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I wish love was first come first serve. There’s nothing worse than being the girl who starts something she can’t finish.In heaven. Sleepy. Fed.I wish love was first come first serve. There’s nothing worse than being the girl who starts something she can’t finish.
Accurate depiction of adolescent over analyzing and unjustified mountains of hope. Oh yeah and a kiss. New prospects? Not too bad.
- New Year; A month delayed.
Starting a new chapter in my life. Who isn’t? Lets see how this goes. Wanna tag along?
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- Jan 16, 12This has been swimming around for awhile and I love Jalouse and I love this video so I thought I would just drop this here.
Une Fille Comme Les Autres from Jalouse blog on Vimeo.
- Jan 13, 12My family has never been huge on the gift giving thing. We don't usually wait for a specific time to give gifts so when Christmas rolls around not much is exchanged. However I love the spirit of the season and still get the urge to do some holiday spending myself. Who better to give a gift to than yours truly? I treated my self to a couple of things throughout the holiday actually. I finally got all of what I ordered and was excited enough to document it.
Essie Black, Make-Up Forever Lipstick and Liner, Plasticland Glass Skull Mug, Hot Topic Rib Cage Sweater I'm sure around this time the delivery men are busy busy with all the packages flying about. My boyfriend surprised me this year with a gift. Hes been going through some things and found himself a little tight so I wasn't expecting anything at all. The fact that he still thought about me in the midst of everything that is going on in his life just goes to show how great of a guy he is.He knows how much I love art and Lord Of The Rings. This is one of my favorite gifts ever. There is so much awesome stuff inside. They talk about character developments and how everything was translated into the fim, and just the overall process of the story and characters being brought to life.One package that came a bit late this season was our delectable treats from Germany. My aunt and uncle send us things every year that we (usually) can't get here.Not sure what the english name for everything is however by far my favorite thing that I sort of rely on them sending is the Kerstbrood which literally translates to Christmas Bread. It's like a cake/bead hybrid with fruits and nuts in it and sugar on top or something. It's so good and is one of the new traditions we never let go of since moving to this country. We usually eat it wish a block of Holland kaas (cheese) but as I am committed to a better diet we skipped out this year.Yummy - Jan 13, 12So far the New Year is going well. This year I didn't have so much of a resolution as I did just some things I want to change or do better or just incorporate into my life. One huge thing that has concerned me for awhile now is the state of my health. I won't go into too much detail but I am just happy to say that overall I eat so much better and take better care of myself. There is still so much room for improvement however any change is good at this point.School has resumed and after the first week I have noticed the intensity level jump from my first quarter to this one. Much more technical, lots more information and more complex assignments. I'm a bit worried but ready to work. It's around now that I am realizing that the connects you develop with your professors can really help you in the field and I am happy to have some very talented and awesome instructors who are still working in the industry.I did have some off days where I spent one of them going to this Japanese Mexican Fusion restaurant called Taka Taka. After getting lost on Grand and going in and out of random vintage shops we got hungry and the allure of never having eaten Mexican food convinced me that it would be quite the experience.I ordered yakitori and edamame as I wasn't that hungry and have been trying to watch what I eat. It was delicious, small servings, everything I could have asked for. My sister got the tortilla sushi and my friend got the toastada. All in all a great place to eat. It was pretty high up for someone on a school budget like I am, but it was a fun splurge.After that my sister and myself just walked around Soho, which I do almost every night since after getting out of class I never like going straight home. A weeknight in the city is also so quiet but still lively; My favorite kind of night.
- Jan 02, 12
- Dec 02, 11
Someone on my facebook posted this video and from the image I had to take a look at this video. At first I thought it was some sad regurgitation of what Nicki Minaj and Lady Gaga have decided is the new face of pop but after seeing the american style harajuku girl pointless pop music video, I have to admit it kinda rubbed off on me. The song sounds like a four minute chorus, loud overflowing with sound and it makes you want to sing along(even though I can't really understand what she's saying). I think it's alright to make songs for no apparent reason. I think that is basically a huge part of pop music not to mention some peoples entire career. My only issue with this is that after doing a little research on Nenna Yvonne I realized that the very japanese style video and song lyric "kuru kuru" (a sound for rolling) doesn't seem to fit with her image or personality as an artist. I think venturing out and trying new styles is great, but the thing I hate the most is when artists lose themselves between the music they want to write and the music others want to hear. Good Luck Nenna and I will be looking forward to any future videos/songs.
