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Why even think about the impossible when you know you will never reach it

It's like wanting a star / something you can never own 

Long time no blog!

Hi peeps! Eventhough some of you might know that this blog is created on the first place in order to receive marks from one of my module in NAFA, but yea I decided to keep on writing here ((YAY)) ((or maybe not)). So yes next time there will be more posts about my life and people and some random stuffs I would like to share about (; ciao!

Makeup : YAY or NAY?

Makeup. Who in the world doesn't know makeup and its magic? Magic that can turn someone's face to be better looking in just a blink of an eye. I am a makeup artist myself. I once learnt to do bridal makeup and hairstyling for 3 months at Puspita Martha under Martha Tilaar in Indonesia. It's quite interesting to learn something that can help people to boost their confident by "correcting" things. So basically there are 3 main parts of the face that is quite important in term of makeup :

- Eyes (eyeshadow, eyeliner, etc)
- Cheeks (blush on, bronzer)
- Lips (lipstick, lipgloss, liptint, etc)

For me, it's the best for people who wear makeup to keep it simple and basic rather than overdoing it and made themselves look like clowns or something. It's not halloween, peeps, no need to wear such a thick makeup.

Just a few tips: focus on one part of the face only to prevent "overdoing"
Example :

Focus on the lips

Focus on the cheeks

Focus on the eyes

...cause you don't want to overdo it like this

Anyway, remember to always remove your makeup before sleep and wash your face cause some chemicals contained by the makeup itself might harm your skin and block the pores whic sometimes caused pimples, acnes, and wrinkles. Lat but not least, I'm going to share few photos of oh-so-glam hollywood actress that you guys might know without their makeup c:

Mila Kunis

Katherine Heigl

Rose Byrne

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is one of the most well-known mystery novel writer, also one of my favorite. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English ccrime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such characters, for example Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

Born to a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Christie served in a hospital during World War I, before marrying and starting a family in London. Although initially unsuccessful at getting her work published, in 1920, a press published her novel The Mysterious Affairs at Styles, featuring the character of Hercule Poirot. This launched her literary career.

Christie's stage play The Mousetrap holds the record for the longest initial run: it opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London on 25 November 1952 and as of 2012 is still running after more than 25,000 performances. For information, The Mousetrap is going to be held on Jubilee Hall, Singapore on Oct 4-Oct 13 2013 and I am going to attend it on Oct 13 2013. *yay me* 

I personally loveeeeeeeees reading mystery and detectives novel which is why I always adore Agatha Christie's novel, especially the one with Hercule Poirot in it. My all-time-favorites are The A.B.C Murders, And Then There Were None, Hickory Dickory Dock, and At Bertram's Hotel.

Poor thing I only brought one with me to Singapore :(

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Baby Steps

Have you ever reached a time when you really want to "move on" from your past, from your usual life? I have, and I am afraid to do that. Nobody said taking such a big step is easy. It is burdensome. We never know whether it is a good decision or not. Imagine taking such a risk to cut your long black hair and change its style to a short bob. 

What if it turns out to be bad?

But what if it actually makes me look better?

Same things happen to a point in our life. To be very honest, I was once a very fragile and sensitive girl. I took every words and hates seriously and they hurted me, they did. Same thing happen to me when people tell lies. I can remember every single lies people told to me. It did happen once in my relationship with a guy. I never knew he would lie to me about quite a huge thing until my very best friend told me. 

Can you imagine how does it feel to be stabbed? I can imagine it hurts quite a lot and I think that pretty much how I felt that day.

I cried for quite a long time after I decided to broke up with him, until my mom came and saw me tearing up. Such an embarrasement, I know. She said something that really changed me. 

"If a guy made you cry, then he didn't deserve you even a bit. Someone who is willing to give you all his heart won't hurt you or even lie to you, and I know that you will find him one day. Don't be such a crybaby, cheer up! You still got a long future waiting ahead."

