An Evening with Bryan Adams

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So I don't know if anyone's noticed but today, after I received a text from mum while I was in my boring as heck video game course, I went and bought myself two tickets to see Bryan Adams in concert.

I don't think many know this but I am a hugeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Bryan Adams fan. I just happen to not flaunt it around as openly as I do with other genres of music. andimeanyouonedirectionandvisualkei  

I've been a fan of Bryan Adams' since I was knee-high and whiny and annoying and pig-tails wearing girl. My first, and absolute favourite, song of his is 'Everything I do, I do for you.' It used to be played a lot on the radio back in Hong Kong and I'd wake up to it and I'd giggle every time I hear it on the radio hahaha and when I do, I'd sing along to it.

That was oh what? 15, 16, maybe even 17 or 18 years ago I think? My love for him, after all these years, is still very strong. He's an absolutely amazing singer, songwriter and I hope he never stops. And here I was worried about never being able to see him after having missed out on seeing him in Japan (he announced a world tour and 3 shows in Japan, after I have left that country) haha

So yes, needless to say, I am very excited to see him, even if I do have crappy as heck seats, but it's the whole experience that matters hey? :D

 

First thing's first: I got 48/55 on my first History of Video Games midterm. Ridiculously hilarious. That's an 87% for someone who knows about less than 10% of the stuff the prof talks about (mainly Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Final Fantasy, Pac Man, pinball...). Amazing accomplishment cause that's an A-.

Second of all: One Direction has over taken my life. Doesn't help that a friend of mine is going to their concert. VIP swag style no less ahaha I wish I had the same will-power as I did during the earlier part of the year where I was able to resist the urge to listen to their music. Now I have like, a gazillion One Direction themed tumblr tabs open and their music on constant repeat. I don't listen to pop music, and yet here I am, listening to Britpop music. Just brilliant.

Thirdly: TOMORROW IS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL! To say that I am excited to watch it is an understatement. I've already cleared my entire Saturday clean so that I can spend a glorious 4 hours watching the game. However, I am somewhat disappointed in myself. I wasn't able to get my hands on two important colours, a calm darkish blue and dark maroon-like red nail polish. I had wanted to make my nails Chelsea FC and Bayern Munich FC themed nails, but alas, I was unable to. It's too bad, but despite it all, I did manage to get myself an awesome silver nail polish (that colour was supposed to be apart of Bayern's).

Here is what I'm hoping for: Chelsea to lose and Bayern to win.

I know I should be cheering for Chelsea because Bayern kicked Madrid out of the final (Sergio Ramos is a defender not a forward, so please do not put him up to shoot another PK in the future, please and thank you Mou) but I don't like Chelsea. I'm sorry, but I just don't. And if Bayern was able to win against Madrid then they ought to be the winner of Champions League 2012. Barcelona somewhat played a piss-poor quality game during their semi-final games against Chelsea and I was rather unimpressed. So therefore, my money's on Bayern.

Bayern has some of the best players playing: Gomez, Muller, Ribery, Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Robben, Neuer (amazing keeper). Good quality players. Or just the Mannschaft national team. They know how to play well together and score together and their coach is just simply splendid. Mario Gomez has been a super scoring machine for Bayern this year, placing second on the scoring board, behind Huntelaar, with 26 goals in Bundesliga 2011-2012.

Chelsea on the other hand, is equipped with Torres, Mata, A. Cole, Lampard, Terry, Ramires, Luiz and the likes. They've been playing much better after their coach, AVB, got let off and is now being coached by Di Matteo, and that Torres is finally scoring again. I think, if he wants to avoid another long goaless drought, he ought to keep his hair longer and continue to dye his hair blonde haha

It will be an amazing game tomorrow. So for those interested, it will be played on Sportsnet from 12, local Mountain time.

This post is brought to you by Harry's weird faces, and Louis and Niall's confusion, in One Direction's MV: One Thing

screenshooting was a bitchchore fyi.

guilty pleasure

My ridiculous guilty pleasure. I want them out of my head but they've all but consumed me.

(FYI, this is the picture where people took of them and their reactions after a girl flashed them from the crowd below in Australia. Certified fangirl remember? I equip myself with useful information very quickly)

 IS HE NOT A DOLL?!?!?! (and he's got cute braces on too................hmmm)(and he plays the guitar and he's got such cute blue blue cerulean eyes, and he's Irish (ignoring the fact that I needed subtitles to understand him during his X-Factor auditions...) and he just makes my heart turn to goo ....and i'll stop now).

and this kid here...

I don't have my hard drive with me right now, but from some (ya, some I say) of the pictures that I've been right-clicking and saving onto my computer, it appeals that I have an abundance of Harry and Niall. Niall in particular. Should find some more pictures of the other three band members. I'm just glad that I'm still able to concentrate long enough to get through my class every morning cause if I can't even do that then I'm in so much trouble, especially since I know nothing about video games..

This is getting really dangerous. really quickly.

Happiness!

