Excited

Had so much fun last week!! Was out almost every night meeting friends, attending concert, giving tuition... (Y)

As usual laughed a lot when with the YYYYs and we had a special guest YZ hahaha meet again before Janice leaves for her exams!!!!

Was supposed to help out for a shoot on saturday but it got cancelled due to my friend's wig being a disaster. Blessing in disguise because I finally had time to do up the wig and accessories for sunday's costume. 

Sunday was great in terms of how the cos turned out and number of nice photos I took. I was irritated with the bf though and gave him face colour to see at night. It's not the first time I give him face colour but one of the more serious times. I hate it when he treats me as invisible. It's just plain rude and spoils my mood. Every single event leh. Seriously cannot take it silently anymore. He has his reasons and in the end we reached a compromise over messenger that night. Shall see if things improve from now on.

Speaking of this weekend~~~~ I'm going KL for Comic Fiesta! Wheeeeeee~~~ Taking leave on friday till next tuesday. So excited to attend an overseas event with friends and staying outside with friends! I need to start packing and iron the costumes!! No time ahh why am I still blogging.

Work is still okay, my email isn't up yet and it's getting quite inconvenient. 

All photos on fb bye bye!! 

One week to Xmas holidays

First week of work went by fast! I've been shadowing my colleague and reading FAQs, minutes of past meetings blablabla. Waiting to get my laptop and computers..... That's when the real work starts XD my colleagues are nice and my higher ups are nice too~~~ The office ppl like to ask "is this your first job?" then "Oh you're a fresh grad!" then proceed to ask what I did during my break from graduation till now. It's a small world, I'm actually replacing a wsband senior. My very first lab mate also whatssaped me on my first day cos he recognized my name in the email. Too bad we're at based at different office locations XD

Had my first video shoot and it was a great experience! We wrapped up around 4+pm. Not sure what time the filming started but we were very efficient woohoo~ the videographer was very nice too. I super love the decorations at the back XD our helpers should go become interior designers hahaha so thankful to every single one of them. The 80% completed video draft was already released to us on the night itself -kowtows to the enthusiastic videographer- it looks amazing!! I can't stop watching it and can't wait to see the final version ^___^ 

Photo by Simply Random. Please to not repost without my permission~

3 months of dance pracs and we finally made it!! Sniff sniff I feel so proud of the group. Now all that's left is to attend an event together. 

Onward to the next cos HAHA never ending X__X what am I doing with my life..... The following costumes are all for Rin as well-- my next year is going to be full of her. It's partly because she's the bf's fave character in Love Live. I personally also like her quite a abit after the main character :3 but I wouldn't have readily agreed to so many of the coses without the bf's 'encouragement' lolol

Mum when she saw me trying this on: WAH MAID XD

She like maid alot issit hahaha! See you all in this on sunday at down town east. I wasn't interested in this version at first because I think it looks like a flag. I still do but I'm now willing to call it a pretty flag ohoho. Costume fits me well, I'll need to iron it properly. And do the jagged thingy for the socks. And find a pair of suitable shoes. And find a way to stick on the blond tuft of hair on one side haha I very conveniently  kept a tuft after trimming my pokemon psyduck wig.  

I wonder if I will regret the bikini version T___T Show legs arms stomach I okay.. but this..... I said no more boobs revealing costumes but we shall see how it turns out T___________T It's not very revealing lah but I'm still quite scared.

Laughing my head off at this. They think I have butts on both sides issit. The front also so wide

Meeting the YYYYYs on thursday!!!! 

AFA week

Hi guys!! The laptop and comps aren't set up at work so I can't do much, just shadowing people and reading stuff. I wish I could read my library book there! So lazy to think of what to wear everyday. And the train when going home is crazy. 

AFA was fun though I didn't get to see my seiyuu Tsuda Ken. Saturday was not bad too other than me forgetting my painfully sewed ear pouches. I went for FTT practice followed by the test (passed yay) in the rainy and cold morning, rushed home to bathe + prepare, and rushed to suntec to help bf do make up -_- he commented that I was running late when he was the one who didn't set a time with me. That got me moody and I totally skipped lunch to get there asap. No mood to eat also. Even less mood when I realised I left the ears I sewed and stuffed with cotton on my table at home. Cry cry cry. I wouldn't have forgotten it if not for the FTT test that morning and rushing out of house later on..

Things picked up a little after that lah because it's a relatively simple cos and I was comfortable though a little cold haha. Plus the wig was really cute.

