Updates~

Today I collected my jacket from the tailor auntie at amk, in time for the photoshoot next next week. Because there's not much time left I really need to work and get the shoulder part out... I actually have most parts ready, just need to piece them together and that is the toughest part x_x then again when I get down to it, things may not be so bad :l

Will need more velcro. Hey it's a level up :D I used to tape everything when it comes to clothes. Now I'm  turning to velcro. When will I switch to sewing? Hehehe when I get a sewing matching perhaps,which isn't going to happen in the near future.

When it comes to props I hope to experiment with wood and plastic someday (Y) oh btw I made improvements to the gun. It's a long story-- I know I said I wouldn't touch it until the shoot but a friend from the team came over to stay the night last sat and she gave me so many suggestions which were also improvements I would have wanted to make eventually. Like adding details to the back portion.

It looks much shinier now, though most of the shine was painted on haha! She also helped me try out the eye make up for Laguna, it's the first time I've done eye make up specifically to look like the character. I've always just been doing generic looks, being the noob I am. It was awesome, no photo though because I was zzzzz. It was close to 2am when we stopped the make up experiment and moved on to the gun.

Also I'm so proud of myself for altering the jacket today. It's a simple alteration, using safety pins at the back to make the jacket more open at the front and fitting to my body. Proud because I copied this exact method from another awesome coser whose shoot I helped out with last week and it turned out surprisingly well for a first try. Honestly I looked rather out of proportion due to the jacket almost overlapping with my belt. I'll have to wear the belt super low to create the illusion of a longer body but this in turns shortens my legs. URGH I give up. Maybe things will balance out when I put on the boots. If not, sorry guys you're stuck with a short and sulky Laguna hahaha

School wise... I'm considering the option of continuing with phd after honours. I had always wanted to work after graduating and never gave further studies more thought because my grades aren't that good anyways. But after finding out more about the conditions and benefits from the phd student in my lab, this option sounds really tempting. And I received so much encouragement blabla saying that I'm suitable for phd and so on. Not sure how much of it was true or just flattery but yea now I'm thinking about it :) 

:(

I've decided not to play for the band concert this semester. I've been harbouring this thought since school started but whenever I see my friends during practices I realise I miss them so so so much, I just can't bear to leave.

The first time I met the band peeps again after my total absence during the 3 months holidays, I felt so emotional because I missed them so badly. It wasn't about the saxophone or the music making any more but my section mates and all the people I knew throughout my 3 years with the band.. Sigh 

I could have dragged it on and eventually played for the concert.... but Sunday practices which start tomorrow is the breaking point. I haven't been to a single sectional this semester-- the first time I was very sick, second week was e-learning, and the latest session I was busy with lab which ended late so I decided to skip and go home even though bus D2 which goes to the band venue came first. As I watched the bus leave I knew that I wouldn't be playing with the band this semester.. Aiya sorry for being so drama but I'm really sad ok :'(  

I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I skipped a combined practice deliberately so yup rather than miss the sunday practice, I smsed my SL to inform her.. My conductor is in better health so I won't be so worried about him. The sax section has quite a few new members and is in good hands under the SL so all will be well :')

Hope I won't regret this decision. 

It's done!!!!!

I fixed on the final part yesterday-- too excited to post after taking the photos this morning and I forgot to add blings or cartoons. Disclaimer: This is a toy made up of mostly foam okies

The back portion looks really flat and I can definitely improve on it.. but nope i'm not going to be touching it these 2 weeks until closer to the photoshoot.

Probably going to hold it like this lol. Good thing it's quite light, if not my right arm is going to become more muscular then my left with all that lifting.

There's a mini crosshair thingy lmao, hope no one gets a close up of it because it's really badly carved.

I spent..... like a couple of months on it? Took a long break in the middle after covering the whole thing with black foam because I was stuck at finding the best method to make it shine. In the end it was back to the principle of getting down to doing it because you never know what works and what doesn't until you try. Sniff sniff if I had started experimenting earlier I would have been done earlier as well. 

Same for the belt and the shoulder thingy. As of now, belt is done but shoulder part is not!!! HELP

Learning points: 

PVA glue is wonderful

Acrylic paint is wonderful as well and can paint almost anything

Use nail polish remover to clean paint brushes

Priming the foam does help with spray painting afterwards but not much. Multiple coats are a must :(

Updates on lab:

PI is away so we're out to play! No lah, just that I'm more inclined to leaving early once i'm done with the experiments for the day. And no lab meetings! So I can wake up later :'') I appreciate that very very much.

Prop progress

Have I told you about my love hate relationship with all my weapons and props, especially this one 

Unbelievable number of coats of paint and it's still not smooth and shiny.. All the cartoons and bling are to make it look cute and un-threatening so I won't be arrested for making 'firearms' hahahaha. Please arh, it's 2 bits of pipe thingy, foam, glue and more foam-- can't shoot and if you use it like a stick to hit people it'll probably bend or break.

The right side was already ok by my standards but while spraying the other side, the paint kinda dripped over and caused it to stick to the newspaper. Now I need to spray it again urghhhhhhhh endless frustrations

Anyways :) this baby is longer than my arm and I spent really long on it (procrastination included) I really wanted it to be shiny and since I made the effort to make it shine, I hope it will pay off and the gun will llook beautiful and shiny during the photoshoot+ event 

I'm stressed over the weirdest things.. A few days ago I woke up at 3.10am and couldn't get back to sleep because the lab was out of maxi prep tubes and I really needed to get my plasmid preps out. I got out of bed to get some water and suddenly The Conjuring popped into my mind O_O was trying to recall in the movie what the timing which all the clocks stopped at was..  I also dreamt that I was so tired that I completely forgot about my lab meeting and only barely made it to school for my infection and immunity lecture. It was a terrible feeling OTL

-Rubs eyes-

Do you see what I see

THE BOTTOM DUO

Ok now that i've calmed down a little more things start to get messy in my head. I hope they will be making their appearance on stage after the big shot singers because I will have a better chance of getting a seat. I hope their merchandise will not be too expensive because I really want to shake hands and see them up close. I hope my hands won't be sweaty.

