Random Stuffs

Omg the itch to buy things is freakin' me out. Every second I think of what I want to buy and it's only the 2nd day of November! Seriously, can die man. Wk's right, when we live together, I should hand him ALL my money and he shall be the one to control the flow.

I seriously need a new night time moisturizer cos my BodyShop Time Release Capsule's finishing. It's a 28 days treatment thingie and I'm left with my last 4 capsules already. And another foundation cos I just realized that the current one I'm using, which is new anyway, is too light for my skin tone. It makes me look stark white not only in pictures, even my mom said so! Ugh the horror. Not gonna throw it away anyway, it's still money spent! I'll probably get a darker shade and mix them.

Ok since Wk's not going to sleep tonight cos he's rushing for his submission, I'll stay up with him by practising =) We have our videos and skype on. It's as though we're right next to each other, working really hard =)

Oooh I just found out The Time Traveler's Wife the movie's out already! Gosh I'm still left with 200++ pages. Gotta speed up.

Ok time to go. Have a great week everyone.

the Balm

Omg the Balm is finally here in Malaysia! I first saw people using it in Youtube a long time ago but it didn't interest me as much as when I saw it in Melbourne at Kit. It was ridiculously overpriced there so I didn't buy anything. Actually, almost ALL cosmetics in Australia are more expensive than what they really cost - whether in the US or in Malaysia. Which explains why, I only bought stuffs that I cannot find in Malaysia. MAC, Benefit, Shiseido, Maybeline, Revlon - just name anything that Malaysia has - it's all so much more expensive in Australia. What a bummer =( That doesn't mean stuffs that are not available in Malaysia, are cheap either. They are STILL a lot more expensive cos I compared to the prices in the US. Australia, bloody moneysucking country. And oh god I cannot imagine how I am going to shop for my makeup stuffs if I'm going there next year T____T

So anyway, the Balm!!! If it wasn't for the Nuffnang banner I have in my blog, I wouldn't even know it's already here in Malaysia! Starting from today! They're having some roadshow at MidValley and I can't wait to drop by and check out their stuffs, now that it's more affordable! Click here if anyone is interested.

Ok, I'm not saying the stuffs are exactly cheap, they ARE considered expensive but to compare with the price in Melbourne, this is definitely wayyy cheaper.

I just got my cheque today yayy! So I'll have to wait till (earliest :D) Wednesday before the money is transfered then I can drive up to MidValley and check out their stuffs and MAYBE (aka most probably hahaha) pick up some stuffs!

A few goodies that I MIGHT get:

Shady Lady - I don't think I need to explain on this. I have always been crazy over eyeshadows palettes. You know, it's selling at AUD 84.95 (around RM265) in Australia but it's only RM 120 here. Stupid right?


time Balm Concealer - This is is something that sounds interesting. I might buy this just because it claims that it combats wrinkles while it conceals, I might not buy this just because I still have a lot more of my concealer. Will decide after testing it.

Lip Plumper Trio - Just because I don't have that many lip glosses (yet HAHA) and this looks like a pretty good deal. But I have a feeling Malaysia might not have this... we'll see.

Bahama Mama - Cos I need a proper contouring powder, I cannot cannot CANNOT keep using my eyeshadows anymore! And besides, this stuff can also be used as a bronzer. 2 in 1 price! Oh, this is AUD 32.95 (RM 103) but it's only (I'm guessing) RM60 here.

I am quite tempted to get their blushers only because the packaging's too hard to resist but meh. They only have like 3 colours to choose from and I already have pretty good blushers similar to those colours so... I'll just skip that.

So instead of their blushers which don't look that interesting, I'm interested in this!


Stainiac - Another 2 in 1 price product, a cheek and lip stain! Although I doubt its lasting power... I shall try it out regardless!

Check the website out! I personally think it's really cute. The packaging at some point does resemble Benefit's products. It doesn't really bother me though cos I'm a sucker for packaging sometimes, I'd go with anything adorable. And besides, Benefit is so expensive. This one is not really cheap but at least, to compare with Benefit it's more affordable.

My Wish

I'm in a lovey dovey mood now so if you can't stand stuffs like that, don't bother reading.

