lol, i didn't realize that it's been so long since i last posted on here

these past 2 months:

-went to Hong Kong for 12 days during the winter break and spent a lot more money than i should have... i met up a few times with my friend who went to japan to teach and we dorked it out at the Asia Game Show as Chikusa and Ken from Reborn 8D
-got back and wasted my week off before going back to school
-this term's courses... have so much work =A=;;
-working 3 days each week and it's pretty dead during my shifts so i can sit around and study
-... I've been reading a crapload of manga lately...

... and i think that pretty much sums up the past 2 months =A=;;
i'm on my reading break right now and unfortunately, i actually need to use this break for catching up and studying OTL
except tomorrow my friend's staying over to sweatshop since we need to prepare for Sakura Con at the end of March~
ahaha... i still have 3 costumes to make and i haven't started on any of them 8D

lol, one final done, 3 to go~~
yesterday, I woke up at 3:30pm and had work from 6-10pm (it was so dead in the store and there was no wireless for some odd reason so I had nothing to do but study…)
and when I got home, I ate dinner and tried to take a nap at about 12am before cramming… but I had too much caffeine while I was at work so I only fell asleep for an hour OTL
8D after that, I madly crammed until… right before the exam at 12pm

I was so braindead by then but my friends invited me over for a takoyaki party~~
We went and bought groceries and they made takoyaki and also ones with shrimp and with cheese
*drool* it was so nice and fresh and they tasted so good (lol, since my friend used to make them at work)
=A=;; I think we bought a bit too much stuff though cuz we ended up having over 10 each… so filling….
lol, but we still ended up having dessert afterwards

ahaha… and now I think I’ll go into my long awaited coma…
thank goodness my next exam isn’t til the 10th~

=A=;; what the hell, the last time i updated this was in september...?!

ahaha.. then again, it's not like a lot of stuff happens in my life anyway OTL
my days have been filled with falling asleep in class, reading manga (... a lot of manga...), cramming (due to procrastination), work, and sweatshopping 8D

lol, on Friday night/Saturday morning, I got 3 hours of sleep cuz I was rushing to finish something for a photoshoot on Saturday afternoon
me and my friend were both stupid and didn't start working on our stuff til 2am so we were both kinda half dead when we met up
we went to the Asian Studies Centre at school and our other friend took pics for us
OTL despite wearing 3 layers, it was sooooo cold... i wore a long sleeve t-shirt + tights, a nagajuban (inner kimono), and a kimono~
hur hur hur... we did Rurouni Kenshin~
it was actually supposed to be our Hallowe'en costume and we finished most of it in October but my friend twisted her ankle and couldn't go out that week (hahaha, so I ended up sweatshopping Aegis from Persona3 in 3 school nights to join my other friend's group for Hallowe'en)

8D next costumes to sweatshop will be for Asia Game Show 2007 in Hong Kong
I'm meeting up with my friend who went Japan to teach English and we decided that we should dress from a game
lol, so we were gross fujoshi and decided that we should do Togainu no Chi (me as Akira and her as Rin)
argh... but I'll need to wait til after my finals... luckily I'll have 4 days to sweatshop before I go OTL

so what did I do during the first week of school??
I missed 2 days of class and got 2 of my wisdom teeth ripped out OTL

*rolls around on the floor* I'm not used to having 5 days of school...
T___T i miss the 4 day weekends that I had in 2nd term last year
but that's ok, I'll only have Tuesdays and Thursdays in 2nd term~
my classes this term don't seem *too* bad... some of them are kinda boring, i need to participate in one of them, and there's only 15 ppl in one of my classes (which means i can't fall asleep...), but I think I'll survive this term 8D

as for my wisdom teeth experience...
it was actually pretty good XD
I got 2 out on the same side and a filling done since my face was already numb
lol, after getting them pulled (... at 8:30am..), I walked to the grocery store and bought a bag of frozen corn kernels and held it on my face on the bus ride home to prevent it from swelling
luckily, my face didn't swell at all and it didn't hurt that much even after the numbing stuff wore off
i was even able to eat solid food for lunch and I went out for italian food at night since it was my parents' wedding anniversary (mmm.... antipasti and penne with gorgonzola cream~~)
I just have one more wisdom tooth to take out (since my body's retarded and decided to grow 3 of them... why couldn't it just not grow them at all?!) but I guess I'm not as nervous now~~

