It's a very rainy day...

Perfect for napping!

But I can't seem to nod off...probably has something to do with the fact that since coming home, I've been lazing till 12pm almost every day. Tralalala~

*brick'd*

Okay, I can't sleep. What else happens.

I suddenly started craving chocolates.

Raided the fridge. Finished all the leftover Twix bars. Ate a Tiramisu chocolate ball (got them from some neighbours, yay). Finished last two pieces of wheat bread (toasted them and smothered them in kaya spread...sweeeeet).

It's raining again...can't go out for a walk, or even a swim...the badminton's courts are entirely booked...and I'm tired of playing the piano.

Continued reading my James Patterson (the pages DO turn themselves, especially when I'm reading under a fan). Read fanfiction (yes, yes). Proofread a few stories for my...clients? Edited my friend's university application statement (seriously needed a lot of work). Rewrote an entire 10 pages of my SEA project (it's painful to reread my old work). Posted up another short excerpt of SEA.

What else can I do...

I think I'm getting a little hyper on this keyboard........

=D

Oh, I haven't drawn anything lately, and I promised two characters for someone........

Making long journal entries...puts people to sleep. xD So I'm going to post about what I'm reminiscing about right now. =)

During the last semester of pre-U, my brother and I got our cousin hooked on L4D. It's a good way for her to vent after hours and hours of marking assignments and exam papers.

"I feel like shooting heads."

And that prompts us to take her out to dinner and then to the cybercafe for L4D, but I try not to go out that often because I still need to study. Only when I'm free, brainwashed from my notes, or just plain bored, then I take up my cousin's offer to go shoot some zombies.

But seriously, for a beginner, she's pretty awesome with the shotgun. For accuracy and headshots, my cousin always ranks the highest. Well...that is, until I decided to do more than just shoot the zombies' crotches and just go for the kill.

My cousin - Headshot Queen
Me - Crotchshot Queen
Cousin's friend - Legshot Queen and Friendly Fire (x.x) Queen xD

We also give our characters stupid names so that the notifications would come up like this:

Who killed the Hunter. (my cousin xD)
Pregnancy killed the Witch. (me =P)
TakahiroSakurai (a popular Japanese voice actor) killed the Boomer.
HePokedMeSoI killed the Charger. (me)

And then, we use parts of speech for our names so that the results would come out jumbled like this:

PokeMe ExclamationMark IWillComma WithAPaddleBat (=D)
BoomerGot PokedBy MyVeryAwesome Pole (o.o)
EllisComma SpankMe AndIMight GiveYouMedKit (O.O)

Don't look at me, my cousin started it. xD

Okay...maybe we indulged her idea a bit too much. I'm not posting up our more...elicit names...I probably was the one who upped the rating from Safe to Immature. Haha!

But oh man, Dungeon Siege III was so awesome! It was a whole new experience for me and my brother. The developers really upped the epic this time! I hogged the PC until I finished the whole game...which is unwise...*runs away from impending doom*

And this is why I should read game articles more...

I'm never expecting anything more from the current developers of Harry Potter games now. The fifth and sixth games are so...disappointing. The fourth game is EA's final crown for Harry Potter games...

I'm on my final semester break for my Foundation year. If my results are satisfactory, I can move on to my undergraduate studies on the 28th of May. Yay~

Okay, some highlights of what has happened:

March

My university held a cosplay event! It was a great success! More than double the intended quota of people arrived. So we had to pull out ALL the extra chairs that were available for use in the event hall! Wow!
I also got really, really sore from all that prancing about in my friend's sister's boots. (two-inch heels, that's not as bad the pair I wore for C2AGE 2011...3.5 inches x.x)
But alas, all that practice and training was for naught when my partners saw all the photographers that appeared to cover the event. Wussies. I was the only one left to hype the audience. Damn photographers were in the way...

But anyway, my Medusa (from Soul Eater) picture hogged an entire quarter of a page on the China Press (中国报). The event also appeared on Sin Chew Daily (新洲日报). And then a few days later there was mention of it on The Star's sunday paper. (My character name was mentioned xD)
Anime Comes Alive

April (incoming RANT)

Finals! I hope I did okay...