PS. Parts of this video remind me of PonPonPon I'm not surprised. - Nov 26, 11
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Three weeks left in school and four weeks until Christmas. The holiday season is my favorite season. It's the only time of year that I feel one can be cheerful for no reason at all. Walking around in the city at night you could see New York preparing for the impending holiday. Stores immaculately decorated, lights being put up in apartment windows, the works.
I have always spent the holidays with my family, and had a certain image of how the holidays were supposed to be. However, being older and watching so many other things change in my life and the lives of those around me, it makes me yearn for something new. Beginning to realize that maybe it's time to do things differently I am left wondering what now? What do I do now? It's scary but somewhat exciting.The skating rinks have opened in Bryant Park and The Standard, if that doesn't make it feel like Christmas then I don't know what does. Can't wait for the break, shopping, snowy days, great restaurants and time with people you enjoy. - Nov 19, 11I still feel as though I haven't made a proper update. With less than five weeks left in my term for school, I find myself getting over the initial bouts of craziness that comes with being a new student in a fast paced environment.Unfortunately school has been all that I have managed to have time for. It's the only thing that I really think about. I have interesting professors who have given me interesting assignments thus far which required a various amount of skills, some I had and some I had to acquire in a short amount of time.Being that fashion is now my main focus outside from my own free time I am realizing how it can encompass an entire persons life. And for the first time I have wanted days that didn't include anything related to fashion. I missed laying on my couch and watching horror films. Walking for hours in the city at ungodly hours of the night. Keeping up with whats new in music and j-culture. Attempting to renew my Mubi subscription only to realize I would be paying for movies I have no time to watch. Most of all just hanging out with friends.I have definitely met some people so far who are fun and interesting, however I haven't quite had the time to make it into a real friendship instead of an in-class relationship. I had been feeling a little confused and lost for awhile to be honest. Like a thick fog just swept into my town and I can't see anything past my front door.I hadn't quite noticed how much my mood was affected by the weather. Well not the weather in particular, just the winter. Winter is probably my favorite time of year. Not only for the holidays, lights, and season cheer. But somehow winter seems to be a season of reflection for me. I always find myself drifting away somewhere or trying to create my idea of solitude. I love this time of year.. However usually a feeling that accompanies this is laziness. Which is something I cannot afford to be if I want to continue doing well in school. The bad thing about getting A's and being on top is that you have such a long way down should you fall.I started looking for comfort in places familiar to me. I decided I need to shake it off and just move on. Figure out what was important to me and how much time I would dedicate to exploring those things. So I made some time and started drawing, brainstorming for a new story to write, and watching anime. I even discovered some new bands I am really into.
Relaxing in Bryant Park Overall I am just realizing that balancing of alot of things is much harder than I thought it would be. But I suppose that just part of life. Balancing of moods, responsibilities, fun, people, money, all sorts of aspects in ones life. - Oct 30, 11Things have seemed to change very drastically, very quickly.
Everything seems to be going well so far. My life has managed to find a path and go on head first into it and it has me filled with loads of excitement and anticipation for what has yet to come. October I started school and so far everything is going alright. I am finding a little hard to keep up but its midterm's week and I need to get my head on straight. Trying to find where your school life ends and your adult like begins is difficult. I am trying to treat this like it were a job, and live and breathe this but its much harder than I want to admit. I really want to go shopping. My room is still out of commision. And my finances are stabbing me in the ass.
I will make a proper post another time but I didn't want October to pass me by and I didn't post.
There will be a change in direction in my blogging I think. But I am still messing around with the idea. - Sep 01, 11Last night at the Hiro Ballroom Tokyo Rising, a short documentary for Palladiums Fall 2011 campaign directed by Thalia Mavros had it's world premiere. The documentary features (sexy) rapper, producer and designer Pharrell as he goes around and talks to various artists types about the 3.11 earthquake that devastated Japan. At first when I heard about it I thought it would've been some glitzy look at a hot guy in one of my favorite cities. I was pleased to realize that it was far from so.
When the earthquake happened I was watching japanese tv, my show was canceled and I saw the mayhem unfold almost immediately. I was only in contact with one of my friends in japan, Kazuto an called him right away. Being such a huge event you lose sight of each persons individual experiences with the earthquake. Aside from random videos on youtube, I never imagined what some individuals went through. Tokyo Rising does just that, it gives you insight on some of the creative's outlook and view of Japan post.