See really I'm a yellow banana compared to my team mates T_____T all the stuff I drew on couldn't be seen clearly. Try harder next time

Sunday was alright though my mood went a straight line down on night because I was worried and scared thinking about starting work the next day. The bf was sympathetic thankfully. He also had a presentation the next day so we both rushed off after dinner.

  

Photo from my dear team mate haruichi. Me taking a selfie with my character XD

My day was still great though!! Because of this photo. It's now my phone lock screen. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

Shoot

One more week to AFA!!! And starting work next monday~

I'm quite chill for AFA, since sunday is a re-cos and saturday is a simple costume. Too simple in fact, I'm going to look like a yellow banana while the rest are divas T_T Will try to glam it up but not sure how 

Snow halation shoot last friday!! I also went to sign my contract in the morning. Went down to paya lebah after that to get my staff photo taken. The silly map they provided was flipped -__- made me go around in circles until I spotted the building itself. Aiyo..... 

Fortunately my contact lens arrived just in time so I went to west mall to collect from my friend and rushed home to bathe and take a short nap. The shoot itself was okay, we took a bit longer than expected to get ready cos some of the girls came straight from work. I was quite happy with my overall look. Will layer the wig more next time. I hope to improve on my eye make up though....... I've been looking the same for every female character, it's quite saddening that there's no improvement. Here's a sneak peak XD

By deathpac photography

By Maze hahahah took so many shots because we couldn't get the snow right. 

Got home quite late because the group wanted to eat after the shoot despite it being already 11+. Got home exhausted. And I still had a shoot the next day which I was dreading because Vanille is super super tough. 

Woke up to bad news the next day-- the bf was sick and I knew he wouldn't be going for the shoot. I was so upset and totally no mood to cos anymore. It's the feeling of being pang seh-ed more than anything. Because I know I would have braved the headache or flu just to cos with him and the group, or at least go down to the venue to help out but he wouldn't. I'm not sure whether he only told the leader during noon time or that the leader only saw his message at that time but I had already done my base make up, was struggling with the fake lashes when I checked my phone and saw that the shoot had been postponed. INSTANT RELIEF. ahaha I was so relieved omg.... 

Was going to take a nap when K called and asked if I could meet her at clementi so pass some stuff. I got this amazing present XD hahaha not sure when I'll ever wear it out but I love it so much

                                                

I am sailor mars!!!!! woohoo~~

Got my long awaited book too since K had the popular member card and it was 20% off for the book

Something to end the post with:

Back to Singapore

                                

My cousin's wedding was a blast!!!! Tied so many balloons.. My hands ache just at the mention of balloons omg it's no joke.

Woke up at 5 to do my make up and go to the bride's house to help with the stuff. It was a very interesting experience hahaha the things the groom had to do to finally get to her door... Changed outfit for the dinner at night.

I did a ton of shopping at KL. Like brand new wardrobe for work.. My aunts and uncles are very generous hahaha

so tired *__*

Pre trip rush

Spent a good half hour scrolling through a small fraction of the thousands of stickers and shortlisted those I would like to get. Will do some elimination and probably get 2 of them ^_^ edit: I got 3-- doggie, rabbit and bird XD

Wrapped up my cousins' gift (necklaces), they look so sweet :)) I'll be going msia this Sunday and making a shopping trip to KL too!!! Super excited because I've not been there since almost 10 years ago?? Shopping time!!!!! Wahaha actually mum's colleagues kept bringing their unwanted clothes for me to try on so I kinda have a nice pile already ahahaha 

Starting work really soon.. I had planned to start next year, given the way the interviews were going but this is a nice turn of events I guess. There was a written test which over the phone the person said no preparation needed. So I assumed it would be similar to the one from the previous interview, regarding what I hope to get from my career. Imagine when all 3 questions were industry related XD fortunately I did my reading up on the website the day before. 

I had to withdraw from a saxophone gig, makes me wonder when the next time I play the saxophone will be :( No more freedom on weekdays, no more afternoon naps. But money 8D and learning new things 8D

^____^

Trimmed Rin's wig and I love it so much! I hope this also means I'm getting better at dealing with wigs in general

Next year my plans are going to be full of her so I'm glad the wig's looking good woohoo! I'm like the resident Rin of all the Love Live groups I'm in XD 

Obligatory shot of the phone. Need to convert my SIM card before I can start using. Abit worried about the data transfer though.. Very noob when it comes to all these.

