Excuses and Penang.

YES i have plenty, for not blogging awhile.

Pfft, as if there's people who read my blog!

And my most valid reason is because of my midterm exams!

It's not me! My parents restricted my computer usage to only during night time and on weekends or holidays. -__- which literally equals to zero computer time. Cause at night i'll prolly be busy doing my work or sleeping early due to tiredness. Weekends? Meh! I'll use them to relax instead, and probably do my tuition work.

LOL i sound like a nerd. But truth is, my time is fully occupied and i barely have time to breathe.

But since it's the holidays nao! Two weeks in fact! And with one week gone doing pretty much nothing but slacking (and my Penang trip!), i plan to fully use my other week doing some productive things! Like maybe study for real? I'm quite sure my midterm results will be pretty much fucked up so i guess i'll be (sorta) ready for all the shit results being thrown on my face woohoo. -.-

That aside, i have plenty of things that i have listed to blog about, for instance:

- C2AGE. (OH GAWD backlog. :/)
- Cheapo make up haul.
- Not so cheapo make up haul.
- Cafe review. (Yaaaay!)
- AFAMY cosplay plan. (OH SHIT AFAMY!)
- Prolly some WIPs post about some props and accessories.(SHIT HAVEN'T START.)

Hmm guess that's all! Now onto my short and simple Penang trip!

So dad decided to go on a short 3 days 2 nights trip to Penang or Pulau Pinang. Since us being fail and unpatriotic Malaysians have NEVER EVER been there. (well actually only my sis and i, dad and mom went there before but they pretty much forgot everything so yeah, fail too. :P )

The ride from KL to Penang took around 3 hours, surprisingly short cause i've heard most people taking about 5 hours to reach. And maybe because we only stopped for toilet break once for only like 15 minutes lol. When we reached and drove across the Penang bridge from the mainland to the island, sis and i was like ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the sea! Both of us loves anywhere with sea and beaches. :D

Crossing le bridge with dark clouds above us. It was about to rain heavily when i shot this.

Our hotel, Holiday Inn is located at Batu Feringghi (where the Tsunami strike. D:), which is away from the city area and nearer to the beach. Bad choice. It was blazing hot when we were there and we barely went down to the beach. Instead we went to the city area more lol.

Gosh, i guarantee you one trip to Penang can make you put on weight! All the delicious hawker food like Fried Kuey Teow, Hokkien Prawn Mee, Fried Oyster, Loh Bak, Asam Laksa etc are heavenly! We only ate hawker food and nothing else there wtf.

We also went up Bukit Bendera, where you'll have a bird's eye view of Penang!

To get up there, you'll have to ride up this scary and steep trail on a tramp wtf! D: 

 Really people mountain people sea on holidays. :O

Le tramp arrived! 

Or if you're super fit you can walk your way up! Which will take you about... FOREVER! I'm sure those people there will give up hahaha.

Bird's eye view of Penang Island and sea from Bukit Bendera.

Going downnnn. 

And we also went to Hard Rock Hotel! Which is located really near to our Hotel! Convenient max. (Y)

Lots of lots of Beatles stuff thar. And galleries of clothing and guitars used by pop idols and rock legends like the Beatles, Freddie Mercury, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers etc. 

We went there at night so not much pictures taken cause it's too dark and i suck at night time photography. :C

Kepala-kepala Beatles. :D

Ohai MJ.

And bought a Hard Rock Cafe tee shirt! After buying this, i made a life plan to travel to all countries that has Hard Rock Cafe and buy a shirt there lol.

On the last day, we visited a lot of the local Buddhist temples there. My gosh, all the building structures are damn detailed and pretty. *O* 

Ughh dunno why Blogger somehow degraded the quality of the pictures. Macam Facebook only! Oh wells. :/ 

Sis and i also went by a cafe that sells macarons and cakes in Gurney Plaza! It's so awesome that it deserves a post by itself! Will blog about it on the next post! :D 

We also passed by this super cute cafe called the Clinic Cafe! The interior was decorated with stuff that to make it look like well, a clinic! Completed with wheelchairs and syringes and nurse waitresses. *w* 

Didn't manage to try it out as we're short on time. :C

That's all for now! :D Sleeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Of presents and empty wallets.

So my birthday is in two days time! :DHad a very scrumptuous Japanese food dinner with my parents last Saturday to celebrate my birthday earlier. Dad bought me a miny sponge cheesecake from Four Seasons rather tha nthose eat-until-sien Secret Recipe cakes. No offense! :P I do love their cakes but sometimes it's nice to have a little change.

No pictures cause dad brought the camera along on his business trip. Will upload them after he comes back!

