30 July 2010

SEVENTEEN.




^Kay so actually I did this on my letter for lucee on her 17th but still =P serves its purpose here haha.

I'M SEVENTEEN OMFG... I'd just like to say a huuugeeee thanks to all the people who wished me a happy birthday :] made me feel so special today and loved!! Here's the gifts I've gotten so far~~~ (some of them probably not to do with birthday at all, but gifts around this time will all be regarded as birthday presents XD)

^from tony from shanghai~~~ ♥ it's one of those popobe bears, in the design of winnie the pooh~ :)

^more overseas souvenirs!! dior eyeliner (:O so good) & candy from harrod's department store from england from david, a bracelet from peru from harim, and an ARTBOOK of Renoir's landscapes from the NATIONAL GALLERY in england from chencake @__@ thanks sooo much~~~ ♥
^FOOD =P a bar of dark chocolate toblerone that got beaten around in my bag today from steph, and cinnamon cookies than tian made ♥ so nice! albeit a bit hard XD but they last longer cuz of that hahaha

^a clear umbrella from steph~~~ :]]] thanks so muchh ♥ now I won't get wet in the rain again hahaha

^two twin bears of FERRARI brand :O from london, from chencake ♥ and a middle random bear with a rainbow nose from will ♥ thanks guys~~~ haha bears ^^


^a bookmark and a really pretty keychain/phone charm from melody in christchurch! I was sooo surprised when I got home today and found a letter in the mail ♥ ♥ ♥ such good timing!!! thanks so much ~~


^and here are the cards I got!! left to right: will ("to a person who is witty, charming, suave, super-fit... [inside] ...I'm sorry I can't keep a straight face any longer! Ha, Ha Ha Ha. Happy birthday!" in addition to this he didn't even take it out of the shrink wrap and write in it. and then LATER, he even asked me if I could do him a favour and write in it for him. LOL.), tian (HB 17 HB... this has to be the nerdiest card I have ever gotten. thanks a lot tian =P), chencake (sooo cute~~~ bear design ♥), tina (awww this card made me feel so special :)), shirley ("bee happy!" aww I was so surprised when I came into calc and she gave me a card :) haha felt loved), steph (winnie the pooh, with masses of writing inside =P love you mom ♥) and in front is melody's letter :) such cute stationery~~

Anyway today was so nice, even though I did nothing really that exciting. When I came into school, there were all these balloons around with poems on them to celebrate poetry day, but couldn't help but feel like they were for me as well =P yeah I'm self centered, what can I say? 2 of my classes sang me happy birthday (french and physics, and in french they actually sang it in french :]), YJ and steph wrote me a happy birthday wish on the poetry wall, and I got lots of nice food from my friends~~ after school I went to eggs and helped out with backstage and I had lots of fun there as well ^^ even though terry and will were bullying me ): I helped them paint a door! :D so proud haha.

and then, when I came home, I had 80 emails from facebook with happy birthday comments~~ I felt so fuzzy inside ^^ and more came later this evening!! I took the time to say thank you to each and every one of them :]]]

thanks soooo much to everyone for making today so special ^^ I'll post again when/if I get more stuff =P






24 July 2010

DOUJIN OVERLOAD 2010 + ball

As always, you can click the photos to enlarge them lol.

So here's my haul for DO10 :] Too bad I couldn't sell, there were so many talented artists though and honestly I would have been VERY overshadowed hahaha XD My wallet is empty now... ):


:O Where to start. K from the white book on the top left -- Hiyaku Studio's artbook for 2010. So amazing, as expected of them =P I got them to sign it too ^^ and it came with 5 free bookmarks~~ Right of that, the black book is a sketchbook by Helen Meng, below that is the red artbook from M.A.S.S (Marxwyn, aiki-ame, SoNata, Sammy Joe), Below that is a little bookmark by Rebecca, the jolteon was a free gift from EQ (HEARTSSS), the pedobear sticker, grimmjow and kuroshitsuji are by Miggu, the cute little bookmark with gintama on it was a freebie, but I can't remember who from ;___;, beside those are transparent Reno and Vincent bookmarks from Lily/Jessica (not sure who hahaha sorry), the two charms on the bottom (Kay and Ema, from Ace Attorney/Investigations) are by Nicole :] so cute~~ oh and there's a mudkip keychain by Pauline there that I got for terry as well, since he couldn't make it. as for the posters, the blue awesome one on the top next to the books is my gift for Will's birthday, by Ichikaseto, who also did the poster on the lower left. On the same table was the poster on the lower right, by matsuo-lenn. The poster on the right of Howl is by Pauline :D and I got her to sign it too. hahaha such talent in NZ~~ Well, I didn't spend as much money as I did last year, but still spent a hell of a lot... but that's cuz I couldn't afford to either haha. -broke-

This is what my walls look like now...
^my drawings... minus the poster of aiba hiroki on the right lol.
^the main wall hahahaha
^kay that last one isn't so full =P I guess that's where new posters will go haha.

