Off to Rome

Leaving for Italy tomorrow night, and will be back next Saturday!

But will be going to the anime convention in the afternoon with Ser Qi first, hee hee.

Food Musings

Right now I am eating a brownie and some home-made grass jelly (Wait, I am going somewhere). And it just occured to me - all black foods are yummy.

I mean, brownies, chin chow, herbal jelly, black chicken, black bean soup, squid ink curry, seaweed, buah keluak, black sesame paste...Every black food I know tastes good. Nothing I have come across so far has disproved this theory. (If you have, your own problem!)

Non-asian people probably wouldn't get this. But to me, black food = geeewd.

LOVE this song.

Mama I'm A Big Girl Now by Nikki Blonsky, Marissa Jaret Winokur & Ricki Lake

Noticed this song playing in the credits while rewatching Hairspray (I LOVE THIS MOVIE), and the lyrics are so funny. Plus it has two Tracy Turnblads singing - one from the 2007 film and one from the 1980's version!

My New Illustration Blog

Yes, the name of it is Wheezer. The reason why, you shall not know. ;)

I know I had the "Christal Learns To Draw" thing for a while, but honestly the name was starting to make me cringe. It was such a bad name, what was I thinking? Nice people were coming up to me telling me they liked my previous illustration blog, but when they said "Christal Learns To Draw" it just gave me goosebumps. Plus my style of drawing has changed a little, so hence the move.

I've only made one post so far, but I love the pictures I did. Once you see it, it's pretty obvious why. ;D

So do check it out :) The url can be accessed by clicking the face on the right.

Tags;

~the Man U~: You're camera shy?! Someone spiked your orange juice, you mean. :D And yeah, for canvas shoes Vans is quite a rip-off.

belinda: Haha punk rock is honestly, painful to the ears. Oh but I do like London Calling. :D

mysteriousguest: Hey Mysterious Guest! Haha now that I think about it bringing a broomstick to prom would have been so retarded. And it turns out we didn't really have to worry that much after all. :D

Yitong: WEDDING DRESSSSSSSSSSS :DDDDD

PROM NOM NOM

Was tasty. Not so much D & D though, should have just been a D, seeing how there was only a mediocre dinner and no dancing whatsoever. (Totally kop-ed the above pic from Huiying's album, thanks Huiying! :D) It was still enjoyable, everyone looked fantastic and entertainment was good (;D). Goodwood Park, nice hotel. Not much to say, really. Probably cos it is also 2am and I am half-zonked as I type this. I'll just put up the photos I have so far by the magic that is Facebook album tagging. (To the people who put these photos up, thank you!)

Ooh I look very Shutter.

Haha I think I look veh trampy in this photo. Darn flash!

Manu was such a camwhore it was disturbing.

ACTUAL HEIGHT.

Yeah I paid for hair and make-up to look like that in my prom photos.

:)

COULDN'T RECOGNISE KIMBERLY.

Joanne's little hat was SO FREAKING CUTE.

Obviously in any photo where I am actually taller than someone, I am standing on a step.

08V12!

Our "band"! Una, Minlin, Desiree and I on vocals (HAHA) and Tianjiao on the piano. It was just really fun.

Wow, Mr Lin dresses really well.

CI Doors & Windows! It's funny how the 3 of us ended up together both in Drama and our Humans Research Programme :D

Crashing photos = twice the fun of taking regular photos ;)

Just got these pictures from my mum:

(Yeah I know I look like such a Chau Ah Lian in this photo)

Haha I love my mum. She took half-day leave to follow me around, bringing me from home to her hairdresser to Jordana's house and whatnot, and paid for the expensive (gulp) hair + make-up shiz. Plus the accessories I wore were all her's, which would really explain why I was carrying a Prada purse, wearing a Max Mara necklace and shoes from Nordstrom. (All stuff I borrowed last-minute, wheehee!) Hoho, not stuff I can afford on my own allowance.

