prop making......PFft...

Listening to : DN Angel - Caged Bird
Mood : shitty...=_=

Toothaches...worse pain EVER!!!

2011-10-01T03:37:00.000-07:00

well, no pain could rival that of a Toothache...
It connects so freaking close to your brains, that it makes you go out of your mind.

I originally wanted to continue completing my prop making during the weekend...but then the pain took whatever i mood i had.
In fact, it took more than my mood...it took a hefty RM230 from me....
the dentist did some filling in and washing of the teeth..

Did it hurt? well, not at that time...because the sedative was doing it's job...
Now that the sedative's effect is gone...

YES..it hurts FUCKING MUCH.....
i feel like killing myself now...
the pain is a real torture....=_=

Listening to : Miyano Mamoru - Nanairo no Compass
Mood : Shitty =_=

Of injuries, 2 broken needles and lots of blood...

2011-09-18T00:39:00.000-07:00

Yeah, well..basically that's what i got when i was making my prop...
The harness was a pain in the ass and to push a needle through the cardboard...(i have no idea what the name of the cardboard was..=_=) is a pain in the skin....and i meant that literally pain in the skin..!!

Why? well, you see..
the needles that i was pushing through the board broke, and i couldn't find the broken piece...
In a rational's person mind, obviously the first step after you drop a needle (or a broken piece of it), you immediately search for it on the floor......you wouldn't want to be stepping on it later..

So yeah, i searched around for it, and then i noticed there were drops of blood around the floor...SO DUH?!?!? surely you'll be searching for the source of blood rite? (if it just appeared out of thin air, then i'd be VERY AFRAID..LOL..my room is possessed or something..LOL)

SO, i noticed a slight tinging pain when fling my hands around...OH...i finally found the broken piece of needle..
yup, stuck into my thumb....and the blood all over the floor was FROM MY THUMB..
HOLY COW after the realization, i began to feel immense pain....
(funny rite? when you didn't notice, you don't feel it...once your eyes sees it, it sends the message to your brains and tells you that it SHOULD BE PAINFUL AND YOU SHOULD REACT)
well, yeah...i reacted...jumping around the room, shouting out loud...

The pain was so immense, that even the receptors from my thumb went numb from the shock..
so yeah...i washed the wound (OUCH~!) and wrapped it up with tissue..(no plasters around that time...LOL)
and i continued sewing..
YUP...2nd needle broke again.....good thing this time it didn't pierce through my fingers..otherwise i think i'd have given up making that stupid prop.....

not only that, my other fingers were also pierced with needles in the process of sewing..
GAHHHHHHH....i'm just not gifted with needleworks.....

As for pictures, i figure i'll post them up when i'm done with the skeletal structure.....now the harness is still in a mess....=_=
My phobia of needles is getting stronger...><;;

Listening to : Final Fantasy Piano collections - The Gapra Whitewood
Mood : LAZY......><;;;

Tutorial 1 : How to Make Black Moon Clan's Earrings (Sailormoon R)

2011-08-20T05:40:00.000-07:00

Yup..i think i'll start to compile my tutorials on prop making here.....It's a way for me to remember how to make it in the future, should my current one gets busted...LOL..

Disclaimer : I'm making these props based on what i work with best..it's not EXACTLY the BEST way to make it (IMHO) but it works.....i'm sure there are better tutorials out there on prop making and what nots, but seeing that it's kinda limited to get materials around my area (without having to drive out for at least 30 mins), i work my way around what i can find nearby...^^

ANYWAY~~~ here goes....

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Tutorial #1
- How to make Black Moon Clan's Earrings (from Sailormoon R) -

OOOOOOO.....Prince Diamond..!! <3<3<3

You'll need
- Diamonds (refer to picture)
- Earring accesories (the thing to be pierced through your ears)
- Print out patterns (refer to picture)
- UHU glue
- Gold Dust
- Fishing strings
- Black Spray Paint
- JPOP n KPOP SONGS! (LOL!)

First, you'll need to to have sketched out drawings of the top pattern of the earrings..
(i can't draw freehand on a symmetrical pattern, so i resorted to Adobe illustrator for the pattern..LOL)
Then i printed a whole lot of it out on Hard Card (this is to prevent the paper from tearing when i'm cutting them)

LOL...printed these out in my office.....XD

After that, cut out AT LEAST 3 of these and glue them together (here's where the UHU glue will play it's part ^^)
Have 2 sets of these for each side of the earring..(meaning in total you'll need 4 of these pattern thingy...)
Be generous with the UHU...it's ok if it overflows because that way, it'll be sticky enough for the gold dust to be stuck on...
After you've glued those cut out patterns together, it'll look thicker and somewhat not-so-fragile...LOL..

Apply another coat of UHU onto the pattern and then SPRINKLE AWAY..!! (be the toothfairy..!! XD)

it'll look something like this....

Be prepared for pixie dust all over the fingers....LOL

OKAY..that's the pattern part...
Now for the diamonds........It was a real pain in the neck to find the diamond shape that i want, i almost ripped apart my Sheryl earrings until one day, my colleague told me she found the shape that i wanted...only thing was, it's was transparent..not black..
WOOOT..i went..NVM..!! whatever color is ok, i'm gonna spray it black anyways..!!! LOL..
So here it is..the before and after of the diamonds...

The left image is the measurements i had for the pattern....
sort of measured it with the diamonds before i actually print them out....(worried they'd be too big..haha)

Once the paint dries up, attach those earring hook thingy onto the diamond (the little silver looking thing you see on top of the diamond)...I got mine from Art Friends for RM5.....and there were 8 pairs in that small pack...XD

After that, i took apart one of my older earrings and fixed this diamond onto it.....Glue the pattern you have sprinkled gold dust on both sides to create the 3D illustion.....
It'll look something like this...XD

One side done....another one more to go..!!

Do the same for both sides, and WALA...you got your Black Moon Clan earrings....XD

Yeah well, not exactly the PRETTIEST THING IN THE WORLD......but it works..!! XD

Will be using this for my upcoming photoshoot.....I know it isn't the PRETTIEST thing in the world, but it's as close as i can get...
I'll still go hunt and see if i could find the pattern (the gold part) for the earrings.....but for the time being....this works..!! XD

Listening to : Meine Liebe Weider - Kioku no Shandelia
Mood : ~_~.....lazy...

COFFEE QUEEN IS BACK!!!

2011-08-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

wohooo....yup, i only manage to last 06 days without coffee.....well, it's a good start i guess?
my colleague mentioned that i look and act differently this week..

WHY?
BECAUSE I DRANK COFFEE!!!
(today i drank 3 cups....Ughh......moderation hito..MODERATION!!!)

so ya...i got fedup waiting for the office's coffee machine.....so i brought my own coffee to office and WAHLA.......the aroma of coffee..OMAIGOD..is heavenly!!!~~~!!!

and my legs are jelly now....why? i ran 6 km, climbed almost 100 steps and sauna-ed for 15 mins...*dies*
the things i do to lose weight......Oh..and my fuel is 2 slices of wholemeal bread and tuna....YAY~~!!!

and yup..random post is random..LOL!!!

Listening to : Prince of Tennis - Future
Moodd : =_= (aching legs)

Day 03 without Coffee...

2011-08-05T08:33:00.000-07:00

Day 03 without coffee....really t'was a torturing 3 days without that black antioxidant liquid....
I tried so hard to resist it, and there were many times i almost gave into temptation....

Not that coffee is making my body rot or whatever, it's just that, i have no idea why the hell i went and make that stupid vow of not taking coffee until they installed the coffee machine in the office...

It is plain torture to not drink it every morning...i felt so restless and often times i'd be so sleepy and sometimes go through mild headache...
ESPECIALLY when it hits 4pm in the evening...that's the worse time of the day...
you'd have to pry you eyes open to complete your daily task at work, and not.....faint at the same time...

My body has gone through almost 72 hours without the caffeine beans......so let's hope monday they install the machine...
i saw the beans and ingredients ready, but it's just that machine that wasn't there...

THOUGH, not all things are bad while i went on a coffee hiatus...
i noticed my face has less pimples popping out (but there still are 1 or 2)....and...well, that's the only good thing....

I NEED MY COFFEE FIX!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.......!!!!!

Listening to : 김현중 - Breakdown (ft Double K)
Mood : *0*

Coffee HIATUS!!!

2011-08-03T07:38:00.000-07:00

okay, before you start yelling 'BLASHPHEMY!!!!!'......well, i thought i'd give it a try..haha.

yeah well, i've been given the nickname 'kopi gui'....aka Coffee Ghoul / Hantu Kopi, mainly because i couldn't live through a day without drinking coffee.
I could easily down 5 - 6 cups of coffee/ expresso/ cappucino/ etc......and still sleep soundly like a piglet at night.....hahaha..
caffein does not have anymore effect on my body..hahaha..

why did i start this vow?
well...first of all....i'm running low on my coffee supply, and thought 'hmm, since my office is going to have a FREE FLOW (WOHOO!!) coffee machine in the pantry soon, might as well i stop for a time being now'...because i know when the machine is ready, i definitely will be one of the top fan visiting the area...hahaha..

secondly, i notice my facial condition aka pimple attack is getting worse.....i'm not sure if it's due to coffee, but i thought i might as well give it an experimental try to stop, and see if the condition becomes better...

3rd....lol...the same old...I HAVE NO MONEY TO BUY COFFEE ANYMORE...><
thus, waiting for the machine to be ready..hahahah..

Today was my first day going through this FASTING period.....
one word..

TORTURE!!!!! *dies*
even tea couldn't help much.....PFft....=_=

Listening to : Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan - 紅ノ雨
Mood : =_= (no coffee...whatdaya think?)

A NEW MACHINE...liek..FINALLY?!?!

2011-08-02T08:17:00.000-07:00

yup well....i finally got myself a new machine..!!!
and er...no, it's not the iMAC......(i finally gave up buying that ridiculously expensive machine...seriuosly, i dunno what got into my head in the first place.....)

for half the amount of $$$ i'm willing so spend on the iMAC, i got my-now-machine.....and at an awesomely good spec at that...(i7 processor, 12 gb ram, 1 tb hdd, i have no idea what graphic card i have...something to do with Nvidia Cyclone.....i think...)

i'm still trying to get used to Windows 7..(YES...i've been using the ancient Windows XP for the past decade...as well as the Snow Leopard in the office..i think...)

So, hopefully i'll get my gears started on photos editting, animation rendering and flash making.....GAHHh..so much to do, but so little time..><;;

Listening to : Tales of Symphonia - Tenkuu no Canaria
Mood : ^_^

Never be too Cocky and Overconfident

2011-07-11T07:21:00.000-07:00

Well, recent happenings initiated this entry..
I'm not gonna go into too in depth on this because i'm actually writing this to get it off my chest...

** disclaimer : Somethings in this entry isn't gonna make much sense...basically it's just a rant from me... **

There are several things in life whereby you need to take the fall before actually learning that it really hurts...

I'm not too good with words, but people don't go around blowing their own horns and admitting that they are OVERCONFIDENT.....
And you do not brag about what you've done, rather.....SHOW it that it could be done.

It's a sharing session mind you, not a competition.....
You don't go around calling people kiasu, when you YOURSELF is the biggest kiasu....

Homeworks are meant to be done, and when we do it, you call us kiasu.....
have you ever heard of the word 'INITIATIVE?'
(nah, bet you haven't........)

I pity you....really, i do.....
When it ultimately came to the sharing session, what happened to the overconfidence and cockiness?

Stay humble...no one likes a 'hidung tinggi' person...
It's the basics of being a human being...
Learn it.........

Listening to : Adam Lambert - Whatdaya Want From Me
Mood : Cranky =_=

iMAC or....??? Advise anyone?

2011-06-27T18:37:00.001-07:00

i don't know what's with my luck and computers...
eversince my laptop died on me a last year.....i've had shitty luck with hand-me-down computers...

But i managed to pull through for 6 months with my bro's computer (after he leveled up his machine, he passed his...err..not-so-AWESOME machine to me...)
And last night, after a tiring and exhausting session in gym, i came back home, wanting to look through some cosfest pics and a little FB...
i pressed the button.....once, twice, thrice....and there were no reactions from the machine..

i immediately went NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(like literally...and started cursing..you know..the usual !@#@$#^!$#!@#$^$@#&^*)

oh well..maybe it's God's signal....by killing off my machine, maybe he meant it as ' GO GET YOUR OWN MACHINE NOW...GOSH HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING TO PROCRASTINATE?!?!??!'

which...got me thinking....i've been aiming at the iMAC since i don't remember when....
but then i would have to go....sell my butt or sumthing to get the iMac..(it's expensive ya know?!!?!!?)
then i considered a customized desktop...
saw my younger bro's one...not too shabby, in fact...it's kinda cool....and now that i've already gotten myself a 23" monitor......it'd go to waste if i bought the iMAC...

So....my budget for the customized desktop is RM2K++ (max approximately RM2500)
and the imac? well...it's gonna cost me close to RM7K after adding the specs....

What's your say?
Advices anyone?

Listening to : Arashi - Kotoba Yori mo Taisetsu na
Mood : *pulls hair out*

Bukit Jalil Park

2011-06-25T08:08:00.000-07:00

well yeah...whilst everyone else is busy enjoying themselves at CosFest in Singapore, a bunch of nutters decided to drive ALLLLLLLLLLLL the way from Klang to Bukit Jalil Park..for the fun of it....LOL..

Okaaayy...maybe i lied for the 'for fun' part...but we really did drive all the way from Klang to Bukit Jalil park....
Why you asked?

well, we'll be having a shoot in the near future there, and none of us has the slightest bit of idea how the park looks like..
So what better way than to go there and see it for ourselves?

Hmm.....lost our way a little on the way there, because our human GPS, strayed from her position...instead of directing us where to turn and what nots, she decided to talk on the phone....=_=

So i missed the turning into the park and then we had to go out to the main road and make a U turn....LOL..
oh well..the fun of searching for a new place is always the part where we got lost..hahah..

ANYWAY~~~~~
finally we arrived at the place...(yay!!) but gosh..the place is so freaking huge, and walking under the sun at about 2pm is NEVER fun....=_=
we were fried alive...hahaha.......and the umbrella has never been such a good friend before..hahaha..

so we did find the area we wanted to have our shoot...i was a little bit TAD disappointed because i expected the area to be a little bigger....(the international parks)
but nevertheless, it's a start.....
We moved to ALL the countries's parks and started snapping photos.....it was freaking hot i tell you..!!!

But anyway...here are the pictars..!!! XD

Yeah...as you can see.....it was FREAKISHLY hot there...
and to think that we had to hike up to the area after we parked our car........
OMAIGOD......>,<

Please, for the love of god.....remind me to bring umbrellas and my bon odori fan when we're having our shoot.....
It's a nice place to have photoshoots though...
just that....the weather might kill us all..hahaha...

now, why can't the temperature in Malaysia drop by 5 - 8 degrees? i'm not asking for it to start snowing..just..drop by 8 degrees Celsius...then i'll be contented...><;;;

Anyway.......*prays that all will go well for the shoot*

Listening to : Saiyuki - Tightrope
Mood : SLEEEPPPYYY

Chef Low's Organic Kitchen

2011-06-04T01:30:00.001-07:00

I HAVE BEEN A VEGAN FOR 4 DAYS STRAIGHT..!!!!
i find this pretty much an achievement...because never in my life will i imagine to have vegetarian lunch for 4 days straight!
Anyway, there's this particular restaurant in which i find rather interesting.
It's situated at Boulevard 10....It's called

"Chef Low's Organic Kitchen"

FYI, just in case you didn't know where Boulevard 10 is....when you exit the Damansara Toll via NKVE, it's on the right (you'll see those...er....2nd hand car shops on your left)
A row of White and New office shophouses. Just take a U Turn at the nearby junction and keep left..you wont miss it! And the Restaurant is AT THE BACK of Boulevard 10..meaning it's hidden away at the back.....=_=

ANYWAY~~~
back to the food..err..i mean restaurant....
We went there basically to celebrate one of our dear colleague's birthday and why this restaurant? well...because the said colleague is a Vegan....^^

So yeah, all of us jumped in the bandwagon and decided to be Vegans for the day (orr...wait...let me rephrase...FOR LUNCH...LOL)

Price range is pretty reasonable, considering the portion that arrived.
And do not underestimate the taste of Vegetarian food...it could rival that of normal MEAT...LOL...
NO REALLY..!!!
I really really love the Yam Pot...though there weren't any meat in it, there were those....err....HUGE Button Mushrooms...(those that i usually spam when i go to Marche's LOL!!)

And one must not MISS the specialty drink there, the Fruit Tea....Almost every table had one....and it's refreshing fragrance of the fruits when you drink it is heavenly!
OKAAYYY...enough of words...i guess the photos speak for themselves!

Pretty cozy area....Looks pretty classy, but food price is kinda reasonable! XD

Upon opening the menu, i found this and well....INTERESTING~~~~~ (a colleague even asked me...' IS ALBERT EINSTEIN VEGETARIAN!!!?' Err...i have no idea..=_=

The delectable Fruit Tea!

I ordered the Herbal Fried Ramen (wanted to go for Tom Yam, but my sore throat made me ordered this instead....STILL, it's delicious....AND THE PORTION is humungous!)

And last but not least.....

THE YAM POT!!!!
Loved this a lot..!! XD XD

So, I'd definitely recommend this place....though, sometimes the service MIGHT get a little slow....or maybe, it's just us....^^

Listening to : Miyano Mamoru - Discovery
Mood : ~(@_@)~ Ughh...bad sore throat..

Getting in shape once more.....

2011-06-01T06:33:00.000-07:00

Well, i've been a VEEEEEEEERRRYYY good girl this week because i've been working my ass off in Gym...
No joke...after a whole month of 'main main' in the gym, starting off wiht a 5km run, 2km boat rowing and 15 mins on the Step Climber is.....torture...

But as much as the torture is, i went through it....4 DAYS.....
yup..it was my routine starting Saturday last week.....(Sunday was off day..LOL) til today....
And to top it off, i've been 95% vegetarian since Monday......(okay...i totally forgot and ate a few pieces of sweet and sour pork....thus the 5%..LOL!!)

ANYWAY~~~~~
There were SOOOOOOOOOOO many times i wanted to reduce the speed of the threadmill..but everytime i reached out for the button, anime songs of what i have planned to cosplay in the near future will start to appear in the ipod....
Then it got me thinking of the character....the impossible structure of their body.....
well, that's my source of motivation i guess...
instead of turning down the speed, i increased it..LOL!!!!

Yup...motivation is the key......You need something to REALLY motivate you when you're in Gym...
it's definitely not easy to get into the gym routine i once had....however, slowly and surely..i'm getting there....

OH...btw...a tip for you guys out there who are gym freaks....
- Always have upbeat songs in your mp3 player/ipod (that way, you'll continue running eventhough you're tired....REALLY...it works for me..)
- Work on your abs...i think i read in SHAPE magazine (if i'm not mistaken) that studies show that with stronger abs, runners are able to go further.....
- How to work with abs? well..easiest way is to sit up....another fun way is to do Belly Dancing..
i quote Hei from Darker Than Black : Ryuusei no Gemini -- The best way to train the abs in a short period of time is Belly Dancing..!! (no really..!! that's what he said when he was training Suou...!!)
- Sing along with your songs when you run....it makes everything fun.....

Usually i don't load slow moving songs into my ipod...OKAYY...maybe 1 or 2...but that's also because i'm cosplaying someone from that particular anime...LOL!!! (motivation peeps..motivation....)
Exercising is fun and enjoyable, only if you make it so....
So, GO SWEAT OUT SOME FATS PEEPS!!!!

Listening to : UVERworld - Shousha Okubyoumono
Mood : ~(@_@)~

C2AGE...it came and went...in a flash!

2011-05-28T08:52:00.000-07:00

WELL HELLO ABANDONED-BLOG-FOR-ALMOST-A-WEEK..!!!
i told my self to update this blog AT LEAST once a day, but oh well...^^

ANYWAY~~~
yup, my VERY FIRST event for 2011, and my very first Cosplay of the year..LOLX!!

ok, first...lemme talk about the event first...XD
I m not sure whether it is because there hasn't been any major events in these few months or what, but there was a sudden surge of cosplayers in this event....it's like..HOLY BANYAK ORANG..!!!(though, still short of the scale of what CF was...i mean, come on, it's still in a shopping mall..^^)

Anyways, i think for this event, give it a year or two, it could pretty much be on the same scale as Comic Fiesta....i'm not too sure how the event went during the competition (mainly because i was suffering from migraine due to lack of sleep, and also...hunger -- no really, i don't know i was hungry at all, until i had supper and the migraine finally stopped....I AM A PHAILURE AS A HUMAN BEING..!! NOT KNOWING WHAT HUNGER IS...!!! AAAAaa.....)

The booths were selling rather nice stuffs (merchandises from Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong -- GOT MYSELF A VERY CUTE AND FLUFFY HIBIRD!!!) but well, as usual, it was at a wrong time. I don't get my pay until a week later, and that booth doesn't accept credit card (which, was a good thing, else i think i can sing HALLELUYAH when my credit card bill arrives..LOL)

so, all in all, i would give the event a 7 /10...why 7 you asked?
hmm...it might be my mistake, but there werent' any clear agendas on the event. I had no idea when the competition was (wanted to have a look).....
Apart from that, well, there's something missing from the event...the UMPH-ness..i dunno how to explain, but you just don't wanna stand there the whole day...i dunno? i might just be me...^^

but it was still a good event nevertheless (it satisfied my cravings for cosplays...hahaha)

PHOTOSHOOT!
ok, first of all, i almost died from the heat....it's been 6 months, and then i went and put on that costume which covered my TOP to TOE....all in black....
i had no idea the migraine came from the heat, or the hunger...really..my brain was confused...

