Shirley Birthday Meetup

2nd November 2014

 

Shirley is currently working at Seremban (previously at JB) so it was always really hard for us to meet up. Of course the best occassion is for their birthdays! Although I don't think they bother to celebrate mine lol, but I really took the trouble to at least try to invite them for meetups.

 

Anyway, we were on this tai-tai (wealthy ladies) theme because Shirley wanted to try out classy looking stuffs and to feel rich lolol.

 

First stop at Jibby! One of my favourite place for brunch ^^.

 

Chen Chin's order: Baked eggs. The hot chocolate drink behind was Shirley's order.

I think Shirley ordered Big breakfast (no picture); and I took my usual Eggs Benedict with Salmon. I can't seem to get out of the loop of ordering the same food over and over again =___=. We took like tons and tons of selfies that day! to make our time and money worthwhile. Mostly taken using their iphones, or my TR15 Selfie camera.

Me and my lovely eggs benedict! I just love the way the decorate the plate with Ikura and corns ^^. Both my favourite! And also love that they used hash browns instead of muffins hahhaa, less carbs (although potatos has high carbs too lol).

We move on to Loudspeaker Karaoke after the breakfast. I was at the backseat taking selfies most of the time because I realise dthat the lightings were quite good! Although hard to take without shaking haha.

 

No pictures during the karaoke session, but we used Chen Chin's Instax camera for many instant photos! I just love instant photos >< but it's kinda costly, especially the films. Plus I've burnt myself buying my selfie cam, so gotta live with it. Thanks a lot Chen Chin for giving me two pieces as a token. We had loads of fun challenging each other to make crazy faces haha.

**Bought this hello kitty frame from the shop outside Loudspeaker. The shop closed down few days after though. Photo blur coz....am snapping in the car and it was pretty unstable.

Last stop at Sunway Resort hotel having their tea set! To be honest the tea set was average at most. We have had much better tea sets elsewhere. But most importantly is the time spent together chatting and chill around without having to think about depressing stuffs which always revolves around us.

Lastly My OOTD: Marine theme!!~ Marine hat from Croatia, Thanks a lot to mummy for the souvenir ^^. Suspender flare skirt from Major Made, a taiwan fashion brand. "I Love my Band" T-shirt from Pepe London. White martin shoes from Top Shop.

Lolita Photoshoot (behind the scene) + Sayoko hangout

26 July 2014

Two days outing with Sayoko~

Went Loudspeaker Subang with her on Saturday, omg the wide selection of Japanese songs!! We went overly high singing all the jrock songs haha. They even have some older jrock songs like Yokan by Dir en Grey omg. Yokan was probably the first few jrock songs I've heard when I'm young. Sayoko said the puchong branch has Preserved Rose and No pain no game though. GAH loudspeaker is really the best! It's cheap, their food is nice!!!(Redbox sucks badly on their food), and cool song selection~

Sacchin took this to show Erin hahaha. To make her jealous. So many Uta-Pri songs lol. I really like Savior of songs!!! And I started practicing on some screamo after the K session haha, really wish to perform Liar (One ok Rock) one day with my beloved band~

27 July 2014

 

Sunday - I had a Lolita photoshoot by Feito, Ikmal and Rais (who only joined us during the last hour of the shoot).

 

Thanks a lottttt to Sayoko who actually accompanied me throughout the shoot, and even spent her day with me choosing books (to spend off my 1Mbook vouchers) at Kinokuniya. I'm sure she was pretty tired and probably bored but she didn't complain and was with me the whole day, thanks soooo much. 

 

Sis took this in the car. I really like this pic~ Too bad it's a little dark.

 

 

Brighter version. I like the darker one though haha, my expressions were better.

 

I'm proud of my lolita outfit by the way! This was my first complete Lolita outfit, Navy blue poker x rose print JSK, match with lace white blouse. I was quite worried that it doesn't suit me, or even worse, lolita fashion doesn't suit me. But it went well and I'm so happy I can pull off this look! I'm so looking forward to add more accessories and complete more themes for this outfit. And once I'm done I could move forward to try out other lolitas ^^.

 

The shoot this time was at Tokyo Pastry, Avenue K. The owner was nice enough to let us move around the decorations and furnitures for the shoot ^^. Although I do feel bad about occupying their space though, for around 4 hours (10am-2pm).

 

I'm gonna upload some behind the scene pictures for this post, and probably do a proper blog post later when I got the entire set of photos (gonna post the ones I really like ^^). Once again huge thanks to the photographers Feito, Ikmal and Rais for putting up with my inexperience in posing. I did my best during the shoot though~

 

Okay here comes the omake/sneek peek photos, enjoy~ **All photos posted here credited to AIO photography.



 

The pretty looking tea set. Only for viewing purpose though, not recommended for eating haha.

Ahh~

 

Playing with some antique camera ^^.

 



My mum say I look like minion in this picture =___=.

 

One of my favourite~

 

Lol zettai ryouiki.

 

Sacchin in the photo! They all said she's at her director seat. I wonder what trigger my laughter haha.

 

Three actual pics taken by AIO Photography (Ikmal):

I love all three! Realise that there's more sitting poses than standing, so there isn't many photos that showcase my entire dress =___=. I'm definitely doing another shoot (when my outfit is complete) in the future!! I'm pretty satisfied with the photos this round, there's around 10+ photos that are usable! Usually out of the entire shoot I only like around 2-3 photos max haha.

 

The photographers were kind enough to offer me more shoots in the future~ For example my music themed photo shoot (with different instruments), and traditional clothes (my favourite qipao), or fashion shoots ^^. Really looking forward for it to happen!