lol, so in the end, I finished the commissions on time~
8D from the Wednesday before the con until Sunday (day 3), I got 14 hours of sleep in total
it would've been so much easier if I didn't have work that week, but I felt bad since I already took so much time off from work this summer
the actual con was... boring =A=;;
but the good part was that a lot of my friends had tables in artist alley, so I hung out with them there when I wasn't out for photoshoots

as for cosplay...
I had to drop Hanakimi with Amanda cuz I had no time to sew it (ughhh... but I had *all* the materials already...)
but my schedule was...

Friday: Jilleena [Immortal Rain]; Dino [Reborn]
Saturday: Ken [Reborn]
Sunday: Matt [Digimon: Season 1]; Atobe [Prince of Tennis: Hyoutei]

lol, in the past 6 years, Jilleena was my 2nd time cosplaying as a girl XD
for Dino, my friend actually tattooed my whole left arm with Sharpies. It looked so cool, I really didn't wanna wash scrub it off that night but I had to ;____;
after the con on Saturday, I stayed over at my friend's house along with another friend... and we sweatshopped their Digimon costumes OTL
and I was stupid and forgot to bring along my blue contacts for my Digimon cos
hahaha, for Digimon, we got stopped so many times for pics since we had almost all of the characters from the first season
T____T we were too dead to sew our actual digimon though... but we'll probably make them for future photoshoots
after the Digimon meet-up/photoshoot at 12:30pm, 3 of us rushed to get changed into PoT since that meet-up was scheduled for the same time
PoT was such a last minute decision though, so I borrowed my friend's wig, Hyoutei jersey, shorts, runners, and even socks =A=;;
actually, 2 of us hadn't even decided on who should do Oshitari and Atobe.. and after my friend put on the Atobe stuff, we decided that it didn't look right so we switched at the last minute
so we had a Jirou, Oshitari, Atobe, and we found a Gakuto and dragged her to the SFU tennis courts for a photoshoot
I actually left pretty early that day cuz I was so dead... and I had to go home and change into normal clothes to go out for my sister's birthday dinner (lol, I changed back into Matt before leaving the con since it's more normal than... PoT...)

so today, a bunch of my friends went all the way to West Vancouver to visit me at work XD
hahaha, and the manager was there when they came in... but luckily, they looked normal when they came in OTL
everybody brought stuff to change into for Reborn~~~ there was Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Hibari and one of my friends didn't dress up
I couldn't sit around with them though cuz all these take-out orders came in and I was the only person working.. and then I had to clean everything since I was closing the store (luckily we close at 6pm on Sundays...)
so after I was done everything, I went to the washroom and changed into Dino... suit version~~
fufufufu~ and I had a Hibari to take lots of pics with 8D
we ended up going to Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner since we were dorks and wanted something somewhat Italian
I changed out of Dino in the washroom since my friend needed my measurements for something I'm getting commissioned... and even though I only bound my chest for a few hours, my ribs were making cracking sounds when I undid the bindings =A=;;
lol, even after changing, I kept on wearing the suit jacket since it was a bit chilly outside
and then my friends all said I looked like a host (I put on my black tux shirt I wore for work today)... so we ended up being gross and took pics around Gastown XD
good thing it was a Sunday night.. or else we would've scared more ppl with our gross fangirling~

[edit] I just realized.... that I was stupid... and didn't even take pics of the commissioins that I did =A=;; ugggghhhhhhhhh.........

