Looking back on 2010.

Recapping the year 2010, because I won't have time till next year.

1. Unimates

During foundation, I was never really close to anyone in college. I had Evonne and that was all I needed, all I wanted to do was spend minimum time at college, go home and spend time with my highschool friends. I had this mindset that my highschool frends were all I needed so I never bothered to try. Then degree came and Evonne decided to take time off college for a bit and I was left truly on my own for the first time since highschool.

Best. Bunch of people you will ever meet.



We synchronized- Mich raised the camera and we all fell into this position. XD



Fav boyos!



And the girls sans Natasha.

What can I say? I grew into them. They started off as people I just hung out with for company during college, then it slowly changed and the weekends started feeling like hell because I was away from them. Now I can't imagine going to college without them, they make the daily 45 minute drive to and from college bearable. :)

2. Being unbraced.

First photoshoot sans braces!

Living with braces was hell and I was lucky enough to be unbraced right before a photoshoot. I could have kissed my dentist! (And I might have, who knows? Dentists. Yummy.)

3. Minimum wage

One of my favoirite looks this year. One of.

Lol. I would say this is the evolution of becoming a minimum wage model. I don't know, I used to model for peanuts, I used to model as a favor for friends! I used to get no pay, but I did it for fun. I didn't really mind.

But then I started getting paid and of course, being paid to do something you love is just amazeballs. But it wasn't till this year that I started getting properly paid, like the minimum of RM250 per runway show. And its cool, its cool to say that I can make a living off modelling. I'll model as long as people still want me to.

3. Bailey :)

My Bailey!



Rawr. My best dogs.

This cutie was such an accident. I never wanted Angel to be pregnant but now that Bailey is here I can't imagine one without the other. For one, they look like exact replicas of each other- Dr. Evil and his Mini-me. And they do everything together! Bailey is practically defenseless and useless without Angel- If I brought Bailey down without Angel she'd curl up and refuse to move. So adorable!

4. Joining Mirrors

Joining Mirrors was an accident for me as well, I didn't really expect anything out of it, I just joined for the free manicure but it turned out for the best! I had the opportunity to do so many things, dance classes, styling challenges, photoshoots, seeing a banner of myself. Haha. Its all very narcisstic.

At Baddogz Jin's studio.



More behind the scenes during our December issue.



And of course, the winning moment ;)

But joining Mirrors also brought out the best in my friends, the support I got was overwhelming, the extent they would go to for me was heartwarming, even more so than winning and I'm glad for that. :)

Other accomplishments I'm glad for this year include growing closer to my family- especially my moms side, learning how to use photoshop, getting the iPhone, going to Singapore with the unimates, staying close with the highschool mates, winning Miss Chinese Campus Yeahp. Life is good.

Although I'm not looking forward to growing older, I'm definitely looking forward to 2011. And to celebrate it the Mirrors Magazine January issue will be my first cover shot ever! With my interview inside, so get the magazine and read all about it. :)

My short profile in the December issue. :) Also my current fb display pic.

"A long December and theres reason to believe,
Maybe this year will be better than the last,
I can't remember the last thing you said as you were leaving,
Oh the days go by so fast."
- A Long December, Counting Crows
Top of my playlist every December.

PS: Going to be bringing my cousin Ann Fleuryn and the two baby twins in for casting tomorrow! I'm going to be the greatest child star agent ever!!

Blank dreams of the coming fun...

Going to Singapore tomorrow! Going to bring my Ah Kong back to stay with us!

Suppose that means I can't have friends over till late night playing cards and idle chatting in the den no more. :( Small sacrifice to make though, I'm going to be the best entertainment my Ah Kong has ever had!

My Ah Kong fell back in June [?] May [?] and hit his head. He's recovering now but he's lost most of his motor skills, and he doesn't talk much anymore, and I'm not sure whether he knows who I am most of the time. =/

But he used to be brilliant, he reads a lot so he knows all these things about Chinese history, litreature and he knows the whole family history going back 28 generations or something. He gave me a book he'd written himself about our family history, its this small execise book which he wrote with ink and pen. But then I misplaced it. :(

Oh this is depressing :(

PS: I'm not going to sleep tonight so I can be completely passed out in the car tomorrow. Nothing I dread more than being in an enclosed space for hours on end.

"You can't get a grip if there's nothing to hold."