It's funny how people make friends.

Today, I hung out with a bunch of awesome ladies, one of whom I met on the very first day I step foot at my university. I didn't know anybody in my orientation group and for some reason, I thought it was a good time to play my 'shy' card. For those who know me, I am anything but shy. Anyway, besides me, there was only one other Asian girl, and for some reason, the two of us gravitated towards each other and by the end of the day, we became friends. 4 years on, we're still friends and sharing heaps of jokes together.

Today was really really really hot (well, for people who were living in the teens just last week, 20ishC is considered to be really hot in our standards haha) so we decided to treat ourselves to some hearty Jugo Juice with our movie. Summer Strawberries! Gotta love the summery fruits. 

The two of us went and saw Dark Shadows by Tim Burton feat. Johnny Depp and Eva Green and Michelle Pfeiffer (gosh, her name was ridiculously hard to spell. Thank goodness for Google and their suggestions). It was a surprisingly darker movie than either one of us anticipated but it was filled with humorous lines and smart replies. Helena Bonham Carter, Michelle Pfeiffer and Johnny Depp were a joy to watch.

Overall, the film was a good watch but not something I'd watch again. Don't want to give away too much about the movie but, as much as it pains me to say, this movie is worth the watch if just to see Eva Green act. She was extremely creepy to the point where she was just phenomenal.

Overall, I feel accomplished. Stayed up way past my midnight just to hang out for a big with my best friend so that he can hype himself up even more over the fact that the release of Diablo 3 is approaching. Then I showed up to class and just...listened to the prof drone on and on about video games. Ate lunch and read 25 odd pages of even dryer video games history; however, as dry as the materials are, they make a whole lot more sense after attending the classes. Don't get me wrong, the class is extremely interesting, it's just how the prof teaches it that's not interesting at all.

[Edit: also, something I found really funny today. While I was checking out my tumblr page, I was like, where are all of my One Direction suppliers? And then it hit me: they're all in school! hahahahhaa they're all young, teenage girls and I'm like, 'damn, that makes me feel really old...'

Over the weekend, I think I've spent about a good 4ish hours decorating my nails. Obsessed I know but nothing irks me more than sloppily finished nails. Even when a corner of a star was slightly underdone, (which immediately made me perform an emergency touch up).

Titled Rocker Glam, cause come on, silver and black? Wicked colours

Also, I came across this song while browsing through a gazillion and one One Direction tumblr pages (they've officially overtaken my life. I've even changed my iPhone's wallpaper to Niall, my cute little Irish haha

Rosie Thomas -Farewell, from When We Were Small (2001)

This song's absolutely heart wrenching but I absolutely love it. The lyrics, along with the simple melody line, is so beautiful yet it breaks my heart every time I listen to it.

So, I've noticed that I apparently cannot go anywhere these days without coming home with one or two new nail lacquers. This is slowly becoming a very expensive hobby real quick.

Here's what I picked up today from Shoppers (a ridiculously expensive place) for 4.45$. It's part of Maybelline's Color Show which consists of 30 new colours. Google tells me that they cost around 3ish$ at Wal-Mart. Well then, guess where I'll be shopping from now on? haha

I really like this silver except it takes about 3 coats to achieve this effect. The first coat just reminds me of those sparkly polishes that just sparkles and doesn't do much else. It's a very rocker glam look and I really like it. 

So, I'm not the biggest fan of taking pictures of my nails up-close because a) I'm not the most talented photographer, b) my nails don't always look good, for some reasons. For example, on my index finger, there are several very fine lines from where my mum stabbed her nails into the nail (...).

After dinner, my mum and I sat down and watched an episode of Royal Weddings. However, I think the special documentary should be renamed to: the Wedding of Princess Diana and Weddings of Prince Charles and his siblings. I'm not even joking; Prince Edward got like 5 minutes of coverage while half of the entire documentary was about Princess Diana's wedding.

Well then.
First post for this blog that took way too much time to customise. And I'm still not pleased with how it turned out sadly. Maybe when I'm feeling more creative, I'll be able to slap together a nicer and more interesting header than the thing that I have right now (it would be interesting if I were to say that I actually made 4 different headers...?)

First post needs some flare. Look, pictures:

One of the primary reasons why I decided to open up this blog is to rant and rage about the world's most beautiful game: football. And no, it's not American football, but soccer to the poor suckers living in North America. I am obsessed over anything and everything football related (haha just ask my friends) but alas, it's not meant to be. North America's favourite sports include: American football and hockey, and to a lesser extent baseball.

Secondly, I thought, I'd put my more creative artistic flare on display rather than just post them on facebook.

My extremely unhealthy obsession: nail art. Which means I need to inhale an insane amount of nail polish fumes at my worktable, which is located in a secluded corner of my basement. hahaha ya, World Cup nail extravaganza was brilliant.

To be completely honest, I missed blogging. And I missed seeing comments from my friends when I do blog. So here I am again, blogging. :D