No.5: LittleBlackBox

HELLO!!!!

2010-08-06T15:32:00.004+08:00

Hello people!!!

I know I haven't blogged for quite some time. Well, I haven't got a computer......until two days ago. AND. There's so many things to do!!!!

Okay, so anyway. I'm safe and sound in Singapore, and partially settled =)

I got so many things to blog about I can't decide which to blog first. Erm. Okay, we'll start with the main thing here, erm, my school:

LASALLE College of the Arts.

I'm not really sure about the teachings and stuff here because class hasn't really started. BUT. I can tell you something: THE SCHOOL CAMPUS IS BLOODY COOL!

Okay okay. I know my photography sucks. I'll show you nice ones from the Internet. =)

C'mon. I think it looks awesome. LOL.

Stay tuned for the next post!

P.s. Sorry about the photos and my typing. It's not like my previous formats cause I don't have Windows Live Writer with me right now.

LOve,

KiKi

Tatau

2010-07-19T18:10:00.001+08:00

Tatau. Usually people think it means ‘I don’t know.’ in Malay. Um, but actually it’s a location. A pekan kecil somewhere off Bintulu, Sarawak, which I featured here before.

Paid a short one-night visit there again last Saturday, and returned to Kuching the next evening.

Took some photos ;)

It was 7.30 a.m.

River.

A random shot without looking that turned out not bad (for me lah).

I think I love monochromes so much that I kinda shunned colours then.

GOAL!

I felt completely psycho when I took this. LOL. Like taking photos of people’s clothing like that. Hahaha. Extensive editing involved. See also can tell.

Okay, I wanna claim that all these photos are taken by me, and involves a lot of post-processing, because I am definitely no good with photography, or taking photos, anything. LOL. Apologies.

See you! =)

P.s. Thank you gradient map in Photoshop that made my photos appear in so many colours even though I shot them all at the same time. LOL. (Refer photo 1 & 2).

LOve,

KiKi

Chain Headband

2010-07-17T12:14:00.001+08:00

I’m not really supposed to blog now cause I have a zillion things on my to-do list. So much to do, so little time. But humans are ironic anyway…… Oh well.

Gonna be making a short step-by-step on my DIY gold chain headband. Made it for fun. Had always wanted to get one (doesn’t necessarily means that I’m going to wear it), but haven’t really seen ones that I actually like. Plus the better-looking ones are quite pricey, which I think I’d rather spend the money on something else.

Okay, we’ll need two things:

One:

A chain. Could be anything: an old necklace, bag chain. Anything. Mine’s an old, slightly-tarnished bag chain (mum’s) around 1 meter long (I have a big head).

Two:

A common hair rubber band. Preferably the sort with cotton strings wounded around it.

The theory goes like this:

The longer your chain, the shorter your rubber band.

The longer your rubber band, the shorter your chain.

Step 1: Folding

Fold the chain in exact half.

Mark the end (the dotted blue circle).

Step 2: Securing

Put your rubber band next to the marked point.

Push your rubber band into one of the chain loops (try to find the ‘middle’ loop).

Pull it halfway through.

Then take one end and slot it into the other loop of the rubber band. LOL. Lousy explanation. Just follow the arrows above.

Okay, you should get something like this. Then as shown, pull that circled end as far as it would go.

Have you got this?

Step 3: Final

Bring the secured end to the other end of the folded chain. That’s supposed to be where the chain’s ‘latch’ is located.

Super simple. Just secure the latch around the rubber band.

Done! =)

LOL. Now this is easy. Just drape the headband on top of your head over your hair. If the size doesn’t fit, just try to adjust the rubber band’s length a bit.

Done! Goash. My fingers ache.

P.s. Thank you to my darlings who gave me my awesome birthday gifts! I love you guys. You guys know yourself (and me) well!

P.p.s. Sorry for the lack of blogging. Got tons of stuff to do =(

P.p.p.s. Click my ads! I’m soooooooo close to the sum I want! Please help. LOL. (I’m so pathetic.)

LOve,

KiKi

3 Inches

2010-07-11T14:43:00.001+08:00

The last time I had my haircut (fringe don’t count) was in around 4 to 5 months ago I suppose. I suppose I need a trim now, since my hair is getting out of shape.

My hair grows =) Something I’m happy bout. But the ends are getting seriously dry =(

Remember my flat fringe? It grew.

Went to Abbie for my haircut. Been sticking to Abbie for a couple of years now.

The result?

I look guai (obedient), with less layers and more volume. And my fringe isn’t flat this time.

No dry ends! (All snipped off)

Yeah, it looks shorter cause I had 3 inches taken off. But it’ll grow back, no worries.

Comparison. LOL. I don’t know what you think lah. But I find it okay. Something for a change.

See you!

P.s. Something totally irrelevant. I made this:

Looks cool right? Right?

Five minutes only! Super easy! I did according to the video below:

Erm, I did some tweaking of my own so doesn’t look completely alike. Hehe. But it’s worth a try!

LOve,

KiKi

I ♥

2010-07-09T16:31:00.001+08:00

OLIVE OIL

Yes. Olive oil.

I love this thing because it’s so multi-purpose. And under comparison, budget wise. You’ll get what I mean in a bit =)

Pietro Coricelli Extra Virgin Olive Oil (RM 14.90)

I got a smaller bottle of this from the local supermarket. Erm. I’ll explain what I did with this bottled oil….

1. Cooking

Okay la. I don’t cook usually unless extremely necessary. The truth is, I kinda doubt my own cooking because I find it hard to finish my portion (because it’s not tasty)and terpaksa force everything into my tummy because I’m the one who cooked it.

LOL. I just made olio pasta (erm, pasta with garlic and olive oil). I like olio pasta for one very simple reason: there’s no meat. I don’t need to tell the chef to omit the meat or whatsoever when I eat out. It seems pretty simple but the outcome I did was…… edible. Yeah, edible, but tastes weird. (I can’t estimate ingredients properly. Whether I estimate properly or not the outcome is just weird lah anyway.)

2. Hair care

Yalah. I know you think I’m gross for putting cooking oil on my hair. But it works okay? My hair is getting real dry at the ends because I dye my hair quite often and I haven’t got the ends trimmed, despite using conditioner. So I tried olive oil treatment.

Just pour out 1/2 cup of olive oil, microwave it for 20 seconds until it’s warm, then apply it to your hair. Warp your hair in cling film (I used towel though), then leave on for at least 1/2 hour. You want leave on overnight also can (as according to the website). After that shampoo and condition.

Honestly I think it works. I’m not saying my hair is now like the Pantene model lah. I mean it’s better as compared to before.

3. Makeup remover

YES. This is the budget wise part. I have never seen any makeup remover sold at RM14.90 per liter. AND olive oil removes everything. Even waterproof mascara. I’ve been using this for 6 months now I think, mostly for eye makeup. Just sort of massage the oil on then wipe off with cotton pad. Wash your face after that.

Warning: Un-fresh olive oil can become a burden to your skin.

4. Moisturizer

Because I don’t like my whole face getting oily, I just use one tiny bit on my face/ body. But I don’t usually do that since I have lotion and face moisturizer. Oh well, but it works. Once I put too much Oxy 5 (the acne curing cream) on my face and it sorta made my face too dry. So I dabbed on some olive oil and the next morning my skin’s back to normal.

Um, I’ve heard that wearing olive oil on your skin and going under the hot sun can cause the olive oil to ‘burn’. Maybe it’s not fire but definitely something not good for skin.

Basically those are stuff that I do with it, for more uses you can visit:

HERE

This is just one from a million uses. Just Google : ‘Olive oil uses’ and you receive tons of results.

HELLO KITTY

Enough said ;)

BONG

I don’t care if I look retarded. Haha.

He’s getting fairer and fairer. I think he’s about my skin tone now. Can’t haolien to him anymore…. LOL.

PHOTO MANIPULATION

Simply a current hobby.

(LOL. I’m blogging bout this when I thought I wouldn’t.)