If you calculated the cost of all those posters + art tuitions I paid, the paper on my walls would be worth like at least $500...

Anyway last night was also ball~~~ It was so fun, even though all we did really was dance talk and take photos and get blisters on our feet and freeze while waiting for the taxi hahaha. Look at the pretty invites @___@ the paper is shiny~~

Yeah, "Wei Wu & Yufei Chen"... our ticket looks so asian hahahaah. Still waiting for the photos to be uploaded :D Well first ball experience has been positive!! :] I stole someone's tophat. I think it belongs to a year 13's date hahaha... but it's such a cool hat DDD:

Thanks to everyone who made last night awesome ♥ wouldn't have been the same without you :)

18 July 2010

labels!! :]]] & hello term 3

As you may or may not have noticed, I went back through all my entries and added a tag system. The tag cloud should be on the left =P What I've got so far...

art (14) - pretty much stuff that I make, little projects, not necessarily 'art' art lol
blog (5) - entries about the blog
cosplay (1) - exactly as the name suggests
dreams (3) - dreams I've had
gifts (10) - gifts I've gotten from other people
life (105) - general updates, kinda like diary entries. lol 105! I sure talk about my life a lot...
love (16) - times that made me happy, friends and fuzzy entries, or just thoughts about love in general ♥
meme (18) - meme entries lol
nostalgia (7) - entries about the past
NYRs (2) - new years resolutions
pot luck (2) - pot luck entries
rant (16) - rants about stuff, usually stuff I'm opinionated about
shared stuff (30) - link outs, cool stuff I wanted to share
stories (6) - stuff I've written, could be stories or poems
thoughts (52) - philosophical musings, difference between this and rant is cuz I'm not sure what I think about these mostly, or I don't think anything really, just wanted to explore my thoughts haha

Term 3 starts tomorrow! I'm either completely cbf or super pumped, I'm not sure hahaha. I guess we'll see how I wake up tomorrow? I'm looking forward to it kind of... well these have been a pretty eventful and fun couple of days, so I can't say I've left much undone these holidays, except maybe homework..
ha ha ha, I'll worry about that tomorrow. =P

15 July 2010

nevermind

13 July 2010

pot luck #2

Yay another pot luck entry ^^ where I put random thoughts I've had over the past few days that aren't big enough to make into entries of their own, + any other random things that happen to come up.

Kay well holidays are almost over, I haven't done the work I was meant to have done, instead wasted too much time going out with friends and bumming around at home doing nothing == but will try to make up for it in the next few days? ha, gl with that winnie, andrew's party tomorrow and work on sunday... orz

Today in the car I was just thinking and I realised that society is really quite interesting. Although we live our own lives, we have laws and human rights etc to protect our people. Like, if you get fined for bad driving, it's not because the police want your cash, but it's meant to be a deterrent so you don't drive unsafely (cuz you don't want to pay money), so the people's lives on the road aren't endangered. I thought that was interesting since our laws take care of the people as a whole, yet individually we pretty much live our own lives.

Which brings me to my next thought, that people all have completely different experiences and range of abilities. Like, most of us are pretty average at everything (meaning of the word 'average' lol), but there are families of people who are like really involved in music etc, and those guys who are obsessed with classic cars, or who have a guitar collection which has 10x more worth than the walls of the 1 bedroom apartment on which it occupies... there are some people who are really really into that one thing. I think that's really great, kinda wish I was like that haha. But nah, I'm just a regular old person who doesn't have that thing I'm like SUPER PASSIONATE about... But I do think it makes for interesting characters. I guess that's how it's possible for everyone to be different in the world of 7 BILLION :]

You know, having an 'away' status on msn when you are not actually away is a lot like running away from your responsibilities. Kinda like taking some down time while you think about what to do next? Idk, when I have status on 'away' I feel like I have no obligation to reply to people who say hi or ask for stuff because they wouldn't know the difference between if I were really there or not. I don't know if that's a bad thing; maybe it's a sign that I should stop ignoring my responsibilities...

