Showing posts with label instagram. Show all posts
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Monday, August 4, 2014

Instadump May - July

Instadump....=3=;; before I get super super super backlogged some more and this would be a good check point for me to remind myself what entries I'm still missing...welp...

I dont know if its fair to blame lazyness or simply just not having enough time to do /anything/ I feel I hear this/read this quite often from a lot of bloggers (those who aren't in the whole youtube vlogging deal and just doing this somewhat casually...I still have reviews to do too oops)

But I digress and admit that I've neglected this and a whole bunch of other photos sitting on my lightroom account waiting to be edited (I still wanna try and work on the Tidus photos too but ahaha....whut are those...and the beach shoots......and well con shoots too....goodgawdcanIjustnotugh)

So lets do a quick catchup and check point and hopefully in the next few months I'll be able to be caught up...I also still gotta work on a new layout or atleast a new banner ==;;; kinda getting sick of all the pink lol...jfc. I wish I invested more time in graphics lol...

First of all, I will not be attending J-expo, Yaoi-Con or AWA as I had originally wanted. Bro's getting married in October and September is a clusterfuck of preparation and I still have not looked into wtf i'm wearing and I'm supposedly the bestman.dontask.   I'm really sad and disappointed I cannot go and see friends uwu and with school starting mid August I'll just be thrown into a cluster of not having any time at all. I'll be schooling on Thursday afternoon to evening and then I'll be working on Saturdays and Sundays would be my only days off moving forward till the end of the semester which is in December. Most likely skipping PMX too since I just cannot deal with the lobby con venue...

I guess this is gonna be another comprehensive post going all the way back to May / fanime!?! wow have I really been /that/ far behind omfg QwQ I will try to post entries for each month or atleast for the cons i've attended......wow.....orz;;; this is getting quite ridiculous lmao....

HONESTLY. THANK GOD FOR INSTAGRAM OR ID PROBABLY FORGET HALF THE STUFF THAT HAPPENED OR IT'LL JUST BE LIKE BLURRRRR LOL
its kinda crazy to think we're already in August OvO;;; more than halfway through the year. wow another year another year! thats kinda crazy! Lets keep going!

MAY:

BIRTHDAY MONTH. GRADUATIONS. FANIME! OH MY. I think I did a May post lol but I don'tthink I went I don't think I actually went through and did a real fanime post yet, I'm stil debating on when or how I'll do that, probabl another giant photo dump. I didn't take much BTS photos as I expected or really did much since I didn't have a badge for that weekend anyway. It was still fun nonetheless. I flew up to San Francisco a few days prior to the con for my sisters graduation from UC Berkeley. Whoo. No photos LOL whut. I'll probably throw them on the fanime post lolol...I flew with Virgin America this time and wow didn't realize they had TVs on each seat woah woah woah lol and a really funny music video style informative intro.....lol...yeah...if you ever flew with them you'd know what I mean. But wow I've been spoiled by Southwets free bag check-ins! Oh well. I ended up flying Southwest back anyway so it was all daijobs.

these photos pretty much sums up my San Fran - San Jose weekend.  Maybe I'll be able to do a more comprehensive post on it later... /: ugh fanime post when will that happen...I'm soooo backlogged aha...didn't get much chance to explore SF as I had wanted. We did the graduation then dinner and boba then it was qucikly back to cosplay grind finishing up Popstar Ezreal for sisters bf )': we both were pretty much crunching it till the very last minute >w< but for the few free hours I had, cupcake took me around the city :o and when I mean city I mean Jtown /: and little shit got drunk off half a beer. Weakshit.

Jtown has a severe lackage of asian cosmetics and lashes. I was really surprised /:

I didn't get a chance to take much photos of the cosplayers that were at fanime coz I stayed in the hotel too long, took my time getting ready or was doing other peoples makeup that by the time it was time for me to do mine i was just...tired LOL.
the earliest I've made it out to the con was 2....ahaha...wow... orz

I mostly shot League of Legends and Dynasty Warriors for my sister OvO and her friends.

Checked out the gal gathering. Whoo pretty ladies. Photos to be up on my fanime post.