Title: Sleep

Stock photos please visit:

HERE

Hehe. All the stuff above ain’t in sequence. My post is just a mess. Never mind.

P.s. I’ve got 45 types of to-buy things in my college Visual Studies Material List. This is absurd.

Love,

KiKi

In My Dream

2010-07-05T16:01:00.001+08:00

Erm, first of all, I apologize for the lack of blogging.

Secondly, I’d like to thank all the people who wished me happy birthday (even though I’m somewhat upset that I’m 18 now), either via Facebook (majority), text (minority) [by the way, I lost most of my contacts a while back and the list isn’t entirely recovered. So in case you text me and I ask for your name, don’t feel too hurt or what, kay?], verbally (minority’s minority).

Either way, thanks for wishing me!

I just finished a piece of work, a photo manipulation :

In My Dream

Yeah, that’s the title. I’m not making up the name, it’s got a reason behind: I dreamt bout this place. It was sooooo beautiful in my dream, I can’t bring Bong there so I decided to let him see how it’s like actually. Of course, I’m no manipulation guru so the outcome’s less attractive as compared to the scene I saw in my dream. But too bad I can’t show you my dream to let you make comparisons.

Original stock photos (all from deviantart.com)

Well by B-SquaredStock:

Field by ZanaSoul :

Fence by MadameM-Stock :

River by NHuval-stock:

Mountain by CatStock :

Sky (gradient) by CAStock :

Sky (texture) by I-Love-Stock :

This isn’t really obvious but I used some clouds to make my gradient sky more realistic.

Stars by budgie :

Trees by gabriella-stock :

There are two trees in my photo manipulation but actually they are the same one as shown in the photo above. I just cut & paste it’s own parts to make them look different.

From collecting stock to final touchup, it took me around 7 hours I believe. Well, this is what bored people do……

Hope you like it.

Thanks for reading =)

P.s. Comments and critiques?

LOve,

KiKi

Sanrio

2010-06-30T16:46:00.001+08:00

Hey people. I’m home. Did anyone bother to miss my blog? LOL.

Anyway, Kuala Lumpur was…… not bad. I mean, lots of shopping and undeniably vibrant, despite of the humongous traffic jams, but everything else was pretty great. A lot less boring than Kuching is, I should say.

Tons of people had been to KL before, me included, so there’s not much surprises to be uncovered anymore, it’s not like we’re going to a whole new, never-before-seen city where everything is new and astonishing to us. No, KL was expected.

Well, the biggest highlight of my trip was……

SANRIO!

Okay, what’s Sanrio? Erm, Sanrio owns Hello Kitty. LOL. That is like, Mickey Mouse is under Disney, and Hello Kitty is under Sanrio. Get me now? Yep, apparently Kuching doesn’t have an authorized Sanrio shop (yet. I hope.), and KL does! Mum told me it’s new at Lot Ten and I was all looking forward to go!

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN!

It turns out…… It’s not actually a shop, but more of a section in the department store. But whatever, not like I mind!

That’s my mum, caught off guard =)I love the decor!

The whole section is…… pink, mainly pink.

It’s more like a carefully arranged Hello Kitty exhibition than a section selling merchandise.

Erm, actually taking photo is prohibited so some of my photos are crooked cause I’m trying to avoid the salesperson =/

Sorry, Sanrio.

You know, Sanrio’s quite biased cause they sell Hello Kitty’s stuff with a more expensive price tag than Melody’s. (Okay lah, I know. Marketing strategy~)

Before I went I vowed to buy something there. I wanted to get a makeup pouch cause the current one I’m using is too small to hold everything.

Unfortunately…… I didn’t spot any nice ones/ any that I like. And instead…… I got this!

TADAA!

A big Hello Kitty tote =D

This is the front side. I think Kitty makes everything look cute, as long as she’s printed on it =)

The back.

I’m so glad I bought this cause it’s big and holds tons of stuff inside. And it’s cute! =)

LOL. So if your eyes are sharp enough, you’ll see there’s a similar tote in photo two, on the bottom corner on the right. Saw that? That’s a smaller sized one.

I know not everyone likes Hello Kitty, but well, I DO! LOL. I’m spreading the Kitty Disease. I have a thing for cats =)

Thanks for reading =)

P.s. I love my blog skin but that’s not Kitty, that’s Charmmy.

LOve,

KiKi

Notice

2010-06-24T19:58:00.001+08:00

Yes, I know I promised blogging something informative, but I’m sorry that I have to disappoint you cause I’m suffering from some form of ‘jetlag’ , even though I haven’t been on a plane, and I thought today is Wednesday and I can have plenty of time to do my stuff. When actually….

Today is Thursday and I have a flight to catch tomorrow,

WHICH I COMPLETELY FORGOT!

Nowhere exciting, just Kuala Lumpur.

That’s beside the point. I know there are some readers who come to my blog daily despite of the absence of my usual Facebook link that I’ll put on when I’ve updated. Okay, I know. I’m sorry I’m not being dutiful.

I is being down lately. A few updates:

1. I re-pierced my helix because I let the last one heal. And now my ear is super swollen. Will it get better? Hello, people who pierced? Tell me!

2. I pierced the tiny piece of bone on my ear, next to my ear-hole. Whatever that’s called. It’s not painful, at all! Despite of what people told me.

3. Reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer. 200 pages to go. Not a bad one, but Twilight saga is better.

Erm……

4. Something I drew:

and edited… My album cover: Mutated.

5. I’m into drawing skulls lately:

I think eyeballs don’t suit skulls. Failed attempt.

Both are on Facebook already. Here and here.

Thank you for reading =)

P.s. Is it easier to read this font 10, or you guys prefer the one I usually use, font 12?

LOve,

KiKi

Shwort Updwate

2010-06-20T23:43:00.001+08:00

Hey guys =) And girls, for that matters.

Last day teaching for arts (and none of you guys volunteered to take my place =( sadly.). Felt like graduating or something. The exhilaration…It’s like after completing something big. E.g. an exam. Yeah I know it’s not an exam but I don’t have to go to work every Saturday and Sunday now. Retirement.

LOL. This is probably the longest holiday I had since my schooling life started at the age of 4, or 3? I forgot… My first school was Learning Hut, which I went together with Nana Low.

I’ve been on ‘RELAX’ mode for a good half year now. I think I’m ready to get back into studies, which will be shitty on long term… but honestly EVERYTHING is shitty on long term. People like changes and surprises and people get sick of one thing fast, and normally nothing sticks around long enough to satisfy one’s curiosity and interest for his/ her whole life. So yeah.

My school starts on 2 August, and Orientation’s on 26 July. I have no idea why I’m telling everyone this, but whatever, it’s not something of importance anyway. Keep or ditch. And in case anyone is curious enough, I is going to LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. Again, I don’t think you care. Keep or ditch. I’m not sure if you have ever heard of Lasalle anyway. People go ‘La…what?’ When I told them where I’m going.

Something I’d seriously like to share with everyone (who’s going to college/ university soon). I am speaking from my own experience, okay? That is, lets say you wanna apply for a college, it’s seriously recommended that you GET AN AGENT TO DO ALL THE SHITTY PARTS: PROCESSING/ SIGNING-UP/ FILL FORMS/ MAIL FORMS/ ARRANGEMENTS/ STUDENT PASS for you.

Why? Because for Teo KiKi (my school is spelling my name as Teo Kiki, which is VERY annoying. Who ask my name so unique? Sigh. I asked them to take note on the error though, wonder if they’ll remember), she does not have an agent to do all the shitty parts for her. And she needs to do everything by herself (mostly without her parent’s help, except financially), from applying, getting a lawyer to translate all her Malay certificates into English (at the same time being commented that her English is ‘quite bad’ by the lawyer. Hello? I was trying to help by translating and you just SIGN those certs okay? And I wasn’t the one who wanted to translate in the first place, my Dad made me do it.) because apparently Singaporeans cannot read Malay even though they live so near to Malaysia (I bet it’s their problem…. Malaysians understand English as much as they do), mailing, waiting reply, applying student pass (very complicated/ mahuan process), getting the perfect photo for student pass, applying accommodation, scholarship. EVERYTHING.

