You've been to egl.
You've posted on egl, without an onslaught of 'USE THE MEMORIES' and likewise.
You've bought a lolita mook.
You've picked a favorite brand. lol, can't choose!
You've ordered your first item.
You've worn a full outfit.
You've worn a full outfit out in public.
You've worn a full outfit and posted photos of it on the Internet.
You know what JSK, OP, and cutsew all mean.
You've bought your first brand piece.
You know your measurements. I know and then I forget. Like most numbers in my life
You know you shoe size - in American, European, and Japanese.
You know who Mr. Yan is.
You know who Mana is. (+1 points if you know his band. +2 points if you know his brand. +3 points if you know why he's featured in every GLB. I think I knew this one at one point? Bless Mana and his 'really getting a bit old for this now' self! It's amazing how many newbies don't know who he is+4 if you have a shrine to him in your closet.)
You know who Maki and Asuka are. (+2 if you've met Maki and Asuka)
You've watched Kamikaze Girls. (+1 if you know the real name of this movie. +2 if you know who wrote the book this was based on. +3 if you've also read the manga or novel. +4 if you love the author despite his criminal record).
You own a wig. (+1 if you own more than 2.)
You own a pair of falls. I'm guessing my hair combs count?
You can identify lace on the spot.
You can identify an item's brand on the spot.
You can identify the year a dress was made by a specific brand on the spot.
You can name several different dresses or prints.
You answer stock photo requests. When not being lazy, which is most the time but I have in the past XD
You mod a lolita community.
You decorate your nails. (+1 if you wear fake nails. +2 if you make fake nails.)
You own a pair of a rocking horse shoes. (+1 if you know their abbreviation.)
You've made your own rose corsage.
You've made anything out of your brand dress's waist ties.
You've made anything out of a matching eco tote. (+3 if you were the first one to do it, you think).
You know how to apply false eyelashes.
You know how to pronounce shirring. I know how to, I just choose not to!
You know how to pronounce Moi-meme-moitie, or Metamorphose tempes de fille.
You know a reliable shopping service.
You bid on Yahoo!Japan or Mbok.
You've been to a meetup.
You've planned a meetup.
You've planned a meetup with catering or more than 20 attendees.
You've met up with lolitas while on vacation to foreign or faraway locales.
You've seen a lolita fashion show.
You've seen a brand fashion show.
You've modelled in a lolita fashion show.
You've modelled in a brand lolita fashion show.
You wear bloomers.
You know how to make bloomers.
You tell other people to wear bloomers. Only after panty flash naming no names Tania and Charlotte!
You draw lolita art, write a lolita blog, or provide the community with some sort of creative services.
You've taken purikura in lolita.
You've decorated your room/house/apartment in lolita style.
You've listened to lolita music. There's such a thing?
You've learned kana. again learnt and forgot! I could read hirogana, katakana and the handful of chinese characters I know already and are the same but yeah...
You've learned enough Japanese to read a magazine.
You wear or own circle lenses.
You've been called a princess by a young child.
You've dressed up a friend.
You've convert a friend.
You've been in media (television, newspaper, magazine). (+2 points if it's Japanese media.)
You've learned a handicraft, like jewellery making, embroidery, or sewing.
You've become a lolita mentor.
You've attended lolita events at an anime or multi-genre convention.
You’ve organized or presented lolita events at a convention.
You've visited a brand shop.
You've taken a trip to Japan!
You've dressed up and gone out alone.
You're prepared for inclement or colder weather in lolita (coat, parasol, boots, gloves, other climate-specific items.)
You've learned face contouring.
You've made a lolita valentine.
You've got a lolita pen pal or online lolita friends.
You have local lolita friends.
You know how to modify clothes that don't fit you.
You know how to dress for your body type.
You've been in a street snap. Doesn't this count under 'magazine'???
You've been to multiple world locations of the same brand store (BABY Paris, BABY Tokyo, BABY San Francisco, etc.)
You've created a makeup/hair/sewing tutorial.
You've sold hand-created lolita goods.
You have your own lolita fashion line.
You've gotten a lolita haircut, style, or color.
You've mixed other street fashions with lolita.
You've thrown a lolita party/had a lolita wedding.
You've dressed your child/small children in lolita or kodona style.
You've successfully cross-dressed in lolita style at least once (boystyle for girls and girls' clothing for guys).
You've lolified or made sure all the contents of your purse are cute (wallet, lipgloss, keyring, etc.) This isn't intentional 'lolifying' more a love of pink and the kitty
You have a lolita pet (small dogs, cats, rabbits, exotic birds, fancy fish) or have dressed/accessorized your pet (bows or pet clothes). wtf?
You've dressed your significant other or dated someone who dresses in J-fashion/alternative fashion. I guess attacked with bows doesn't count as 'dressed'
You've read Alice in Wonderland. (+1 if you've seen the animated movie or other variations, +2 if you've seen more than one variation, +3 if you own more than one variation)
You've dressed as Alice or another Wonderland character in lolita style, or own Alice themed items.
You've made something from a Japanese pattern.
You've found, bought, or made lolita underwear (bras and panties).
You wear lolita daily, or have gone 7 days straight wearing only lolita.
You have lolita calling cards or business cards.
You play a lolita instrument (i.e., piano, violin, harp, French horn... well any instrument really.)
You can translate yen to your country's currency in your head. (+1 if you can convert other currencies you shop with as well. +2 if you read the news to know how the yen is doing.)
You've sold lolita clothing online (secondhand, egl_comm_sales).
Your article or entry has been put into the egl memories.
You take photos of your outfits/daily outfit photos.
You’ve posted to daily_lolita.
You own a petticoat. (+1 if you own more than one. +2 if you wear three or more at a time).
You’ve bought a lucky pack.
You keep a style diary or look-book.
You can put together an outfit made entirely from offbrand.
You’ve bought offbrand or non-Japanese brand.