It was a good thing that the team managed to find a stairway that NOT MANY people used....so we could have our own time there..(except, we had to stop occasionally because our make up melted......Msian weather has always been VERY HARSH to cosplayers....(-_-;; )

OH..btw, i got some shout outs saying that
'WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU DURING THE EVENT!??!!? DIDN'T SEE YOU!!!!'...
lol...first day, i was at some emergency stairway near the car park at B1...so lol..doubt anyone could find our team....
and on the 2nd day, we were at this abandoned-because-it-was-a-sunday-no-one-was-working office lift doing our photoshoot....LOL..
so there, hahahahahah....
and then after that, i changed, went and had an early dinner...and went home..LOL!!!!
Also, on 2nd day, i was a bit blind.....couldn't get use to the contacts, so everything was practically PURPLE to me.(one eye was red, one eye was blue....LOL)

So I M SO SORRY IF I DIDn'T SAY HI..!!! I JUST COULDN"T SEE.....><;;;;

on a sidenote, heres what i cosplayed. didn't take any photos of the event though....mainly because my camera wasn't with me, and on day 1, i was wearing a pair of leather gloves...so i can't possibly use my iphone...=_=

So for day 01, i was BK201 Hei from Darker Than Black. I had Riko as my cute and adorable Yin. Unfortunately, our photoshoot was cut short because of the heat and stuffiness of the venue. Not much to choose from, but at least it was better than the parking lot.....

The Black Reaper

As long as we're together, we can continue living.

And for Day 02, one of the most disastrous cosplay ever, i give you......

ROKUDO MUKURO..!!! (i swear i'll never cosplay Mukuro in this version again)
And also, my uke-ish Riko as my Hibari....though, she was kinda pissed halfway through the shoot....i'm not sure whether the rest could feel it, but i sure did....

Ruler of the Pineapple Kingdom

Kufufufufu....having fun....kyouya kun?

There are more pics uploaded in my DA...but be warned.....quality of the photos are below average.....><;;;; (no choice..!! we're just newbie photogs, and the lighting practically killed us!)

OHH..on a sidenote.....I just remembered a stupid joke i cracked on the 2nd day.....After lunch, i had indigestion and i was walking around with this.....painful look on my face. And when we met up with TPL (now known as Kikyo Leng LOL), i told her...' UGh.....i'm having indigestion....its like..i'm gonna give birth...i'm pregnant...it's Hibari's'....

LOL!!!! Xanthe and her sister immediately asked ' I THOUGHT MUKURO WAS THE SEME?!?!?!'
errr...well, things happen....Hibari can get PRETTTYYYY scary..LOL!!!!

but yeah...as lame as it sounds...it was hilarious at that moment..hahha..

Also, i would love to go to CosFest next month too, but somehow, it's a cursed event...I can't seem to go down....The situation now is, THERE ISN'T ENOUGH SPACE FOR ME IN THE HOTEL ROOM WITH RIKO AND GANG..!!! T^T
WUuuuu........oh well..there's AFA....XD

Listening to : Yuna Ito - Urban Mermaid
Mood : ~(-_-)~

of Jack, One Legged Man, and Beards...

2011-05-19T09:41:00.001-07:00

He's A PIRATE!!!!
okay, that's the song that have been playing on my iTunes since i got back home 15 minutes ago.

First of all, i gotta thank my company for sponsoring us the tickets for this movie (accompanied by popcorn and drinks WOHOO!!!)

Lookie at this..!!! *points below*

THAT, my friend, is a long train of tickets...i think around 20+ of them? LOL!!!

Yup, you guessed it right, i just came back from the premiere date of the ever awesome ' PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN : On Stranger Tides '

Frankly speaking, even without Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, the show still RAWKS..!!! with a capital 'R'..!!!
Johnny Depp still has his usual quirks, no surprises there..and the comedy part of it still made me tummy ache......
But somehow, the greatest of them all, in my humble opinion was...

HECTOR BARBOSSA..!!!!
OMFG he is THE PIRATE..!!!
(fyi, i've liked him since the first movie....LOL)

i'm not gonna spoil it anymore...you'll expect to see more stuffs rather than the usual Kraken, or walking skeletons, or Octopus human head......(btw, Davy Jones still on my list of AWESOME SAUCE pirates...and the FLYING DUTCHMAN!!! WOHOOOooo..!!!)

but...are..mermaids that scary???? hmmm..

Pirates of the Carribean, definitely an awesome movie...no more parley and whatever in this movie though.....
OUT THERE BE MONSTERS.........SAVY????

Listening to : POTC - He's a Pirate
Mood : \(^0^)/

of Black and White Cosplays...

2011-05-17T09:03:00.001-07:00

YES, finally after 6 months.....i decided to put on some costumes and jump around like a crazy nutter..!!
first of all....nope...no preview photos....because i find taking cosplay shots of myself with my phone is not flattering to my body.....and holding a sword and mask AND a phone..is hazardous....
i only have 2 hands, 2 palms....LOL..

ANYWAY..~~~
yup, C2AGE is dawning upon us....after a hiatus of 6 months, i decided to crawl out of my hibernation and cosplay for an event. Well, a little speck of bug like me wouldn't make any difference whether or not i cosplayed but.....I WANNA COSPLAY WITH RIKOOOOOO..!!

Ahem~~
as i was saying..
my choices of cosplays are always contrasting, or weird.
Like for example, for this weekend, i'll be appearing 1 day in FULL BLACK (from top to toe....=_=) and the next day......FULL WHITE!! (hallelujah for correct time of the month..!!)

why so genki? well, i just finished camwhoring in full regalia and i suddenly found the excitement again to cosplay.....i've been so hooked up with work lately that i dind't have time to focus on cosplay at all.....
and i didn't want to put on my costumes in that 6 months because i've piled on weight....
Good thing i managed to shed some pounds.....so i was thinking, why not i camwhore around..LOL

posing was a disaster....i totally forgot what are the do's and dont's....(riko help me..T^T)
and then came another trouble.....i was wearing gloves, and i decided HEY, why not refer to the photos in the phone?
GAHHHH.......it's iPhone for Christ sake..!! i can't wear gloves and work them..!!! (OH NOESSSSSSSSssss)
and yes, i'll be wearing gloves for both days of the cosplay event....BRAVO HITO..!! YOU DA GENIUS..!!

nevertheless, i still look forward to this weekend because i can finally meet up with riko neesan again...XD
the last time she came down, everything was so rushed.....so i hope this time i could have some....bedtalks with her..XD XD

Listening to : Tackey & Tsubasa - Epilogue
Mood : --(#___#)--

LOL..not you too dad???

2011-05-16T23:03:00.000-07:00

LOL...well, i remember a few months ago, my mom was asking me:-

Mom : Eh, how come you never bring any guys home...?
Me: huh????
Mom : Aiya...why no boyfriend yet?
Me : errrr.....these type of things rite, canot force wan leh...
Mom : But, also can start to find already rite? no need to slowly wait...this is the 21st century..you must fight for your happiness.....blablablabla......
Me : *starts singing with the song on my FM modulator* *ignores mom's preach*

------- Fast forward to last week --------
--- on the way home from shopping trip ---

Mom : Ehh...how come, still no boyfriend a?
Me : NOT THIS AGAIN???
Mom : no la, i'm worried that once you pass your age, then bo liao leh.. ( FYI, 'bo liao' means FINISH!)
Me : Canot force wan wor these things...let it come naturally mar...
Mom : Your dad also asking me liao leh....why you no bf...so....weird....
Me : WAHLIUEHHHH....DAD ALSO ASKING LIAO!??!?! WTH.....

So basically, my parents are waiting to kick me out of the house? but but but...what did i do wrong????? T^T
What's with parents nowadays.........
PRESSURE AAAAAAAaaaa..!!!!

Listening to : Boys Be - Daijoubu
Mood :~(@_@)~

have you felt that way before?

2011-05-16T22:03:00.000-07:00

have you ever felt that when another person makes a choice, it reflects back on yourself, having made that choice before...
and what if that person's choice landed her in a better place, but for yours.....turned you into a laughing stock?

well yes.....i've been through this...and well, it might be that i'm thinking too much..but somehow, you're bound to think of the 'what if(s)'.....
Just recently, i felt a slight pierce in my feelings....I know it's not about me, but it was somewhat related to me that made me feel....a little....queasy.

OH well, i needed to vent this out....yeap, i know some of you out there might be thinking ' PFFt, what the hell is this crazy girl talking about now in this entry?????'
i don't blame you.....only close people know what i've been through and though i've made that decision of not looking back, it sometimes comes back to haunt you.

ANYWAY~~~~
i'm so looking forward to Friday now....I get to have a slumber party and sisterly talk with Riko....something which i really need now....
RIKOOOOOOO!!!!! OH WRY ISH FURAIDAY SO SLOW?!?!?!??! ><

Listening to : DBSK - Tonight
Mood : =(-___-)=

it's official..i'm an addict...

2011-05-15T08:41:00.000-07:00

for the past month, i've been frequenting Starbucks so many times i have lost count. It's like it's my 2nd home now....

And now, i think i'm an addict..LOL..

Ever since Starbucks had their Happy Hour Promotion (whereby you buy ANY SIZED FRAPPUCCINO @ half price), i've been craving for their brews....be it hot or cold.

Yeap, and now....TADAH....i finally took one of these home....it's like...my bible of some sort now...LOL

MY BIBLE!!!

Anyway, most probably i'll collect Starbucks (or starbucks lookalike) merchandise starting from now..
Oh boy..there goes my money again....=_=

Listening to : The Gazzette - Shiver
Mood : \(^w^)/

of FUR and LEATHER!

2011-05-14T08:02:00.000-07:00

liek finally..!!! i bought my share of leather from Kamdar, Mid Valley....!!
not that i have anything lined up, but then i thought better to get it before it's gone, and according to the person there, it seems that they'll only restock ONCE every year for leather.

OK, well...it's not EXACTLY genuine leather, it's those PU cloth...but good enough for me to make my costumes.
I'm not too sure what i'll do with the leather yet (pants? top?gloves?) but well....i bought a good 2 meters of it. I can't afford to get anymore than that because well....it came at the wrong time of the month..bankruptcy came knocking on my door the other day..LOL

ANYWAY~~~
i found this too..!!

RIKO!!! you don't have to go all the way to Singapore to buy fur anymore..!!!
I was amazed that they had this and i immediately took a photo of it...i had wanted to upload it and announce to the world there and then, but PFFt....Digi had to be an arse that time.....

This fur is selling @ RM24.90 per meter....a wee bit pricey, but considering the fact that a friend of mine lugged her fur all the way from Singapore, that amount is kinda reasonable...LOL

The fur is still very much available when i went today, but the leather, according to the man there, is selling fast. He mentioned that last year, someone came in and bought the ENTIRE roll...(no wonder i can't find any black leather there anymore..!!!)
i'm guessing it must've been one of the cosplayers....LOL....

ANYWAY, hopefully they'll restock more of these in the future so that it'll ease all our problems of sourcing for materials....

Listening to : Utada Hikaru - Eternally
Mood : (-_-)

Energizer Night Race 2011 - The Refund

2011-05-13T23:10:00.000-07:00

Remember last month's fiasco regarding the disastrous Energizer run? well, it seems that after Energizer decided to take over, the participants' emotions and anger has been, let's just say, 'suppressed' well?

ANYWAY, as i was saying.....just the other day i was mentioning and ranting to a fellow colleague of mine (who was also one of the participants of the run) regarding the refunds. As it is approaching end of May soon, i was thinking, 'Hey, is Energizer just pulling our legs, lying to us saying that they'll refund us?'...

well guess what...i woke up today and my mom passed me a cheque of the refund. I guess big companies does thing differently....(unlike you-know-what-dumb-organizer does things *coughsEXPOSEcoughs*)
So anyway, this proves that Energizer REALLY meant what they say and the next thing to look forward to?
My promised goodie bag!

Listening to : Uverworld - Core Pride (Ao no Exorcist)
Mood : \(^o^)/

holy cow..it's too HOT!!

2011-05-08T02:41:00.000-07:00

OMG...what's wrong with the world now?!
according to my phone's whether info, the temperature is as high as 36 degrees Celsius..i bet millions of icebergs in the Antartic is melting like hell...

It's just way too hot..!!!!
the weather is so crazy these few days....one moment it'll pour like crazy, the next it's hot as hell..
What's wrong with the world!?!?!!?

Listening to : Kokia - Hikari no Kata he (Saiyuki Gaiden ED)
Mood : >____<;;;;;; hottttt..!!!!!

i just can't understand....

2011-05-05T08:51:00.001-07:00

i can't understand why you do it...
you said you'll support me in whatever i do.....whatever decisions i make, and yet when i make that decision, you insult my decision....

you're so close to me.....and yet you're the one that broke my heart......shatter my feelings...
i'm at one of my most vulnerable state now, and being someone who is so close to me...shouldn't you be the one to embrace me rather than to kick me on the floor?

i wanted to express gratitude to you prior to what you threw at me.....i had wanted to say thank you for comforting me....but i guess you don't need me to say thanks......really, i can't understand why you do it......

i just cant.....

Listening to : D Gray Man - Doubt & Trust
Mood : Heartbroken

3 years is short, but the memories made will last forever...

2011-04-23T01:32:00.000-07:00

3 years....which is 1095 days....it may look/sound like a long long time, but when you think back, it just flashed by in a wink of an eye.

Yup, 3 years...that's my duration of service in my first company..BiO-LiFE Marketing Sdn Bhd.
It may not seem like a hugeass company, but i've learnt a whole lot of things from the people there.
and i daresay, when you're working with people like them, you're working with your family.

When i first reported myself 3 years back, i didn't know anything. Really, i was this naive little girl venturing into the wilderness, not knowing what's ahead of me. I told myself, ' ok, just do your part, not get into any politics and you'll be a happy person'...

true enough, politics never really happened in that company. obviously there'll be bumps here and there when you work (deadline, deadline and more deadlines!!! -- hey, that's designers' life!)
but with ever helpful seniors, colleagues and bosses, the final outcome is always well, if not excellent!

So here i express my thanks to my wonderful colleagues / family in Bio-LiFE Marketing Sdn Bhd.
(oh boy, this will be ONE LONG BLOG ENTRY......*wipes sweat* -- also, please excuse 'POWDERFUL TOKGONG GRAMMAR USED'..lol)

First of all,
AnP team
Kenix
- you're the person i thank the most, you have guided me through thick and thin, taught me how the working world revolves and also you've sharpen my understanding in how to create designs that could give impact.
I truly appreciate your guidance in these 3 years and i really really thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I also apologize for any wrongdoings and crappy attitude that surfaced.

Felicia
- you're awesomesauce CAN? my wonderful and ever helpful senior. I really shudder to think what would life be without you to light my way. Other than Kenix, you're the one to hold my hand whenever i'm in doubt. I really really thank god for letting me meet such a kind person like you. You help me EVERYTIME without complaining and i really really appreciate EVERYTHING that you've taught me. And life in the pantry is so much duller without you around...LOL!!!
you're the BESTEST BEST FISH around..!! XD XD

Tiffany
- YO BUDDY!!!! from the 'lansi' classrep, to collegemates, to bestfriends, to roomates and finally colleagues.....if anyone didn't know, i think they would've thought we're married to each other...hahahaha....
anyway, thank you so so much for being there for me during thick and thin....Life became more colorful with you around..XD
Don't forget about little me when you drive on the road with your HUGEASS CRUISER ya? please do not honk at my little MYVI if i drive like 'lau ah ma' ok? hahahahh...

Zaleha
- Thank you so much for all the guidance. You and Felicia were the ones who helped me like, so blardy much when i first started out at BL. Without seniors like you, i'd be dead...really, i don't think i could last 1 month there...hahaha..
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

CHA TEAM (wahpiang, so many ppl....=_=)
Grace, Hooi San, Swit Yee, Khairus, Jillian, Jeslyn, Swee Leng, Anne
- Didn't really know you guys during my first year in that office, but can i say HALLLELUYAH because we're fated to gila gila together. Thank you for everything and all the guidance (and gossips LOL)
It was really fun with you all around...hahaha...! Working life became like family life with you guys around, heck, i spent more time with you guys than with my family members..!! (my mom jealous wan lorrrr...)

MKT TEAM
Ya Tze, Desryne, I Lin, Kenneth
- lol, the team which sometimes drive the AnP up the wall...haha....well, first of all, i really would like to apologize for all the crap attitude and prawn artwork i gave you guys......hopefully it didn't effect your promotions? LOL
but anyway, thank you so so much for putting so much colors into my working life. I thought working life will always be a dull routine, but with you 4 monkeys around, it's laughter after laughter after laughter. From char bor gia, Ducky, Lin lin and also my starwars buddy......
You guys are superstars..!!! XD

There are still so many other people whom i wanna express my thanks but if i put everything in here, it'll be longer than my SPM 1119 essay.....hahahah...
So, here, i express my eternal gratitude and thanks, and also apologize (kaotao version) for any wrongdoings that i've done in my 3 years there.

Do not get me wrong, this is not Goodbye, for we're forever friends and buddies. It's merely another step in life in which everyone will go through. (so you all dun omit me out for any outings aaaa......FaceBook is a scary network aaa..i know wan aaaa...hahahha)

who knows? i might drop by for FREE ice creams and movie sessions? XD
so don't forget about me ya..!!! XD

i Love you guys..!!!! *muacks and huggles like a koala bear*

Listening to : Nurarihyon no Mago - Sunshine
Mood : XD XD XD

Energizer Night Race 2011 - Disaster in the making

2011-04-19T08:28:00.001-07:00

Energizer Night Race 2011.....a race/run that went down in history as one of the WORST EVER run. I'll just break it into points because i believe there are already more than enough blogs out there that are ranting about this race..(come on, 10120 runners participated in this event, an event which all thought would be enjoyable, but turns out to be a disaster...)

So, there were Boycott pages and Hate fanpages all over facebook. Media coverages were all over (theStar papers, The Malay Mail).

Why is it so bad? well...here's why...:-

1) When we reached the venue, we were ushered to a parking area whereby there were wannabe parking jockeys collecting not RM2, not RM5 but an outrageous amount of RM10 for a parking (in which, i read online that someone's car got broken into and had his Blackberry stolen). If i were to pay RM10 for that measly parking, i might as well throw the money into the sea.....
Also, what pissed me off was that when i reached, there's this bunch of CHI KO PEK that parked next to me...when the CHI KO PEK got down his car, he opened the car door so hard, that it hit my car....and DAMN, not a word of apology..!!!!!!
Fucking CHI KO PEK, i hope you have your car scratched beyond repair. And let that scratched car be the last car you'll be able to buy in your entire lifetime. ASSHOLE....

2) HELLO?? where are the signs?!?!?
we were walking around not knowing where to head.....as usual it's the follow-the-crowd mentality because there were little to no signs around to guide us....

3) TUNNEL OF DOOM!!!!
*inserts horror bgm*
we were walking around aimlessly, not knowing where to go, and finally we saw a huge group of people trying to squeeze into this puny door and OH, whadaya know.....there's a sign that says 'ENERGIZER NIGHT RACE *points arrow at the door*'
=_____=
10 000 people had to go through that puny badly ventilated tunnel (it's like the Nazi's Poison Tunnel) to get to the venue.....i'm like WTF?!?!
if 10 or more people were to release 'killer biological gas' that time, i believe people would've died...no seriously....the ventilation was so bad, i was surprised no one fainted.
and guess what, all 10 000 runners will have to go through the tunnel to exit too....
(but, me and my friends didn't go through the tunnel, instead, we climbed the wall thingy on to the seating area.....)
Thus, the tunnel is now known as 'THE TUNNEL OF DOOM'.

4) Water StationSSSSSssss (note : multiple 'S' are intended)
11km runners....it's amazing no one died because of dehydration.....i mean, come on....there should be more than 1 pathethic water station for 11km and above runners.....
and who in their right mind would give out 1.5 liter bottles of mineral water & can drinks during runs?!?!?!?!? HELLOO??? does common sense ring any bell to you guys?????
It's usually my routine to NOT 'visit' the 1st water station, but it's mandatory that i get at least a sip of water in the 2nd water station....
SO, as i passed the 1st water station, i figured,'oh well, there should be another one 1 or 2 km ahead'...
i ran and ran and RAN AND RAN...but the tents were no where to be seen, and in the end i had to run another lap to reach the pathethic water station (which was situated almost at the end of the track)
yes, i daresay..i almost died.....i was already saying my 'goodbyes' in my mind......

5) Screaming crazy MC/Director
as an MC/Director/Head/Leader of a certain organisation/team, you DO NOT scream at your customers/attendees.....come on, who's at the worse point...??
(a) runners who are tired, thirsty, sweaty (and no water booths to be seen at the finishing line)
(b) MC standing there doing nothing......
Duh, you're frustrated, but we, the runners are even more frustrated...
we come into this run, as serious runners.......not for what you label as 'A FUN RUN'....
you think running 42km is fun?????? it takes a whole lot of motivation, courage and determination to be able to complete that distance...and you label the race as FUN!?!?
come on JOSIE, you should've known better before you took up this job and organised an event this big of a scale......
and as the icing on the cake, you SCREAMED at the runners through the mic and called us HOOLIGANS...??????
helllloooo????? if we're hooligans, you'd be sitting next to your God by now, because you'd be DEAD......

5) NO GOODY BAGS
err..duh? you promised us goody bags, and we didn't get them....nuff said......
mail, post, ship, teleport, send a stork for all i care...where is my goody bag?
EXPOSE << organiser's company name ---- well, you pretty much SCAMMED us....

6) HEADLAMPS disaster
WOHOOooo....Free for all headlamps...unlike last year, this time the headlamps were free for all. You grab as many as you like and walk off, and no one is there to stop you..
When we got to the headlamp collection area (after the tunnel of DOOM), there was a dark area at the corner of the walkway whereby everyone were zombie-fying the headlamps. So, our group decided to split up and tried to grab the headlamps. No crew/staffs were there to tell us how to operate the headlamps and everyone who took the headlamps didn't know that to switch on the lamps, you first have to pull out that thin piece of transparent paper. After we found out about that, all 5 of us grabbed 5 headlamps each because we thought of taking for each other...turns out that EVERYONE grabbed 5 headlamps each, thinking of the same thing...we ended up with almost 25 headlamps and being civilized, one of my friends braved through the zombie-fying group of runners, and returned the extra headlamps we had..

SO in the end, we only took 1 each ^^ *smiles*

7) Calling in the police
err....we're runners, who are tired, who were promised of something that we were never given, in this case...the goody bags...
DUH, when you closed the shutters on us, obviously you'll be adding oil to the fumes..!! and when crowd control gets out of hand, you called the police on us???
EXPOSE, JOSIE, ENERGIZER.....where the hell is your common sense?!?!?
oh wait, if you had any of those, you wouldn't have had only 43 people to 10 000 runners in the first place.....