I was reading The Time Traveler's Wife and came upon this page which talks about how much Clare wants to chop her hair off but can't because Henry loves it and then she says she will miss it but it's just so much effort. It felt so familiar reading all that because, for the longest time I have always wanted to cut my hair short (when my hair was super duper long) and when I say short, I mean super short. Has anyone ever noticed how long my hair used to be?


Crap would you look at that? It reached my hips. My freakin' hips.

And honestly, I do miss it T_T

Not that my hair's super short now. It's heavily layered and the length still remained about the same but it doesn't look as long as it was, like in that picture anymore just because it's much thinner now. The reason I kept the length is because, like Clare, I know I will definitely miss it and also, Wk loves my long hair (he tells me that, I didn't assume this myself ok) and I know he'll definitely be upset if I cut it short.

Anyway, I must say, having it layered has been the best thing I could do for my hair cos all my split ends are now gone, it's more manageable, it doesn't tangle as much, it's easier to comb and the best part is I still get to keep the length eventhough it might not look as long as before :)

Ok I know, that's like totally random. I just thought I would share that small part of that novel here cos I can relate to it so much. That book has been ok. I won't say it's as interesting as Life of Pi but I do enjoy reading it. It's so freakin' thick lah 500 pages wtf. Probably need another month or two to finish it cos I only do about 8-10 pages a day.

Ok that aside, I have been missing Wk so damn freakin' much these few days. We skype/msn /webcam almost every single day. We sometimes wake each other up. And the best part is, we motivate each other to do what we're supposed to do - I'm supposed to practice, he's supposed to work on his design. And I must say, having him around is sooooo much better cos otherwise, I won't even bother to take my violin out!

Everytime I look at him in my laptop's screen, I think of the day we're going to live together, in OUR apartment, OUR room, OUR kitchen, OUR bed, OUR computer (haha next time about this), OUR place. And it just motivates me to want to work hard and just get freakin' get accepted by the university.

The next time I go to Melbourne, I'm expecting to say... "OUR" apartment instead of "HIS" apartment, or "HIS" bed. The next time I we wish each other "good morning nigga" (inside joke), I want to be able to laugh right in front of him and not just typing "ha ha ha" and punch 'Enter' on the keyboard. And the next time I expect all these, is next year.

The more I think about all these, the more I want to practice, and the more I think about all these, the more I'm afraid of rejection. It's stressing me out seriously.

This is not just a diploma or a degree. It's a master studies. It's not something you can apply by sending in a bunch of papers and forms and whatnot. I sometimes wonder if I'm actually fit, or good enough to apply. A lot of people tell me I can do it and I can get in and all that. I know everyone's being nice but whether they really think I am good enough, I don't know. What I know is I want to just do my best, and apply and hope for the best.

But I constantly think about a lot of 'what if's. What if I get rejected?

I cannot take rejection. At all. Not at this stage now. He has given up the contract and hasn't even found a new accomodation, all because he's expecting me. How can I even deal with a rejection when I'm thrown with all these expectations?

Another reason to not being able to handle rejection is that I seriously cannot stand this LDR any longer anymore.

I just want to stay beside him and have someone to touch my hair. I just want to stay beside him and have someone to keep me warm. I just want to stay beside him and have someone to tell me how much he loves me everyday, right to my face and not through the computer or phones. I'm just someone who's like many others out there, who needs her dose of affection everyday. I hope it's not too much to ask for.

(Cover) Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" FAIL!!!

So I know I haven't been updating and that's because I'm busy with... things (actually nothing much but I just wanna make myself feel a little bit better by saying I'm busy haha!) and there's nothing much to talk about anyway.

Let me just entertain you with my super failed take on Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me". I love that song. Not that I can relate to the lyrics but I only like the music. There's a difference ok. I like the melody, how simple the chords go but yet the music's good. If you listen carefully (only music ppl can understand this), the chords are actually repeating all the way. There's not even modulation or anything. And all her songs are simple like that, but they sound great. She totally made me fall in love with country+pop and she's only 19! So young and talented. Her songs are very typical teenage love songs with cheesy lyrics but admit it, you sing along to her songs when you listen to it! You pick it in karaoke! Admit it! And I'm not talking about just girls ok, I've seen a lot of guys singing to her songs too.