Adorable Admirer (lvls 1 - 20) You've started studying or liking lolita but haven't taken that leap of faith yet. Good luck!

Resplendant Rufflebutt (lvls 21 - 40) At home within the land of the rufflebutts and spilling frills from every edge.

Victorian Maiden (lvls 41 - 60) A classy lolita of taste and experience, who knows her way around the lolita social set.

Starry Celebrity (lvls 61 - 80) On page six of the lolita world, you've risen to the ring of the upper crust.

Pretty Princess (lvls 81 - 100) Lolita royalty, truly versed in the ways of the lacey ones, the lolita princesses have achieved a special level of enlightenment.

Ultimate Lolita (Boss Fight!) (lvls 100+) Wow, you've gotten over 100 levels? You're the ultimate lolita with unlimited hitpoints. That's actually a little scary...

lawlz

So I made a music blog thing, filling it with all my musical tastes and songs I like at the time.

God, I hate the word 'blog', why do I keep using it?

Anyway, here it is :

http://sendusablindfold.blogspot.com/

I'll be updating it weekly

ALSO JESUS CHRIST THERE ARE SO MANY ULTRA CHRISTIAN BLOGS ON BLOGSPOT! (yes I am aware of the irony of part of that phrase)

Seriously! Just choose 'next blog' and like, 75~80% are about Christianity and God. I feel like I accidentally signed up to the wrong site!

Going to visit another EOY venue in the morning with Joshua tomorrow.

And somehow, we survived the maid cafe earlier this evening. Wasn't really quite what I expected; I was expecting more "pyon pyon" stuff though. Jaslyn (Joshua's friend) was there as well. Still grateful that I didn't have to "pyon" cakes though, although I did like the Neko drawing on my Omu rice.

Later headed to Fullerton with Wilson and Hao to chill out a little and do some discussion.

My Jan calendar was initially very empty, but now it's picking up a little, which is a pretty good thing. An empty calendar is not good. Let's hope it maintains this way.

Alright, probably need to rest up soon. Need to pick Joshua at 9:45 am and head over to our new potential venue.