HMm.....did i miss out anything?
well, it seems that after all the uproar and hate fanpages up on Facebook, Energizer decided to REFUND EACH AND EVERY PARTICIPANT OF THE RACE the full amount of the registration fees.
well, more news will be out on Friday, and EXPOSE said that they will mail out the goody bags to ALL the participants. (more news out on Thursday 6pm, according to EXPOSE)
so, let's see how they perform their damage control.

Listening to : BoA - Your Color
Mood : ZZZZzzzzz

R U READY GAIZ!??!!?

2011-04-12T06:45:00.000-07:00

R U READY GAIZ?!?!?!
PUT YER GUNZ ON!!!
*rides motorhorse*

yup....it's Date Masamune from Sengoku Basara Fever...
That ENGRISH speaking samurai is my newest edition to my family of Nendos..!!

and it's money well spent..
3 faces, a whole lot of swords and little chibified cutesy palm.....
AAAAAAAaaa..!!!
and it's base is the AWESOME-EST of all the Nendos i have..

One flaw that i noticed from this nendo is that......it'll easily topple over after i put on his crescent helmet....It seems that it's too heavy...BUT LOL..that makes it even CUTER!!!

anyway....here's the unboxing ceremony...XD

Danbobo and Chibi Danbo decided to help out...^^

JENG JENG...The birth of the ENGRISH master!!!

WHY SO SERIOUS???

And lastly.....

Date Masamune : R U READY GAIZ?!?!?!? PUT YER GUNZ ON!!!
Chibi Danbo : ANIKIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!

Listening to : Sengoku Basara - Jap
Mood : XD XD XD

Totally Random..!!

2011-04-08T07:44:00.000-07:00

yup, since my last update was a month ago, i decided to...er...update my blog with a totally random post..

HOMG MY OFFICE PANTRY HAS AN ICE CREAM (WALLS) FRIDGE NOW!!!
and the best part?

ICE CREAM IS FREE FLOW!!!
gahhh...why must this happen when i only have less than 20 days in the office left???
(FYI, i'm joining a new company in May...)

ANYWAY~~
for the past 3 years, it's been real fun in the office...
yeah, there were ups and downs...disagreements and sarcasm....but it's all part of the working life..
The bottom line is that i love everyone i've worked with in my current company.

OK.....gonna have another entry for that later on..

now it's
ICE CREAM!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa.....!!!!!!!
JJ i <3 U..!!
YOu're the BEstEst BESt BOSS BL COULD EVER HAVE!!!!!!

Listening to : Kuroshitsuji - Monochrome no Kiss
Mood : XD

Salutable Japanese

2011-03-14T08:58:00.001-07:00

i've never cried for a disaster stricken nation before...but for the recent disaster that struck Japan, i shed tears. No, not because of what had befallen them, but how they aided each other, doing selfless deed and helping anyone and everyone around them.
It was tears of admirability (if there is such a word).....for i know, not every country can execute, much less follow 5% of what they are doing now.

Japan, considerably one of the top 5 strongest and richest country in the world, fell to the wrath of mother nature on the 11th of March 2011, but they are slowly standing up....
but what made me look up to them the most if their selfless deed in helping people around them.

The people stood up, supported each other in these few days of limited water, food and electricity. A line as long as you could imagine was formed, just for a phone call home...but what amazes me was that there was no shoving, no stealing and fighting....everyone lined up and waited for their turn.

Tokyo Disneyland was handing out free food and drinks to the people that were stranded nearby, people were giving out heating pads and offering breads. There was no crime, looting or havoc.
As quoted from one of ther survivors, 'We're all in this, in the same boat'...
Really, these are heart warming stories that could bring anyone to tears...
Have a read here..

http://www.facebook.com/notes/jun-shiomitsu/japan-quake-as-seen-from-twitter-translated-by-me-so-quality-questionable/10150121176733830

I couldn't guarantee that should such disaster happen, or something HALF this size of this disaster happen in where i'm staying (touch wood!), these stories would surface. I foresee crime, looting, fighting and ultimately MORE lives lost, but i do not rule out that there maybe miracles happening in this little country from where i am.
People you meet, you see, heck, even those driving on the road daily are already selfish as they are.
Even the person closest to you now MIGHT NOT do what the Japanese have done for each other in times of difficulties.

God, please have mercy on Japan. Some say it's karma, others feel it's just a matter of coincidence. Karma or not, i feel no one in this world deserves to go through such sufferings.
Japan has colored our lives with so many great things. Technology, Knowledge, Entertainment.....
JAPAN, OUR HEARTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU...
stay strong..!!!!

Listening to : TM Revolution - Naked Arms
Mood : touched by humanities selflessness

Earthquake + Tsunami disaster in Japan

2011-03-13T09:05:00.000-07:00

It was a Friday evening (local time), and everyone in the office is pretty much relaxed, waiting for the clock to strike 6 so that we could all enjoy our weekends...

However, at about 3.30pm (i think), news was received via MSN, Hotmail, FB, etc that a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit the shores of Japan, and what followed after was an enormous tsunami.....

Immediately, we all opened CNN, AL JAZEERA, whatever news you could find online regarding mother nature's wrath....
It wasn't clearly shown how bad the damage was...but it was bad...real bad.

Clearer footage of how the enormous tidal wave swallowed up the shores and everything that's in its way were later shown on local news....It's really really bad....i can't find the proper words to describe how devastating the damage was...
It makes us feel so small when faced with the forces of nature...Ships, trains and cars were all swept away as if they were made of paper and plastics.....Roads cracked open like cream crackers and you could see helpless people stuck on rooftops..

And as if that wasn't enough, they had to face with radiations from a nuclear plant....

My prayers goes out to all of Japan as well as the rest of the countries that were hit by this disaster. I'm still looking for trustworthy sites in which i could chip in my donation. It may be like a drop of water in the sea, but at least i will be doing my part to help Japan.

Japan has given us so many wonderful enjoyment in life....Anime, Cosplay, Manga, Games, Technology, Knowledge......it's time we do our part...
God have mercy......

AND, one of the local newspapers decided to draw a tasteless caricature on this disaster. The editor should be SACKED for approving that piece of tasteless crap to be published.
Yeah, i know it's a caricature, but hey, now isn't the time for that ok!?!?
use some brains before you do anything...dumbass...=_=
SHAME ON YOU!!!!

Listening to : GLEE - Defying Gravity
Mood : Disgusted (see last paragraph)

Cherish your loved ones

2011-02-23T07:52:00.001-08:00

Cherish your loved ones...
really now, how much do you understand from this?

Earlier today, i attended a wake of my colleague's mom. Her mom passed away without any pain (thank God), but it was really sudden.
Everything happened so fast....

As we were chatting, it got me thinking......i really can't keep my calm...
i put myself in my colleagues position, and truth be told, i almost shed tears......I couldn't bring myself to imagine what would happen, how i would react, how will my everyday life be should someone in my family be gone, just like that....

The person who pass on isn't the one who suffer the most...it's the ones left behind...
i admit, i'm not a religious person when it comes to these stuffs...i don't know what to believe, i don't know what's real..
All my life, i've believed that when you're gone, you're gone...that's it, it's the end of the road, period, tamat, owari, finish.....(if you get what i mean...)

I came back home, and the first thing i did was to greet my dad (usually i'll just walk pass him and go straight to my room), talk to my mom (or rather, kacau her coz she was busy preparing for her next day's class) and play with my baby MiLO. Suddenly i felt, i should bond closer with my family members and not take them for granted...
(holy....my tears are starting to come out now....*sniff* no, really...my vision is blurry because of the tears in my eyes)

I think back, and when my colleague told me that it was a sudden thing....meaning there were no preparation...mentally and physically...
i really couldn't imagine how i would take it.......

after i related what i heard to my parents, i told them....did you all prepare for the worst? ya i know, it's kinda pantang to talk about these things, but my parents aren't those pantang types..heck, my mom even bought an 'apartment' for herself already. it was hilarious looking at her choosing the 'apartment unit'.....
she went...
' aiyo, if i take this 'unit', i can't see the view la.....canot canot....take here, then i canot see buddha's statue,......' and it goes on....lol
gah..i digressed...

anyway, my mom went on to show me where she kept all the documents....both for my mom and dad's....should anything happen, we'll know what to do, and where to find them...

the bottomline is.......It's not the person who 'left' feels the pain...it's the person left behind..
I love my family really really REALLY much, and i pray to God that they'll live a long and healthy life...

Also, my condolences to my fellow colleague.....i can't say i understand how you feel now, but stay strong.......

To all you peeps out there, cherish your loved ones...come home for dinner, have meals with your family members more often....talk to them, joke with them..spend more time with them..
Life is unpredictable....and there aren't much 10 years in our lives...

I love my family.......really really much.

Listening to : -
Mood : -

CRAZY BITCH DRIVER~~!!!!

2011-02-17T16:54:00.001-08:00

yeah, every now and then, there'll be a rant post...usually about what i see when i drove to work..
As usual, drove to work at a normal speed......NKVE's speed limit is usually 110, but during the morning rush hours, you can't possible 'fly' that fast..
so i was on my usual 90.......

upon reaching the exit to subang airport road, there was this crazy bitch of a driver, around her mid 20s, suddenly cut into my lane, with no indication whatsoever...
hello!? we were both travelling aroud 90 - 100 km/h and you sudddenly cut in?
i had to swerve my car to the left, and it almost hit the divider........good thing i wasn't going at 140..else that's it...you guys will have to come see me in the hospital...

That crazy bitch was EXACTLY next to me when she suddenly turned left.....it's either that bitch fucked with her driving instructor in exchange for her driving licensed, or her mom was the one who fucked with the driving instructor.....
There's no way in the world would she get her driving license the official way.....definitely her dad must've slept with the driving instructor (if the instructor is a she) or she / her mom must've pussied her way through to get a license.

THAT'S HOW ACCIDENTS HAPPEN BITCH!!! you don't go switching lanes like your grandfather owned the roads (oh...maybe your grandfather fucked someone too?)
I didn't get her number plate, but it was a spectacled bitch with straight long hair (slightly at the shoulder) driving a black saga (blm).....oh, she had red head rest too..
crazy bitch......seriously, if i had any powers, i would've made her bang straight at a tree or something....
crazy bitches like her should be fucked and thrown into a prostituting den.....
sheeesh.....

Listening to : -
Mood : =_=

Decisions and Choices

2011-02-15T05:14:00.000-08:00

hmm....every now and then, you're thrown with a life decision, those that will be the turning point of a certain issue in life.
Yeah, now i'm being thrown with that decision to make....not really yet, but pretty soon i'll need to make a decision of such.

I once saw this sentence ' It's better to have tried something, then to regret not trying at all '...I think it's in one of the many animes that i've seen. can't remember which one though.....
It might be for the best, or could be for the worst....but i believe it's time to make a choice.

OH, on a sidenote, LOL....not gonna do any photoshoots for the next 2 - 3 months. I'm becoming a fatso, and i wanna lose the extra pounds before i start putting on any costumes of mine.
(CNY cookies are EBIL!!!!!)

Listening to : Mika Nakashima - Glamorous Sky
Mood : Sleepy + Cranky = DAMN~!

my way, my style, my ruleZ

2011-02-09T18:50:00.001-08:00

OKAyy.....there are some things i gotta clarify before it goes out of hand...
anything happens and it's my head on the chopping block....

So........listen up carefully.....
(especially for those who comes over to my house often)

- Do not enter anyone's room WITHOUT my permission EXCEPT my room (yes, that means my brothers' room, parents, grandaunt, study, anywhere deemed private)
- Do not touch/take anything in another room WITHOUT my permission. There are some things in my room is meant for DISPLAY only, so DO NOT TOUCH IT unless i say otherwise.
- DO NOT...i stress again...DO NOT SIT ON MY BED WITH YOUR LEGS UP.....my bed is my shrine, and i prefer to keep it clean.
- I DO NOT loan, lend, rent my costumes/props/wigs/whatever unless i know you really well (as in i know where to hunt you down if you don't return me LOL). So please, do not come to me and say ' oh, my friend needs costume XYZ for ABC event, can i pinjam yours for her kthxbye'..i'll ask you to go fly a kite.....or, i'll simply churn up a white lie.
- I HATE people hugging me when i walk......don't come and manja - manja with me...i really hate it. It makes me wanna smack you in the face.
- Learn how to read my facial expression...it's really simple really... i'm a talkative person...so when i get really quiet, you guys know what you've done.
- If, in an event, should I happen to lend you stuffs, please take good care of it..don't let me find it lying at the bottom of your car/ floor/ in your dog's kennel.
- For Facebook, if you have nothing nice to say, then just STFU.....really....i dont need your lousy comments.
- I tend to get sarcastic occasionally, and when i do, you know you're in deep shit.
- When i have a conversation, i'll usually look at the other party's face to show respect that i'm listening. If you're talking to me, and i don't look at you, means i'm annoyed with your topic. BUT, occasionally, if i'm busy, i'll let you know i'm listening, but i'll continue to do my work..lol..that's another different thing altogether.
- As i've mentioned, i'm a talkative person....so usually when you ask me A, i'll answer ABCDEFGHIJKL.......but if you ask me A, and i answer B only, meaning i do not want to talk to you anymore aka STFU PRONTO.....go bother someone else......

Yeap...some of the stuffs i mentioned sounds harsh and rude...but i'm a person who can't say NO right at your face. Hopefully you guys will understand what i've listed out and if you've done it before, please....don't do it again, not in front of me........

Thanks!

Listening to : Prince of Tennis - Make You Free
Mood : =_=

Taking up Sewing lessons

2011-02-08T19:09:00.001-08:00

i was thinking......should i take up sewing lessons?
i mean, if it were a weekly thing, (weekends) then i suppose it should be ok, seeing that i hardly go out on weekends now....
Maybe i'll just join, and get the basic...how to cut cloth, draw patterns and USE THE SEWING MACHINE?

i wanted to ask my mom's tailor to take me as her apprentice, but unfortunately she is waaayyy too busy with her factory uniform making and taking care of her son.
Moreover, she stays in Subang....like HOMG, traffic jam people??

i've looked up Fashion Design courses, but i dont think i'll have time to follow the classes everyday as i'm a working adult....T^T
So, part time sewing lessons.......anyone for apprenticeship? i need a 'jedi master' to train under....lol.....

Listening to : Prince of Tennis - Make You Free
Mood : =_=

Crimson Cross......a new level (or just plain...bored?)

2011-01-30T07:03:00.001-08:00

YUP....last week, me and Tsu kinda chatted over the MSN regarding some website creation for our team....well, it's not that BIG of a team, nor is it any EPICLY WTFBBQAWESOMEPEWPEW team...

it's something we thought we should have since we've been cosplaying together since.......4 years ago? (wait...i really lost count.....)
The first 2 members i would say was me and riko? coz i mean...we've been cosplaying the same series eversince we started our Ahtrun X Lacus pair.....
Then we got tsu to join in, and slowly our team grew into 7 members.....

The team consist of...

hitokiri (me!)
Riko (basically, the mother of the group...LOL)
Tsu
Relyss
Michiru
Xanthe (sister to elle)
Elle (sister to xanthe)

Hmm..come to think of it, you could say we're like the ouran members..LOL!!!

Hitokiri - Tamaki - useless good-for-nothing president
Riko - Kyouya - getting everything right and done, always picking up after useless hito's mistakes
Relyss - Haruhi - Innocent, but sometimes gives sarcastic remarks (in which, no ill intention or malice intended)
Tsu - HITACHIN TWINS!!!! (with Michiru.......crazy duo....and is always picking on Hito/tamaki)
Michiru - HITACHIN TWINS!!!!! (with Tsu....same as the above description)
Xanthe - Mori Sempai ( LOL.....the serious, quiet type....and is sister to Elle)
Elle - HONEY Sempai..!! (hmm....not sure if she is a fan of sweets/candies but lol....i believe xanthe always protects her younger sister....XD)

SO THERE......XD

ANYWAY...ok, i digressed..
So, me and tsu kinda came up with having our own team website...it's still in the works now....nothing much is up yet (because yeah....good-for-nothing hito here is still figuring how to navigate around the web)
Will work on it, and maybe put up a connecting link.....

GO OURAN....eh...wait...

GO CRIMSON CROSS~~~!!! XD XD

Listening to : Souji Okita (Hakuouki) - Crimson Rain
Mood : WEEEeeeeEeeee...XD

It's always your mistake...

2011-01-18T01:18:00.001-08:00

Once upon a time, there lived a king and his subjects in FELIOBI kingdom. The king's words are always absolute, and one thing that his subjects hated was that the king often sides other countries more than his own.

One day, the king received a necklace from a neighboring country, and that the neighboring country wants the king's nation to add jewels into the necklace, for the king's country is well known for it's craftmanship. HOWEVER, the one criteria for that is that they must NEVER touch the buckle of the necklace.
The king took the necklace, and passed it to one of his subjects, and told that subject that under no matter what circumstances, he should never damage, change nor alter the buckle.....
The subject remembered it and engraved it into his mind...knowing that one little mistake could mean his life.

Thus, the subject began working on the necklace, bearing in mind not to change or alter anything that is on the buckle.

When it was the time to pass back the necklace to the king, the king then questioned the subject..

King : WHY DIDNT YOU CHANGE THE BUCKLE!!? it looks horrendous!!!
Subject : because your highness, you specifically told me not to change or alter anything on the buckle.
King : BUT you should change it!!! it looks horrendous now!
Subject : but your highness.....i only did but what you told me to.
King : I DONT CARE!!!! IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT THAT THE NECKLACE IS SO HORRIBLE LOOKING!

after that, the subject is thrown into the dungeon and forgotten.

OKAYYy......enough of bedtime stories...
so, what should you think the subject should've done. The king's words are absolute, however the king contradicts himself ALWAYS.
If you are the subject, what would you have done?

Well, the situation is as such.....no matter what you do, it's always your fault. Whether or not you change the buckle, the fault is always yours...the mistake is always yours..never the king's.
Well....that's how...life is.....
sad as it may be, life is always unfair.

Listening to : N'SYNC - I Drive Myself Crazy
Mood : mood less........=_=

Aftermath of Taiwan Trip

2011-01-04T04:15:00.000-08:00

what a way to start the new year...

The moment i went back to work, backlogged assignments and projects started to haunt me. Since morning i didn't have much of a break, and i ate extremely fast during lunch...
Didn't have much of a mood to eat out..so i ate in the pantry...

Was kinda unhappy with certain issues and certain people, but let's not get to that part now shall we?
Didn't really talk as much also today, partially because i was still lethargic from my Taiwan trip.
As tiring as it may be, i enjoyed the trip really really much...
Desryne and Jeslyn really cracked me up A LOT..!!!!
(Jeslyn especially....she and her 'priority' seat issues)

ANYWAY, i most probably will plan a trip to Taiwan again end of next year...
i didn't shop enough, and well...now i'm trying to gather a few kakis to go....hahahah..
Nope, not going to countdown this time......my main purpose this time is to go shop.!!!

I was wondering, maybe i'll invite my sister-in-law..but i'm not too sure if they have any financial difficulties, because i mean...they are getting married this year....XD
Will try asking though..hahaha..

ANYWAY..
TEAM CRIMSON CROSS.....you guys interested?
i can try enquiring on accomodation..XD (the place where i stayed is DAMN convenient....it's at Taipei Main station aka KL Sentral)
December we go....or maybe we try to coincide with Comic Party Taiwan (or whatever that's called..hahahah)

WELL, i'll update a more precise and detail entry on my Taiwan trip when i get the feeling to...I'm still feeling tired and lethargic now..hahha

Listening to : -----
Mood : -_-

MeRrY KuRiSuMaSu and a HEpI NeW YeaR~!

2010-12-24T23:19:00.000-08:00

heyo all...

A very merry kurisumasu and soon enough, HAPPY NEW YEAR.!!

a lot have happened this year...well, a lot of first times for me actually..haha..
I bought my first phone on my own...(meaning i paid 100% for it...without my parent's help..XD)
--no, you can't blame me..i haven't changed my phone in almost 6 -7 years....)
I attended my FIRST CONCERT, which is Adam Lambert's Glamnation (which, subsequently made me go fanatic over him..LOL)..
I had my nails did for the first time...(black nail polish FTW!!)
I had my very first Solo shoot (Whadaya Want From Me MV)
and lastly, I'm going to go on my Solo trip with my colleagues...
(solo as in, i'm not travelling with my family anymore..!! -- oh, for the record, Singapore doesn't count...because it's only a weekend..haha)
OHH...also, i attended my first International ACG Convention..!!! (okay, not anywhere in Japan, but AFA in Singapore sounds good enough..XD)

ANYWAY~~~
with 2010 saying bye bye, i also noticed a lot of things had happened...
a lot of financially frightening stuffs actually..

First of all, yeah.. i bought myself a new phone...but then thing is, i had no choice because the old phone i was using is on the verge of exploding..LOL!!
the battery is all swollen....and to quote the shopkeeper
' Nah...it won't explode, but it will DEFINITELY explode..' (in cantonese, it sounded a little bit more severe..haha)

So there you go....spend a whopping RM1500++ on a new phone....(there goes my credit card)

THEN, my car got rammed by the automatic gate in my house, because my younger bro went and press the button when i was reversing my car...so my poor 'husband' had a dent at the back door..T^T

I lost my pendrive, bought a new one....and the new one died on me in less than 3 months....
talk about....crappy luck?
Also, my Speaker, that has been with me for 5 years, had it's main plug fried because of a power surge......Good thing i manage to salvage it by using a 3rd party main plug......
But i still spent a good RM250++ getting a new speaker....

So, many things happened.....but as they say, bad things are intertwined with good things...just like the rope....
I still had fun and pricless experiences...
Like going to Cameron Highlands with my crazy colleagues...as well as the Tanjung 'Sampat' trip...
And my bro finally did his ROM....XD on christmas eve no less.....
Fun but tiring...

I'm looking forward to my countdown to bid farewell to year 2010.....this time it'll be my first time...OUT OF MALAYSIA...!!!
Wohoo....Taiwan here i come..!!!!

So, i guess this will be my last post for this year, and before is sign off...

have a MERRY KURISUMASUUUU...AND A HAPPEEEYYYY NEW YYEEARR~~!!! XD

Listening to : TM Revolution - Sword Summit
Mood : ^_____^

Biggest Loser...sweat and tears..

