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Monday, March 25, 2013

A Streak of Luck

okay, so finally i have some purple in my hair! La riche in lilac had some effect after the second application. Still have like 2/3s of the bottle. So tempted to do this full on.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

The Taiwan Chicken

I am missing this Alishan Chicken sooo much!! Looks crazy good right. Well, it is!!! Best chicken I've ever had in my whole life regardless of how tiny it is. Yes each wing is actually really tiny. Omg. Maybe it wasn't a chicken. Maybe it was a sparrow??

Just Kidding. But I am missing Taiwan...

Friday, March 22, 2013

The Hotcakes

Today Ben and I tried making hotcakes! We got hotcake mix from daiso and milk and eggs from ntuc. We didnt have a mixer so our mix was rather lumpy at the start, but a few minutes beside the pan and it was all smooth XD

Anyway I decided hotcakes arent that easy to make ><" I wanted to make baby hotcakes by just putting drops of the mix but it was so hard to get them round =.= I guess normally people have a mould or something. Anyway! Pic of baby hotcakes complete with butter and maple syrup ^^ They are about 1cm across or less. To get a sense of it, the tab they're sitting on is the seal of the milk carton lol

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The Daisoles

I bought soles from Daiso the other day and they are awesome. Look at them! Ain't they just the cutest things? And they fit beautifully too, after following the measurements provided and cutting them to size. they did exactly what I wanted them to, which is make my shoes half a size smaller so they'd be a better fit. No one's gonna see them but myself, yes, but that doesn't mean cute things must have a large audience to qualify as being worthy of existence! They simply need a single person to appreciate them. It makes that person happy and all's good. No? Ok, shan't get too philosophical here.

Monday, March 18, 2013

The Things

Don't tell the others
In the dark of the night
By the candle light
You can see it pass-ing
through the glowing bright
Flame, flickered and there's another right
There flitting by, stare not for you
Can't let it know that you see it, see them as their numbers grow
Don't tell the others
That they pass through here
It's a creeping fear
no one wants them near
Don't tell the others
or they'll tell the rest
That the things in your house,
they make here, their nest
No one wants to come near
no one wants to come here
In the dark of the night
It's those things we all fear

Well there's a random poem right there that came up because i took a rather creepsizoidal picture of myself. I think i wanted it to be about evil faeries, but then again, it sounds like it could be about cockroaches too.
Ah well. lack of practice results in this sort of nonsense.

And also, two days ago I dreamt that I cut my hair. I just grabbed a handful of it and went snippety! Although it was only snippety to shoulder length, not even boy cut or bald, gosh, was I horrified. The feeling of having chopped off 2 or maybe even 3 years worth of keratinous material off the top of my head was just horrific. Dead cells or not, I have most certainly confirmed through this dream that I want to keep them all. My hair is now longer than it's ever been my whole life and sometimes I doubt if it has any more strength in it to grow out anymore and then i'm just tempted to do a little something to it like snippety snipping it a little. But no. Now i know how i would feel about it, no thanks! Previously i dreamt that i bleached my whole head white (something I've always wanted to do) but according to my dream, it didnt suit me very much so that's another plan scrapped.

Having dreams is kinda useful huh. You get to test out things you wanna try maybe and then make the decision there and then! Whoopi.

Alright, enough of this silliness.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Colourized Hair

Pinkified my hair a little~~ the effect is soo slight it's rather saddening... I had to bleach my hair twice over already previously bleached hair to get this light peek of pink. I used La Riche in pastel pink and well, i guess it did turn out pastel so I should be happy! And anyway I only made a few streaks sk that probably contributed to the little-ness of it all.

I prefer colourful streaks over dip dye~~ Dip dye is cool but I guess i don't think it'll work well for me!

I shall try to colourize it further when the next two tubs arrive! Again, it will be pastel pink, but also Lilac~~

I guess I'll show the process when I'm done with the next two colours~

Tanoshimi~~

Saturday, March 16, 2013

The Dreamer

It began as an ordinary story.
An ordinary day.

