Crazy weekend

I will never cosplay two days in a row again... or try my best not to *______________*

Band concert was on saturday and I was asked to help at the front of house. Was planning to wear my nice black dress but but the exco wanted a little entertainment-- asked us to cosplay characters from series which songs were being played during the concert. The theme was oscar winning music so plenty of series eg mary poppins, sound of music, pochohantas, star wars etc. 

We decided to go with Princess Leia a few days before the concert and really.... good job to the exco for getting the bathrobe and white dress, if not I would have firmly declined to dress up. The vice president was very determined to make this cosplay happen (in contrast to my low enthusiasm) totally did up my hair too :) 

We also had a Darth Vader and John Smith so yeeeeaaaap! All turned out well. The music was very enjoyable, I could type an essay about my feelings for each song but I'll just keep it in my heart because I'm dead tired and want to talk about more exciting stuff. 

After the concert ended, almost a third of the band went to holland V to have supper. I skipped dinner but wasn't extremely hungry even then... Cosplay does this to me always, it makes my hunger disappear -_- 

I was lucky enough to get a ride back to school with a few other band mates, and the driver wanted to drop by Utown to get his stuff. It was close to 1am? I dunno. He spotted an indian guy lying on the ground at the busstop. O_O the guys went to prod him but there was no response.. he was breathing though. They didn't smell any alcohol though I caught a whiff of something and passed it off as cologne since the others said it wasn't alcohol. We called campus security who told us to call utown security. The security came to poke at the unresponsive guy shortly after and eventually called the police and ambulance because the guy was totally not responding.

Epic sia, seeing the paramedics and police do their stuff. Fortunately they managed to get the guy to react by pinching him LOL we should have thought of that aiya..... The guy threw up after a while and we realised that he was dead drunk. This also explains the plastic bag under his feet when he was on the ground. We actually thought he slipped on the plastic bag, fell and hit his head or something -__-

The policewoman was super fierce and kept handing him his handphone to call his friends to take him back to his room. He couldn't even open his eyes, much less speak properly and kept puking for a while, even stepping on his puke. X__X The paramedics poured water over his head to wake him up and rubbed an ice bag under his shirt haha he kept squirming LOL it was torturous to watch. Then the drunk tried to stand up and walk home repeating very loudly in a slur "trust me on this" (that he can get back to his room without calling his friends) and proceeded to stumble around hahaha and the policewoman was like "excuse me, you're puking all over the facilities"

We left after a while and almost 15 mins later when we passed by the busstop again, they were still there LOL

Anyways reached home at 2+am and quickly went to bathe and wash off my make up. Left the hair spray in my hair and went to sleep though.... too tired. I literally dropped into bed but couldn't sleep FML. Probably still high from post concert and the dead drunk guy incident. Also my stomach was really bloated and uncomfortable to sleep on because it was full of air since I skipped dinner. I think I got only 4 hours of bad quality sleep. Never again am I letting myself go without food for such a long period of time.....

My eyes were blood shot today but I still had the ff re-shoot which I die die had to go for because I screwed up the previous shoot as mentioned a few posts before. Long story short, I enjoyed myself much more today because wig issue was resolved and my contacts were totally fine, save for my blood shot eyes from lack of sleep. They started tearing towards the end though.. Must have been too tired.. I also knew the photographer and there was much more interaction and I think I was able to get good shots :)

Looking forward to the ff photos this time. No camwhore photos to post from the shoot but I'm pretty satisfied with the shoot today. Good night!

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Guys GUYS SUWABE JUNICHI IS COMING FOR AFA!!!

How sly of them, letting the news out through animax first ahahaha I might get a chance to have a photo with him. Oh man that would really be a great present. How long will the happiness last I wonder ^____^

Hello Sunday Night

Time is flying, I'm actually feeling a little depressed about fyp right now. Prof is really nice but I dread seeing him now. The weeks just seem to pass by without me accomplishing much. I'm having trouble getting my last set of mutations in the right vector and this is the most pressing issue. Darn ittt why can't I even do simple cloning stuff. Results aren't coming to me. I'm not getting anywhere.

Had a relaxing weekend, got some revision done for tumour bio and watched anime. I'm on a baseball craze right now after watching Ace of Diamonds. Went on to watch One Outs and I have this urge to re-watch Ookiku Furikabutte again.

The weekend has been cooling but I resisted the urge to take naps. That's it, that's my weekend :')

Photoshoot over!

The photoshoot is over! One of the more comfortable costumes out of my recent coses, but has it's own set of problems as well.

Appearance of the cookie monster lololol and I look like voldemort in the top one

It was a novel experience shooting in a studio, with limited space, impressive reflectors, huge flash (i don't know what all those things are called), backdrops and stuff. I'd be honest, it was a precious and valuable chance which I should be soaking in and appreciating with my whole soul but I was in pain and very uncomfortable for most parts T_____T 

My left eye was giving me hell and the irritation just refused to go away. I took off the lens, washed and put it back on a few times  but it still didn't work. That's the first time something like this has happened :( contacts used to never give problems. I suspect it's because of my 'no contacts, spectacles only' operation which kinda made my eyes unaccustomed to wearing contacts, especially a 16mm lens so suddenly.  

Many many factors lah, I never used to order ifairy lens because I thought they would be too huge for my tiny eyes. I don't know if this is a one time event or it'll happen every time I wear larger lens....... hopefully it'll be ok next time, because I will definitely be encountering these lenses again T___T so yea my eye kept tearing, smudging my eye liner. The crying also gave me mucus which I needed to sniff  up continuously and wipe, smudging my make up again. 

My eyes were red and teary as a result.... the others kept telling me not to cry lol. Immediately took off the contact lens after the shoot, so I was half blind. Luckily I had a ride home and could sit back and close my eyes during the trip. The pain persisted until I fell asleep yesterday, and my eye was seriously swollen. Fortunately it's much better today and the swell is almost gone. I will need to try the contact lens on again after my eye has recovered to see if the irritation is still there though :(

On to problem 2 which can be solved more easily I hope.. My wig kept sliding back urghhhhhhh. My fault entirely. I need to tighten the straps -__- quite angry with myself for not adjusting, especially since I kept taking it off due to the sliding problem and had so much time to make adjustments but I did not. Oh wells. Also need to improve on the styling omg it's unacceptable even by my noob standards. Yup so wig was a second major problem, I kept pulling my wig and rolling the spikes together even when taking photos, it was quite bad. I'm actually quite afraid to see the official photos... 

Make up problem was still there but not as bad... I tried to recreate what liz did for me when she stayed over but failed terribly. She helped me again after that, but it was after my solo shots so too bad for those photos hehe. I tried contouring...... it was ok for a first try I guess. Much to be improved on. I know my character is a bishie character but that's still no excuse for looking so girly. Ah wells.

Here's a manly photo though :D taken from Kai Lin who was a great help with everything!!! Here you can see my attempts at contouring. I darkened the eye to nose area, hair line, jaw line and tried the hollows of the check. Too heavy at the cheeks and it didn't join to the right part of the hair line whoops. More on the eye to nose area next time! :)b

No make up face yo!!!

I know I've been going on and on about the gun but here's the rest of the outfit, taken the night before the shoot. I made the dog tag necklace, belt, shoulder and hanging thingies myself :D the shoulder part was a pain but I managed it!

So all in all, the props and costume turned out to be the least of my worries (first time sia!) haha I'm really really glad that I joined the team, the people and characters I took on helped me improve so much and gave me the chance to try so many new things. Prop making, costume making, make up, photoshoots (Y) very very lovely, funny and cool people in the team who help one another and are so good at cosplay :Dbb