Wednesday, April 09, 2014 - [500 thoughts. ]
I just finished 500 days of Summer.
I watched it because I thought it'd be nice to analyze it for my next film assignment. mm .. I didn't really pay attention. Well I did, the colour of the film .. the way they split the screens several times. The non-chronological order of events which annoys me abit as a .. Virgo I would say. But I guess it's an effective story-telling tool.
It made me feel very sad and also happy after watching it.
You just never know. you know?
You think you're so happy, but you're never certain. If you stop your happiness and search for someone else, something else, in a different place, you might something better. But you were already so happy, why risk it? There's no guarantee.
Saw Baker today. Glad he recovered well from his accident. Baker's a nice guy, from the extremely little knowledge I have of him. He looks charming, he always seems optimistic and seems gentlemanly. I don't know really. That's just what I've observed, again from the very little I've seen.
2things that make me like him as a person.
#1 I was stupidly sick when I met him for the first time, I'd heard his name and his voice over Skype many times and I was alittle curious about this guy they call Baker who isn't Zac or Neil's high school friend but is somehow close to all of them. He said "Hi, I'm David, nice to meet you."
I was holding back a cough and struggling to find my voice, because I'm bad at meeting new people now.
"No. Not nice to meet you." I shook my head several times and ducked away into the bathroom.
Possibly one of the worst moments in my life.
He laughed and the second time we met he said "Is it nice to meet me now?" I guess it's creepy I remember such stuff, I'm pretty sure he doesn't.
#2 Maybe the third or fourth time I met Baker (btw, he's name is David Baker or so I've been told) was the weekend Neil Erika Zac and I drove down to Erika's home in Noosa for a little getaway. To watch the League World Cup (whatever it's called) and we had a BBQ and time at the beach ~
We were having lunch at the Surfer's Club and they had ordered food and drinks. After some time the waiter comes and asks if we want a second round of drinks and Neil suddenly goes.. "Ohh.. but I have to drive back later"
Baker's like "Oh right, me too."
I can't remember what Zac said. Erika said "Not me, I avoid driving like a plague." Then I said ..
"I'll drive!"
Baker without hesitation
"Really? I'll give you my keys. You can drive us back."
My heart really skipped a beat at that time because wow ! Dude you don't know me that well you'd let me drive? We're not even Facebook friends ahaha, I bet he doesn't know my last name or anything about me besides
- I'm Zac's girlfriend
- I live with Neil Erika and Zac
- I play LoL
I don't have a license .
That's really one of things I hate about myself really. Because I love driving. It's really something I can't forgive myself that I failed the tests. I was so eager so ready to pass and drive myself around. Then I came here and procrastinated and .. and it's discouraging that I have to do it all again ..
I heard Baker's selling his Razr laptop. Zac wants me to buy it. I really don't .. care much about that ..
yes it's a pretty thing, I was very impressed when I saw it for the first time. Okay I've felt it and feels amazing and it's huge and it's not a year old and he's selling it for half its retail price. I've just grown so used to my Macbook. I know I've said this so many times.
Today I'm typing again on the a Windows laptop, nothing wrong with it besides the wonky trackpad but I know the Razr won't have this problem.
I feel stupid thinking so much about this. It's really like a big thing that's going to be in my life for the next 3-5years or longer and I want to make a good decisions. Zac's telling me how the Razr or any other Windows laptop he picks for me will be better than the Macbook. I know it's stupid to want something so expensive because I find it aesthetically pleasing. He says he'll install the Mac OS on it for me, but it's just different. I don't know how to say it.
I know alot of people I know prefer Windows and it's hard to explain why I like it. When I first bought it in 2011, I was so skeptical, I told the salesman to install Windows onto the Mac for me. He said take a leap of faith and try some change.
I did hate it, I felt "labelled" after I bought it.
But after a couple years, not even, just a few months, I already loved it. The feel, the spacing of everything, the layout, the Command key.
One of the biggest reasons why I'm holding on so tightly and insist I want a Mac again is because of the back up. The Time Machine only works if I plug it into a Mac, it'll restore every single thing, the way I arrange my icons, my files, my notes, my preferences for my apps. If I got the Razr .. ? I can't restore anything, everything has to be created again.
I lost my data many many many times before.
Early in 2013, somehow the harddisk that contained everything from the first time I owned a computer, every single photo I had in my life (those that don't exist in Facebook or my blog or anywhere) just broke and I lost everything. In late 2013, another harddisk of mine broke and I had painstakingly downloaded so much stuff onto it.
"So what? Just download them again. It doesn't matter. Why do you need all the photos? Isn't Facebook a pretty good back-up for you already?"
I don't know how to feel about that statement really.
It really makes me think what's the point of anything then? Does anything even have a value. Someday it'll just be erased or forgotten. Does the hours I spent creating playlists, the hours I listened to the radio and stupidly waiting in stores to shazam songs. All that is lost if I get the Razr.
All the pictures I took, the times I had with people from Audition, the pictures of places that don't even exist anymore because they've been torn down. Faces of some people who aren't alive anymore. All those memories. Just gone. How much can you really remember about people, about events, even if they were significant. Without photos to jog your memory or someone to talk to, or an object, can you remember very much?