Sometimes

Just had a fantastic Christmas celebration that spanned almost 24 hours; all I ever need to be happy is good company and good food. I wonder how everyone else is spending their Christmas. Merry Christmas people, I have presents that I'm so tempted to rip open right on the spot but will refrain from doing so till morning. :)



Presents!

“Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love. They can be your pets- pups with funny names, cats with ferocious old souls. The thing that keeps you here can be your art. It can be things you have collected and invested with a certain sense of meaning. A flowered, buckled treasure chest of secrets. Shoes that make you taller and, therefore, closer to the heavens. A suit that belonged to your fairy godmother. A dress that makes you feel a little like the Goddess herself.

Sometimes you keep falling; you don’t catch anything.

Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you here. Sometimes you catch them. Sometimes you don’t.

Sometimes they catch you.”

- Francessa Lia Block

The Catcher in the Rye

Just finished "Catcher in the Rye" last night. I won't lie, I only read it because people kept comparing Niven Govinden's "Grafitti my Soul" to it. It's somewhat akin to listening to Elvis Presley just because someone said Ral Donner sang like him.

I actually found it a lot milder than "Grafitti my Soul". Could be the difference in settings- one being the 1960's and the other being the contemporary times. But still very relatable, up and down, round and round with bouts of suicidal tendencies and sexual misadventures, teenagers don't really change much.

Folded pages:

"...I read a lot of war books and mysteries and all but it doesn't knock me out too much. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."
- pg 18

"She bought me the wrong kind of skates- I wanted racing skates but she bought hockey- but it made me sad anyway. Almost everytime somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad."
- pg 52

"Jane was different. We'd get into a goddamn movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit until the movie was over. and without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were."
- pg 79

"She was about as kindhearted as a goddam wolf. You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. I'm not kidding."
- pg 140

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly or one."
- pg 188

"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose."
- pg 204

"Its funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
- pg 214

I didn't list out all of them, there are too many and some are too personal. I wouldn't like it if someone didn't appreciate a quote the same way I did. I don't like it when people don't understand.

One for the memory, the ten people who came to scream their lungs out for me. I don't remember winning, I remember this. :)

“Opsablepsia -
The inability to look someone in the eye while speaking.”
I have a milder version of this. It depends on the person I'm speaking to.

PS: Christmas is here! I took the time to chose everyones gift properly this year, can't wait. :))

Minor Apprehension

I'm craving macarons like mad.

I've been having this problem with overeating; I keep eating nonstop! Yesterday I had Penang Laksa for dinner with the highshool gang, then we went back to my house and trolled about playing "Truth or Dare" and I downed like 3 bowls of frosties and milk, potato chips, super ring and chocolate bars. Then we went mamaking and I felt super sick and bloated but I still wanted to eat.

Then today my mom made my favoirite boiled black chicken herbal soup, which I downed in a second. Then I still went out and got Ramli, extra cheese, extra patty, extra egg. But now I'm RAVENOUS. I don't know why but I'm craving fried, oily stuff. :(((

Putting food related issues aside I was a bride for a day. I was Touch Wedding studio's model for this makeup competition held in Midvalley. I generally hate makeup competitions, I've repeated it over and over again- I hate sitting for hours and hours. Plus for competitions, they do your makeup on stage and as a model you have to sit up straight and still look poised.

I HAD to take photos with the horse, the carriage was off-limits though. :(



Other model photobombing my horse shot!



Still photobombing my horse shot. Lol.



Vintage cars! And super tall ang-moh model behind me. :P



Karen and me. This is my 3rd or 4th time working with her.

But today the music was so damn good, it was this celtic, electro pop mix thing. I wished I thought to Shazam it. But it lifted my mood, there was this one part where my makeup artist accidentally closed the glitter casing's lid too hard and the glitter all flew upwards and it was so pretty, so calming, I could have sat there and fake smiled all day.

And I Lookbook-ed it! I've been Lookbooking less and less, but only because nobody takes photos for me!

'You say "I've got the backbone"
The back way to escape the gun
Climbing a tree with a missing limb
And not saving anyone'
-Flash Delirium, MGMT
On loop on my playlist. RAWR!

PS: This is like the 3rd or 4th post in a row about modelling. It seems to be all thats blog worthy nowadays, but book review soon! Finishing up Catcher in the Rye.

Mirrors Finals

Before I start blogging about the finals I have to post photos of the most awesome people in the world.

Chee Yern, Kevin who made the banners "You WISH you WERE Sheena Liam!" Haha. And Suzuki!