Before watching, yes I have a lot of makeup slapped onto my face yes I went out of tune a little yes I'm such a loser cos I tell you how much I love this song and then I can't even sing it properly but that's because this is only my 1st attempt ok so don't expect too much lah!

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Anyone wants me to do a full cover? =D I promise I won't fail.

Ok bye.

EevIsVain

I just realised that I've been abandoning my update on Project 365 for 11 freaking days! But I did take pictures every single day. Most of them are my self-obsessed, camwhore pictures cos I was and have been playing a lot with makeup lately haha.


#233 - Hahah cheating picture. Took this today but every other day I have been practising so, my violin is always hung that way onto my music stand.


#234 - Like I said, was playing with make up.


#235 - And I mean A LOT of makeup. I know my face looks a little too white in this picture, it happens all the time when I take pictures with flash.


#236 - My 10 samples of eye pigments from Lumiere came this day. Loving them!


#237 - Another makep day. Wah I think this was my best mascara-application day! Look at my lashes like false ones!


#238 - Ok I look super hideous here that's because I was experimenting with colours on my bare face. Didn't have anything on so it looked really ridiculous.


#239 - Another attempt on natural/neutral-looking makeup!


#240 - I was at uni and when I was done with things, it was peak hour so I dropped by MidValley and... yeah. But I needed most of them anyway! Only the MAC eyeshadows and the Anna Sui Ring Rouge were impulse purchases...


#241 - After about a year or 2 of colour blue/violet/gray contacts, I'm finally going back to black. Still not used to it though :/


#242 - I've been looking for the MAC Pro Eyeshadow Palette for the longest time! It's a palette with 15 empty eyeshadow slots made to fit eyeshadows pans, so you can customize it with any eyeshadow colours you like - MAC ones of course. A few days ago Melissa left me a message in my chatbox saying the MAC store in Kuching sells it and I got a little surprised cos I have never thought any MAC stores in Malaysia sells it only because I've never seen them on display haih. So when I was at MidValley a few days ago, I dropped by MAC and asked about it and tadahhh! They have it! I bought it immediately eventhough I don't have 15 eyeshadows (yet!). On top of that, I bought 2 more eyeshadows so now I have 4 in my collection and I depoted them yesterday and woohoo, success! Ok if you don't know makeup you probably won't know about depoting.


#243 - My lunch today. Taking that picture was crazy, if you notice, I had to use my left hand to use the chopsticks and grab the noodle, and my right hand to click capture on my webcam. I am a righthander and my left hand cannot work for nuts. Oh except for playing the violin and piano of course haha.

Ok before I end this, let me just make an announcement that I've created another blog where I post all my self-obsessed, vain, makeup or anything beauty-related pictures and also blog about them of course.

I decided to make another page for that simply because I personally find it a little too messy to have too many things at once in one post like... I talk about a trip somewhere and then suddenly I go on about my own face. Maybe I'm just being sensitive but I personally prefer reading a post or a blog that is not too jumbled up, if you know what I mean. So I was thinking if I prefer my posts/blog to be that way what if there are readers who prefer it too? I know very well myself that I'm basically quite obsessed with makeup now and taking pictures of myself lol so I don't want to gradually turn this completely into a blog of that kind. I still want to keep this blog as a personal blog, an online update about my life for my friends who read me.

So just letting you know, if you're as obsessed with makeup/beauty or if you can tolerate 8712310 pictures of my face, you can catch me here. I'm not trying to promote this webpage hence, such an understated link (haha like lah a lot of people read me) because like I said, it's all about my face and my obsession which I won't post that much here anymore so if you like all that (you stalker hahaahah), feel free to check me out there.

Ok gtg bye!

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Anyone noticed my "Currently Reading" column has one book taken off?

Bet no one did, cos I just only took it off HAHA. Ok not funny.

Anyway, yes I've finished Life of Pi finally! Aileen are you reading this? Haha. And I must tell you, IT IS SUCH A FREAKIN' GOOD BOOK!!!

Ohmigosh I can't describe how moved and... amazed I was with it. I simply cannot find the right word to describe how I feel about it. It's a mixture of inspired, moved, awed and all that. And at the beginning I was complaining so much about how boring it was. Seriously the first half (or maybe a third) was so freakin' boring I almost wanted to give up and start on other books. I was like what the hell, why the hell this book is a bestseller and why the hell it's a winning book for some dunno what booker prize? But oh well, everynight before I sleep I thought "Ok let's just give this another try" for a few nights and finally, it got interesting somewhere in the middle - when the ship sank.

