I've finally uploaded all the SG photos.. it's kinda like phlogging (photo logging) so long as u view the photos chronologically.. u should get a story with the captions. PHew took such a long time to upload them all cos they were all in different folders in my comp --" And not to mention the organising such that they were chronological.. and then captioning and tagging. lots of hard work!

Anyway, this is the link... you should be able to see the photos. since i've a public profile i think.. some photos are doubled in other albums.. so i didn't tag them again. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=133324&id=590365986&l=fa823d2e19


Please check them out! (: Since i took the effort to do all that and publish heh. Added in the National Day photos too.. anyway, you readers might notice there're new ads on my blog. if any interests u at all, please help me to click on them thanks! I don't think it'll cost u any money at all. so please do! (: Also, i've a new poll up at the sidebar as well.. under nuffnang. So please feel free to give a poll response as well.. i'm very interested to know who's been reading my blog.. at least the demographics. strangers are more than welcomed to comment here too! Gonna go do some work now! :P

P.S. Please help me tell any of your friends interested in handmade jewellery to visit http://dsparkle.etsy.com (: i've only got 2 items up. tell them to "contact me" even if they don't want to buy.. at least let me have some feedback! heh Thanks!

Frills.

All you girlies who love your hair.. u gotta check this out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i31iYkQD9SI or see below.

Binosusume... she does lots of hair tutorials. Can i just say too, that her hair is lustrous and absolutely to die for?? She makes her tuts all look real easy, much of it is probably also thanks to how obedient her hair is too.. gee! I tried some out, but didn't do that great. mostly cos my hair is too layered, and i do not have the required length.. and my hair's really pretty damaged after all that straightening. i'm gonna really let it rest for now. just waiting for it to growwwwww. wanna see how it looks when it's mighty long. and also for the colours to grow out too.

anyway, i tried the corsage headband like the one above. results below.

Braid + Corsage. quite a messy one. but will do XP

As seen from a tilted front view.

Looking pretty normal just from slight right.

i tried just a couple more (including the bow in the hair) before deciding there wasn't much else I could do.. n that i really should go do other things. haha. if anything, i really wanted to do a fake bob.. didn't work out so well. gotta wait.. grow hair grow! haha.

In other news, I'm like a happy dancing bug just excitedly checking my etsy any chance I got. Happy just to see the number of views rising as of now.. altho it'd be nice if I get a msg or a purchase lol! but yea, i just started.. so I gotta remember about starting slow.. well well, had a tiring workshop in the morning, perhaps i'd go take a nap.. then do up a checklist of work to be done for the rest of the free afternoon i got today :D

Another strange observation... nobody from IFP is online today! Internet crash? They're off somewhere? hoho, more likely the first option. tata~

[Edit] Oh yea. how could i forget. it's a public holiday at home!!! Boohoo. i wish i had one too haha [/edit]

Happy Birthday Singapore!

me taking my new fb/ msn dp!

Happy National Day to all you Singaporeans out there! And Happy Birthday to my homeland... :D

So I kinda just got back about an hour ago from our own mini celebration @ La Trobe. Lucky for us Glenn ppl, the celebration was held at one of Glenn's teaching rooms! heh. So we had catering from "The Old Raffles Place," which I think, we all looked forward to just cos it's Singapore food. The selection includes: Hainanese Chicken Rice, Satay, Chap Chye, Chicken Wings, Carrot Cake, Char Kway Teow.. and drinks of teh tarik and bandung!! Dessert : Chendol! I wouldn't say the food was awesome, but hey! Not like we can find these food just about anywhere here, so it's gotta do. :P

Realised just how many Singaporeans there were attending La Trobe, considering not everyone was present tonight. Altho it's still not many compared to the likes of Melbourne Uni I believe. Were about.. 70(? seemed like less) ppl there tonight. Anyway, they didn't manage to get hold of the promised amount of goodie bags, thanks to some sponsors being weird. so we just had 20. and they were given out as lucky draw prizes, which is all very good cos we were lucky lucky! Amanda qimin and i sat together at the last row, and all 3 of us managed to get a goodie bag each! All pink ones haha. the bag looks like a crumpler but can be turned into a tote. It's pretty cool! And i love the heart shaped torches this year!! Only downside was we didn't have the appropriate batteries for it so we didn't light them up. The drums were cute with little "mr beans" as drumsticks. I got pocket tissue! major happiness lol, they don't exist here! Got gummies from the natural confectionery as well.. and a book of vouchers.. which we can't use cos we're here lol! Anyone wants? I can mail it back for u!! :P not too bad vouchers really. Oh yea, we had the temp tattoos too, haha. sponsored by eu yan sang of all companies. XP twas argued they were herbal tattoos. lol

Watched the Live Webcast. Emotional me of course had some near-tear-jerking events. But managed to hold it all back haha. My favourite part must be the pledge-taking in one voice. I imagine everyone at the parade, at home, in the malls, all over the world, all taking the pledge as one identity: Singaporean. Maan.. and the anthem playing regally after that was also nice cos we sang along. haha. Photos below!

