Let's do this, hobo style.

Listening: SNSD
Mood: Hap, hap happpyyyyyyy

Most of my friends have no idea, but I'm a major second hand markets enthusiast. When I was younger, I would go with my dad to the sunday markets, not missing a week, I would get whatever I want - they were usually $2 anyway. And you really get to see bizarre little things and pretty antique things too. But as I grew older, I couldn't be bothered and decided sleeping in was better than anything. Uh huh...

Then 2 days ago, my neighbours announced that they were moving overseas, and that we should feel free to go through their stuff. So..why not? One man's trash is another's treasure right?!! So I announced I would be going to have a look..my mum looked at me disgustedly and said "that's so embarrasing" which is true. But I went over, dragging my brother along. And it was.... HEAVEN.

They were obviously huge fans of arts and crafts cause they had bags and bags and bags full of fabric, buttons, beads, fabric paints and mini containers. I was so overly excited I actually bent down and rummaged through those HUGE plasticy bags. There was a nearby neighbour mowing his lawn the WHOLE time, little bastard kept staring at me, I felt my pride being stabbed, tortured but...damn, I was so happy. I had been ebay-ing fabric paints for the past week. I just watched bubzbeautys video on shirt designs and felt inspired to make some of my own - and WHAT? A whole box of fabric paints, right there, gleaming at me, screaming for me to hurry and embrace them!!!!! And what else? What does Jess love - ribbons, lace, barbie-ish stuff? They had about 50m worth of lace altogether (in 2/3m pieces), mostly white, but some red, blue and other colours too. They had a mass of different ribbons of varied fabrics and they had....a whole collection of Barbie clothes! Well not Barbie branded - but doll clothes, so cute.

These past few days, I've been getting in touch with my granny side and have been messing around with the sewing machine. (lol, weird choice of wording. Ouch.) Anyways, I now have a bunch of fabrics to play with, and so many floral ones too :D

I had to carry a huge box back to the house...thank god, my house is right next to theirs...anyways I showed my mum, my new 'treasures' and she was so impressed she went with me for another trip. She found more beads (her new hobby = jewelery making) fake flowers and little jewelery boxes. We came back happily sorting everything, then my dad got jealous and we all went again. My dad found a bunch of weird, artsy sculptures that my granny collects so he was thrilled. He also found a huge bag of fake bread...he thought it was cool and brought it back - might be useful for stage deco or something. Strange, lol. My bro got random beads and this ribbon thing he wants me to make into a bracelet for him...Mm, I just made him sound so gay, they were manly beads and ribbons...yeah.

I told my bro, "I wish everyday was like this!!" he told me it was easy - "be a hobo" Hmm....

The next day, I snuck out of the house to go to Towers where I bought O.P.I nail polish. When all your life you've been using cheap $2 Asian nail polish and you suddenly feel O.P.I on your nails, it feels like you've entered a new world. The solution is not too thick, not too thin, the brush is perfect, the application process is mess-free, clump-free and beautiful. It stays shiny and ohohoh, I'm in love. I'm obsessed with nail art & it's about time I treated myself to some decent nail polish. I then got home and my rents hadn't called me the whole day and didn't find out about me sneaking out. I cleaned my room and since months ago, it's the first time it's decently clean - no stacks of sheets, no stacks of clothes, no random mess at all. & because of our neighbour's junk in their front yard, I was able to dump everything there.

Then today, I had my last HSC exam, I printed off enough resumes to last a while, I got my reference, I finished applying for the UNSW BCOMM course and I got to eat chocolate :D I also noticed that the veges we planted have finally grown quite tall.

Tomorrow.
Oh, tomorrow
I will be. on. the. plane. to. CHINA. and. JAPAN. and. KOREA.
And at the moment there's nothing in the world that can beat this feeling; listening to SNSD, reading mylifeisaverage, blogging here, staring at my plane ticket and youtubing. Just realised how much I would love to travel. My no.1 desired job, also the 2nd best job in the world (acc. to oddee); travelling the world, experiencing luxury accommodation and dining and blogging about it. That is beyond perfection.


I feel as happy as them~!!.....hehe babylove.

I actually feel 100% happy.
Be jealous of my simple, simple life.
See ya suckerssssssssss, I'M OFF TO CONQUER ASIA!!!!!
Will be back January 13th after I've stocked up on 'em beautiful bargains.

THIS IS THE LIFE.
lovejess.
*Hopefully internet in China will let me access xanga. Bye kids :D
Btw, delayed photos of my haircut. To get a perm or not? It hasn't quite reached an ideal length. When you're in Asia, anything is possible ;) Excitementttttt.

NANANANA...Who needs chocolate? BATMAN.

Listening: Bump Bump - Boa

So the whole of this week I was being healthy and ladida, it was all lovely but today I decided I would allow myself to eat after 6pm, provided it was "healthy" = fruit.

& usually I'm not that much of a fan of chocolate, cause it's sickeningly sweet and just..not that nice, unless we're talking dark chocolate mmm : ) Anyways, I was craving chocolate since I haven't had any in ages. Then the mother comes home & what do I see? 5 MASSIVE boxes of Ferrero Rocher.


