Misty blue

Well hello holidays!  Already on my holidays when others are having their stressful exams kekeke #plusofbeingadesignstudent

Anyways, I was bored so I made a new necklace ever so casually, and I'm really proud of the end result, so here's what I came up with:

Love the colour of these beads which I spotted at Spotlight, a sort of soft matte misty ice blue. 

They do have some marks on them from transportation I guess, then again, for only $1 a strand what more could I ask for?

To keep this post in the blue theme, here are a few snaps from a city outing with the parents

Really hope Melbourne can preserve these beautiful gothic buildings forever and ever compared to modern buildings that are popping up everywhere and in the city which look revolting (so to who designed them) but they are disgusting, I like buildings where I feel like there's a history there and make me feel at peace, not ones which are wonky and assymetrical, and make me feel dizzy.

Let's take the new RMIT building 80 I think, went in it with my friend and OMG, am I in a maze or a university building? your walls and floors aren't straight but zig-zaggy wtf? 

Anyways, just my view on how I like my buildings :) (sounded like a architecture student here lol)

Here's a modern take on....an instrument/water feature/ art... whatever you call it that I thought was cool at the National Gallery of Victoria.

The plates cling and clang with each other from the movement of water and sound like a chime!

Too blue for you? I am, since Melbourne is now showing its gloomy rainy winter weather D:

Hope the rain stops soon, and I hope you're all doing fine, bye~

Japan: Day 11 - Tokyo DisneySea *very pic heavy*

BE MAGICAL!

I will always be a kid at heart with my love for Disney's creations especially Mickey and Minnie mouse, song and dance, and cartoon characters.  What more could one ask for than Disney Land or Disney Sea (Japan has both)?

Since I've already been to 2 Disney Land's (California and Hong Kong) I decided to go with Tokyo Disney Sea as it only exists in Japan and is designed for an older audience with scarier and faster rides, as opposed to your usual teacup ride type of rides in Disney Land which are aimed at little kiddies.

Because I'm a foreigner, I somehow got a discount on my entrance fee when I showed them my passport, and got in for only 4300yen instead of the usual 5300yen!  So go show off your foreign passport to get a discount (even if you don't get a discount, show them you're special) :)

From riding the Disney resort line which took us from the nearest train station to each of the themed park entrances, you could feel as if you were on wonderland already! 

With the adorable mickey themed trains and buildings fit for a king arriving at my wonderland for the day (Disney Sea) sure wasn't too far away~

Say hello to Mickey, the magician?  Who brought joy to all the audience with his show 'Be Magical'.  Had the song stuck in my head for the whole day, must be magical haha

Winnie pooh and his gang :)

with Thumper and my leopard Minnie beanie

Mediterranean Harbour

This lady had a serious Shellie May and Duffy (and Pluto) obsession, just look at all of them on her bag!

Part of my lunch was this gyoza sausage bun which is only sold at Disney Sea, its really just a long asian meat bun

Went on this ride called 'Aquatopia' it's not like bumper cars where you control your own car, each car/boat is computered to run along a specific track so there are no crashs and makes it more exciting since you have no idea where you're going

Then my feet somehow brought me back to the early 20th century America, wait is this still DisneySea?  Yes, the American Waterfront themed port, which brings back memories of some alleyways in New York when I went there nearly 6 years ago.

Down on the American Waterfront we watched a new show 'A Table is Waiting', it was freezing cold when I watched it I could feel my lips turning purple ;w;

'hola amigos' - Chip and Dale

sausage lips ;)

curry duck

Japanese Goofy

nawwww the cutest couple ever

After 'A Table is Waiting' I then watched 'Big Band Beat' which is a really popular braodway show with jazz music and lots of tap dancing, not to mention Mickey on the drums!  Sadly no cameras were allowed inside, so I don't have pictures from the show..
After 'Big Band Beat' ended one of the best days spent in Tokyo, along with Mickey's magic my day was astounding!

I love you Tokyo DisneySea ~

Muck Up Day no.2

On this day, it's a tradition in our school to chop up our uniforms and make them into something else, each group with a different theme or dress up.
From first thoughts of 'german barmaids' which we thought were probably too 'slutty' or most likely taken by some other group (which did happen in the end), we decided to gnome it up with shortalls, pointy red felt hats, and our choice of props (I chose a fishing rod whilst others chose garden tools or a ukelele).  I think our group has something to do with gnomes; from gnome singlets and ceremic gnome statues (which we each have), I must say we really are gnome-ing it up
This muck up day we had a range of dressups: eskimos, playboys bunnies, cheerleaders, barmaids, red riding hoods,  cowgirls, nurses, Harajuku girls, Alice in Wonderland, scarecrows, and pirates just to name a few, not to forget those garden features - le gnomes.

hanging with my gnomies

rounder with the teachers anyone?

With my little sisters: my little year 7 buddy Rachel, Li-ju, Tracey and Alissa

A fun last day at school was well spent, but it would not have been accomplished without the hardwork each groupd put in to making their individial costumes.  For us, it was a day by the sewing machine, sewing away which made us sew happy hehe.