With appearances from Verbal of M-flo, 6% Doki Doki's Sebastian Masuda and six person art group Chim Pon among many others. This is a definite must-see. Forgetting not to mention the awesome band it introduced me to Trippple Nippples and their crazy fun catchy tune "LSD""Today an idea can change the world"
- Aug 25, 11The summers are usually a pain for me but lately with the weather cooling down i've had some chances to go out and enjoy what's left of the season I was born in. So I figure I would catch up on some things. Which is a nice way of saying PHOTO DUMP!These were from a trip we took around the city. We went window shopping mostly and looked at some things we both wanted to buy. The weather was pretty nice an lots of tourists were out so as we passed 50th street we noticed the crowd in front of the church. My sister expressed how much she had always wanted to go inside so we did. It was beautiful. I'd love to visit it everyday but I feel kinda bad being all touristy in a church, whether alot of people are doing it or not.I love to walk. Walking is such a peaceful thing to me, and being in NYC you never run out of cool interesting places to walk, so needed to stretch my legs and my brother needing to hand in an application to game stop, we went for a walk. Took to J to Delancey near where I used to work and took it from there.
- Aug 24, 11
Tuesday was a nice day, so me and my mom decided we would visit my grandma.Little did we know that on the way we would be having an earthquake. In the train we felt a little shakebut there's no telling if it was from the earthquake or just good 'ol MTA vibrations. Anyway, as soonas we get above ground everyone is talking about it. It's really rare for things like that to happen inNYC so it's understandable that people were as freaked out, excited, and amused by all of it.My mother and brother
ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟ ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟAfter hanging out at my grandma's my brother decided he and his friend would meet up with me.My mom went home and my brother, myself and his friend R were just hanging out at Columbus Circle.Looking at adorable kids play in the water and play with their parents was enough funwhile we waited for my friend Nyla to show up. After fussing over what we were going to do aftershe came, we decided to hike into central park. Arming ourselves with drinks and snacks wewere on our way. We walked until it was dark as hell inside the park, bugs were attacking us andonce we passed this pond we were convinced there was a demon waiting to kill us, but the icingon the cake was by far the tribal drumming from the native cannibals who were performingvoodoo rituals not too far away. Okay so maybe there was no demons, or cannibals but rather ducksand protesters. Anywho it was time for us to leave the park and go our separate ways. Nyla andmyself heading off to dinner at Oh!Taisho, a Yakitori spot on St. Marks.They have Yebisu Beer :O I had never been there before even though I had always wanted to go, so I was super excited whenwe got the chance. Nyla said she would treat me as a late birthday gift, naturally I was thrilled. Sheis so sweet and is always doing nice things for me, a great friend.Inside Oh!Taisho. We got some amazing food. I ordered the fried squid legs and a tonkastu platter.Nyla got some awesome appetizers, aspara bacon, takoyaki and cheese fries that were to die for.She said that her eyes were hungrier that her stomach and this ended up being true for both of us.There was alot of food and even us two hungry gals couldn't put it down.ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟ ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟWe decided with our now big bellies that it would be smart to walk it off. Well it was getting lateand we didn't want to just walk nowhere. So we ended up going to Japas 27 for somekaraoke.Even though I had been here for awhile I never got the rumored remote control where youjust search for the artist or song and it pops up. That is, until this time. It was the coolestthing ever. It took me awhile to get used to it, some of the kanji I didn't get but after a bitI was in business and it became the most helpful thing ever. I found some songs I have neverbeen able to find. All and all a very good time.ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟ ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟThe night still wasn't quite over. We found ourselves craving something sweet. Lucky for us there wasalot of choices in the area. We opted for some ice cream from baskin robbins which we both failedto finish due to access amounts of sweetness and fear of infinite cavities.Nyla eating her bit of sugary death. My bag~ It was an awesome day. I look forward to hanging out like this more often when theweather continues on.ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟ ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟOh, some extra news. With news about the earthquake I was reminded of our recent weather conditions.Shit has been crazy lately, crazy storms for days on end. The last one we had wasn't as bad as anotherone but took down a branch. However the one we had about a month ago took downmy neighbors tree. There is a hurricane warning out so please my fellow east coastersbe careful. Stay inside if you can or at least be prepared to experience some chaos over the weekend. - Aug 24, 11☆ハローI haven't made any posts about me since july and that was just a photo dump so before I get too far out of the loop I wanted to catch up on some (boring) stuff I forgot to
pretend was interestingtell you. （‐＾▽＾‐ I have had some random bouts of happiness so far this summer. My sister came back from Otakon with some gifts for me. A lucky star poster, and a Pokabu plush. Getting the plush made me start playing my again. I have kinda been living off of Tomodachi Collection for a month now, and it's so addicting. It's like the sims but for the ds and japanese. Aside from that I have been getting back into learning japanese.. Plus designing some more clothes for the winter time and looking into some more ds games I might want to play.
