curing the shine

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Is there some way to cure my OVERLY oily face? I used to have combination skin with just an oily t-zone, but in recent years my whole face seems to get oily. I think it’s causing my acne/pimple problem. It started a year ago on my forehead, but recently it’s spreading to my cheek. It’s also very disgusting when I wear make-up and my face gets so shiny with oil. I try to blot as often as I can, but I don’t think it really helps much. Kinda jealous when I look at girls who put on make-up and look flawless even at the end of the day.

I’m already using a facial cleanser for oily skin so I don’t know what else I can do.

AP goodness

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Angelic Pretty goodness!

They are releasing AP Pullip, Dal, and Byul dolls. I never really like Dal or Byul coz the dolls have this weird scrunched up face, but the mini Wonder Party and Toy Parade dresses on them look too cute. I wish the Pullip was wearing a cute print dress like Yumemiru Macaron. Not that the Pullip’s dress is not nice…it’s AP for God’s sake. I’m biased when it comes to AP’s lolita clothing line simply coz their prints are nice and their dresses tend to be a little smaller which fits me perfectly.

AP is also releasing their Sweet Jam series in yukata form! I think the yellow version which Maki is wearing, looks really nice!

When the Cherry Berry Bunny series was released, I was eyeing the yellow JSK. Now, the more I look at it, it doesn’t seem to bring that much excitement anymore. But I definitely still hope to own the yellow Yumemiru Macaron JSK. 🙂

hate the B

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Forgot to report on my grades in the previous post.

ADV410 – A
ADV411 – B
JAPN202 – A+
JOUR200 – A
MS320 – A

Total GPA = 3.82
Cumulative GPA = 3.73

I HATE THE B. I thought the extra credit would have helped, but it turned out that I had been mistaken. Extra credit is 5 points to the exam and not 5% to the overall grade. 🙁 Our (pain in the ass) project got A-.

Deary says my cumulative GPA earns me magna cum laude. Whatever that is. Sounds like the ice-cream…Magnum. HAHAHA. Haiz…still far from the dream GPA 4.0.

And maybe I should try to be a James Scholar afterall. Then I can get an extra tassel on my gown when I graduate and I don’t have to tag the photo as “chao mugger, chao mugger, not chao mugger, chao mugger.” (I’m the one who’s tagged “not chao mugger“) Why? Coz the rest are all scholars. They will surely get some honors thingy or Bronze tablet or some other shit. No, no…I’m not a chao mugger. Really. *shakes head*

since coming home

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Wow, the last time I updated my blog was in April. Well, I’m now back in Singapore for the summer holiday, living my other life. I pretty much got used to the life in USA that I felt a little disoriented when I came home. The culture, environment, and mannerism of people are all different.

Backtracking a little…the last few days of school in mid-May was spent finishing up projects and papers. The day before leaving Champaign, deary and I were packing up all our stuff in the apartment, moving them to my aunt’s place, and cleaning up the apartment for return. Cleaning up the apartment took longer than what we had expected. Among the Singaporeans staying in Goodwin-Stoughton, our apartment was probably the neatest and cleanest to begin with. It’s not like we held parties and trashed the place. We probably didn’t need to clean up that much, but we were afraid that Ramshaw would dump a huge cleaning bill on us. In the end, I think we returned the apartment cleaner than what was given to us when we just moved it.

Finished cleaning the apartment at midnight, that left us with only a few hours to pack our bags for home. Packing bags to go home has always been a pain for me simply coz I have too much barang. Got at least a few hours of sleep. Definitely not enough, but at least better than nothing.

We left for San Francisco. The few days there was quite an experience. We cycled twice over the Golden Gate bridge coz I was so slow that we missed the last ferry back. 😥 I got scolded a few times coz I was pretty lousy at controlling the bicycle and I had no strength to cycle uphill. The last time I cycled was probably in Secondary school and even so, I’m definitely not a good cyclist. I ended up feeling sore all over. The next day, we did a lot of walking. A LOT. I think the trip was probably the only time I ever did do that much exercise.

