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Birthday, Steaks and Growing Up!

Sunday, 13 October 2013 | 09:13 | 0 comments

Hey.

I know it's October now and I didn't post anything on September, but it's okay.

Today my sister turned 19!! Yeay!

For the past few days, we'd walk, work or just sit and I'd suddenly say, "Look who's turning 19 tomorrow?" It was ridiculous and my sister was like, what are you doing? I was the one excited for her birthday. There was a party, actually. We planned it. But everyone was busy and they didn't come. So me, my mom and my dad celebrated for her. We just came back from dinner, actually. We went to this nice place called Teras Cafe. It's the one restaurant where you'd be willing to spend money on for a good piece of barbequed steak. They serve the best steak in Batam. Thumbs up for Teras Cafe!

We used to have steak for dinner every Sunday, at La Cruise. But they'd come out as medium-rare or rare, which my dad doesn't like. There was a time the waiter bought back my dad's steak back to the kitchen up to 3 times. Dad asked for well done. They came out medium rare. Brought it back to the kitchen. Back to the table, still medium rare. It goes back and forth 2-3 times until the waiter said dad will get a new steak, well done.

My family, we are all carnivores. We eat more meat compared to vegetables. None of us are vegetarian. 3 of us don't enjoy vegetarian. My sister does. I have no idea why. There was this time, my class went for a steamboat and bbq lunch at a buffet restaurant. Two of us were vegetarian. So they bought vegetarian meal and ate together there. I tried their sotong, it was good. But not something that can be served as squid fritters. No.

So for the past two years, my family would go to Singapore to wish my sister a happy birthday (My sister was in Singapore for almost two years, or probably more) The first year in Singapore, it was her 17th birthday. We didn't hold any party or what. It was just nice, a daughter of my mom's friend is getting married in Singapore. So my dad went as well. Mom bought a small cake and we just sat in a cafe and blew the candles. That's her sweet seventeenth.

Last year, my sister joined a musical drama called Cupid's Love. It is about Cupid, the greek god, who went to the earth and fell in love with a mortal, my sister was a nymph. The blue nymph, along with orange and green nymph was kind of Zeus' assistant. She was dancing on the centre of the stage for a few minutes on the opening. The musical drama fell right on my sister's birthday, 13th October 2012. Sweet. She had 2 birthday cakes, a big headed mickey, 2 bouquets of roses, a framed pic collage made by her group mates.

That's her group mates.

The nymphs!

And that's Zeus. Zeus was kind of narcissistic in the drama.

Opening of the drama, centre stage!

So the plan for this year's party is to bring a few of my sister's friends over and treat them to a nice seafood lunch. Go for a photo shoot in the studio, maybe a 2 hour karaoke. I'm guessing it's postponed. I don't know whether she's still going to celebrate it or not. With or without her friends coming, I bought her a present. Me and mom bought her one. She likes it a lot. I'm glad she does hahaha. It was kind of the one I wanted, but for her. So, it's a win-win solution I thought.

Growing up with my sis is quite tough, I thought. She's 3 years older than me. 2 and a half to be exact. By the time she got into middle school, I was still in the lower one. She started growing her nails real long and one day we'd fight and she'd scratch me with her long nail and make me bleed. The heck, dude? We fight a lot, but shortly after, we played as if nothing happened. My sister was the fussy one at home, which made me the good sister at home. I'm the youngest and there's only two of us. My sister would not eat the same food for 2 days straight, but I would for a whole week. No complaints. My mom can just put me to bed and I would sleep on my own. My sister needs to be taken out for a car ride around the neighborhood and after she'd sleep. See? My mom had to take care of my sis, and I'm always held by the maid. I think that's why my sis is closer to my mom? I'm not saying I'm not close to my mom. After growing up, child level, haha, my sister is still the fussy and the naughty one, but she's the smart one as well. She's so smart, at the age of 4, she can read, write, recognize numbers and colors altogether, know how to dance and sing, synchronized. And I can't :/ Soon, she got into 5th grade, and I was still in 2nd grade. We didnt play much anymore. She feels so mature back then she didnt want to play with me as I was still a kid. That was what I was referred to. A kid. So I'd spend more time on my computer and internet. And yes, I've had internet since I was in kindergarten. Lucky me!

