Farewell Laura! (+ super long post!!)

A poddie friend is going off to France to teach! She's flying off on Thursday and spending 4 days in Singapore before flying to Europe. She'll be back in a year to continue her studies. So Michael was being a dear and organised this surprise farewell for her! (: So off we went to the city last Saturday.. (Met up with Victor from shoppingnspree too to collect my new lenses. lol. I couldn't resist their August promo, so sue me!! Bought a new pair of brown lenses cos my honey wings seem to be annoying my eyes.. and I bought Angel blues too. hehe)

So we reached Melbourne Central earlier since I was meeting Victor. After that, we went to Harajuku crepes! YUMMYstuff! I heard Mandy and Min raving about it for so long, and now i've been there! Mandy had ham, cheese and mushroom crepe and min had curry chicken crepe. I took a sweet one: Strawberry Cheesecake Crepe!

Strawberry, Blueberry Jam, Cream, and a slice of cheesecake. All wrapped up. Yummo?

We tried to look for pants and shoes for our clinical observations.. to no avail! Seriously, Big W doesn't carry clothes in my size at all. First time I feel discriminated lol! And the shoes were not cheap, yet ugly, and poor quality ): Sooo. might just end up looking at Kmart or Target..

Then after at 7, we met up with Michael.. Majority of us arrived before Laura so that was good (: She was truly surprised! Heh. Met new ppl there, like Thuan from physio. Talked to Jason and his gf. Mitch and Joseph came again, altho we didn't really talk. Also Wendy and Kate (Laura's friends whom we met on separate occasions) Then we trotted to Oriental Spoon! My fav korean restaurant seriously!! haha. Michael had cake refrigerated there already. Sweet!

Michael, Laura, Kate!

The O sam bulgogi I had (Pork belly, beef?, squid "bbq" with tofu, veggies and kimchi sauce!) Shared with Thuan. (:

Min and Mandy shared this beef hotpot thing. Sweett soup. v nice!

Green tea in a very unique "goblet"

yummy cake! (Jason n Pat came for this I hear. lol!)

Then off to Lion Pub we went. The bunch had a couple of beer jugs. Didn't really drink. Decided I shld swear off beer for a bit.. beer belly NOOOO!  Haha.

A quaint little place.

Then we went to Match, which was pretty crowded.

The view from the outdoors area. Melbourne Central.

The state library.

The girls!

The La Trobies! :P

We were supposed to head off to a strip club after, but it was getting a little late. Just thinking abt the safety of going home, imposing on Wendy if she brought us home. And the entrance fees.. Hmm, nah i'm not that curious really! It's probably just u know. naked girls. Not like I get to see something extremely speciall..

Hyak. Im not sure if they did go to the strip club after all. I saw photos of tequila shots and cigar chewing tho! Oh yeaa. haha Laura's really going wild before France-ing eh? :P Have a good trip babe!

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I think I mentioned the static problems we're having and how we get mini electric shocks with the door handles. I created these! And have ENDEARINGLY named them door condoms.lol!

Mandy's blue condom. I kid u not! it looks like one right?

Qimin's "slytherin" condom. Messy Yarn to work wth. Varying thickness and with silver threads.

My very own! :D

In other knitty stories, I learnt how to do cable pattern!! i learnt on youtube. WHEE~ I think I rock! I'm now doing a long strip, hoping to do a tote bag ;) yayness!

awesomee!! tell me ur impressed. lol.

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Camwhore beware!

So, my fringe has been growing real long.. i've trimmed it once. but it's getting long yet again! and the rebonded area of my hair is slowly growing out quickly. so it's getting poofy and odd.

): (don't burst out laughing! esp u! gege.)

So now i've resorted to pinning my hair with my ribbon hairpin indoors haha.

So the hair's slowly going to a side parting route..

Yep, but I hope it's interchangeable. That's really the best case scenario :P

Ok! enough of me XP

Check out my new review of a Japanese apparel brand (: http://zitch-that.blogspot.com/

night~

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!