2010-12-15T00:12:00.001-08:00

Have you ever watch a reality TV show and cried?
yeah....well, it happens to me all the time..
Survivor, The Amazing Race...blablabla...
and also not forgetting The Biggest Loser...

The funniest thing was....I was in gym that time, and there was this episode (the transformation episode) whereby the contestants had a makeover, dress up and meet with their loved ones...
I had to suppress my tears because i was kinda embarrassed to show my tears to my friends..LOL
ANYWAY.....

I didn't cry this time because of the meeting-up-with-loved-ones-oh-so-touching scene...
i shed tears because i could relate myself to one of the contestant's siblings.

Pardon me, but i forgot his name..LOL..
but still, the contestant's brother was kinda huge too...and he didn't manage to get pass the audition part..i think...not too sure about that though..
when he met up with his transformed brother, he cried.....saying that ' Now i'm the only huge one (in the family) '

it kinda reflected back to how i was too last time...
everytime i went out with my friends, they could easily pick up clothes and shoes from the shelves.....where else i had to find those huge guy tshirts (sizing XXXL -no, i'm not joking)
It's very depressing everytime you see a piece of nice clothing, but it couldn't even go past your chest....
and it's even more depressing when you ask for the biggest size, and the promoter tells you that even the biggest size couldn't fit you...

Have any of you guys been through this? well....i have...a few times in fact...

Many people ask me why am i performing self-torture by starving myself, working out like a mad horse, keeping count of my calories..
well, you guys just couldn't understand what i've been through...
You guys have been thin all your life.....whilst i have been otherwise....

Don't tell me you understand how i feel.....you just dont....
Like the saying goes, if it doesn't prick you, it doesn't hurt....

yeah, sometimes i do eat normal food (rice, spaghetti and the likes..) but have you guys seen how much i've self tortured? NO....you guys do not know how hard i work in the gym, how difficult it is to contain the urge to grab a bite at night.....
So, for you people who often comment on what i eat......cut some slack ok? i'm also human..i need life....
don't come up to me and say ' EHHHH, YOU EAT SPAGHETTI A? IT'S DAMN FATTENING WAN YOU KNOW??!?!?!' or ' DO YOU KNOW THAT EATING BREAD/BUN LIKE THAT IS WORST THAN EATING RICE!!??'

duh, it's like telling me 'your mom is a woman!!!'

I know what's the limit, i know what to do........so, unless you know how to construct your sentence, just shut up....
Don't rub it in anymore........you don't know what i've been through to reduce my size to this.....

Listening to : Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou - Ano hi Time Machine
Mood : =_=

Pre CF preparation....

2010-12-11T02:47:00.000-08:00

Comic Fiesta, the annual biggest (or so they say...^^) ACG event in Malaysia is next week...I'm sure most of us out there are running around like mad because of unfinished project/costumes/props...

Well, technically speaking, mine is done....just that, i need to make some minor props....which is simple..
What's fun was....today, the team came over to my house, and we did wig and hair styling...
i trimmed Sadako's wig, a Pink Sadako's wig...and Ron's wig...LOL!!!
(I LOVE RELYSS'S WIG COLOR OMG!!!)

i admit that i haven't been styling much wigs lately and i'm a little rusty with my skills..LOL..
but nevertheless, i hope you guys are happy with it? (dun care, not happy also bo pian.....HAVE TO HAPPY WITH IT...!!)

It was fun styling See Wah's hair with the curler...MAN, 5 girls and none of us know how to use that curler thingy.......
But lol..the end effect was kinda awesome, and with make up on, i believe See Wah's cosplay this year will be EPIC.......or...SMEXILICIOUS....
i wouldn't mind being killed by her...XD

CF is one more week....
frankly speaking, i wasn't that excited until the team came over to my place...
It's as if, i totally forgotten how it felt like to look forward to an event......So many things happen....I was sick, Bro was sick, laptop died, handphone died.......i totally didn't think of CF until today......
HECK, i was thinking of my Taiwan trip more than CF.....

but now....the team sparked my interest in the event again....and well...
YOSHHHHHHHHHHHh.....!!!!! MOERUZEEEEEeee..!!!

SEE WAH..!! WE SHALL STARVE OURSELVES TOGETHER..!! LOL!!!!!!

Listening to : Mao - 詩音
Mood : XD

Malaysian drivers drive like drunkards....

2010-12-09T17:14:00.001-08:00

Malaysian drivers drive like drunkards....it's no wonder you come across with fatal accidents one after another in the newspapers, EVERYDAY!
first, there is the crazy u turn kancil......heck, it's common sense you don't make an illegal u-turn at highways.....it's enough that you jeopardize your own life.....and with passengers in your car...you're an indirect 'murderer'....and what about those oncoming cars?
really..no sympathy for that kid driver...but i do sympathize with his friends....the innocent passangers and also the guy who got hit (oncoming) on the other side of the road....

OK..that's that...
my case...this morning, there's this old ruby colored mercedez number plate ' BCD 765 ' suddenly wanted to cut into my lane at the toll area.... i mean..HELLO!??! i'm right beside you, can't you at least wait till i pass? i'm going straight for heaven's sake...and you, from the rightmost lane (smart tag), wanna go into the leftmost booth.....
and to make things worse....you are smoking?
(not trying to be racist or whatever here but....she is a malay lady, wearing light blue tudung, smoking.....UGH...what an ugly sight)

THEN....she goes and hog the fast lane for god knows how long......really, these people, even if they are invovled in an accident, i'll just drive by them.....no sympathy for these people....

OKAY, after that......there's this civic driver, who couldn't make up his mind which lane to move....and was moving in and out of the fast and middle lane....
COME ON, it's rush hour, you're gonna kill someone by doing that....stupid murderer....

Also, there's this avanza also doing the same thing...seriously.....why do people drive ON the line......the line is supposed to INDICATE that you're going out of your lane...

so yeah...like i said......Malaysian drivers, memang asked for it.....every morning, without fail, i'll hear stories like..'on the kesas highway, there's a fatal accident' or ' on the NKVE, there's an overturned lorry' or something like that..

What i can see, well...they asked for it.....they themselves drive like drunkards....

Listening to : Sam Tsui - Don't Stop Believing
Mood : =_=

Spammers....PFft

2010-12-05T00:51:00.000-08:00

noticed anything missing from my blog?
*hints : it's on the left panel*

OKAYy..in case you didn't know, i removed my CBOX....
i couldn't stand all the spams and misc comments there...which are obviously spammers....heck, i wonder where these people find the link to my blog from...
it's no popular blog, nor is it any blog covering on food, cosplays, travels, etc..
it's just an ordinary blog that contains junks and crap on my life....

So, why spam on my blog? SHeeesh....
These people have too much free time in their hands......go.......mow the lawn or sumthing....=_=

Listening to : -
Mood : Cranky....(i'm hungry...=_=)

Dawn is here....

2010-11-29T03:39:00.000-08:00

wohoo...after my mentally stressful days last week, finally dawn has arrived....
I got my phone back, and now it's as good as new...

apparently the motherboard for the phone was faulty, which is why i kept having those charging problems a couple of weeks ago.....(pfft, pretty 'lucky' to be getting that phone....its like, i'm destined to get a faulty phone....=_=)

ANYWAY~~~
now that Okita is back with me, it's as if the burden of waiting has been lifted off my shoulders.
(so, time for more photos..!!!)
i've been on a stagnant with my photo uploads lately, well...because my phone incident and also my laptop..
i can't edit much photos in the office now because i haven't got much free time....

So, most probably i'll have someone else edit the photos should we have any future photoshoots..
As for the AFA ones, maybe i'll get tsu or relyss to help out......

RIKO :: i'll pass your kazuki shots to tsu/relyss to edit ya? coz i really have no free time...i need to rush a whole lotta stuffs in the office....
And my laptop dying on me isn't helping much.....=_= i'm now using my bro's netbook, and it's TOO SMALL TO EDIT ANYTHING...

So yeah.....well, hopefully i can get my new machine in January 2011.....coz my condition now...well, it's pathetic...^^;;; BUT, i'm still eternally grateful to my bro for this machine....

Listening to : Yuna Ito - Precious (wedding extended version)
Mood : ^o^

Stress status...LEVEL UP!!

2010-11-26T01:17:00.001-08:00

yeah....with recent stuffs that had happened to me, i believe my stress status should've leveled up.
Falling sick worsen the whole condition...

I needed to rant this pent up feelings, but then i don't feel like opening my mouth to express them...oh well, that's what blogs are for rite?
Yeah, well...i'll be getting off work in less than 1 hour, but then.....today's Friday just sucked...
I had no mood to do anything at all....ok, being sick is only part of the reason...

I'm worried about my phone.....somehow, i get this uneasy feeling that i've made the wrong choice....
Yeah, i love the phone, but with it giving me so much problems, i feel it's just not the right phone for me..

I've already sent the phone for warranty repairs since last week, and till now there's no news..
i called the shop up yesterday, and the lady told me that there hasn't been any news on it yet.....GOSH, why must this happen to me?
I just needed a phone......why can't it go smoothly...

2010 is a bad year...yeah, well..there are nice things happening, but i hated it more than i loved it....

On a random note....
well, i know there's a dinner with my fellow colleagues after work...but i just can't make myself to be all hyper and happy....
i practically have no mood to enjoy now that i'm feeling like shit, and that my laptop is dead as well as my phone's condition, unknown......
i just want to go home and bury myself in my bed....

Listening to : David Archuletta - Things are gonna get better
Mood : Cranky...

PS : coincidence? The song title.....*points up*
well, let's just hope that it really gets better.....they say that before dawn arrives, the night is the darkest......=_=
so i'm praying that my night is over and dawn has arrived.....

finally........it happened....

2010-11-25T03:41:00.000-08:00

yeah well...i finally know what is the final thing that would be out of order...
1st was my phone battery....
2nd was the pendrive..
3rd was the laptop..
and finally now......

it is my health....

Yeap, i've finally fallen sick.......The last time i had a flu was back in January.....and after 11 months of endurance, my body finally gave in....
After popping the little red medicine of doom, now i'm feeling giddy all over...

Oh well, but better sick now then later..
CF is less than 30 days away and what better time to fall sick if not now?
Besides, i'll be going to Taiwan on the 28th of December, so i might as well have a full blown flu now rather than bringing this dreaded disease to Taiwan with me....

So, gotta look at the bright side of everything y'know.....
Also, i had a good laugh in the office today because of the stupid remark a certain colleague of mine made...LOL!!!
it was EPIC...LOL!!! about heart health and BaK KUa...LOL
(never ask a sick person for ideas....absurd things will be mentioned...)

PS....i've decided to get a 27 inch iMAC after i'm back from Taiwan....so for the time being, this little petit netbook will be my best friend....*smiles*
So, no photo editing from me until i get my iMAC......SORRY TEAM~~~!!!!

Listening to : Football game on TV
Mood : Dizzyyy.......@_@

my SUEYness hits it's prime

2010-11-21T05:38:00.000-08:00

yeah, well..remember my entry on me being suey?
that my handphone and pendrive died on me?

well, this time it dealt an ultimate damage on me..
My laptop is finally dead.....Yeah, after 5 years (or so) with me, it finally died.
I'm not sure whether i could retrieve the stuffs in the hardisk, but somehow, surprisingly...i do not feel that much pain..

yeah well, i know i have to fork out more $$$ to get a new machine, but somehow i didn't feel that frustrated. Maybe i'm already immune to it? seeing that the blow of spoilt electronic devises have been haunting me since monday.

1st it was my Handphone. The battery was giving me problems and that it couldn't be fully charged no matter how long i charged it.
Sent for warranty maintenance and hopefully i'll get good news...

2ndly, it was my pendrive...it was an 8gb pendrive of no more than 3 months. Yeap, it died on me..
something about being corrupted and that it couldn't be read on both MAC and PC.....

the 3rd one is my laptop. I was using it normally, surfing the internet with my winamp on...and all of a sudden, the entire laptop went poof....it shut down by itself....after attempting to on it, this appeared

" Operating Systems not found "

yup, i know it's some serious stuffs when that shit came out..
So, even though the stuffs in it could be retrieved (my bro told me it could...*crosses fingers but not gonna put much hopes*) i think it's high time for me to get a new machine..

Financially counted all my expenses and well, hopefully this year we'll be blessed with Bonus and increments.....else, i think i have to really 'JIAK CHOW'....
that blardy iMAC is RM6886 for heaven's sake...=_=

Listening to : ------
Mood : fucked up......try having your laptop/PC die on you, and you'll understand how i felt.

* spoilers Hakuouki Hekketsu Roku episode 6 *

2010-11-21T00:46:00.001-08:00

HOLY MOTHER OF ALL BISHIES~~~~
why the hell did they kill off 2 characters in Hakuouki episode 6??????
OMFG.....

**** spoilers....if you dun wanna be spoilt, then...click that 'x' button on the top right (if you're using PC) or on the top left (if you're using MAC)...LOL!! ****

ANYWAY~~~
I expected Okita to well....die in episode 6, but i did not expect SANO to die too..!!
i m like..WTF??? SANO is supposed to be the surviving member of the Shinsengumi..and here he is, being the first to die.....(well, don't count Kondou..because he dies in all of the characters storyline)...

Sano and shinpachi should've survived the in the story....but here Sano goes and die first........
okay...i thought that'll be the only death in episode 6...Boy was i wrong..
The heartwrenching scene is only about to start...

Souji, despite his condition, comes and 'visit' hijikata and demands to know why he didn't save Kondou....and then walks off after being told by Chizuru.....
Yeah, well...he overhears a bunch of wannabe samurais wanting to kill hijikata because he couldn't retaliate much in his injured condition...

Souji, using the last of his strength, turns into a Rasetsu and fights......using up the rest of his life...yeah, in short..he dies...
It is just so sad that before he engaged in the battle, he coughs up a pail of blood (lol..yeah, no, not exaggerating here...REALLY It'S A LOT~~!!!)

Even so, he pushed himself and mumbled to himself......
‎" Since Kondou-san entrusted the Shinsengumi to Hijikata-san, I've gotta protect him...right? "

Then, he started killing the wannabe samurais, and when asked who he was....
This was his final sentence...

" Shinsengumi 1st Unit captain, OKITA SOUJI~~!! "

while hijikata is slowly limping his way to the outskirts of town (after hearing there was a White Haired man fighting to protect the town), Souji is slowly dieing, and when hijikata finally arrives at the scene of the battle, only souji's sword remained..all bloodied and battered.

It was just too sad...i believe Souji had turned into dust (because that's what the Rasetsu becomes when they die)
and the ending theme elevated the sadness......T^T (Souji's part is the most poignant part in the ending theme...T^T)
I actually lost interest in Souji a little because he had so little air time in the anime, but after episode 6, i will forever love him....
SOUJI!!!!!! <3<3<3<3<3

as for episode 7.......yeah, mark my words......Saitou's the next to go...
he died in Hijikata's storyline.....in the Aizu battle.....
so yeah.....after Saitou's turn, it'll be Sannan and Heisuke (they used up their lifes and turned into dust)

It'll be great if they had the anime follow the general storyline......but.....well, you can't please everyone...

Souji, you'll be forever loved..!!!!!!

Listening to : Hakuouki Hekketsu Roku - Akane Sora ni Negao
Mood : =_=

SUEY beyond words.....

2010-11-18T19:12:00.001-08:00

It's either there's a God of POVERTY walking behind me, fanning me his unlucky vibes, or i am just plain SUEY...

First, after coming back from my Singapore trip, my newly bought handphone of not more than 6 months, had battery problems....
I charged it for a day, and all it showed me was a pathethic red bar left in the battery gauge.
There was indication that it was charging, but then the battery just wouldn't be full.......
BUT, i've sent that for warranty last night...hopefully all would be well.....
(in case you were wondering, no...it didn't go 'scuba diving' before, not had it 'bungee jumped' without a string...in other words...it has not been submerged in water nor was it blown with impact from dropping...it was a well protected phone....)
STILL, it gave me problems......(should've gotten an iphone instead, maybe such problems won't surface?)

NEXT, my pendrive...today..died on me...
I just got it less than 3 months ago....my 8GB Pendrive(Brand) USB pendrive....
i was trying to transfer some files into the pendrive, then....it got stuck at the 2.82gb part....for god knows how long..
Tried on another machine.....ALSO the same thing..
THEN i tried it on a PC..(the previous 2 times was on a MAC).....to no avail also..
so i decided to reformat it......what happens next?
well, in the end the thing became just a scrape metal......couldn't be read at all on both MAC and PC....so yeah.....i RIP i guess.....
time to get a new one....
MOst probably i'll get a 4GB one now instead...and i'm changing brands...this one sucked......a mere 3 months and that's it.....

I wonder what's going to spoil next?

Listening to : Angela Aki - Kiss Me Goodbye
Mood : Fucking pissed off.....

Next Up.....CF!!!

2010-11-18T00:39:00.001-08:00

Now that AFA is over, time to look towards the future and welcome Comic Fiesta.
(my AFA report is conveniently at my DA journal, so go here for my thoughts on AFA X >>> AFA X : The Report)

Okay, hopefully there is nothing much to rush for CF except the fact that i need to either maintain, or lose more weight...
Also, i'm still contemplating whether or not to use my real hair for my cosplay....LOL..yeah..all those petty stuffs...
But most of the major stuffs are already settled.....LOL...recycle cosplays FTW!!!

my main concern now is ......my colleagues are planning a lot of makan sessions these few weeks..and with close colleague's birthdays and day trips....well...let's just say i need to work extra harder when i go home for my daily jog. Meaning instead of 5 rounds, i have to jog 10 rounds?
or maybe i have to go on extreme DIET once again once the calendar hits December.

YEah, well....with cosplays, my main concern is always my weight.....i'm not gifted with CLAMP like bodies, nor long and slender legs like.....sailormoon's?
THOUGH, i believe i'll feel more comfortable this year...LAst year i burnt a lot of eyes and mentally abused a lot of event goers.....So no more female cosplays this year...WOHOO!!!!
no more heels.......WOHOOOO!!!!
no more SHORT SKIRTS..WOHOO!!!!
no more thick make up WOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
(yay.i can sleep later..hahhaahahahah..RIKO YOU WAKE UP AND MAKE UP FIRST LA LOL!!!!)

AHEM~~~
so yeah...random rant coz i can't concentrate liao..LOL!!!

CF BANZAIIIIiiii...!!!
(i hope Kaname & Aira could appear here too, but meh...you can't please everyone..T^T)

Listening to : Code Geass R2 - World End
Mood : Sleepy~~~

AFA n Singapore...HERE I COME!!!

2010-11-11T04:08:00.000-08:00

WOhoo...!!! i'm on leave for 1 week after this..!! (ok, including the weekends la...LOL)
it's been a while since i last went for a break...the last time was.......during.....CHINESE NEW YEAR OMAIGOD...!!!

ANYWAY~~~
i'll be disappearing from Malaysia from tomorrow onwards till sunday night, because i'll be flying down to SINGAPORE!!!!
WOhoo.......
Yeah, well..it's a 2 in 1 trip. The main driving point of going down there is for the AFA event...(if you don't know what's AFA, please ask uncle google....)
another reason, well....visit my cousin, lepak and err...visit singapore? (last time i went down to singapore was .......back in college...like...5 years ago...=_=)

So, hopefully all goes well....
hated the fact that a certain 'relative' visited me today though......=_=
SHEeeshh.....

Listening to : Fruits Basket - Teru Teru Momiji
Mood : Sleepy but excited!

if i should die.....

2010-10-23T23:57:00.000-07:00

it'll be because of coffee...
yeah..i was shocked because of my cholesterol level. Recently i tested my cholesterol levels in the office and i was really really shocked of the number that appeared on the machine...
It's even higher than my mom's cholesterol level and she is on medication.
I mean, i know my family has a history of high cholesterol, but i never knew it'd happen to me like..so fast..!!!

but, i'm eating right....i exercise daily.....and well...i'm doing everything right...so what's wrong?
Then i thought...could it be coffee?
(because i tend to drink excessive amounts of coffee per day..sometimes up to 4 mugs per day)
true enough, there's this substance called terpenes and Cafestol....in unfiltered coffee...
The coffee that i drink usually are those instant coffee powders...so i doubt it's filtered....

THERE YOU HAVE IT..the culprit of my sky rocketing cholesterol levels....
So, if i should die, it'd be because i'll be hit by stroke....=_=
as much as i love coffee, i believe i love my life more.....LOL!!!

so...BYE BYE COFFEE~~~~ T^T
*waves*

Listening to : Tales of Graces - White Wishes (english)
Mood : headache....a little...=_=

letters are the things that connect our HEARTS

2010-10-21T23:33:00.001-07:00

****** WARNING ******
POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOR TEGAMI BACHI/ LETTER BEE
(if you have not read the manga till chap ter 43, then i highly recommend you to skip this entry)
i needed to blog about this.....XD

YEah....well, i'm very very extremely obsessed with Tegami Bachi / Letter Bee now.
It was almost the same obsession i have when i watched Saiyuki last time. It's not that Tegami Bachi has any bishies or whatever (okayy....admittedly, Gauche is much love...also Jiggy Pepper..XD)

But, it's the meaning of the show....i never knew letters have that much meanings to it...
Put a thought into it, should there be no Handphones, no computers, no sms, no webcams, no messanger and blogs...oh..and not forgetting Facebook..LOL...
What if all these is nonexistent?
how are we to contact our loved ones should be we miles apart from them?

YEs, the only things around are letters.
In Tegami Bachi's world, no such thing existed, that's why the Letter Bees are the carriers of hopes and news...

There's a strange attraction to this manga/anime/story that i can't put into words...
It reminds me of FullMetal Alchemist...but FullMetal Alchemist didn't make me cry as much as this series.
(well, maybe because Lag is a crybaby here..LOL)

But anyway, it's really really nice and i would definitely recommend this anime/manga to anyone who loved FullMetal Alchemist.

