"You seem happier now!"...

Not much to say, but I've been staying back at TAFE fairly frequently now just to catch up on work which i'm behind in... I'm still trying hard to stay afloat, but i'm not too much further behind... just a tad bit. :X

But, just that I was catching up with the old sunday crew at IGA, Claire & Emma, and my bro tagged along too. It was a really nice dinner at little caesar's cause i've never eaten there before. So yes, very nice pizzas at leedy! and it was really nice catching up and having a random conversation with them. :P With me, I turn all the convos dirty and involving s&m and whips. lolol

Anyway, I just wanted to blog that...
Emma said that I seem happier now! Much happier than last year...

and in my mind, on one side, i was thinking, "well, i'm really tired, so i'm surprised i even look happy?"
But on the other side, i was thinking "omg, does it show??" :P

So yes, I'm definitely feeling much happier, because even though i do get frustrated at not "getting" the perfect results that I'm always striving to achieve, I'm actually enjoying the ride... the ups & downs, the people, the culture...

This was Definitely One of The Best Choices I've made in my life, as of right now. No Regrets at all!
Sure, money would've been great and all with a full-time job... but i can only imagine how miserable that'd make me. so screw that... :)

Yay~! I can't wait to be making my first project which is a bodice involving pleats,frills, ruffles, gathers and flounces. I have a fair idea of what I'm thinking of making, but I can't wait to make a SUPER FANTABULOUS Outfit~! :D

And we're gonna be comparing with the 4 other classes. So being competitive (no thanks to asian upbringing), I wonder where will i "place"... Cause of course, we're all striving to be "The Best"... Well, at Least to Stand out, anyway :)

Until the Next Post,
JoeL Un...

I'm sooo tired, Claire was so nice to drive us home, and i fell asleep in the passenger's seat. Awkward, but hope she understands. HAHAHAH Seriously, my head just kept bobbing back and forth, staying in conversation to keep me awake until i could no longer keep my eyes open. lolol. That's how tired i was. eeps :X

Sitting on the Fence on Kony 2012...

Okay, I haven't updated in a while, but life's just been going on, and i still get frustrated with gouache paints, and have moderate troubles with sewing and patternmaking... Apart from that, i just have lots of work piling up already, class by class. Nothing's ever really enough for my perfectionist personality that wants to have a decent and wide enough coverage of what I'm exploring...

Anyway, Nothing really much else to say but that I have so much work to do, and that I'm graduating from my Commerce degree next thursday. yippee...
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Also, with the whole KONY thing going on, I'm sitting on the fence - moderately supporting the views of it... but i'm just sick of seeing all the hating and criticisms against it.

Yes, Valid are the points the critics are making upon the inefficiencies of the Invisible Children organisation, and that Kony is probably by now a "has-been" warlord... and so just as much support and voice is going out for KONY 2012, there is as much hating and criticism who mock the people who give away their money to the organisation (which in the critic's views, is inefficient, and fighting for the wrong cause, or etc.etc.)

I'm just like, the criticisms are valid, the organisation probably has a lot of flaws (i'm not doing my research), but can we just PLEASE stop the hating? Cause the haters are just spending all their energy into finding faults and complaining, and what are they gonna do at the end of the day? just sit back on their chairs/beds and back to normal daily life of being on the computer/facebook, and do nothing about anything...
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I know that I'm personally very stingy with my money, so I haven't bought their "action kit". and whether or not I choose to agree with the critics' views that the organisation is spending precious money inefficiently, fighting for the wrong cause (in pursuing a has-been criminal), etc...

But Can't we just appreciate that the video has done a good job of bringing the spotlight upon such a huge issue that would otherwise not have been known?

It's been there for years, but hey, ignorant people like me don't realise that this is happening, and To Spark so Much Awareness so Quickly on an Issue that is Terribly Tragic and Worthy of Everyone's Attention... It's Invaluable!!!
So Can't we just take a moment to appreciate that this video has done a good job in raising awareness?