I don't care what you guys say but I practically skipped over
& what does motherdear say?

"Don't touch those, it's for our relatives."

FCK.
I want my chocolate!
We already have 80+ kgs of presents for those damn relatives, I don't have ANYTHING left and that matters cause I'm stingy and self centred. But seriously, this is getting too much. Yes, I am chucking a spaz cause I don't get my chocolate.

So, I'm stuffing my face with bananas and mushy apples and trying to trick myself into thinking it's delicious fatty crap. & the more you can't get something, the more you want it right? Especially when it's JUST out of reach. Urgh, can't believe this. But if I do sneakily eat one, I'm pretty sure motherdear will eat me.

Anywho, today I finally got back into chinese music :D, it's been a while and I was even late on d/ling 张杰s new album, loveloverhim. & Jay's new single is quite nice too - mix of R&B and classic, awesome right?! & I discovered I don't laugh out loud very easily, especially when I know the person well...I'll give the "ha........*fade out*" and that's basically all you'll get. I don't understand when people laugh super loud for ages and sound like they're making a bloody song or something. I'm a silent laugher - no sound, just quivering of whole body and yeah, looks like I'm getting an asthma attack. Maybe I'm not entertained easily..actually I'm pretty sure I am. I laugh at lame/awkward things.

Awkward?
When someone tells you a story and expects a laugh and I can't give you one. I'm sorry, I just don't laugh. It's not that it's not funny...okay, maybe it is. But I have weird selective humour, okay?!

Say if someone told me a story
A: blablabbla
Me: Ohhh..Ha.../fade
A: yeah..haha......
/awkward
Me: that wasn't actually funny.
A: EFF YOU HAHA...
^I'm more likely to laugh at that random bit at the end than your story, stories are hardly funny, they'll be funny in my mind, but not on my face.

I also don't understand people who laugh really hard and loudly at everything.
It'll be like "hey, well the other day my friend was like - "
friend: OMG!HAHAHAA
Me thinks: *I hadn't finished*.....
Why are you laughing? Laughing is tiring, trying to give a genuine-sounding, fake laugh is really hard. Actually, most of my friends are loud laughers, howlers...hmm. I laugh easily when I'm with lots of people but not when it's just 2 or something..unless I'm happy or the friend is funny. When I say funny, I'm actually saying lame.

& I love friends who jie geng, I have no idea how to say that in English. But like, continue the joke and follow on? Like the stuff you read on MLIA, sadly, that doesn't happen in my life = my life isn't even average. Back to FML then......

Actually, MLIA makes me lol a lot.

ASIAN DRAMA. ASIAN DRAMA. ASIAN DRAMA.

Drama addict.

I've probably spent about 1/5 of my life watching Asian dramas, and I can't stop.
They are my source of happiness and entertainment when all else fails.

After having watched so many dramas, I can summarise them:

Type A: Bad boy meets good girl. (Most popular type)
By good, I'm talking naive and ridiculously innocent and stupid. She doesn't stand out, is quite pretty (except everyone in the drama calls her plain/ugly) and is known for being optimistic, supportive and stubborn. She meets this bad ass rebel rich boy who hates his parents, she 'changes' him. His housekeeper or sister is always the first to notice. The guy falls in love with her first, when both are together they have to face the troubles the evil mother of rich guy makes. This involves making financial barriers for the girl who is usually in debt cause of an annoying uncle/dad (who's passed away).

Type B: The childhood story
The story begins with 2 childhood friends, they make a promise to eachother (usually accompanied with a little gift) and somehow one kid has to go overseas. 20 years later they bump into eachother, the little gift still in perfect condition. The girl usually has a good looking guy friend who is madly in love with her and the whole world knows except her. The guy is usually filthy rich with a couple of mansions and gives out sports cars as presents and owns about 50 platinum credit cards. They go through ups & downs, can't forget each other and get together. Happy ending.

Type C: The sick kid.
This story begins with the meeting of a guy and a girl. La di da, typical romantic stuff. Then the girl gets a fatal disease, goes blind, deaf and nears death but the guy, with his overwhelming love, saves her. She miraculously becomes healthy and smile smile happy happy. Another happy ending.

Type D: Move in, who cares why or how, just move in.
This involves a guy and girl (who usually hate each other) who coincidentally or by force, have to live together. Fall in love. Happy ending. /yawn.

Type E: A mix of types A, B, C, D + a bed scene (new trend).


Sad endings include:
- The death of the girl/guy but the other will never forget them and will be single for the rest of their lives.
- Girl leaves as she doesn't wish to 'hurt' anyone.
- They all die : I've seen it twice (both Korean dramas) Please don't do it again. So lame.

*Rich guy are usually the heir of the largest company in Asia (and are unwilling to accept this), the company is so influential that one phone call can create the crash of the economy. Uhhuh. This character is interchangeable with a celebrity.