We both grow up as two little princesses. Not literally, but treated like one. We had all the best books. Dad would go to Singapore and bring books with hard covers, which are heavy, back to Batam and have us read it. Take us to see Disney On Ice every year. How cool is that? I bet you never saw it! :P We'd go to Jakarta and Malaysia. I got my first skating shoes when I was 6, learned how to ice skate when I was 6. We were pretty much supplied with the good stuff. We had an awesome childhood. I'd download games from the internet and share it together. Back then I only know how to download the games with the 60 minutes trial. That's good enough for a 7-year-old okay? So yeah, I've played Diner Dash since I was 7 or 8. Played Sims 2 when I was 10. How awesome is that? My sister wasn't the gamer type. When I was 11, busy playing games, she was 14, which means she's in 3rd year of junior high, she would be busy preparing herself for national exam or practicing piano. My mom never really set a rule on me playing games or online. There was a period of time where I would be on the internet in my dad's office the whole day, with food, without bath. :P That's pretty much my life.

Then I got to junior high and my sis gets into high school. She gets smarter from time to time, I stayed the same. Very steady. She'd get straight As and I'm just nice on pass or sometimes failing. Teachers start complaining about how different we are and why I can't be more like her, and why a smart girl can have sister like me. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. It hurts. Every word they said hurts. All I heard was, "Why can't you be like your sister?" Then it started to change. I got top 5 ranks in class for 2 years, then dropped to F. F all the way. I don't know how I passed first year of high school. All I see was FFFFFFFFFFFFF. I got an A on a few subjects. But, so what? First year of high school is the year where you have to put your future on the line. You want to be a doctor or architect, get science class. Go to the social class and you will never be a doctor or architect. Back then I wanted to be an interior designer, but dad, mom and cc was in science class during high school, which gave me a lot of pressure. If I get into social class, everyone will start judging. You see, it's not that I don't get the lesson. When the teacher explains, I understand everything they said. How this formula works on this problem and how to solve it and what's the answer to the next one. I get it all. But on tests, I just cant write it down. I'd just forget about the formula and everything. Got my mind empty. Got fed up. Sleep during the test. :/ :/ :/ That was an experience. When I got into high school, my sis was in Singapore. So I went to a learning centre for tuition. From 6 until 9. With my friends, which made me not study cause I was spending more time talking instead of studying. Every few months my sister will come home and tutor me on Chemistry. I understand everything again. Exam? Forget it. Oh, and by the way, I got into science class. Didn't finish it. Cause that's when home schooling came.

Okay, so this is the point where I would tell about me and my sister when she went to Singapore for her studies.

My sister graduated from high school when she was 16 years and 8 months. It was on June. On September/August, she went to Singapore. It wasnt a proper study, just there studying in a christian college. Until December, she stopped and came back. March, she got into SIM and was there for 15 months. While she was away, at first I was fine with it. You know. The wardrobe is almost empty because most of her clotes are in Singapore. I have the whole room for myself. I can stack my clothes on her bed and not on the wardrobe. I was just too lazy. And can play the music as loud as I want, without anyone complaining. But then the problem came. I cant really sit for more than an hour without fighting with my mom. And I cant really approach my mom cause most of the time she doesnt agree with me. We're just two different things. We don't connect that much. Not as much as my mom and my sister did. They can sit down for hours and watch korean/singapore drama. I don't enjoy dramas. I prefer reality show. And I'm the one who takes pictures of people. I dont get a lot of picture and I dont want to be in a picture. Mom would take pictures of me all the time. Those are just the little things though. I don't know why I made a fuss about it. The connection with my sister grew better after she moved to Singapore. I don't know why. Every time I go to Singapore, she would take me to nice lunch and pay it. Woohoo! Now that's the kind of sister you would want! And every time my mom is going to Singapore. I'd chat my sister a few days before and tell her I want this, I want that, you can find it here, or here, if you can't find it, you can buy this one instead. And she got it all. I get the Teenage Magazine, nerds candy, 8days, and some other snacks that Indonesia dont have.

My sister was never really stingy. She'd get me what I want, most of the time. Every Sunday after church, I'd say I want to eat this. She would pay. I'm not doing that so she would pay, but she always pays anyway. Nyehehe. I paid also lah of course, sometimes. Then like last month, she got a shopping coupon that serves as cash worth $80. She spent $30 on me. She got me a whole set of Sarasa Pen, an authentic Rilakkuma hand fan, and a 1999 McDonald's merchandise. I don't know who's that despicable to sell a free stuff from McDonald's, even though it's ancient.

That's the perks of being the youngest child! You'll be spoiled. I was spoiled. There was once, I saw this toy in Hypermart. It was a toy coffee maker, mixer and blender. It moves like the real thing. The coffee maker, it can transport water from the coffee maker to the coffee pot. The blender blends. The mixer mixes. And dad got a ceramic cooking set to complement the 3 toys. Heaven~~~

I can be like 100% honest to my sister and not to my mom. I can tell my sister almost everything, but in the end, my mom knows almost everything as well. But it feels better to talk to my sis than to my mom. There was once I spent my hard earned $100 on one day. My sister was like saying it's normal to spent that much in one day when you're on a trip and mom would complain about it all night long. I know I was too much, but I got carried away mom. What do you want me to do?

