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I would say that I'm kind of obsessed with the whole "long 'n lean" bottom half look (not the twiggy look)... not just for me, but for everyone that I see.. especially in the winter.
Take this girl -- she's a perfect example of someone who can look short and stumpy but so tall and lean the next day.
Here is her "tall and lean" look - don't her legs look so slim?
(uh.. short much? gosh.. and then you see that a few days before, she wore the same outfit with a skirt and the cardi looks so short too lol)
But suddenly, she as thunder thighs.. or, just so disproportionate from her top half 'cause it's a lighter colour that it looks that big. I'm not against colourful bottoms, but in this case, I would carry the colour all the way down to her ankles and wear a heel 'cause the gray is like a thigh highlighter.. and hers aren't even that big.. but it looks so in this picture.
+ 50
And for this next picture, I was thinking, is it because of the angle of the picture?? How else could she have gained so much weight in the next picture? It probably is, partly, but I've decided it's more because of what she is wearing....
(I do like the top half of this next outfit).. I think she'd look a lot slimmer if she wore heels with this outfit.Anyway, not hating or anything. Maybe I'm crazy for noticing these insignificant things but that's what I notice on the streets. I like her and I kinda love some of her outfits (like the ones below) and she looks quite beautiful when she does profesh modelling and i'm super jealous of her full bangs - and I think it's so awesome possum that she's only 17 and just started outfit-blogging, but man can she gain and lose picture weight fast! ahha and if you think I'm the queen of neutral colours, i'm only a princess compared to her! She is the royal queen the first lol 'cause except for a couple accessories and that yellow moo-moo above, everything she owns is either black, white, or a shade of gray.
Anyway, waiting to see what Zipia will come out with tonight - 1 more hour!

Pump It Up... for Xmas!

I'm done all lectures for this semester SO SO SO SO SO SO HAPPY!!!!! Give me the text, material, notes, info, and get me to take the exams and write the papers but don't make me go to lecture! Worked really well last night until 4AM to finish off the powerpoint for today's solo presentation. Don't know how well I did, but I did my best (I actually did) and, if what I had was what she was looking for, then I think I did pretty well.

Work tonight, lotsa big tables on reservation, gonna work w/ awesome team. I'm server 1, happy happy happy. I hope to serve a table of Angus Beef tonight! We just introduced it this week - priced quite a bit higher than regular beef though so it's hard to sell, especially for those people who come to Posh for its value.

Even though I did a Zipia order just last week, I still check Zipia every weekday after 7PM 'cause that's when the new stuff comes out. Yesterday, they came out with BUNNY HILL CLOTHES and they're SO NICE and CUTE! Since when did bulky snow clothes look so cute?
I guess I'm more excited 'cause I actually need a new snowjacket this year... I've had the same one since Gr 10.. 8 years! That's pretty good. But it's so boring and I blend in with the snow... especially with my black pants. Anyway, clothes to snowboard in is probably the one exception where it's expected that you look fat, baggy, and puffy so might as well wear bright colours!

Angora hair band thingy I love it - it's so 70's/80's (my mom had some)!
AOIFHAFJALKSJFSLF WEOIFJ WFIJFJ I'm so sad!! The pink snowboard pants (above, they have both subtle stripes and the pixel squares on them) are ALREADY sold out and they just put it in stock yesterday!!! They must have had some low quantities or everybody rushed to buy them 'cause it already made up half of the $300 order limit. GAHHH

IJLFJJFLSIFJSDLFHSDLFNDLFDLFID Another disappointment!! The yellow ski jacket I absolutely ADORED last night is also gone! It's not even in the out of stock list... what happened to it?!
You can't really tell, but it has super fat (like probably 5 inches), subtle vertical stripes all over.
SAD!

I mean, I wasn't going to wear them together.. I wanted to choose either or... more into the hot pink pants! Can't miss me now! I was thinking a green (can't decide which shade yet) coat w/ pink bottoms lol.. these colours are so Eastery.

I even like their bright "seasons pass" bag tag
Trend alert: These colourful puffers are coming back in style! I've seen it around Soompi on an Ulzzang.. can't remember. I realize I don't really look at the face of the person wearing the outfit often unless they're good looking.
oh found the other bright coat - on ulzzang Mikki

I WANT HER SHOES! They are so me!

I Just Need To...

Wooooohoooo I exceeded my "goal" and pretty much wrote all of my powerpoint! I just need to incorporate what we learned in class into my powerpoint and I just need to make it all nice and fancy and I just need to decide what I'm going to say compared to what I'm going to leave in and I just need to find out if I have waaay too much info (well, I know I do..) gotta condense superbly! I'm so glad I chose to do this topic after changing topics like 4 times. So much info and it's interesting! Policy implementation to manage air pollution during the Beijing Olympics 2008. China is getting smarter. This makes me glad.