*** warning once again, spoilers begin here....well, some of it wouldn't make sense if you havent read till chapter 43 though....***

The 2nd opening theme really reflected what Lag's feelings on Gauche...(no! not yaoi mind you.....i like to look at them more like brotherly love)
It's really really really sad to see what has become of Gauche. The very first time i watched the first episode of this series, when i saw Gauche, i already loved him A LOT..(it's the same unexplainable feelings i have for Heine Westenfluss of Gundam Seed Destiny) And knowing that i loved him a lot and that he is not the main character of the series, i already know something really BAD would happen to him..
especially when he explained to Lag that should one fire too much shindan, that person will lose his heart and be an empty shell.....The moment he mentioned that to Lag, i already know that something similar would happen to him...

true enough....he lost his heart...and lost all memories of him being Gauche.......And you can feel how heartbroken Lag and Sylvette is....
Even though they got him back, he is still Noir. He is Noir with Gauche's memories in Gauche's body. Somehow, i feel unless the manga-ka reveals what happened to him, Gauche wouldn't return. Hiroyuki Asada is truly a genius at stirring up the reader's feeling. One moment, he will let you feel as if Gauche had returned, but at the same time, you'll feel that MAYBE THAT ISn'T GAUCHE after all.....
(well, that's what i felt when i read the manga the whole time they had Gauche back...)

I really hope that this series will have a happy ending...really, i don't give much of a damn for endings (happy or not, it's just another story)...but there are only a few series that i really really really hope to have good and happy endings.
I was really happy with FMA's ending.....Chrono Crusade was okay, but i loved the ending too.
Zettai Kareshi's was DAMN FREAKING SAD I TELL YOU......i had wanted Knight to live on, yuu watase had to kill him off....i cried like shiat..!!!

As for Tegami Bachi? my ideal ending for it would be that Gauche got back his memories and is back being Gauche again.....and that eventhough Sylvette is wheelchair bound, he had his brother, Gauche....Lag, Niche, Steak, Aria and a whole lotta people together. Lag having lost his mother could still have a family with the Suedes, and also Niche and Steak. Then, Gauche will retire being a Bee and help out at the Sinners weaponry/ bakery while Lag continues on to be a Letter Bee and continues his aim to be the Head Bee.
Yeah...that'd be a happy ending.....
(lol..you can't hope for too much rite? it'd be fake and illogical if Gauche becomes the Head Bee, that way he'll have to be apart from his family.....and if Gauche is the Head Bee, then Lag would have to surpass Gauche. That'd make Gauche and Lag become rivals...=_=|||)

but yeah...it's a rant, but something that has been in my mind since i started this series......

Listening to : Tegami Bachi - Love Letter no Kawari no kono Uta wo
Mood : touched...by the above song lyrics

Here it is again...

2010-10-20T07:12:00.000-07:00

Yeah...my old friend is here to visit me again..
Yes, the unexplainable 'emotional stressful' feeling........
Why?
well...i've been having hard time to sleep since monday....yes, i sleep at 12am....but i toss and turn and don't usually fall into deep sleep.
There must be something that is worrying me...but i just can't pinpoint on what the matter is.

I thought my drowning myself in the deep abyss of Animes and Mangas could cure it, but yeah...just for that moment, i tend to get my mind off whatever i'm worrying about (in which, i have absolutely no idea....) and focus on the anime/manga..
But after that....when i lie on the bed looking off into the white ceiling, i just can't sleep.

I thought of sleeping pills, but then i have none at home....
Drinking beer and wine is out of the question..
What is this emotional stressful feeling i'm going through now?!?!
i just don't know........really, i just don't know......

Listening to : Tackey & Tsubasa - Tremolo
Mood : Stressed up, but dunno why...=_=

Glamnation Glammed up well....

2010-10-16T03:26:00.000-07:00

All i can say is...

ADAM LAMBERT is the greatest GLAM idol of the century..!!!!
yup, i went for the concert......i believe a lot has been mentioned in the newspapers regarding the stupidity of 'certain people/party' protesting his performance.....
(heck, stupid is as stupid does i guess? if you guys cant accept his performance, then DON'T COME AT ALL!!!!)

what i can see is, a superbly talented person, who came across the seas to puny little malaysia and performed an awesomely glammed concert.
I don't see any harm done, even if he does his usual kiss-tommy-tougue-tiving thing on stage....so what?!?!?
it's all part of the show....it's all part of art...
if you can't accept that form of art, then go hide yourself in a conservative cave and rot there....

ANYWAY~~~~
back to glamnation...XD
At the dot at 6pm, me and tiffany dashed out of the office......fearing that we'll be stuck in the traffic, we had to leave on the dot.
I was amazed that we manage to find the place (mind you, we didn't know where the stadium was, so we main bantai find the place with a bunch of google map printouts..LOL)
We reached at approximately 6.55pm or so, and parking was ABUNDANCE that time.....

both me and tiff had never attended concert such as this (i've attended VGL, but that is orchestrated type of performance...so it's very DIFFERENT~!)
so we're not exactly sure how the situation was. We wandered around, searched for food and took some photos......
After eating, we went to our numbered seats and waited for I Lin and the show to begin. I Lin missed the first 3 opening performances by our Malaysian Idol and another 2 more (i dunno their names..LOL...) Not bad, but compared to Adam?..........LOL.......incomparable..XD

The hilarious thing was the barricade became 'unbarricaded' when the lights went out...LOL..
(OHHH.!! randomly....MY WINAMP IS PLAYING FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT NOW!!! OMAIGOD!!!!)
the fans pushed forward, ignoring the barricade......me and tiff were like 'OMAIGOD....these people are scary!!!!'

At about 8.30pm or so......THE GLAM began.....XD (Good thing I Lin came in time!!!)
i couldn't believe my eyes...i'm looking at Adam Lambert LIVE!!!!
I almost had tears flow down my cheek because..OMAIGOD..i'm looking at him live..!!!!!
I didn't take any photos, because unlike most malaysians, i respect the rules set up that no cameras/videocams are allowed......So i tucked away my phone after some camwhoring sessions and enjoyed the show...

And yes...it's the BEST performance EVER..!!!
I loved it a lot when he sang Fever, For Your Entertainment, If I Had You and the iconic Whadaya Want from Me.
OH OH~~~~ when he introduced the crew, particularly Tommy (his bassist), in my mind....i was thinking 'sHonen ai, shonen ai, shonen ai' ALL THE TIME..!!!
LOL.....i give it a chop of approval...XD

All in all, i'm still suffering the aftermath of the concert...(see what Adam Lambert did to me?)
i even started calling MiLo, Adam...LOL..(and my mom was like ' Lambert sounded nicer....)
Adam Lambert FOREVER!!!
PLEASE COME TO MALAYSIA AGAINNNNNNNNN...!!!!!!!

Listening to : Adam Lambert - Whadaya Want From Me
Mood : XD XD XD

NIke 10km run on TEN TEN TEN...!!!

2010-10-10T18:27:00.001-07:00

Why would one, wake up at dawn on a Sunday morning..(wait..i dun think it's dawn...is 4am dawn? =_=)
for no particular reason?
well, actually, there is a reason.....LOL...

I woke up on 10-10-10 for a 10km run in KL. Kinda memorable if you asked me...
That was one of the biggest group of runs i've gone with. Our group consisted of.....
- Me!
- Tiffany
- Swit Yee aka AGU
- Anne
- Swee Leng
- See Wah
- Li Ern

Twas a funny thing getting to Swee Leng's place....We had absolutely no idea how to get to our meet up point (O & S cafe), and we were 'playing' U turns at this particular traffic light.Then there was this uncle sitting around there (duno for what, it's freaking 6am ++ in the morning..!!! crazy a!?!? sunday morning go and sleep la!!) and he was pointing at us..LOL..most probably for driving like a maniac in the morning..LOL!!!

Anyway, we zoomed to the venue and parked quite a distance from the starting point. (no choice, RELA guards were blocking the nearest parking lot...=_=)

So, i wanted to answer to nature's call, and dash for the nearest mobile toilet...and OMG...those people ..(yeah, 'those' people....you know what i'm talking about la...those 'wantons') USED the toilet for so freaking long...it's as if they were shitting inside...i really have no idea what they were doing inside.....i got annoyed waiting for them....stupid dumb pigs....

ANYWAY~~~
we proceeded to the starting line after that and i heard that JJ was around..!! WEEeee..!!!

I have no idea where Li Ern went..she was so 'kan cheong' that she dashed to the starting line up ASAP...

The run this time was relatively easier than expected. (okay, partially because i already did whatever 'business' needed to do at home..LOL!!)
I finished it in 59:09 (59 minutes and 9 seconds)...improvement much if you asked me...Because for my previous 2 runs (Std chartered and Siemens) i clocked in a disappointing 1 hour 40+ mins, and 1 hour 20+ mins respectively......Shitty time is shitty....=_=
This time i was a little bit more than an hour...so i was kinda happy with my achievement.

Then, obviously...with 7 girls and cameras around, we took some 'artistic' shots..XD

Posing with our 'Nike Nendos'

Which foot belongs to who?

The team!!!! GO TEAM FLUORESCENT MANGO!!!!

And finally, when we were on our way back to the car, I suddenly saw JJ jumping around off stage...and we managed to catch him to have a pic with us...XD
Great guy.......(pity Ean's not around....kinda like Ean a lot too...wanna really see how SHORT he is..LOL!!!)

Hitz.fm Morning Crew JJ and Team Fluorescent Mango..!!

Yeah, well...we didn't really get anything (Goody bags..cert...none..=_=) from the run, but the experience was priceless..!!! XD
it's the company that counts...XD
LOVE YOU GALS!!!!! *hugs and muacks*

Listening to : TM Revolution - Naked Arms
Mood : XD XD XD.....

BK201 Dagger

2010-10-03T01:44:00.000-07:00

okayy....once again, before i start, it's not entirely
the BEST prop out there. I have limited skills in making props for cosplaying, but at least i do it myself instead of buying it...

SO, on to the WIP...XD

First, i started by gathering materials like :-
- Mounting Boards
- Masking Tape
- Double Sided tape
- MORE Mounting boards...LOL

I got the blueprint of the dagger online, so much thanks to whoever who drew that out..really, thank you so very much..!!!
Then, i printed them out on A3 (actual scale) so that i don't screw them up on the measurements..(numbers are never my forte...^^)

So here it is...the actual size of the dagger...

It's kinda detailed, so really....my thanks to the person who uploaded this blueprint. You have my eternal gratitude..!!!

Then, i proceeded to work on the hilt first....so, i cut out the hilt part and traced it onto the board (seriously, i have no idea what this board is called..=_= it's those with spaces in between)

It's kinda straightforward....This is the middle and broadest part of the hilt, so i only needed to cut out 1 piece for this.

I made a mistake using the wrong board, so i replaced this with mounting board instead because the white one is much too thick...

ANYWAY~~
i proceeded to cut out the thinner part of the hilt which. I cut out 4 pieces of the exact same thing because i needed to glue this on on both sides of the hilt.

(ok, it was around this time, i noticed there were blood around my arms....and i didn't know that my thumb was actually bleeding from a cut...LOL!)

SO, next i glued everything together in the correct order and i noticed there was this metal thingy at the bottom of the hilt. So i decided to use wires instead of cutting out mounting boards for it......i could also secure the hilt with the wires to make it more sturdy (instead of it being...er....flimsy and...limp? LOL!! i know~ i know...bad word to use..LOL!!)

To make the thing look...er...slanted at the sides i used masking tape. Originally i wanted to use polysterene foam to make the hilt, but i'm no good in controlling the blade. LOL...
So yeah, that's that for the hilt....
I had to wait a day later to spray it because it was already 1am in the morning and it was raining ...=_=

I couldn't do anything much to the hilt now (no thanks to the rain =_=) so i continued on by cutting out the blades. I cut out 2 huge blade, and 3 smaller ones.
and then i placed 2 strands of hard wires in the blade so that the blade would be straight instead of being...er..limp? LOL!!!

LOL..it was around 2am after that, so i decided to stop......And after sitting on the floor for the whole day doing this, my back was SORE and aching!!!!
So i continued it the next day...which was a BRIGHT AND SUNNY DAY!!!
perfect for Spray painting!!!!

This is how it looks like after i spray painted the hilt. Not much yet because i have yet to mount the blade....XD
It practically looks something like this once mounted. But then this is just temporary...the blade could just slip off the hilt...because i didn't apply any adhesive on it yet...XD

So yeah, proceeded with the masking taping again......for the sharp blade effect...
Then i spray painted the blade, and TADAH...looks like this..!!!

Then i sprayed 2 strips of the thinner area of the blade, and taped it onto the blade. I get something like this...XD (man, i'm starting to sound like Art attack...=_=)

Yeah, i know it's a kinda crumpled on the sides, the couldn't be helped....i was working with a plastered finger..LOL!!

So basically, before mounting these 2 together, it'll look like this..

LOL...like a broken blade...XD...
After this, i was running around the house asking if anyone has UHU glue...i went WTF when everyone said no...i was like WTF?!?!?! no UHU GLUE AT ALL IN THIS WHOLE HOUSE?!?!?!?!?

then i went on a digging rampage...i dug for whatever liquid adhesive stuffs i could find in the house...originally i wanted to use PVC glue, BUT WHAT IF I SWING SWING THE BLADE AND THEN THE HILT AND THE BLADE GETS SEPARATED?!?!!? it's BLASPHEMY!!!!

TADAH...i then found my glue gun..!!! WHOAAAa.....good thing it was still working...and i still had glue tubes.....So i heated up the glue gun and fire away..!!!!!
And the result....XD

It's DONE!!!!!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...!!!!!
Okay, i admit it's not the BEST looking dagger out there, but still....ok ok la? XD

So now, the only thing missing from my project is the costume.....props i can make, but costumes....better leave it to the pros...LOL!!!
Most probably i'll make the mask again (if time allows) because compared to the dagger, the mask is a complete PHAILURE....=_=

Listening to : Darker Than Black - Kakusei Heroism ~The Hero Without A Name~
Mood : WEEEEEEEEE..!!!!!! XD

totally random....

2010-10-02T23:11:00.000-07:00

okay....tell me this..
how in the world, do i cut my finger......in which the finger that has the cut, was the finger on the hand that holds the blade?
(understand? LOL)

meaning....
i hold blade in my right hand...
but the cut (kinda deep too) was on the right thumb.....

WEIRD MUCH!!!!
(and i didn't realise that i cut it......there were blood all over the place and i was wondering where the blood came from..=_=)

After i realised where the cut was, only i began to feel painful..LOL!!!!

Oh well, most prolly today i'll post up another entry regarding the prop that made me bleed...LOL

Listening to : SoulJa & Aoyama Thelma - Soba ni Iru ne
Mood : =_=....very hard to type sms with a plastered thumb..=_=

Mask Making?

2010-09-26T01:02:00.000-07:00

a little disclaimer here first...
I did this entirely on experimental ways. It may not seem as nice (in fact, it could be one of the worse mask made in history) but then, i kinda figure it works?
I'll see if i have extra time i'll try to make another one, one that looks better than this....

ANYWAY, first....we need to have these...
- Balloon
- Strips of Newspaper
- PVC glue
- Blade (DUH!?)
- Scissors (duh again?)
- marker
- Spray Paint/ Pastel Paint/ Watercolor (whichever you want to paint the thing with)

Well, yeah..you cut the newspapers into those strips...it's for the paper mache...^^
I drew a face shape onto the newspaper, it's for measurement purposes....

Then i drew the face shape onto the balloon with the marker (heck, you can use pen or pencil...lol..if you're skillful enough not to pop the balloon)

Yup..that's the size of my face..(okay, maybe slightly bigger than my face la...XD)

Then it's time for paper mache..!!
Well, i made a mistake when i was mixing up the glue substances....i added too much water instead of the glue.....=_= BUT, i coated another layer of glue without water onto the paper mache...i believe it worked out ok?

Then, the next thing i did was to let it dry, and pop the balloon.
Took about 1 whole day to dry, no thanks to the rainy weather...=_=
Also, LOL.....i was running around the house finding people to help me pop the balloon.....i didn't want to pop it myself...didn't know why...LOL!!!!

ANYWAY....here's the result...

Well, so far so good....I taped it with masking tape to secure it from opening up...(because i used the wrong mixture of glue and water...so it made it a little bit wobbly...=_=)

Then, i proceeded to painting it....It didn't turn out well for the spray painting part because of the newspaper strips.....there were obvious lines (which made it look so much like Jim Carrey's THE MASK =_=)

So i had to wrap it around with a flat layer of newspaper. That was the mistake, or so it seemed.
I don't know how to put it into words, but i coated another layer of glue on it...
The rainy weather didn't help much, so i had to speed things up by using the hairdryer.....

See what i mean by MISTAKE? haish..=_=
ANYWAY, i came so far already, i'm not gonna give up, so i continued on and painted in the details...

I had to make do with watercolor, because genius ol'me had forgotten to get poster paint. Oh well....
Oh, since i wasn't gifted with artisan's hands, i had to draw outlines of the details onto the mask first. Wouldn't wanna screw up the drawings now would i ? LOL....

so, after painting in the details....i finally finished my mask..!!!!
I believe, some would already know what mask this is...but then, not gonna put in the final thing, i might wanna mend the so-called finished product..^^

NEXT WEEK, gonna turn into a slave for prop making again.....=_=

Listening to : Makai Senki Disgaea - Kimi he no Ai wo
Mood : bububububu..~~~

COSUPURE BANZAI!!!! (taken from FB)

2010-09-24T03:58:00.001-07:00

I feel this is something i should put in my blog...LOL...
Since, it's....concerning cosplay? XD

1. Who did you first cosplay as?

Echizen Ryoma from Prince of Tennis (MAJOR PHAIL.....|||OTL)

2. When and where did you first cosplay?

Comic Fiesta 2004...i think (the one at Balai Seni Lukis Negara....)

3. When and where was the last time you cosplayed?

Well, if it's for events, then it'd be Tezuka Kunimitsu from Prince of Tennis.....If for photoshoots, it's Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier.

4. Who have you cosplayed as in the past? (newest on top)

(wah...this one jialat...must track back =_=)

Sheryl Nome -- Blue Dress version (Macross Frontier) ~ Photoshoot ~
Tezuka Kunimitsu (Prince of Tennis) ~ Photoshoot & C2AGE ~
Genjo Sanzo -- Red artwork version (Saiyuki) ~ Photoshoot~
Alto Saotome -- SMS uniform (Macross Frontier) ~ Photoshoot & GACC 2010 ~
Shinomori Aoshi -- Shishio Arc version (Rurouni Kenshin) ~ GACC 2010 ~
Usami Akihiko (Junjou Romantica) ~ Photoshoot ~
Mikhail "Michael/Michel" Blanc -- SMS uniform (Macross Frontier) ~ Photoshoot & CF09 ~
Juubei Kakei -- Default Version (Getbackers) ~ Photoshoot ~
Kururugi Suzaku -- Orange Military Version (Code Geass) ~ Photoshoot ~
Kaiba Seto -- Dominoe Battle City Version (Yu Gi Oh!)~ Photoshoot & DaiCon09 ~
Tsuchiura Ryotaro (La Corda D'oro ~Primo Passo~) ~ Photoshoot & DaiCon09 ~
Reppu no Sync -- 1st Green outfit version (Tales of the Abyss) ~ Animangaki ~
Akatsuki Kain (Vampire Knight) ~ Animangaki ~
Hotohori -- Casual Outfit version (Fushigi Yuugi) ~ Photoshoot & CF08 ~
Yamamoto Takeshi (Katekyo Hitman Reborn) ~ ACGC ~
Ichiru Kiryuu (Vampire Knight) ~ Photoshoot ~
Nowaki Kusama (Junjou Egoist) ~ Photoshoot ~
Superbi Squallo --Varia Arc (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!) ~ Photoshoot & CF08 ~
Zero Kiryuu - (Vampire Knight) ~ Photoshoot ~
Tzuzuki Asato (Yami no Matsuei) ~ Photoshoot ~
Shiki -- default version (Togainu no Chi) ~ Photoshoot ~
Hibari Kyouya -- Future Arc manga version (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!) ~ Photoshoot ~
Hibari Kyouya -- Varia Arc/sakura addiction album Version (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
Kaname Kuran (Vampire Knight) ~ Photoshoot~
Wanijima Kaito (Air Gear) ~ Photoshoot ~
Ichimaru Gin--3rd Division Captain version (Bleach) ~ Photoshoot ~
Takuma Ichijou (Vampire Knight)
Ayame Sohma (Fruits Basket) ~ Photoshoot ~ ÷÷÷ RETIRED ÷÷÷
Allen Walker (D Gray Man) ÷÷÷ RETIRED ÷÷÷
Athrun Zala (Gundam Seed)
Alleluyah / Halleluyah Haptism (Gundam 00) ~ Photoshoot ~
Roy Mustang (FullMetal Alchemist) ~ Photoshoot ~
Rabi --2nd Uniform (D Gray Man)
Yazoo (Final Fantasy Advent Children) ÷÷÷ RETIRED ÷÷÷
Kaoru Hitachinn (Ouran Koukou Host Club) ÷÷÷ RETIRED ÷÷÷
Heine Westenfluss ( Gundam Seed Destiny)
Atobe Keigo (Prince of Tennis)
Tamaki Suoh (Ouran Koukou Host Club) >> Bora Ombak Outing << ÷÷÷ RETIRED ÷÷÷
Seguchi Tohma -- Concert version (Gravitation)
Echizen Ryoma (Prince of Tennis)
Kikumaru Eiji (Prince of Tennis)

5. Who is your favourite person to cosplay as?

Actually, i have a lot..but if i really have to choose...i love cosplaying as Superbi Squallo from KHR. His is loud and noisy...just like me..haha..i don't have to hold back when cosplaying him...XD (but i have to drink lots of Red Bull man...cosplaying him needs energy...=_=)

6. Who do you REALLY wanna cosplay as?

Well, i love winged characters.....so it's either Yue, or Krad....though, Krad would be nicer...coz he is EVIL..!!!!!l

7. How many of your friends cosplay?

ERrr......i really seriously don't know...haha....but, they are great and awesome people.

8. Have you ever walked around in public in your cosplay outfit?

DUH..yeah....last time when i had my Bleach photoshoot in Putrajaya, then after that we went to Alamanda to have our lunch. People thought we were from Star Wars...=_=|||

9. Have people in public ever recognized you and asked for photos?

well, yeah.....i remember after a certain event near pyramid, me and my team went to Sunway Pyramid...when paying for parking, this Arabic girl tourist walked up to me and riko and said' VAMPIRE KNIGHT!!! CAN I HAVE A PHOTO!!!!!' then she took off her tudung thingy....i went 0______0 *utterly shocked*

(she even mentioned that her mom would kill her if she knew...I LAGI TAKUT!!!! what if her mom kills me instead?!?!??!)