Mom taught so much to me, to us. Saying that one day, at one point of time, we will only have each other in this earth. So we gotta treasure each other, help each other, and always love each other. My mom is scared about us getting into a fight in the future and not talk to each other. She's been telling us this since we were kids, it got stuck in my mind. My mom was right. I feel grateful she taught us that. I mean, what if what she said was all real and one day we both fight and not talk about each other. One of us gets into a trouble and the other one is not willing to help, not even stopping by to see how she's doing.

Hmm, similarities. I've been thinking about this the whole time. When we go out with mom, some would think that we are twins, some would think that I'm cc's friend cause cc looks like mom and I don't. Those who know were siblings would think that I'm the older one cause I'm bigger than my sis. Younger sis can't be bigger and taller than the older one is it? Who made that rule? Well, okay. We both like to sing. We like to solve 4 Pics 1 Word together. Do movie marathon together. She's more like the supporter. Gives me moral support and somewhat the financial supporter hahahahahahaah. No, kidding. We are like two different things when it comes to doing things. I'm more of the enjoying life kind of human and she's the hard worker. We both procrastinate though. She wants to be a doctor. I'm more on less brain work. Like baker, jewellery designer, and interior designer. Those stuffs are mostly made of inspiration. What? You get inspired when you're on the operating room. You gotta cut the swollen appendix, then it hit you, you are inspired, you want to cut it in a better looking shape so the scar looks cuter and so you cut a heart shape and cut off the swollen appendix? No you don't. When you become a doctor, you're like a computer. You are programmed. You wake up at 6, go to work at 8, all day long, you spend 10 hours on checking on what happened to your patient, coming home tired and have to do it all over again the next day. That's just so boring to me. I'd rather have myself waking up feeling happy thinking of what cake I'm going to bake or what kind of ring am I going to draw today. No heart feelings. Just saying. But you know, being a doctor is a good thing. You don't think that, in order to get the money, people gotta be sick and come to you and pay you. If that's why you want to be a doctor, you're wrong, your mind set is wrong, your purpose is totally wrong. You want money? You do business. Doctor is all about healing and helping people, not money asshole. The money is the reward for doing a good job. That's what my mom said.

Okay, okay. Last words.

I'm glad that the day arrived, my sister's birthday. I had a great dinner, a nice cake and had a fun time doing this super long post.

Growing up with my sis is fun, like 70% fun. No, 85%.

Getting to wear the same dress, picking on what to eat, procrastinating together. We should to this more! Except for the procrastinating. Cheers to a happy life, healthy life, more things to learn in the future, success in the learning centre mom just opened for you, for your plan of getting a degree next year, and so much more things I can't say. Just don't go too far, cause then, it will be hard for us to just go on a simple lunch. To another 19 years of procrastinating! Happy birthday sis.

First 100 Meters Swimming Experience

Sunday, 1 September 2013 | 08:09 | 0 comments

Hey guys

How is it going?

So last 2 weeks we all had the Ramadhan holidays and, well, my aunt's family came and we went to an island. Batam Island is connected to a total of 6 islands. So on 16th of August we went to the sixth island called Galang Baru. There are two Galangs. The first one was the refugee camp during the Vietnam War around 1950s to 1970s. The remainigs are still there. Back to the topic, we went to Galang Baru. It takes about 1 hours and 20 minutes car ride to get there. In Galang Baru there is a seafood restaurant where my big family visits like a zillion times. We almost always go there everytime our big family member is complete and the view there is really great. The surrounding is very nice. With the waves hitting the rocks, the wind softly blowing your hair, the fishing boats swaying left and right floating on the water, the water washing the sands and little crabs walking along the shore. No, I lied about the last one. And from the restaurant, there is like a "path" (I'm not sure if I can call it a path, cause it isn't) which connects the restaurant to a small place around 100 meters away from the beach. It's really plain, only covered with woods, and you can reach it by 5 minutes walking, 2 minutes running. If you want to go fishing, that's the right place. Here's a picture.

This picture was taken from the restaurant and you can see the "path" I mentioned. It's more like a board walk. Here, a clearer picture of the board walk.

(That's my uncle, btw. I took the picture from his Facebook. Thanks before, tio)

There, as you can see the boardwalk is quite narrow. But it's safe.