The worst part is that KiKi probably annoyed some highly-ranked executive in the school administration, because she e-mails her like 10 times already, asking questions and the executive probably know all the answers as well as the back of her hand. Which makes KiKi looks like some stupid retarded Sarawakian who lives on a tree with the addition of having low IQ.

LOL. Okay, probably sounds nothing to you. But you can try. I bet you will feel so damn paiseh that you need to ask a stranger for information so many times, and that person sounds seriously pissed- off and unfriendly.

But the bright side? I feel so grown –up managing all these stuff on my own. That’s all.

Oh….. I realise this ain’t a shwort updwate after all…. AH. Never mind.

P.s. I’ll try to come up with something informative, stuff like tutorials or DIY… I’ll try? LOL

LOve,

KiKi

Beaches

2010-06-17T20:31:00.001+08:00

Yes. Beaches. Plural =) BUT it’s somewhere NOT Damai or Santubong. For Kuching citizens, you should know how popular and common these two places are, are they get flooded with tons of people during festive/ holidays and…… well, it’s just so damn common. LOL.

We (meaning me and my family, yes, with my dad, he’s back from Brisbane) went for a small trip, visiting some very nice beaches around Sematan area. Erm, please don’t ask me where Sematan is ah. I have completely no idea, just Google map it or something, sowwie. I just know that it’s an around-2-hours drive from Kuching city though.

Anyway, I have tons of photos to bombard you with =) And as I have mentioned like I-don’t-know-how-many times before, my photographing skills completely sucks…… LOL. Photos might not be of your expectations (I know there are a lot of so-the-very-experienced-I-own-an-awesome-DSLR self-titled photographers out there) so don’t say I didn't remind you…LOL. Some of the photos are taken by me, some by my sister, and all of them are lazily edited by yours truly using Photoscape cause I’m too darn lazy to Photoshop them all. Erm, you should know what to expect now? HAHA.

Lets start, shall we?

Obviously you know me =) It was really bright so I was frowning.

Beach 1:

We visited a beach around Sematan, and I have totally no idea whats the name. Here:

Can’t fink of any caption yet.

It was down-tide then, so you see a lot of sand instead of sea.

I like this one =)

That’s my sister taking photos of erm…. wait. She wasn’t taking any photos. I asked her to pose that way so I can shoot her =.=

Commercial break? =D

Beach 2:

Okay, this is Palm Beach. They’ve got resort and shower and the facilities and I see them building a new swimming pool there. Should be quite nice. The entrance fee is super reasonable too. Adult = RM 3, children = RM1. I think that’s for day trip though.

Sis again.

My siblings. Cute leh =)

From left: youngest brother, sister (she’s younger than me if you don’t know already), second youngest brother

That’s a small anchor. Never seen an anchor this close before.

I wonder how they made their hibiscus PINK. Flowers were never really my thing though.

Indirect family photo. Haha. Excluding me lah.

From left: Dad, youngest bro, sec youngest bro, Mom, sis

Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boat lah. I’m being so pointless……

Me again.

I was like: ‘Wei (my sis’s name), shoot me! Shoot me! Shoot my photo!’ Baru she take for me one ah. Life is hard man. HAHA.

Binoculars. LOL. He’s looking at the islands across.

My sunnies.

The deck.

Beach 3:

Next: Siar beach.

Never seen trees growing on beaches……

Beer anyone?

Sis shot this but I very keh kiang then adjusted the hue and made it look like, erm…… just plain weird lah.

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I adjusted the brightness and contrast only… the blueness is original.

It’s kinda like an island. I mean the middle patch of sand that the tree is growing.

I fink this is cute=)

Okay, honestly if you want the whole freaking beach for yourself you can come here, its like nearly-deserted and you can shout and scream and do belly dance or whatever you like and no one is going to give a damn bout you.

If you’re worried bout accommodation maybe you can stay here:

Haha. NO! I’m kidding! That’s some rich guy’s private beach house and I doubt if he’ll lend it to anyone.

Beach 4:

Next: Ocean Resort

(I think that’s the name, Ocean something)

And actually Ocean Resort (just let it be named that way for now) is just right next to Siar, I can say it’s the same beach actually. The difference? It has less mosquitoes here and it has bigger breeze and waves. And there’s like 10 chalets. I think they rent it or something. Somewhat equally deserted though.

World through my eyes =)

This is romantic. LOL.

Haha. I guess its about that. Erm, about the locations, I might have gotten them wrong, like the Ocean Resort and Siar beach thing. Maybe Ocean Resort is on Siar beach. And maybe what I wrote on Siar beach is just a random location I went to. If you get what I’m talking about. LOL. In conclusion, I can’t be 100% sure of places and location, kay? LOL.

My hands are so sore now…… Thank you very much for reading though=) and click my ads! I’m trying to make it reach a target so I can cash out =) Please?

P.s. I need pimple remedies by the way~~~~~~~~~~~~~

LOve,

KiKi

I Belly Danced

2010-06-13T22:57:00.001+08:00

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I know your face. LOL. The

‘KiKi? BELLY DANCING? WTF?’

face.

Haha. Okay. But honestly I don’t know what’s so hilarious bout this. Bong seems to find it somewhat extraordinary for me to go for belly dance class too. The thing is… for a few reasons.:

1. My body is dying. I don’t exercise, I don’t move one single bit and I feel like my bones are cemented together now. Aww, sucks.

2. It’s a dance. C’mon. I HATE EXERCISE. I HATE RUNNING THE MOST (except during critical moments of course, like 2012 or something). Running/ jogging is torture. Needs me to torture myself to keep my legs moving moving moving while they protest and screamed and begged in agony while smelly sweaty beads of water stain my face and my lungs can’t work anymore. Repetitive form of exercise, I despise. Okay la, excuses. My stamina sucks, that’s all. Aww, sucks.

3. It’s getting common…… Quite a few girls I know are doing it, why not? Ain’t gonna be a freak no more.

4. There’s class conducting somewhere near my house with June intake which means I won’t be behind everyone else cause that instructor is starting to teach with a new song. How coincidental. =) No sucks.

First class I attended was last Wednesday. WAS NERVOUS TO DEATH. Was so scared that the instructor will force everyone to exhibit their awesome tummy and mine sucks. AWW. NOOOO! Ultimate nightmare… Imagine:

Ooo…

WOW.

Jaw drops……

Omigoash.

ALL FOUR PHOTOS ABOVE ARE FROM GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH

AND mine?

Haha. Sorry, low self esteem, okay? Haha. SO you can imagine my fear that the class will be packed with hot tanned ladies who rock like Indians, and I’ll be the white, fat-clotted one who has problem with body coordination. Aww, sucks. I hardly ate before going, in hopes that my belly will flatten a bit.

So I went to class…… only to gasp (nearly).

For one: the minimum age there is probably thirty. I’m youngest. The learners generally age 40 and above, some look like grannys who can rock a belly dancing coin chain belt.

For two: there ain’t any hot tanned ladies who can curb my confidence down Sarawak River……

She’s friendly cause she smiled at me. And if you think she cannot jingle her belly you are as wrong as the people who thought that Earth is flat.

From their conversation that I overheard, she lost 11 kgs already. O.O

This is the studio:

See the lady on the stage? A cropped out here:

My instructor. Again, she does rock like an Indian.

And me:

In red. I don’t understand why everyone wear black to belly dance (and yoga class). What happened to the colourful impression we have of India?

Okay, overall, belly dance is kinds hard, honestly, fun to learn nevertheless. A lot of ass-shaking involved though. AND. Belly dance isn’t reserved for the slim and beautiful……Anyone can be a belly dancer (with practice, that is).

LOL. By the way, the last belly dancer’s photo is actually what they use on their belly dancing June intake notice, and these photos are from the class I attended today, Sunday, cause I didn’t have the opportunity and take any during Wednesday’s.