She looked below her. The glass floors sparkling, catching light in their crystal, diamond, cat-eye-caught-on-camera kind of way. Below her, were clouds.

She was above, in this house. This house of porcelain walls, but glass floors. See-through, but there was nothing frightening. Just a dream of cotton candy sheets sailing by in the glow of the morning melting rays of honey sky.

No one else in the house. Just her, in the sky. Peaceful, silent, floating by. She could see the slight mirror of herself in her eyes, in the glass, on the clouds.

She lay down, wrapped around herself, the troubles of today and yesterday and that other day. All at once, it was gone. In the blink of an eye. Like a cat's captured in the night. A sheen of curiosity rippling over the glass of endless worries. But pushed away. No more would she think of those stresses. They were all now just puffs of long gone memories in the tightest corners of her mind.

It was time, for goodnight.
And that, was my dream the other day.

Monday, March 11, 2013

The Animals

I've always had pets. Ever since my parents came back with the first hamster for my sister and I, I've never stopped having pets. Even something as tiny as a hamster can be a meaningful pet if you play with it every day and get to know each other, slowly but surely.

Sadly, many people don't treasure their pets. I suppose sometimes they don't see them as equals, or they see them simply as possessions that can be removed or discarded at any point in time that they get bored of them. They think they are cute because they are fuzzy, scuttle around, eat and sleep in cute ways (not disregarding pet lizards and stuff but these are more uncommon in Singapore I think)... unfortunately they become like tiny movies that the people watch each day, or some days, or sometimes once every two weeks... They watch that cute little figure moving about for a while, and then they turn to their work and forget about about it. Caged up, bored and lonely, the little figure starts to rattle the bars. This gets annoying. They strew their food and water about the cage, hoping for some attention. The rattling, like an innocent person imprisoned without being told the reason, escalates and echoes through the night, into the morning... The animal becomes a bother, a frustration, an additional financial burden. Worst of all, the animal becomes labelled as "Bad". Bad dog! He won't listen. He keeps me up all night. I can't get anything done the next morning. Bad dog! He messes up his cage. I don't have time to clean it every day, it's too much of a trouble, a bother. Bad dog! I can't control him. He's violent, noisy... he's wild.



Bad dog just wants to walk a longer road. Bad dog just wants to run and jump and play like all animals do. Bad dog just wants you to remember him, and remember that he needs you.

Bad dog is never really Bad. Bad dog is just scared dog. Hurt dog. Never knew happiness dog. The same thing happens to humans when they grow up in an environment of abuse and hate, pain and tragedy. They don't know any good things and their minds can really be manipulated only to know evil. However, rehabilitation can help them. Time and patience, and a loving hand can give them the life they ought to know. This is the same, humans, animals, regardless.

This is my Labit, Bunbun, born out of a drop of ink that fell from the sky.

This is just a string of thoughts, and a hope that the message can be spread to always love your pets, and also, think carefully of the commitment you have to put in before getting one. C:

The Exhausted One

I think i have set new records for eyebags development already, particularly after today's events. Woke up at 630am to support Ben for the intermediate final event. He did so well I'm so happy that he's fulfilling all his archery goals before we graduate

v(^_^v)♪

Came back and worked on poster and logo designs. Wonder if I'm giving myself too much non-academic work to do :X But i much prefer doing such stuff over studying, really....

Yesterday Ben and I saw the star, Alderbaran, sitting in the night sky glowing red-hot cherry topped. It's about 44 times the size of the sun, isn't that crazy fascinating? Stars are so strange, they get so hot they expand and then because they expand they cool down and then they contract again. I don't really understand all the complicated physics behind it but it's really quite intriguing. Anyway Alderbaran is in the constellation, Taurus, so i assumed it'd be a good luck sign for Ben's competition. I guess it was, to some extent ^^

I should sleep now... I'm supposed to study for 3 terrible Japanese quizes over the next few consecutive days so I suppose time's a-wastin' right now.