Before the event started: Me, Amanda, Jerilyn, Qimin

Arrival of MM Lee. Feels like he's right there! lol

Look! Another Lee that does Lees proud, unlike some I know lol. kiddin.

PM Lee waving happily!

Lucky Us and our drums/drumsticks!

Oh yes! There was a section with overseas students pledging their love!! So many London, Beijing students! Berkeley also, what about us?!?! Sadness! I want!! haha. I saw several familiar faces on those I think.. couldn't catch the Berkeley people tho, it was too fast. And I thought I saw my bro on screen live at the parade! hahaha.

Another early morning tmr.. so I better get some rest now. I had some new creations yesterday/today! I posted two of them up on etsy hehe. trying etsy out. before i decide if i wanna continue on LJ.. http://dsparkle.etsy.com Any Singaporeans out there if interested, I'll sell at the same price in SGD! Just gotta pay for the shipping as well, which won't be THAT expensive, not to worry. I'm just afraid they might be overpriced to the younger crowd.. but they really took time and effort! And don't forget, they're one-off!

recurring nightmare. glad i'm awake.

phew~ thank goodness i really woke up now. haha ^^

had a really late night. and had been drinking.. in fact, i was pretty tipsy before i fell asleep in Joee's room.. some time after Jerilyn did too haha. I just rmb being woken up, seeing kerry and ana.. haha. then joee brought me back to my room. Wasn't walking v straight lol. so heavy n tired that i just went right to bed. and.. ony woke up at 1307 i think..

so my theory goes that if u had been drinking.. u'll most probably fall into really deep sleep except u r likely to have nightmares too which u can't wake up from.. haha. mine was scary specifically to myself... lol. i dreamt that HE (guy A, who'll be "he" throughout this story) got married over one weekend. and this was completely without warning to me. and yes, this HE would probably owe me an explanation if he were to get married now. So, HE gets married, and being extremely ball-less, doesn't tell me straight. HE uploads one of the wedding photos of HE and HIS wife as his profile pic on facebook! And under captions.. HE proclaims something like "Daphne Tan.. hope that you'll give your blessings to us." and some other words that are inconsequential lol. that was the general idea. i don't know. somehow i wasn't all that angry or upset in the dream, just... ridiculed. hahaa. and actually not entirely surprised. lol.

But anyway, my rational mind was thinking this HE would never do sth like that in reality of course. and in this dream, i actually "woke up from the dream" and "fell back asleep".. only to dream the same dream again! SO, that almost led me to think that i actually REALLY did wake up to find that my dream came true. hahaha. worst, there was an email in the 2nd dream on top of the 1st.. with several other happy photos and activities they did during their honeymoon or sth. HAHAHA. damn, it was bad. what amazed me really, was that i had so much time to study the faces in the photos in my dream. and the same girl's face resurfaced in my "dream in a dream" a 2nd time with vivid features! And i can still kinda rmb the girl's face even till now. whoa!

So anyways, when I actually REALLY did wake up, one of the first things i did, was to really get on facebook just to check that the abovementioned HE hasn't actually changed his profile pic haha. pretty amused right now. *shrugs*

phew~ n some vanity.

finally the week's slowing down!! i don't have to wake up early tmr or friday. thank goodness for that!! think i've been spoilt last semester.. but still, u can't blame me for dreading waking up when i can't get to sleep at night. anyways, i'm feeling a lot better. starting to catch up with stuff.. and well, there're exciting things going on to look forward to, so that's all good (: and to those concerned.. i still've some sorting out to be done with my thoughts and feelings, but mostly i'm feeling way better. thanks for all the concern ppl (:

well. my title did say "some vanity", so yea. there's gonna be some frivolous stuff here. XP

Let's start with me buying crystal flatbacks to bling up my gadgets. i knew i wanted blingbling. that's my weakness. and girlishness. and all that fluff. but i didn't want it to be TOO bling. hmm... anyway. i may decide to completely blingify it. so we'll see. here are the results below:

My SG phone.. subtle shine for front. love it! that's a mirror screen protector i have on btw.