Went to celebrate leader sama's birthday with the group and was so surprised when the cake included our names as well XD The cutest birthday cake I've seen!!! Biased cos there's a hand drawn chibi of me of course XDXD 

Birthday

I had a good birthday ^__^ so happy to read and reply the birthday wishes. XD Received my first figurines ever from the bf and they're lovely~ 

Especially Kurapika, he's exquisite *__*

My iphone6 arrived today guys!! A gift from my 小舅 cos I was supposed to order the 6+ for him and he made a gift of the 6 to me for the trouble. Unfortunately many things happened and now he's just pre-ordering in malaysia himself. I still get the phone though XD -thick skin- It actually got delivered yesterday but I was out to buy dinner ahaha 

Had a saxophone gig (2 x 20mins) on thursday and it was badddddd. I felt so mistreated. Dinner was supposed to be dabaoed by the hirers and we had 1+ hour in between our performances to eat. But the lady, after repeated pestering, told us that they had planed for us to sit at the table and have the food served together with the guests. We checked the menu and found out that dinner would be served at 815pm, 5 minutes before our next 20 min performance. Please, we're not being paid by the hour and it's not early either, I'm not going to stay back after the performance just to eat the last 2 courses of the dinner. And that's provided things don't drag (which they did -_-) I got home after 10 with aching arms and feeling super annoyed and hungry.

The snow halation costume is here! Our group has been diligently practising the dance and we'll be filming the video and doing a photoshoot soon. 

The jacket is sadly too big and I need to do some pinning. Wig is untrimmed also :( aish Was hoping that it'll come nicely trimmed. 

Went for another cosplay job at gardens by the bay on saturday then J and I rushed off immediately to JB for an event. My first overseas event!! It's a huge pity the bf couldn't join in due to some family matters. JB really has a different feel from singapore, so many run down places for shoots!! 

Photo by Maze, please don't re-upload without my permission! The sky got dark really quickly and we had, for dinner, awesome mexican european food at the mall near the customs. It's really fantastic eating in malaysia, can order so much and not go broke.

I was stuck at the malaysia customs really long both ways and when I was returning to singapore, they did a bag 'xray' scan thingy where as expected, my gun was noticed and underwent closer inspections. 

Hahaha I'm glad they didn't make a huge fuss over it like "OMG why is there this gun in her bag, SEARCH HER" XD The lady just very calmly pointed at my bag and I took out the gun (whose nozzle broke and was hanging off in a really sad manner) to show the guy. He politely asked me to wait and called for another guy to come take a look. The second guy glanced briefly at the gun while I explained that it was a prop and made up of plastic and foam. Then he waved us ahead. Really chill.

Sunday I helped out for a shoot where the bf did this bald old man with a mustache. Kept laughing while doing his make up hahahahaha

This morning I went for another interview and things look good! -_- My mum isn't happy when I told her the job description. She's getting irritating nowadays when she keeps telling me to take up a lab job. Hello you think your daughter life science very smart, can do research arh, and I dread the lab environment now, just thinking about bacterial cultures make me very sian.

Sometimes I look back on the past few months since graduation and feel very thankful that I'm able to pick up my saxophone again. And even be making money from both my hobbies :') It's not sustainable in the long term but I think it's been an amazing few months and I'm so happy and proud.

Rankaful weekend

Fully borrowed costume, except for the wig and shoes. I'm missing the socks and accurate shoes but ah wells hehe decided not to sweat over it.

Crouching tiger hidden safety pins. Got 6 in there haha I pinned it too small the first time and almost pulled a shoulder muscle when I tried it on. On the day itself, all was good!! I'm very happy with the costume and it looks flattering on me cos I don't look too skinny :') a nice change :Db

Had a cosplay job in the morning which I last minute agreed to because someone pulled out and my friend really needed one more girl. It went well other than the horrible sweltering weather. The public was a little touchy feely.. My friend got her butt groped during an escalator ride :/ she was standing behind me and in front of this group of guys who don't seem like they're from Singapore. -cries for her- I would have turned back and shouted at him or something.. 

Usually when strangers put their arms at my waist or shoulder when taking photos together, I go along with it unless they hold very tightly :/ If they ask beforehand, I'll definitely say okay. I just hate it when people try to take photos without asking. 

Anyways for what we had to do, it was good pay and at around 3pm we split up and I went for the event to join my ranka team ^^

Spent the remaining time recording the dance videos. A little sad I didn't get to walk around the place and get more photos taken. Really next to no photos this time sigh... I hope to cos her again!! XD

The evolution of Ranka XDXD Photo by Maze. Please do not re-upload without my permission!