Ooo. Kinda surprised I don’t mind sweating a little bit for this. And I is thinking of getting a henna, erm, in near future. It’s not permanent, so no serious consideration required, just time and money.

P.s. Comments?

P.p.s. Oh yea, anyone interested to take over my assistant art tuition teacher post since I’m leaving after this month? If you’re in Kuching. Weekends only, RM4/ hour. You must like children to have this post okay. I don’t want some awful monster to take over……=.=

LOve,

KiKi

A Confession

2010-06-12T21:18:00.001+08:00

Before I start with anything, I dyed my hair:

It’s golden-brown now. I didn’t really bother on picking the colours, just dyeing for the sake of covering up my black roots. Yeah, I know I just dyed my hair like a few weeks ago, but the last colour was so pale and all it did was dulling my original colour and failing to cover up the black roots, so. Fourth colouring in 6 months. I hope my hair isn’t going all shitty. Oh hair, I do love you honestly. I miss my curtain fringe.

Ignore my overly-bright face, it’s the flash. Did some good though, covers up my high profile pimples (quoting Zhann who asked her pimples to be low profile). Im eating more veggies to make them leave my face.

Being a vegetarian doesn’t make me particularly in love with veggies. I eat carbs most of the time so I don’t see myself with increasing health value, just that I feel a little bit better knowing my tame, furry friends did not get slaughtered for my appetite’s sake.

Okay, so… the thing is, I like… arts. I mean, I like to draw and drawing is a part of arts, so. Well, I have never really doubted myself on being good in this field, the main reason is that I have never been completely exposed to the competitive world where ‘the strong survives, the weak dies’. So that means to say I actually think I’m good in this. Which can be so wrong. So. Very. Wrong.

There was a new 5-year-old who enrolled in the tuition center I work for. His name is James, a banana boy (banana by the meaning that he is a Chinese but neither understands nor speaks Mandarin, and is solely taught to speak in English). He was quite impatient on learning how to mix colours with colour pencils, and kept telling me:

Teacher, I want to lwearn pwainting.

(Teacher, I want to learn painting.) He’s got a cute w accent, like all kids do.

Teacher, I want to lwearn cwayon.

(Teacher, I want to learn crayon.)

Of which both are something I trust he will not be able to master at such a young age (no, I’m not underestimating, it’s true because I let him try the crayons), and I gently denied his request. In the end he got so impatient that I let him did his own drawing:

Superman’s Rocket

Erm, the messy spirals in the middle is a slide that kids play, cause ‘Superman’s rocket is nwice.’

He refused to go home when his dad came to fetch him, stalled for another half and hour then went home happily only after buying new colour pencils and scissors. His dad told us he draws everyday, everyday after dinner.

Wondering why I’m telling you this? Well, I was kinda jealous with this kid actually for being so interested in drawing at such a young age and I would say he’s born with the talent. Honestly I started doubting myself heavily on my potential after I got back from work. I suck, I would say. No, I’m not asking for my blog readers to come and console me to make me feel better, seriously, no. I’m making myself to swallow the truth (Take that, KiKi!).

Due to over super efficient and distracting Internet plus informative and distracting Facebook, I haven’t drawn nor read in ages. And I am going to an art school where (I think) a lot of talented/packed-with-interest people and possibly art geniuses are going (wait, I’m not saying that school is awesome but at least it’s an art school and some art people gotta assemble there somehow) this coming July, and I am still armed with many-year-ago/ caveman-era drawing techniques and I know (nearly) completely nothing about arts, I’m wondering how am I supposed to survive. Yeah. Not to mention I’m going to the most kiasu city on Earth, Singapore. Goash someone give me a survival guide? For my birthday, maybe.

God help me.

(Oh, sorry, I’m a free thinker =.=)

Such a long rant. Whatever.

Sigh.

P.s. Survival guide sponsor anyone?

LOve,

Stressed out KiKi

(It’s not making me losing any weight though.)

Green Gingham

2010-06-09T17:38:00.001+08:00

Tell me what’s this?

Ooo. It’s not just a ribbon okay? It’s gingham. Okay, it is a ribbon lah. I’m just making a big deal out of it cause green gingham is cute. LOL.

Anyway, we’ll be making this:

Uh, no. Not Darlie toothpaste. LOL. My teeth is not-so-nice so I rarely smile with my teeth out, somewhat silly, no? It’s the little bow on my fringe. Yea, in case you’re wondering, my fringe hasn’t been down for one single moment since I had it cut flat. I’m pinning up for it to grow in peace. Nice of me.

I bet anyone can do it under 5 minutes. So easy one. You’ll need:

1. Ribbon of your choice (a fairly short length will do)

2. Bobby pin

3. Scissors

One thing I hope that you know beforehand is how to tie a ribbon… Cause I’m lousy in explaining.

Just sort of fold your length of ribbon like the photo, then following the arrow, pass the end through the back, then tuck it through the loop.

You’re supposed to get something like this. Then pull on the two bunny ears on top to tighten.

Got something like this?

Snip off the ends using your scissors to get the shape in the photo.

Okay, get your bobby pin now.

Turn your ribbon over to the back side. Tuck one side of the bobby pin’s ‘legs’ into the knot in the middle of the ribbon.

Please note this:

The wavy part shouldn't be facing up. It should be facing inwards.

Refer photo below:

Got it? ;)

Done!

My skin is getting a little bit better and I seriously think I’m sensitive to BB cream. I get pimples once I start using it and now I have two tubes of them that I can’t use. I wonder if I’m sensitive to ALL foundations.

By the way, I got my first ever 4 inch heels =) Sounds very much like a milestone to me. LOL. Am loving it =D

From SOS. I picked camel, there’s white available. It was on sale, like 70%. Originally RM 99.90 I think. SO I paid like thirty Ringgit for this thing. Okay, mum paid, I mean. Bargain.

Mum told my sis that if my sis wear this for a 2-hours-stroll at Spring she’ll give her RM20 which my sis replied that 'she ‘doesn’t like to do boring stuff’. LOL. You might not get this but the thing is I hardly remember the last time she wore heels. Must be ages ago.

P.s. I is lovin’ roti canai =)

LOve,

KiKi

Pop Art

2010-06-08T13:24:00.001+08:00

I, erm, just woke up actually. Have been living this sort of life since like…… since I graduated from high school. LOL.

I think I’m feeling better, mentally, that is, but can’t seem to guarantee that. In a nutshell, unstable. Anyway, thanks for the concern. I’m flying like Superwoman towards recovery! WHoooooooooooooooooooooooooo~

Retard.

Well, whatever.

Anyway, remember that there’s a period of time when everyone’s crazy over the ‘I love’ stuff? Like, I love NY. Stuff like that? I hope you know what I’m talking about.Haha.

I found this in my computer:

I made this actually, used to be my phone wallpaper. I like the font: Cooper Std. You can see it a lot on my blog, if you try to notice.

If you wanna make your own, just save the above picture. Open it in your Photoshop, erase all the wordings, using the common eraser tool will do (except for I love, that is), then type in your own wordings using Cooper Std. You gonna experiment with the font size though, not everyone like it my way. Super easy one.

Okay, so that’s it. I usually call these stuff pop art. Erm, like pop music. They get all popular for some time then gradually fades. Some more that I found in my long lost files:

Disclaimer:

I DO NOT OWN THESE PHOTOS/ PICTURES. ALL OF THEM ARE FROM THE INTERNET.

Emo, short for emotional. Is like so common for a pop art topic. It’s becoming a trend somehow. She’s got nice legs by the way.

Confused?

Love the colours.

Miss Sexy Legs.

Cute, but fairly sad.

MUSZKA photography

THIS. IS. SO. TRUE.

Somehow I think this is a photo manipulation.

Warning!!!!

LOL. I posted up some nicer ones only. Some of them are really blurred due to the tiny dimensions but I violently stretched them to fit my bloggie’s template. I realize one thing, most of the models are Western females, no?