Not only that! He also bought me the most-rave-about Instax Mini 7s Polaroid camera from Fujifilm!
:D

It comes in a plastic container like this. But before that i did browse through Google and found out some do come in a paper box like this:

*Picture credits to 223ayu.blogspot.com

Dad said he bought it at a camera fair in Hong Kong from a Fujifilm booth... So oh well, guess it comes in 2 different packaging. (Though i would prefer the paper box one! <<Oh shut up!)

I initially wanted the white + blue one cause blue was my favorite color. :o

*Picture credits to hotfrog.com.my

But it was out of stock then and they were having a promotion and the only ones left were the pure white one, the brown one (ugliest imo. :P) and the white + pink one. So dad chose the pure white one over everything else. At first i was a little disappointed but now, the more i look at the pure white one, the more i love it! *w*

It came with a free camera strap, a packet of film and some manuals writen in 100000 languages LOL!

And finally a picture of my new toy! <3

Ahhhh she's so pretty! :D

Have never used in yet though. Can't seem to find the perfect moment for it. Will prolly use it at an ACG event. And maybe during prom or graduation. Ohh, how time flies! :'C
I might be getting some other stuff for my Instax too! Like a leather pouch, the rainbow colored film (So colorful! Will definitely get one!), and maybe a photo album. Goodbye money! D:

Anyways, recently, i've been browsing through Lowyat Forums a lot and found out that there are actually some pretty good deals on make up there! At the 'Stuff For Ladies' section. Have spent about RM100 of my Ang Pau money on down priced make up there! Good thing is, some items are used only a few times (and sterilised) and some even brand new! And the prices are crazily low.

Imagine this, i got my self a BRAND NEW Shu Uemura Instant Glow Make Up base for...

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RM20. OAO

Well it's the 10ml one. The retail price for the 50ml one is around RM161.80 (via SASA) so i consider this as a really good buy! Also bought a second hand Kiss Me Heavy Rotation Milky Lips lipstick for RM30. The previous owner has only swatched it once on her arm and never used it since then.

Oh yes, there are a few more but i'll only break the surprise when all the stuff arrives. :D
Sighs! It's true they say that Tauruses are 'thrifty and keeps a budget'. Which indirectly pokes us as major cheapskates HAHAHA! But i do admit i'm a cheapskate lah! Cannot help it! :P

And yesterday, i went to Watsons and saw that Silkygirl has released their new range of lip gloss! Instantly fell in love with them as the colors are so soft, nude and dollyyyyy! Tested them and swore to come back and get them soon. xD saves me money from buying the ever-expensive Candy Doll ones ohohoho! << Cheapskate syndrome.

Roasted alive!

Hmm, well not literally. But somewhat close! D:

So during the past weekend, i went for this camp organized by my school. The camp was situated at this rural-ish area with a beach nearby. I totally forgotten what's the name of the area cause it's really long! Something like Bakan Dala Seri Lelang or somewhere in between. O__O

Anyways, we had a lot of activities by the beach. And that means, a helluva time under the bright, warm sun. NOT. More like the scorching, burning sun! Since this is like a uniform body camp, it's more of a disciplined and somewhat strict camp than a calm and relaxing camp. So yeah, they even restricted time for us to bathe, eat, change clothes etc. I barely had time to apply sunblock, thus me getting really, really tanned. I was lucky to not getting sunburned cause i'm sure that hurts a lot. And i'm glad to have never experienced it yet. :o

I reached home at around 4pm on Sunday. After having a nice hot shower, unpacking and having some maggi mee, i drop dead on the bed at around 7pm. :P Making it one of my earliest bed time of all my life! (Y)

The next day at school, i got freaking lots of comment on me getting tan. Some even gave me the OAO face when i walked in class! Here are some of the annoying comments i got:

" WAHH! You got struck by lighting ah!"
" Did you like blew up the Bio lab last night?"
" OHHHH! You went sunbathing!"
" You look like a kakak. -__- "
" Did you put on the wrong foundation color?"

ETC!

Sighs.

Some close friends did cheer me up by saying stuff like "hitam manis" or "black beauty" lol. And one of them even came to a conclusion that i was really fair before, so even when i got a little tan it'll be quite obvious since others was to used to seeing me being fair. *w*

Oh, stop it you! >w<

But in reality, i did get really tanned. Comparison pics below!

Here's one with my arm. I know it's like super thick and big but anyways. The lighter part on the left is so-called my original skin color. But as i remembered, it got tanned once and just stayed like that and never got lighter.

Here comes the big diff! Darker one is my arm, lighter one is my thigh. So the skin color of my thigh is the original skin color when i was born. So fair ikr! :D I myself am shocked.

The next day, mom brought me on a shopping spree to help me get back to my original skin color. Spree includes a bottle of aloe vera gel and a shitload of masks.

This is just part of the masks i bought. Others are for whitening whereas the ones on top are like 'after sun care' masks. Now, the Garnier whitening lotion which i bought centuries ago will come to good use!