Oh and I downloaded Moshi Moshi Harajuku finally. And although it sounds alot like capsule it's still good in it's own right, my favorite song being "ちょうどいいの". I don't want to get in trouble for uploading this file so i'll take it off after a week. Until then enjoy.
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I have always been a goth/punk kid at heart. Even when I got more into the cutesy side of Jfashion I still managed to gravitate toward the more dark looks, punk loli and such. But aside from having colorful hair occasionally my wardrobe has been void of anything that isn't black, grey, white, punk, red, spiked, striped, etc. That kind of style seems to be very popular these days and I'm not sure if it's who I am following or just kids today or a combination of both, but I have been seeing some super inspiring photos all over the interwebs lately. Most recently I came across this photo.
I fell in love with not only the girl but the photo immediately. Luckily for me the source was included in the link and shortly after I saw a bunch of other amazing photos.This was the Dog x Street icon Project on Style Promotion where there is much more to behold. (The Grimoire-Almadel× Street icon is something else too). The photographer is Yoshiyuki Okuyama who is super talented. His site is filled with beautiful photos that really put you in the mood that's captured. Check it out~ - Jul 05, 11
- Jul 04, 11
I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. Part of that is because 1, my camera battery died and when it dies I die. 2, I relocated computers, I switched from mainly using my laptop (which has everything on it) to my desktop (which has bl games and various tv shows.
So, what have I been doing since then?►Walking around in the nasty heat. ►Finding solace in movie theatres (Omg Super 8 was amazing) ►Rekindling my love for Mubi.com & Netflix and going wtf at The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle ►Telling myself to clean my room and sort out my clothes ►Hanging out with new people or rather person ►Making long distance calls when they aren't free ►Doodling again ►Download loads of new (and old) killer albums ►Oh and got my RedMage to lvl 90 in FFXI who da man? *points to self*Yeah, but I am kinda calming down from that and really wondering how I should go about spending the rest of my summer. Next week is my birthday, and I really don't feel like doing anything. I honestly want to just celebrate my birthday in the winter. Like December or something... Fark me. Oh wellz... this is pointless but I just needed to write some words since my next post will probably be all photos. SPOILER.I shall leave you with this beautiful video from this song I loved off of Lykke Li's album. It's lovely. - Jun 21, 11
So I just want to geek out for a moment. This game was only for 3ds and I was so bummed because I am not that much of a gamer to toss away the ds I have now for the new one, but I just found out it's being released for the PS3. I am excited. That is all. - Jun 20, 11
This past Saturday was my sister's monthly doll meet-up. I had always been interested in them. I used to stalk to Volks website and dreamed about owning one myself when I was younger. I was even around when Lutz was first created and all they had were some shoes and doll undies. Yeah, these dolls have always been around my mind somewhere. And when my sister bought her first BJD she joined a group on a forum called Den of Angels and began attending these meets. It seemed like a hassle to me for not much reward but after going with her that day, my mind is definitely changed.Me eating what was left of my big ass burger with a knife and fork.
After that my sister and I went back to my grandmother's got our stuff and made out way home, but I got a little hungry and went to the nearest place to eat which turned out to be a Johnny Rockets. I know I am supposed to be eating healthy but something was very exciting about walking into this diner. When my order came I realized I bought too much food, silliness ensued.Muscles glasses. :3 - Jun 19, 11
I really wish I didn't feel the need to talk about this crap. Frankly I along with im sure many people are just fed up with racism and prejudice of any kind. But after having an altercation with someone plus just random conversations that have seemed to come up on the topic I felt the need just to say something. If you read this, please take time out of your life to watch this video.
I don't even know where to start with this. Being black myself I know a lot about what they mention in the videos. I like to think I am a lucky person in some sense that I have never experienced any racism or prejudice from other races. At least that I am aware of. However, I get alot of hate from people of my own race. When I moved to this country, even as a kid I always felt like I was different just from that alone. In my elementary school there were mostly black kids and I have no clue why but I just didn't fit in with them. No matter how hard I may have tried they weren't having me. It was mostly the girls that were hating or whatever and was left with most of my friends being the .5% spanish and white kids in the fucking school. I didn't have the cool adidas that were popular at the time or my hair wasn't pressed like everyone else's or long down to my butt or anything Oh and my mother fucking favorite reason for being hated on by my peers is that "I talk white". I am sure every colored person has heard this from people in your neighborhood, school, job wherever. That because you use proper english as a black person it is called talking "white". Whatever that means.
