Friday, March 12, 2010

Sakura~!

Hime Ichigo from re:alice
L-R: Jin, Reina, Suzuya, Jun, Ruka
I love their outfits. They are always so pretty.

And so over the weekend, I had a packed schedule to keep me occupied from the morning all the way to the night. On saturday, I went on a photoshoot with Chibi(Nette) and the gang. We went to Punggol Beach for the shoot. So I woke up pretty late on the day itself and was late by about and hour(Sorry to the gang). When I arrived at Punggol, it felt like a totally different country. Seriously, it is in the middle of nowhere. Houses there are sparse and there was flat grassland EVERYWHERE. Waited for the cosplayers to do their thing, basically make-up, wear wig and that kind of things. Meanwhile, chatted with Clinton about stuff while waiting. Oh yeah, Clinton was on his first cosplay photoshoot so it was a pretty new experiece for him. After the cosplayers did their thing, we set off for Punggol Beach. Took a walk to the bus stop and then waited for a bus to Punggol Beach. Punggol Beach is like some super deserted beach. Basically, the main feature is a single jetty. There is also a police station, vending machine, ice-cream man(Yes, I felt he was a landmark there) and a beach. It was a worderful place for a photoshoot personally. There were many different scenes and the sky was just very different not your usual bright blue sky. There was the beach, rocky outcrops, some undergrowth and grass patches. Therefore different pictures to play with. For this occasion, I also managed to borrow Darrell's Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 lens. The lens was wonderful. Though I was mostly shooting between f/2.2 and f/2.8, the lens still gave me an outstanding depth-of-field. The autofocus was quite good but wasn't perfect. I had a few out-of-focus shots but mostly still salvagable. I think I have fallen completely in love with fast prime lenses. They are such wonderful pieces of equipment. Anyway, I will be posting some pictures later in this post.

Today, Clinton and I went to Black-Technology at Bedok for a NERF tounament. No pictures this time because I was participating. Game style was a 3-on-3 team deathmatch. Points were counted per game won. My team consisted of Clinton, Zinv and myself. We finished 4th or 5th amongst the 7 teams with 2 wins and 4 losses. Not bad I would say since its been a long while since I last went for a war. It was pretty exciting thoughout except I wasn't very comfortable using Zinv's Raider as I was not used to the way of firing the weapon. The weather was very hot and now my skin is like red. Probably sunburnt but I had a great time so its all cool. Kenji came over to my house today to collect his bow. We sat down and talked for quite long. He was pretty interested in some of my house's random items. Especially the pogo stick(Yes, I own one). Okay, will be stopping here for now. I feel that this month will be filled with posts so stay tuned.

Shun An's Bag taken at a colour temperature of 10000K

It was a blustery day.

Staring at something.

Gift of flowers.

Into the wind.

Deep in thought.

Yakuza.

Cosplayers.

Shall I shoot?

Yes?

Depression.

Far out, far away.

The storm approaches.

A gift from me to you.

Evening stroll.

Beyond the skies.

Devious plot.

Above and beyond.

The morning after.

Brothers-in-arms.

Staring at the sun.

Happy thoughts.

Into the sky.

Black skies.

Behind the grass.

Chibi's pretty bow.

The gang.

Raindrops.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Sakura~!

ダウト(D=OUT)
L-R: Hikaru, Reika, Kouki, Minase, Ibuki
So very pretty...


I have a thing for ice princesses. Not the typical frigid bitch. Those are just plain retarded and not to mention everywhere. Real ice princesses have a certain royal aura to them. The have something special that only some people can see and appreciate. Real ice princesses do not have to be the most beautiful creatures on the exterior, what really matters is that on the inside they are not just a rock, stone or pebble but a diamond of exceeding calibre. The reason I'm writing this is because, I believe I found a ice princess. Now its a matter of whether I can melt that diamond heart and fuse it with my diamond heart to form a complete heart.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Sakura~!

Today, I went to a maid cafe for the first time in my life. It was Darrell's idea to bring me there along with Darren, Alvin, Jordan, Justin, Unker, Ken and Ken's friend. Yes, I liked it. I'm not going to deny. The place was very pink. Very, very pink. Almost as pink as my blog. Maybe even more pink... Anyway, I have to say, I absolutely adore the interior decor. Pink drapes, pink sofa, heart-shaped pink pillows, pink chairs with furry ears, optic fibre lamp(Loves it) and lots of other beautiful decor. Today, we were served by Yui-san(Maid) and Felser-san(Butler). Firstly, we were served with strawberry-flavoured water(Very nice) and a cold towel(Very nice too).


Strawberry-flavoured water.


Cold towel.