And now, here is what happened. I went to the end of the board walk, the fishing place, with my cousin. Just both of us. And the view was really, really pretty. From the fishing place, across you can see an island. There are a few houses there. The sand looks white and pretty. With all the palm trees and the blue clouds and the water, it looks perfect. Here, a picture.

If you can see, the one with red arrow is the board walk. The pointing blue arrow is the fishing place where my cousin and I sat. The green circle was the island I tried to take a picture of.

We were sitting there. Our feet was swaying about the water level, the winds was blowing quite hard and gave me the chills. The tide was rising, so there was small waves. My cousin said it would be nice if we can swim to the other island, but we didn't bring any extra tees and pants. I was reluctant about what she said. The water was not calm at all and I do not want to swim in that situation. But whatever, nature won.

So we were at the big brown box, the fishing place and sitting at the end of it. I tried to take a picture of the place with my phone, but I can't. All I took was this,

Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Cant take a picture of the island. So I keep on taking a step backwards, one at a time. One step. Still can't get the picture. Two steps, still can't, Three steps, still didn't get it. I keep on moving backwards. Moving, and moving, and moving till I ran out of a place to step and fell into the sea. Gosh. I was so shocked and what's worse is that I WAS STILL HOLDING MY PHONE. It broke later on, like literally. I mean, of course, it' is salt water duh.

The little waves felt way bigger. I keep on choking on salt water and I can't swim to the beach. The waves keep on pulling me back and I actually had to hang on to the wood poles that served as the foundation of the board walk. I suffered the next 100 meters. I had to swim and hug a pole. Swim again, hug the next pole. Again and again till I got 11 scratches all over my body. Don't think that just because you can swim, staying afloat is easy. On such condition, no. It is not.

No deep cuts but the one on the sole of my foot cutted quite dip into my skin. It really hurts when I walk. I didn't know what scratched it. None of the scratches bleed or what so ever. It all healed in the next two to three days. The cut on my sole is still healing, after more than 2 weeks. But I can walk normally now.

What hurts me most was my phone broke. And mom was threatening me. She said she won't buy me a new one. I know she will. Silly me cried because of that. I find it stupid now, hahahaha. And that one accident brought laugh to the big family. This is the one memory my big family won't forget.

So the plan was the repair my phone, sell it, and buy a new one. We're on step number 1 still.

That's that

I'll have to sleep soon

Tomorrow's Monday

Have a great week ahead

Ending it with a picture of me.. swimming

(I was wearing long jeans and it was heavy as hell. Halfway to the beach I was given a lifebuoy so I didn't have to struggle to stay afloat)

Kthxbye!

Let's Talk (August 2013)

Friday, 9 August 2013 | 08:39 | 0 comments

Hy :)

First of all, Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all that is celebrating.

I don't know where to start..

I've made a decision to blog every month where I'll blog about the things I like or the things I've been busy with. I'll name it Let's Talk and I'll do it monthly or maybe every two weeks. Let's hope it lasts. *fingers crossed*

Let's start with... what happened in the past few weeks. Well, I haven't painted my nails ever since my last post. I haven't studied for the past one and a half months. My mom and my sister opened a learning centre. The fasting month is over.

The main reason why I haven't been painting my nails is because my nail is short and I've been biting my nails. Old (bad) habits die hard :( I stopped biting my nails for years but in the past few months I've been biting it again. So it's always out of shape, or the length is not uniform, or it rips a little and a few more minor accidents. My nails ripped twice this week (different fingers). It didn't bleed but there's a dried blood underneath my nails. Very small, but painful.

Oh, a little info about nail care. I have this hand and nail lotion my sister bought in Singapore. It's Vaseline. I wear it every time I sit down and have nothing to do. And another hand cream is Neutrogena Hand Cream from Germany. My uncle bought for me and my sis. I also used Vaseline Petroleum Jelly. It sort of strengthens your nails (that's what I read on the Internet).

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Vaseline Petroleum Jelly (with many benefits!)

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And I buffed my nails to make it shiny. If you never try them, then you should really give it a try. You are going to fall in love with it! Trust me.

This is how mine looks like.

So you start buffing your nail from the white one, then to the pink one, flip it and buff with the other side. The white one sands(?) the rough surface of your nail. Then the pink one smoothens it. The grey one makes it shiny. But don't do too much, you'll end up having no nail.

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Okay, enough with the nails.

I love the fasting month. The people in Batam will open small counters and sell snacks, foods, drinks, tit bits, the "kampung kueh" and so on. I didn't buy any though cause there's a report saying that the seller put formalin in the food for it to last longer. I bought coconut water instead. I bought it daily, the seller knows me well now hahahaha. I asked for less ice, less sugar, more coconut meat. Jjang!