I've come to accept that I'll never get back my lost data from both harddisks but this one? This one that I still have in the Time Machine (it's a external harddisk with all the data on my Mac before it died) should I just throw it away as well? For the sake of saving some money and having a laptop that I probably will not love as much as the one I had (the one I could have?)
Is it worth it to save that money.
Zac says he'll be able to repair it if anything goes wrong and I don't have to go to stupid genius bar and make appointments and pay stupid fees. But you know that's the thing I like about Mac. It has it's own store. It's own repair department.
Have you seen a Razr shop, a Asus shop, a Dell shop.. by itself? Dedicated to it's own products and repairing and maintenance. That's what I find special and convenient about Apple. And is it wrong for a device to break down?
If one day your teabag tore and the tealeaves poured into your mug, making your drink unpleasant would you swap brands immediately.
If your DVD is scratched and won't play properly anymore, do you stop buying DVDs completely?
If you dropped your spectacles and the lenses broke, do you not go back to your optician?
If your shoes wore out, do you stop buying that brand?
Today's been a difficult day somehow, though I've not done much, just things people say and an emotional movie can affect my mood so very much..
Humans don't like change.
I didn't like moving to Australia at first, but I did and it isn't so bad. I didn't enjoy cooking at first, but I got used to it and I like it now. I didn't like mixing with 'non-asians' but I tried and it wasn't bad at all. I didn't like adjusting to a Macbook when I first got it, but I did and it wasn't so bad.
Now.
I don't like the idea of converting back to Windows
Sadly there is absolutely nothing wrong with Windows, I grew up with it and I don't feel strange using it (a little bit unhappy that I can't swipe the trackpad of this laptop)
I.just.don't.want.to.
But if I was forced to, I would throw a tantrum for a week.. a day.. a few hours and get on with life because life is like that.
If I have to lose all my data again, I'll cry for abit and .. what else can I do? I'm sure it'll happen again.
If I do get a mac and something goes wrong with it, everyone will laugh at me and say "I told you so" but I wouldn't be mad, because it was my decision.
If I get the Razr and it malfunctions and Zac can't fix it. Then.. I might smash something...
You ever watch 500days of Summer? Did you think much about it? Isn't it nice that they showed a man recovering from a bad relationship. It's always the girls, the girls and how they cry and feel sorry for themselves. Then they start to want revenge or something and they motivate themselves to become better and get a good job, or get in shape and become successful in every way !!!
But not Tom.
He tried, to forget her.
He tried to restart his career. But failed and failed.
He just failed his interview and he sees Summer who has just gotten married, who laughs and appears so carefree.
Life sucks doesn't it. So many things can go wrong..
I'm sure many people are like Tom.
Trying hard to get their goal, become an architect, but fail and become a greeting card writer for years .. until you crack and quit your job and probably regret it and try doing something else..
But Tom is just a character so yea.. he'll probably get that final job, or at least if he doesn't there's a hot girl he just met who's agreed to grab a coffee with him.
But then there's reality.
Where you go and give out 50 resumes across the city, and then faint from dehydration in the city and have to cancel your prior plans to be sent home.
And you don't get a single call back.
yes that's me.
I watched it because I thought it'd be nice to analyze it for my next film assignment. mm .. I didn't really pay attention. Well I did, the colour of the film .. the way they split the screens several times. The non-chronological order of events which annoys me abit as a .. Virgo I would say. But I guess it's an effective story-telling tool.
It made me feel very sad and also happy after watching it.
You just never know. you know?
You think you're so happy, but you're never certain. If you stop your happiness and search for someone else, something else, in a different place, you might something better. But you were already so happy, why risk it? There's no guarantee.
Saw Baker today. Glad he recovered well from his accident. Baker's a nice guy, from the extremely little knowledge I have of him. He looks charming, he always seems optimistic and seems gentlemanly. I don't know really. That's just what I've observed, again from the very little I've seen.
2things that make me like him as a person.
#1 I was stupidly sick when I met him for the first time, I'd heard his name and his voice over Skype many times and I was alittle curious about this guy they call Baker who isn't Zac or Neil's high school friend but is somehow close to all of them. He said "Hi, I'm David, nice to meet you."
I was holding back a cough and struggling to find my voice, because I'm bad at meeting new people now.
"No. Not nice to meet you." I shook my head several times and ducked away into the bathroom.
Possibly one of the worst moments in my life.
He laughed and the second time we met he said "Is it nice to meet me now?" I guess it's creepy I remember such stuff, I'm pretty sure he doesn't.
#2 Maybe the third or fourth time I met Baker (btw, he's name is David Baker or so I've been told) was the weekend Neil Erika Zac and I drove down to Erika's home in Noosa for a little getaway. To watch the League World Cup (whatever it's called) and we had a BBQ and time at the beach ~
We were having lunch at the Surfer's Club and they had ordered food and drinks. After some time the waiter comes and asks if we want a second round of drinks and Neil suddenly goes.. "Ohh.. but I have to drive back later"
Baker's like "Oh right, me too."
I can't remember what Zac said. Erika said "Not me, I avoid driving like a plague." Then I said ..
"I'll drive!"