Since that day, I really changed everything. I became a more open-minded individual, wiser and stronger in heart. I took a step to change my entire life, even if it's just some babysteps. If you are not strong enough to take a huge change in your life, then don't. Change a bit and a bit then by time you'll realised that those babysteps have created a giant big step on your life. You got to take risk for everything, right?

"Faith is taking the first step even when you 

don't see the whole staircase" - Martin Luther King, Jr

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Pasta Mania

Haven't blogged about foods and restaurants in a while and now I am back with Pastamania! *yay*
Pastamania is one of the most recommended one according to me personally since it got a lot of variety of pastas and tempting appetizers, not to mention that the prices are also reasonable. It is suitable for a casual lunch or dinner with friends without spending too much money. I went there twice already, the one that is located at Cathay Cineleisure and it has never been a disappointment (;

Beef Lasagna

Creamy Chicken Spaghetti

I actually ordered one more thing called Honey Garlic Chicken which is THE BOMB<3 but I forgot to take a photo of it since I am quite hungry and rushing so.......yeah.
Almost forgot! Pastamnia got several choices of pastas which you can choose by your own. Some of them that I remembered are spaghetti, fusilli, penne, and linguine. They also have delivery services and you can find more details about Pastamania here.

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JuxtaWHAT?

What is juxtapostion? What should I make for my final juxtapostion project for 3D?
They are questions that have been asked over and over again but no one's sure what the answers are.

NO ONE knows.

And the fact that next week is the assessment week makes me even more panic and stress.
I only know the fact that juxtaposition is about comparing 2 things that are very contrast to each other but at the same time, have something in common. Take water and glass as the example.
Water is liquid, glass is a solid thing. But the fact that both of them can be used as a mirror is something that make them a part of juxtaposition.

So one day I have this idea to make my juxtapostion project in form of a cake "made" of waist measurement tapes.

What's juxtaposition about them?

For me, waist measurement tape itself represent body size, represent someone who really care about their body weight and size - someone who's on diet. On the other side, cake can be catagorized as sweets which contain quite a lot of fats and sugar on it - which is the main reason why people actually gain weight.

What's the similarity then?

I also don't know HEHEHEHEHEHE

Praying for the best on the night.
Then I showed the lecturer my "cake".
*drumrolls*

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Got rejected.

I don't know anymore.

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Two Dimensional Earth

Reaching the end of the term already - YAY! - but then it means that I should rush and finish my final project which is a group project. The lecturer asked us to make an A0-sized art piece using techniques we learnt from week 1 until now.

So basically my group consist of :

- Erny

- Jiahui

- Weidong

- Me (of course)

We're bringing the sexy back

After discussing for quite a long time, we finally came up with an idea to make some sort of protest art (sounds cool?) along with this artpiece. 

So basically we decided to put a globe in the middle of our A0 with 4 buildings or monuments which are well-known and symbolized their countries. We chose Singapore with Merlion, Indonesia with Tugu Monas, Malaysia and its Petronas, also United Kingdom with its Big Ben. Based on the research that my group have done, those 3 countries (exluding Singapore) have the closest connection to Singapore and each other. As for the globe part, we dicided to use typography and paper collages to fill it up. 

Process of making the globe part

It consists of the words we use to "protest" 

Final result TADAAA!

Everything was perfect. Perfectly finished UNTIL the next day during the 2D fundamentals class. 

So this is what happened during the class...

"Cher (teacher), we finisihed the group project already!"

"Really? Let me see."

Teacher saw the A0

"This is good already (blablabla) BUT I DON'T THINK THE PAPER COLLAGE IS BLABLABLA." 

Summary : She basically asked us to redo the globe part.

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HS > C

People say college will be easier than high school. People say college will be more fun than high school.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

How can college be easier than high school?! Yeah we probably complained all the time when we were given math problem solving questions or biology homeworks, but trust me, college's assignments are not better than what you've accepted when you're sitting in high school.

Trying to see and judge from two point of views, here's what I think the + and - from high school and college :

HS
<3 Teachers are very caring. You are treated as a "kid", so they still help you on every process of learning

<3 More friends

<3 Still got PE

</3 Too much drama

</3 Students are forced to learn something that actually aren't their interests and not too important for their future life.