Starting to see that I blog excessively to procrastinate... way too many posts in the last few days for the little amount of time I thought I had. OK it's almost 3AM and I am soooooooo awake still - I can probably stay up for another couple hours. Haven't yawned yet!! I had 5 cups of strongly steeped tea. Pretty much the equivalent to a triple shot grande vanilla latte O_O. The sides of my head are a bit sore 'cause I used this tight headband to keep my bangs off my face. The hair stylist at Chura, Mark, who I adore 'cause he's funny + we like to talk about Japanese fashion and magazines, liked my bangs long (interesting, a few stylists have told me they like my bangs longer, too) and so he didn't even trim them even though I told him I wanted to when he asked me what I wanted done! I'm so used to them short... now makes me wonder if other stylists just cut them 'cause I tell them I want to have it cut. Don't really know which looks better on me. I guess long bangs doesn't cut into my face - perhaps gives a slimmer illusion? I do think it's less childlike.

I worked for like 3.13 hours today hah - sloooow Wednesday. Wasn't really worth going, but it was a nice destressor away from this presentation/term paper. Served a table of 6 and w/ the restriction of only allowing 4 "card" transactions per table along w/ some weird ways of paying, I somehow did not get the right amount of gratuity as I should have even though they were all very generous. Sometimes it's complicated so I make up solutions in my head of how it could be better.. of course, the solutions aren't very feasible and would never be used haha... I work Wed, Fri, and Sun nights for all of December except for Dec 24th, 25th and NYE.

I've been using up this IOPE Foaming Cleanser I got free from Aritaum in Korea. I love it - it foams up soo well and luxruiously, smells fragrantly nice, and takes off everything w/out drying. Cetaphil I love too, but it just takes everything off w/out being too drying... it doesn't smell good nor does it lather either so sometimes I feel like it's not doing anything.. but when I swipe a cotton pad w/ toner all over after cleansing, no makeup comes off! So it must do its job. ANYWAY, the IOPE Cleanser is also whitening!! I haven't been doing this totally purposefully, but I've been lusting over fairer skin in the winter so that my blushes turn up nicer and stronger. But, because I only use this IOPE Cleanser on my face, only my face has gotten whiter than my neck and the rest of my skin which is WEIRD. Now what??? Guess I should stop using it.. but it's almost done and I love the feeling :)

BED TIME.

What Yellow?

I went through a quarter of the runway Spring collection from style.com (and trust me, that's a LOT!).. I was kinda late though 'cause the shows were from the end of Sept hah. Anyway, concluded that the 2 "new" colours for Spring 2010 = shades of blue (from royal blue to aqua.. not really the seafoam-blues) and neon yellow in all sorts of vividness.

I like looking at this hue? of yellow... but I can't imagine it (the colour) looking very good on many people... I think you have to be quite tanned to wear it or you'll look washed out.
This dress is from net-a-porter.... Burberry Prorsum (which, btw I LOOOOOVE their Spring collection!! LOVE LOVE LOVE! Except I don't remember seeing this dress in it. I'm indifferent about this dress.) hand-pleated silk-chiffon dress.

Anyway, the night is still early (11:30) and I have the skeleton of my powerpoint done - will finish half by tonight for sure!

Yoon Eun Hye...

I love your hair in these pictures!

I've been drinking a lot of tea recently. Straight up tea - no milk, no sugar. Coffee's strength scares me if I drink it after 4PM 'cause I really can't sleep or have that whole "light" sleep thing going on which makes me exhausted the next day. I'm not very worried about my finals because I think I have ample time to study for it though I haven't been caught up with material since the midterm.. but if the finals are anything like the midterm, then I should be fine. Just more worried about this presentation (Fri) and paper (due Mon) that's worth 50% altogether for my China class. I'm trying this new technique that if I publicize my mini goals, maybe I'll work a tinch harder to actually get them done when I'd like them done. That having been said, I'm going to get half my powerpoint slides done by tonight and finish organizing my notes. I have work tonight though at 6.. but hopefully I'll be able to come home soon.

Currently loving: Ritter Sport Mint Choco + Cadbury DARK Fruit & Nut!
Currently wanting: Hershey Kisses in PEPPERMINT

&

CHANEL 247 "Haute Chocolat" (my Fall/Winter colour)
CHANEL 307 "Orange Fizz" (my Spring/Summer colour)
AND "Miami PEACH"!!!!