And that's Yui in my avatar! (insert Dota BKB sound: NAH PAM SOHHHH!)

 

Daily entry from A Leaf to the Bean under the link~

Had a great lunch with Joshua yesterday; we went to eat Beach Road prawn noodles and later headed to Sim Lim to buy RAM and eat dessert. 2 GB RAM cost me $69... my MacBook now runs on 3 GB RAM. Actually 2GB is enough for Leopard OS, but Snow Leopard eats a hell of RAM due to it being a 64 bit OS.

Met up with Chris at Vivocity for some advisory and idea session, and talked so much until I was almost late for dinner at home (Ling was cooking awesome Sweet and Sour Pork). Later headed for supper at Kembangan with Yuan Kang; been a long time since we caught up.

There's something good about this 2010. I have a very, very good feeling about it.

Also, my parents bought me a very expensive gift... a new LV wallet. For those who know me, besides my car, I don't own anything expensive or branded. I use the most basic Macbook, wear normal clothes (besides ATP & BPN I don't own brands), use regular bags, wallets, camera, etc. Only my car has one of the better head units, branded speakers, Defi meters and GruppeM intake. I guess all my good stuff are in my car.

My dad and mom were saying... "son, you don't make so much money; perhaps you should change a wallet." I know it's crappy logic, but still funny nevertheless. I said it during EOY, and I'll say it again... If I were to tell my mother that I would like to be a bank robber, she'll probably say... "you'll be a very successful bank robber." My dad would probably go... "do you need money to buy a good runaway car and firearms?"

God gave me extremely good parents who wholeheartedly believe in every single thing that I do, even when it seems totally ridiculous or out of this world. Running BA and EOY were 2 of the craziest things that I have ever done in my life, but they still believe in what I believe anyway. Do you know that my mom sometimes pick Loli dress from BABY/AP's website to be sold at BA?

In anyway, we're going to maid cafe tonight.

I really hope the maids don't ask me to moe the cake or something, or ask me to do something embarrassing. Like I mentioned in Facebook... I'm the organizer of EOY, and also the founder of Black Alice. I really cannot be seen moe-ing a cake! That is so embarrassing! When I did that at @home cafe in Tokyo, my face turned red!

Entourage tonight (the crazy EOY people): Hao, Wilson, Joshua, me

Last thing... I'm heading to see a new venue with Joshua in a while's time. Let's hope it'll be a good place.

I feel like Moses sometimes... moving people into the promised land, with tons of people complaining.

Exodus, indeed.

Fun, nevertheless. Perhaps this was my calling. Glamorous as it may sometimes seem, it's filled with tears too.

Pirate win.



Anyhow, head here for more photos from Pat Lyttle (the ones of me are on page 3 of his set).

Wow you people write a lot on the internet when you don't have work/school!

( stranded in Canada adventures )

Also, Canadians are weird!

*Scone = biscuit, biscuit = cookie
*No one knows what a Christmas Pudding is 0_0 In fact, they don't use 'pudding' to mean dessert - pudding to them is like angel delight (so saying steamed pudding and watching their faces as they try to comprehend this notion is hilarious)
*Bar drinks are totally different! The hotel wouldn't let us spend our vouchers on alcohol (bastards!) and all my normal choices: lemonade and lime (they don't call sprite etc lemonade and don't have squash/cordial to put in drinks); appletiser; pineapple juice etc are unobtainable D:
* Shop people are scarily happy. Scarily so! It's like "It's okay, you really don't need to be that nice to me - are you having a breakdown? There, there it'll be okay!" *hug*
*Cider has no alcohol in it! If they say cider they mean apple juice. I don't drink much but I like the taste and I don't like being lied to with promises of 'mulled cider'. Pussies.
*Gingerbread means ginger cake. Also confusing.
*You can't say toilet. People get really shocked and embarrassed XD Come on people, even the queen says 'lavatory'
*Jellied salad. JELLIED salad. Literally what it sounds like. Eww gross wrong.
*They don't write 'cocoa solids' on the ingredients of a chocolate bar. Instead one of the ingredients of chocolate is 'chocolate' THIS MAKES NO SENSE! Also unless imported it's disgusting.