Baker without hesitation
"Really? I'll give you my keys. You can drive us back."
My heart really skipped a beat at that time because wow ! Dude you don't know me that well you'd let me drive? We're not even Facebook friends ahaha, I bet he doesn't know my last name or anything about me besides
- I'm Zac's girlfriend
- I live with Neil Erika and Zac
- I play LoL
I don't have a license .
That's really one of things I hate about myself really. Because I love driving. It's really something I can't forgive myself that I failed the tests. I was so eager so ready to pass and drive myself around. Then I came here and procrastinated and .. and it's discouraging that I have to do it all again ..
I heard Baker's selling his Razr laptop. Zac wants me to buy it. I really don't .. care much about that ..
yes it's a pretty thing, I was very impressed when I saw it for the first time. Okay I've felt it and feels amazing and it's huge and it's not a year old and he's selling it for half its retail price. I've just grown so used to my Macbook. I know I've said this so many times.
Today I'm typing again on the a Windows laptop, nothing wrong with it besides the wonky trackpad but I know the Razr won't have this problem.
I feel stupid thinking so much about this. It's really like a big thing that's going to be in my life for the next 3-5years or longer and I want to make a good decisions. Zac's telling me how the Razr or any other Windows laptop he picks for me will be better than the Macbook. I know it's stupid to want something so expensive because I find it aesthetically pleasing. He says he'll install the Mac OS on it for me, but it's just different. I don't know how to say it.
I know alot of people I know prefer Windows and it's hard to explain why I like it. When I first bought it in 2011, I was so skeptical, I told the salesman to install Windows onto the Mac for me. He said take a leap of faith and try some change.
I did hate it, I felt "labelled" after I bought it.
But after a couple years, not even, just a few months, I already loved it. The feel, the spacing of everything, the layout, the Command key.
One of the biggest reasons why I'm holding on so tightly and insist I want a Mac again is because of the back up. The Time Machine only works if I plug it into a Mac, it'll restore every single thing, the way I arrange my icons, my files, my notes, my preferences for my apps. If I got the Razr .. ? I can't restore anything, everything has to be created again.
I lost my data many many many times before.
Early in 2013, somehow the harddisk that contained everything from the first time I owned a computer, every single photo I had in my life (those that don't exist in Facebook or my blog or anywhere) just broke and I lost everything. In late 2013, another harddisk of mine broke and I had painstakingly downloaded so much stuff onto it.
"So what? Just download them again. It doesn't matter. Why do you need all the photos? Isn't Facebook a pretty good back-up for you already?"
I don't know how to feel about that statement really.
It really makes me think what's the point of anything then? Does anything even have a value. Someday it'll just be erased or forgotten. Does the hours I spent creating playlists, the hours I listened to the radio and stupidly waiting in stores to shazam songs. All that is lost if I get the Razr.
All the pictures I took, the times I had with people from Audition, the pictures of places that don't even exist anymore because they've been torn down. Faces of some people who aren't alive anymore. All those memories. Just gone. How much can you really remember about people, about events, even if they were significant. Without photos to jog your memory or someone to talk to, or an object, can you remember very much?
I've come to accept that I'll never get back my lost data from both harddisks but this one? This one that I still have in the Time Machine (it's a external harddisk with all the data on my Mac before it died) should I just throw it away as well? For the sake of saving some money and having a laptop that I probably will not love as much as the one I had (the one I could have?)
Is it worth it to save that money.
Zac says he'll be able to repair it if anything goes wrong and I don't have to go to stupid genius bar and make appointments and pay stupid fees. But you know that's the thing I like about Mac. It has it's own store. It's own repair department.
Have you seen a Razr shop, a Asus shop, a Dell shop.. by itself? Dedicated to it's own products and repairing and maintenance. That's what I find special and convenient about Apple. And is it wrong for a device to break down?
If one day your teabag tore and the tealeaves poured into your mug, making your drink unpleasant would you swap brands immediately.
If your DVD is scratched and won't play properly anymore, do you stop buying DVDs completely?
If you dropped your spectacles and the lenses broke, do you not go back to your optician?
If your shoes wore out, do you stop buying that brand?
Today's been a difficult day somehow, though I've not done much, just things people say and an emotional movie can affect my mood so very much..
Humans don't like change.
I didn't like moving to Australia at first, but I did and it isn't so bad. I didn't enjoy cooking at first, but I got used to it and I like it now. I didn't like mixing with 'non-asians' but I tried and it wasn't bad at all. I didn't like adjusting to a Macbook when I first got it, but I did and it wasn't so bad.
Now.
I don't like the idea of converting back to Windows
Sadly there is absolutely nothing wrong with Windows, I grew up with it and I don't feel strange using it (a little bit unhappy that I can't swipe the trackpad of this laptop)
I.just.don't.want.to.
But if I was forced to, I would throw a tantrum for a week.. a day.. a few hours and get on with life because life is like that.
If I have to lose all my data again, I'll cry for abit and .. what else can I do? I'm sure it'll happen again.
If I do get a mac and something goes wrong with it, everyone will laugh at me and say "I told you so" but I wouldn't be mad, because it was my decision.
If I get the Razr and it malfunctions and Zac can't fix it. Then.. I might smash something...