But before that, two weeks ago something bad-at-the-same-time-it-couldn't-have-been-any-better happened.

I have this..."friend" (actually, I don't want to be her friend, no one does, but I speak good English so she sticks to me and my friend, K, like GLUE. She also annoys the **** out of my cousin and everyone around her. The worst part is that she doesn't want to listen to what other people tell her (people mostly give her advice...about how to be a better person, in general) and she just shrugs everything off and "emo"s in a corner. Thinking the world hates her and she doesn't get any love despite the fact that her uncle made her heir to his whopping fortune....yes she talks/brags/"emo"s about it to everyone...). She's just the kind of person no one wants to be involved with but say "Hi" and give her friendly smiles anyway because she has the biggest bs story ever which pulls at people's sympathy strings.

My cousin, K and I are impervious to her stories and antics. I risk sounding like a b***h here but I really don't like her and wish she would stop acting like people want her there and crash other people's gatherings only to avoid talking with people and then "emo" in a corner...good god.

I'll call this person S.

She did something that could've endangered my life if it were a real life situation. Thank god she doesn't get prank calls very often.

Here's the down-low. S uses other people's personal information (full name, age, address, email, bank they go to, relationships) as "witty retorts"...

Worst part is that when we tell her she's done wrong, she does her usual thing: shrugs the accusations off and "emo"s in a corner, hoping we'd sympathize with her and forgive her.

As ****ing if.

I told her to stay the **** away from my cousin. (I couldn't include K because whether she still wants to keep contact with S is her choice, but she follows me wherever we go, thankfully.) So, realizing that angering me means losing her role model (whom she steals all her tag lines from and does a crap-ass job at imitating them and also spams them to the point where they all lose their novelty) she finally gave me a half-assed apology...and then later that same day, gives her two-cent attempt at sarcasm at a comment I made about why my next-door neighbours change so much. (S: "Gee, I wonder why..." *looks at me*)

I'm sorry, but I thought you were seeking forgiveness and hoping to keep me as a "friend". I never said anything about forgiving her, but she "assumed" I did and that gives her "tremendous" reason to irk me some more. (I should mention that S is the "Master" of assumption and always assumes people are...less perceptive than her.)

I don't care, she can go make new friends with black walls for all I know, but I am NOT talking to her again...unless it's to yell something at her (like "YOU SUCK! GO LEARN HOW TO BE A BETTER PERSON YOURSELF!")...I'm through with helping idiots.

MORE RANTS

Senility has really hit my mom bad...god help me.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!


Sorry, just had to let that out.


But anyways, I've been trying to de-stress myself from reading with....MORE READING!! CURSE YOU WIKIPEDIA AND WIKIA! (I learn something new every day ._.)


On to something else hopefully more relevant to my life...


I'm back in KL! After 2-3 months in Kampar, you'd think home would seem sweeter...except for the homey fact that my grandma (who is totally awesome, by the way) is on rehab at my house (recovered from a stroke, all the while laughing and smiling...when she was conscious, aw), things at home are still loud, tiring, and keeps me from my studying. I miss my single, PRIVATE room already. The other nice thing about being back in KL is that I get to see my friends again! But not have fun with them because my mom banned me from fun and de-stressing until my finals are over.........."OTL


Oh wells. Gotta say no to the overnight karaoke...coupons expired last night.


So, after finals (thank goodness it's AFTER FINALS), on the 10th-12th I shall be going out with my friends to cossing events, where I'll definitely find more friends/brats/queens/pedos/flashers/etc......


I need to rethink my social groups...good thing I stay near the ones I don't mind.


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Repeating my advice:


To those who are planning on trying out this cosplaying stuff, make sure that during events, you ask everyone for their ages...


And keep in mind:


- NEVER give your facebook and phone number to cossers under 18 
As we all know, kids as young as TEN are dating, and when conflicts arise, the drama that ensues! One way or another, you'll DEFINITELY be dragged in whether you like it or not. This is often the case that happens to the older cossers (either noobs or pros) who are popular with the kids.