P.s. My fringe is getting longer.

LOve,

KiKi

You can skip this.

2010-06-03T21:02:00.001+08:00

Seriously you can skip this. No tutorial or whatsoever. No photos just plain rubbish about myself cause I’m like so sick right now.

You know how people say you get high, get drunk, feels like you’re in heaven, then wake up and feel like a piece of shit? Yea, I’m like that right now. I feel so sick. I feel stupid. I feel fat, yeah, I’m fat anyway. I feel like shit. I wanna start college ASAP and get my brain to use. If not it’s going to rot rot rot.

I know so many people claim that comparison is unnecessary and stuff, but we just can’t avoid it. I heard it’s gonna get even worse when I’m in college. Compare compare compare. I gonna die of this soon. I think I’m getting worse and worse in everything. I mean, in terms of everything, personally.

Sigh. I’m no good with blogging bout these. I haven’t written one piece of essay since I graduated in high school.

I’m going to draw……………………………………. WTF.

I need Marilyn…… Tokio Hotel’s not bad too. A lighter version when I got wayyy sick of Marilyn.

Their famous one. I like Hey You better though.

P.s. Don’t so hiao lah. I don’t know some girls so hiao for what. Maybe they love the taste of Ridsect. If you understand, you understand. If not, never mind. Not important.

P.p.s. I have down times too =(

P.p.p.s Now then I know McD don’t have Wi-Fi. SO THE VERY LOUSY!

LOve,

Jaded KiKi

9 Year-Olds Nowadays Make Me Go O.O

2010-05-30T21:14:00.001+08:00

Yea, I don’t know how many of you know that I’m an art teacher, part-time, that is.

This is my teacher look:

LOL. My silly fringe is gone. I’m hiding it. Anyway, my students say I look ugly with specs. Ojipala.

Okay, that’s so not the point right now.

I went to work today as usual, teaching the kids to draw and colour. And my students mostly think I’m quite bully-able, I think. I had the conversation below with 3 of my girl students. Two of them are nine, one of them seven. I’ll just call them J, D, and C now, as according to their initials. J is 7, D and C are 9.

Okay, here goes. Everything I’m writing below is true. And by the way, no proper English, we were conversing in Mandarin then. I kinda summarized the whole conversation up cause it’s long and I can’t remember everything.

C: Teacher (me), you got boyfriend or not?

Me: No lah. (Sorry, I know I have Bong but if I had said yes, I’ll be rained with questions after questions which will make me go =.=. So what I’m doing is purely out of self-protection, I’m not lying with bad motive. Heehee. Pardon. Sorry Bong. )

C: HAAAAAAAA? Teacher you so old liao still no boyfriend ah? You want me help you introduce or not?

Me: (WTF?) Handsome or not? Not handsome I don’t want.

D: Neh teacher I introduce you my friend lah.

Me: How old is your friend……..

D: Same age as me lah.

Me: Eh hello? You only 9 lo. I’m 18. Mana boleh?

Then J, D and C starts introducing me guys from Taiwan pop groups, Lollipop or something, which I have completely no idea who they are…… Then….

C: Teacher I tell you ah. I got many boyfriend.

Me: (Many???) How many?

C: Ten!

Me: Really meh? Your mum know or not?

C: Ya lah. At school I have 2, at ITS (an English tuition center) I have 3, at tuition I have 5. My mum know. When we go shopping all the boys walk beside me then I walk in the middle. *Looking very happy*

Me to D: You got boyfriend or not?

D: No. Last time I got but we broke up.

I went all WTF??????????

Me to J: You leh?

J: Got. He is class monitor and group leader ah. Teacher, I only have one boyfriend. (Later which she told me she lied and actually she’s got two boyfriends)

Then I went all WTFOMFGBBQ. She’s only SEVEN for God’s sake.

Me: Mummy know or not?

J: *Looking very shy* No lah. Mummy don’t know him.

Sigh.

C: Teacher I tell you ha. Last time I went to my cousin’s condo la, then no boys care bout me boh. Then the next time I went I wear SEXY SEXY, then all the guys come play with me ah.

I went @.@.

C: We (she and many boys) go swimming together. Then I wear the SEXY SEXY swimming suit that shows my tummy one.

I went o.o .

C: Then la, we (she and one of the boys) kissed in the swimming pool. *makes kissing face and lips* I even closed my eyes ah.

I went O.o.

The whole class was like listening to her and they went ‘Ewww’.

C: Then I asked the next guy to come down, then we kissed again. Then the next and next. Until all the boys I also finish kissing.

I was ……. Aih, speechless.

C: Then la, you know what. I took off my clothes. ALL my clothes.

And I went O.O .

C: All my clothes la, except my panties, because later they touch my v*g*n*.

For the first time, I truly felt speechless.

COMPLETELY SPEECHLESS. SO THE VERY F*CKING SPEECHLESS.

At this point, my employer, also the other art teacher, Mr. Ting, kept declaring the ‘Drink-Water-Break’ (every student will stop drawing and drink their water), like every 5 minutes to stop the conversation.

However, C dutifully went on ranting about her 20 boyfriends (ten more is from her cousin’s condo, she’s got one boyfriend at each floor of the whole block of the condominium)until Mr. Ting was so desperate he asked all the students to go and have a look at the newly renovated toilet bowl in the toilet. LOL.

LOL. Okay, I seriously forgot some parts of the conversation. But all the expressions that I wrote above are really what I felt and reacted.

Yea, I agree the three girl’s definition for ‘boyfriend’ is badly mutated…… But WTF is F wrong with these primary school kids nowadays? I think their heads got seriously hacked Taiwanese and Korean dramas. Maybe triangle love is something worth being proud of to them (C told me two guys fought a bit over her).

As for C who made those impossibly hard to believe (and Bong says somewhat exaggerated) speech, her mom is someone who is VERY concerned about her only daughter’s academic work, I was very surprised to hear all those words spill from her lips. Okay, may all her talking be complete fabrication, but no matter what, why is she thinking that way? Such adultery.

Sigh. Kids are growing wayyyy too fast.

At our father’s time, they are still catching bugs at nine.

At our time, maybe we were having our very first crush.

Now at their time, they are plotting sexy swimwear to attract opposite sex’s attention and kissing in swimming pool and stripping and breaking up.

Sigh. I still have to go

OMFGBBQWTFFMLFTLFOL.

Okay, maybe the world’s just evolving.

P.s. I’ll be kinda busy for the coming few days so the chances of blogging’s sorta low. Thanks for reading anyway. And, comments? I sincerely welcome your opinion on this topic.

LOve,

KiKi

Fringie

2010-05-26T17:40:00.001+08:00

I had my fringe cut.

Want regret also no use. Wo zi ji yao de.

A few days ago I had this long curtain fringe:

Now I have this:

Well, that’s what I got immediately after Abbie did my hair. Um. I mentioned before straight hair ain’t my thing.

So I curled it. Nah.

I think it’s better……

Well, at least it goes with my FakeOne bob:

Cute leh.

LOL. A short one I know, never mind lah. Who would wanna hear me rant bout my fringe all day long =.=

P.s. Okay, what to blog liao?

LOve,

KiKi

Free Denim Shorts

2010-05-25T15:39:00.001+08:00

Okay, I don’t really wear jeans. (Note: I wear denim, I don’t wear jeans, if I can help it) I think wearing jeans makes me look short…… not to mention I don’t have really long and skinny nice legs to make jeans look great, or to let jeans make me look great. LOL. Okay. You get the point, I don’t like wearing jeans lah.

Okay, below is a picture of a pair of jeans I owned since 2006, and I haven’t worn it for like, 2 years?

It’s kinda high-waisted. Erm, in case you’re wondering…… It didn’t look like this when I purchased it. It’s just a pair of plain, slightly- bleached jeans. I made those holes myself and rolled up the hems. I like torn denim =) How I wish my legs are skinny enough to wear those boyish torn jeans~ Sigh.