10. Have you ever made your own cosplay outfit?

ERRRrrrr.......PARTS of it...yes....the entire one....NO...(come on, it took me 2 hours to sew a badge on..=_=)

11. What was your favorite cosplay experience?

hmm....favourite? I believe it was during GACC '10. It was a road trip down to Melacca with the team, and we had SOOOOOOOOOO much fun during the first day of GACC. Well, not really for the event, but it was really really nice to be able to catch up with old friends, meet new friends and well.....cosplay XD. (i still remember taking WTF photos....i think i was wearing Riko's Megumi top with the Aoshi costume under it....and....er....Cikgu and Lacry was playing around with my Aoshi coat...LOL)

12. What is your worst cosplay experience?

Worst? hmmm...not much...but i kinda almost gave up on my Sheryl Cosplay because it started to rain when we arrived at the photoshoot venue. I was really feeling damn EMO that time. (and cosplaying as a female didn't help much...=_=)

Another one was well....i think during my photoshoot as Shiki from Togainu no Chi....i blacked out for a few seconds....everything was black...and it was a good thing i was sitting that time. I believe it was due to dehydration....and i was wearing black leather under Malaysia's immense heatwave. (in short, WANT TO BE HERO LA..DIDN'T DRINK WATER DURING THE SHOOT TSK TSK TSK)

13. When and where did you first learn of cosplay?

Went to this AXN anime event thingy, and then i saw cosplayers.....and i was like..WHOA...there's such a thing!??!?!?!? Then that year, i went to CF03, and was immediately brainwashed.....

14. What did you think of it then?

AMAZING.......and well...TOLD YOU ADY LOR..!! BRAINWASHED!!! =_=

15. What do you think of it now?

Addicted, and most of my lifestyle revolves around it. I go to gym, because i wanna stay in shape to cosplay. I take care of my skin, because i dun wanna have pimply face when cosplaying, I have certain hairstyles and hair color and maintain it for that certain character. When i buy clothes, i think whether or not i could use it for cosplay....

So, what do you think I think of it now? ^^

16. Where do you usually cosplay?

Events and Photoshoots....Most of the time photoshoots...XD

17. Have you iever done a cosplay skit on stage?

yeap...but then i never joined on my own name...it's usually to help out fellow friends...^^

18. Do you plan your cosplay outfits way before you’re meant to wear them?

YES....before i actually put on the costume, firstly i'll see if i like that character, whether or not the built is suitable, whether or not the costume is suitable for my body.....and the poses that will compliment the character and costume. Also, planning on material as well as where to get/ tailor them. A LOT OF PLANNING TO DO LA!!! (props summore leh?!!!? jialat lorrrrr...)

19. Ever have something terrible happen to your outfit?

HMmm...usually the leather ones are the ones that gives me headache. Because it's not REAL leather, it tends to peel off after some time....(especially the pants...T^T)

OH....and well, my sync costume's zip broke..T^T WAAAAAAAAA...*wails and cries*

20. What is the best thing about cosplay?

The confidence i gain and the friends i know. These 2 are the most valuable thing that money cant buy in the world.

21. What is the worst thing about cosplay?

err.....the financial status of my purse? LOL....it's a money consuming hobby...but to gain something, you have to sacrifice another...rite? XD

22. Why do you cosplay?

It improves me as a person. Yes, some might call me weird, freak and also nothing-else-better-to-do-ka? but it's something i do with passion. I could not guarantee how long i'll be indulging myself into this unique hobby but when i finally retire from it, i'll be able to look back, reminisce the wonderful times and be proud that i was once a cosplayer....

C = Confidence (but don't overdo it ^^)

O = Obedient towards rules set in events

S = Share your knowledge

P = Pride in your hobby & Priceless experiences

L = Learning through mistakes

A = Amazing friends made

Y = You are TAGGED! XD

Lovers Doll

2010-09-19T00:59:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time,
there was a doll that only needed his master's love to develop a soul.

But because he was so unique, he was feared by the people around him, and became very lonely.

Then one day, he met someone who would accept all of him for who he was, a master who gave him many new experiences and emotions.

After many trials, the two discovered their mutual love for one another, and swore to remain together forever.

Many long years later, the master's life was finally nearing its end...and even then, the doll remained at his master's side.

...And when his master finally passed away,
the doll never moved again....

Maybe...just maybe.....
Those two must've gone to heaven together.....

Well, yeah....this was taken from a manga entitled 'Lovers Doll'
A shonen ai manga i stumbled upon just 10 minutes ago.
It was nice albeit short, but definitely sweet. I definitely recommend this title to anyone who loves comedy, fantasy and a tinge of tragedy (just a tinge, not much ^^)

You could see that the master and the doll's relationship bloom and it is one of the sweetest thing in the manga.
Definitely one of the best manga i've read. Short, sweet and fulfilling.
(cute too..!! XD)

Listening to : Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou - Ano hi Time Machine
Mood : Shonen ai/Yaoi reading frenzy..!!!

i thank the heavens...

2010-09-17T08:54:00.000-07:00

Dear God,

Thank you so much for not letting me receive an emergency call today during work.
Thank you for ever protecting my grandaunt from the evil hands of snatch thieves.
Thank you....i'm ever so grateful, i promise to NOT EAT RICE at all during my entire next week during lunch.
It's a promise i make to you to show my gratitude.
Thank you God once again.

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Why you asked did i thank God ever so much?
Well, i just got one shocking news when i was came back home today.
When i was halfway having dinner, my mom broke the news to me...

My grandaunt was ALMOST robbed when she went for her morning market routine.
It happened near my house, it is the normal route i took when i went jogging.

My grandaunt was approached by a man riding on the motorcycle, who pretended to ask for directions. When my grandaunt said she didn't know anything, the man went away for a few minutes, only to return to her with a parang. (my grandaunt was en route back to my house that time)
So my grandaunt screamed out loud ' JANGAN JANGAN JANGAN!' then i suppose that son of a bitch got frightened and left.
then my grandaunt quickly walked home and related the story to my mom.

I am so thankful that i did not receive any emergency calls from home during work.
According to my grandaunt,the son of a lousy ass bitch shouted to her ' DUIT DUIT DUIT'.....and had rather tanned skin.
So i suppose it is a Malay.
what is a fucking lowlife like him doing in a chinese housing area?
Fuck it, if that fucking lowlife son of a bitch just so touch my grandaunt a bit, i swear to god, i'm going to go find a bomoh/witch and curse that fucking lowlife's 5 generations to come.

In fact, i'm already cursing that fucked up lowlife bitch's son. 5 generations to come, thta fucking son of a bitch will have children that is wrongly treated, and it will all reflect back upon what that son of a bitch had done in his life.
He will suffer, but his decendents will suffer even more pain and anguish.
I curse that his decendents REMEMBER HIM AND HATE HIM FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE.

Other than that, i Thank God for letting my grandaunt escaping this unharmed.

Listening to : Yuna Ito - Miss You
Mood : Cranky.....i hope that son of a bitch suffers eternal damnation. Let him burn in hell (or whatever damned place his religious believe has)

What A DREAM!!!!

2010-09-14T18:37:00.001-07:00

okay...i don't know how the heck i get this dream but here..

It was about KHR...=_=
i have no idea how long it was since i last watched the anime / read the manga...
so i have absolutely no idea how the hell i dreamt of this....

It's 10 years into the future, and well, somehow or rather....the varia arc happens there....(nope, sorry...no byakuran...didn't really like that arc....maybe subconsiously i omitted byakuran because of that..haha)
ANYWAY, the twist to this is....it's 10 years later, but the TYL and past versions of the characters are side by side. (as in, TYL later squallo and past squallo together..WOHOO...double squallo!!!)

and crazily enough, tsuna's character was omitted too....and replaced by non other than....yours truly...=_=
(though, i wasn't that useless la..haha)
and nope, there's no reborn either.....come to think of it, i didn't see mukuro and hibari either...
i only saw......Squallo, Xanxus, Gokudera, Yamamoto and Ryohei.....HMMmmmm.....

I remember running up to a rooftop, wanting to open this door, but only the guardian of the sun could open the door....something like, inserting the ring into this keyhole....and then the ring will turn into a key.....LOL...
Then Xanxus and Squallo appears (both young and TYL), and then the fight begins.....
and the funny thing was, i was wearing izaya's outfit....=_=....i am like...WTF?!?!?!

then...the alarm rang...hahahah...

from this dream, i can only say that......subconsciously, i might not want to sell my Squallo costume after all......which is maybe why i dreamt about this...
AND, i might be thinking too much on getting that izaya coat....LOL...
OH, how my life (and dream) is filled with cosplay......

Listening to : Code Geass R2 - Boku wa, Tori ni Naru
Mood : Sleepy....all those running in my dreams....made me tired...=_=

It still matters.....

2010-09-09T01:33:00.001-07:00

no matter how much i try to deny it, it still plays an important part..
yeah, i'm talking about body size....

i mean, you compare an L sized sebastian with an M sized sebastian cosplayer...
obviously the M sized one would look nicer...
No doubt that size is not a big issue with cosplays, (heck, there's photoshop, angles.....etc) but then still, those with a smaller frame looks nicer cosplaying.

So, i know many people told me that i've lost LOTS of weight, but still it's not enough....
I've always wanted to cosplay Lelouch, pilot suit alleluyah, pilot suit michael...but then, all those are body tight fitting costumes. People like me would look FUGLY wearing it....
So, my question here is...
how the heck do you lose inches around our hips?
(notice that i always cosplay characters with costumes that covers the ass? yeah...that's my weakness.....trying to fix that problem now)

i know spot reduction is impossible (unless i go for liposuction) but, is there any way to lose overall inches, but more on the hips?
(somehow, overall includes boobs...my bras are all getting bigger for no good reason...)

The bottom line is, no matter how much one tells me that body size doesn't matter when cosplaying....well, in reality is....it does...
you wouldn't want to see me as gunner yuna now do you? obviously someone with a smaller and sexier built will be more pleasing to the eyes....^^;;;

Listening to : GACKT - Journey through the Decade
Mood : =_=||| I AM FAT~~~~ T^T

The Glam Master is coming..!!!

2010-09-08T19:03:00.001-07:00

the Glam Master, Tongue Diving Diva is coming..!!!
yes, he is no other than ADAM LAMBERT!!

HOMG...i remembered i was telling Tiffany last time that should Adam Lambert comes to Malaysia for a concert, i'll definitely wanna go.
AND HERE HE IS!!!
he is set to perform on the 14th of October 2010 in Putra Indoor Stadium, Bukit Jalil.
well, yeah, i know it's a thursday.....and friday is a working day...but heck cares..i'm still gonna go.

The tickets are a little pricey but then again, it's ADAM LAMBERT!! (seriously, if i'm not going to Singapore in November, i'll be getting an even better sit, but then my funds have to be split up into 3 categories now.....because in October, my Revoltech Danbo is coming too....so i'm seriously broke beyond words.....T^T)

ANYWAY, i'm gonna go on a Adam Lambert rampage now, because he is OH SO AWESOME!
and lol, i would have already cosplayed him last month if it weren't for my hair outgrowing the plan.

Listening to : Adam Lambert - Time for Miracles
Mood : WOhoo....tmrw holiday~~~!! <3

Welcome to my Fanclub's night!

2010-08-28T09:07:00.000-07:00

Can you hear me my lovely boys and girls?

Yeap, that's the first sentence of the ever famous song sang by Sheryl Nome/ May'N from Macross Frontier.

Why did i start the blog with that sentence? well, it's to associate it with the shoot the Team had last weekend.
I woke up at 5am....come on...5AM!!!! what ungodly earth hour is that?!?!?!?it's the first time i woke up so early for a photoshoot..ALL because i needed to get make up done. Ugh, the tortures of cosplaying female characters. ANd a galactic fairy at that....=_=

ANYWAY, it wasn't that hard on me though, i just needed to sit there and be a mannequin. It was riko who was doing all the make up.
We took an hour to finish make up, and well...i was kinda grouchy because i am not a morning person AT ALL!!!So, we left the house after that to wait for the Yeoh Sistas and then we finally set out to Putrajaya once we met at the rendezvous point.

I never liked going to Putrajaya...it seems the person who did the signboards there are either illiterate, a big noob in directions, or just plain stupid. The signboards lead to no where and the roads are ALWAYS so confusing. I was actually losing my cool when i tried to go to the photoshoot venue. and the bonus was, it started to rain when we FINALLY reached the place.
No words could describe how frustrated i was that morning. I almost gave up the photoshoot (no, really..i wanted to change into my normal outfit already)...

Then good thing the rain subsided and we finally decided to shoot at one of the bridges in Putrajaya. As it was a Sunday morning, no one was around so we just got down the car and started shooting as we were already running late. (no thanks to the stupid rain)

What i don't understand was......everytime a car, bus or lorry drives by, they would honk. Why in the world would they honk at us? it's not as if we're blocking the road or wearing skimpy clothing...It was in fact all covered up.....it was like a normal school uniform!
Those perverted drivers would just honk at us, and drive by.......Perverted hentai jijis...i hope their eyes would just bleed and get infected by some kinda virus that would make them loose 50% of their vision. (no, i'm not that mean.....i want them to be able to see, but NOT CLEAR...that's the ultimate torture...to be able to see, and yet not be able to see....BWAHAHAH!!!)

Then there was this family who also came and took photos around the bridge. We then moved further away from them, but i realized that one of them (i suppose it's the father, what perverted father those kids have...i pity them) suddenly aimed at us with his camera. I immediately moved my arms and covered the direction in which they are shooting. STUPID PERVERTED PEOPLE! (oh, no intended malice comment here, but FYI, they were malays...... =_=)

SO, we decided to wrap up the shoot at about 10.30am because it was too hot to carry on, and the sun will just fry whatever shot we have.
I didn't really edited many shots because i was kinda busy, but here's what we had...

me as Sheryl Nome

Relyss as the ever adorable Ranka...ok, we phailed at making the rabu sign"

yeah, i cosplayed...instead of CROSSPLAYING...and i believe it would be a very very very long time before i cosplayed again. I think i'll stick to CROSSPLAYING because i realised that my body shape is more suited to cosplay guy characters. My shoulders are too broad...IMHO ><;;;

So yeah, after that we headed to Alamanda and had our lunch at Burger King. The joke was, we actually didn't want to eat fast food, but were given no choice because the place we wanted to go was NOT READY YET....(and it was already 11.30am mind you)
all i could think of, is maybe.....it was during the ramadhan month, so they didn't bother to fix anything around that time.

BUT BURGER KING WAS AWESOME..!!!
So anyway, thanks people for putting up with my mood swings during the shoot.
But no worries, it will be a LONG LONG time before i plan to put on another female cosplay...^^
so, it's LONG LONG GOODBYE for this costume....^^

Listening to : Mao - Sentiment
Mood : =_=

a MINOR accident, but i'm majorly hurt..

2010-08-18T04:42:00.000-07:00

At approximately 6.30pm, on a fateful day of 18th August 2010.....I got into a minor accident.
No, it wasn't a collision between 2 cars, rather.....a collision between my car and the house gate.

Words could not explain how pissed off i was....I didn't speak a single word, no...not even 1......
i didn't complain aloud, i didn't blame aloud....it was all internal....
I felt soooooooooooooooooo angry and fumed that all i could do was stay silent.

Situation was this...
It was a usual routine for me to go Gym after work everyday. Today was an exception. Not only did i not go to gym, i OFFERED to drive my dad out in my car, in which, i usually will refrain to do.
(yeah, petrol is expensive...and poor me couldn't afford)

SO, as i was reversing, the gate opened....(like, DUH!)
Then, all of a sudden, when half of my car was out, the gate suddenly started to close....And, my car was only 2 - 3 feet away from the gate to begin with.....So you do the math...
My bro came back from college, and he didn't bother to look whether was the gate opened or not...
He hit the button, and there....
The collision happened...and at first glance, the damage on the car was SO SEVERE.....(because of the paint from the gate)

OBVIOUSLY, my car was dented.....
My younger bro apologised, but i couldn't bring myself to look at him in the eye. I told myself that it wasn't his fault.......it wasn't on purpose....
But, deep down inside....i guess i was blaming him...
I couldn't help it....It's my car....my first major investment (next to my phone).

NOW, i need to find a day to send the car to the workshop......and there goes my convenience.

August has been a fucked up month for me..
My handphone broke down, my pendrive going missing, and this is the final blow to it.
I hope that nothing else which is much shittier would happen.
If God is ever so merciful, i sincerely hope that this would be the last of the bad luck that i'm facing.

I'm feeling all anxious ALREADY!

2010-08-13T23:52:00.000-07:00

yeah, i'm feeling butterflies in my tummy for next week's shoot.
The last time i felt this was.....hmmm........i don't believe i've been this anxious before...

There are so many things left undone...!!
inner self : THEN WHY THE HECK ARE YOU TYPING THIS BLOG YOU DUMBASS?!
me: but but but....my.....stuffs...are at the other house.....T^T
inner self : SHEESH...PLAN NICELY NEXT TIME LA!!!! *kadush*
me: WUUuuu~~~ T^T

OKAy...let's see..
i haven't fixed the hat for the shoot yet, which means tonite it'll be a frustrating night for me. I'm a noob when it comes to sewing......I hope the hat would stay together in 1 piece, at least enough for me to finish my shoot next week...(so UHU glue will be my best friend!)

I haven't make the clip on buttons for the ribbon.....so i'll have to think of a way to CREATE those stuffs tonite too...

oh, there's another major problem that i didn't mention yet..
HELLO!??! WEIGHT LOSS?!?!!? WHAT HAPPENED?!?!!
*falls into a deep abyss*
If only there's fat donation, rather than blood donation.....T^T
So....i think i'm gonna start starving myself and go on a rampage exercise regime next week.
Hopefully i'll look a wee bit tinier on my legs before my shoot next week....

another thing that worries me about next week's shoot is...
AAAAAAAAA.....I HOPE I DO NOT RUIN THE CHARACTER..T^T
it's been a while since i last cosplayed this character and it scares me to put on the costume again. No, really, no other costumes scares me that much.
I'll need to get dictionary thick reference pictures to save me from the epic cosfucking that i'll most probably do next week.

CRIMSON CROSS CREW....PLEASE HELP ME WITH POSES AND CHARACTER PORTRAYAL!!!!!
*kaotao* m(_ _)m

Listening to : Persona ~Trinity Soul~ - Word of the Voice
Mood : KAN CHEONG!!!!!!!!

Satio is my new OKITA~~

2010-08-07T00:21:00.000-07:00

omaigod....after 6 gruelling years, i finally got myself a new phone..!!
(yes, the last phone i chose myself was a Nokia 7250i, and that time, that was one of the bestest best phone already.....that crap costed me RM1200...)

anyway, i've been scouting on phones since last month, but since my old phone could last, i thought, oh well.....save up the cash la...

mana tau, slowly the stupid battery was acting up, and it was on the verge of exploding...(WTF?!)
i went to this shop and asked whether they have any battery for my phone model, and they quoted me a hefty RM100++ price..
i was like...WTF?!?!

and then i asked if they had any 'made in china aka imitation' ones....
that costed about RM25...wheewewww......
so i just asked them the condition of my current battery that time,
i quote that guy (he said it in canto, but i translate here la.)

me: will this battery like...explode?
guy: nope, this battery will not 'like' explode, it WILL DEFINITELY explode...
me: WTF?!?!?!?!??

yeah....so that's that...the battery incident..
blablabal.....later, i'm still facing problems with my phone because after all it is a imitation battery......pfft...
then i got into a heated arguement with my mom because she tried calling me on my phone, but then my old phone died-ed.....
she was like ' GO GET A NEW PHONE, YOUR PHONE SHOULD BE DISPOSED OF...blablabal)

so yeah, after that arguement, i immediately went scouting frantically for new phones..
i told myself to COMPLETELY IGNORE THE LIKES OF NOKIA...because yeah, for all my life, i've been using nokia and there wasn't any good experience from it..
so i thought of switching to Sony Ericsson...iPhone is out of the question because i would have to commit myself to the local telco for 2 years. (paying a stupid sum of RM60 or RM100 everymonth, when i in fact, do not use that much..=_=)

SO, it was the battle between Vivaz, Aino and Satio...
originally i picked Aino, because it was a media phone.....i needed musics for my gym and runs, so i thought that'd be a good pick. Who knows, it has so much flaws that i switched to Vivaz...i was this close to buying Vivaz when i found out about the lousy speaker it had. After much research online, i found out that even with the Equalizer, it didn't do much difference. So finally, I picked Satio. Since i've played around with Satio before, i thought, oh well..it's worth the money...^^
since it's only RM120++ more than Vivaz, i figure BAH...just get Satio la..

So i went to that shop, and that lady there was so friendly and her service was so good..!! i'd defintely recommend to get from her. She even installed Garmin GPS for me FOC...
And she said i could go back to her for the map updates.
definitely one of the best phone salesperson i've ever met. (and she was soooooooooooooooooo friendly!!!)
OHHH...and she gave me a new phone number FOC also..!! finally i have a 017 number..XD XD

all in all, i love my new phone SO VERY MUCH..!!! the camera functionality is uber awesome..!!!
Oh, apparently a friend of mine said that if you named your phone after someone you like/love, you'll cherish it even more..
so yeah...
my SE Satio now is my OKITA..........

Listening to : XXX holic - 19sai
Mood : WEEEEEEEeee...OKITA~~~~

GAR GARRRRR...!! dream cosplays?

2010-08-04T08:18:00.000-07:00

well, i feel somewhat obliged to have this entry..hahaha...
*punches riko and tsu*

ANYWAY...
my dream cosplay....nope....no wings, no armory, no awesome HOLYSHITWHATISTHATWEAPONIT'SAWESOMESHIT prop....

my dream cosplay is just a simple mortal...no powers, no special ability, no nothing..
in fact, compared to the rest of the party, he is the normal-est of them all...
but he has been my number 1 favourite character ever since i set eyes on him back in 2000.
Who?well....it's obvious..
it's a badass monk with a badass attitude. His choice of weapon is just a normal Smith and Wesson revolver gun. Occasionally, he uses his Matenkyo as well as Harisen on his enemies..(ok, the latter weapon couldn't do much against the enemies, only works on his 'slaves')
Blonde hair and mezmerising violet eyes, he is non other than....

