42. Animals Are Beautiful People + other things

Sorry, I haven't had any time to write a meaningful post + post pictures, so all the posts I've been meaning to post are once again, post-poned. I'll be taking Wednesday to get back to my planned posts since it's my day off. To keep you guys entertained in the meantime, I wanted to share some clips from one of my all-time favorite [documentary] movies. Maybe you've heard of it, love it, hate it, never even knew it existed... regardless, in my opinion, it's nothing short of AMAZING.

It's a documentary about animals in Africa shot as a comedic documentary, and fully entertaining with a good balance of drama. I just felt like sharing some of my favorite clips that have me laughing my ass off each time I watch them. Enjoy!

Adorable meerkats encountering a snake, and trying to eat an egg (by digging around it!)

 

A baby warthog is separated from his mom after being chased by a cheetah, and looks for an "alternate" mother.

And of course, the famous "drunken animals" scene!

If this isn't enough, I happened across the full movie on YouTube (wow, what luck).  I hope you guys will find a chance to check out a classic, or if you want, you can also borrow it from the library in the nature and animal related section. But, it's right here otherwise, and the quality really can't get much better. 1974. Hello. ;)

I also have to warn, around @10 minutes it gets extremely sad to watch, I get depressed each time! May want to consider skipping that part to 0:10:40

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Next post I'll write up my review on G-MARKET *finally!* I have to say this was pretty split between me and my boyfriend, in terms of LOVE AND HATE (or severely dislike?). I hope you'll find my post extremely helpful if you're planning on purchasing from any of the sellers I bought from. 

So, until then! Thanks for taking the time to read, and hopefully checking out at least one of the clips. Also check out THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY, by the same director. And please tell me what you think without details. Because I sadly have not seen it yet. >_<;
Actually, I'm off to go watch it now, since it's also on YouTube! :P

- kt


ps. I'm also curious, do you guys prefer reading everything CENTERED or spaced to the LEFT like my last post?? I still can't decide which I like better with the new layout! :P

40. Circle lenses arrived!

Yay! I finally got my second order of circle lenses from KiwiBerry1-Collection today! It took 14 days to get to me, and I'm so so excited to try them out! I'll be posting pictures tomorrow; hopefully with a camera, but I might have to resort to using my webcam >_< I'll update this post again tomorrow!

Also be sure to check my last post for my G-MARKET updates. If you're wanting to order from G-M, you can see roughly how long the whole process takes and I'll update again later when my order arrives.

See you guys later!

38. Snow...?!

Tonight: Snow Showers...?!

Tonight... CHANCE OF SNOW!? I'm so excited. In case you don't know, I live in Santa Clara. And in case you don't know where that is, it's between San Jose and Sunnyvale. The Bay Area. We don't get snow, we just don't. Until TONIGHT! ヾ(＠°▽°＠)ﾉ

How about for you? Is it snowing where you live right now? It's raining right now *shh~ ahhh* ;D 

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Also a quick update with G-MARKET. EVERYTHING has arrived except for the "I MET THE WALRUS" tee, which is on delivery. Sooo fast!! :O

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Until next time!

35. CUBE ENTERTAINMENT AUDITIONS 2011

Yeah, so, guess who's entering?? :P

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For those who don't know, CUBE ENTERTAINMENT is home to such artists as BEAST and 4MINUTE (<3), and they're looking for new recruits! These auditions are being hosted by KOREABOO for all to join via YouTube. You can sing, dance, or both; I'm choosing to do a dance, because singing isn't a strong point for me (as much as I enjoy doing it!).

For my audition, I chose 4MINUTE's "HUH". I've been nutso about this song since it was released, so it felt like a good choice. My first choice was actually Hyun Ah's "Change", but I feel like you have to be really good at hip-thrusting to make it look good... *cough* I'm also thinking of later doing SHINee's "Lucifer". I know, crazy ass dance, but SO fun. I tried learning it a few months ago, and gave up, but maybe these auditions will provoke me to try again. :)

I learned of these auditions 4 days ago, and since then I've pretty much been on a non-stop "HUH" rampage... at home I'm in front of the mirror, and at work I'm a walking zombie playing it over and over in my head! So today, I finally had my chance to record my video.