Whether or not arresting Kony will help the world, whether or not everyone's time and money should be dedicated to other causes/other pursuits...

Because when all this boils over, when Kony is arrested or this trend just dies down, all the "activists" and all the "critics" will go back to their everyday lives of doing whatever, of possibly finding the next big issue to support/criticise...

So AT the Very Least, Can't we just Stop the Hating, and just Appreciate that Raising Awareness and Putting the Spotlight on such Tragic Issues is worth all that "excitement"? Cause whether or not it's in the past and Kony's not been as "active" in recruiting children to kill their parents, become child soldiers or sex slaves... It would be UNJUST to Not put him to justice, right? Can everyone at least agree on that?
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So If you wanna go on criticising the methods, well, please try to suggest better methods then, instead of being such a hater. oh em gee, it just really gets me soooo frustrated when everyone's just hating and criticising! and sitting back and not doing anything about it either!

Fine, you can criticise me too and say that I'm sitting back and not doing anything about it either... all I did was shared the video because it made me cry, but at least sharing that Awareness is Invaluable...

Because somewhere out there, someone out there is probably doing a similar thing to what Kony has done... And we want to raise a future generation who WILL NOT allow such "human-manipulated-tragedies" to happen again in the future! And No Way will we tolerate Such Cruelty should it happen in our backyards!
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So that's my take on this whole Kony issue...
The viral video has done an amazing job in raising awareness and bringing to light on a very huge issue.

If you're gonna criticise it, spend that negative energy and create positivity by trying to come up with better methods. If you can't come up with anything better, then stop hating, because you're just being a loud, annoying bitch, just sitting on your high chair and yapping away without anything helpful/useful to the world.

Now, can everyone just carry on?
Let the activists be active, and the rest of us who have other priorities, to pursue them.

Personally, I have lots of homework to do, so i'm getting back to that. -_-"""

So Until the Next Post,
Joel...

it's 6.15 now. so that's 50 mins of blogging. :/

Uninspired, Completion, Frustration...

So this week turned out to be pretty good after a very slow start. :)

Monday, I was feeling Veeeeerrryyyyy uninspired... We were supposed to do a colour wheel, and we can either use one of their provided templates OR choose to design our own. which of course, I wanted to design my own. However... I spent those 2ish hours just doodling, as I couldn't come up with anything good at all. trying to draw dragons, goldfish, seaweeds, clovers, bees, suns, moons, they all turned out looking terrible. So it was veerryyyy unproductive :(

Oh well, I went on to do my printing after, because I hadn't finished printing the textiles for my bag, and I got Tannon, TAFE's technician for all the fashion students, to help me. As time goes by, I realised he wasn't just a mechanical technician as it turns out that he could do soooo many things, he could print textiles (since he was the one who offered to help me, and provided a good lesson on how to make a good print), and he could actually sew and overlock using those machines that he oversees. In fact, he could probably be a fashion designer cause he can do everything we're learning to do. :O

Anywhooo, That night, I caught up with Charlene at Subiaco and we had a nice catchup as I ran her through my birthday plans. She gave me a lot of great feedback, and I tried to take as much of them into account and making adjustments... We were sharing just ONE Grill'd burger, and Even THAT, we couldn't finish. eeps. lol :X How sad that I couldn't finish my half. lol
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Tuesday, it was sewing day, sooo, it was when we would take our textiles and make it into a bag. And so time passed, and  as much as I wanted to sew the bag up, I ended up not doing anything. I couldn't really understand the steps, what to do, how to go about it, Or even WHAT I Wanted to do. Because I hated the other side of my fabric, so I wanted to chop it off and turn it into a large pocket of some sort.... Who knows... I seriously just didn't do anything productive that day...