There's a difference between sounding sophisticated and sounding pretentious. I don't know how you avoid sounding pretentious and sophisticated instead, but it's definitely something you can pick out from someone's writing. I'm not what it is about the style, but there's just something about the writing that makes me think, "wow this writer's a snob," as opposed to, "wow this guy knows what he's talking about." I think there's a certain elegance to sophisticated writing, but pretentiousness is just annoying... unfortunately I'm pretty sure sometimes my writing turns out pretentious when I'm meaning to sound sophisticated :l I read over it sometime after writing it and think, "wow, I'm such a douchebag."

I have this issue with things being 'fair'. Some days I think it would be so nice if life was fair and so I try to make everything as 'fair' as possible, but others I just accept that life isn't fair so it makes no difference what I do either. But actually the more I think about it, fairness needs to be defined. Because if everything were truly fair, everyone would look the same and do the same things all the time. It would be like the return of the clones :l That's not an interesting world at all in my opinion. So strangely enough I actually see merit in embracing the injustice in our world a bit, cuz it's not all bad. ...I'm either terribly optimistic, or today's just one of those days when I don't give a toss about the state of the world...

Actually it's probably the latter, cuz today in the radio they were talking about the 2nd generation of the rich family businesses etc, and how they're having some trouble in China since none of it is formally legally sorted out and some of the 2nd generation are just wasting their parents money while the businesses fail. To be honest, I didn't get why they were telling us about it over the radio because a) it doesn't affect us since we live in NZ and b) it's really not my problem. But apparently it's quite a big problem in China atm. Well, I guess it's interesting to hear about?

Which brings me to my next point, I really hate those kids of rich parents who waste their parents' money while they themselves have no 本事 (I can't think of the english word... like, ability? but I think it's a bit more than that ==) of their own to earn their own money, just living from their family's riches. I kinda feel sorry for their kids cuz when they grow up they'll have no money left because their spoilt parents spent it all and they don't know what to do because their spoilt parents never taught them anything either. Geez it pisses me off when the original first generation don't discipline their kids properly and spoil them just because they can... It's then that you get people like our family friend who imo loves his son too much, and lets him bum around at home after dropping out of high school, stealing his bank statements to borrow money, buying a car without asking him, and then crashing it into a pole... all this before his 20th birthday. Man, what a spoilt asshole. But of course he can get away with it all cuz his family is rich as. =_= I almost want to see him fail in life after his parents aren't around anymore and see what he does...

Oh geez I think I rambled on too much hahahaha. Thoughts just lead to thoughts @__@ Well, I guess to finish off, let's do a random meme :]

Girls Do The Top Part
Guys Do The Bottom Half.
since this is my blog and I do whatever the hell I want, I'm going to do both parts, based on what I might like if I were a guy hahaha. I'm not bi tho so it's probably off XD

MAKES YOU LIKE MORE = YES
MAKES YOU LIKE LESS = NO
YOU DONT CARE = DC
YOU DONT KNOW= DK

IF YOU'RE A GIRL
Is shorter than you: no
Taller than you: yes
Wears a grill: no
Dresses Gangsta: dc
Dresses Skater: dc
Dresses Athletic: yes unless he's fat then no... but if he's got athletic build it's more like YES PLEASE =P
Has green eyes: yes
Has brown eyes: dc
Has hazel eyes: yes
Has blue eyes: dc
Smokes cigarettes: no
Smokes weed: no
Drinks alcohol: dc
Plays sports: yes
Can skate: dc
Writes lyrics: dc
Smiles a lot: yes
Has bad manners in front of you: no
Has blonde hair: dc
Has brown hair: yes
Has black hair: dc
Has red hair: dc
Has spikey hair: dc
Has no hair: no
Has long hair: no
Has curly hair: dc
Has wavey-ish hair: yes
Good dancer: yes
Wears jewelry: dc
Piercings: 1 or 2 dc, >2 no
Tattoos: if it's cool, dc but if it looks bad then no
Muscles: yes as long as not like a bodybuilder
Six pack: ditto
Laid back: yes
Plays guitar: yes
Raps: dc
Can draw: yes
Has a tongue ring: no
Nipples pierce: LOL no
Hugs you: yes
Hugs from behind: yes
Creative: yes
Calls you just to hear your voice: who would say no to this..?
Goes to church: dc
Cusses a lot: dk
Is funny: yes
Kisses you out of no where: yes