Imagine all the Kise cosers OMG my friend who recently did Mukami Kou from dialovers more blood has such awesome timing!!!!! I'm so jealous!! If she were to go for Kimura ryohei's handshake session in Kou's costume I'm sure he would say something more to her AHHHHHH jelly~ 

Also saw a Maoh sama duo during STGCC ahhh how nice T__T ok tbh i'm not that hyped for Ryouta hahaha but everything is lovely because the both of them are coming.

I hope the event schedule comes out soon. I will plant my butt in the stage room and scream my lungs out. In costume =/ ahhhhh cross dressing for AFA... Of all times why can't I cos a pretty girl when it really matters. Will meet them dressed as a rugged guy (very handsome ok) with a huge gun. GOod job me. 

Speaking of which I need to rush for the costume OTL photoshoot is a month away

Sick :(

I have fallen sick again :( I swear staying in air conditioned places weakens my immunity like nobody's business. So does bathing in the morning. And I went to uhc after my 8am lecture which I totally slept through.. Free medicine and consultation omg what have I been doing for the past 3 years visiting other clinics...

Took a break from lab, skipped my second lecture and went back home to sleep. I'm sneezing so much it's scaring me lol so tiring. Tomorrow I will start my midi prep and all.. Quite a slack week I predict but with my flu it's not going to be easy...

I need a break from activities during weekends.. Especially ones that I am not so interested in hehe because I got asked to join a dialovers shoot next next sun and welllll I'm very very interested. Not confirmed yet because I need to ask for permission from my group leader :X Cosplay politics how interesting :)

Went for stgcc which was the breaking point for my body after the csi anniversary dinner on Saturday night at sentosa. Photos for both events on fb!

Game rants :D

I finally understand a bit of how my prof feels when another group beats him to and publishes a paper that he too, has been working on.

Only in my case it's referring to cosplay. A few days ago I was looking at photos of Kamigami no Asobi on facebook and telling myself that I should take on this series. Today I realised that the costumes and props my NTU friend has been preparing for STGCC this weekend was for her Kamigami no asobi group T__________T just feeling like I've not been invited to a party LOL no lah, I'm not close to them and am always too shy to join in when they talk about seiyuu so they probably don't know I'm a fellow fan.

At least I have my Diabolik Lovers which I'm so happy with :') it may not be a very good cosplay but every thing feels really different when you're doing a series you fangirl over and love. I can imagine how delighted I'll be when I finally get to cosplay Aoba. Speaking of which........... my Aoba's not going to come to life unless I do something about it. All I have is the wig right now -pats back- I promise I'll get him out next year.

Also playing DRAMAtical Murder: Reconnect which is the fandisc after the initial game... I find it hard to finish the routes.. The H scenes are too much for me to handle X_X I mean I loved the game and the characters but urgh it was tough clicking through the H parts. Just give me my happy ending and a little bit more story and I'll be satisfied. I've finished Clear and moved onto Mink because curiosity got better of me. Will definitely finish everything lah, because of the voice actors as well :)) The mini game is really cute though!! XD Lovely game on the whole   

My wallpaper has changed from Noiz to the Ken ga Kimi guys. Each guy has his own wallpaper but I chose the group one. They look so lovely:

Even my mum thought it looks pretty and agreed to change her laptop wallpaper to that sweet guy on the extreme left. Wow she actually picked one of them XD 

More on my PSP, previously mentioned that I finished Hakuouki. Started on Last Escort while I was almost done with Hakuouki and seriouslyyyyyy Last Escort is impossible to complete without consulting a walkthrough. I thought I was going well with Rei (voiced by youkyan and so I went after him first) but one day in game I received a call from him saying that he had quit his job at the club and will be going overseas. Game over O_o motivation hit a new low and even when I followed the walkthrough I had to replay a few more times before I finally got his good end. 

I picked my next host using a number generator and got the Shota.. With the help of the walkthrough I managed to get all his CGs except for one but that's enough thankyou hahaha.

Then I went after Hiragi aka the sexy voice club manager who's also a host and a huge pervert LOL it was a very entertaining route and suwabe's voice ^/////^ Left with 3.5 more characters but decided to take a break lol it's really tiring

DC girls Symphony was another game I got my hands on and in contrast it's a breeze to get through I'm relieved :)) Went after Kujou sensei because he's voiced by Hirarin. Too bad he's the brother (though not related by blood) so that felt strange. Unspectacular route anyways and the ending was mehhhh. Next up was the gentle twin Kohei and I enjoyed the front part of his route very much, it's the sweet school romance I would have liked to experience myself LOL but the later half was ridiculous O_o The rest of the routes were nothing special. I'm just starting Ryohei's route, since he's the main guy I'm raising my expectations -skeptical look- Saving the strange cat boy route for last haha heard that it's going to be a tear jerker -skeptical look again-

I also managed to get HxH Wonder Adventures to work on my PSP and OMG it's so hard T____T I really tried but i'm stuck at the first stage of the hunter exam with the half beast mystical people. It took me a couple of hours of on off playing to find the swamp master thingy and defeat it to get out of whale island. This is really not easy. Will save this game for when I have lots of time and brain juice to spare lol!

End of wordy post. Journal club presentation this friday and I'm excited + nervous! My mutations are working better now :))b will start on cell work soon