And since we had a 2 ish hour break, Donna said that she was craving for a really nice burger from Grill'd, and I was like, but I Just had that last night D: LoL, but we went anyway. Hahah, so Donna, Megan & I Went off to Subiaco to enjoy a nice Grill'd burger. yummm... and then went off to get some boost juice cause it was such a hooot day... In our next class which was Art History, I sat next to Donna and Mikayla, and I don't know why, but we kept laughing and I'm sure our giggles were as annoying as those you hear from those stereotype teenage girls in the back seat. But lol, we just kept laughing as we were coming up with ways on how to figure out whether the French guy in our class. Emmanuel was straight or gay. LOL

Mikayla kept saying that I should ask him out on a date, and if he says yes/no, that's the answer. but i was like, But I Don't Like Him, Hes not my type D:. What IF He Actually said "Yes", and I have to go on a date with him?!?!?!? D: Then I said, maybe we should get Donna to ask him too! LOL, So he can go on a date with whoever he chooses... But WAIT, WHAT IF He's not Into Asians? So I said that Mikayla should ask him too! And she semi-exclaims, "But I have a boyfriend!" sooo the convo kept going on... lol

We were supposed to do some research in the library, but the girls I was hanging out with, were making a lot of noise in the computers, i'm sure everyone around us were really peeved and annoyed with us (eeps), but seriously! Those girls are such a noisy bad influence! hahahahahah. Oh yeah, spent like 15-30 mins trying to find Emmanuel's facebook profile, which Megan found it, and passing around the link so all of us could start adding him. hAHAHAHAHAH Seriously, Girls!!! We were supposed to be researching for Art History!!! lol So they went back after that, and I stayed back for a bit, but to no avail, it was a wasted effort as I still couldn't do anything. :(
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Wednesday, the day passed fast as we were following instructions in patternmaking and drawing. the only thing worth mentioning was that we were talking about celebs and who was hot (or not) amongst our table. lolol.

Went straight off to work, and I was pretty tired that day, that I went to sleep at 10.30 (or was it 11.15?) which was really REALLY Early for me. :/

Woke up at about 7 the next morning as I quickly got changed to go to TAFE early with mum and bro, and then to catch up on the work i've fallen behind in. Especially that Colour wheel, So I decided to go with Mermaids and Seashells. Yay! It looked pretty. But there was something slightly wrong with the layout and proportions. as I coloured it out on Friday, it turned out into a pretty ugly colour wheel. The painting is all right, I guess (I have my flaws in painting AND Having never used gouache paint before. eeps). But yeah, it could've been more even and balanced in its layout, but noooo... It doesn't look as amazing as I had envisioned it to be. :'(

Anywhooo, Not much to mention, only that I stayed back to work on my bag. I got personal 1-on-1 help from my studio lecturer, Kirsten who is just such a Lovely person, she was soooo helpful and I learnt soo many hints and tips from her (For example, pinning, and unpicking). :D So YAY~! AND I Managed to finish my Bag, All Thanks to Kirsten~! :D

and Then I was late for dinner, as it was like 7ishpm when I had finished, and I was supposed to meet Michelle for Dinner at 6.30PM. I was quickly rushing to get to cannington station. Packing up, walking quickly to the station, waiting for the train, waiting for all the stops. I eventually arrived at Cannington station at about 7.45. Eeps, considering it was Michelle's birthday, I made her wait a bit too long. >_<""" That's my flaw, I really need to start being more on time :X

BUT, I showed her what I was working on, and so hopefully it kinda warranted a good explanation of why i had spent so much time in TAFE? :X Well, the dinner was pretty nice as we had a good catchup :D Went back home after, and I posted a picture of my bag on facebook, and omg! like 5 people liked it within 5 seconds of posting it, and I was like, OMG I Feel SOOO Loved & Appreciated~! <3

Hahaha. So yupyup. Friday passed quite quickly with painting that colour wheel all day, and then visiting Cheryl for a bit. She made a pretty nice butter cake, I must say. ;) and It was really interesting to see her family and relatives. whatta huge family she has, cause it must be like double of mine. :X