- For the girls, NEVER make friends (again, facebook and phone number) with male cossers and PHOTOGRAPHERS aged 25 and older. Especially those who speak well but take a lot of pictures of the girls. These guys are usually the secretly perverted ones and tend to ask one or two girls for private photoshoots.....pedo alert. And chances are, 1 out of 7 of them might have a bad rep.
I've met this infamous photographer, who crossplays (male wearing female costume or vice versa) and is openly perverted, but at least he's honest...and (I'm relieved to admit) harmless.

- Whether your have "extra bits" or not, do not wear revealing or navel-flashing costumes, at least not without those flesh/nude-coloured spandex thingies. Same material as your pantyhoses, so should feel comfy *brick'd*. Again, hentai alert.

- Again, NEVER wear skirts without shorts inside. Even in a massively public event like Animangaki or Comic Fiesta, these pervs aren't afraid to try anything. They even train to sneak upskirt shots without getting caught. O.O

- Stressing the first point, never date cosplayers under 18. As kids, whatchu expect them to do? And some of the pretty ones tend to have strict parents, so not only do they look like veal, they're raised like 'em, too.

- I'm glad I dress up as a guy most of the time. Less desirable, but not less popular xD *brick'd*

So yes, looking forward to MITF and AnimanGaki! ^_^

I'm going with my PMCG (Police/Militant Costume Group) buddies for MITF and as something else for AnimanGaki. But all in all, pretty casual stuff (more or less straight from my wardrobe).

Lastly, I GOT A NEW HAIRCUT!! Actually, I straightened my hair, and judging by the looks of it, I should've done it ages ago because everyone said it's a huge improvement. Glad I didn't let that money go to waste. My old hair will be missed, but not by much, it seems xD *brick'd*

I realized that I can look masculine in this hair (simply by not smiling and looking up slightly), and feminine, although it all ends up making me look moe~ish (by smiling/not smiling and looking downwards slightly)...kewl.

So yes, vanity over. Onwards to bury myself in my notes now...altogether, it weighs around 5kgs...holy ****...

[14th April draft]
Finally got that Guro Photoshoot project out of the way. We had 4 volunteer photographers! O.O

And there were supposed to be 4 models, but two of them couldn't make it, so it was down to Michelle (the one who organized this whole project) and me (the one who suddenly likes wearing chains...).

But I think it went pretty well xD Found that amazing place I saw in someone else's Enma Ai photoshoot album but oh gosh the mosquitoes! I didn't get bit (lucky!) but my friends did...I was the one who wore the most black, too =S

So I've uploaded a few,  ONE of the photographers(an 'objects' kind of photographer), he just tweedled around with the lighting, so his pictures came out fast...

[continued 4th May]
Another photographer, he has more experience with taking pictures of human subjects, so his pictures are *ahembiasedahem* nicer, His came out just last week so I uploaded some of those onto my deviantart as well. Those interested can find my dA link somewhere on the side with some other links xD

There are moments when someone would go into a relapse when someone well-known acknowledges you or something you did, created, contributed, etc...

I wonder if I'm one of those people who have completely and utterly embraced the "all men are equal" concept...

There was one time a few years back during Chinese New Year where my family and I met a local news celebrity at my uncle's place. (Took a picture at the insistence of my mom) My mom was all sorts of ballistics while I just stood there smiling next to the lady and thought, "Oh, she's the one I saw on TV, she seems nice..."

And I uploaded some pictures yesterday and lo and behold, one of my pictures was 'Liked' by Steven Cravis...okay, that brought out a grin from me but I didn't scream or fangirl/fanboy/fangasm over it and stuff. I just went, "Whut?! Oh...Steven Cravis, man...thanks!"

Quite an anti-climatic reaction...that guy's a great pianist and composer but truly I can't be bothered sometimes...

Am I a dull person or have I just reached old age too early...?

Oh yeah, I can't forget the time when I wrote a Birthday card for Daniel Radcliffe and got an automated 'Thank you' note and autograph (which I gave to my friend as a birthday present) in return...I didn't even ask for an autograph but thanks, anyway, solved my problems about what kind of present to give to my friend *brick'd*.

Yeap...there's just not enough happening in my life right now to get me all worked up about celebrities...I prefer the (positive) attention of the public...