I have a little experience I want to share. So it was around 3 years ago and it was on a Saturday, I guess. It was during the fasting month. I was in the mall with my friend and we both bought ice cream from McDonald's. When we were on the escalator, the escalator going up and going down was side by side, a stranger hit the escalator handrails real hard and said "KEEP ON EATING" (-_-). Why should you do that? We weren't wrong for eating ice cream in the mall. If you can't stand eating temptation then STAY AT YOU HOUSE! Come to think about it, that guy who scold me and my friend for eating ice cream looks like my old tutor (-_-). And that accident made me really cautious about eating and drinking in public during fasting month. Every time I want to drink (during the fasting period) I'll make sure no one is looking at me drinking, then I'll drink (-_-) aih. And if you say I was the one wrong back then, screw you. It's clearly not my fault. Forget it.

So my family has been busy with this learning centre. We haven't officially opened yet but we have students signing up already. My sister and my mom is in charge of teaching and I will be on front desk duty, while studying. The decision to open was quite sudden. From the day my mom found the house (we rent the house, and yes, it's a house) till the day of soft opening was only a short 2 weeks. During that 2 weeks we were busy as hell. Everyday going out shopping, decorating the learning centre, cleaning it. Thankfully we got help from the bible college. They were in charge of cleaning. Phew. And there was a little accident. Not really accident. There was this Buddhist thing they used to worship their god left by the previous tenant. We had to remove it. And on the day we wanted to remove that thing, both of the gate locks wont open. But the thing was my mom has been going in and out of the house for the previous 5 days and the lock was perfectly fine. On that day, it won't open. We felt someone (or should I say something) was playing with us. But we managed to open the gate and took it off, thankfully. After that the house felt much better. I'm not superstitious or what, but before removing that thing, I can feel like something is watching. *shrugs* *shrugs*

This is the logo:

Christine Learning Centre

And this is the front part of the house after we decorated with some stickers:

I'm going to post a few pictures! Hehe

Recently I made a ring and earrings box. I used the Ferrero Rocher Chocolate box, sponge, and flannel sheet. I used super glue (you can use hot glue gun too) for sticking stuff together.

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And this thing right here is a phone charm I made myself. I bought the bottle in Kinokuniya. Pour baby oil up to half of the bottle. Or you can use Elmer's clear glue and put food coloring in it. Take different colors (or one uniform color) of polymer clay or modelling clay, any will do. Roll into little tiny balls. Try different colors as it will look cute. Try to match with the color of liquid your using. Put in as much as you want, but not too crowded. Then add some more oil or glue and fill it almost to the top leaving a little space behind. Then glue the cork with super glue. Glue it tightly. Then put an eyepin in. Take small chain, as showed in picture, and join the bottle with the dust plug. I'm using dust plug cause iPhone doesn't have hole for you to tie the charm. I made the dust plug myself to!

Roll a small ball of polymer clay, stick the eye pin in and bake it. After it's cold, glue the dust plug and take rhinestone of 2 sizes and glue it. Make sure it covers the polymer clay well. Then with the chain, join the bottle and the dust plug, and you're done!

This is how mine looks like:

Add extra charms if you want.

I named it Unicorn Poop. Someone else suggests Bubble Gum. Bubble Gum sounds better :p

I guess that's all from me. I'll talk to you next time :)

All photos taken with iPhone's Camera.

Sunday, 14 April 2013 | 08:04 | 0 comments

Hello all!

As I've promised you guys last time, today I'm going to blog about nail polish and nail arts.

Nail painting is something i personally enjoy doing. I can say it's a hobby. I thought of making it a profession, but it won't be easy. There are a lot of nail spa in Batam and opening a new one will not gain much income. So I'll just keep it as a hobby. I'm only 16 anyways. Maybe in the future I'll really consider it as a career. Maybe.

Well, I first had my nails decorated when I was 6 or 7. It was Chinese New Year and my mom bought nail art pens. I can say it's a pen because it isn't. It's like a tube, with a needle sticking out. And in the needle is a tube. So if you press the bottle (the bottle is soft plastic so it's squeezable), the nail polish will come out and make fat drops. It makes a small dot,but it fills the whole spot and doesn't bleed after. She would make flowers with different colors. It's always flowers because that's the easiest thing to do.

When my sister was in 7th or 8th grade (she is 3 years older than me, so at that time i was in 5th grade or something), she was the one into nail polish. But she didn't go deep into it like me. She just paints her nail with one uniform color and make it really neat and look nice.