MET UP WITH TOSHI AS ALWAYS HOLLER. I potatoed most of the time at the con /: it was hotter than I had expected in SJ and I just couldnt...lol I was burnt out from school and etc that it was just a pretty chill con to me and having to meet friends again *v*
Went to some bar to watch some indie jrock cover bands play. It wasnt even a far walk from the hotel. More shots. Imprompt shoots and then flew back early Sunday morning (partly hungover lol as always but I alteast didnt end up in the tub this time)



Ended up editing some photos while waiting for my flight back to SD
it was a super quick flight, painless and easy. No crying babies! I flew early just to avoid all that!
Going through security wasnt too bad QwQ thankfully! It was memorial weekend so I was worried the lines were gonna be bad. I get anxiety flying LMAO or traveling only coz I'm too scared to miss flights shiet.  And I heard horror stories of flight delays with SFO ):
 

This pretty much summed up the most eventful portion of May lol 
hopefully I'll get through all my photos eventually and not forget stuff wow ):

After all that traveling I can pretty much say I want a new suitcase, one that rolls on all 4 wheels not 2 ahaha shit is annoying omg.



JUNE / JULY:

Back in SD I had to stock up on my favorite lashes intime for AX :o
one does not go to AX without an arsenal of lashes (not to mention $10 a pack for playgirl when their normally $15 ughhhh plzzzz and lets face it, everytime I go to a con and drink theres always lashes casualties ahaha. //rips them off and puts them on table and hope I find them again the next day...///

actually all those werent mine ahaha I wiiissshhhh I grabbed 2 packs for a friend as well. But best believe I'd be back for more lol....


the train didnt stop as soon as I got back from Fanime coz AX was just going to be arond the corner and I was determined to finish Dream of Doll WHICH I DID MAKE HAPPEN but welp ahaha she suckered me into doing Delphine too.....==;;;;;

Between Dream of Doll I was also working on K Project props! Well, I tried to but man thats sword was annoying till I found a relatively close looking one from the party store and painted it. Added that little craft foam portion on the handle. CLOSE ENOUGH.
I tried making the knives too but it turned out really that that I was just like. Nope. Not giving it to you. LemmeremakeitbeforeIgiveityoulol so no daggers for Fushimi at AX /:




I didn't book any private shoots for AX but imprompt photoshoots happened nonetheless.
Toshi surprised me at AX too since we were all convinced no show!!! whutttt
and yes I'm an otome game producer and boy band manager now lol

 





 COCO CURRY I THINK IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES TO GO TO FOR CURRY EVEN IF IM TOO CHICKEN SHIT FOR THE SPICEY NESS. LOLOL IT WAS STILL SO GOOD. THAT OR I WAS  REALLY HUNG OVER AND TIRED AND HUNGRY ALSO CAN YOU NOT APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOUR GRUB IS SWIMMIN IN A LAVA FIELD OF CURRY LOL AND YOU GOT WARM RICE OMELETTE HOLLLLLLLLLLERRR. YOU GOT YOUR PROTEIN, YOUR SODIUM. YOUR CARBS AHAHA. Ok I get really excited over curry LMAO

June basically went by a blur honestly, it was all really just a count down TO AX and when AX ended it was pretty much like 'ok wtf, what do now!?!'




Didn't get to see K movie during AX due to some BS but they did a nationwide showing! Woohoo thankfully SD had a showing too but clearly it wasnt as epic as the one in LA uwu we didn't even get a merch booth or any posters to give away /: and wow it was $15 a ticket. hurt much aha....but gotta support the homo kings....from there went to PRIDE. What a hot mess. No one was fabulous at all LOL. I could go on a whole rant but nope nope nope.

 

Overpriced alcoholic beverages (Jaegger shots were like $10 each!?! I asked for Vegas shots and the bartender gave me Jaegger....without the redbull...and when I asked for rebull this is what we got LOL . NOPE. After this we walked some more around the strip and ended up leaving and going back to the land we know; Clairemont the land of Asians and bar hopped lol........

I was suppose to go hiking the following day to find a waterfall for a future shoot but that didnt happen.....==;;;;

 Tea station is a guilty pleasure but so gdamn expensive I had to stop going there and just brew my own tea at home;  currently my favorite brews are Jasmine Apple Green Tea with Lychee. Or just Lychee Green tea (sometimes I add slices of strawberry in there) Very refreshing for le summer!