I am sorry if this is all over the place but my emotions get all crazy when I think about this shit. I have never received any hatred from any other race except my own. If I chose to go outside without a perm or my roots being nappy or some shit someone always has something to say. But my friends that were asian, white, spanish didn't care. They saw it as me being myself. I have never dated a black guy and none of my boyfriends gave me any kind of shit about my skin, where I am from, my naps. So how is it that they could accept me for my ethnic wonders and my own people think that when your hair is not permed it is "nasty" and doesn't look taken care of.
As I got older, the struggle to maintain the love of my color and race became harder. Society period puts alot of pressure on people in general, especially women of ever color to be beautiful. Which today's america believes that to be white long haired colored eyed size 4 woman. Being a tall fat black girl it would've been very easy to fall into hating myself because I was so far from what society thought was beautiful. But I had to check it and ask myself who the fuck was society to decide how I should feel about myself. I think I look damn good. I never had any problems in the boy department, I have been many guys first fat girl or first black girl and they never complained.
In the circles I am in, which is mostly the anime and jpop culture fiends, beauty in our circles is a 5'4 80lb Japanese girl. The boys think so and the girls think so. When I started dressing goth, it was seen as a "white thing". And when I went to concerts or just shopping you start to notice that you may just be the ONLY one of your color in that room. When your young you get those feelings of "if I was _____, I would be more beautiful and more accepted". Ladies this is not true. I may not be a certified guru or any kind but if there is one thing I can tell you it is this. In all 100% honesty you cannot change people who don't want to change. I have lived in all kinds of ghettos grew up on streets that had drive-bys and still left my house everyday being me. Whether it was goth, punk, decora I never let the world around me stop me from being myself and finding myself beautiful.
THIS GOES OUT TO EVERYONE. Not just girls of color but people in general. We have got to break out of this bullshit and self hatred. We can't do too much about the world or society. That isn't a reason to hide yourself because you don't feel accepted right away. Find the beauty within yourself and show it to the world, educate them about who you are and make them get used to it. So what if my dresses have lace and frills? SO what is my nails are super long and my hair is super big? So what If I have fat thighs and big arms? So what is my skin is super pale or super dark? So fucking what? You are spending time out of your life to think about me when all I am doing is going about my business. I love myself I am beautiful and guess what? There is nothing you can do to change that.
Don't give people the power to tear you down. Be proud of who you are, where you come from, what you have to offer. And fuck the people who can't accept you. - Jun 20, 11
This post is pointless. The only reason why I want to do this is because I am super excited about this new album I got. I write, it keeps me sane, it's a great hobby and it's just fun. When I write I listen to all kinds of music, but I try to keep it low-key so that I am not singing along or anything cause I get easily distracted(especially when I am pondering on what my character[s] should do/say). I often find myself listening to classical music, or a specific classical song on repeat. My favorite concerto by Bach. But I only can listen to it on youtube and I have to keep playing it over and over and it's so annoying. So I tide myself over with a Dustin Halleron Opus and Clair de Lune. Anyway long story short I got fed up with being deprived of my beloved Johann and went on an interweb adventure to find this darn song so I could write to it. And I did, finally. It's a piano version though which is sad. It's much better on harpsichord but I am not complaining. It sounds lovely and I am listening to it right now.