Then! When I was in 9th grade, I was the one into it haha! I don't know why, I was just suddenly liking all this nail polish and all up til now (I'm in 12th now!). I can't really remember how it started. Maybe I was watching some nail art videos on YouTube and just fell in love with it. Just maybe. I had the basics to start with (which is base coat and top coat. And by the way, base coat is used on the first step to protect your nails so no thin layers of your nails will come off. And top coat is used after your nail polish dry to add a uniform glaze and last longer. So I suggest you invest your money in this two stuff. Especially base coat!), but I only had a white polish and it was actually starting to dry so it was kind of sticky (and if that happens, throw the whole bottle away. You can't use it again because it won't dry easily and even if it dries, it will take a whole night while youre sleeping. And when you wake up, you can see the texture of you bed sheet on your nail polish). Then I told my sis I want a black colored polish. She was really against this idea. She die die also disagree one! (She disagrees, that's all) but I bought it, still.

Then there it starts! It was my first time doing nail art and it was the splash design. It's easy! Paint a base color of your choice. Let's say I'll use white as the base color. Then choose another color, red. First step is to put a quite big drop of nail polish on your nails but make sure it won't bleed and cover your whole nail. Give space so you can drag out the nail polish. Take a toothpick and drag out the nail polish. Like the Nickelodeon logo. But not to much. 3-6 should be enough. Ending it with a small dots around it so it looks like a splattered paint. Get the idea? I'll give an example of my first one. Pardon the bad quality. My old phone didn't have an autofocus.

Okay. That's the first one. The black base was the one i bought regardless of my sister's objection hahaha.

In the last posts i posted pictures of the n art designs i made. I'm going to repost and tell a little story in every picture.

This is my second one. I used the crack polish aunt gave me. I have two colors. Red and grey. Now I hardly use them. Well, if you don't know how to use it. First paint a color for the base coat. Oh, and remember to must always always apply a good quality clear base coat first! After it dries, quickly make one thin coat of the crack polish and then just let the polish do the trick. You'll notice that the crack polish will soon shrink into a bark-like pattern. Then just apply top coat.

Moving on, my first tribal design!

I didn't liked it so i did another one.

That was during my summer break. And I was on a ferry on my way to Tanjung Pinang, alone. See how colorful and neatly done it was. I'm going to do it again soon and post it in HD quality!

This is my one and only sushi nail.

Not only sushi. You'll notice that there's onigiri and a dazzling-eyed-rossy-cheeked wasabi! I enjoyed doing this design. Regardless of the time spent to watch the tutorial video over and over and over again.

This is my first nail art with a 3D object. (Or was the first one captured, I don't know). I used a nude color for the base and it almost matches my skin color. Amazing. And if the notice, the rhinestones on my fingers was not shiny and all, it was because i had too much glue on the. It bleeded and the rhinestone was sinking in the glue, thus covering the shiny rhinestone. That's pretty much why.

My first nautical nail art! I have done three times until now. Just did a new one this afternoon. It was my first experience with a small brush. Didn't have a striper back then.

This is the one i did today. Not with a striper. Just a long, thin brush.

Nowadays I experiment on more techniques using sponges. I did ombré. I bought a lot of colored and shaped rhinestones. New glitter polishes and so far i have only three 😐. I did leopard, little green man from toy story, cupcakes, cherries, random polka dots and so on.

Maybe next time I'll post about my happy meal toys. Hmm. Maybe. Just maybe.

Okay! Signing out!

My New Blog Template

Sunday, 7 April 2013 | 00:01 | 0 comments

Hello hello. I am super elated right now 'cause as you can see, I just changed my blog to a new template and I put a lot of effort in it and now it looks incredibly awesome and I'm very satisfied with it. I got the html from Blog Skins, of course. I am not that pro as to start from scratch and come up with all this htmls.

The reason why I change to this new templates is because I realize I can't add gadgets or widgets to my previous one. Even if I can, it will look awkward and out of place and it doesn't suite the background. My background was flowery and the gadget is mostly white or black. I can't add Feedjit, Cbox, etc. And there is no comment section. And after changing to this new template, I can put all this gadgets that I like and it fits, somehow. With all this things now, I can see who viewed my blog, where they are from, and who constantly stalked my blog. Yes, Feedjit made it possible! The founder of Feedjit deserves a place in heaven. And with Cbox, I can chat with my readers and viewers, which is nice. Then I can get to know more about you!

The next thing is, you might think that no one is reading my blog. Nah, you're wrong. I am actually quite surprised to find people reading my blog. On average, I get around 100-150 people per post, for viewers and reader. There's a difference in that.