Moral of Asian dramas:
If you are a nice, generous, loving, caring, super good looking and perfect friend and boyfriend, you're never going to get the girl. However, if you're a horrible, self centered, good looking, rich guy; no matter what you do, she's gonna fall for you. If you're a girl, be incredibly clumsy, loud, annoying and unsuspecting. Oh and add on an unstable financial situation and you'll be able to get anyone you want because according to Asian dramas, the whole colony of hot, Asians guys will want to help you.  

The most ridiculous ending I've ever seen:
Typical rich boy meets good girl + Love triangle. The girl then is forced to go with nice, perfect guy. They're in bed together when rich boy appears. Nice guy goes nuts and shoots him. Girl says "I loved him more" so she is shot too. Then nice guy shoots himself. GOOD JOB. I quite liked this drama until they chucked in that shitty ending.

To the people who are overly skeptical towards Asian dramas, may I remind you, they are mostly “idol drama”s (偶像剧) they aren't meant to be about pro acting and hollywood material. It's mostly chucking in a few pretty faces, romantic scenes, lame humour and cheesy lines and WAHLAH; Asian drama, right there! If it's not your thing, don't watch it. True, sometimes they take it a bit too far and the acting is ridiculously crap (*hem* Bullfighting *hem* I do? *hem* anything with Hey girls & Lollipop) but Asia's entertainment industry is obviously proving that it's an idea worth selling since it's all the younger generation will watch nowadays.

I watch them for the faces and cause they're relaxing to watch -  you don't have to think. Hah. Actually, I sound like a hater...even though I'm a hardcore fanatic. Strange, strange. & now I am off for some daydreaming to Owl city songs. Damn addicted :D Oh....

          

  

          

   

  

      

              

          

    

  

      

           

        

Nov. update.

Haven't blogged in a while.

Yesterday, met up with Lucius dear at Parra in search of new clothes.
11-5PM We did not eat a thing and didn't even get to drink until 4:30PM.
Dress code for the day was mature ;) Inside Bardot change rooms - they have really cool light frames on the mirrors which reflect in your eyes = shiny eyes! We had a very girly day shopping for clothes and such. Lucius tried on about 50 billion tops/dresses etc. Burnnnnnnn those calories ;];] Gosh, we are majorly yellow in these photos...

I look like an office lady!

 

All about fakes.

The Chinese & their fakes.

Adifas.

D&C

Nire
Penasonic

Fuma

Happy Kitty
Coverse

These are brands that I see all the time...

So, everyone who knows me, knows that I am a brand whore but they also probably know I am a hobo who constantly has about 15c in my wallet. But I love that Chanel bag and that Gucci wallet................hmm. Speaking of hobos and brands; to see hobos with LV bags on the streets is completely normal in China. :D

Yes, I support fakes. Okay, say if the fakes weren't as a result of illegal child labour or something, then what's wrong with imitations? They do seem lame and cheap, but what's wrong with carrying the design of something you like but at 1/100th of the price. Many people like particular products of a brand for the sake of the brand, though I feel this is stupid, I am guilty of it too. People argue that buying fakes is only for the sake of the brand - WRONG! It's cause we like the design made by a brand that is out of budget range. My way of justifying myself is to reason that such companies like LV & Chanel jack up the prices so ridiculously anyway...They receive well enough turnover/profits. I'm just taking a little back.  Of course, it's unfair to the designers and so on, but to be honest, I don't care.

I want my pretty, materialistic goodies and I can buy them for a cheap price. Why not?

Plus, according to pomo, nothing is original. The designers probably got the ideas off eachother anyway. Who's to say the idea didn't originate from the manufacturer of the imitation copies??????? Kay, a bit far fetched...

There are still plenty of people who feel the need to buy the genuine branded products, people who have that level of financial ability. They can keep feeding those funds to LV and for those of us who can't, off to CHINA!!! What is the point of having a real one anyway? Just so that you can point at it "this is real, it cost me $4000 and it looks the same as your $40 one" Main advantage is quality but the A graded fakes in China use the same materials as originals, so...?

Faking intellectual property is cruel. I'm guilty of buying pirated movies/dramas and CDs...

I know fakes have gotten a bit out of hand and for those of you who are all ANTI-FAKE, I'd like to ask if you've downloaded a song before? YES, you have? Amounts to the same thing.

Well I guess my point is, I LOVE FAKES.

I think they're brilliant. Who cares if it's real? It's not about the brand, it's about the design.

Also, I'm a cheap, stingy Asian (& proud). One of my main goals in life: Save money. That's the way to live, kids!

The end.
P.S I have a new respect for Pixar.

Remember when I was rambling on about how I wanted to watch 'UP'?

I did.

& I L-O-V-E-D it!

It was sososososo lovable Cried 4 times. Yes. IT BEAT 'FINDING NEMO'.

And it's not even quiet sobbing, it's tearing like mad and forcing yourself not to wail. The movie is so cute and c'mon, a house that flies using balloons?! I'M BUYING IT. I want to go watch it again in 3D. On the bus I smiled so happily at every old man and thought to myself "oh, I know what you did for Allie! You cute, little couple!!!". Hahaha Kay creepy old people lover.

Anyways I'm off.

Btw I have 2 movie coupons, anyone free tomorrow?
Mao's last dancer

byejess.