I guess in an attempt to make this somewhat relevant/cohesive with my other posts I could talk about my hair for a moment. I have been "trying" to grow my hair for a couple months now. Telling myself that I would break away from my comfort zone of short hair and nurture my hair to longer lengths. The reason why I say "trying" is because since I declared I would grow my hair I have cut it about 6 times MINUS the monthly trimming/dusting I do to my ends regularly. If you know me, you know I used to wear braids alot. Then I took a little break but about a month and a half ago started up again.I had these from last until last week. Loved them totally one of my favorite set of colors. The blue side had white mixed in, it was so perfect. I started blogging more around this time so you saw photos of my hair in this color. (And a nod to my nails as well, I don't usually match them with my hair but it was fun)This was my hair about 2 months ago. I had stopped doing the braid extensions and got lazy and did just regular braids and when I took it out it was be poofy/curly and just wore it like that. This is me looking busted but my hair wasn't styled. Figure it's better seen normal like.Excuse my derp face. This is what my hair usually looks like (minus the braids on the side which you can't see) This isnt the best photo of length but my hair stopped right around the bottom of my face kinda rounding it out. This was about 2 months ago though. When I took out my braids this time around even with the new growth and wavy hair (from the braids) my bangs went way passed my eyes. I wasn't sure if I was going to recut them or have my hair back since I missed it so much, but then I remembered that I said I would grow my hair. If my hair is exposed in anyway scissors will make it's way into my hand so I decided I would braid it. But seeing as I had done almost every color that was available to me I went for something different. Something 90's.Voila. That's it. You can barely see it but this is my hair/nail set for now. It's a dark brown and black mix of THICK braids. They almost look dread like. My style is mostly 80's 90's inspired anyway, super oversized and sometimes tacky. I knew I didn't want anything too outstanding since it was the summer time and I wanted to tone it down.I thought of going all white since that is my total favorite and since winter I hadn't had it in awhile. But when it's white I like to wear it down which isn't happening in this heat. I like to have my hair up in the summer whether it's in braids or not. So I figured I would do something more natural which for me is more outrageous than walking down the street in neon green hair. - Jun 20, 11I didn't get much photos because I got 2 hours of sleep and spent most of the even dozing off over my roll cake.We got there a little late but to be honest I don't think we missed anything. The one thing I was looking forward to which was the panel about Glaee´ was canceled. So when I sat down I only heard people talking about the do's and don'ts of Lolita, where to wear your Lolita style, and how to answer questions about your style.It kinda seemed like a beginners seminar, which I could see being useful since there were a lot of young Lolita there that day.It was nice seeing Yanise and also some other people who randomly popped up which I don't see very often.These girls were total cuties.This group shot literally stopped traffic. Aside from the passersby being completely astonished and taking photos themselves resulting in the girls dressed up having to stay still for about 15 minutes, I got some good shots of everyone not looking in a million directions.After that we were invited by a friend to go to her friends birthday Karaoke gathering at Duet35. The room we were in was nice, I am used to the other kinds of rooms that were smaller and the main room near the entrance, but this was my first time in a room with 3 screens. It really made it easy for everyone to get into the songs.The people were really nice and one of them actually shared something in common with my sister and I that I was delighted to hear about. But craving a more private setting we used the opportunity to check out a new karaoke place, Japas 27. It was kind of confusing at first since when you go the only way you knew you were in the right place was a tiny little sign outside the building, but once you entered the open kaitenzushi/bar/restaraunt the kind gentlemen waiting by the door lead us upstairs to what looked like an authentic japanese karaoke spot.Minus the rooms being completely exposed by having huge glass windows cover the wall and doors and the $8hr/person fee, I think this might be my favorite spot. They have a special we didn't try out yet where if you order lunch you get free karaoke from 12-5.The food was great, their edamame was really yummy and service was impeccable. Oh and let's not forget the computerized Bam Karaoke machine which made song input a breeze.I look forward to going there again.
- Jun 03, 11
Although the title would have you think otherwise, this isn't a post about para para. But, because I saw the extended trailer last night I thought I would share it with you all. Even though most of you have probably seen this already. Anyway, the (long) trailer for the upcoming live-action remake of Paradise Kiss.
Honestly, I only just(like 4 months ago) watched paradise kiss. I didn't even read the manga. So I am not an awesome super fan who has been into it for years. I liked it though. First disappointment in the movie was the fact that George's hair isn't dyed.. I know it isn't that big of a deal but their hair for me was a bit part of their character, Miwako too.
I have been youtube crazy kinda. I am also hoping to start a thing where I make videos everyday/weekly about my boring ass life. I have always wanted to do a video diary just because so I am still thinking about it. - May 30, 11日本語のポストが久しぶりだよね〜あんまり勉強しなかった。ごめん！まだぺらぺらじゃない、まだレージなやつだよ。いま、いろんな日本語ブログを読むだから”私の日本語はまだ下手クソ、どうして？”だと思いました。そして、日本語ポストをやる〜そう考えた。。。でも、面白い事がちょっとないな〜それも、ごめんね。GYDAのユリアがすごい美人です。唇はいつもピンクとこんな風にヽ( )＾ε＾( )ノ。そんなのかわいい女もいるな〜 アタシはそんなの美人になるは本当にムリですね。やせたい〜まだ太ているだってきれいな服を買えない。。たすけて〜おねがい〜フライドチキンはとってもおいしいだから、やせるはすげええ難しい〜 たすけて！！！！お姉さんは新しいショートパンツを作った、とってもかわいいです！あのパンツにうしろがきゅーとになった。本当にかわいい〜クロゼットにステフ姉さんのアタシに作った服が一番おおいだ。いつも“新しい服を作ろう”って。後ろが大きいですよね、じゃふつうの店にきれいなパンツとスカートがみつけない。・ﾟﾟ･(≧д≦)･ﾟﾟ･｡それから、手作りのはたくさんがある。いま、おなかがちょっといたいんです。またね〜
- May 26, 11My house has been in complete havoc lately. With fixing up the basement and throwing out years of old things from our shed in the backyard and moving furniture around in the living room, it has just been crazy. But we got done with most of it and it made it possible to properly clean my living room, so I spent the day doing that.~Sorry this was photographed off my tv.While I was cleaning I wanted to watch something so I wouldn't get bored, and since I hadn't been tuning into JTV lately I figured I would make cleaning more fun with a new episode of London Hearts. Guess what I watched? Another make-over episode. I talked about this before in another http://minaihito.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post.html post, and basically just tried to convey to everyone the awesomely drastic nature in which these 芸人 are transformed.