Topshop > F21

... because I found more things I would buy! The prices are quite a bit steeper, but let's just pretend and see what I would get if I won the lottery, shall we? Either way, they're things I adore :)

so sequiny!! love the shape
Another!!!! Better for layering and wearing often... need!Cropped love - also sequined
I'd wear the cropped top with something like this (this dress is from net-a-porter, though)
Just 'cause I wanted a cowl neck, long-sleeved dress and this one has a zipper
Just plain cute.
Love chains against navy!
Aaah the back is adorable! It's like a deeep U but the straps are connected horizontally by three bows!
Looked really cute on the mannequin, not really in this pic. Wonder if I'm tall enough to wear it - it's so long!
Yea yea another basic.. but the material/texture seems kinda neat for this - it has silk in it.. and I'm thinking it'll look diff on me... not maternity-like as it does in the picture. The back is a mid-back zipper.
Quite versatile! You can club in it or you can add a ton of layers under and over to make it suitable for everyday wear.
I'd order a few sizes up so that the shoulders don't look so structured... well, it looks so funny on its own but it might actually look decent when worn.
Cute and lightly puffy!
A looser one than the one I have would be nice... in white, too!
Lookin' for some great trousers
Jersey snood!
These are PJ bottoms - sooooo cute
Yea.. still need this
A necklace! Cooooooooool
Cheeky bikini short in coral!
I like this - can't decide on the colour though.
I like the pink in this one but the gold is kind of dull in the picture.
wow I think I went through their whole website in an hour!

I've been on the hunt for a black jersey maxi skirt for a while now... not a very in-trend item so it's hard to find. I can think of a few ways to wear it all year round. Difficult to come across one that's flexible enough yet doesn't flare out too much. Straight down from my hips is ideal! How would I run away from a raccoon if one becomes vicious? I'd take very short but quick steps.
Anyway, all of these items would sure make for a more fun 'n interesting wardrobe.

Fingers Moved, Brain Didn't.

I've been saving a lot of pictures lately and since I've been using all 3 computers/laptops, each machine has its own folder (actually.. all on the desktop somehow). Was hoping to start a new blog and show you all my so-called "goodies" in a neater, more exclusive way... hopefully will get a head start this Winter break. Gosh.. how busy will my Winter be! My last final is on the 15th and then I have availability for all days except Mon, Tues, and Thurs and Xmas Eve and Xmas day and NYE... wonder if I'll get a good schedule next month. On top of work, I need to start packing 'cause apparently the moving date is being pushed to end of January... plus, M is house sitting so I'll be helping with that.. plus I wanna go snowboarding and skiing at least 3 times this Winter break (well I guess I have until Feb-Marchish)... plus I want to see my cousins a bit more.. and of course friends, as usual! Oh yea - I guess I'll go get my L again... one less thing in the way of me getting my N.

And about moving, I sort of want to finish the structural components before I put in my "furniture" (haha.. I have no furniture, actually! My desk won't fit both style-wise and size-wise in my new room.. my bedside table right now is this super simple $5 white lacquered wood table that needs to go... and I might be getting a new mattress. I have no dressers at all... oh and my bookshelf also won't go style-wise.. so that's easy in a way). I want to custom-make (by myself... like me going to Rona and ordering wood and hammering them together and painting them and installing doors maybe and a light on the top shelf) a bookshelf on either side of my window.. and then I gotta find crown molding that matches what I have so far.. to hide the evidence of it not actually being a built-in..... and I also want to custom-make my own quilted headboard. Then I want to go treasure hunting for a french-style vanity and perhaps a fabulous bedside table that will add the touch of silver/gold sheen to my room... or some fancy pendant lighting... and I have ideas for some floor to ceiling drapes (subtley dramatic) that will cover a whole wall of the room - the window side... and to staple gun some trim squares and rectangles that mimic the crown molding. And accessory hunting will be so much fun 'cause I pretty much know what I want.. oh yea and I have to make a window seat cushion but I don't think I want to do the piping and all that so I might have to leave that to the professionals.. once I find the fabric. Thinking a neutral print for texture. Oh and a really fun wallpaper print for my closet would be.. well, FUN! Oh gosh.. need a full-length mirror too. And then I need to find some track lighting (Ikea will help me here) for the closet cause the 1 central lighting won't be enough light. I have a looot of junk - it'll be hard to distinguish the sentimental throwaways from the supersentimental ones... and hope things won't get lost in the move 'cause that will be terrifyingly sad. I don't like to lose things. I can't sleep if I know I've lost something.

Sort of thinking that a cute humidifier would be great for my dry dry skin (Koreans have such nice ones)... currently looking for a good winter cream.