GENJO SANZO..
(GAR ENOUGH!??!?! XD)
yeah.....not some epic dude eh?
but yeah...he is my dream cosplay character.....and well, i'm one step closer to fulfilling my dreams. why? because........

YESSS..!! i've cosplayed him already...well, not exactly his default reload outfit, but his artwork version..
At least it's 1 step eh?
So yeah..........at least i'm working on my dream cosplay...

nope, not Gar, but then...it's personally fulfilling for me as a cosplayer...^^ (and i'm proud of it)

Listening to : Gensomaden Saiyuki - Tightrope (Medieval Version)
Mood : ok...going to zzzzzzz now...XD

hilarious chat session with parents...

2010-08-02T08:05:00.000-07:00

Lately, i've been having shitty problems with my phone. Cases like when my parents call in, the phone would just go into Hang mode, or the entire phone would just shut off (even when the batteries are indicated as full).

so the other day, i told my parents i wanted to get a new phone...and i was singing 'i'm getting a new phone~ i'm getting a new phone~' over and over again..

ok, this is where it gets cute...LOL..

Dad : you need a new phone la.....
me : i'm already eyeing on 1 liao. But need to wait till my credit card statement date pass first la.
Dad : what model you getting? nokia a?
me: no...condemning nokia for good liao..
Dad : you get that...iMAC la...
me: er..no..that's a computer. I'll be getting that next month hopefully.
Dad : you get that...ipod la...
me: no...that's not a phone either...that's something you listen music with....=_=
dad: then...that one call what?
me : you mean the iphone?
dad: yaya.....that one....

(SO SUSAH TO SAY iPHONE..LOL!!!)

another incident just happened less than an hour ago...
me and my mom was walking around in Bukit Tinggi Jusco......and i walked into Sony Center to show her the phone i was eyeing on....
she said not bad..blablabla.....

THEN, we happened to walk by a phone shop selling iphones.

mom : *points at phones being displayed* you dun wanna see phones ka?
me : *sees an array of iphones, htc, blackberry* nah.....dun wan these. canot afford la....iphones and blackberry all..
mom : WHAT is an iphone a?
me : *points at banner* That square thing there? with smaller squares in it? THAT's an iphone.
mom : ehh...get that one la..that one nice leh
me : dun wan....need to pay RM60 digi monthly, and RM2000++ for phone...you sponsor?
mom : ok....buy back your viva...
me : no..that's a car...=_=
mom: aiya...that phone just now wan la.....
me: .......you...sponsor?
mom: *walks away*

LOL...both my parents need to turn so many 'roundabouts' to find out what an iphone is...
somehow i find this really really hilarious...hahahah...

but yeah, i'm changing my phone REALLY soon....most prolly the next time you see me, i'll get my new phone already.
i'm boycotting Nokia for good. (no offense nokia lovers)
It's time to turn to SONY........^^

Listening to : Yuna Ito - Precious
Mood : sleeeepppyyyy...

you laugh can, we laugh canot la!?

2010-08-01T19:09:00.001-07:00

First of all...
WHICH FUCKTARD USED THE COWGLUE IN THE OFFICE AND DIDN'T CLOSE BACK!?
NOW THE ENTIRE BOTTLE SPILLED AND IT'S GIVING THE GLUE STENCH IN THE DEPARTMENT....
fucktard with no fucking brains....isn't it common sense that you use something, after using it you close it?!
fucking useless fucktard...

2ndly...
well, this is on a fellow lan si asshole.
TC oh TC.....you finally earned yourself a place in my blog with your name.
Why must you be so lan si?
there were so many incidents whereby you pissed our department....but we just let it by.
We closed one eye when you come into our department and sneeze, spread your disgusting germs and walk away...
we close the other eye when you walked into our department screaming like a banshee.....
We even tried to lose consciousness when you came into our department and started talking on the phone like this was a huge phone booth for you.

When you guys were laughing like a crazy bunch of clowns outside, we didn't call up and complained...
OH, when we were shocked or when we had our happy times, you'll call in and complain. Frankly speaking, you and your neighbour have something in common. Both you like to call up and shut down our happy sessions.
and by saying 'I'm not calling to complain, but you guys are kinda loud...can you shut it a bit?' It is actually CALLING TO COMPLAIN...GET IT?! DUMBASS!!!!!

I may forgive, but i never forget..
I didn't forget how you demanded me, when i was ever so busy.....to stick your pathethic looking poster in the sales department.
I didn't forget how you demanded me, when i was instructed by kenix to NOT take the photos that day, and you insisted you wanted it taken that day.
I didn't forget how you answered in a LAN SI tone, when i told you it was very troublesome to set up and it was already 5 pm. (eh, you dun wanna go home, i wanna go home ok?!)

so yeah.....this isn't directed at the company nor department. It's directed to that 1 person.........
A selfish and thickskinned 1 person.
Well, the whole company knows that not many people adore this guy, but they abhore him.....

Listening to : Vanessa Carlton - A thousand miles
Mood : Cranky

tired.....i think i'm old..=_=

2010-08-01T03:48:00.000-07:00

after the recent 12.3km run....my body is really battered...

My knee joint has been having this aching pain, it's not muscle, it's not 'fung sap'...it's the bones with are hurting....i think i'll need glucosamine already...

But somehow, i find that i perform better during night runs. I finished 12.3km in 1hour 25mins...well, around that time la..
I remembered for my Standard Chartered run, i finished 10 km in 1hour 20 mins....that was as major dissapointment for me...really..

my last run to wrap up this year would be the ADIDAS KOTR challenge. i really hope it'd be at night, but well.....i can only pray...^^;;;

Listening to : KATTUN - Never Again
Mood : TIREd..MUCH!

Title of a True Cosplayer, which are you?

2010-07-28T23:33:00.001-07:00

Before i start, i would like to make some claims.
* This blog entry is only but my mere opinion.
* It is in no way directed at anyone, anywhere, any society, any government, any whatever.
* Not an entry to flame, not an entry to troll, but an entry to be pondered upon.
* It is an entry made for the love of cosplay and also to argue back on my own thoughts.
* It is my blog, you abhor what i say, you leave. As simple as that ^_^
* I welcome comments and constructive debates. Trolls can just GTFO ^^
* This will be one heck of a long entry.

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hmm.....i've been pondering on this once again and everytime i see this crap pops up, i'll be thinking ' AW MAN, not another one of this..?!?!'

but then this time, it has indirectly been directed at not only me, but most of the other cosplayers out there.
heck cares if you cosplay, cosmodel,cosmanequin, cosfuck, coswhatever.........
it's a hobby to be shared by all. Our community is already a minority and if we divide ourselves even more by categorizing, wouldn't that make matters worse?

What happened to ' We should stick together, we should enjoy this together, sportsmanship in competitions '.....where are those values now?
5 years ago, although the cosplay community was small, it was one of the best i would say. Although not many knew about cosplaying, it was, in my opinion, at it's prime.
We'd see a whole lot of variety in cosplay....from old schools to newly released series. Now? well....it is always that ' IF-IT-IS-NOT-POPULAR-I-M-NOT-COSPLAYING' mentality...or 'IF-IT-IS-NOT-EPIC-ENOUGH-I-M-NOT-COSPLAYING' mentality.

I thought cosplaying is about the love for the series and character? correct me if i'm wrong, but all i see now is kiasu-ism....
i have to be more AWESOME than you, my costume has to be more poofy...blablabla...
and now, well...there's a certain arguement that popped out in a certain social networking system.

let me quote and summarize

a cosplayer who only does photoshoots = CosMODELLER
a cosplayer who does photoshoots + joins competition = TRUE COSPLAYER
a cosplayer who buys everything and nothing DIY-ed = CosMannequin

hmm.......what do you think?
if i were to categorize myself in this context, i'd be a cosmodeller (WOOT! I AM A MODEL!!!! XD)
yeah, i only do photoshoots and NEVER had i joined any competitions on my own name. I did help out for friend's performance but that's it. Does that make me a fake cosplayer?
however, think about this...

I never participated in competitions, but when i cosplay, i immerse my mind, my body and soul into the very character i'm cosplaying. HECK, it was so scary that i even picked up loving desserts and sweet food after cosplaying a certain character.
I try my utmost best to understand that certain character before i actually put on that costume. So, does that still make me a cosmodeller? (if that word even exist..LOL coz i see red lines underlining it..LOL)

I do not sew my own costumes, but i make alterations.....
i researched on the costume, trying my very best to make it as accurate as possible....
I lose weight, i pile muscles, control my diet so that when i cosplay that certain character, i'll be logically be as accurate as possible.
I do not choose famous characters, rather characters that i love and has little screen time (Heine Westenfluss..T^T died in 3 episodes, tell me...how many of you actually remembers him?)

i'm not trying to blow my own horn here (well, even if i am, heck! it's my blog...*sticks tongue out*) it's just that.... i was a little bit insulted and annoyed when i read that sentence.
There are a few reasons as to why i do not participate in competitions....
1. Too hectic
I go to events to have fun, not to compete. BUT i salute you guys out there who joins the competition.
2. Time constraints
I do not wanna be under time constraints when i go to events. I wanna wander everywhere, anytime and at my own pace. I was involved in competitions as a fellow helper once, and for us to hang around the place with schedule being delayed wasn't a very pleasant experience.
3. Same faces
hmm......well, nothing much to be said here except i always see the same faces during competitions. Not that that is bad, because you guys have the fighting spirit to join over and over again.....kudos to you guys, but well.....i'm not that type of a person you see...

ALSO, i do not consider myself a veteran, intermediate, master, pro, whatever......
I'm still a beginner.......we're all still learning and we help each other out during the times we get together.
We make mistakes, we learn from it.
We face problems, we solve it together.
We laugh together, We go through difficulties together.
We share skills, we teach each other what we know individually...

Isn't that all part of cosplaying? isn't that what makes cosplaying a beautiful hobby?
So, ask yourself......are you a :-

1 True cosplayer A
Joins competitions
Does photoshoots
REALLLLYYY popular

or

2 True cosplayer B
Cosplaying for the love of it
Getting together with friend who share the same hobby
Learning as well as teaching others at the same time

What are you.....A or B?

also, i would like to quote from a friend's FB..

You do not claim yourself to be EPIC. Others tell you that you are EPIC

Listening to : Tackey & Tsubasa - Yumemonogatari
Mood : .......lazy....

A day when everything could go wrong, WENT WRONG!

2010-07-21T06:23:00.000-07:00

This is an entry i mustn't forget. why? because, everything that i couldn't imagine could happen, happened!!! it's as though we were jynxed..!!!

It all started like this...
Last weekend, we (the team) decided to have a photoshoot (ok, we kinda planned this a WHOOOOLLLEEE LONG TIME AGO)
all of us didn't bother to pack until the very last minute, something which i hardly do because when it comes to packing, i would've finished doing so the week before. But you see, i was so freaking busy this month and almost every weekend, i have something on.

SO, the day came and it was Friday. After work, i went over to pyramid to pick up Riko and Relyss who have been waiting for me since .....i think 3pm? not that sure..LOL.....(oh, and my mom hitched a ride from there too. She miraculously found her way to cheras and all the way back to pyramid with her friend, who is also a master when it comes to being lost.)

After the excruciating ride back from Sunway Pyramid during the rush hour, we finally reached home at about 7.30pm. So, we began out final packing and checking.....we were loading stuffs into the car and i slowly remembered stuffs that i forgot to pack.
i almost left my laptop and speakers. It hit me when i went to the toilet when we were about to leave. Then i walked past my room and saw the speakers and laptop sitting happily on the table.
So, no harm done, i packed those 2 and loaded into the car.

when Tsu arrived, we left for my new house which, coincidentally was also the photoshoot location..LOL.
blablabla, we went there, unloaded the stuffs and head over to bukit tinggi for our late dinner. (nope, not supper yet, it was 8pm-ish)
Ok, this is when everything started.....

The service in the cafe was so freaking slow, i was so hungry i could swallow that waiter whole. And to top things up, that stupid guy had difficulties understanding English...goodness me, i had to speak mandarin with him (which i didn't like much because my mandarin sucks). After waiting for like 30 mins, they finally served me my food.

See wah then called me saying she was around bukit tinggi area and i thought, why not she met up with us and then go to my house after that....She was around that area looking for bandages for her bindings and we went to watsons, guardian and also tesco....it's either they ran out of bandages, or the bandages costs a bomb. (who the hell would pay RM16++ for bandages?!!?!)

THEN, i noticed my car petrol is running low, so i told see wah to meet me back at the house and i went and pumped petrol for my car. As i approached the petrol station, i finally realized the most important thing.....
THE CAMERA..!! WE LEFT THE CAMERA IN MY OTHER HOME!!!!
HOW THE HELL DO YOU DO A PHOTOSHOOT WITHOUT A CAMERA?!?!?!?!
i got so frustrated, i started cursing in the car.....and then to make matters worse, my bro had already left the house, or i could get him to bring it over.

So, we went back to my new house, and then planned out something. That was when Riko realized that she also forgotten her toiletries and bath towel (also left behind in my old house)....and also See Wah, left her entire luggage bag at home......
thus, we decided that Relyss and Tsu stayed behind in the new house, clear up the room a little and the rest went to retrieve the forgotten items.

See Wah drove, and first stop was her house to get the luggage. It was so hilarious because the luggage was practically staring back at her....She left the luggage at the most prominent place...seriously, i didn't know how she could've forgotten, judging from the spot she left the luggage..LOL!!
anyway, after that, next stop was my old house. When we reached my house, it finally started to pour......it rained so heavy all of a sudden!
I had to shield the camera with my body....=_=
ANYWAY, we went back to the new house.......and well, we started styling the wigs for the photoshoot the next day.....i really went OMG because.... i styled the wigs till it was almost 3am in the morning.....Hakkai's wig was the toughest to style because i didn't know how to spike it up, and given the situation and time, i was much too exhausted.

At that night, omaigod....everyone in the room was practically frozen because of the full blast from the air cond. Tsu and relyss pulled the comforter so much that i only had half of my body covered. and the air cond was directed at me....DIRECTLY!!!!
See Wah and Riko had to pull the mattress AWAY from the aircond..LOL (not that THAT made any difference..LOL!!!)

SO, morning came and well...we wanted to get breakfast from the burger king drive through, but SHITZ, it wasn't a 24 hour outlet and we had to go to McD instead. good thing it wasn't THAT far away.
The shoot was pretty fun (i get to thwack goku..LOL!!!) but we had to cut short the shoot because we started late, and See Wah had her japanese class to attend. (so, it's bye bye gojyo..T^T)
the 3 of us continued on (Sanzo, Goku and Hakkai) for a little while more before we switched to our C2AGE plans.
so it was.....

Sanzo = Tezuka
Goku = Ryoma
Hakkai = Kida
Photog Relyss = Suzaku

nothing much about the event...it was to me...kinda boring but we found a spot on the 2nd floor which was kinda cool for shoots.

After spending some time at the event, we left the venue and went in search of a park. Good thing it was near my old office, so finding it wasn't difficult..we had wanted to go down to look at the place but there weren't any parking space left, so we just went home.

That night, i started packing for my 10km run the next day. Whilst packing, i finally realized...OMFG...i left my hands free kit at home and without the rhythm of the songs, i couldn't run! (well, i could, but i'd suck so bad...)
Also, i also left my gym card at home.......fuck rite?
so we had to wake up extra early the next day (around 4am) and head on back to the old house before i could finally leave for KL for my run.

The bad luck streak lasted almost the entire saturday......and MY GOLLY, was i glad that this all was over.
Yup, it was a long entry but hey........it was a day when everything could go wrong, actually WENT WRONG!!!!!

p.s...ok, no more photoshoot-today-10km-run-the-next-day anymore for me....
p.p.s...ALSO, gonna avoid morning runs now..!!! (goodness, waking up at ungodly hours kills)

Listening to : FullMetal Alchemist - Link
Mood : =_=

HOLY GOD....Someone died in the marathon!! 0_o

2010-06-27T19:49:00.001-07:00

OKay, i remember Tiffany telling that she saw someone screaming 'HE HAS NO PULSE' when she was running through her 8th km during yesterday's run.

I don't really know about the details because I believe i was already near the finishing line that time, but she kinda witnessed something tragic and well, in a way...scary..=_=

yes, there was a casualty during the run yesterday. A runner of the 10km category had a seizure and collapse, and medics didn't come immediately. It was a good and salutable attempt by the other runners to revive the collapsed runner but unfortunately it was too late. There was apparently a doctor in training who was also a participant. He and a few others tried to revive him but due to the lack of machinery (no defibrillator, no Oxygen mask..nothing) he passed away on the way to the hospital (or was it upon arrival)

It was indeed a shocking news to me, i didn't expect something that i participated in would have this outcome.

In fact, my situation wasn't that good if i think back. I was actually having cold sweat at the end of the run (about the 8th km) because of abdominal pain. I started walking, then run and then slowed down to walk. I told myself ' I do not want to come back to the finishing line in a stretcher or an ambulance '

Yeah well, it was kinda disappointing if you asked me. The reason for this failure of mine was because there wasn't enough trainning prior to the run. HECK, we didn't even do any stretching and warm up....

BUT ANYWAYS, RIP Mr Lim. (yes, it appeared in the papers, that's how i know his name)

he was only 25 years old.

I believe IMHO, both sides were to be blamed for this scenario. Firstly the Organizers of this event didn't station enough medics throughout the running route. Compared to the Energizer night race, i could barely see any medics around. And the St John's ambulance, well, it's disappointing to know that there weren't any defibrillator nor oxygen mask in the vehicle. (what's the point of the ambulance then!?)

HOWEVER, one should know his own limitations as well. IF you can't do it, do not force yourself. I'm not sure about Mr. Lim's case (he could've been an extremely athletic person or this could be his first time running a 10km run..note that i do not know much about this guy. I only read about him in the papers and forums)

My condolences goes out to his family because as a runner myself, i could understand the feelings of the family members. To leave the house so early in the morning and never coming back.......It will be heart wrenching to the family members.

THOUGH, i'll still join the runs. I have SIEMEN's and SHAPE run next and the last run for this year (for me) would be the Adidas KOTR challenge. After that i'll stop for the year (to concentrate on others stuffs....*coughscosplaycoughs*)

Listening to : Janne Da Arc - Gekkoka

Mood : -_-

after the Standard Chartered run

2010-06-27T02:29:00.000-07:00

i almost died....yes, almost died..
why?
well, i've ran a 10km run before, but i almost lost my legs for this one.
I practically didn't train a single thing for this run. I just wore the bib, and went to this event.
Result was WAAAAAYYYY dissapointing for me.....
I had expected to complete it 15 mins less than what i've finished this time.

Well, maybe the gap between my previous run was too wide...
hopefully my next run i'll be well prepared...
(oh, did i mention? i was feeling shitty for the entire run...yes, literally shitty, as in I WANTED TO GO POO when i was running......timing was ...well, shitty..!! ><;;;;)

Next run, SIEMEN'S RUN....here i come!!!!!
GANBATTE ORE!!!!!!

Listening to : SCANDAL - Beauteen
Mood : Exhausted-ly tired...=_=

random post is RANDOM!

2010-06-26T08:28:00.000-07:00

AAAA....why did the police stop me at the road block? do i look like some kinda drug trafficker?!
i don't look like a kidnapper now do i?
my maid was in the car with me la, but HEY, shouldn't you be asking for the maid's permit instead of my IC?
do i look like an illegal immigrant now?! will an illegal immigrant drive around in a such a flashy colored car?!
OMAIGOD...=_=

and and and....

OMAIGOD...TOMORROW IS THE 10km RUN..!! JIALAT LIAO..!!!!!
WAHPIANG LIAO!!!! ><;;;;;

Listening to : Hakuouki - Kimi no Kioku
Mood : ...........................

Mentally Exhausted.....

2010-06-25T22:39:00.001-07:00

yes, for the past 1 week.....i had a nasty week...
i've never felt so annoyed, frustrated, gah...*insert whatever shitty feelings here*

well, all i can say before i start rambling about my past week's experience is..

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK, I WILL BE USING LOTS OF SWEARING, AND WELL, IF YOU ARE A KAYPOH AND YOU HAPPEN TO SEE YOUR NAME HERE, THEN DON'T BLAME ME.
I AM NOT GOING TO BE DISCREET ABOUT THIS NOW.
(it IS afterall, my blog...if you wanna talk bad about me, then go get a blog and do it yourself)

ANYWAY~
ok...case number 1..
Place : Office
Human concerned : Ca**n (probably can guess la..haha)
Situation :
Hello? i know you're bz, but do not impose your bz-ness on me too...You may be bz with your own products, but do remember, the AnP department works for the WHOLE company, not you only...
So don't come bombarding me with your own works and telling it's fucking urgent. I have other people's work to do which is EQUALLY urgent too..
Do you know why we have to always finish your's first?
it's because you did a ...how do you say it? a 'jump queue' tactic.
You always go to my boss and tell her that yours is urgent, and knowing her, she'll ask us to prioritize yours first because you used the word URGENT on her.
what about the rest?

and another thing is.....OWN UP for what you said/did. Don't go doing taichis and pushing the blame onto others.
Yes, i admit that the mistake in the box measurements was mine, but didn't you also check? I showed you the mock up, and you agreed to it. When problems arise, you walk away with the 'holier than thou' attitude.
Also, it's not that i forgot to insert the address, i LEFT the space blank, knowing you wanted to insert something. But you signed, you forgot....oh...let me repeat...

YOU FORGOT TO PASS ME THE TEXT!!!!!

and what's with your attitude nowadays?
You have been RUDE, yes...RUDE...why do you think i have been talking less to you lately?
why do you think we've been eating in the pantry lately?
Treat others with respect and you shall be treated back with even more respect.

You want me to rush your work for you, yes, i'll rush.....
But, listen to others when others ask for you. Do not show me your 'holier than thou' attitude.
You know, you should be proud because you made me made an entry in my blog for you. This 1 post is dedicated to you.

I know this ramble is getting me no where, heck, the situation is all over the place...you may understand, you might not.
i hope you will come to realize what you've done, and how much you've changed over the past few months.
Though, being forgiving is in me.... i'll never forget all the things that you've bestowed us upon.
The good, the bad, the ugly.......everything.