On the 19th of March, I'll be directing a mafia style photo-shoot session! Woots! I've been given free rein by the photographer so I'm actually kinda nervous and hope people like my idea. I've actually written up a scene progression draft on facebook and so far, feedback has been positive (except for my heroine bawling about how sad it is...I die, you die, we all die, except her xD)...but the only problem I have is getting enough people for the shoot and finding a good place for the setting...I want this shoot to be as classic as possible, might take the whole thing in black and white. Some emotive and expressive scenes will be included as well =]

I already have a decent place in mind but I don't want it to lose its novelty so I'm looking for other options...
Anyone here know KL areas and a place where I can find a good place to shoot?
Some place that's...
Grey
Has an aged touch
Has some high lookout places (which means it has to have at least two floors, ground floor and first floor)...
Having a basement is optional...
Some place windy as well...

To simplify, I need an old and abandoned warehouse...or something along those lines...

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On another note, I hope people in the affected districts of the earthquake in Japan are okay...fatality numbers have already reached three-digits...

 Some douchebag I've met at Comic Fiesta has been trying to get into my pants since he found out that I'm legal...I'm also legal to be put in jail for first degree murder so he's safe, but only thanks to the law...

Anyway, I have this friend, Dennis, good kid, smart, and [i]quite]/i] childish. But he appointed me as his "mommy" on facebook so I assume my 'responsibility' quite seriously...

But yesterday, that annoying bastard (who's 27, mind, and has no maturity whatsoever) is making it pretty damn more obvious what his intentions were by saying that he's Dennis' "daddy"..."self-proclaimed"...yeap, right out of his mouth...I really wanted to tell him what the difference was and further slander his non-existent intellect but our friends were around and they don't seem to have caught up with what he was talking about...yet.

So I can only satisfy myself by freeing Dennis from the armlock that idiot keeps putting everyone in (even me, but I can take care of myself, Dennis too, mostly to prevent getting choked) and gave him a hard jab right between the ribs (it was a push, really, but I used my knuckles >=])...

Later in the car on the way home (after bidding my dear friends Fizz (returning to study in Australia), Zim (returning to Sabah), and Jak (returning to Malacca)) Dennis told me, "Mommy, I don't want him for a daddy"...I love my "son" very much and value his input very much.

"He'll never be one, dear, so don't worry about it *evil grin*"

"Yay!"

Seriously, if Mr Blue-Balls tries anything, I'm pretty sure I can get away with it if I give him a good nutcracker and make sure he can't walk for at least a week or two...

Speaking of which, my orchestra's performing a small bit from the Nutcracker Suite xD

But I won't be around to perform with them because I'll be going to UTAR, Perak campus, in May...T_T

It's been a while...=D

Since it's getting close to the New Year, I've decided to post a last update this year for the month of December 2010.

Whew...wow...it's almost as if I've been sucked into a tornado and ended up in someone else's (or some other) reality where everywhere I turn there's an event coming up that I MUST prepare for. It was exciting!  >:3

So, first off was the concert the PJ Philharmonic Orchestra held on December 11th, together with the Methodist Boys' School Wind Brigade. I heard it was actually the first time in the history of Malaysia that an orchestra and brass band came together to hold a performance. =D

They weren't professionals, but the young people had a lot of heart and enthusiasm (and I heard they only had a month to practice and even stayed over in school for all-day practice sessions O_O). The only down point was that even with the PA system, the strings could hardly be heard...oh wells, everyone had fun =]

We performed twice on that day, the audience was much better at night =D

Straight after the performance, I went to my friend's wedding the next day. She's around her late twenties so don't gape and go all "Huh?!" because a lot of people asked "How old is she??"...I wouldn't want to go to a wedding where the bride and/or groom are under twenty...
She's from the orchestra and the wedding really explained her absence, I was starting to get a little worried until she called me one night, a month or so before the wedding, asking if I wanted to come.

Of course!