- ------… --- ------… ------… ------… --- ------… ------… ------… --- -
IF YOU'RE A GUY

Has a nice butt: yes
Plays musical instrument: yes
Is taller than you: no
Is shorter than you: yes
Has green eyes: dk
Has blue eyes: dk
Has brown eyes: dk
Has hazel eyes: dk
Has long hair: yes
Has med. hair: dc
Has short hair: dc
Drinks alcohol: no
Smokes cig's: no
Has blonde hair: dc
Has brown hair: yes
Has black hair: dc
Has red hair: dc
Calls you just to say hi: yes
Creative: yes
Compliments you: yes
Shaves her legs: yes
Wears jewelry: dc
Has bigger feet then you: LOL, either dc or no...
Belly piercings: yes
Doesn't party: no
Does party: yes
Likes to party: yes
Laughs a lot: yes
Happy: yes
Funny: yes
Skinny: yes
Anorexic: no
Rides a street bike: dc
Tattoos: yes if it looks good, no if it doesn't
Honest: yes
Open: yes
Shy and quiet: no
Huge chest: no, average is good.
Licks lips: dc
Lightly bites bottom lip: ...yes? i guess it could be cute
Talks dirty: yes
Leaves you random comments: no. clingy ==
Competes with you: yes


I reckon I'd make an okay guy. =P hahaha anyway that's all for today, I think I'm blogging quite a lot lately (doesn't seem like anyone else is.... steph when was the last time you blogged??). Either I have a lot on my mind or real life is not stimulating enough to keep my attention so I come on my computer and talk to myself on blogspot. Yes I lead quite a sad life ):

Photospam meme?

Since I'm so bored... I'm going to do a photospam meme hahaha.. it's going to take a while for me to find these photos, so good to waste time :]


1) Your facebook profile photo

2) A photo of yourself a year ago

3) A photo that makes you happy

4) A photo of the last place you went on holiday

5) A photo that makes you laugh
^TONY AND HIS TWIN WTF

6) A photo of your favourite band/musician
^DAVID CHOI :] actually my favourites are muse/linkin park but I don't have any photos of them taken from my own camera. ):

7) A photo of your family

8) A photo of you when you were younger

9) A photo of your best friend(s)

I don't have one ): Since we never took a photo by the tree ): but now I know to take one... but to compensate here's some random group shots :l




10) A photo of you at the last party you went to

11) A drunk photo of you
^apparently... I resent this claim, I was not drunk :l

12) A photo of one of your classes
^mrps class of 2004 :]

13) A photo of you on a school trip
^athletics day 2010 :] yujieee~

14) A photo of something you enjoy doing

^just taken. =P what a nice way to end hahaha. ignoring my nerdness...
yup from 9.30 to 11. definitely a good way to waste time...

07 July 2010

Vanity


Vanity: The mother of all sins; an excessive pride in one's appearance (ref: dictionary.com)

So what counts as 'excessive'? Sure, guys can say that they don't like girls who cake their face in makeup because it's fake and ugly (???), and anti-cosmetic surgery because it's not 'natural', and girls can say that they don't like guys who are metrosexual and care about their appearance because it makes them seem girly and gay, but look at the flipside: if you're someone who doesn't put any effort into your appearance, you're never going to get laid, unless you're naturally gorgeous, and even then, it's because you look good. Point being that we try to make it out that appearances are not important when they are. You can kid yourself all you want and say that you only care about the personality of a potential significant other, but honestly we are all shallow to some extent.

In a world with cosmetic surgery, makeup, skincare, hair products, weird clothing that's supposed to accentuate features (idk, push up bras, corsets, high heels, padded underwear for guys).... heck, even soap, how can we say that we don't care about how someone looks? I'm sure everyone wants to look good to some degree. We are a shallow race, there's no denying that. It's in our genetics; we're biologically engineered to seek out the best mate for reproduction, and one of the ways we determine that is by using the sense of sight.