Of course, it only took me 5 HOURS to finish! Here's all the different reasons if you care... XD

- Dog or cat walks in front of me, and I trip on them (well, the dog anyway, and she got mad at me lol)

- Laptop dies

- Camera dies

- Continuous mistakes

- Camera 2 dies

- It's FREEZING outside!

- I forget what I'm supposed to do

- Almost dropped my giant mirror :X

- LOTS of adjusting the cameras...

Well the point is, I finished. I still made mistakes because this was after the 5 hour mark, but I did my best!! Please support me by watching, commenting, liking, and of course, SHARING my video!! It would be such an amazing turnaround to even be considered for Cube... I've been dreaming of being a backup dancer since I was 14. Thanks to Nami Tamaki, I've been so inspired to dance. It gave me self-confidence when I grew up with pretty low self-esteem and constantly being made fun of by my own sisters at times and feeling left out. Anyways, here's my video. As mentioned, please support!! :)

If video doesn't work, click here!

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Hope you guys enjoy it! Let me know what you think, honest (harsh?) critiques are welcome, but be gentle ^^

And of course, a blog entry just wouldn't be right without a bit of cam-whore spam haha

4MINUTE! with another X JAPAN inspired nail set, pictures next post?

My boots my mommy got me for Christmas! I actually went to the store with her to get them because she had no clue what to get me for Christmas. We got 2 pairs that day, and she also got me some ankle booties! I'll have to take better pictures next time.

In other news.... I really want to make rice pudding, but someone left maybe 3 spoonfuls of rice in the cooker.... thanks. >_>;

031. hide Inspired nails

Just a quick update with [webcam] pictures of my latest nails. I've been listening to X JAPAN pretty much nonstop recently (minus the occasional KPop... *cough*) so I was inspired to do some nail art with an X JAPAN theme. Of course, I couldn't really figure out what to do (besides a bunch of X's on my nails, which would've seemed pretty bland and unoriginal). SO, after watching X JAPAN's LAST LIVE performance of "Rusty Nail" over and over, I became inspired to do nail art based on hide's famous guitars.

No makeup btw~

So they came out a little funky, but overall I love it. The black one was really hard to draw, since the guitar's design is so out-there.... it's hard to translate to nail art ><

hide's Fernandes MG-1455

hide's Fernandes MG-145X

and here's a link to the guitars:

http://lemonedshop.hide-city.com/guitar2/guitar.html

Taken yesterday. Kinda wish I took a FOTD pic, since I really liked the way my makeup came out that day. Oh well. :P

To see more of my latest nail arts please visit my Poupee Girl!

[029.] Quick post!

Yay yay yay! I finally splurged and bought myself a gel nail kit from Sally's Beauty Supply..... online. :P Why I don't just go in the store and buy it, I don't know. I like to avoid talking to sales people as much as possible, and this kit is behind the counter... yeah, dumb reason, but I do have a fear of possible rudeness from sales employees (there's a lot of 'em nowadays). Plus I got my ebates cashback, I think, well, supposed to! 6.0% would be awesome... but no emails yet. :(
+++ Also, free shipping for once [yessss!] since I bought one of the Halloween special items. I got a practice finger, which I've been wanting to buy for a while so that worked out haha.

So that's the kit I bought. There's some pretty good reviews about it, plus ibd is always in my Japanese nail magazines. I'm so sick of acrylic, it just messes up my nails and doesn't come out nicely. So I've been wanting to try out gel for a while, like I think I said. I still want to play with my acrylic and molds, but not acrylic overlay, because it's a pain in the butt!

And the practice finger, lol.

In total, it was $35.07, since the ibd kit happened to be on sale, whoot! It was $29.99, marked down from $34.99. :) 

Charles and I signing out. ...Now he's attacking my boyfriend's Dir en grey poster and crying. My boyfriend's pets are always so weird!!

027. Nail Art Collection

I finally found some time to doing my nails again and getting back into nail art a little bit. I decided to splurge a little for once and buy some tools for nail art, and decided to just go ahead and share my collection. I hope you're ready for this, because there's a ton of pictures coming up. :) In case you guys are interested in these items, I'll try to post prices and where I got them from to the best of my memory at the end of this post. Enjoy!