 I thought about trying to finish Chunli or attempt to see if I wanna brave the con cosplay life again and did a trial run onChunli but it looks like Anime CA isn't happening for me and I cut my hair again (more like the top layers) so lol no Chun Li but iwas fun costesting her nonetheless. A goal!!! I'll cos this someday...gotta train those thundaga thighs though

speaking of cos test I filmed a tutorial that I scrapped and redid it to do a photo step-by-step tutorial for Reira Serizawa! Lots of pinks, champanges and etc but I haven't gotten around to editing them yet either....hopefully...I will get to it too uwu;;; I really gotta hand it to those people who makes tutorials. Its really time consuming and annoying to get the filming technique down; lighting and etc. And when you get that down, you gotta worry about BG music!?!




July proved to be a pretty crazy month in between Anime Expo and Comic Con....
I wasn't expecting to go to Comic Con at all even though its basically my backyard. I have a more comprehensive comic con posts coming up (expect it months later AHAHA seriously though)
I took the kids down there on Saturday and when I mean took them down, throw them to the curb and drive off only to come back a few hours later to grab them LOLOL!!! And I spent the rest of the day/evening to early morning sunday and I mean the sun was coming up early morning.....lol playing league. Check out my ghetto set up with the e-ternet cable running through the door. Thankfully no one tripped while I did that.... /: wireless internet is not reliable when your playing a stream game lol fffffff sister woke me up sunday saying she got me a pass to go so......instead of sleeping I crawled my zombie ass to the con QwQ;;



I STILL DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY BAYONETTA 2 IS COMING TO THE WIIU. WHY WHY WHY COME BACK TO XBOX BB YOU KNOW YOU BELONG THERE UGH.
I'll honestly probably end up playing it at someones console coz I'm not buying a Wii-U. 
I remember we bought a Wii years ago just for brawl and after that was over, I was over it.
 I didn't even finish the new Zelda game on it......shameonme...aintnobodygottimeforgames....


 NEW PROJECT! WHUT. AFTER YEARS I'M FINALLY WORKING ON SPIRITED AWAY AHAHA

REMEMBER THE POST I DID BEFORE RANTING ABOUT SPIRITED AWAY!?!
REMEMBER THIS SHOT:


BEST BELIEVE I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP AND ITS GONNA HAPPEN.
I ALREADY STARTED WORKING ON HAKU'S COSTUME HUEHUEHEU AND FINALLY FOUND A HAKU AND CHIHIRO AND A LOCATION.
WE *ONLY* HAVE TO HIKE LIKE...3.5 MILES UP AND ANOTHER DOWN LOLOL....
its ok, this is why we go to the gym right!?!?! lolol....

Before I did mention I cut my hair and babum:


 

 no I didnt shave the side of my head (though I wish I had the balls to do it lol)
and unfortunately my layers were still too long to do a proper fohawk ahaha but maybe someday!? so I ended up looking like a pomp..../: oh well

AUGUST! WHUT. YES WE STARTED AUGUST WITH A BANG


Fashion District trip, doctor appointment in Glendale and then back down to San Diego for a late afternoon/early evening Howl Photoshoot in the span of one weekend!
@w@! head is spinning ahaha so exhausted, getting too old for this yolo shit lol....

school starts pretty soon for me too so I am defintely on lock down from now till the end of the semester in December. No cons for a  while so I decided now would be the time to take on commissions! So I grabbed a few stuff at the FD to get started on a Project K uniform commission and a *another* Howl's moving castle commission. Photos to come soon~ I got a few more commissions to tackle as well and my goal is to finish them all before the end of the year wow...@w@;; with that being said, no cons for me for the rest of the year but lets hope Katsucon might happen??? If not.......oh boy.....matsuri....I'll....be.....back....fuckyouwithathousandsuns....onlygoingcozIwannaseemybabes

ok wow this post took me a while to compile and finish up @w@ so hopefully I can scrub through the rest of the stuff I need to work on and hopefully we'll see more content here.....