Moving on to ordering, basically, Darren and I were lured to the maid cafe because we heard there was a 1-for-1 beer promotion, which wasn't going to happen. Anyway since we were already there, we decided to just drink. The menu was very nice too. I liked it alot. It was frilly and pink! Anyway, moving back to the main story, Darrell, Darren, Unker and I decided to share a jug, which meant a mug for each of us. Alvin and Justin got Flower Sodas. Ken and Jordan got Gummy Sodas. I don't know what are Flower Sodas but from what I see, they look like carbonated water with syrup and longans(No flowers). Then there was the gummy sodas which were soda water(presumably) and a mini-cupful of gummy candies for you to throw in. Then came the beer. Felser-san came to serve the beer, unfortunately I guess she didn't have much experience, she spilt some of it. Yui-san came over to save the day!(Sounds very lame but not that I really care) Felser-san, we forgive you! We understand completely! Anyway, when we tasted the beer, we were utterly disgusted. It was sour. The worst a beer could possibly taste. Anyway, we explained that the beer tasted funny and so they told us that they would not be charging us for it. Personally, I was hoping for something more but on the bright side we didn't have to pay 39 dollars for that jug of beer. Then we decided to order something else. Darrell went with a Spicy Japanese Cola while I took a Super Enhanced Cola. To supplement the cola, we got an Elephant to share. We actually planned to order a Bird's Nest but we were informed by Felser-san that they didn't have that. Darrell then asked her what did they have and so they only thing they had was the Elephant. Spicy Japanese Cola was basically Coca-Cola with wasabi, Darrell took a sip and said it wasn't spicy enough so Felser-san added more wasabi until it suited his taste which is proabably god-like. Super Enhanced Cola was Coca-Cola with sugar solution? I'm not sure myself but it was very sweet(I liked it alot). Next was the much anticipated Elephant! Actually it was just an oriental sausage wrapped in bacon and coated with Japanese breadcrumbs. It came with 2 toothpicks in which cherry tomatoes were stuck.


Sample of one of the toothpicks.

It was actually quite nice and tasty. Sitting down for almost 2 hours took its toll and I decided to visit the loo. It was pink too. Wonderful. After finishing my business, I decided to take a souviner. Only the people who were at Akibanana know what I took. Not sharing with my readers for now. I decided not to waste the beer and chugged my mug along with Unker's. Unker had to leave early because he had reservist training. It was horrid but who wastes beer. Before we left, Jordan decided to have Yui-san feed him his matcha cheesecake(This service costs money for those who are thinking its free). We were requested to fill in a survey form and I asked if we could leave our mark in the guest book before leaving. Hope to see you soon Felser-san and Yui-san! After moving off from the cafe we visted Maxwell food centre for more food. Oyster biscuit, sweet potato pastery and so on. My final destination was Darren's house. We went to visit Darren's dog Ah De and my was he lively. he kept on licking Justin and I played with him. After that, I went home and started posting this. I'm not posting any J-Rocker's picture because I'm not using my own computer and I'm also lazy to find a nice one so I'll post one another time. I'm also suprised at the speed I'm blogging this few days...

Wilting~!

Suzuya ex.Hime Ichigo has decided to drop from the LEM. Really depressed now. I thought I would get to see him again. Hopefully he decides to change his mind and rejoin.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Sakura~!

ダウト(D=OUT) and their latest look from CARNIVAL浮世.
They look so awesome even with simple visual kei outfits.


And so today we celebrated our glorious leader's graduation from Singapore Polytechnic. Elaine and the rest of the FCC people decided to throw a 'surprise' graduation party for Darrell and the rest of the FCC seniors. Its was held at Grill@Moberly. Me, being the totally crazy nutcase, decided to walk to school, at 12noon, when the sun was oh so high up in the sky, blazing down on Earth. I hope I got tanner at least. When I got there, I went straight to JCC clubroom to drop off my stuff and things like that. Then I went to the celebration. However as it turned out, Darrell was absent from the festivities and he was only headed to the celebrations when I went for the JCC committee meeting.Fast-forwarding the meeting and rejoining the festivities, we ate alot of satay, noodles(very nice), garlic bread and all your usual barbecue food. Yummy. Anyway, I want to wish Darrell and the rest of my seniors all the best in their future endevours and come back and visit us ever so often!

Sakura~!

Hikaru from ダウト(D=OUT).
This is his newest look from CARNIVAL浮世.
He's so cute and I totally love his hair!
I can't wait to see their new promotional video because they all so cute and their new songs are awesome especially SUNRISE!

Its finally over! The exams! They are over! On that note, I want to say that I am personally over the moon. Just waiting for results on the 24th of this month. I hope I do well enough to keep my GPA above 3.5. Moving on, I hope that I can earn enough this holiday to buy my dollfie and a 50mm prime lens at least. That will probably be about $1700? Oh god, I feel so screwed now considering to add on to that I have both JCC and FCC committee work. At least I'll be kept busy this holidays. I'll also be honest with you, life without my laptop is PURE TORTURE. Its worse than the exam blues. Its horrible! Someone save me. Well, I see you all soon.

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