Sacchin wore a navy sailor themed blouse so our outfit kinda matched! We should have taken full both OOTD pictures though.

 



Melur and thyme

We rushed for lunch right after the shoot as the food in Tokyo Pastry is just '...'. Wanted to try out Harrod's Cafe initially but Sacchin prefer something heavier for lunch. We ended up with Melur and Thyme just opposite Harrods. 

Sacchin's order was great! Carbonara fettucine with duck meat. The pasta was creamy and the duck was tender, I regretted so much for not ordering.

 



My beef foie gras burger. Meh...Not nice at all. The beef patty was dry, foie gras not nice also sobssss, and these were not cheap kay, wasted my money. Should have ordered pasta instead.

 

We spent around 2 hours in the restaurant, eating and of course, taking selfies haha. We took loads of them~ Not gonna post all la, quite impossible and you guys will be bored seeing us with the same poses over and over again.

 



Ok. Lima cukup.

 

We went to shop for books at Kinokuniya after our meal. Spent quite some time here coz I can't just make up my mind on what books to buy. Sacchin had to walk round and round the bookstore with me, soooo sorry!!

 

Ended up with two photography/modelling books, two business japanese books and one Zipper magazine ^^.



And then it's going home time sobs. Time always seems to go faster when we are having fun. We did shop a bit at Avenue K before taking the train back though. And Sacchin bought her Old Chang Kee finger food as dinner.

Thanks thanks thanks for everyone, family and friends for always putting up with my activities and spent their precious time with and for me~



Red Box Sing with Class, Sunway Pyramid

17th August 2014

Went for this RedBox singing competition around 2 weeks ago. I first heard about this from Johan in our J-singing gang group chat, and was feeling rather half-hearted about joining. But in the end I was half-dragged into signing up because Kaoru, Zie Aun and Johan pulled me to register right after AMG event. Can't say that I'm not free to register haha since I was also waiting for Animenz piano concert with them.

 

Too bad the Sunway branch only have 3 positions left, Kaoru had to join the Bukit Tinggi's batch while Zie and Johan participated twice (one with me at Sunway, another at Bukit Tinggi). I didn't really prepare for this competition and I was having flu on the competition day hahaha. Nose block! Anyway, we were asked to reach 45minutes before the competition starts (7pm) for sound check.

 

One of the highlights of this competition (the main reason I joined) is that we will be using the Shure Vintage mic to compete! It is kind of a rare chance to use a vintage mic (unless I buy one myself lol) to perform so I was pretty excited about it! The champion will get to win themselves a vintage mic + RM500 cash voucher (if i'm not mistaken), but I doubt I'll win la, thats why I'm only excited to try out the mic haha.

The prizes. Everyone who participated will get a consolation prize of RM50 RedBox Cash voucher.

Most of us were still not used to the mic, since we only get around 1-2mins to test it out. I was pretty amazed by the standards of the contestants though! All of them sang really well and I enjoyed the 2.5hours of music ^^.

The judges. I'm feeling a little bad for not remembeing any of their names lol.

 

I participated with Wonderland by FLiP, a song I've performed for several times with my band. Slightly regretted picking that song because it's really hard to do a great performance with no heated audience (and three pair of eyes -- the judges staring). This song is better suited for band performance and people having fun together haha.

 

Nonetheless I still enjoyed a lot singing with the vintage microphone! It has good resonance and the effect is amazing. I would probably consider to get one after getting a good dynamic microphone for my stage performances.

 

After all contestants sang, we were given a 10-15minutes break for the judge to make their final decision on the winner. We used the time to chat around and getting to know new friends who love music!

 

Choy Peng, who is a blogger. She sang Utada Hikaru - First Love~

Precious Group Photo! Thanks a lot to Kaoru and Kenji for supporting us~

A big congratulations to Johan for winning the First Runner-up ^^ He got RM200 cash voucher so I guess he's gonna spend them by going to redbox a lot lol. I'm more of a LoudSpeaker fan recently, their prices are much cheaper, with SUPER COOL song selections, and even their food taste good!! Sorry to say but RedBox food kinda sucks.

 



 

 

My RM50 consolation cash voucher haha. Am probably going with either my family or Sacchin, although I would be happier if it's a LoudSpeaker voucher hahaha. To everyone who joined and participated, gokurousamadeshita! I'm sure we all tried our best and you guys are awesome as usual! Hope to join more of these competitions to further improve myself, broaden up my network and to spend time with friends who love music ^^.

 

(4) K!! Outings

By saying ‘K’ outings, I mean my favourite Karaoke outings. I started my K fever around 2 years ago, with my first K outing with Sayoko. K with Sayoko is the most fun ever K sessions I have ever had, probably due to our same taste in songs. We always feel that 4 hours of K is never enough, we didn’t even have time to finish our lunch!

This year, I’ve had K outings with Sayoko, Akiko and June. It’s Akiko’s first Karaoke session, and I’m glad I’m the first who brought her there. Thanks to June for choosing to celebrate our birthdays in Neway, I really enjoyed it a lot, I hope she did enjoy her day as well (Oh the black forest cake we bought was really good ^_^).
This will be a really short post as compared to the rest >_<. But I still want to add this in because I really really do enjoy all my K sessions and I regard it as one of my greatest happiness in the year 2010, and I’m sure these outing will give me as much fun in the following years as well ^^.

 

 

 

Picture 1: Sacchin and I during K
Picture 2: My hand & Neway~
Picture 3: June & I during our bday celebration in K. She edited the pic using some green lighting...
Picture 4: Me with our bday cake (great blackforest!!!)