Stephanie was deco-ing her camera On this episode they had TakaMina of AKB48. She is one of my favorites from the group. She appeared in Mendol and Majisuka Gakuen, 2 of my favorite shows. They had alot of new faces on the show. Out of the recent episodes I had only seen I think a couple male rankings, a lovemaggedon and a dokkiri date thingy so I hadn't seen like a mix in awhile. This was probably one of my favorite episodes.Doesn't she look great?Yeah... It was..They had alot of previous Busaiku and It was them who really blew it out of the park.I love oni. She is awesome. But when I saw her do this Queen Emeraldess Cosplay she stole my heart even more.This one was hilarious he just looked so bad...Anyway, in all of these there is always a person who stands out. Just like MouChuu From my last post this girl needs to check herself. I think she is the most recent busaiku but after I saw how she could look I was shocked.Brace Yourselves.................Thats her! The girl on the left and the girl on the right are the same girl! It makes no sense.”えぇぇぇっ~！！” That was basically my face too.I mean look at her.. She's gorgeous. She kinda looks gyaru.Everyone was fascinated by how drastically different the two girls looked. With a little makeup some weave and new clothes they looked amazing.Go Here for Transformation~ http://makeagif.com/media/5-26-2011/ktpJjh.gifThey had others but none compared to the previous pair. They were unbeatable.Time for the sexy make overs..This is the samurai guy. With the long hair.. Yeah.. Totally different. Work wise they said this was their best work as make up artists. They did his chest, facial hair everything. I agree that they did alot of work on him but it's not like he came out hot or anything.. =pHaving done Emeraldess I was excited to see what she was going to do.I kinda saw this coming.. and loved it. That's her real butt <3She looks like a kpop star kinda.They gave her a hard time because of all the photos they took this was the only one that looked decent.They compared her pose to the hands of the clock and proceeded to call her "Hachi ji Go Fun" which means 8:05. It was funny, they wouldn't leave her alone. XDSo after witnessing the awesome that was her transformation and seeing Sumire before her sorta bomb her second photoshoot, she was worried that her 2nd would also be a bust.It indeed was not.. Look at this woman! She's a NATURAL H CUP! She looks so hot.. Why.. How... when she could be so cute in so many ways why would she choose to stay the way she is. ;_;Everyone was floored.. like myself.It was now her turn.Very sexy.. I thought she kinds looked like GoGo YubariI know the feeling..Itou along with everyone was in awe of her transformation. Very very sexy. <3Now, I believe everyone is beautiful. But sometimes I think it says something about you when you don't explore your physical capabilities. In society today being pretty is pushed in our faces quite a bit. And while I don't think people are any more or less special I do think it says something about you and how you see yourself when you wake up in the morning and spend an extra 5 minutes or 2 hours on looking the way you feel most beautiful. I think people who don't even try or haven't at least tried in the past to explore their look are fooling themselves. Not to impress everyone else, but to give yourself a boost in confidence every once in awhile and remind yourself that you, like everyone else on the planet is beautiful. - May 26, 11
Where do I start? I should have done this post as soon as I got home but I was tired and then I got busy later oh wellz. I woke up super early that morning and was still fussing about with what I was going to wear when I realized it didn't matter what I had on, I should just be myself and I would at least be comfortable and be fine with that.
Minaihito**
So I woke up my sister and the two of us got dressed. I did my make with lashes (for the first time). I mean I wore fake lashes before, but it was cheap ones and it was for about what... 10 minutes? But this time I tried to go all out.
We WERE early but we decided to invite Asia and waited for her to get dressed and met up on the way there. Her and my sister thought it was a good idea to take Raven out on the train. This resulted in many stares and a weird birth of twisted doll feet from a white bag. It was interesting, funny and unnecessary <3.
