April 26, 2010

Stayin' In

First lounge day~ sure looks windy and chilly out!

Got my tonkatsu fix, bbt fix, lobster fix, sushi fix, and gummy fix. Huspaz!

Got a B in my Regional Development class so far. Not bad. Wonder why capitalism class is taking so long! I just need to know if I've passed.. then I can celebrate for real!!



I'm going through a bunch of new Korean music uploaded on Youtube. Norazo's album is so distinctively Norazo-style and kind of silly-fun to listen to. I keep on hearing elements from their famous Superman song in every one of their songs on this album haha

Was browsing around the Michael Kors website -- really love this dress and would love it in white. Of course, after I get a bit toned haha


I realize it reminded me of Kim Kardashian's outfit at the Kentucky Derby.
To be worn with lucite jewelry. Thinking of doing a DIY tutorial for this sometime in May.
 I like the glimmers of gold in the one above.
(credit: Glamourai, Bloomingdales Aqua Line)
Also liking MK's Hamilton Large Tote in Vanilla White
Currently looking for a gold, chunky (oversized) watch, menswear inspired, with a large face. Maybe something like this Michael Kors Runway Watch with Glitz. Wonder how different it will look in person...

April 25, 2010

On & On

Goodbye SFU. Please let me pass my courses this term!


Bought my maxi dress from French Connection the other day! The dress is too long to take a picture of using the webcam 'cause there's no self-timer, but I found the picture online. I think it looks better on a person than in the picture.. not as hip-concentrated.  I'm the first one in Vancouver to get their grubby hands on it...


I like the weight of the material and the subtle geometric pattern!

Also bought Lush's Brazen Honey fresh face mask. I'm thinking this could be my favourite one so far (I've tried 3 I think), but the smell isn't that great. Quite tolerable, though. 

I'm still trying to recuperate from the sleep I've been so deprived of last week. I should be good by Wednesday morning!

April 22, 2010

Natbot's Official Procrastination Checklist

When I engage in extreme procrastination, I think in this order...

Hungry/thirsty? Usually yes...
Feel dirty? If yes in the slightest, I shower...
Teeth clean? Yes...
Face clean? Face mask...
Does laundry need to be done?
Did I vacuum yet this week?
Is there anything bugging me that needs to get done before I get back to work?

If everything needs doing, then it takes quite a while.. sometimes a couple hours... and then I work for a bit and repeat the cycle.

Thank goodness it officially ends tomorrow!

2PM - Without You
Their Mnet performance outfits were kinda ugly... they look like early 90's greasers. Cheesy moves (like the "OK" move), somewhat expected, but I was hoping for more of a cool dance like what they're usually known for. Why do they look like they're wiping a table with that hand move? And their "without you" arm point motion looks like they're doing some kickboxing move. Don't know why Khun's rapping starts with "everything happens for a reason" twice. Besides those, I like!

April 21, 2010

Say Kimchiiiiiiii

Aww~ a cute snap of us courtesy of Jerry taken a week or two ago!
My hair colour reminds me of a lion. Must go darker...

How To Eat A Cupcake

Yea yea.. I'm currently kind of really obsessed with cupcakes which explains why this post is dedicated to such delicious mini-ness.


Instructions are from www.buzzfeed.com
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP


Even though this cupcake looks like a gross manufactured kid-cupcake and even though it's not chocolate, I want to eat it.

April 17, 2010

I Don't Want It, Make It Go Away!

Sigh.. the title refers to so many recent things... and today I've added another one on the list: to get rid of the spare tire I've acquired this semester. 

MOVE IT!
GET OUTTA HERE!
GOOD RIDDANCE!

Please let me sleep well tonight - I had a good day, but I was sooooooo exhausted near the end. 


Signing out,
Temporary Panda

April 16, 2010

Nailed It!


3 papers down, 2 more to go!!!

Had time to shape my nails today! In Korea, I was introduced to the squoval nail shape and I've loved it ever since. To me, it has that naturally chic vibe that doesn't imply "high-maintenance" as square shapes common in gel/acrylic nails often do.  Squoval is basically what it says: square-shaped with rounded edges. I found this handy dandy site that shows you how to achieve whichever nail shape you want. That is, of course, if it is a more conventional shape.  For the squoval, as it instructs, you just need to file your nails a certain angle and whala! 13 seconds later, you will have a squoval nail! I used 3 coats of my nude OPI shade, Samoan Sand.  While I kind of regret getting that shade because it doesn't go that well with my skin tone, I still like the idea of the colour and it's growing on me!