You ever watch 500days of Summer? Did you think much about it? Isn't it nice that they showed a man recovering from a bad relationship. It's always the girls, the girls and how they cry and feel sorry for themselves. Then they start to want revenge or something and they motivate themselves to become better and get a good job, or get in shape and become successful in every way !!!
But not Tom.
He tried, to forget her.
He tried to restart his career. But failed and failed.
He just failed his interview and he sees Summer who has just gotten married, who laughs and appears so carefree.
Life sucks doesn't it. So many things can go wrong..
I'm sure many people are like Tom.
Trying hard to get their goal, become an architect, but fail and become a greeting card writer for years .. until you crack and quit your job and probably regret it and try doing something else..
But Tom is just a character so yea.. he'll probably get that final job, or at least if he doesn't there's a hot girl he just met who's agreed to grab a coffee with him.
But then there's reality.
Where you go and give out 50 resumes across the city, and then faint from dehydration in the city and have to cancel your prior plans to be sent home.
And you don't get a single call back.
yes that's me.
Labels: 500 days of summer, back up, driving, laptop, macbook, memories, razr, time machine
bits of me revealed at ..
1:56 AM.
Thursday, April 03, 2014 - [mega update: party, makeup, goodies ! ]
So much has happened recently ! ! !
Not even exaggerating, mm where to begin where to begin.
1. Laptop is still not fixed ): so sadly I'm using Zac's one with the wonky trackpad, I've just procrastinated too much on blogging, I really want my macbook back T_T .. Speaking of which, probably getting a new one which is $2,399, or $3,199 whoopee doo. Just why did you have to die on me, what did I ever do to you ): I know everybody's gonna tell me not to buy a Mac again, like whyyy? One just died on you and you wanna buy it again. I've just really grown used to it and I really like it. SO SHHHHHHHHH.
2. So recently let's see, I had my first ever Super Smash Brothers Melee tournament. I didn't exactly sign up for the Singles division but I played anyway O_O Was a pretty small place, a trading card store I believe. I can remember some faces now hurray. So because it was our 1st year anniversary Zac said he would team up with me in Doubles ~ Naturally we lost 4 games in a row. XD I even wore Mr.Woxy (the giant bow Dave got for me) to the tourney! D: didn't bring me much luck. Mr. Woxy is powerless without Dave ! DDD:
I really wanted the Mario one ): which Zac claims is his tournament controller but about a couple months ago he tried to sell it on eBay. Actually he did. It sold and I scolded him for selling such a pretty controller. Give me to me if you don't want it. He ended up telling the buyer that our house was robbed and the controller was stolen or damaged or something like that and apologized.
The buyer gave him a 5star rating saying "Honest seller!"
WOOOOWWWWWWWW..
Assignments ARGH.
I'm sure I've said this already, but the workload feels significantly bigger this year than the previous years. <s>So after slacking for 4weeks,</s> I've been doing work consistently now, keeping up with lectures, doing my own revisions and chipping away at assignments each day.
Especially with Film Analysis class, the lecturer makes so many references to movies I've heard of but never seen or never heard of. He plays lots of clips in class to demonstrate the mise en scene, symbolism, narrative structure etc. There's also this dude in my class who raises his hand every minute and asks a question of inserts a comment. I'm sure both the lecturer and my tutor are pretty annoyed by him. He seems to have seen every movie show shortfilm documentary thingy ever and knows every one in the entire history of film. It makes me worry alittle. I mean yeah, I wanna produce so I probably need more people skills, time management and negotiating skills than all that knowledge. But still... that dude's scary.
Been watching a movie each night, or trying to, sometimes I'm just really sleepy.. actually I watched 2 movies in a night other night. See I'm so hardworking. Watched the more famous shows like Titanic, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, and some other films like Juno, Red Dog, Princess Bride and The Great Gatsby for analysis. Maybe some of you think the films aren't that great but when you have to dissect each frame of the film: why this line or particular word was said, why the director chose to focus that one extra second on this object, why the objects in the background are arranged that way, you realize how truly amazing they are.
I think Zac's been enjoying my film homework because he's always scooting over to watch with me :3
Yeah.. we finished Titanic at about 4am. lulz. But I enjoyed in thoroughly despite being sleepy. I used to study Literature in school, mind you I was total pro :3 And sometimes when I have to do analysis I feel so disorientated, sort of. I keep thinking I should really be reading the script or the original book and analyze that instead. Because stuff like themes and motifs are probably not created by the director but it's in the original story and the director has to put that in otherwise the story isn't properly translated to film.
People always ask the tutor, was that really meant to be there? was that just a coincidence. From what I've learnt in high school and junior college. There is no such thing as coincidence.
4. 60s themed 60th birthday
It was Zac's papa's birthday the past weekend, after the Smash tourney, also our anniversary XD (I enjoy saying that alot because it feels like we've been together longer than a year, but no it's only been a year :o) So we got him two books but this one didn't arrive in time, so it's currently sitting on our desk. I flipped through it and it's pretty interesting but I have my own lecture slides to read so maybe another time ):
Thankfully the Playbook arrived, he received alot of AFL related gifts though, so why not one more sports related gift
So this party.