Anyway, since I’m not wearing it, I might as well not waste it in my wardrobe. DIY a bit lah. I’m gonna make them into torn denim shorts.

Erm, I admit you will need a bit of courage to pull this DIY. If you’re not courageous enough, just think:

“I don’t DIY I also don’t wear mah. Might as well give it a try.”

LOL. But be sure that you don’t use super expensive jeans ah……

Okay, let’s go.

One:

Lay your jeans flat on the floor, then using a pair of sharp scissors, snip off the long part. Snip one side first, then fold your jeans across and snip the other side, so you’ll get equal lengths. Don’t snip it wayyyy short on the first try. Snip it off at a safe length, try it on first, if you wanna go shorter, simply trim it away. TRY IT ON every time after you snip so you’ll get the suitable length for yourself.

Two:

Cut straight upwards on the side to make seams so you can have loose and casual denim shorts. Erm, this is optional actually. But since most jeans are fitting at the thigh part, you’ll get really tight shorts if you skip this step.

Okay, the fun part=) Making holes in your jeans.

You’ll need:

1. Sharp penknife

2. Your hands

Three:

Decide on where you wanna have the holes. I made mine near the hem. Then, using your sharp penknife, slit PARALLEL slits across the jeans, as shown in the photo.

Four:

Grab hold of one piece of the slit, start pulling at it in a parallel motion, like the arrow in the photo. LOL. I also don’t know how to explain this part. I seem to be really lousy at explaining. HAHA. Okay, anyway, the fabric will start to loosen, then you can pick at it with your fingers. The horizontal threads will appear. LOOK AT THE PICTURE LAH!

Five:

Em, for the hem part. Cut it unevenly, so it’ll look natural. As shown in the photo. See, it’s not really straight.

Six:

Get your pumice stone/ foot file/ sandpaper or whatever that’s very rough, and start rubbing vigorously at the hem. They’ll get all frayed up, then the white threads will appear. Like you’ve worn it for ages. FakeOne. LOL.

Okay, I’m done. It’s your choice really, as where you wanna place your frayed threads and holes. Alternatively, go to Google then search for photos of nice torn jeans, use that as your sample.

My end product:

Front. Oh, I folded the hem, by the way.

Back. I made a hole on the back pocket.

Since mine’s high-waist jeans, I can wear them like this:

Like how the next person will wear her denim shorts. T-shirt and shorts.

Or this:

I tucked my blouse in it =)

LOL. Seems so long since I wrote so much. Erm. I hope you understand the instructions, especially the part on making holes. Ask me if you’ve got questions. And in case you really tried, TELL ME~~~! LET ME KNOW~~~! It’ll be fun =) Getting new clothes without spending money and recycling (saving our dear Earth) at the same time! I sound so cheesy =.=

P.s. Comments? =)

Oh yea, CLICK MY ADS! =p

LOve,

KiKi

Things To Do With A Curling Iron

2010-05-24T18:12:00.001+08:00

I got myself one. A curling iron I mean. I got one that’s got a diameter larger than 30mm, I don’t know the exact though, since I like big curls =) Don’t you think they look great?

Me and my Rowenta curling iron. I haven’t got a name for it…something that I usually do. But never mind. I really like the colours, black and white.

Okay. Um, before we start, I’d like to tell you that you’ll find some of my photos really bright. Well, it’s cause I’m still using that DSLR, I’ve probably adjusted the aperture or something. And some photos are blurred, cause it’s too heavy for me to hold single-handed. LOL. Apologies =)

Okay. Stuff I did with my curling tongs.

Give myself curly/ wavy hair, of course =)

I look older though =/ And not that I don’t wanna smile……. all the smiling ones look bad/ weird.

Give myself bangs! Ah. Smile liao.

LOL. My fringe has got to the point of being so long that I’ve resorted to sweeping it aside, so I haven’t got bangs now. I have long curtain fringe. Curling my fringe makes it shorter and thus making it look like bangs =) Okay, fake bangs.

Short hair~ Okay, Fake short hair. Everything is fake one. Maybe I should learn Cheesie, do a FakeOne TM.

It’s easier faking short hair with curls. Cause curls creates an illusion of awesome hair volume, so the fake bob will look a little bit more real, as compared to thin flappy fake-bobs.

The side. Make the behind shorter if you prefer.

Last. My skin looks great, no? It’s getting a lot better.

Act young. LOL. I think curls make this look cuter =)

I like the two pieces of hair rounding my face =) Bopien, I have angled jaws D=

I realise I’m putting on more photos than writing. LOL. BUT STILL! Appreciate it lah. Editing and taking nice photos of meself is such tedious work you know~

P.s. Okay, what to blog next? Tell me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOve,

KiKi

black♥white

2010-05-21T20:15:00.001+08:00

I browsed through some really nice photos last night and got the urge to take some =)

I seldom take black&white photos , so am going to try. It adds some nice ‘photography’ and vintage feel to the photo, don’t you think? Makes the photo looks a little bit more professional.

Erm, my theme would be……… me. LOL. Okay, rather than saying it’s photography, say ‘CAMWHORE’. Haha.

My partner for the session:

A very old Olympus DSLR. Hello baby.

MY PHOTOS AHEAD!

READ ON YOUR OWN WILL.

My current Facebook profile picture.

So so.

I like this one =)

It’s the same as above, just that I chopped it differently.

Emo die. Haha=)

End.

I had fun ;)

P.s. I’m updating a lot, ain’t I? =)

LOve,

KiKi

portfolio:Two

2010-05-20T15:33:00.001+08:00

Here are the last fives for my portfolio.

More pictures this time because I’m required to put in some procedures for the artworks.

Enjoy=)

Part 5: Photo Manipulation

Title of Work: Runaway Alice

Year of Completion: 2010

Medium and Material:

Original photos manipulated using Adobe Photoshop CS2

Here are the photos I used, all from deviantart.com.

(Note: I credited all the stock photo suppliers in my deviant profile already and they have all been notified.)

From top to bottom:

1. small flowers by Aizlej_stock

2. white rabbit 1 by shnarfle_stock

3. Enchanted Forest Premade by frozenstocks

4. secret chapel9 by rammkitty_stock

5. more alice by rammkitty_stock

6. Castle Stock 12 by little_stock

(any other elements not listed in here are painted by me)

You might not understand why No. 4, secret chapel9 (the one with a girl standing wearing a very long dress) is used. FYI, please look carefully at my manipulation and compare to the original (No. 5). Did you notice that Alice’s dress is originally short?

I took the part near the hem from No. 4 and fused it with the dress in No.5. And thus, Alice has got a long long pwetty flowing dress in my art piece=)

Part 6: Photography

Title of Work: Just Us

Year of Completion: 2009

Medium and Material:

Olympus E-500

LOL. You guys know this one. Remember some of you helped me made the choice in this post?

I’ll tell you something: The two silhouettes on the right side of the photo? That’s actually four people, not two. Dad, mum and two kids.

Part 7: Cartooning

Title of Work: !SCREAM.

Year of Completion: 2010

Medium and Material:

Chinese calligraphy ink, 2B pencil, Adobe Photoshop

Preparatory Sketches and Procedures for !SCREAM. :

Initial Idea

Development of idea:

Draft

Procedure #1:

Rough Sketch

Procedure #2:

Penciling

Procedure #3:

Inking (1st Stage)

Procedure #4:

Inking (Complete)

Procedure #5:

Shading with Computer

And after that will be computer colouring, which gives me the final product as shown on top.

Part 8: Painting

8.1

Title of Work: The Autumn

Year of Completion: 2010

Medium and Material:

Water colour, masking fluid, common salt , toothbrush

8.2

Title of Work: Bloomed

Year of Completion: 2010

Medium and Material:

Water colour, masking fluid, common salt

~ END ~

To view portfolio:One please click here.