But anywhooo, so yes, and over the night, we were kinda having a pre-bday dinner for my mum as we had food from the Bullcreek Hawker place, and then my bro was supposed to organise it, but he never came back (until 8ish pm which was far too late for a 6.30-7pm dinner), and he didn't even bring his phone (which explains why he didn't answer it). My bro is soooo freakin dot dot dot... unreliable and terrible organiser. My mom was really quite pissed the whole time as my dad said it was like before a thunderstorm.... which was really quite true. oh well, dinner turned out okay as soon as my dad got home and made the order, and the reason why my bro came back late was because he was hanging back in the office for a little celebration from passing his CA unit. and I told him, to warrant his not organising dinner and being back early, he should've come back with a broken leg or something.

And well, I could've made another mistake that night, but glad that things turned out the way it did. I'm worth so much more than to get with a loser. a-hole.

So yes, it's saturday now, and I should really really get to designing the stuff for my birthday. Cheryl kept telling me to not make my party so grand, and I'm just like, Frustrated as to, Why Do You Keep telling me that I Shouldn't?!?!?! Cause I Work on Optimism and Kind words, and she's just telling me that I Shouldn't, I Can't. and Is it just because she thinks that I cannot make it happen? Well, Cheryl said that that was the reason, but I'm just like, Well, I BELIEVE I CAN Make It Happen. It's Fairly Realistic that It's Within My Abilities to Pull it Off. It WILL Be Difficult, But I Love Challenges like these, and Please, DO NOT STOP ME!!! I WANT THIS FOR MY FREAKIN' 21st BIRTHDAY!!!

Seriously, It's just a finale performance, I'm not asking for like fireworks and acrobatic aerial ballerinas, geees... It really frustrates me when someone tries to put a limit on me. I understand the side of being realistic and doing only what you can, and not taking too much on your plate, and I admit I have a flaw of taking on more than I can handle. But I prefer to live this way. It challenges me, and Motivates me to make me want to be more than I am. And plus, It's easier to cut back rather than have my imagination limited to begin with, which means that you can't work with much in the first place...

Ugh... So yeah, people, don't be such a critic, okay? Injecting a side of realism is okay, I understand the right balance is hard to achieve, but seriously, the more you tell me that I can't/shouldn't, the more I'd want to prove you wrong. So... Just WATCH ME!!!

I WILL Make MY Night MAGICAL & MEMORABLE!!!

Until the Next Post,
JoeL Un...

wow, It's now 10.35, so it's about 50 mins of blogging. :X

I Don't Need You, and Guess What!!!

Suddenly, my decent mood tonight was brought down again as I recall our last conversation...

I doubt you'll have any reason to read this blog anymore, but if you do... well, I need to let it out...

You hurt me really bad,
You cut me really deep...
I expected more from you...
I really thought you were so much better...
And now... Everything we once shared...
*poof* into the bin...

I can't even reveal my vulnerability to you anymore, because you did a pretty good job at bringing down my inner soul...

I'm being dramatic, probably... but this is how I feel...
And I'm just letting you know, I'm sorry if I act like a Proud Bitch whenever I see you from now on...
Because as said, You've shattered my inner world so bad that I can't Let you Inside anymore...

And thus... I dedicate this song to you...


The part at 0:50 when she's breaking down and crying as she's chain-sawing down that tree... That's Especially how this feels... But it's about time I Let All of this Out, and Let All of these hard feelings Go...

...I Don't Need You!
And Guess What!!!
I'm Having More Fun!
And Now That We're Done,
I'm Gonna Show You
Tonight, I'm Alright!
I'm Just Fine!
And You're a Tool, Sooo, So What?!

Good Night,
JoeL Un...

More Planning of 21st Done...