Friday, March 8, 2013

(=TェT=) NYAN (=TェT=) NYAN (=TェT=)

OMG.

It's 68 days to 日本旅行!!!
That's 2 months and 7 days!
How did time just fly past without my realization? Oh wait. It happens all the time.

Anyway, many things have been settled! And planning's been so fun and awesome and exciting. Accommodation is ridiculously affordable and I think the current accommodation cost stands at SGD$360 in total. That's a crazy $24 a night if you divide it by 15 nights!

We searched real long and hard for cheap accommodations that hadn't all been snapped up and were so glad to find Hoteiya for the time we'll be in Tokyo! I don't know how the conditions will be, apart from the room being tiny, but I believe we don't mind putting up with it because of the low cost. Hoteiya itself is a bare $21 a night?? (Based on a conversion of SGD$1.30 to 100Y)

(=xェx=) < That's unbelievable.

We also slipped in a last minute plan to go to Rabbit Island in Hiroshima! Omg. I think i will cry when I touch the grounds of this island. And the bunnies. 

(=´∇`=)< Don't be jealous Bunbun!

Other exciting additions to the plan include Disneyland! I've never been to any Disneyland of any sort in my life so I was really contemplating hard... mainly because of the price tag attached... a whooping EIGHTY DOLLARZZZ.... But we decided that it would be a waste to miss it! Next time I might feel too old to enjoy it :C And especially since this year will be its 30th Anniversary too! Limited Edition stuff!! I hope the real thing is as mystical, wonderful and magical as I imagine it to be!

ヘ(^_^ヘ)(ノ^_^)ノヘ(^_^ヘ)(ノ^_^)ノヘ(^_^ヘ)(ノ^_^)ノ

We're gonna be visiting so many zoos and aquariums and scenic spots that I don't think (or at least I hope) we will end up spending much on shopping. I think there're only 2 days where we actually touch the shoppidy places. But you know, I don't need to be near shopping areas to overspend. A convenient store will do. woe is me.

I ain't putting any pictures of the places we're gonna visit up here because I'm gonna wait till I capture them on my own instead of plucking them from others.

Still thinking about the pack list (considering we haven't got any check-in luggage for the plane trip there). Would like to only bring 3 sets of clothings and just wash them and re-wear them along the way... but it's Japan!! I don't want to take photos in the same clothes at different places! I wanna wear fancy stuff everyday! Like them! squeaks* Okay but in the end I'll probably just bring along my favourite and most convenient pieces and just wear them over and over. Lol. 

I can't wait to experience my 15 days in Japan.

Anyway I got 'em Japanese Type Emoticons from http://www.japaneseemoticons.net/all-japanese-emoticons/# 

〜( ̄▽ ̄〜)(〜 ̄▽ ̄)〜〜( ̄△ ̄〜)(〜 ̄△ ̄)〜

Hahaha omg. They are like drunken pumpkins! Adorable. And yes I'm so kong xian that I can change colours of the paragraphs. Go study la. Talk talk talk. 

Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Change

I just read some great news today. The Thai government has publicly pledged to end ivory trade in its country!! Okay I'm a bit slow because this was posted on the WWF page a few days ago. But I'm so glad and relieved and my trust in the world has been reinstated... a body of authorities is willing to do something that works against their possibility of profiting monetarily!!

yesterday I scribbled some words about my devastation with the attitude of certain parties in the world because of the global change lecture I attended yesterday. Unfortunately I didnt save the draft so everything's gone now But I shall just scribble up a summary of it again.

Basically Global Change lecture always leaves me depressed because it brings back to me the reality of the plight of the Earth, and the fact that many are reluctant to help. And i don't mean people like us living day to day, only able to help in the smallest ways by recycling and saving whenever we can. I mean the people who can really make a difference. The people with the capital, with the power, with only the lack of determination and conviction.