I'm not going to start reviewing this book besides telling you readers that it's 'good' cos I suck at reviewing and my review will totally do no justice to how great and well-written this book is. I tried telling the story to Wk earlier in the afternoon and all he did was, "I don't see the point..." and "Huh, like that also can ah?" or "Hrm... why must he do that?"........zzzzz........

I was so excited that I wanted to excite him as well but he totally didn't get the whole point of the story. That proves how bad I am with words.
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Either that, or he sucks. HAHAHHA.

So anyway, I'm both happy and sad that I've finished a book. Happy cos yay can go on to another book. Sad cos... I don't know if it's just me or what, but whenever I finish something be it books or a soap or a tv show series, I always get this 'empty' feeling after that. It's like... ok I'm done so what's next? And somehow I won't be as interested in other books/tv shows anymore given that the book/show that I previously read/watched, was really good. But yeah, I'm continuing on the other 2 books now.

I am totally anticipating for the movie! I heard it's directed by Ang Lee. It better be good! Well, seeing that it's Ang Lee, I'm putting high expectation on it.

Ok gotta go practice now. Oh yah good news good news!!! I totally saved RM500 cos I managed to get my university's letter to prove that the language of instruction was in English so now I can be exempted from IELTS!!! Ok what's bothering me now is that freakin' audition recording haih.

Because I Think Replying To Your Comments Deserve One Whole Post =)

What a long title. But yeah.

I am so happy and I honestly feel so freakin' blessed to have readers/friends who are concerned about my insignificant and unnecessary worrying. I feel so happy to read all the long, long comments because it tells me one thing - you guys actually took the time to highlight it and read through that whole long crap and you guys cared! I feel so touched T____T I'm not saying this just to make me seem like I'm nice, seriously! Well, I AM nice anyway HAHAHA.

ShinD, awww actually it's not that I am snobbish or anything it's just that I'm not good at talking with new people so a lot of times, people don't actually find me friendly and some even think I look "angry" hence, unapproachable -_- but thank you for saying I was friendly to you =D

Ping, well you are damn right about everything but stepping out of my comfort zone... I still need a lot of time to master the art of it hehe. Anyway, I hope you're doing fine in the UK! I read your post about LDR. Like I've always said, have faith! You can do it too. =)

Maggie, wtf your comment cracked me up the most! But they're all so true! Yala yala I don't like you wtf. HAHAHA. Yeah, the only thing that I actually look forward there is of course Wk, and at least one of my besties, you, are there! =) Omg but NARS is sooooo overpriced at Australia T_T

Esther, dim gai you scold me bitch T___T LOL! Anyway, the thing is, IF I get accepted I most probably will continue staying there cos I most probably will try to get a job there... but yeah. To think it through I shouldn't be complaining since its not that the world's shutting off on me. Eh even if I have Wk and Maggie there I will definitely miss you one lar T____T

Fang Chin, wah short and sweet hahaah! I like! Actually it's not about me wanting or not anymore, but more like can I make it? T___T

Laughing, haahahahah with you it's all about gossiping! Thanks for the encouraging words! I will =)

I guess afterall, I shouldn't be complaining because really, there isn't any problem. Well, like I said, I only wanted to ramble a little. Thanks again for the great comments, everyone! =)

On a totally unrelated note, here're the pieces that I'll be preparing for the audition:

Vivaldi's Winter Concerto
Beethoven's Spring Sonata
Wieniawski's Romance
Stravinsky's Russian Maiden's Song

I hope it's up to standard... Luckily I have Wk there because he helped me to ask the International Admissions' Officer directly and cleared all the confusion I had. The deadline's on Christmas Eve, I'll be submitting my application early November. I've even called my accompanist (who's a really good one btw, and expensive too T___T) and I was so glad that she said ok cos I was told that she's busy all the time and I was a little worried if she cannot help me. And another great news is that I don't have to submit in a video format, just an audio will do. Which is a great relief cos then I don't have to worry about tripods, sound balancing and whatevers. Now, where can I find a good sound recorder...