Sooo... Well, I spent my friday doing work from TAFE that I hadn't finished. Time passes fast when one has work to do. :/ I still have to research the oriental influences on rococo art.

Only thing worth mentioning from the day is that, I thought metal rulers were quite safe to work with in general, tough, durable, and thick enough to not be sharp... until my finger got a considerably thick semi-deep slit from it... It's cause I was using the ruler to draw straight lines with my marker, and so to clear the ink off the ruler, i was rubbing it on the sides with the tissues. As i increased the speed, so did the intensity, and i guess, no duh, how stupid of me to have not expected the risk & danger. Now i've a semi fear of handling metal rulers >_<"""

Oh, and I was spending the rest of the night designing the motifs of significant symbols for my 21st. As one can imagine, butterflies, rainbows, guestbook pages. Pretty much, wanting things to be as beautiful, elaborate and detailed as possible yet to be my own unique and original work if i can help it. though i do admit that sometimes i do get lazy, and might've used another deviantartist's work (without infringing copyright, of course, since they allow their works for personal use). :X

Saturday, Working more on the designing. Charlotte will be having a Alice in Wonderland's themed party, so she figured that I had quite a lot of costume accessories that she could borrow, and she thought right. hahah. So she came over in the afternoon at about 1.30pm, and sooo... Well, she was gonna go home right after I found everything I could provide for her white rabbit costume. vest, rabbit ears, white lace jabot. But I kinda kept her when I started showing her my ideas and asking for her opinions, ideas and critique as I showed her what I had in mind... Ideas are under top secret wraps for now. So that it would turn out to be a nice surprise on the night! :)

Sooo.... Yeessss... I kept her until like 5 ish PM. cause we both got kinda tired, and i was so tired I had to go take a nap right after. lol. But pretty much, talking to Charlotte about my party, and my creative direction. and she could offer up some really helpful ideas and constructive criticism which I Really Really appreciate and agree with! :O Also, talking about things like life, emotions, families, friendships, relationships, situations... She's so young, but yet, she has the maturity that is comparable to someone older than myself.

Seriously, the whole time, I forget that I'm talking to a 14 year-old, because she's not very naive, and has already experienced and been exposed to a considerable range and wealth of different people, emotions, situations, and connections... for example, she can talk about another person's depression and actually understand what they're going through. honestly, most people probably can't and won't understand another person's depression until they're like 20... or some much much later. in addition, she's open-minded about things, and she did not flinch nor cringe at all the whole time she was looking at my designs for my outfits for the night, which are all accessorised with high heels. and it's like, wow. just wow. she's Definitely not one of those feral, rude, immature, selfish, closed-minded, stuck-up, hating kids who think they deserve everything who have given such a bad image to their generation. :/

So for what i thought was going to be a boring saturday, turned out to be pretty fun! :D

Yay for 3 day weekends, though I should work and earn more money, but at least, I have one more full day to do more designing for my 21st and maybe start researching on rococo (if i feel like it. lol).

Until the Next Post,
JoeL Un... =)

Inspired, Motivated, Striving to be Better~!

*** so after almost 2 hours of blogging, this week of updates turned out really long, so i've chopped it up into several posts for easier separating. lolol.

Okay, sooo. Back to TAFE. Wednesday, it was a pretty intense day. not much time for talking and fun. Because we were in a rush for time to get things done. :X Then I went to work, because my usual thursday shift has now shifted to wednesday, now that Tafe keeps me till 4.30 on Thursdays. :( Sooo yeah... But it was okay, for my first wednesday shift, and considering how tired I was, It turned out really great! I was actually really happy and friendly that shift, because so many of my favourite and most familiar customers were coming through, and my enthusiasm really shined through! and I guess... I was just so happy! :D Although towards the end of the night, my tiredness was definitely showing quite obviously. lol