Next post will be about my valedictory dinner (graduation dinner)
Until next time :)
xx

Muck Up Day no.1

The first muck up day started off with...just a random packet of M&Ms mmm yummy, but it wasn't your usual packet of M&Ms.  They were a packet family of happy M&Ms who had been friends for quite a few years and know each other just like they had been friends for years ٩꒰๑❛▿❛ ॢ̩꒱

M&Ms featuring: Mannie, Laura, Kirsten, me, Maddie, Meaghan, and Mary

We felt like such celebrities? on the second last day as people would constantly ask us for photos, even overheard a little year 7 kid saying "omg, are they M&Ms?" Yes we were, and we brought every chocolate lovers childhood back :)

mmmm

On a side note, we were meant to go as Crayola crayons however US postal services *cough* unreliable snail-speed service *cough* should really update their service speed, as our crayon costumes which we ordered from America were meant to arrive in Australia within 5 days since we chose the 'express' international shipping option.  Instead, they arrive after 10 days on the day of our muckup day afsdkhaslk, well after their quoted delivery date (ﾉಠ益ಠ)ﾉ彡┻━┻
So we had to come up with a cheap, quick and easy idea for costumes, and came up with M&M's which are really just round circles of felt stuck together (leaving a few gaps for the arms and body) and the letter 'm' sewn on both the back and front and voila, you have your M&M costume!  Thanks to Kirsten, Maddie and Shirley who made these costumes at the very last minute.

Since we're girls, we love dressing up so the whole year level came as different things or people - footballers, sailors, superheroes, Where's Wally's, teletubbies, jungle girls, just to name a few and of course M&Ms  (｡╹ω╹｡)

Class of 2012..with some missing

Best year level ever!!

I'll be back soon with more post, stay safe everyone especially to those going on schoolies, toodles :))

Pre-Muck Up Days

Hey guys, I'm not officially back from my hiatus, but I have a week's break before my next exam so I thought it would be good to update with a post during this time.

For those of you who don't know, 'Muck Up' day or week is when year 12 students who are in their final year of high school set up pranks and other activities on their week or days of school.  Our school only allowed us to have two days of muck up day so the number of things we could do to our school was limited, however we had a free dress day the school day before our official muck up day started so it was a chance to get a few things started :)

Just a few rules I made up for muck up day/s:
Rule number one: do not start all the activities all at once, start from minuscule things and increase in size and effectiveness.

'Take what you need' passes that were distributed around the school, because I go to a girls school, the above 'passes' are appropriate eg. cramps sports pass, longer skirt/dress pass, cake-face removal.  There was also a 'one direction immunisation' which is thought was pretty funny

Second rule: do not damage school property but make it annoying for others

'Watch your back' on the bathroom mirrors
excuse the runners, it was a primary school dress up day

Make it difficult for those who annoy you, such as those year 9's and 10's who hog the bathroom mirrors everyday after school for a good 30 minutes to reapply their orange cake-faces with more orange-ness, before meeting up with da bois from neighbouring schools...

Rule three:  Make a big impact without doing much

blocking the B block building stairs, mission complete

Trapped those year 9's so it made it impossible for them to get to their lockers at the end of lunch, on both side of the building too!  Just sat and chilled whilst we watched the faces of those middle school kids go  \( ･д･)/ mwahaha.  Also increased the effectiveness of the prank by completing a marathon around the school with around 120 other year 12 girls by screaming and running which freaked a lot of girls out *score*

Rule four:  Suprise teachers, this step may include ambushing the staff room..

free dress day (HP) in the staff room

On two seperate days we ambushed the staff room (by informing the co-ordinator first so we wouldn't get into trouble) and gave out detentions to teachers, made ourselves at home with a nice coffee, and stole quite a lot icypoles from their fridge (❛▿❛)

However, suprising teachers may end up with consequences...like being paid back the following day

Rule five:  Time for payback, or you could always give them a nicely wrapped present :)

Someone wrapped up the vice principle's car (I think) in glad wrap, always good to have some extra protection whilst on the road :)

Rule seven:  Just have fun! (but don't injure anyone)
Our school decided to join up with the guys from Camberwell with a water fight after school with water guns and water balloons, however some girls chickened out at the last minute once they heard that there would be 80 or so guys... so only around 50 of us had to tackle them, impossible.  Being immature badasses they didn't just chuck water balloons but also sausages, tomatoes, apples, and hard-boiled eggs. who said it was a food fight?!?  Oh, and I was hit in the jaw with an unbreakable raw tomato, whilst my friend was hit in the chest with an apple ugh those bastards (ㆆ﹏ㆆ)
So we did end up losing the water fight, what can I say of course they would've won, but it was still really fun as one of the last days of school ʕ•͡ω•ʔ

That's it for now, should be studying for my business management and geography exams which are next week, and then high school would be officially over!! Wait for the next few posts which will be about muck up days and my valedictory dinner, up after my exams that is :)) toodles~

Japan: Day 6 Part 1- Kyoto Studio Park (Toei Uzumasa Eigamura)

Just started my term 2 holidays, so it's back to my posts on Japan!
So on my 6th day in Japan, Emma decided to take us to some 'fun' place, I had no idea what she meant as fun until we arrived at Toei Kyoto Studio Park which is a film set and theme park in one, and features a collection of replicas of traditional Japanese buildings which are used for historial movies and television dramas.

near the entrance were the props used in some recent historical movie

once you walked out of the entrance, you entered into the world of historical Japanese buildings

 

 

 

and we fought on top of a roof like ninjas with our roasted corn lol

my amazing ramen and ninja sword chopsticks

We also took photos in jidaigeki costumes, I chose to dress up as a maiko (apprentice geisha) and Emma chose to dress up as a queen, and the costume was so heavy with multiple layers and a head piece.

Then the 'fun' part came, it was the Ninja House which was filled with traps, and you had to find your way out!  Totally going to build a house like that one day haha, sadly there are no pictures of the Ninja House because cameras were restricted, however it was very similar to this video:

That's all for Toei Kyoto Studio Park, but only part 1 of day 6 because we later visited the Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji temples, so don't forget to read about it.