Also, if you notice, I have photos of me in my blog now, which I never put in any of my previous templates. I don't know why, I just didn't (sounds wrong :|). And all the pictures in this template belongs originally to me, yes, all of them. I made the header myself with my name on it. I downloaded the font from Dafont, called Joy Like Sunshine Through My Windowpane. There are lots of websites where you can download fonts from, such as 1001Fonts, Fawnt, FFonts, and many more.

A little fact about my blog, hahaha.

1) I started blogging in early 2011. It has been two years and I only have around 50+ posts. I'll try to write more. Hopefully, with this new template, I'll be motivated to write more.

2) I have changed at least a total number of 10 templates. I'll hang on with this one a little bit longer. The previous ones, I changed templates for fun. But nowadays, I changed because I thought my blog needs improvements, like what I did to this one. You can see the difference here:

This is the last post from my blog, with the previous template. If you notice, there is no comment section. That's what I was talking about.

3) If you notice, all the previous templates are in pink, mostly pink.

4) This is my first template with pictures of me.

That's all the facts I can remember. I hope you love the new template, which I do.

Ending it with a picture of my new iPhone case.

This is the pink version of Stitch, her name is Angel. Yes, it's a she.

Thank you for reading. I'll write about my nail polish collections for the next post :3

Tathaa!

6 months update :o

Monday, 4 March 2013 | 06:16 | 0 comments

Hey. Hello. I feel bad for not updating. So, here I am today. Umh, first of all, I missed greeting all the events since last December. Im just going to do it here, now.

Merry Christmas

to those who are celebrating

Happy New Year 2013

another year of wasted resolution list. yeah, i know.

Happy Chinese New Year

it's the snake year, and i hate snakes.

Happy Valentine's Day

how was yours? im going to tell mine later ;)

so where should i start? hmm..

I'll start with telling why I haven't been updating. There's only one reason, too lazy. Maybe you'll be like, hey, if you want your blog to be a big success, you have to keep on updating and stuff and bla bla bla. I know that already. The other me wins all the time and i left my blog on the shelf and it starts getting dusty and yeah.

Many things happened in the past 6 months, and one of them is that, I'm not attending normal regular classes in school, instead, I'm now studying at home. Home schooling. Someone told me that it's a school for abnormal or disabled child or so. No, screw you.

I'm not gonna say what happened and why I agreed to this decision, which I regret now, a bit. I'm just going to write a little bit about my home schooling thing. So what happen is, I'm studying alone at home, without a teacher, only my mom watching. I'm using a program called SOS or AOP, I don't know. It is very freaking boring, and at some point, I hate it. Of course I do. In my school, I have 27 people in my class, making noise. If I'm bored, I can just sleep in class, like literally, which is something I can't do and I miss. And talking chit-chatting with my friends in class, playing childish games together, complaining how warm the class was, getting scolded together by the teacher, surviving the horrible test. I miss them all :( Now, I have to do that all by myself. I miss my class. This class is the best class I've ever been in. I don't know how to say that. Hahaha.

Many people have been really judgemental about me doing home schooling and self-studying. Most of them are negative comments. I've got to be frank. I'm plainly annoyed. And actually, there's only ONE positive comment about this. Everyone is like, aw, you're going to be an anti-social kid, you will not talk with anyone, you will be like an autistic kid, and all sort of bad stuff. No. Oh, my God. Why can't you guys be a little bit more supportive. Some said it nicely, and some is like, I don't know, annoyingly giving me their comment about this. And only ONE people said that home schooling is good. She said, "Aww, you're going to finish school earlier. How nice. You're already a younger than me and you're going to graduate earlier". SEE?! ISN'T THAT A VERY NICE THING?! Thank you so much Martha. I just got fed up by all this judgemental comments. Even someone I don't know, my sister's friend, spit out very bad things about this. Just shut up. I got really upset.

Valentine's day. I spent it with 2 of my best friends. We went to the mall and simply play arcade games. I find it fun. I'm childish by nature. I myself don't know what is that supposed to mean :/

What else, hmm. When 2013 arrived, I was like, March is still 3 months away. A long way to go. And, BAM, it's March already. What's so special about this? It's my birthday, and I kind off hate it. I always get my hopes up on my birthday and ended up hating it myself. I always hope that every year will get better. Plain bullshit. Nothing happened. Every year is the same and I just get older and older and older and older. I'm 16 this year! I'm not excited at all. I've always wanted to be a 17, legal age, girl. Not now, not anymore. I'm a year away from getting my driving license and, I don't know what you call it, residence identification card. Then I'll be able to vote for the next president and so on. I'm a fish on the ground. I'm not excited at all. About me growing up, going to university, graduate, get a job, slowly become old. How is that or how does that sound or feel fun or pleasing or joyful. It doesn't sound fun or pleasing at all to me. Like what the 12 year olds always say, I want to grow up, I want to have money, I want to be free from school, I want to be able to spend a lot of money, I want to be independent. You kids just have to slap yourself, splash your face with a cold water, pinch your cheeks really hard til it turns purple and wake up from this stupid, disappointing dreams. I mean it. I just want to dig a hole and bury myself.