Look... Look... I... Alright.. We got there right? And.. Hmmm.... >.> It was so fucking whack. I mean. No matter how I look at it, Japan day this year was filled with suck. Umm.. I am used to the day being gloomy, it happened alot at previous Japan Day and SakuMatsu so people would still come out if they felt the need to. Well, aside from having NO FREE FOOD THIS YEAR, the performers were meh, and the place changed. I heard they were doing construction or something but the festival suffered because of it.. I don't really want to think about Japan day even though this is a post about it..
Check out my sister's post for more about Japan Day ===> Click here~Loved her YukataOne of the highlights for me was sitting on the grass OUTSIDE of Japan day and just watching all the people being silly. And old friend of ours who runs this Maid Cafe in NYC Called Tenshi no Ai had refreshments. For 1 dollar you got quite a bit to eat and drink all while being served by maids and butlers in adorable outfits.Steph being cute, Raven acting like Purge from Space Channel 5.Dont you love a doll who grabs his crotch while touching small children?Our Gyaru for the day.. Seriously where were you guys? At home doing something more fun? Understood cause Japan Day was WHACK.After that we decided to go Karaoke. I had to use the bathroom and it seemed like it was going to rain so we left as fast as we could. Sat down at Mcdonalds and waited for our room. By the time it was supposed to be ready the only rooms that were available were teeny tiny ones or the huge party room. You know how we do.. We took the party room.. ^^Laren has such a tiny face...I am sure the people working there were so confused. We were all over the place with our song selection. JRock, Beyonce and Disney toons came blasting from our room which had a window to see the workers on the other side. We gave them something to talk about =p.This was awesome.. It was karaage and shrimp tempura w/ miso and it was only 7 dollars.
We do alot of Karaoke.. I have so many pictures and video or random trips.. I wonder if I should post about that stuff.. Even though there has been an increase in people interested in japanese pop culture, there remains a limited amount of events to support that (Japan Day and Sakura Matsuri are not festivals about pop culture so I don't count those.) We have maid shows by this girl names Reni-Chan, but aside from her not being cute and me getting a strange pedophile vibe from the entire moe subculture, I don't see myself going there. There is lolita day, but I am not lolita and anime conventions, which in NY have become less about anime and more about comic books. It has me thinking.... - May 20, 11I just got home. (-з-)I am tired and friggin' starving but I wanted to do this really quick. So far the past few months have been fun, I just haven't gotten around to posting about everything the day it happens or the day after. Then I get backed up and confused (・_・;). But anyone I went out today and wanted to blog about that.
Japan Day is Sunday ∑ヾ(￣0￣;ﾉ and I had been pulling my hair out figuring out what I wanted to wear. I didn't want to over do anything so I just wanted to accessorize. I had been scoping out those really popular fox tails for awhile so I figured I would head down to chinatown, where my sister said she saw them and buy it.
We went to this fabric shop that was in the back streets of canal kind of and I totally fell in love. The place was so shabby with a vespa in the middle and pink zebra print chairs, worn hardwood floors and an amazing collection of furs and animal prints. I had gone to heaven, not to mention the people that worked there were sexy. Anyway, I got my foxtail from there. It was kind of more than I had hoped but its real fur so I guess I understand and my sister got some gold string for a cosplay she is working on.
After that we looked around the Ricky's that was across the street and say this guy we knew from this goth store back in the day, 8th street lab.
Once we got the tail it was on to my second conquest, Diamond bottom lashes. I wanted to check jas-mart to see if they had them, but we didnt have much money on our metrocard left. When my sister told me they had lashes at Elizabeth center I almost shit myself. I hadn't been in awhile so I was def happy to check it out.
As soon as we went inside, we went crazy.I look busted but look at all the Rilakkuma shit <3 The had so much stuff. I knew I hadn't been in awhile but seriously. There were these super cute baseball caps I was drooling over. They even had doll stuff that sent my sister straight to happy land.They had so much deco stuff. And super cheap. When you think japanese things alot of people think about Kinokuniya, but everything is kinda expensive there. Chinatown is a great alternative for alot of stuff. The accessories were crazy cute, there is so much I want to go back and get.We saw some cute lashes but they didn't have Diamond, so I got the Dolly Wink instead, which looked just as cute. I even got a gloomy hand. They had the white one in the window but they didn't have anymore in stock I was so sad. (´□｀｡) So I got the blue one and Steph got the Purple one. Mission Complete. (*゜▽゜ノノ゛☆Porky Mina with Tall Amina from ANTM
I am excited to use this stuff with my regular clothes. Makes dressing up ever more fun.Camwhoring
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