Taken by the bf as I was walking over :)))))

Pictures

 

I've been ignoring all anime and just reading Naruto. It's really good. I mean I've always known that it's good, I just couldn't bring myself to read it. Now that the series is ending, I finally found motivation to start. It made me laugh so much :DDDDDD 

Need to finish up Vanille's weapon T____T I'm so thankful that the group has already done this much. I will need to sand the top part and stick everything together. It's not alot but there's still quite a bit of details to add in. ahhhhhhhhhhh

Mum's colleague gave this to me!! It's super pretty but still slightly too big for my wrist

Helped out for some shoots, I took on the challenging task of doing the make up for Makishima, my fave yowapedal character. Not a bad job, I'll slant the eyebrows more next time!! 

I just got home from an interview at the science faculty. It's not my ideal job, with such a diverse job scope, there's also some lab stuff to handle. But it's a stable job. I'll see how it goes lah, spoke a little to the rest of the candidates and they're all from overseas universities. I'm having mixed feelings about the whole thing.

Another interview on thursday!! Hope it goes well :DD

Fun week

Selfie game strong this week. 1. Yogurt mask again! 2. I was wearing this bunny shirt so I felt obliged to do a shinkai imitation XD 3. Sunglasses courtesy of Miko taken while I was helping out for her shoot at nus.

Driving lessons are so fun!!! I prefer driving on the roads to the school circuits cos the lanes are much wider. What are the chances but I got the same instructor for my wednesday and friday lessons! I wonder if instructors do internal swaps when they happen to see names they recognise? Abit paiseh cos I wore the same shirt ehehe XD I thought he sounded very sian on wednesday so I was relieved when he sounded more energetic on friday haha maybe I just got used to his tone. 

Watched Annabelle and it was quite disappointing.......... I'll rate it the same lousy scare level as Ju-on 3.. Some jump scares and sound scares during the movie but nothing impressionable. I'm especially disappointed because the Conjuring was good and I had high hopes T_T

Cosplay job on the first saturday of nov and after that I'll be going JB to attend an event!! First overseas event, with a whole group of friends. Bringing Cater out again XD I've cosed her about 4 times already wahaha

Hole at the side

Got a cute dress from h&m for only 20 bucks... Why does everything in the store look so nice!!

Had my first driving lesson just now and it wasn't too bad! Did right turns for the later half and I apparently didn't do well enough cos the instructor didn't let me try left turning hahaha second lesson tomorrow! 

I watched cafe waiting love with a few band mates last week ^^ not much feels but I'm glad it has a happy ending. We need more happy ends.

Maskkkkk

I love the yogurt mask Janice recommended :) 

I'm so happy!!!!!

Last saturday........... I finally cosplayed a character from Hunter X Hunter; one of my favourite characters; my hubby of 8 years and counting-- Shalnark from the Genei Ryodan 

                                           

It's a dream come true, because I even had a team!!!! :D we were all busy and the shoot kept getting delayed but it still happened :)))))) 

Did the first costest on friday, which was pretty late, at one day before the shoot but things were looking good so I was even more excited XD the shoes were my main concern because I wanted to use the green cloth to wrap them up but it didn't work well! So I made the decision to paint them using green acrylic X_X 

 

A small pile of mess hahaha

Usually I complain alot while making props but not this darling devil phone XD it was so fun to make and simpler than guns or beads or whatnots. Squealed like mad while assembling the eyes especially XD it's just so cute okay XDXD From where I stopped months ago (the first photo) I decided that it was too wide and sliced off a mm or two from each side. Got a little worried there cos I didn't slice it neatly and I thought I had to redo the whole thing hahaha. I even made it such that I could change the screen by sliding pre-made screens in through the side ehehe so cute so cute.

The antenna was very cute to make also XD I broke a chopstick in half and added jumping clay at the top. Stuck on the wings, lined them with jumping clay, painted the stuff and tada~~~ All the buttons were made using jumping clay too!

So I met up with the bf and had lunch before going over to the shoot location. It was a very windy area and even got cold at some point hahaha feel sorry for those in just bandages or singlets. The shoot started a little late though, and I had more poses which I wanted photos of but due to time constraints, I only got 2 fulfilled XD It's okay, I'll definitely be cosing Shalnark a few more times.

Lots of new experiences XD we experimented with candles, the entire team skipped dinner and braved the rain for a night shot at MBS, hope it will turn out well :DDD This shoot was also my latest ending shoot ever. I got home at 3am OTL Waiting for taxi took forever hahaha when I finally got in bed, I couldn't feel my legs anymore, my lower body just felt like a lump.

By DeathPaC photography LOVE THIS SHOT!