But as I was leaving, I saw another of my usual customers, and they're like a couple with children my age, but I've gotten to know them a fair bit over working in iga in the last 3 years, and it was amazing how we just stood by the freezers, and we were having a pretty good conver for a good 15 minutes, about how I was doing my Fashion design course, and just couldn't imagine myself being happy in an accounting job, and then how his wife was a florist, and still gets called to do floristry on special high-demand days like valentine's and mother's day. and just... wow. I mean, I always knew that they were interesting, but wow, It was just sooo interesting to find out about the other sides of them! :D

I went back home, and I was soooooooo tired... I made it sooo obvious, and I'm glad my family understood, cause my parents were like being quite supportive about it, helping me make my dinner as easy as possible, and letting me talk&sleep after... I had a good sleep that night. Cause the next day, today, was another busy, and quite intense day!

Textiles, so we were on something completely new, trying to make our own printed fabrics, and sooo... I had actually spent a whole 3 hour session cutting out a pretty detailed (but i can imagine even more insanely detailed ones) of a letter J with Butterfly wings in a fairly androgynous style which is like, a good definition of me and what my style is. The hopefully pleasing combination of sleek smooth hardened sharp masculine edges with a heartful beautiful feminine swirls and butterfly wings.

Actually, It's only the butterfly wings that make it look feminine, because otherwise, it looks 30% fem,70% masc. whereas with my true soul's style, the combo is more 50/50 and sometimes even 60/40.... :/ maybe even 75/25 (well, i'll wait to see if that day arrives when i reach that level. lolol)

Back to the class, It was interesting to see everyone's patterns. Everyone else had come up with such beautiful and amazing results, and I was like, I'm Sooo Jealous!!! :O Cause I was soooo slowly working on cutting up my design, and I just kept staring at how some people had made such beautiful motifs. Some had cool skeletonal bone structures, some had beautiful pink cherry blossoms (sakura), and others had just very intricate geometric all over patterns. and I can only stare in envy. Hahaha 

Regardless, it was a long class, and in the class after, I was falling asleep, and not listening to instructions. though I did have good conversations with my classmates. I just keep finding out more and more interesting things about people. One of them had asymmetrical jaw like I do too, and she said that she fixed it with a few years of braces and a jaw operation, and i'm like, whoa. really??? Is that the procedure that you really had to go through???? And she said it was really expensive! But it's so so worth it in her opinion, cause she used to always be so self-conscious and practising what's the best way to smile. and now she doesn't have to worry anymore. sooo... it's really making me consider... I'll have to consult someone about it and find out the prices. eeps :X

Oh, and Another of my classmate said that she had done a lot of dancing, up until high school, but eventually dropped out due to the high pressures and criticism. It's the performing arts, so no shit, they're EVEN MORE Cutthroat than Fashion is... Eeps. So we had a really really good conversation about dancing, as she told me more about what she did which was ballet and traditional chinese dance (cause she's either an international student, or a chinese who's come to australia quite early).

After that, I stayed back to work on my detailed cutting a bit more. And I felt quite satisfied with it. I had stayed back for an extra 1.5 hours. and Nina, the diploma student I had met was around, and she showed me a draft work she did, because it was due for assessment. and I was like Really Amazed with her work. I guess I already expected her work to be quite out there, but seeing it in real life, and that she could actually Really Make it Work. It took my breath away... 

So I left TAFE at about 6pm, and arrived at Cannington station where I met up with Michelle, and she drove us both to Burswood where we had a nice filling dinner and a good catch up. It's always interesting to hear her updates. so It was quite a nice catchup. :)

and here I am, now back at home. having blogged this since 11.15pm, and it's now almost 1am. that's almost 2 hours of blogging. eeps. :X but that's how much there is to say! :O Okay, i might chop this post up into several pieces. that's why it won't seem as long. ahahah.