AND HOPEFULLY SOMEDAY A NEW LAYOUT OR BANNER AHAHA SOMEBODY HELP. AHAHA IM SO UNCREATIVE LOL OR MORE LIKE I STOPPED GIVING A FUCK.....

and my current jam as I edit photos and just through work:

I downloaded the discography and just have it on shuffle so far OvO;; I think I needed this since i was having some major Uverworld withdrawals and needed some new jams too.

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Oops. I disappeared again

But no, I'm not back. I'm still forever backlogged on AX photos...which was a bout a while ago. But you shouldn't be surprised because photographers are notorious for being forever backlogged...I've even neglected my fanpage...but I guess this is another filler post till I get around to start doing more photo dumps from shoots...and...whatnot.... so here we go, a months worth of insta-dumps. Coz. I. Can. Or you can follow me on instagram @dearxx to see more enteratining videos and not so entertaining videos of the shit I do with my life when I'm not doing anymore more productive... I'm convinced Shingeki has taken over my life coz I bet I spend a good chunk of my time reblogging Shingeki stuff on tumblr versus doing anything really productive and using other stuff as excuses for my absence or unproductivity...

So, school started, I didn't go to J-expo where all the cool kids went or to Kcon coz I'm an old man and decided to be a hermit to recover from AX and Nisei Week. Oh yeah, I did go to Nisei Week. Oops photos are on my instagram and on my PC. I didn't really catch any cosplayer other than my sister so she has photos up on her FB.I'll link it as soon as I remember.. owoll Nisei Week was too hot and crowded to really do anything. Curry House was great as always and very filling.

I did this to my dog:


Hes gonna grow up to slay titans...He just needs his emblem and working on the gears then hes done. Maybe hoping to bring him to PMX since if I recall correctly the hotel is pet friendly :D eh eh eh?! 
but I need to get through Dream of Doll and another cosplay before I can go back to working on this little guys gears 

look at me wasting company time making blog entries that are useless when you probably seen these on IG and Tumblr. Oops. 

Took a break from playing Dynasty Warriors and I picked up the new map pack for COD over the weekend though I probably only clocked in less than 10 hrs on the entire game as of late .__. and I'm most likely behind on my reading again for school coz I decided reading RAW scans of Shingeki was more important orz....
and browsing tumblr for wigs...and among other stuff....and shamelessly browsing for new makeup to refill and replenish all the other pans I've hit )':



 
 
with the new shingeki obsession Anh has made it a point to make us costest at 12am most nights LOOO ok idk why but I guess in a way its easier to do it when everyone is asleep. Less judgy stares when you don't have a room ಠ___ಠ

Better off cos testing NANA looo hurpdurp. Also did a makeup test for Levi but its not for me, I needed to practice before I get to mess with Ash's face .__. I'm not postng photos of it here lawwwls
had to use some mad eyelid tape to get moe eyes and to get sleepy angry slanty eyes for Levi. Could use more work but hueeeee
Need new lenses and a wig lol. Wore purple lenses but luckily they turned purple on the photo hurhurhur and used a old sebby wig oops 





Thursday, May 10, 2012

194. Post Bday post & Top Photo Apps I use

Birthday came and gone...was pretty uneventful for the most part since I decided to go to work that day instead of requesting for the day off. Well, mostly because it was on a Tuesday. Which is probably one of the oddest times of the week. Same old same old at work. But my co-worker made some unicorn rainbow cupcakes lol (rainbow dash cupcakes anyone? - yes bronies ftw)

 

Friday, March 30, 2012

CHERRY VANILLA COOKIES! and instagram diary

Havent updated in a while, life has been crazy ): not necessarily in a good way! April 7th's Sakura photoshoot is coming up and agh! I had to cancel the Basara shoot due to problems ):
but hopefully we make it to the Howl's Moving Castle photoshoot this weekend and I also need to finish Kenshin and Matoba for the Sakura shoot next weekend! Argh! no breaks! Time to work work work work!