*rolls around on the floor*

=A=;; omg.... 1.5 commissions left and there's only 1 full day until the con...
I should've just brought my stuff to sew at work tonight since it was so dead
on the bright side, I'm actually done my own costumes 8D
which is stupid since I should've worked on my commissions first OTL
dammit, and I have work tomorrow...
good thing I had a triple tall shot latte before leaving work tonight... and I'll probably have more espresso when I leave work tomorrow

ughhh.... I shouldn't even be on lj whining right now =____=

=A=;; crap, only 10 days until Anime Evolution...
3 commissions and 4 costumes for myself... and none of them are finished *dies*

lol, I'm so tempted to bring stuff to hand sew at work since it's so dead all the time, but when I think about it, it's so much faster to do by machine at home

( Celebration of Lights fireworks report (+ 10 pics) )

ugh.. after the sleep-over, I've gotten hooked on the Prince of Tennis musicals =A=;;
and I've been gross and have been stalking the musical actors' blogs
lol, it's such a horrible time to get hooked though cuz I've been wasting so much time on youtube watching clips... but... it's just so good XD

whee~ i just got back from Hong Kong this morning XD
some stupid girl little girl kept on kicking my chair on the plane though so I didn't get to sleep much
=A=;; I should've listend to my mom when she told me to just turn around and tell her mom to stop her

anyway...
the trip was pretty good even though it was friggen hot
we ended up going to Taiwan on a tour for 4 days and it was 36 degrees (wtf, that's almost body temperature...)
all in all, I ate too much food and spent way too much money (hahaha, on things that my mom considers useless...)
I was able to meet up with some of my friends a few times, though it was so annoying that I didn't have a cell phone to use
I was planning on buying one but didn't see one that I really wanted... so I'll probably get one when I go again in the winter 8D

sadly enough, one of my highlights of the whole trip was buying matching men's suits with my friend (lol, I think our level of freakiness has gone up another level)
when we went, the ppl asked us if we were buying them for our boyfriends or something and we answered, 'actually... they're for us XD'
they were kinda surprised but were really nice and helpful
the quality is pretty good and they were so cheap even with alterations made on the same day - $40 CAD for jacket and pants... lol we got a student discount cuz we showed them our UBC cards
hahaha, and I'm gonna wear it to my friends' photoshoot tomorrow at UBC
XD I'll be doing the suit version of Dino... and maybe Ken *dork*

ugh... and now it's time to finish my online assignment....


ps. chibizoo, I don't have work until this Friday, so phone me if you wanna go out sometime during the week~~

I'll be leaving for the airport in about 12 hours
within the next 12 hours, I must....
-finish my readings for MUSC 103 (haha, I haven't even started yet)
-do the assignment and submit it
-pack (I haven't started on this yet either...)

.. and I'm sure there's a few more things to do, but I think those 3 will take up most of the next 12 hours =A=;;
I'm gonna do my usual stay-up-all-night-so-I-can-pass-out-on-the-plane thing
8D cuz there's nothing better than closing your eyes and then opening them again to realize that you've already arrived after a 14 hour flight

haha, since I had no time to this week, my goal is to hand sew (there's no sewing machine *cry*) a full costume during my stay in HK
just watch me break down and get something commissioned though....

anyway, I better get started on reading... cuz I wanna have some spare time... to rewatch a bit of RomeoxJuliet XD

yay~~ my mom and sis got back from their 2 week Mediterranean cruise yesterday night~~
8D and they bought me a real cameo brooch by Giovanni Apa from Italy <333

ugh... i'm so tired right now...
i'm supposed to be cramming for my chem final for Friday
luckily, i can probably study for a while at work tomorrow since business is kinda slow on weekdays
haha, and i can have all the free caffeine i want when i'm working

even though I'm supposed to be studying... I'm downloading Romeo x Juliet ep 11 raw right now 8D
and I checked the screencaps and summary for it... such an awesome episode *drools*
I also downloaded the ending single by 12012 (lol, I didn't even know that they were a visual kei band, so that was a nice surprise)
omg, one of the cd scans: suits and loose ties/shirts.... 萌えええええええ~~~~~~

ahh... only 10 more days until I go to Hong Kong :3
I can't wait to see my grandma and meet up with my friends there~
=A=;; but until then... lots of cramming, working, and sweatshop-sewing (ahaha... 3 commissions *dies*)