Hope you enjoyed =)

Special thanks to Pristine Angel who spent her time zooming up to each and every pixel, suggesting me all her bloody truthful critics =)

P.s. Comments and critiques welcomed! =)

LOve,

KiKi

portfolio:One

2010-05-19T20:04:00.001+08:00

I think I promised this. I mean. I promised to show my portfolio, didn’t I?

Well, I wouldn’t really call it a portfolio though, it’d be better known as artworks in my portfolio. Too bad I can’t show you the whole presentation thing.

The whole portfolio consists of eight parts, ten art pieces, with different materials and media. The following will consist of four parts with five artworks. I don’t wanna put all ten in one, you’ll get fed up looking at so many in one go O.O

You guys might have seen some before. LOL. Some are even on Facebook. Anyway. Enjoy.

Part 1: Drawing

Title of Work: The Bald Headed Eagle

Year of Completion: 2006

Medium and Material: 2B pencil

Part 2: Sketches

Title of Work:Animals and Anatomy

Year of Completion: 2010

Medium and Material: 2B and 6B pencils

Part 3: Illustration

Title of Work: The Machine

Year of Completion: 2008

Medium and Material: Pilot G-Tec C4 0.4 Technical Pen

Part 4: Digital Imaging

4.1

Title of Work: Dream

Year of Completion: 2008

Medium and Material:

Outlines done with black marker, coloured using Photoshop CS4

4.2

Title of Work: Save the Children

Year of Completion: 2009

Medium and Material:

Original photo processed using Photoshop CS 2

Okay =) Done. I’m still conjuring up the sequel. Stay tuned.

P.s. Comments and critiques welcomed!

LOve,

KiKi

KiKi’s Nail Parlor: Super Simple

2010-05-18T14:26:00.001+08:00

Yep. In terms of procedure and design.

I’m talking bout my new nails =) I mean, artificial nails.

HAHA. I’m very smart this time. I filed all my nails short. At least, something like my original nail length. So it ain’t such a torture to blog anymore=)

Okay, actually I find filing artificial nails a very dry and time consuming task. So i resorted to using scissors. Since mine’s plastic and kinda flexible, it’s okay to trim out all the curves with a pair of sharp scissors. Time saver, seriously. Use nail file file till midnight also not finish. (Of course is exaggerate one lah~ You get my point anyway.)

I’m finding artificial ones really convenient. Examples:

1. You don’t need to file your own nails, which are usually more uneven and weird-shaped as compared to fake ones.

2. No buffing needed.

3. No need to remove cuticles.

4. Less chance of messing up the paint. See, you just paint thick thick as you like then leave aside to dry.

5. Able to multi-task. Text, type, wash dishes, bath, anything, as the fake ones are drying. If you’re doing them on real nails, you can’t really do much while the varnish’s drying.

6. Looks prettier.

Well, yeah, there’s down sides too. Like your real nails gonna get hurt cause you’re piling strong glue on them.

Anyway, what I did this time:

Left. See the 3D heart on the middle finger?

Now I can show my love to the world with my middle finger. Muahahahahahaha. LOL.

Right. The obscured fingers are just plain pastel pink.

Originally I wanted to do plain pink, to be Super Super Simple but they look wayyy too plain. So I added diamantes instead, so it became Super Simple =)

I’m getting better with the whole DSLR- camwhore thing:

I love my hair.

Till then. Have a nice day =)

P.s. Hey anyone interested in knowing how I painted the roses in Roses Are Sweet? I’m planning to do a tutorial but I don’t know if anyone’s even interested. Leave comments in comment box, chat box, my Facebook link, or simply click ‘like’. I’ll show if anyone has got interest =) It’s super simple also. LOL. Thanks =)

LOve,

KiKi

Yes, I know.

2010-05-17T14:07:00.001+08:00

Yeah, I know I haven’t blogged in ages. But I was terribly sick. Sick until tak dapat pergi kerja (*silently laughing my tummy out in glee*)

LOL. You know a sick person lies in her bed all the time. Which means no contact with the outer world. Which will (logically) lead to a nothing-too-exciting social life/ activities. LOL. So you kena forgive me for being not-so-interesting here.

The only thing that I did that’s considered something was that I dyed my hair, despite of being insanely sick.

Actually, I picked light ash blonde okay. And I do DIY hair colouring (as in home colouring), which means I did not bleach my hair. Didn’t realize the ash that I picked is soooo light, until it tak dapat cover my previous reddish-brown, so I got this instead:

A darker shade that looks something like greyish-brown, dark brown, in a sense.

This is how it looks like under sunlight. Preserved some of it’s crimson from the previous shade.

Sigh. I am NOT happy with this hair colour. I mean, it’s not bad, but plain disappointing because I didn’t plan to have this colour in the first place. It’s like you want lemon juice but you got orange juice instead. They’re quite the same but not expected. WTF.

Suan le ba. Am going to re-dye maybe after a couple of months.

Have a nice day =)

P.s. Hope I get well soon. And hope Bong gets well soon.

P.p.s. I switched to DSLR for this post instead of Keiko’s. But I have trembling hands =( DSLR’s too heavy to be held single-handed.

P.p.p.s. I think my faces look weird here. I wonder why. Sick symptoms?

LOve,

KiKi

KiKi’s Nail Parlor: Roses are sweet

2010-05-12T16:23:00.001+08:00

You know I’m going through such a fuss just to write this post, please appreciate. LOL.

Okay, so what’s the fuss about?

Sigh. These:

My new home manicure. Super long artificial nails.

It might not look that long here but if you wear them you’ll get the absolute meaning of inconvenience. I don’t know how the Japanese girls survive in these. My nails got stuck between the keyboard gaps like 6 times already. Plus I kept torturing Keiko with them. Poor Keiko.

LOL. But anyway, want blame also blame myself. I’ll remember to file it down shorter next time.

Kay. A closer view:

Red and pink roses, white base.

Originallly, I wanted these (the ones in the circles):

Popteen April issue 2010 (again, it’s the latest I can get)

I like both. But decided to do the black one.

THEN I realize I don’t have black polish anymore.

SO I combined both to produce white base and red roses. LOL.

BUT. I got soo carried away with my painting so I ditched the design altogether and drew what I like. LOL. But looks a little alike lah, still.

Beverly from Beverly’s Secret did the one with peach-cream base on the left top, the ones she did are really nice. LOL. Check it out here.

Reminder: For best result, stand two meters from your screen to view the following photo.

Red and pale pink roses. I added pink rhinestones and mini pearls to it.

The whole process went like this:

1. File the artificial nails into desired shape and of course, to fit your own nails.

2. Paint on base coat.

3. Paint on base colour, in this case, white. Two layers or more, please. Leave to dry.

4. Start painting the flowers, I did the red ones first, then the pink ones, then the leaves.

5. Stick on rhinestones & pearls. Leave to dry.

6. Top coat.

When done, I left it to dry overnight because I have no idea how much polish I piled on it, just for safety measure =p

Here are the colours I used:

For red roses:

1 as base and 2 for highlights and definition

1. Dark red

2. Pale pink (original colour is from 4, i added white to it.)

For pink roses:

3 for base and 4 for highlights and definition

3. Pale pale pink. (just use the pink in 2 and add more white to it)

4. Slightly dark pink

For the leaves:

5 as base and 6 for highlights and definition

5. Green

6.Dark green (add a little black polish to the green in 5)

Base always goes first, then highlights.

All set! =)

LOL. My new photo editor from here. It’s fun to use and definitely cute. Thanks to those who suggested when I asked for advice on Facebook a while back=)

Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed =)

P.s. I think I did fine, for a first-timer =p

LOve,

KiKi

Hairstyle One-Oh- One

2010-05-11T00:30:00.001+08:00

Hey =)

Am like, completely dried of ideas about what to write now. And eventually came up with this hopefully entertaining topic. LOL

Some insane stuff I cooked up this late afternoon=)

Am sorry to inform you that some pictures will display a lot noise cause it’s quite dark then.