Currently pretty addicted to karaoke... singing is so much fun, especially as a stress-reliever! No matter how bad I sing, singing on the top of your lungs is just so great (until it cracks) haha

Hoping to get one of those passport hard drives from Costco very soon and dump everything that takes up space (mainly pictures) from all the comps onto it. Maybe then I can see how fast our internet should be.

Went out for Disney on Ice today with B and D :) It was lovely! Costumes were super creative and colourful. I wish Donald Duck spoke a bit more clearly. This year, they concentrated on Cars, The Little Mermaid (my FAV!), The Lion King, and Tinkerbell. Love Minnie. Good seats, too. I think the next time I'll go is if Lilo + Stitch are performing or if my little cousins want to go... or my own children. So it might not be for a while.

School is teetering off thank goodness. Interesting content, this year, but going to class is almost equivalent to washing dishes. Hate it and won't do it if I know I can get away with it. I found a huge pile of books from over the years that were not buy-backable at the end of the year... so this year, I think I'll only get $20 for 2 books ahha! Gonna get rid of the others. Anyway, I only have 1 essay + presentation (together), 1 more discussion question assignment (easy), and 2 finals that are spread 4 days apart and then I'm DONE! This weekend is dedicated to my essay + presentation. Can't wait to graduate, Can't wait to graduate, Can't wait to graduate... 1 more semester!!

I think I've become a bit of a homebody ever since I came back from Korea! I mean, I still loooove going out and such, but not in a "let's go clubbing until 2AM this Sat" sort of out.. or even drinking much. Guess 'cause, to me, it doesn't even compare and it's quite a bit more expensive than in Korea.. and in Korea, I never wasted a day - I went out every day so compared to that, it seems as though I'm home a lot even though I only see my parents fully maybe two or three nights a week. Home is just somewhere I would rather be during the day.

Seriously have not been getting the best rest for over 2 months now. I've been sleeping very lightly and waking up at least twice everynight for no reason at all.

Reading blogs are dangerous. They test things out and then I want to try it... they wear things and I feel as though I must find it soon!

I "won" an ebay bid for Benefit's "Coralista" blush a while ago. And when it came, it was all cracked inside! Not a big deal 'cause I got it for super super cheap, but still. It's nice to have things intact. My mom said that's a sign that it's old 'cause all its moisture content has left... well ok, maybe, and also maybe 'cause it wasn't packaged properly and was thrown around a lot during shipment.. Anyway, I honestly thought that the packaging was super ugly as it came in this cardboard box.. and I have no idea what to do with the brush cause if I take away the plastic layer that separates the brush from the blush, then the brush would get super dirty. Maybe I'll just throw it away.. won't use it anyway.
** ANYWAY even though it was pretty cracked and even though I don't prefer the packaging, I love the colour! I only use a dab and it shows up so pigmentedly on my cheeks (hurray!) I mean, I'm not that dark or anything, but the NARS Orgasm blush just seems to give me a hint of pink with a lot of gold shimmer (which I like, too.. but not allllll the time).. my Shu Uemura one is peachy so it's very light and is better for a super natural look in the Spring... My Shiseido Maquillage Pink quad blush is pretty but it has fine glitter on it that I think is too much for everyday sometimes. I experimented with Jill Stuart's Powder blush and since it's in Sunny Tan, I'm using it for contouring rather than a blush. Oh but the Chanel blush is super super nice. I love it too - it's more red than coral, though, so I'm afraid to use too much. Since I think it's a waste of money to have things in super similar shades, I guess my next blush purchase will be a shade of orange! eeeehehhehe so excited. I thought I finished my makeup collection, but I guess I'll neeever be done!

Craving Chinese hotpot :D

It's my dad's birthday - Happy Birthday, Daddy!

I Tried...

So I hear that F21 is gonna have a Black Friday sale tomorrow! Unfortunately, it also seems as though F21 is churning out their "won't-sell-as-well" items aka "maybe if customers see this on sale, they will buy it 'cause it's so cheap!"(IMO, of course) cause I can hardly find anything I would buy... nonetheless, here are my top 5:

1. Metallic Drape Skirt (17.80USD)
Front
BackIs that not fantastic or what!! It'll sure emphasize the butt, but it's soo cool.

2. Chelsea Ring Set ($3.80USD)
(You don't wear it with the bow...) - quite popular in Japan...
3. Oval Rhinestone Ring ($5.80USD)
Ok.. so I couldn't even find 4 things... and to think I was going to do a top 8 initially!

Beauty Snap

I feel like I've found a treasure chest! Tons of great beauty blogs out there.

Here's a cute one *Notes from the Toothfairy* - she has a little giveaway happening with some lovely earrings and such :)

Darnit..

Paris got a new pig as a pet before me!!

Princess Pigelette..... pssh