Zac was legit freaking out over the costumes so on the day itself we went to hire a set of costumes. Not that we're last minute people, the shops in the city unexpectedly closed at 4pm on a Friday, supposedly late night shopping on Fridays. And the other stores we tried to go to had closed down. Now isn't that convenient.
First thing that caught my eye were those boots on the left of the picture. AHHHHH . I got a pair of white ones because I HAD TO !!!
He's very in love with it now, he carresses it a few times a day :x
Also our fabbbuuuu new sheeets ! 450dorra reduced to 180dorra. Hurrraaayyyyy !! The sheets seem to get softer with each sleep (:
That's all clothes, and a hat, coats and stuff :3 one lovely package from Sports Girl. I'm just so lazy to go buy it from the physical store :x It came by express post the very next day anyway!
Not even exaggerating, mm where to begin where to begin.
1. Laptop is still not fixed ): so sadly I'm using Zac's one with the wonky trackpad, I've just procrastinated too much on blogging, I really want my macbook back T_T .. Speaking of which, probably getting a new one which is $2,399, or $3,199 whoopee doo. Just why did you have to die on me, what did I ever do to you ): I know everybody's gonna tell me not to buy a Mac again, like whyyy? One just died on you and you wanna buy it again. I've just really grown used to it and I really like it. SO SHHHHHHHHH.
2. So recently let's see, I had my first ever Super Smash Brothers Melee tournament. I didn't exactly sign up for the Singles division but I played anyway O_O Was a pretty small place, a trading card store I believe. I can remember some faces now hurray. So because it was our 1st year anniversary Zac said he would team up with me in Doubles ~ Naturally we lost 4 games in a row. XD I even wore Mr.Woxy (the giant bow Dave got for me) to the tourney! D: didn't bring me much luck. Mr. Woxy is powerless without Dave ! DDD:
Of course the loss is entirely my fault, but in my defence, I haven't touched the gamecube controller in months my fingers felt weird and I was never good in my history of 1hour of playing Smash. Also picked Peach which I barely use just because I thought she'd be easy to float around and survive but nah, I shoulda used Marth all the way :x [All the while before this day arrived Zac's like "oh yea, we probs make it to top 3 or so" so that went well :3 Sad that he had to forfeit his Grand Finals round because we had other engagements, so the mighty Syke finally didn't emerge Champion at a tourney XD]
Also second big excuse for playing badly is that I was given the Orange controller.
I really wanted the Mario one ): which Zac claims is his tournament controller but about a couple months ago he tried to sell it on eBay. Actually he did. It sold and I scolded him for selling such a pretty controller. Give me to me if you don't want it. He ended up telling the buyer that our house was robbed and the controller was stolen or damaged or something like that and apologized.
The buyer gave him a 5star rating saying "Honest seller!"
WOOOOWWWWWWWW..
(I don't know why the picture is blur)
The funny way humans behave around material things. lol (:
3. Because of assignments .. been going out lesser recently ): I miss our Wednesdays. Also my timetable's changed abit so .. .. .. ):
I'm sure I've said this already, but the workload feels significantly bigger this year than the previous years. <s>So after slacking for 4weeks,</s> I've been doing work consistently now, keeping up with lectures, doing my own revisions and chipping away at assignments each day.
Especially with Film Analysis class, the lecturer makes so many references to movies I've heard of but never seen or never heard of. He plays lots of clips in class to demonstrate the mise en scene, symbolism, narrative structure etc. There's also this dude in my class who raises his hand every minute and asks a question of inserts a comment. I'm sure both the lecturer and my tutor are pretty annoyed by him. He seems to have seen every movie show shortfilm documentary thingy ever and knows every one in the entire history of film. It makes me worry alittle. I mean yeah, I wanna produce so I probably need more people skills, time management and negotiating skills than all that knowledge. But still... that dude's scary.
Been watching a movie each night, or trying to, sometimes I'm just really sleepy.. actually I watched 2 movies in a night other night. See I'm so hardworking. Watched the more famous shows like Titanic, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, and some other films like Juno, Red Dog, Princess Bride and The Great Gatsby for analysis. Maybe some of you think the films aren't that great but when you have to dissect each frame of the film: why this line or particular word was said, why the director chose to focus that one extra second on this object, why the objects in the background are arranged that way, you realize how truly amazing they are.
I think Zac's been enjoying my film homework because he's always scooting over to watch with me :3
Yeah.. we finished Titanic at about 4am. lulz. But I enjoyed in thoroughly despite being sleepy. I used to study Literature in school, mind you I was total pro :3 And sometimes when I have to do analysis I feel so disorientated, sort of. I keep thinking I should really be reading the script or the original book and analyze that instead. Because stuff like themes and motifs are probably not created by the director but it's in the original story and the director has to put that in otherwise the story isn't properly translated to film.
People always ask the tutor, was that really meant to be there? was that just a coincidence. From what I've learnt in high school and junior college. There is no such thing as coincidence.