Guys who say they like 'natural girls' actually mean they like girls who look good without looking like they have cms of makeup piled onto their faces. Ie, some makeup is probably used. I doubt anyone would disagree if I said that they would prefer a girl who has clear looking skin over a girl with acne, if all other factors were the same. Guess what does that? Concealer and foundation :]

I guess I'm speaking more for girls here, but it's not like we're narcissistic attention seekers when we go out with makeup on, nor do we have such low self esteem that we feel the need to cover up our face. Well actually, even if we did, wearing makeup would make us more confident. What's wrong with that? There's a plethora of reasons why we might be wearing makeup... Maybe we have too much and we have to use it before it expires. Maybe we got bored. Maybe we find putting makeup on fun. Maybe it's a special occasion. Maybe we just like looking good. Yes, plenty of reasons. So, don't judge =P

As for girls who think it's not masculine for guys to care about their appearance. Well, I'm sure most girls would prefer a guy who is at least hygienic and doesn't look like homeless bob off the side of the pavement. Personally I'd prefer a guy who looks like he takes care of himself, and I wouldn't call that a sin. There's nothing wrong with looking good o.o in fact, isn't that a plus? :]

As for the natural argument... well, clothes aren't natural either. Maybe we should all just stop wearing those as well, if we're going to all out with this 'natural' thing... (That's not to say that I'm condoning cosmetic surgery. Honestly I think there IS a limit to vanity, and that's when you start to risk your health for aesthetics.)

No one wants to grow old and get wrinkles, that's why there's botox injections and face lifts etc, and I accept that people want to stay young looking as much as possible (maybe because of the disproportionate % of younger models in the media), so while we're young we might as well take advantage of our good looks right? :/

Idk about you guys, but people can say all they want about keeping it natural and I'll still see nothing wrong with trying to look good when you can. In any case, right now I have a pimple growing on my forehead that's so big I feel like I'm growing a bit of a devil's horn, but that's alright, I'll just keep hiding it under my fringe :] what the public doesn't know won't hurt them :D

02 July 2010

David & YJ's 18/17th :]

:]]] yup, last night was david & yujie's 18th/17th birthday party respectively. Ignoring some technical details such as my not giving yj's present to her til later, and david leaving his own party and us forgetting to give him his present before he goes to vienna for the holidays...

Please excuse any noob typos in the following post, I slept total ~1.5 hours between 6.50am yesterday and now :/ Haha in a way I guess it parallels the start of the year, marking the beginning of the 2nd half of the year =P term 2 is over!! Just have to get nose into work in term 3 and then totally pwn my externals now.

So... I showed up, and there were 8 laptops on the table. Guys were crowded around playing dota... at a party... WOW I HAVE SUCH GEEK FRIENDS :] it's great. Oh but Sunny was playing ice cream factory on neopets XD And we just bummed around for a while, watched a tiny bit of mulan, but then david came with KFC... so naturally we ran to the kitchen and devoured it :] and there was sushi and char siu.... such nice food D:

Some other stuff happened and I'm too tired to remember, but we watched ANTM and Glee? And people were playing mahjong, and we took photos, and I recall jamie giving me his finished smirmoff bottle so I could fill it up with L&P :]]] which yj spiked with envy... and david tried to take from me to fill up with the hard stuff. BUT I RESISTED. I DIDN'T HAVE ANY ALCOHOL THE WHOLE NIGHT. :]]]] and I felt so good about it in the morning when everyone had headaches and jamie was throwing up. Tipsy yujie is so funny XD

oh and there was an epic battle over a pooh bear. which was rightfully mine...


Watched the soccer at 2-3.30am, it was pretty interesting actually, from the perspective of someone who has never watched a soccer game before in her life. Slept through the ghana vs uruguay one in the morning though hahaha.

OH! and we watched the hunchback of notre dame and the little mermaid~~~ never watched them before :] quite liked notre dame, the music is soooo epic... disney is amazing D:

...fail I can't remember anything after that. we took photos? umm... and I watched tony play battlefield for a while, and then fell asleep. and in the morning, i had breakfast, and then sat around bored and facebooked, and then fell asleep. and then woke up and helped with the cleaning til i got picked up.

wow actually according to my memory we didn't do much last night. hahaha, i guess it's just being with everyone that makes it fun :]

anyway, big happy birthday to YUJIE and DAVID, @DAVID have fun in Vienna, gl with IYPT, pick up hot swedish/chinese/austrian/w/e-takes-your-fancy girls, hope you get your present before you go hahahaha, and @YUJIE hope your headache got better, try not to get drunk/tipsy/whatever you want to call it again, and hope you have an awesome 17th, and I will give you your present later in the holidays when I see you ♥

giving up, I can't think.

[EDIT] AND happy birthday to jamie c for 1st of july ♥ sorry for forgetting DDD: I'M TIRED -excuses- and a happy 89th anniversary to the communist party of china for the same day =P