C
<3 Become more open-minded and mature. You are all alone now. You should decide by your own which one is good and which one is bad for you.

<3 You can choose your own course. You won't be forced all over again to learn something you dislike.

<3 No more childish drama

</3 No more PE

</3 LACK OF SLEEP

COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE GUARANTEED TO HAVE LACK OF SLEEP. For sure. Based on true stories. I'm super serious on this one. Every hour is very precious, that's for sure. Do you guys know how tired I am while typing this blog post? You have no idea.

Because life assignment is HARD

College life isn't as easy as it seems, guys

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Monday Blues

Ever experienced a bright-not-so-lousy Monday? Me neither. I don't know what Monday has done wrong to all of us but (almost) no one likes it. Some said that Monday brought people back to reality after having fun on the weekends, some sort of wake up call they said and well, I kind of agree on that one. 

Another school kind of day.

Doing presentation on Monday morning did really wake my brain up. School'a been great this Monday, everything went quite well compared to my other Mondays, UNTIL my friend reminded me of works waiting at home. Sadly, they must be done by tomorrow.

Now I dislike Tuesday as well. 

Finally calling it a day after finishing all my assignments for tomorrow and decided to just snuggle on my bed with this uber cute bunny. It felt really nice to just do nothing for a while and listening to my favorite Monday playlist. Escaping from reality for just a moment, finally.

Then I realized that my bed and stuffs on it are super patterny.

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Okay I know this is super random but I've never realized it up until this moment.

“If you ask me what happiness is, your smile under the sun, but I'm always on the run”

“I used to believe in you alone and I was happy

But like a joke, I am left alone

You used to promise me with your pinky finger

But in the end

Nothing ever lasts forever”

From Paris with L O V E

Trying not to seem pathetic on a Saturday night, I grabbed my friends to go to Paris Baguette with me. Located in Wisma Atria, Paris Baguette has been one of the most famous cafe in Singapore, well known for its super cute and delicious Royal Pudding. I went to te ATM for a while before ordering but then when I went back to order some foods, the waiter said that the cafe was closed for order already. My friends did managed to ordered theirs but yes, I didn't.

NATASHA IS SUPER PATHETIC (yes, I know)

Thinking that I can't just go back home with my stomach growling all night, I finally made a decision to order a few breads and pastries from Paris Baguette. I don't know whether this was the effect of being too hungry or not, but they tasted like h e a v e n (okay maybe I'm exagerating a liiiiiiiittle bit).
Here's some sneak peeks from my saturdate with this young ladies <3

Softness White Bread

SUPER tempting but pretty sure I can't finish it by myself and no one wanna share it with me :(

 Waiting

 Club Sandwich

(not mine)

Also not mine

Mine :')

After feeding our stomaches, we went to The Editor's Market to do "windowshopping" for a while aaaaaaaand a saturdate won't be completed without selfies, right? ;)

Polaroid shots!

Pretty much stressed out with assinments 

and ended up taking #ootd shot while sitting in a fitting room (;

Satur-stache hohoho

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Nightmares.

Just got a news this morning that my friend's boyfriend was involved in an accident and passed away. It is such a horrible news to start a day with. Can't imagine how would it feels to be his loved one.

Nightmares.

Have you ever lost your loved one? Doesn't have to be a human being, just something that you really love and care about. I had, several times already to be honest.
It feels shocking and horrible at the first time, but as time flies you'll realise that there's nothing - not even a single thing - you can do. People come and go. One will be replaced by someone eventually.

The most terrifying one is the lost of my grandpa. He used to live with me in under the same roof. He passed away right when I reached Singapore to study at NAFA. July 4 2013.

Shocked, but heart said "I am already numb."

The worst part was that I wasn't standing next to him when he passed away. My mom texted me saying that "it" happened already. In a blink of an eye. Feels so weird to be back home but to know that there's one person missing - and he won't come back.