Usually I wear my hair down and tousled. I barely comb my hair because I think it will demolish all my natural waves, which I like, I don’t really fancy silky straight hair, the sort that you can do the flirty hair flip thing. LOL.

For those in Kuching High, you might know who fancies that, Miss Goh Siew Ping and Pn. Molly (correct spelling?). Omigosh their hair straight & silky till can become slide loh. But Molly’s will be a little bumpy at the top. XD

I’m so lazy these days that I don’t even care to wear my hair bun anymore, mostly just a ponytail, because Kuching is like an oven this season.

Well, the following is just for fun though, for your entertainment (Adam Lambert). LOL.

Let’s get started.

I think I look okay in this. Haha. I mean, at least I don’t look completely kampung? Tell me if you think otherwise, haha.

I look good in this too.

But not this. I’m supposed to look rock so I back-combed all my hair to make it fluffy. I look like a mad woman instead.

Bohemian. This works! Might be wearing it out some day =) Em, in case the photo ain’t clear enough, that thing on my head is my own hair, plaited and pinned horizontally across my forehead, then no need buy accessories liao. Heehee.

Oh, my hair band. I’m sure you saw it before, in my hair bun tutorial thing.

Some people actually look sexy in this hairstyle. But apparently I don’t =.= I look silly.

What did I say about my waves? Seriously I like it =)

My handmade hair bow here.

This is what I’ve been waiting to show you. My new hairstyle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOO.

AH.

Nah.

My shoulder length bob. LOL. I was so heartache when the hairdresser started snipping off strands of my hair =(

Okay I lied.

LOL.

I faked this. I wore fake bob to school everyday when I was in Form Five cause I can’t tie my hair up. I tucked it in instead.

Hair bow from here.

LOL. I had fun. Hope you did too.

Thanks for visiting=)

P.s. Sorry for not posting these few days. If you had been waiting for a post, that is.

LOve,

KiKi

KiKi’s Obsession of All Times

2010-05-06T15:10:00.001+08:00

Thank God that at least someone is reading this. My Windows Live Writer jammed twice last midnight while I was composing this entry and I got so frustrated that I ditched the whole thing and only started writing now.

Phew. This is so shitty.

Anyway, you’re about to witness the ultimate KiKi Obsession of All Times.

I spent 7 to 8 hours, I think, on this thing.

Okay. Get ready.

Okay lah. Don’t play liao.

It’s this:

Please click to enlarge. I’ve uploaded the largest dimensions possible.

I call this piece, A Girlish Affair. Yea, I know it sounds pretty weird but I don’t have any ideas just yet. The whole theme revolves around girls and it’s supposed to be kinda commercialized. E.g. advertising poster for young female’s cosmetic brand.

( To Pristine Angel: I can come up with something businesslike too =p)

I was inspired by Harajuku Lovers’ advertisement:

Internet Photo

This

Internet Photo

And this.

I simply adore their bright and yet not-ah-lien combination of colours, really cute and refreshing. And therefore I decided to make my own, for fun, that is.

Okay, I need a reference. I used Kumiko:

Internet Photo

This is March issue 2010. I’m too lazy to scan my own. She is absolutely right for reference because she’s really dolly (and kinda unreal, read: fake). My brother actually thought she’s an actual doll.

Okay, please note that I’m using her as reference, I’m not replicating her.

A list of materials I used:

1. Watercolour

2. Watercolour pencils

3. Common salt

4. Black marker pen

5. Watercolour paper

The original outcome was this, after 5~6 hours of work:

The true copy directly from the scanner. Not really impressive I must say. LOL

That’s why immature artists like me rely on Photoshop. Mostly I’m just enhancing the colours and contrasts for parts like the hair and skin, ribbons, roses and other background objects.

Her eyes were digitally painted though:

I spent quite some time on this with reference from the Internet (if you notice that she’s got brown eyes instead of blue ones for the cover already). I think this is the best eye I’ve painted digitally so far.

So are her lips:

Okay, not very clear. Painted the base colour and the shiny reflection’s done with opaque white in Normal and intensity < 20 %.

Her blush was painted on too. LOL. It’s fun actually, like putting on makeup for someone else, with the Undo button, that is. LOL.

A version with letterings:

And without:

Which one’s better?

LOL. These are just for fun okay. I haven’t drawn in ages. Hope you people like it.

P.s. I met a really shitty driver today. Like I said, pasting the ‘P’ doesn’t really help in fact.

LOve,

KiKi

These are what I’m using… recently

2010-05-04T18:43:00.001+08:00

Yea, I use different facial products every time. I hardly stick to one thing for a long time.

My skin is continually getting better, even though I have not the slightest idea what triggered those annoying little spots on my skin. My skin’s till a little bit uneven now. Sigh =(

Shouldn’t I be going all ‘ =( ’ instead of smiling? Oh well, at least it’s better.

I’ve ditched my false eyelashes for about a week now, I used to think I look completely weird without them but now I think I look okay too, I’m going for a more natural look to avoid critics from some people going ‘What’s wrong with natural?’ There’s nothing wrong with it but I’m simply too lazy to argue.

So in this photo (and most of the time lately) I’m just wearing eyebrow pencil, eyeliner and mascara (no foundation still). Pretty simple, but personally I think gluing on falsies is faster than mascara, because I’ll get my lashes all clotted. Sad.

By the way, something random:

I had my nails done nude (so as to go with the whole ‘natural’ affair). It’s Bisque from Elianto. Yeah, I know I complain a lot about Elianto’s nail colours but I don’t have a choice. This shade is almost (really close) to my own skin tone and I can’t find better brands selling it.

Anyway, the whole point (I think it’s kinda pointless anyway and I’ve reached the point where I’m so pathetically in lack of topic) of this post is a quickie on my recent skincare. Mostly it’s drugstore stuff, all pretty affordable, and they work (for KiKi). And recently I’m focusing on two things, namely: whitening and moisturizing. Okay, and a clean face, which is like, of course need one lah.

To start off, face cleanser:

*click to enlarge*

The L’oreal one really works for me. I face less skin problems when using it, and it’s got whitening properties, I LOVE stuff with whitening properties, those without simply turns me off.

And the one on the right, I don’t really know what brand is that but what I know is it functions as makeup remover and cleanser, plus retains moisture level, I think. LOL. I’m just guessing from all the Japanese descriptions. Got this from some Japanese store in Taipei.

Then, toner:

L’oreal White Perfect WHITENING Toner

LOL. I told you I like whitening a lot. Yea, I like this one too. I think their range suits me.

Moisturizer:

I don’t know if anyone uses this, like it’s super traditional, not to mention super affordable. I think this pot is around RM 10. My mom has been using this for ages and her skin is great. And for those who hates greasy moisturizers, this one’s for you. 0 greasiness/ oiliness. The texture’s kinda like snow.

Next! Exfoliating a.k.a face scrubs.

Bloop Immortelle Ice Scrub

Actually it’s my sister’s. It’s kinda funny, like you just rub it on your face until all the flakey stuff appears. Then voila! Your skin is like so so so so so smooth like that. LOL. Okay, no commercial. Um, I use this like, once a week? But sometimes none, too lazy.

Face masks:

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The one on the left is for hydration and the right for cleansing I suppose. No whitening =( Usually I use Himalaya’s first. Then after one of two days I’ll use Faceshop’s… and so the routine goes.

Ooo, I need to tell you! I love that Faceshop one. Well, not really for the effect (it makes your skin a little bit silkier, but I don’t recommend this for people with oily skin. the product itself is sort of oily) but for the fragrance. IT SMELLS LIKE MILK!!!! LOVE! OMFG.

Himalaya’s a peel-off mask. Then all your pores become tiny until almost invisible =) LOL. Of course, that doesn’t last very long and peel-off masks are a little bit harsh for skin.

Yes, I’m done. Hope you like it. My arms and hands and fingers are aching already. Thanks for reading.

P.s. I don’t really have a lot of pimples but what will happen if I switch to acne-prevention face cleanser? Any ideas? Thanks =)

LOve,

KiKi