Jin Rui and Wei Wen :)



Jasmine, Phillers, Wei Jun and Gerald!

My god. You should have heard the noise they made, they were a complete riot. It wouldn't have mattered even if I didn't snag a prize, I was so happy, it was like a gathering of my favoirite people in the world, college mates, highschool, juniors and simply friends I've known.

I was at Mist Club by 2:30pm getting my makeup, hair and nails done. There were banners of us, both group shots and individual. It was pretty fantastic, Mirrors really went all out to decorate the place and make us feel like celebrities. (Which of course we aren't but we can dream can't we?)

Our banner in front of the club.

Vogue Dance, I look happier than I should be. The mist blasted straight into my face.



Evening gown. I didn't understand the color scheme until I saw this photo, Carven Ong is a genius.



Introduction speech, the mic was so low and I wasn't sure if I could adjust it.



I hunched over half the time. Haha.



During Q&A with Hanson. He pretty much bullied us on stage. Haha.



My banner outside. I didn't get to bring it home though :(

I managed to snag the 1st runner up. This is like my 3rd 1st runner up prize, I think I'm getting good at coming in second. Haha. But it was completely unexpected, I was on stage just hoping I'd get the Miss Beautiful Eyes subtitle so I could get free contact lenses then they announced me 1st runner up!

I just want to thank everyone who has been there from the start, all the support I've had was overwhelming. I'm still receiving congradulation messages on Facebook, Twitter and by sms! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

Final shot with all the winners. Laura, Gwen, Veronica, Me, Ashley and Chenyee.

"Like an apparition,
You don't seem real at all,
Like a premonition,
Of curses on my soul."
- Dance with me, Nouvelle Vague
Because it seems apt. =/

PS: Watching The Bachelor as I type my post out. I think its the dumbest show ever, obviously Matt doesn't give half an ass about girls with actual brains if he's enamoured with blondes who love acting blonde on purpose. Even after they admitted to it.

PPS: Reading Catcher in Rye too. :) Good stuff.

Quickie

Well. I have a bit of time for a quickie update. (15 minutes to be exact.)

Then I'll be out the door and on to Mist Club for preparation for the finals tonight. I'm kinda nervous, jumpy. Mom yelled before she left "PICK UP YOUR TISSUES ALL OVER THE FLOOR." and I go "Thanks for wishing me good luck mom." I don't mind really, that's just how we communicate. Haha.

Carven Ong! Who's dresses we will be wearing tonight. :)

I'll be doing a dance number "Vogue" by Madonna, answering questions, catwalk and award show. Preparation for the event itself spanned months, can't believe its going to be over in 3 and a half hours. Chances of me winning are slim, and I don't say that in the look-at-me-I'm-so-humble! way, there are some really gorgeous girls in the competition with bigger than life personalities, now I don't mind snagging a subtitle if possible.

Wish me luck phantom readers! Haha. Everything will be over by tonight and then I really won't know what to do with myself. I'll probably go for intensive German or Thai.

Spam.

How do I stop spam from appearing in my chatbox?

So. Not. Cool.

I'm starving but I refuse to cook, I refuse to cook because I have to clean, I have to clean because my maid is on hiatus apparently. She mopes around the house but she doesn't do a thing, I haven't gotten my laundry back from eons ago and I need my jeans badly.

I'm not into maid abuse but maids are here for something you know? I can't overwork her when she barely does a thing, there's a bag of chips on the table from three days ago. All she does is watch TVB dramas on Youtube and sleep in front of the TV.

That said, I've been fairly busy with Mirrors activities and other stuff so I've no time to deal with her. Futsal then dance class in a bit!

From dance class last week for Mirrors. Yes, we dance in heels. VOGUE STYLE!



Photoshoot with the girls.



I like my grey dress, like a greek goddess. :))

Mirrors finals are on the 16th of December at Mist Club Bangsar, 4pm. If you wanna get in you have to apply for passes. Apparently theres a hugeass banner of us which I am obliged to camwhore with when I see. Haha. See you there!

Main course- honey mustard steak with stir fried mushrooms by Suzuki and Wen.



Appetizers- Pesto [?] Mustard [?] cucumber thingie on bacon by Phillers.



Fruit salad by Meen

From the day the gang came over to cook, mingle and have dinner together. I made mash potatoes but apparently mash potatoes aren't worth a photo >:( Hahahahaa. I kid, they look god awful but taste heavenly!

PS: Damn. Now my stomach really is growling. =O