Case number 2
Venue : Office
Human : NCFM man
Situation:
RUDE HUMAN IS RUDE..!!! I've never seen anyone as rude as him before. First of all, he'll walk to the AnP dpt, and sneeze, and walk away...(yay, go spread your retarded germs everywhere...WEEee!!!)
Then, from inside my boss's room, he could scream so loud asking for something as though you're his maid.....
Also, there was this one scenario whereby i was so bz working on something else, he could scream from outside, demanding me (note, i used the word DEMANDING) to set up the place for the photoshoot. (in actual, the photoshoot was supposed to be for the next day)
When i told him that it'll be too much of a hassle that we set up today, place back and set up again tomorrow, he answered with a very stuck-up 'SO?'...
i got so furious, i answered him back ' Then you wait la' and stormed off......
It wasn't only these few incidents...there were many many other times whereby i couldn't remember the details...if i were to list them out, it'd take me so long that Harry Potter's book is considered short.

All i wanna say here is..
A person only has that amount of patients. I am usually calm and cheerful most of the time, and i hardly say NO to people. But there's a limit to that, and do not test my patients....It's a dangerous game to play because i could give you shit if i want to.
I try not to be involved in company politics because i want to perform well in my job and not be bothered by outside gossips.
But if the source of the gossip comes hunting for me, i couldn't do anything but to protect myself.
At that time, i'll retaliate, and fight back, and when that happens....i'll bite so hard that i'll make sure that i'm the final victor.
Barking dogs do not bite hard, it's those that are quiet that kills.

Listening to : GACKT - Stay the ride alive
Mood : exhausted...much...

Hakuouki episode 12 is soooooOOoo SAD..T^T

2010-06-20T23:25:00.001-07:00

i needed to get this off me, thus this entry.

I've seen sad animes, but to watch it raw and to understand it....that's another different thing altogether.

Hakuouki was the only anime in my life which i've watched raw because i couldn't wait for the subbed to be released.

And at episode 12, i could say by far it is the SADDEST episode yet.

2 major characters died in this episode, and yamazaki's death is soooo.....SAD......Inoue Genzaburo's death was also very saddening..

heck, THIS WHOLE ANIME IS SO SO TRAGIC...T^T

(i didn't know it'll be this tragic)

I suppose they put a little bit of this and that from everyone's storyline, and also included the Zuisorouki part a little (the part where Chizuru dressed up as a female)

To think that they used to have fun whilst drinking sake and to relate that to this episode (episode 12), it is really really...heart wrenching....><;;;

I believe if i were to watch this at home, i would've cried...really, Yamazaki's passing was so sad, and it was accompanied by the ending theme.....

Before yamazaki died, he told chizuru to take care of the shinsengumi (i believe he meant their health and well being, my japanese is only so-so...)

and then chizuru just turned away and told him that he should do that himself. She then poured the medicine into the cup for yamazaki, only to see him stop breathing.

THAT SCENE IS ONE OF THE SADDEST AND HEART WRENCHING SCENES EVER..!!!

OH, i heard that this anime will get a 2nd season too..WEEEeeEEEee.!!

it'll be out in autumn (errr....when's that again?)

Hakuouki FOREVEr..!!!

but.....SAD ANIME IS SAD....T^T

p/s gonna continue the game tonight. I've stopped for 1 week already...hahaha..

p/s/s btw, souji's airtime in the anime is just pathethic.....wonder why they didn't want to feature him more....that guy already had a tragic sickness with him, at least give him more airtime......T^T

Listening to : Hakuoki - Kimi no Kioku

Mood : ........ YAMAZAKI...T^T

Malaysian Custom....LIN LAU HIA LA...KNNCCB..!!!

2010-06-17T19:43:00.001-07:00

MALAYSIAN CUSTOM REALLY KNNCCB..!!!!

fuckers, RM74 also wanna tahan..!?!?!

eh, my parcel has everything written..........the shipping costs, the item costs, the insurance..

EVERYTHING IS BELOW RM500....

so what are you retards thinking? holding back my parcel like that?

now i have to go all the shit way to lcct to collect my parcel, because of your fucking random decisions to hold back my parcel.

FUCKERs....

KNNCCB........lin lau hia.....

lin bu kena KAN liao izzit?

need me to go all the kanasai way there.....

want to jiak lui you jiak correct parcel punya lui la......

RM74 you wanna tax ka?

i through the money at your face la..RM10 only...

lin pei can pay.....

but what lin pei is pissed off at is AT YOUR STUPIDITY........

if i were you guys sitting your shitty ass there, i would've tahan a RM740 parcel rather than a RM74 parcel.

nvm, LIN PEI will go there and see what sorry excuse you wanna give me for holding back my parcel.

Listening to : Hakuouki - Kimi no Kioku

Mood : fucking pissed at a certain organisation.......knnccb......@#$$#@^@%!%!

a FullMetal Heart.......

2010-06-16T03:46:00.000-07:00

" A lesson without pain is meaningless,

For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something else in return;
But once you have overcome it and made it your own,
You will gain an irreplaceable FullMetal heart."

This is what was written on the final pages of the ever awesome manga, FullMetal Alchemist.
Yes, it has finally come to an end....After 9 years and 108 chapters, one of the best manga ever in history has finally finished.

I'll call the manga's ending "brotherhood version"
It was somewhat bittersweet for me though after reading the final chapters. Both endings (the first anime and brotherhood) had Edward sacrificing something for his brother's happiness.
First anime was Edward transmuting himself as an exchange for his brother.In Brotherhood, Edward sacrificed his knowledge of alchemy, the gate of truth for his brother's body.

Somehow, i kinda prefer the ending in Brotherhood. Yeah, well...i mean, after all those struggles, i kinda want those characters in brotherhood to end up happily ever after..(although i'm a sucker for sad and tragic ends, i don't want these characters to suffer...LOL)

ok, back to bittersweet....
Yeah, the awesome series ended.....kinda happy that i don't have to crave over the chapters every month now...but it kinda kills the excitement i look forward to every month...ironic much...
the anime will end in another 1 to 2 episodes time ( i believe episode 63 or so......or was it 62? hmmm....) and that's the wrap up of this series..

all i could say is...
THANK YOU SO MUCH ARAKAWA SENSEI...!!! *bows*
ok, now.....
*goes back to studying Roy Mustang......and completing the accesories of his cosplay*
LOL....

It ENDED..T^T

Listening to : FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Ray of Light
Mood : bittersweet......^^;;;

OH NOESsss...I ATE.....BA ZHANG...!!!!!

2010-06-10T06:53:00.000-07:00

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!!!!
i've done a sin in which whatever way of confession would not purify...

I ATE BA ZHANG..>!!!!
NOOOOOOOOoo...!!! I GAVE INTO THE DEVILISH TEMPTATION..!!!!!
AAAAAAAA....!! KILL ME NOW....KILL ME NOWWWWWw...!!!!!!!!!!
*goes jump off a building*

FYI - Ba Zhang is a traditional chinese delicacy made out of glutinous rice, pork and a whole lotta other goodies.........it is so delicious, it made me attack that poor dumpling repeatedly.....

BA ZHANG..............BE GONE..!!! *goes brush teeth*

Listening to : Gran Rodeo - Last Smile
Mood : AAAAAAAAAAA.....feeling extremely sinful....

learn how to say NO...

2010-06-08T07:02:00.000-07:00

No and Yes....they play an equally important part in our lives.
With just 1 word as such, it could change you fate, your lives, you way of thinking, your decision making....
So, what i'm pondering now is......why can't people learn how to say no in the appropriate time, the appropriate situation?

when someone ask you to rob that old lady crossing that street, would you rush head on and do it without thinking? DUH, obviously, if you have conscience and moral values, you wouldn't hurt that poor old lady.
so, the answer here is No...

Now, where have i heard a certain story......let me try and relate it here.....
i believe the story below would ring many bells....LOL!
(please excuse my HORRIBLE grammar)

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Once upon a time, there was a king who ALWAYS said yes....even to certain issues in his country, in which does not concern him, he'll say yes when his ministers asked him to intervene.
There was once that a neighboring country was in a war, and that he needed more people. Knowing it was a losing battle, that king still sent his men (in which he is already lack of in numbers) into that losing battle, causing many of his own soldiers to lose their lives in that hopeless battle.

Many scorned him for that, they hated their king, for he do not know the right time to say No.

Also, there was another time when his minister told him to store gold belonging to another country in his palace. Without hesitation, the king said....' LEAVE IT TO ME, MY MEN WILL HANDLE IT'

So as time goes by, one by one, the king's corrupted ministers started to ask the king to store goods that DOES NOT BELONG to his country........
His loyal advisors had already hinted and suggested to him not to do so, for it will be his cause of destruction. However, not only did the king not heed their advise, the king told his advisors to HELP the ministers store the goods and ordered the advisors to cease their selfish suggestions.

As time goes by, the neighbouring country started to realise that their goods, their poultry and valuables started to go missing and decrease. Then, only they realized that the king is storing the goods in his palace. When the neighbouring country's leader demanded an explaination, the king could not get the corrupted ministers to answer, much less own up their doing.

When the leaders of the neighbouring country wanted to attack the king's country, the king then turn to his loyal advisors and questioned them...

" Why didn't you stop me from storing those stolen goods?! You are all my advisors, you should be doing your job. You should be helping me to govern the country! Why didn't you execute your job properly!? Why did you neglect your job so!?"

Then, the advisors all answered.....

" We did advised and suggested....we have often hinted to you to say no to those corrupted ministers, but our advises and suggestion fell on deaf ears. Not only that, you ordered us to HELP the ministers too. We had no choice but to follow your orders, for we are only your loyal subjects. You said that by saying no to them, would made you look like a dictator in their eyes, and that they would abhore you, but little did you realise, they were taking advantage of your inability to say NO. "

Thus, the kingdom in which the king has ruled over for so long was attacked and the king fleed to a deserted village.
One day, the king saw a peasant boy and asked.....

"Would you be so kind to share some of that bread you have with me, for i have not eaten for 2 days already. Even the crumb would do "

The boy then answered.....

" NO, OF COURSE NOT, GET YOUR OWN BREAD......IF I GAVE YOU ONCE, THEN YOU WOULD COME AGAIN TOMORROW AND BEGGED FOR FOOD FROM ME. I WOULD NOT ACCEPT THAT!"

Then, the boy stormed away, happily munching his bread, leaving the king with nothing in the end.

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SO, the moral of the story is, learn how to say no at the appropriate time. Yes, you may look like a hero and everyone would adore you when you agree to them....But it will also backfire when others take advantage of that.

Aaaa....finally finished......
I hope this would serve as a reminder to all you out there who often say yes. I've always been a yes person........but being so has lead to many taking advantage of my kindness...
so, NO TO YOU GUYS......

Listening to : Tackey and Tsubasa - Go On
Mood : Hmm.........HMMMMMmmmm........

Wohoo...it wasn't that bad afterall!!

2010-06-05T05:08:00.000-07:00

WOhoo.......previously, my entry was about my stupid credit card bills, but turns out.....i didnt owe that much afterall..!!
LOL.....yes, i kinda lost track on my debts..hahaha..

ANYWAy...yeap...after next month (yeah...1 more month to go), i believe i would have cleared my debts..!! (for that card only though.....Orz)
Well, after 3 years of not going to the hairdresser, i finally got my haircut from a professional!!
(not that my cousin isn't good, she was great all these years...IMAGINE THE $$$ I SAVED UP!! XD)

TADAH...here's my new look..!!!

LOL....yeah, a totally different haircut from my previous years....i decided to go REALLY REALLY short..one of my shortest haircut ever.....
i've always wanted to spike up my hair...haha..AND I FINALLY COULD!!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Listening to : Durarara - Complication
Mood : HUNGRYyyyy....

another obstacle....

2010-05-31T23:38:00.001-07:00

well, it looks like i've stumbled upon another obstacle in life.

This month will most probably be one of the hardest months for me. I thought i had everything under control, but it seems that financially, i've made a mistake by paying too much for my credit card bills.

Yes, in case you haven't noticed, my obstacle usually revolves around money.

It's only the 1st of June and here i am, already broke beyond words. I suppose i'll lose some weight this month partially because i have little to none enough to spare myself for food.

I haven't been able to down much food either lately. I have no idea why though.....

My appetite seems to have left me. Everytime i feel hungry, but when i'm at the dinner table, i can't seem to eat.

Mom mentioned something that really ate me up from the inside. Not gonna go into what she said, but it really got me thinking.

I suppose she mentioned that on a whim, but then somehow, i couldn't stop thinking about it.

oh well, let's hope this month passes by swiftly (i doubt) and July would be a better month?

By the way, i was thinking of letting go of some of my older costumes.

Anyone who wants any costumes of mine (well, i believe my facebook has an archive of my older costumes), do pm me?

NO NO, i'm not retiring....

it's just that, i was thinking of getting some $$$ from the sales.

(yes, i'm so desperate now.....=_=)

Money, thou art so far away.....

I admit, my financial planings suck.

|||OTL

Listening to : BoA - Winter Love

Mood : Depressed *checks bankbook*.........even more depressed....OTL

life, oh life.......

2010-05-31T04:01:00.000-07:00

ok, now that i've calmed down.......let me backtrack what happened just now....

Hmmmmmmm........
ok, what i can tell myself.....

life is often intertwined with happiness and frustration, since it is inevitable for these 2, why not look at the bright side of everything, and go by it with optimistic feelings? *notes to self* *takes a deep breath*

It is just like a rope, whereby it has 2 strings, intertwined with each other.......
Eventually the dark clouds will go by, and the sun will shine again....
Since frustration in life is inevitable, i might as well face and conquer it with an optimistic mind...

Leave the past behind, and look towards the future.......
*sun shinning*

Listening to : Mika Nakashima - Sakura
Mood : still, a little cranky, but nothing gintama cant fix..^^

why i hate window displays....

2010-05-31T01:10:00.000-07:00

yup, i'm going to blog about my experience when i go window display-ing this time...
It's a real shitty experience i tell you...everytime i go for window display, i'll feel so much hatred, it made lelouch's hatred towards britannia looks so..pfft, petty....

Anyway,
yeah...the dreaded day came, so once again....our department, the EVERYTHING-ALSO-DO department had to head out to pharmacies all over selangor/ kl to display our promotional items, or rather....the pos materials of the month (i think...heck, we weren't told anything! we just had to go out and display..with our 'CREATIVITY'...pfft)

SO,
i'll list this down chronologically according to branches that i went starting from....

ENG ANN branch
overall, this branch is the MOST FRIENDLIEST-EST branch i've been to...ever since i started windows displaying..
well, it could be because my mom's a regular there....she goes there for her vytril and stuffs...
the store assistants were ever so helpful! they helped me clean up the area, wiped the dust off, dispose of the unwanted items, and also helped me shift the things that were in the way.
when i finished, she helped me put back everything (i was actually putting them back myself when she came to me and told me it's ok, she'll do it......)

Moreoever, the store assistants and supervisor all had smiley faces on them....
Overall, i rate this branch a 5 / 5......*thumbs up*

NEXT......

BANGSAR Branch
Getting there was no hassle, thanks to See Wah's GPS....(maigod, it was WAAAAAAAAY better than kenneth's GPS...this one was straightforward....LOL)
And then, parking wasn't that bad either...somehow i got lucky with parkings today...(all my parkings were kinda near to the outlets)
This branch....well......not much of a comment..somehow starting from this branch, all i got was black faces from the store assistants....i mean, WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO? DID I KILL YOUR DOG OR SUMTHING? WHY DO YOU GLARE (note, i used the word GLARE) at me when i told you i'm coming for the windows' display?
well, AT LEAST they did help me clean up the boxes from the previous company who displayed there...
I'd rate it a 3/5.....wait...make that 2.5/5......

NEXT, we head out to.....

DESA SRI HARTAMAS branch
MY GOD when i saw the display area for this, i was ever so thankful i lost weight...
seriously, if i were at my prime weight (lol..back in form 5, i weighed a whopping 90kg..haha)
i think i'd be stuck in between the glass and the wall..
IT WAS SO SMALL...it was in fact the smallest display area i've ever seen..!!!
(Glomac's branch look SO BIG compared to this....=_=)
i pulled a muscle around my neck area while displaying this......it was a light pull, so nothing much to worry about...
Though, i'd say this branch is kinda friendly......(well, DUH, they were both chinese ladies!)
So, i kinda settled this branch kinda fast....I COULDN'T DO MUCH! i CAN'T FIT INTO THE DISPLAY AREA FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!!!!!!
OH...one thing about this branch...i had to 'patah balik' to this branch because when i almost turned out into the highway, i realized......I LEFT THE TOOLBOX BEHIND!!!!
i had to make an illegal U Turn, and when i headed back, i saw DBKL giving autographs to cars..LOL.......

So that's that....no hassle with parkings and directions......parking for this branch was the BEST....it was directly IN FRONT OF the store! LOL....(and there was a KFC opposite it....but i refrained myself.....it was lunch time too....T^T)
i'd rate this branch a 3/5......would have given it a 4 if it werent for the SMALL DISPLAY AREA.....and the pulling of my neck muscle....=_=

NEXT STOP.....
SS15 Subang
okay, before i say anything about this branch...let me summarize this branch in 2 words.....
FUCKED-UP BRANCH (lol....wait...this is 3 words? LOL)
yup, it's a fucked up branch.....parking was a catastrophe, and the people who worked in that branch all had the my-mom/husband-just-died-this-morning look.... WTF? you're working in retails, you're trying to sell your product....the least you could do is smile!..
THEN, this pharmacies...Miss LEE...(yes, i remembered her name)
she was transferred from Subang Caring to this branch.....(yes, i even know that, because i saw her in Caring last year)
she is one of the MOST FUCKED UP STUCK UP pharmacies EVER....
Hey, it doesn't mean that you're a pharmacies meaning you're worth more than me...
Human dignity does not vary.....so give a little sense of respect will you? bitch....

AND, the store assistants, whoa.....when i approached them and told them i'm here for the display, one of them told me...

'I THOUGHT IT'S TOMORRoW? can you come back tomorrow for the display'
..........................seriously, at that time, i wanted to shout at her...

but no...i regained my composure and told her...
' The Sales Rep has already informed you all, didn't she? My boss told me to come for the display today. Why is it that other branches gave me the green light, but your branch is asking me to come back tomorrow?'

She looked at her colleague, and then told me to ask the pharmacist..
fine, i'll go look for MISS LEE.....and i came back telling the store assistant....SHE SAID I COULD DISPLAY..
(pfft, talk about bad communication....)
fine, i displayed...blablabla.....and then, all of a sudden, there were 2 - 3 store assistants, trying to look out whether i'll steal stuffs....BAH, come on, would i steal sweets? i wouldn't be that stupid.....if i were to steal, i'd be looking at the cash register....DUH...

So, i got so pissed with this branch, i just removed all the old display, and left it aside....
i thought, HECK CARES...it's your branch...you clean it....
this branch, i'll rate it -5/5...YES...there is a negative in front of the 5....
WORST BRANCH EVER......WORST!!!!!!

parking, well....i had to DOUBLE PARK...this place is a mess.....good thing 5 minutes later i managed to get a parking...(only because my car was blocking that car)

TAIPAN branch
Well, after all that mental volcanic eruption, at least this branch was more civilized...
parking wasn't that hard...i had to wait in the car for a while, but not long after that (around 3 mins i guess) a car reversed and i parked across the store.....kinda near too...
This branch's display area was kinda ok.....not too big, not too small....just right for the pos materials i had...
I was fuming when i reached this branch, but thank god Riko called me that time and i had a chat with her...
well, i couldn't carry on with my displaying because the aunties were standing there, and i couldn't access that area
QUESTION : how long do you need to pay an item?
ANSWER : the auntie took a full 20 minutes to pay her stuffs.....and i was stalled 20minutes there because of that.....she was standing RIGHT AT THE DISPLAY AREA, and i told her excuse me so many times, even i got annoyed...
ratings for this branch?
3/5........wait...make that 2.5/5.......
(because i was hungry that time....T^T)

USJ 2/2c branch
OKAY, the final branch......was kinda glad that all the nightmare was over.......NOT!!!!
this display area was so small, i think it could rival GLOMAC's.....once again, i thank god that i lost weight....else, i think i'll have a hard time displaying in this branch.
MOREVER, it was so FREAKING hot.......the aircond was blowing out hot air, and i was standing right under the aircond......imagine...=_=...hot, dry air was blowing at you when you're moving in a confined space trying to beautify the area. one word for this....TORTURE!

OKAY, finally finished displaying...what do i do with the previous display boxes? yup, i told the girl there that the boxes are there...so you guys know what to do with it..
omaigod.....my blood pressure shot up when that girl answered me she dunno..
here's how the conversation sounded...
me : Ok, i'm done already. The boxes from the previous display are there....i suppose you guys know what to do with it rite?
girl : EH....i dunno....
me : but i'm not responsible for those boxes....
girl : i really dunno la (in a rude tone), you go and ask the store assistant at the back. i'm new here
me : *stare at her* .........

before she muttured another word, i stormed into the store, and asked the supervisor...
then, i treated that girl as if she is invincible......when i walked off, i just notified the supervisor and didn't even glanced at the girl.
i mean, HELLLOOO? it's your store....it's your rubbish, you don't expect me to clean it for you...
rating, another -5/5.....
well, at least the pharmacist here is nice......ok, for that...i'll rate it a -4/5....there...justice done..

*** EXTRA NOTE ***
most of the branches are manned by MAH CHANS....(email me or pm me if you wanna know what it means)
the reason why they looked so paria is because of those mah chans...they can never progress because of their mindset.......always protected, always being lazy, and have no sense of urgency.
This is why our country are plunging into a destructive state. It's because of these mah chans!
Look at the rest of the world, where there are no MAH CHANs, they prosper so much faster than us.......
and most often than not, these mah chans carry the my-mom/husband-just-died looks on their faces....GOSH, it made me wanted to slap them....

*** Another extra note ***
well, why i hate window display, sidestory
yup, why i hate it? you see.....i'm a degree holder...i graduated with a Bachelor's degree. But, we were bestowed upon treatment that are not equivalent to our qualifications. Me and my colleagues well, we are often looked down when we go for these jobs. It's a saddening thing, don't you think?

ALL IN ALL, i'm glad this is over...let's hope the next windows display is next year....
*prays*

Listening to : Tackey & Tsubasa - Mirai Koukai
Mood : Cranky...i hate windows display....