I need to update later with the loli meme everyone's doing (lolier than thou?), the wonderfulness of the the Toronto and NY lols, pictures, new skirt - Louise I want to show you, It reminds me of you!, and potential and unwanted life-choice decisions. I'll also do a day by day recount of my holidays in food since that's pretty much what it's been XD

Update: I may very well be going to Japan! Very soon! :DDDDD
Also it's 5.15 and I'm still at work! This needs to change!

Wah song (hokkien)....

My life is back to normal.

I can once again work in the mornings, meet people to eat lunch together, do suppers with friends and no more working evenings. Going to buy some stuff in a while, then heading over to meet Joshua for lunch, then go print some name cards, then go for tea with Kunming and Chris, head back for dinner, and then go meet Yuan Kang for supper.

Ah... the pleasures of life.

And..., I really, really love my job. It's tough, challenging and extremely crazy sometimes, but I constantly see whatever I envision and dream come to past. Pursuing what you love is never easy, but it is extremely rewarding.

You just... cannot give up. And what is really tough is that it constantly goes beyond reasoning.

And! I really didn't play this song on purpose. It was randomed.

SNOW!


... that is all :P

I was thinking that I wouldn't bother this year, one never ends up keeping them... but I suppose the dawn of the new year warrants some degree of optimism, however misguided. So, without further ado:

Resolutions for this year, in no particular order -
1. Work much harder at college and get at least three As. I've pretty much given up hope of getting an A in history at this point, but as long as I have three I will be more than satisfied.
2. Stop spending ridiculus amounts of money on lolita (especially stupid overpriced AP prints that all look the same) and invest in some real necessities like a nice little black dress, a laptop and an X-Box 360. ;D
3. Join the organ donors register
4. Read at least 20 books that will improve my intellect
5. Apply to university (actually do it this time, don't just talk about it)
6. Learn to cook many more delicious dishes, most importantly the perfect layered chocolate mousse recipe
7. Be kinder to other people, especially my mother
8. Stay as happy as I am now <3
9. Update this journal, and my super secret journal, more often.
10. Figure out what I actually want to do with my life

That's all. :3

Gawd this took a while, but 9-10hrs is relatively okay - just suffering from doing it all in one sitting. I won't post the final pic until I know it's ready to go out in print, hehe. I'll let you guys know where/when soon.

I've been busy / too lazy to write up LJ entries so I'm going to merge these two into one XD

Christmas 2009
I had a really nice time~~! Considering what a crap year 2009 has been, a lovely Xmas was just what I needed. Had a nice family meal on Xmas Day, and on Boxing Day we did hot pot~ ^^
I received lots of wonderful cards from friends as well as some really special presents! See photos under the cut~!

( Awesome Xmas Presents! )

New Year 2010
I'd never gone out to celebrate New Years before, so I went with Karsh and V (plus her friends Megan and Tish) to watch the fireworks at Trafalgar Square~ We were outside in the FREEZING COLD FOR HOURS~~!!!! ;___; I don't know what I was thinking, wearing a mini skirt in the unbearable cold.

So we waited, and finally 2010 was here!! Fireworks weren't so impressive, and the vast majority of the view was obscured by smoke, all travelling towards Big Ben XD
Ten minutes after midnight, it started to snow!! It was so pretty <3 Along the way the girls did some crazy fun things like having their photos taken of them wearing a policeman's helmet and sitting at the wheel of a fire engine whilst wearing a fireman's hat XDD We also like, sat in a bar and had drinks.

We were out til reeeeeeeal late. I got home at 4 in the funking morning~! That will certainly be a New Years to remember XD

I would do a review of 2009 but frankly it was sooooo depressing that I don't even want to remember it. I'm happy that 2010 is here, time to leave all the bad things from 2009 behind and move onwards and upwards! I really hope good things are waiting for me this year ^__^

YAY! I've learnt how to joinin a round!!!