I was told how companies that believed the state of the world could be changed by implementing solar panels went bankrupt because they did not have sufficient support from the right people. People who have their great ideas shattered because other's can't bear to give up their luxurious lives. They don't want to break their ties with the electric companies, the gas, fuel, oil companies, huge industries that can bring in billions. They don't want to see the Earth crumbling, even when it is. They hide inside their grand homes with their windows pulled tight and the curtains drawn and they don't see what the others see. The others who live among this black fog, the smoke, the smog. The others who are breathing in this evil air, falling ill, dying... They don't see and don't want to see but they can't escape it because someday, those windows are going to have to be opened. And then all that's left would be a black earth, a dark, dark earth...

What's the point of getting all the greens and blues of processed trees when the place you live is just dying? Things can be done, amazing ideas have been drawn out, but the people who can make a change don't want to.

It's true I may not see the whole story, but there is very little to convince one of the reasons why anyone would refuse to invest in power source that's emission-free, cost-free, efficient and most importantly, Earth friendly.

Ice caps are already retreating and glaciers melting so fast that 30-40m are lost each year, football fields of land are being lost to the oceans. Each Year!!!
I just can't bear watching the Earth just die...

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

The Sleepless Night

insomnia
my phobia
it can strike whenever
but its favourite
without a doubt
is right before
a test, a bout of
wakefulness just hits me hard,
and i can't sleep, i only see
shadows on the ceiling
and the fan just spinning, spinning.
The sound of engines
passing through the night
watch other rooms turn out the lights
and blinking at you wondering,
what is it that's weighing on your mind,
the stars,
they seem to shine
"hello"
to me as I decline an invitation to their tea party
"I'm busy"
i explain but they
basking in their glowing grey
shrug and only turn away.

..."Ask me again another day?"

Monday, March 4, 2013

The Monday

A monday morning. The sleepless night before, of dreaming strange things that my mind cannot ignore. Rising at the breakfast of a spilt glass of orange juice, I glance upon my scattered goals, flip through my future for a minute or two. It seems a mess, but there's pages to it. There's hope of some sort.

I have to get down to work, I got up to do just that. The pieces of information worth a hundred marks lie before me and I am supposed to indulge and absorb and spit out at will.

I slap on a piece of morning rejuvenation. It's royal jelly this time. Cold, sweet, like the dew of every day itself poured over my sleep-deprived soul. I shall be ready in 15minutes.

Ready to face to memories of today, the trials of tomorrow. I should be ready. If by night I am not, only insomnia can take me.

Friday, March 1, 2013

The Gastronomy

Today I had an expensive brunch with dear Cang Ning and a really cheap dinner with Alien!

Expensive brunch was at the book cafe. We ordered Minestrone soup (5.95) and Eggs Ben(14.95), mushroom soup(5.95) and aglio olio (14.95). My first time eating eggs ben and I don't think I will be eating it again. Only cause I like my eggs with dark sauce wayyy more~~

Minestrone was awesome. Served hot, and a generous portion. The eggs ben was perfectly runny actually. Luckily for the ham below, the rather bland holladaise sauce was complemented much more suitably. Didn't finish because it was too bland.

Aglio Olio was pretty nice. Moist? and spicy to the right degree. Mushroom soup was too wild for me. One mouthful and you feel like a gnome having dinner.
Total bill for the both of us? $48+ :O gawshhhh....

Dinner! Frog's leg porridge at Geylang Lor 9. We walked from aljunied MRT cux that's where my tuition was. We ordered the smallest of everything, $8 for the frog's leg and $2 for the porridge. $5 per person only!! The frog's leg sauce was really spicy but heavenly.... I could do without the frog and just have the sauce really. The portion was about right for the both of us.

A whole day of gastronomic delights! :D

The Daily Outfit

today's.

Kitty crop tank: $10.40 KSL Mall, JB
Skirt: $9.50, Taiwan
Rilakkuma Pouch: $3.50, Tiong Bahru Plaza