While at the hairdresser's, my mum was also photo-documenting the whole "makeover process" for my dad while getting her hair coloured, so funny. Apparently the time when she started going to this hairdresser's place was when I was still a baby, so she was getting choked up about feeling old while I was getting my make-up done.

Mum: Sigh. 年轻就是本钱.

Hairdresser: 年轻是本钱, but你知道我们有哪一种钱吗? 现钱. [laughs]

Mum: Yah, we have 现钱! [laughs]

Funny.

She even came over to Jordana's place with me to help us take photos:

Aw. Everyone looked so fantastic!

So this was what I wore to prom (Pardon the whole skirt-riding-up thing, it really wasn't that short.), I was going for the whole 1920s flapper look (what with the fringe dress and all). A couple of people recognised that, happy days!

Anyway, most of the time I think I've hardly changed/matured since Sec 1, but looking at this photo, I have to think "Wow." Not "wow" as in the omg-I-look-fantastic "wow", but 'wow" as in the omg-I-used-to-be-this "wow":

Me in Sec 1. I look different now right, right?! I think I do. YAY FOR ME.

TAEYANG'S LATEST MV! EEE!

OH MY GEE! SO EXCITED!

So this is Taeyang's (the love of my life) latest music video from his new solo album, Wedding Dress. The preview for this was in the back part of his last video that I posted up here, and honestly I wasn't expecting much for it. I mean, a song entitled "Wedding Dress"? So not my thing, really.

But Yitong (the allkpop.com stalker) showed me the video this morning and I LLLLOVE it. This is probably Taeyang's best video so far, the direction is gold, the song is lovely (LOVE the way they incorporated the wedding march) and Taeyang just looks nbhjfdshvdcvdgdfv fantastic. And the whole "girl he loves is marrying someone else" story? Weep-ers! Heartbroken Taeyang, MY HEART BLEEDS FOR YOU!

I know it's just a staged story, but why would anyone choose the other guy over Taeyang? He looks like such a douche. Then again, his ring had 3 diamonds. But then again, Taeyang looks so freaking good in a vest it's like no one else in the world could wear the same vest and achieve that level of Awesome.

Haha when Yitong told me about how good he looked wearing a vest, the first thing that came out of my mouth was "Ooh, was there anything under the vest?". I am ashamed of my perv-nosity.

Worried About Prom

Hey! It is not frivolous okay!

For starters, will not be adhering to the Harry Potter theme at all (Okay, maybe I'll wear my pig necklace. Hogwarts, get it? Hur hur.) despite previous plans and wanting pretty badly to do so. Apparently everyone's going to be ignoring the theme (NO FUN), so efforts to dress up as cutesy-ass witch in black and white striped leggings & mini witch hat/Durmstrang student in fur/dementor with hooded cape to match my dress as intended would pretty much end up in me looking like an ass.

Was also planning to bring a broomstick, for photo-taking and lame joke-cracking. "Did you guys come here together?" "No, I came here on my broomstick, duh." But I thought about it, and nah, not worth the trouble. And if you don't know that my rule of thumb for doing things in life is "As long as I don't trouble myself", then obviously, you're not paying attention. The broomstick would probably snag my stockings, poke everyone in the cab and I would have to carry that in addition to my purse? Talk about hard.

Also, I will be severely under-dressed. I mean, my dress is from M)phosis, haha, I think that statement pretty much sums it up. I have this ominous feeling that I will look like a tard in my dress, being surrounded by Glam-azons. And with my doughy arms, no amount of last minute push-ups will ever make it acceptable for me to wear a sleeveless dress. Also wanted to wear my Swarovski-blinged-out Toy Watch watch with the dollar sign on it (hilarious) in a desperate attempt to glam-up my outfit, but it completely doesn't match my outfit, plus the safe it's in is spoilt anyway, fantastic.

Oh well, prom is this coming Monday, so there's nothing I can do now. But still, prom! Can't wait :D