4. 60s themed 60th birthday
It was Zac's papa's birthday the past weekend, after the Smash tourney, also our anniversary XD (I enjoy saying that alot because it feels like we've been together longer than a year, but no it's only been a year :o) So we got him two books but this one didn't arrive in time, so it's currently sitting on our desk. I flipped through it and it's pretty interesting but I have my own lecture slides to read so maybe another time ):
Thankfully the Playbook arrived, he received alot of AFL related gifts though, so why not one more sports related gift
I didn't think there would be a present unwrapping ceremony at the part :x I guess I should reserve the multi-layer giftwrapping for Dengz hahahaha :P Oh yeah got him 2 Harry Potter Blurays to add to his collection.
So this party.
Zac was legit freaking out over the costumes so on the day itself we went to hire a set of costumes. Not that we're last minute people, the shops in the city unexpectedly closed at 4pm on a Friday, supposedly late night shopping on Fridays. And the other stores we tried to go to had closed down. Now isn't that convenient.
First thing that caught my eye were those boots on the left of the picture. AHHHHH . I got a pair of white ones because I HAD TO !!!
This outfit was so comfy and well cut, I wuuvvvv it ! I guess the pictures don't do much justice to it, Chris (Zac's brother-in-law) probably has some better ones after all he only took about 600 photos that night XD
Zac hired the Austin Powers costume. Aww he's so cuuuteeeee ASDFT@$^#&Q#%!?
Did you know it was our anniversary that day? Which is the 29th of March, which was Good Friday in 2013.
It was my first time going to the Mehonoshens' house. I really stopped myself from taking pictures after someone told me "You know, people generally don't like pictures of their house taken". So I'm sorry the beautiful place shall remain in my head and unknown to the internet. I think they did a splendid job of hosting the party, the layout of the party was nice, the food and drinks were good. The girls baked deeeelicious cupcakes for everyone!
Intially this was covered by a cloth and I thought wowwww Len gets a 3-tiered birthday cake! Red Velvettttt, if you know me, you know I dislike pastries, cakes, breads and stuff, except I like donuts and pies. But I usually never eat sweet stuff, so if I do eat it and I say I like it, you've really done well :DD
5. I was left at home alone for a couple hours the other day, and I was procrastinating so I went to play with the little make-up I have. I really need a new liquid eyeliner, and a white eyeliner and blush and some new eyeshadow brushes and probably a nice red lipstick - yes steph I still haven't gotten my Russian Red ): I should probably get a tube of mascara as well because the only tube I have is probably dried up and yeah.. I think I should get some bronzer and better concealer lol. THAT'S ALMOST EVERYTHING! STEPH HALPPPPP ~
Anyway I did my best, sorta, I didn't try to draw the perfect curve or tail actually, yes so I did my best with the wig, eyeliner and brown contacts. I also finally managed to put on fake eyelashes hurray!! I usually take 10years to put it on and then I give up because it's always threatening to fall off and looks like it's poking out and feels weird and my eyelids are stuck together.. etc etc . I'm so happy I succeeded. Also I can always put it on the left eye and never the right. God that's so weird, I'm right-handed but the left eye's eyeliner will always look better and I can always draw it in one smooth stroke but I colour the shit out of the right eye -_____________-
Anyways so fun being a girl!
Do I look Anime yet, will Senpai notice me?
The wig is soooo fabulous, I really want to wear it out but Zac and Len said "NAH! Doesn't suit you" *ultimate heart break* It feels good too, 'cause I miss having a fringe after having a fringe for about 5 years I decided to grow it out last year :3
6. NEW THINGS AGAIN ! YUSSSS, I've recently received gigantic parcels and several small ones to the point that Zac's like "EH WOMAN, WHAT IS ALL THIS. YOU STAHP SPENDING RITE NAO"
but really everything I'll show you now added up to $200 D: But before we get to my stash .. Zac bought a new bag!! :DDD It was 40dorra from Typo. It's very amazing and I have to talk about this because Zac never buys anything unrelated to Computers or Games or Consoles or ... stuff like that. He doesn't buy clothes or shoes or normal man stuff, I have to make him get them lol. Although he was frowning at me alittle saying .. "It's so cute ! But it's .... $40"
was priceless. lmao. Just buy it you dopey, I'm so glad you WANT to get something for yourself.
He's very in love with it now, he carresses it a few times a day :x
Also our fabbbuuuu new sheeets ! 450dorra reduced to 180dorra. Hurrraaayyyyy !! The sheets seem to get softer with each sleep (:
And the blue is so pretty. Sleeping in the ocean :x
My turn now !! 2 of such packages have arrived and other mini ones ~ and one final one is due to arrive ehuehuehuehue ! But really only $200 in total for everything
That's all clothes, and a hat, coats and stuff :3 one lovely package from Sports Girl. I'm just so lazy to go buy it from the physical store :x It came by express post the very next day anyway!
Yeahh umm so that's the stack of stuff that came in the mail, also bought 2 new dresses they day I got the new sheets but that doesn't count :x
One of the mini packages carried my new giraffe phone case! LUUUCCCC IT'S ADORRWAABBLEEEEEE and has a really nice texture too :3
Kay I only took 1.5hours to type all that.
yay me I updated!
yay me I updated!
Probably this weekend I'll go put on all the new clothes for the next post XD and if I complete my film assignment by then I'll post my Stripboard which took an immense amount of effort to complete X_X !