But, since it's sweet 16. I have plans for this year. I sound indecisive about this getting old thing. Huh. It's going to be a pool party. Casual outfits, no bikinis. There will be no swimming, for I will be floating balloons on the pool. BBQ. Less than 50 people. Not much though. I'm just getting excited on the decorations, which needs a lot of work. The theme will be nautical-ish. So there's going to be anchors, chains, ropes, stripes, blue, white, red. Blue and white balloons are going to float on water. One ancher will be pasted on the wall, which is going to match the invitation card, there will be this triangular cards hung on rope with a letter on each triangular card, paper chains, bubbles, musics, foods, snacks, water balloons. Towels? No.

and I have a wishlist. I don't know who's going to fulfill it, I'm just going to write it down :p

1. Cold, hard, cash. Who doesn't love it?

2. A polaroid, most likely.

3. iPhone cases.

4. Ticket to seafood lunch, nyam *burps*

5. Perfume. I'm loving Taylor Swift's Enchanted. Smells so sweet.

6. A Rilakkuma bouquet, with fake flowers.

7. Advertisement on my blog, paid ones. HAHAHA.

8. Rhinestones, from all size, all colors, and plenty of them.

9. Rilakkuma or Cinderella toys.

That's all I guess. I know I sound ridiculous, but who cares. I'm going to pray really hard for this *fingers crossed*.

That's all for this post I guess. I'll update really soon on my birthday party and stuff. Thank you for reading and for those viewing my blog even when i'm not updating it. Have a nice day.

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running man (lonning man)

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 | 03:53 | 0 comments

halloooo :) im currently at school now. computer subject and we are supposed to search for syntax codes and im done with it cause i have a blog and blog deals with html codes. so it's sort of easy.

my holiday ended two weeks ago but i was too busy, didnt have the time to blog. so there are a few things i wanna say here :) not much tho :s

so i was left by my mom and dad for two days already. my dad went to malaysia for a meet up i guess and my mom went to singapore, cause she had some things to do with my sister. and so , here i am, left alone in batam. and last night, i read something slightly scary that scared the hell out of me. i was about to sleep and i was reading a post in my big family's chatting group and my uncle posted a link. he said this is a video of a tuyul (tuyul is a spirit that obtains wealth for its human master) which is opening a safe box in pontianak. it was about 10 pm when i read that and i was scared to death. cause i was alone. so i cant sleep. and i dont know what to do. and then i decided to watch running man.

running man is a variety show based in korea and broadcasted by SBS. The members are Yoo Jae Suk (MC), Ji Suk Jin, Song Ji Hyo, Kang Gary, Gwang Soo, Kim Jong Kook, and Ha Dong Hoon (aka Haha). Song Joong Ki and Lizzy was part of the family, but both of them were busy with their careers, so they stopped D:

you can watch running man in forums for free and download it for free, too. you can watch it at EP DRAMA. there's a total of 111 subbed episodes.

Gangnam Style is very trending right now. it's a song by PSY, a south korean rapper/singer. the mind set of this dance is to dress classy and dance cheesy. it sounds good itself! and there are a lot of reactions to this video. such as the Teens React to Gangnam Style, Gangnam Style Mom, and other celebrities too. (read here!) PSY even went to The Ellen Show and taugh Britney how to dance Gangnam Style (watch here!) it seems easy but i swear, it's not easy D: and there are tutorials made too. i think this girl made the best one (part 1, part 2) there are also a lot of flash mobs done around the world.

K-pop stars took part in the MV too. There are stars such as 4 Minute's Hyuna, who actually re-released another song called Oppa Is Just My Style together with PSY and she was in the Oppa Gangnam Style MV too. Seungri and Daesung who posed as two elderlies playing chess. Yoo Jae Suk, the guy with the yellow suit, who had a dance duel with PSY in the car parking basement. Hang Min Woo, a 5 year-old kid who took part in Korea's Got Talent, the little boy who danced in the playground in the beginning of the video. No Hongchul, the guy who danced in the elevator.

that's all for today i guess. and anyway, i actually posted this blog in my school, but it failed. so i had to repost it in my house and did some editing :)

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