The back.. it looks yuck here i know. but i've managed to polish it up. so it's not too bad now. i'm not a singtel user btw, starhub! haha. n did i mention this is now my trusty mp3 player too? XP

My camera before. with flash.

My camera after, without flash. just a little bit. princessy enough.

My mighty Aussie phone that didn't drown!

Theback.. and side. feel like blinging the entire surface lol!

i just love the top.. wish i bought more crystals. cos i almost ran out..

Blingbling aside, i also finished up my other craftwork today! That is to tuck in all the loose threads and excess yarns from my knitted hoodie! Also used my pink cotton yarn to weave through the diamond "cable" pattern around the rim of my hoodie. i think it needs some ironing down.. but i'm wearing it cos it's love~ glad i chose the murino wool cos it;s really keeping me warm now (: Just hope i don't get any fatter (i'm cutting down on food intake!!) cos this was made tight fitting using measurements we did.. months and months ago! haha. and i'm "featured" on Emy's blog hehe. that's my knit teacher btw.. anyway here goes a series of photos i just took!

Me in sweater, sitting on the chair.. half-blinking silly girl.

The way the hoodie sits when down..

When the hoodie's up! noticing the rim pattern already?

Me looking straight ahead.. catch a glimpse of the collar too.. ignore towel behind lol!

I stretched the pattern a little, can u see the pink yarn weaving in the pattern? :D

The same diamond pattern's actually also flanking the sides of my front pocket (seen from 1st photo), just without pink weave-ins. Will decide if i should add it some time later. How's my craft skills for ya? XP

Btw, I did bring my trinkets here... so I'm considering re-entering the shop scene again. d*sparkle's still alive, i'm just on a very extended hiatus. haha. maybe i'll make stuff and sell them singularly from now on.. we'll see!

phew lots better. rah

sorry for the previous post.. all that negativity. i'm much better.. (: and my phone works! altho a bit slow now.. and my memory from memory card.. or was it phone. wiped out! but the amazingness is that the cam seems to still be working even with a whole layer of condensation on the inner lens...

welll.. i better get off to do some more work before i head to bed..

yikes school ):

was pretty excited to be back. but now i'm piled up with work.. feeling pretty miserable indeed. slowly catching up with what i missed last week.. and trying to keep on task with the upcoming stuff this week. It's still rather a mess as to what we've to do for all the enquiries. oh gosh. why is sem 2 so much harder than sem 1. and so suddenly too!

besides that, i've also been feeling pretty down. hearing bad news from relatives... RIP yi zhang.. i can't believe how sudden this news came. and altho i gota admit i'm not that close to him, to have someone that you actually really know just pass away without warning. it's really upsetting.. and... well, it reminds me how short life is. how we can always just be taking our last breath any moment. i start to fear how it'd be when someone dear to me leaves me like that. so please... take care of yourselves please. i want u all to stay safe.

guess the above has also made me realise how lonely i am here.. somehow something just doesn't feel the same.. just.. i can't explain it. but it's just not the same. i feel very lonely. and i can't sleep even as i lie in bed everynight.. when i've to wake early the next morning. which really sucks ): i dunno what to do... sigh.

today's just not the best for me i guess. oh had our elective today. first lecture n tut. i thought it went ok. i'm not very vocal but i think i enjoyed the points raised in discussion.. felt like i'm really learning something new. things i wouldn't otherwise know, although it may seem complex sometimes. i'm doing a cinema-related elective btw.. thought it was great cos everything is discussion based. no real work. just two essays. which i suppose if we really need help, we can go find the lecturer/tutor for personal help.. yea. but, it seems amanda and qimin didn't like it. it's really not their type.. ): i've been fearing from the moment i convinced them to change elective.. that they'd hate it. i see it happening now, and not too subtly as well. and i guess the bad thing is that they'd bought the handbook and feels like they should continue with it even when they really don't.

can't say i was all fine and dandy when they exclaimed i dragged them into this. not esp from one of 'em, who said she wouldn't blame me since she agreed to it herself. guess this pissy feeling is also no thanks to the fact that my stupid water bottle decided to unscrew somehow and drowned the contents in my bag. including my handphone. WTH!!!last i checked it still worked, but now... nope. i think it's the end. will probably blowdry it later just to see if i can save it at all.. the last bid.

anyways, truly. i just feel like releasing some of this anger and sadness in me. but i dunno how and i can't. crying is just making my itchy swollen left eye worse. yea, i dunno how that happened but it's still not completely recovered. and seriously. can the floor just stop congregating in this area and just SHUT UP?! it's seriously NOT re-Oweek anymore so can u just stfu for once??