That groom is a very lucky man. xD
I think they're actually quite a sweet pairing. At dinner, he said the harp performance was supposed to be a surprise for his new wife because she absolutely loves the harp, but the bride's little sister leaked the excitement to her...so he pulled out another jack in the box! Said he BOUGHT the 40k+ harp for her! Whoa! And even sat down to strum a little beginner tune for her xD

Okay, nothing orchestra related until Jan 2, 2011. Long break, yay! xD

The next weekend was COMIC FIESTA 2010!! I got an opportunity to fulfill my 2010 wishlist when a friend of mine called and asked if I would cosplay with her as Ciel Phantomhive from the Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) anime. I didn't care if she was only calling because I was the shortest person she knew...|=\

But I like the little shota boy, so why not? The costume...because it was pretty late (mid-November O_O) the cosplay competition was closed and costumes are supposed to be hard to come by then. But I managed to find someone who was offering to rent the Ciel costume (which was, fortunately, still available) AND wig for 20% off!! 8D

And my contacts, I managed to get a lovely pair of blue ones from really fast and reliable dealer (actually she's just a middleman in ordering the contacts for people and stuff) Thank you!

So, I took a trip to Jalan Petaling to find the accessories I might need (like the big-ass Phantomhive ring) and found most of what I was looking for from a button shop xD

And, of course, I didn't want to break my budget, so instead of a cane, I used my violin as a prop instead (it's valid, whew)...and apparently, lots of Ciel and Sebastian cosplayers agree with me, haha. I think the most popular prop at CF this year should be the violin (someone brought a viola, though, but I guess it's alright since majority of CF-goers didn't notice the difference. Because I could also play the violin, lots of people and fellow cosplaying friends asked me how to hold the violin and play it, in the end, it led to me giving them all a little mini-concert right on the side of the corridor...yeah, people passing by who heard me immediately stopped to ask for my picture.

Oh yeah, the photographers were all very polite. They always asked and after they finish spamming our pictures, they always bow, or nod their heads (the shy ones), and say "thank you". Made me so happy I started doing more varieties in my poses, including a pit of ravish-Elizabeth! moments...*cough*therewerealotofmalephotographersbecausewe'rebothgirlsbutIwassupposedtobeaboy*cough*.

At the end of Day 2 (I was still Ciel, but my friend changed to a goth-lolita dress, but still used the Elizabeth wig, so I donned my skull bunny hat from last year's CF to match her theme and even added a metre of silver decorative rope to my costume) we got a little candid and did took some silly pictures xD But the best part was when they played the Carmel Dansen and everyone just dropped everything and ran onto the stage to dance  haha.

On Christmas day, my mom and I took a stroll to see how her garden was faring, and a good thing we did because suddenly she clutched my hand and went all "Look! Look! Chicken meat mushrooms!" This was all in chinese, I'm not entirely sure, they were white =S

There were lots of them, wild mushrooms like these, lucky! As my mom said...xD So that evening, when we were preparing to leave for my grandma's place, we shoveled them up and brought them back with us >=]

The next day, my uncle peeled and chopped them up (he's so great, always doing whatever he can for us), and we went to a town to have them cooked for our breakfast! They were awesome! That was actually the first time I ate something like that, I can now add chicken meat mushrooms to the list of mushrooms I like and I hope the garden outside my window grows more of them some day ^^

Just later that same day, I attended another wedding of a distant cousin of mine. Wow...the PA systems team sucked, everything was too loud and distracting, couldn't hold a conversation with my relatives at all...but I applaud the guy who had some showmanship in him, he wasn't too bad to watch...

And just yesterday, my friends from CF (all cosplayers and I got to know them thanks to "Elizabeth") got together at Sunway Pyramid to shop for Christmas gifts for each other (everyone called me Ciel, haha), went ice-skating (we're the racing terrors!!...who stop almost frequently to help people up ^^) and hit the arcade, then had dinner at Manhattan Fish Market =D (yummy!)

I drew some of my friends in their costumes...actually I just drew their characters, as a cheap gift (I only sketched everything the NIGHT before *brick'd*) but they said they liked it and I felt all happy and tingly inside xD

So, I have been asked to follow my "Elizabeth" to two photo shoots some time in January or February, and we have made more cosplay plans for the year 2011 (for events from Jan-May actually)...hope we can make it, and maybe even win some competitions? =D
My friend said I resembled Ciel very much (except for the great, big, obtrusive thighs "OTL)...Yay! I have a use to cosplay as chibi characters, at least...o.o...

Well, that's about it for my last entry this year. It's been one heck of a year and I'm definitely not likely to forget these wonderful events. Happy New Year!!

Legion was cool. But I still pick Toy Story 3