Labels: 60s, assignments, austin powers, birthday, costumes, film analysis, macbook, party, phone case, sheets, super smash brothers
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2:03 PM.
Sunday, March 16, 2014 - [popup sale!]
Since the last time I wrote 5 days ago, I've had no bad dreams! Hurray, in fact most of them have been happy dreams, one of them was of me flying and teaching my brother to fly ! (been watching too much DBZ x_x) It felt very special because I've never dreamt of flying ! :DDD After learning to fly, bro and I went to hide from our parents hahaha because they wanted to go somewhere we didn't want to XD
Also dreamt just last night that I met someone I admired and we became awfully good friends. It's funny 'cause she was there around my family and she was living with us back in the house in the west - Villa Verde. She sorta replaced my brother and I was growing up with her and somehow my helper was living with us but my parents were never around. And we were living in Brisbane, but the house we lived in was from my childhood. :o So exciting! She taught me everything I wanted to learn and I grew up to be exactly like her U_U ! *dream come true*
So that's the good thing, perhaps writing really helped clear my mind.. I didn't go to uni on Wednesday (but I've already studied the slides and caught up! yay me!) and was halfway through listening to another lecture when my laptop died ... on Friday. Oh gaaaaadddd. I was so upset because it had froze and died a few times on Wednesday and Thursday like this...
I restarted it about 6 times before it finally booted up.. then .. freezed midway in Firefox about 3 times... It kept freezing on facebook because everytime I restart firefox prompts me to "Restore previous session" and I could not even click the lecture recording tab or the QUT tab and it would freeze again.
Friday was unlucky because in my sadness I went for a jog and that was fine, managed to jog for a longer time because Jet had been on that route before and recognized the path, I was tired and cooked dinner and burnt my wrist ): and after that, while carrying the hot bowls into the room I kicked my pinky toe on the door T_______T. Such pain ..
On a happier note, sometime within the week I managed to cook an extremely tasty plate of Fried Rice which tasted completely different from any version of fried rice I've tried to make in the past 2 years. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it again because I lack the ingredients to make which I had brought from Singapore that my helper gave me ):
Saturday ! A day that Unicorn and I had been luuuuuuucing forward to for a few days "Beginning Boutique's Pop Up Sale + Model Search" :DDD Because of personal reasons, I was very poor so I actually just wanted to go to check it out and go apply to be a model :3 I made Steph do it too, short asian models. totes gonna get selected ! There were so many other pretty and intimidating girls who applied. ): I want to be a model ): ): ): *pouts pouts pouts pouts pouts*
Got our pix taken at the photobooth (: The power ran out a few times at the venue ahaha, reminded me of the module I'm studying in uni about production management, and I just observed how the staff kept everyone calm and speedily worked on the problem and their train of communication between the staff at various booths. I'm just so hardworking, learning outside uni :x
Am a sucker for sunflowers so Unicorn helped me buy this romper :3 it's soooo loose on me though XD I need to get it altered or wear something inside it :3 the dip in the middle is actually just slightly above where the double sunflower in the middle is, if I didn't pull it up in the photo D: dat creeeavage.
Don't my thighs look awfully thin in this photo ! It's a trick ! which oddly enough Zac pointed out to me from all his 1000gb of Yuri pictures. Standing with her legs together makes her thighs look really big.
So in almost every photo she poses in, for her advertorials and stuff her legs are always crossed one over the other to make her thighs look slimmer ~
Clever trickxy for ladies out there, or maybe I'm just slow at noticing such things and the whole female population knows this already D:
Had lunch at Grill'd after the sale. Can't comment I don't know how the burgers taste like because I wasn't hungry then, but all the signs around the shop say it's really healthy :o
Legs look so thin despite eating sooooo much recently XD XD XD *take advantage of the big dressing room mirror for OOTD selfie! :x
Also dreamt just last night that I met someone I admired and we became awfully good friends. It's funny 'cause she was there around my family and she was living with us back in the house in the west - Villa Verde. She sorta replaced my brother and I was growing up with her and somehow my helper was living with us but my parents were never around. And we were living in Brisbane, but the house we lived in was from my childhood. :o So exciting! She taught me everything I wanted to learn and I grew up to be exactly like her U_U ! *dream come true*
So that's the good thing, perhaps writing really helped clear my mind.. I didn't go to uni on Wednesday (but I've already studied the slides and caught up! yay me!) and was halfway through listening to another lecture when my laptop died ... on Friday. Oh gaaaaadddd. I was so upset because it had froze and died a few times on Wednesday and Thursday like this...
I restarted it about 6 times before it finally booted up.. then .. freezed midway in Firefox about 3 times... It kept freezing on facebook because everytime I restart firefox prompts me to "Restore previous session" and I could not even click the lecture recording tab or the QUT tab and it would freeze again.
So okay, maybe it's a problem with firefox, lemme force quit and just study from the slides.
NOPE.
Okay woman you test my limits, now I shall freeze before it reaches the user log on screen muahahahahahahahaha!