But Seriously, This is the Happiest I have ever been in a Daily Life situation since the last... 5 years, probably? or maybe even never? Because... I've never had this confidence, this enthusiasm, this friendliness, this happiness. For some reason, when I'm in that environment, I just feel so Bright, Happy and Friendly. Like a place where I'm accepted and can reveal my true self without judgement and prejudice!

And with soooo much inspiration and creativity floating around in that place... In the past, I would always be envious and filled with jealousy, but right now, yes, so i'm still envious, but for once in my life, I actually feel MOTIVATED To WANT To Strive Harder to Better myself. To become a better person, and to want to DO Better at Achieving My Dreams of Fashion Designing!

For once in my life, I actually feel like this is what it's like to Truly "Live"... Well, at least, it's the brighter and happier side of living anyway. :) Because I'm having Fun, and Yet I really REALLY Want to Work Hard, and Be a Better, Friendlier person! Oh don't get me wrong, I am still a proud lioness bitch with a bit of sass here and there, but I am letting go of some unnecessary pride because there's just no need for it when I have much fewer insecurities in the wonderful and supportive environment in TAFE.

I know the stress levels will start to kick in, cause it's already starting hahahah. But i know that this is what I'm getting myself into, and I'm pretty sure that, this is the kind of high pressure that I'd actually enjoy, because I WANT It... :)

We'll see how the course progresses as we go, but I'm really Happy meeting so many different personalities around, and I can't WAIT To get to know these unique souls even more! (^_^)

Of Course, the people most important to me are still irreplaceable. You know who you are~! <3 <3 <3

I'm just hoping that the people I Love will understand how Happy I am, and can also have a share of this Happiness that I'm enjoying so much! Cause I know that everyone deserves a chance to feel desired, and to feel motivated, to want to work harder in life, and be better! It isn't really Life to just want to slack it away, imo... but to each their own, cause for all i know, my bro loves being lazy. :/

So Until the Next Post,

JoeL Un... (^_^)

It's 1.05 AM, so that's about 1 hour and 50 mins of blogging. woooww... :O

GaGa Tickets, Cheryl's Grad & Karaoke~!

Monday, Oh Yes, I managed to be able to borrow my mom's credit card, and I was late to class... why? Because I WANTED TO SOOO BADLY GET THE FRONT SEATS TO LADY GAGA'S CONCERT!!! I kinda didn't care what the cost was because it turned out to be about $200 per ticket, and I just bought 4 of the most expensive tickets, because I didn't know charlene was going to go with me. I texted her, but she didn't reply (turned out she had such a fun night the previous night, and was too tired to reply, but she called that evening to confirm that she would go with me *phew*). But even if she didn't go, I thought that I had tickets so anyone who wanted to go with me can join me, and if no one wanted to, I could resell them for like a good amount of money. :D

So Yes, I was sooo Satisfied. and I went to class like 15 mins late. But our lecturer never arrived. She had told us that she'd be in Sydney for fashion-related-agendas, but she had organised someone to take her place. We kinda waited until 40 ish mins, then I decided to try asking someone. Eventually, they found that the lecturer who was supposed to take over for us ... forgot... LOL!!! It wasn't too big of a problem. I stayed back that day and got the extra work done. I stayed till like almost 6pm, I think. But it was a pretty good day, because I had been soo friendly, and I got to meet so many new and pretty cool people! :D I met Nina, who's in Diploma (2nd year), and we got along really well, personalities just clicked. and she seems really awesome! I have yet to check out her creations, but she tells me that she loves crazy outfits, and her favourite designer is Galliano, which is like, very good tastes. cause he is DEFINITELY UP THERE!!! ;D

So Got home late, was tired. next day, I knew I had a long day ahead of me, but it was another fun day! :D I was late to class, forgot to bring a few important things to class. But I was all dressed up and fancy because it was Cheryl's Graduation that night, and I had to quickly rush off to Curtin after class. I had to drop off my sewing kits at home, then rush off to curtin. People complimented me on my look (even my sewing teacher), and my most favourite black-patent-leather,pointy-toed,3-inch-stiletto heels. *grins with glee* Well, it definitely IS One of my best outfits, cause unfortunately, I can't get any fancier than that. :( At least not until the day I can make my own clothes. :/