Easy peasy lemon squeezy (hehe.. haven't said that phrase in a while)

Fact: I have not swiped my debit or credit card in over 2 weeks!
Fact: I have only had 1 cup of tea and 1 Greek coffee within the past 2 weeks!
Fact: I am exhausted and I've got an eventful day tomorrow~ let's hope for sun and no precipitation!

June K-Activities

Hmm where to go in June?

--- 2PM will be opening for Wonder Girls' Wonder World States tour all of June.
--- Jaebom (ex-2PM member), now known as Jay Park, will be returning to Korea (from Seattle) to star in a bboy film called Hype Nation. It's produced by Young Lee, an American film producer, and most of the scenes will be filmed in Korea. (How's that for switching locations for them 2PM boys?) 
--- Jaejoong, Junsu, and Yoochun will have their Thanksgiving Live In Dome concert in Tokyo Dome and Osaka Kyocera Dome for 2 weekends in June.

hehe.. I'm not going anywhere, but if I could participate in any of the above activities, it sure would be fun.

Kind of disappointed in Lee Hyori's new album music-wise, but I am very drawn to her hotness. I would say "as usual" at the end of that sentence, but I just started noticing how she has some serious beauty going on inside and out.

I'm about to break another record: my 2nd 15 paged paper written in 12 hours.

April 14, 2010

Back to the 90's


Bravo All Stars 1998 - Let The Music Heal Your Soul
Take 5 - I Give (Low Quality)
Westlife - Hard to Say I'm Sorry

April 13, 2010

Four Papers Left...

Getting fat.
Sitting in front of the computer, bottom and feet not moving, fingers clawing keyboard.
Always reaching for sugar-based snacks.
Not satisfied - need more.
Too restless to sit, can't concentrate, checking Facebook much more than usual.
Refresh.
Refresh.
Trying not to read my daily blogs.
Refresh.
Did laundry, scrubbed toilet and bathtub.
Refresh.
Did dishes.
In my yellow penguin PJs... knowing my jeans may not fit by the time these papers are complete.
Possibly insatiable. Craving chocolate.

April 9, 2010

Packaging Pack Rat at Heart


If you ask who is more persuaded to buy things because of their nice packaging, I will raise my hand.  Sometimes, I have to lecture myself to actually take the item out of the packaging!  That's why, when I found The Dieline, a package design company, I couldn't stop browsing through all the pages!  I love innovative stuff that potentially sell me junk (ie. packaging). I confess, I used to keep nice tags from my clothing and post them on my bulletin board (when I was in my early teens) and I used to keep nice boxes and fill them with junk just so I could have a reason for keeping them.  I also used to judge books by their cover.  You, yea you -- the one reading, are a package lover.  How many times have we saved those good quality bags from Holts, Abercrombie, or Gilly Hicks? I've narrowed my collection to only one of each, but I had a semi-nice collection going on... of course, not half as impressive as some of you out there ;)


Anyway, back to Dieline. I like how you can rate each design out of five stars. Some of them.. don't know what they were thinking!


Like this: Karl Lagerfeld Light Cola?!
And this doesn't really look like Jamie Oliver.. his face has thinned out and his expression is weird. He also should have worn a different shirt.
This looks interesting. Wonder if it's a filter. 321 Water
Can you tell this was designed for carpenters? A carpenter's fragrance. Let me guess, it has wood notes in it! hahaha I hope it's relatively inexpensive. Doesn't look like you get much there.

Aww I would reach for these in the cereal aisle if I were a kid!
Classy bottle of Gin!
haha cute. Green Marker
LOL, LOL and LOL It's called "Typo Tofu". You see why? And ew.
"Dear Tofu:
Words fail me to tell you how boring you were and that I never thought of you when I was cooking. But now that you have letters to answer me, I feel the dawn of a relationship and already I find you are more friendly."
OOooo I dooo like this Beyaz Firin Macaron box!
Or maybe... I just want the macarons in them... mmmm macaron donut.
Unfortunately, packaging adds up to be a pretty large detriment to the environment.  I cannot stand Costco's mp3 player and coupon packaging. They're usually either huge boxes of nothingness or masses of plastic. 
I'm definitely not going to stop being a package lover. They've got me hooked. When I own my own place, I want to buy coffee table books with fantastic covers that scream "pick me up and read me!"

