Went to Manifest 2010 on Sunday! It was at Melbourne Showgrounds. Juen and I woke up very early to catch the tram there. But we missed it... and ended up catching a cab because we didn't want to be stuck in a long queue, and also, I fell down while running and injured my knee @_@ So if you see photos of me with a big hole on my stocking, and blood...well, that's what happened. And it's been hurting me since yesterday. I'm still in pain until now... *limps everywhere*

Also, that was my first time being in cosplay to an event. No, not even - it was my first time to an anime event. If you notice, my costume is different from the one in the photoshoot. Well, that wasn't my dress, it was Listy's, and apparently I have fattened up in a few months so I couldn't fit in it anymore. Sobsob! So I did a last minute improvisation. It was a black dress, so I guess it didn't really matter.

Blogger is really annoying in how it's really difficult to rearrange the photos once uploaded, so everything is in one big chronological mess. Sorry!

This is the chocolate mud cake we had at the maid cafe. I must say it wasn't very good... and they served instant soup too. The place wasn't nice either. The maid cafe was rather disappointing :(

The awesome and friendly guys cosplaying Trinity Blood! They were very friendly. Juen looks so small in between them!

These are the guys cosplaying crisis core. Well they weren't very keen on the photo..

These are awesome! I love their group pose. One of the little ones came over when I was asking them if I could take a photo with them, and her falsies were coming off. So I told her I brought eyelash glue and in the end, I helped her fix her falsies... lol.

Then the complete group came over and did a group pose. I wanted my photo!! The tall green-haired girl in red told me to go to the middle of them, but there were so many people taking photos of the group that I felt bad for being the little bug from another series. lol. So I stood at the side, got a pic, then hopped away.

I told myself that I simply had to take pictures with other vocaloid cosplayers. So I hopped in with these guys. I look very short... and they're all asians. I didn't realise I was so... stumpy.

This Miku here... we asked for each other's photo at the same time. It was chemistry. Too bad she wasn't in magnet. Actually, I didn't see any magnet vocaloids except me. And I thought there would be a lot!

There was this long stretch of wall where many cosplayers were having mini-shoots. I tried my hand in that.

And look here's Domo-kun! He waved at me slowly once... and I waved back. Kawaiii...!! *glomps*

Don't question why I was holding his tummy so oddly. He wasn't easy to hug properly...

Saber from Fate/Stay Night

Digimon! Oh man I loved them!

The guys from Vocaloid Imitation Black

Awesome-looking Belle! Felt like Disneyland for a moment there..

And this is my absolute favourite!!! The first time I saw her, she was watching the Gundam Workshop if I'm not mistaken. So I didn't want to disturb. The second time, she was watching Anime Idol. Again, I'd feel bad to ask for a photo then. But finally! I spotted her! Very happy~

Very cool Bleach guys!

Kaname from Vampire Knight! He was one of the Anime Idol contestants.

I didn't know where this cutie is from, but Sherly told me it's from Starry Sky. If I had played that game I guess I would've used the chance to fangirl like mad. But unfortunately I didn't :p

Here's a cute charmander!

And pikachu!

Sorry I strangled you... I didn't notice. You were too cute.

I didn't notice these guys were from Umineko No Naku Koro Ni until I went home and took a closer look.

Kame hame haaa!

Yay got a picture with Vanille! I just love her costume...

And a picture with Yuna! I really should've asked her if we could switch costumes for a while...zzz

Here are the girls from Maid Cafe

These guys were one of my favourites too! Catch you catch you catch me catch me~

Hugging robot! The people were friendly at Manifest... they all love to hug

Kingdom Heart's neoshadow!

Cute Ouran High School boys ~

I love these girls. They were very nice. Hahhaha

Stepping out of Manifest took me out of the fantasy world where almost everyone were in costume, back to... Melbourne. Winter coats, hoodies, jeans, etc. awww

Yeah! So that wraps up my Manifest 2010 experience. To everyone who plans to go, go in cosplay! It's so much more fun~

Me again! Funny how I wrote a blog on my room just a few days ago and now it's redecorated and I'm making a new post on it.

Right, so the story is, when Listy and I went to Camby the other day, we went to this shop called Bed, Bath N' Table. I saw these adhesives with sakura prints on it and cute little baskets. I didn't buy them then because I thought I didn't really need them...

But several days later I couldn't help but be reminded of those two items and I imagined them in my room, they look good! Thus I thought I would spend a little money... teehee

Everything in my room is pink. It's a strict colour code! The basket with blue fabric actually looked better, but I wanted to keep everything uniform so there ya go, and I'm glad I chose pink.

It took me a long time to get these items because I couldn't remember the name of the shop, I only remembered the first two words 'Bed' and 'Bath'. When I google map-ed it on my iPhone, Bed, Bath and Beyond came out so I thought that was the correct name for it. Made me travel all the way to Collins/Spring St. to find that it didn't exist at all...! Blasphemy! (yes, I used that word)

Realising I might have gotten the wrong name, I re-googled. Properly this time, and apparently it was 'Bed, Bath N' Table'. So I went back to Little Collins/Elizabeth St. and tadaah found the shop, found the items, made my purchase. Room looks great! :3

Sorry for having yet another post with my face in it, but I realised one thing today: the tips of my hair are brown! This time I have below an unedited photo so you can see the colours as it is:

I guess there wasn't enough dye to cover all my hair. Hahhaha. Oh well.