It was really difficult trying to use the sewing machine in my heels tho. LOLOLOL. That was only to be expected. Hahahah. Oh, and I was so tired by the afternoon, that I was falling asleep in my history class, and my teacher kinda called out on me. She was reading out the paragraphs, and she was reading a sentence that had the word "dreams." and that's when she mentioned "like what joel's doing right now". lolol. It's embarrassing, but I guess I can have a good laugh at myself. :) I was really really tired after all :(

I then quickly rushed to Curtin afterwards. Dropped by home to drop off my heavy stuff. Then yes, Went to Curtin, but i was sooooo late. The ceremony was starting at 6.15, but I kinda got lost (cheryl's directions weren't exactly the best in the first place.) so lol. I had arrived at curtin by about 5.45, but got lost, so by the time I found them, with Jessie's directions, It was 6pm ish, so we had 5-10 mins of taking a few photos and a nice short talk with Cheryl. I'm just soooo happy and proud of my Dearest Cheryl~! <3 She was absolutely soooo adorable, yet her hair, her nails, everything about her was sooo beautiful!!! And Well, she IS Beautiful inside too! Sooo... I'm always wishing the best for her, and the least I could do, was to at least try to be there for her Graduation! (^_^) Too bad, I was rushing for time (as always) and fashionably late [as always]. >_<"""

So after that, I had gone off home, to be picked up by Ali & Kristin cause we were going to the Karaoke bar place that Kristin had been raving soooo much about for the last... year? and so we've finally gone there, and I wanna blab about this... :X so here's an essay that I had wrote to charlene. but you don't have to read it. lolol. just skip the part below... [and onto the next post...]

Karaoke was definitely a fun experience!  Their song selection was great! they even had songs from musicals! So I sung "All That Jazz" from Chicago, but that was semi awkward, because there were so many long intermissions & even a random dialogue in the middle of the song (so wtf & awkward). Then I wanted to sing Barbra Streissand's "My Man" from Funny Girl, but it was a totally different tune & Lyrics, and not the version from the movie, so i was like, what is this? and could not go through with it, stopped halfway, and can only imagine the embarrassment and awkwardness from all the wandering eyes of the other people as i returned the mic.

Otherwise tho, it was really fun, cause we would dance along to the songs that other people were singing to  HOWEVER, it took them a looong time for the songs to come around to our turn. Cause they resort it to give everyone in the bar a chance to sing. so it was considerably quite dead with only another 8 other ppl there apart from "us". so the place is dead, and yet, we were waiting for about 45 mins-1 hour for it to come back to our turn. So on the night of about 3hours, we all only had about 2 chances to sing each. which imo, is freakin sad and unacceptable. I'd rather be in a utopia karaoke room, where all i have to wait is for other people in our group to sing, rather than wait for millions of other randoms to finish singing. <_<

BUT Kristin was really happy. she said to be able to get to since twice or thrice in one night was really really great for her, cause most of the times, the bar is (not dead) moderately filled with people, and there are times that she has waited for 2.5 hours before she finally sung. and you should've seen my shocked expression at how she could tolerate that. lol, i just don't have that patience when I Want to sing! Lolol so imo, utopia's karaoke rooms are better, cause their playlists are quite updated and would suit ali's tastes better too (she wanted to sing the only exception, which the bar didn't have). but i guess, kristin wants the $5 alcohol drinks from there. sooo. lol 

That's my review of the place. I'll definitely go back again tho if we all go together, because it's fun as a gang. but to go there just to sing? no, i will not wait for an hour just to get my turn to sing.  but it IS fun to dance along to what others are singing to too, i guess. IF they're singing happy songs, and sing well enuf to not destroy the mood. lol