Now that I’m back home, I somehow feel a little disoriented. It’s like totally living another life. There’s like too much “chaos” around me that I miss the quiet life in USA. No doubt I enjoy the food here, but I definitely do not enjoy the weather. I can’t even step out for a few minutes without feeling hot and sticky all over. I NEED THE AIRCON ON 24/7!

I got internship as I planned. Not too bad, but definitely not what I had expected. Perhaps my poly internship was too slack and this is the REAL DEAL. My first day ended quite badly. Not that the people were mean and all, but I myself felt overwhelmed and wondered if I could deliver what was expected of me. I hate it when people think too highly of me. It gives me pressure to perform well and not screw up. And I AM worried about screwing up. I don’t like to shortchange people. When I work, I expect to contribute something so that the boss will think that he/she hired the right person. Thank God I had deary to cheer me up.

The thing about working is that I end up feeling so tired everyday that I don’t even have much time for leisure activities. Worse, my current workplace is far from home. I end up having to wake up at 6am everyday. Makes me miss studying. Then when I’m studying, I’ll feel like wanting to work coz then I can earn money. Yea yea…the grass is always greener on the other side.

Oh well, I’m going to make good of this internship and ask all those nagging questions I have. I don’t care if they are the simplest questions and they make me sound stupid. If I don’t ask, I’ll never learn.

My weekends are damn precious now. It’s my only time with deary since both of us are working.

fashion, lolita, culture

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So, I had a presentation on fashion and clothing for MS320: Popular Culture class which partly featured lolita fashion. For that, I wore a BTSSB Pink JSK. The first thing friends asked was what was the occasion. Do I need a reason to dress lolita? I mean, I’ve built up a wardrobe of lolita dresses, isn’t it high time I wore them?

I was kind of worried this morning when I left home coz it started to drizzle. Might I remind everyone that umbrellas do not work here. The wind is too strong and more often than not, you’ll end up with an upturned brolly. I managed to get to class dry, but 10 minutes late.

It took me 3 hours before I realised why I was getting a blister on one foot and not the other. The buckle was adjusted tighter for that foot. :sweat:

I cannot imagine how those girls tahan wearing lolita in Singapore. Today was about 16-21 degrees Celsius and I almost died. It was so hot in the classrooms. Was trying hard not to perspire, but I did. Luckily I did not wear the long-sleeved dress.

she cried rape and no one helped

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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30105703/?GT1=43001

Where is justice in this world when you need it?

Yes, she should have known better than to ride the train alone at 2am. At least get her boyfriend to wait at the station for her and call him already when she felt something was wrong.

However, to have the stupid MTA staff not do anything but just push a button…unforgivable. And the judge…speechless. I know, they must be MEN WITH THEIR STUPID EGOS. They probably thought it’s her fault because her dressing was provocative…yada yada yada. Ya, wait till it’s their daughter getting raped, I see whether they can still say the same.

saving the world with (RED)

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Quote from an 11-year-old African boy. This is what I call smart. Not even those stupid ang mohs who think they know so much about the world could beat him.

“‘We know about AIDS,’ he said, ‘much more than the uncles who are supposed to care for us and try to teach us about it. But if you don’t care about yourself,’ he went on, ‘it really doesn’t matter how much you know about HIV and AIDS, you are still going to put yourself in situations where you will probably get it.'”

Taken from the article “Product Red: The Marketing of African Misery” by Teresa Barnes.

Ok, we had better stop thinking so highly of ourselves just coz we donated some money. The money will help a little, but it will not save the world.

after spring break

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My ADV410 group mate, Suguru went to Las Vegas during Spring break. He watched a Cirque du Soleil show! Damn…I’m so jealous. He told me tickets weren’t cheap though. Uh oh, there goes my dream of watching all the shows the next time I go there. There are at least 6 shows, how to even choose which to watch?!

PS: I’m amused by how people act when they want a position in a club. Suddenly those who weren’t active come alive. Do I smell some sucking up to people going on? Hell yea.