I went to DFO today! It's a huge factory outlet in Melbourne. And I had fun shopping. I didn't spend too much money either! Yay! After shopping (for around 5 hours I think), we went to Melbourne Central and then Juen left to meet her friends. Lydia, Saho and I ate Lord of the Fries which is easily, agreeably, the best fries I - we - have ever had (with African sauce and extra onions). You'd think I'd be full after that but I went home and ate the fried rice I cooked yesterday with Listy. And then now... I'm still hungry... :(

My appetite has been skyrocketing recently, I am constantly hungry and craving for food! ToT Help!!!

I have changed.

Physically, I have lost my fringe, I look like I've got a nose job in that picture (but I haven't) and to my greatest surprise, I seem as though I've lost my baby face! Thanks to my hair, I am no longer bread face. *dances* :D

One month may seem like such a short time but looking back on it, many things have happened. I cosplayed, acted in a short movie, met new people, made plans for the future, embarrassed myself in public, bought my first wig, understood more about the fragility of human emotions, experimented with and challenged my capabilities, learnt new things, ate instant noodles for days in a row, put on fake eyelashes by myself (which surprisingly wasn't as hard as I thought), experienced a whole lot of things - both positive and negative. Everything has taught me to be a better person.

They say you can't feel the calm when there's been no storm. And that might be true, I may not be able to fully appreciate what I have right now. I'm guilty of taking too many things for granted. So foolish as it may sound, I rather look forward to the storm. I know I will regret ever saying this, but I seem to have this thirst to learn (not about things on the book). The things I write in this blog are things that fascinate me - the things that I learn upon growing up. I just want to experience as many things in life as possible. Right now that is a clear reason I can see for being alive - to get as much of it as possible.

So thanks for giving me the opportunity to dye my hair more than 7 times (i think), have different coloured eyes, try on emo/scene style (lol faker much), harajuku decora style, be a lolita maid walking down the streets, act in a video, have a pink wig, cosplay, have a multicultural group of great friends, perform on stage multiple times, be a cheerleader even though I can't dance, study in Melbourne, live in a four seasons country, write my first resume, scout for part-time jobs and got instantly rejected because I wasn't Korean, meet the blue-shirt underwearless man on the bike, spent the whole night clubbing and reach home at 7am, randomly yell from my apartment balcony just because the weather was so good, drink a bottle of wine on the rooftop listening to music, snuggle in bed while it rains outside, having to run from the train station to home without an umbrella and it was hailing like mad, having to stand for one + hour in the cold rain with our boots soaked in mud waiting for the bus from tulip farm on my birthday (also having my Dad panicking and almost calling the Victorian police to send a search team for me), my babies Gucci and Polo, my precious friends, and of course my family which I am forever grateful for.

So much more to list... Hahahaha. Anyway those are really some of the great memories. I just feel so alive!

Have you got anything you really want to do but never got to it? When's the last time you told someone precious you love them (look I ain't no hypocrite, I just did)? You shouldn't let anything stop you... Seize the moment, go for it. You're not just a certain age once, every second is only there once in your lifetime. It never repeats itself. So experience as much as you can :)

Hi guys, I'm actually pretty free right now and pretty much bored so I decided hey I should blog. The above picture is of my pretty crap packaging for Japanese rice.

These days, I have been looking a lot at the sky, since I figured out the greatest method to work my sliding curtain thing. I used to just keep them shut but now they're always open except at night. So from the moment I wake, till the moment I sleep~

Sunrise:

Sunset:

Well the sunset probably isn't too amazing, but it was drizzling at that moment! The camera couldn't capture it since it was too soft. Imagine soft drizzling and the warm glow of orange hues from the setting sun. ;)

I was just sitting there with my laptop, playing a bunch of blues music. Watching the clouds drift. I never knew clouds drift as at that speed o_o I wish I had a glass of wine to celebrate the view, but you know, I can't buy it and Listy wouldn't buy it for me either =_="

The weather here in Melbourne is starting to get chilly. Auttumn is coming. I don't know how I should feel about that, since cold weather means I will start eating a whole damn lot (and yes, it has already begun).

Aside from that, life has been blissful and peaceful :) I've been feeling happy and calm.

This happened to my apartment the other day - fire! :

That's a dog I found in my neighborhood. It's a lost dog! I would've helped him/her find its owner but it went with this other neighbor so I was like... okay. I think the dog is safe with its owner now though because Listy said she saw a similar looking dog walking with a grandpa the other day.

Also, have I ever told you about this homeless guy who sits beside my RMIT building? I saw him last week crouched by the street wall and it was rather cold. The poor guy was shivering with a hat on the floor open for donations. His eyes were closed and he pulled all the fabric he had close to him. And you know what I did? I simply walked past him!!!

WHAT THE FUCK?!? A few seconds I did that I felt sooooooo bad. Seriously major bad. This happens to me so often. Like the lost dog too. I always regret walking away. Always regret not taking action. I hate that side of me so much.

But! Today when I was walking after class, the guy was there again! I took out a bunch of coins from my coin pouch and gave him $2 I think and I heard him mumble a thank you. I felt much better after that. It's not fair for a man to be shivering on the streets while I go eat korean BBQ buffet for $26.50.