April 8, 2010

Add Detail.. and Oil..

Bustiers have come to be a new trend for this Spring. When I first came across them on Susie Bubble's blog where she was gifted a bustier from her boyfriend for Christmas, I was puzzled.  How could such an "accessory"/"top" be worn in a way that's wearable and tasteful instead of its effortlessly awkward and ridiculous way? I think wearing a bustier on top of a plain tee is too easy and often badly executed. It's something all un-daring people who wanted to wear a bustier would resort to.. and it's very Forever21-like. And, wearing it on its own with pants or a skirt is not very classy in my eyes.. only 'cause I've never been much a midriff person - baring your whole stomach is sexier, IMO.. and should only be done when wearing a bathing suit. Of course, it's different if you wear your pants/skirts all the way up to where your bustier ends like here. But anyway, thanks to FashionToast, I now know!
Tone on tone and on top of a breezy dress gives the outfit texture and a whole new look for your plain dress. Love this look.
Although it looks good in my head, I wonder what a leather bustier would look like over a lace cut-out racerback tank... or a lacy bustier with a leather jacket.. haha my attempts to bring together edgy with girly.. nothing new. Anyway, considering I would probably not swipe my Visa for one, I haven't done much research on it.  I'm sure these looks have been done many times already!

This is the gray ribbed blazer I was talking about in one of my recent lusts.  I want this exact one minus the power shoulders.
Credit: Sartorialist
AHhh so fabulous I want to steal it off her shoulders.

Crazy wind today - I was almost swept off my feet! 1 more week of attending classes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

April 7, 2010

Dore, Garance

hehe I had a bit of a chuckle reading Garance Dore's blog. Cute sense of humour.


Ready for an extreme opposite-of-glamor explosion? Okay, so let’s do this, I’m totally up for it. And don’t act like it’s never happened to you before.

We’ve all woken up, some normal morning, and realized there’s a huge pimple right in the middle of our forehead. Everyone, yep. Even… ME. And more than once. Life’s just a bitch sometimes.

How we got there is never really the question. The fact that one of my 10 basics in life has to be all chocolate M&Ms is certainly something to look at, but for the moment, the thing to concentrate on, the task at hand is… HOW TO YOU HIDE THIS ENORMOUS MOUND THAT JUST RUINED MY DAY?

I’ve tested a few solutions. Some good. Some not so good. There are also a few things that have come to mind. Some I’ve tried, others not. Something like:
- Cut myself some bangs. Yep, just like that, bam, right there, dry. I’ve thought of it, yes I have.
- Put make up on the intruder. Pffffff, yeah, a little obvious. But in the end, I think it would make it even more noticeable and we’re trying to hide it here.
- Wear something absolutely delirious to create a diversion. Like a giant Vuitton Duffle bag, for example.
- Say something absolutely delirious to create a diversion. Something like, “Oh! This morning, I had breakfast with Arnold Schwarzenegger,” for example.
- Do what this girl I know does who draws on a little mole (no, not a real mole kids, not like a whack-a-mole mole, we’re talking a fake little beauty mark). I don’t know why I think it’s so gross. Maybe because I have a beauty mark myself, ahah, oh man, I really gotta stop diving head first in the snow every morning.
- Or this guy who puts on a nice little band-aide. A nice idea? Not when you’ve gotta answer 657 times a day, “A BLOB!!!” whenever someone asks you gently what happened.
- The radical option = DON’T GO OUT. The thing with that is if I don’t go out, I’ll be so embarrassed by the whole situation that I won’t be able to look at myself in the mirror, even though that when I get a pimple, I have to look at myself in the mirror 35 times an hour just to get updates on the state of the maturity of the disaster.
- Say YEAH OKAY OKAY TOTALLY to the girl who tells you she will apply super smart essential oils that will make the evil bulge disappear in a few hours. Let her put the essential oils on, and then suddenly, watch the bulge grow right in front of your eyes. Powerless.
- Wear a hat that goes down really low (in case the pimple is situated on the forehead.)
- Or a scarf worn really high (in case the pimple is situated on the chin.)
- Cry (in case the pimple is situated on the nose.)
- Make up stupid jokes. Like :
- I don’t have to give up on a modeling career. I can still be a hand model.