My friends are coming over tomorrow to sell our souls to the sewing Gods once more and do some crazy insane work lol....(and some monopoly just for lols) I need to finish some Hakama's, Howl's shirt and Matoba's entire costume! Ahh! I wonder if I even have time to go to the Swap Meet or am I going to be forced to use what I have lol?! eeek!!! we'll see! ahh! lol. Good bye sleep ;A;ll

Sorry, no NICE DSLR photo dump for now but hola~ instagram diary LMAO

but for starters, new recipe! Lol, a new flavor experiment! For this weeks experiment, I wanted to try making CHERRY VANILLA COOKIES, which I might later convert to a cupcake recipe as well...but I wanted to try something new in spirit of the Sakura Shoot~ lol. Since my SAKURA Extract isnt here yet that I ordered from Japan ):

I went on a quest to try and find CHERRY FLAVOR EXTRACT. But I couldntt find any at my lunch break and was not in the mood to drive all the way to the place where I normally get my flavor oils...and While perusing the isle of Albertsons I ran into these Dunken Hines flavor starters?...Where you mix it with their frostings to get new flavors and they just so happen to have Cherry Vanilla. These are powdered flavorings - I read the ingredients in the back. So I figured, I could probably use this. And it worked! :D Lets move on~




Ingredients

  • 1 cup margarine
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (You can add more if you want. I personally add a few more drops than what it asks for since i want the vanilla to be very pronounced)
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
1 Packet of Dunken Hines flavoring


  • Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 8 minutes.

Tips:
I Like to sift all my dry ingredients together and mix all the dry ingredients together. I made the mistake of mixing the flavoring last and it did not blend the color and flavor as well as I wanted and I ended up having to drop a few drops of pink coloring to attain a more cherry vanilla color.

ALSO. As you can tell, they look like pieces of meat LAWL. Coz I did NOT roll them out thin enough and used a tiny 'star' shaped cookie cutter /: so they did not come out as nicely as I wanted and the coloring looked pretty off.





Went shopping with my mom and sister last weekend, my sister came down from Berkeley for her spring break and we went to Mac and Sephora. I got a free sephora gift - the Rose lip tint balm thingie. But ah, I forgot to photograph. I gave my mom the none colored one as well.

Got new mascara to try out- apparently its suppose to help make your lashes grow thicker and etc. LOL! Speaking of lashes~ I want to order some lashes from ebay!
I got a new MAC concealer since the other one I have is a shade or 2 too light and are only really good on my under eye circles. This one is a shade meant for my discoloration and acne scars ):
seriously, a TINY drop is MORE than enough, its insane!

my moisturizer from the BODY SHOP just wasnt cutting it out for me anymore and I felt my skin was dry and I keep getting dry patches everywhere and thats a NONO! Ironic since most of the time my skin is OILY! ): d'oh. I was eyeing the Philosophy moisturizer and I had a sample packet from it before, I didnt like that it felt like it was stinging >__> my face so I decided to go with Clinique instead. I got the travel size version (for $13?....) to try out versus getting the bigger bottle version ;A;ll!! I normally dont wear moisturizer so I dont want to invest in something super expensive and not really use it as much orz.

So far so good!

Printed these 'business cards' to use at Anime Conji but I ended up leaving the con early orz and didnt really get to network or even take pictures since it was just RAINING. no. it was a STORM. and I was SOAKED =A= when I attempted to be a warrior and shoot with my friend outside. Orz. but hey, atleast I got 'cards' now LOL!



My new raburabu guilty pleasure from Tapioca Express <3 MATCHA MILK TEA. HNNGG too bad the boba shops near my house doesnt exactly have matcha milk tea. You also have the option to get this sweetened or not. I might attempt to make my own LOL. Just coz.
Maybe I'll use half x half or condensed milk?...hmm...I should have asked what they used to sweeten it orz but zomfg. Amazing. LOL.


New powder since my NYX one broke and I couldnt wait to go to Mac to get a new powder. nor did I want to spend $25 on a new powder LOL....

I've heard good things from Physicians Formula and opted to try this, its a 3-in-1 powder. Primer, Color Corrector and foundation/shine control :o hmm sold! and I like that it feels SUPER light on the skin- if anything it probably makes my skin feel softer LMAO!
They dont have alot of shades but thankfully enough I can work with this lol. Not complaining! it was less than my NYX powder and does not leave my skin cakey!


My default lip wear. I envy girls who can wear light pink shades. I always stick to the nudes and rosey pinks and nudy pinks....and tbh. I dont really wear them half the time =A=ll


A selca from a while ago /: grow hair grow....