And this idea suddenly comes through my head.
What if I'm the one who's gone?
Will anyone cry for me?
Will anyone miss me?
Will anyone plead me to come back?
Or will some just be happy?
Doing their routines as nothing happen?
What if one day my heart is tired, beating for years and years and decided to just......stop?

Never thought of it until this morning. Am I good enough to be accepted by the gate of heaven?

Wild Honey

After a long wait and piling up a stack of eagerness, I finally got a chance to eat at Wild Honey, one of a kind that served breakfast menus as an all-day meal. It is quite famous for its excellent egg benedict and fresh mocktails with quite a reasonable price.

Located in Mandarin Gallery, Wild Honey has such a warm and cozy atmosphere. The waiter and waitresses are all very friendly but still professional. I was with my friend at that time and these are pretty much things that we ordered:
- 2 servings of European breakfast
- 1 Queen Bee
- 1 Mandarin Wilderness

Warm and cozy feels throughout the entire room

 Cute blue napkin <3

This is how Mandarin Wilderness turns out to be

The Queen Bee

 Denim and boots. Best of the best.

 

European breakfast is basically a plate with egg benedicts (two perfectly pouched eggs) with sauteed mushrooms and imported Italian prosciutto, added with homemade Hollandaise sauce on signature brioche.

Overall, a highly recommended spot in Singapore to spend the of the week with your friends and family, chit-chatting and stuffs.

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Leon Tai

One go-go guy who’s born on 1993. Went to NAFA, a part of class VA1D. He said that he doesn’t drink frequently but he did drink for sure. He is obssesed with Maki-san, althought he almost cried as a result of dipping his sushi for too long on mixture of wasabi and soy sauce.

For a 20 years old Aquarius, he’s quite tall. He is like a funny guy, wise man, and witty boy combined to one. He used to wear braces and was a black-haired guy. He has tried blonde before, but now his hair is ash-coloured. He prefer a cup of chamomille tea than a cup of coffee for sure since he dislike coffee. Leon also got a green belt at Taekwondo (which is quite suprising?).

Taking graphic design as his major, he sometimes wonder what would it feels like to be a professional art teacher, teaching people how to be creative and think outside the box, how to be a real artist. One of the most lively person I have ever met in my life, pretty much a box full of suprises. 

Yep. There he is.

The Art of Patterns - BATIK

Batik is a cloth that is orginated from Indoensia, traditionally made using a wax-resist dyeing technique. It is made out of patterns that are fully drawn and covered all of them cloth’s surface. Javanese traditional Batik has some important meanings behind every patterns rooted to the conceptualization of the universe. 

Generally traditional Batik colours include indigo, brown, and white which symbolized the three major Hindu Gods. Other regions in Indonesia have their own special patterns that generally take themes from dail life. The famous one includes a pattern consist of flowers, nature, animals, and/ folklore.

"Canting"

An old lady using "canting" to make patterns of Batik manually

On October 2, 2009, UNESCO nominated Batik as a “Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity” and as a part of the acknowledgement, UNESCO insisted that Indonesia preserve their heritage. 

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A/W 2013 TREND ALERT!

Last season's monochrome prints has turned to softer, colour-drenched checks for this year's Autumn/Winter collection thoughout the world of fashion. Spotted on the runways are bright-coloured blanket-like weaves that gives out the feeling of comfiness and warmth, while fur and silk bring plaid to the next level party. For this season, never be afraid for pairing plaid with plaid! Lanvin and Dolce & Gabanna are just a couple names that present top-to-te looks full of plaids. It is said that the plaid looks are fully inspired by the punk and grunge rock and roll feels from the 90s, from the era of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. 

Celine's woven laundry-bag squares are one of the season's most decisive prints - featured on the August 2013 cover of Vogue, modelled by Freja Beha.

Celine A/W 13

Celine's plaid bag feautured on VOGUE 

Plaids everywhere as seen on the runways from various brands and designers

Punk Grunge Band and plaid top since 1990s

 Nirvana

The Pearl Jam

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