.... and it completely shit itself on Friday and I could not log on at all. T_T.. and I was in the mood to study! well played macbook ): Friday was a pretty unlucky day. First of all my lecturer had cancelled the lesson to attend a funeral. I felt very sad for her because her father is also dying and she's the only relative in Brisbane. She has several classes to teach and another job outside of QUT. And now her friend has passed away too? She's under so much stress I can't imagine. She's an excellent tutor and lecturer and sends so much extra information and notes to study and is always up to date unlike any other film unit which never updates the Blackboard site. She responded to my queries so quickly as well. Stay strong lecturer!
Friday was unlucky because in my sadness I went for a jog and that was fine, managed to jog for a longer time because Jet had been on that route before and recognized the path, I was tired and cooked dinner and burnt my wrist ): and after that, while carrying the hot bowls into the room I kicked my pinky toe on the door T_______T. Such pain ..
On a happier note, sometime within the week I managed to cook an extremely tasty plate of Fried Rice which tasted completely different from any version of fried rice I've tried to make in the past 2 years. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it again because I lack the ingredients to make which I had brought from Singapore that my helper gave me ):
Saturday ! A day that Unicorn and I had been luuuuuuucing forward to for a few days "Beginning Boutique's Pop Up Sale + Model Search" :DDD Because of personal reasons, I was very poor so I actually just wanted to go to check it out and go apply to be a model :3 I made Steph do it too, short asian models. totes gonna get selected ! There were so many other pretty and intimidating girls who applied. ): I want to be a model ): ): ): *pouts pouts pouts pouts pouts*
Got our pix taken at the photobooth (: The power ran out a few times at the venue ahaha, reminded me of the module I'm studying in uni about production management, and I just observed how the staff kept everyone calm and speedily worked on the problem and their train of communication between the staff at various booths. I'm just so hardworking, learning outside uni :x
Am a sucker for sunflowers so Unicorn helped me buy this romper :3 it's soooo loose on me though XD I need to get it altered or wear something inside it :3 the dip in the middle is actually just slightly above where the double sunflower in the middle is, if I didn't pull it up in the photo D: dat creeeavage.
Don't my thighs look awfully thin in this photo ! It's a trick ! which oddly enough Zac pointed out to me from all his 1000gb of Yuri pictures. Standing with her legs together makes her thighs look really big.
So in almost every photo she poses in, for her advertorials and stuff her legs are always crossed one over the other to make her thighs look slimmer ~
Clever trickxy for ladies out there, or maybe I'm just slow at noticing such things and the whole female population knows this already D:
Had lunch at Grill'd after the sale. Can't comment I don't know how the burgers taste like because I wasn't hungry then, but all the signs around the shop say it's really healthy :o
Went to Chermside after to get my laptop looked at. For the first time ever the Apple Genius who served me was very friendly and actually did something to the laptop. He managed to get my stuff backed up and the laptop did not freeze once in his hands. D: well done laptop just don't show the man what's wrong with you. Anyway he diagnosed a few problems like I don't charge my laptop enough and I let it run out of battery too much. Every time it shuts down due to insufficient battery it's unable to save the files and each time it reboots it modifies my system files which may be causing it to boot up slowly and freeze.
He also identified a fault in my AirPort card which is probably why my laptop is soooo laggy and drops out of the Wi-Fi frequently. That's awesome $130 to replace the airport card seems reasonable, hopefully I don't lag anymore after I get it back :o This Genius bar dude was the first one to ever diagnose the problems so quickly and help me save my data. I've been to Apple about 4 times in the past 2 years with various problems and all they've ever done is "Err.. we'll have to take it in you know and check it, run some tests. I can't tell what's wrong with it Ill let you know. Err.. that's gonna cost you a couple hundred dollars for us to check it. Do you have back up, you're gonna lose all your data and you can't hold us responsible for it. Err.. you understand? "Incompetent shits. Thank god for this man.
We spend a couple hours later just window-shopping, trying on some clothes and I got to look at a nice set of bedsheets too. Cost about $180 for a set of King sheets and pillowcases at Target and $200 for the same sheets and pillowcases at Bed Bath and Table but an extra 150 threadcount :3 Actually was $400 but 50% off! I need to go get them next week when I go retrieve my laptop ! :DDD Please still be on sale.
"What's with you and hair accessories?!"
I dunno D: I just like them. I also really like bows. Did you know? :3
Legs look so thin despite eating sooooo much recently XD XD XD *take advantage of the big dressing room mirror for OOTD selfie! :x
Got little treats from Dragonberry before we left. Just a table of marshmellows, lollipops, sherbets and hard candy to grab :x
Meanwhile Zac was raping at a smash tourney, sad that I couldn't go, glad I didn't go because he said the venue wasn't good :o It was hot and sweaty and squeezy. He won both Singles and Doubles. Tsk no challenge eh? The next tourney is on the 29th of March, which is coincidentally our anniversary and also there's also a big event happening that evening :3 EXCITED!
Zac said he's going to play doubles with me hurraayyyyyyyy :DDD I never thought I'd get to play in a tournament! Mebbe he won't be able to win this time because of my suuuuperior skillz :x I can't wait XD
Labels: apple, beginning boutique, bows, genius bar, macbook, melee, popup sale, super smash brothers, thighs, tournament
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1:19 PM.