Jokes are stupid. But stupid jokes are perfect to show that you’re totally cool with yourself and in your own skin.
I’ve looked hard, but I think the best solution is the last. Unless you’ve got something better? I mean like, a little bulge, it’s nothing right? Do we really have to make a whole bunch of hoopla? Or wait, is that exactly what I just did?

Oh how I would love a Garance Dore illustration on my wall.............!
Credit: hypebeast
This is one of the girls she shot somewhat recently. Trend overload, IMO with the fur, safari/field jacket, and the Mulberry bag (okok.. you can argue that the bag is a new classic). Loooove the shoes though. Can't wait to look for them next Fall!

Anyway, her site is somehow addictive. If I ever had her talent for street style and fashion illustration, I would want my site to look and have exactly the same feel as hers.

Man.. can you tell I'm in procrastination-mode again? Midterm this Fri, 3 12-15 page papers due next week (haven't started any), and 1 paper and 1 take-home exam (15 pages each) due the week after. SIGH.

Currently lusting:
- silk easy shorts with cuff
- new pair of sunnies
- black and white geometric patterned mini dress
- new hair colour
- gray ribbed knit blazer
- a clutch ** really need one 
- still not over that black maxi dress... 

Be White!


Goal until April 23rd:

To drink nothing that will stain my teeth! I've noticed my teeth have gotten a bit yellow this semester because of my increase in tea/caffeinated drinks that get me through my two 8:30AM classes (and b/c I've switched toothpastes.. I wanna go back to my Luminous after I finish this tube). Sad! I've also "hired" Crest Pro Effects Whitestrips to give me a bit of a boost. You're supposed to use it twice a day for 10 days, but I feel that's too strong.. I don't want instant blindingly white teeth so I'm doing it once every two days. This way, I can save more strips for later.  Today is my third application and I've noticed a pleasant difference!  Honestly, though, it's a bit of a pain to use. I find I have to spit the saliva buildup every 10 minutes (you're supposed to leave them on for 30 min).. annoying! One of the ways they recommend using it is on your drive to work in the morning... like how am I going to spit anywhere during that ride? And when I take it off, I feel like I have to brush my teeth again sans toothpaste to get the gunk off my teeth. Oh well... no pain no gain! Still a long way to go compared to my white t-shirt, though... hehe

April 5, 2010

Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars - "Billionaire"

Love this song. Excuse the potty mouthness.

Hellooo Parasol

Goal for the Spring/Summer: to stay as white as possible... in other words, not to tan! It will be pretty difficult, I think! Right now, my face is even lighter than all my foundation-type things. I think I may even be an NC30. I don't want white legs though.. I will somehow need to figure this out.
Reasons why: I don't tan into a nice shade... I look dirty and orange. No more spots, please!  Trying to limit myself from the harsh sun.. but not in an extreme way, just whenever it's avoidable.
Yea.

April 3, 2010

Welcome

Love these dark green doors. Rich and grand.

Credit: 16house

April 1, 2010

Zip Zip

Ok finally loaded some Ziplining pictures from a couple weeks ago. 
I initially wanted to go on the Monday but found out on Friday that the Paralympics were ending on Sunday, which meant the zip line would also be closed on Sunday! So, I had to rearrange my schedule to go on Saturday. I began lining up at 10AM. We ended up waiting 6.5 hours standing for this 20 second ride!!!!! I don't know what I was thinking, but it was fun. We could not have asked for better weather - not cold, not hot, not too sunny. The staff members were so friendly, too ^^ 
Waiting.. when this picture was taken, we already waited 2 hours...
We thought we were just a few minutes away from 'finish line' because it was in view but then we saw this sign. BOOOOOOOOO
This is what we were waiting to do. I thought it would be fun to coordinate some song to yell across while flipping upside and spinning and all hehe but in the moment, you just forget to do it and concentrate on your own thing.
The "finish line"!!
We had to sign waivers..
And off we went to get our equipment! I didn't think it would be scary or anything, but when you're standing up there, waiting for your turn to jump, and when you're on the last step on the mini, holey staircase, your heart really starts to pound.
The staff made the Japanese girl in front of me take my shoes to the other side in her bag... lol (I was wearing my flats that were really loose). The girls were so scared to go across... that guy had to lift the rope to get off off her feet!
That's us! At this time, we were waiting to walk down those steps that lead to nothing!
Weeeeeeeeeeeee~~