She paints her fingers with a close precision

Man, this has been one brutal week for me. On Wednesday, all the nails on my left hand had some kind of splinters on them, making life extremely annoying. Then I accidentally paper-cutted my right thumb and basically speared my left thumb with the needle-thingy connected to those little red poppies. That was just Wednesday alone, imagine the rest of my week. It was like one bad thing after the next. At least my cold's kind of somewhat dimmed down -not really -and I can breath again. Kind of. However, that is beside the point because this is the entry where I promised I'd talk about all the goodies I got from Hong Kong! 

Let's start with the biggest and most awesome gift: A metallic grey Herschel backpack. OMG

I love it to bits!

I asked for a Herschel backpack because my current one is a massive of a monster bag for me. I'm only taking 3 courses, with heaps of notes taking and not much of textbooks-require-classes, so I needed something smaller. Hench, the obvious answer to this dilemma was to get a new backpack, for the first time in 6 years.

I am now the unproud owner of a Chelsea Fernando Torres poster...

Then my mum encountered her first shopping booboo. She bought what she thought was a magazine with a David Silva head and poster, only to realise after she's returned home that she actually bought a magazine with a Fernando Torres magazine cover and poster. Sad, I know but oh well, I'll at least be able to practise my weak Chinese. However, she did buy me a Nail Venus magazine, which was her saving grace because that magazine is gold. The stuff inside has me drooling and anxious to get back into doing nail art. Just like my Chinese, my Japanese has all but disintegrated since I left Japan but comparatively speaking, my Japanese is still several steps above my Chinese. Needless to say, Nail Venus has been forcing me to practise my Japanese quite a bit; however, it hasn't been very hard since almost 50% of the entire book's written in Katagana...

A collection of goodies from both my mum and her best friend! Oh how I feel loved!! :) I especially love the pig earrings haha My aunt also spoiled me quite a bit just no picture proof.

And new iPhone cases for my friend and myself. The one on the left now belongs to my friend and the burnt looking Union Jack's for me.

So yes, this concludes my Hong Kong goodies haul. For now. haha

David is the one sitting on top of Silva in the first picture. Silva, is the littler kitty of the two and still has an eye infection from what I'm told, hence the pained looking right eye. I hope she makes a speedy recovery. And they're currently in cages cause my aunt and uncle are in the middle of moving places. So, just to avoid an unwanted injuries, it is better to keep these two safe in cages lest their curiosity lands them in any kind of trouble.

oh, before I forget, my aunt's taken in two little abandoned kittens and they make my heart melt and I don't even like cats. They are so adorable, like so cute they can make even the meanest looking man coo and melt at the sight of them. It's also a clear sign of just how much my aunt and uncle love me because they have named these two rascals David Silva. HAHAHA David for older brother and Silva for the younger sister.  I'm just that persuasive, I know ;)

credits: kitten photos shamelessly taken from my aunt's facebook and the title from the Ballad of Mona Lisa by Panic! At the Disco (I have been playing their album on constant repeat without pause for the last several days).

The rumour of us

I am going to title this, a self-indulgent entry, and you'll know why really quickly too.

I picked up my mum from the airport yesterday, tired and sleepy and already in her withdrawal of all things amazing and awesome Hong Kong. She has also brought with her, many many souvenirs for me :) (...she may or may not have gotten a list of 'what-to-buy' but that's neither here nor there). That post will come next week, when I finally get my second extra long weekend of the semester.

For those of who see me everyday, this shouldn't be a surprise (unless you're a guy, in which case, surprise!), and for those who don't, well, I coloured my hair, twice, during the month of October. I was hoping for a lighter golden hue-like brown hair by using Palty Honey Brown, but that just turned out to be a complete flop and waste of money. Then I decided to just take the plunge and dye my hair red again. I used Garnier Nutrisse Cream 660 and my hair's a beautiful shade of red now.

I didn't say anything earlier was because I was keeping it as a welcome home surprise for my mum. When she saw my hair, she gave me one look, which basically translated to 'I better not find any remnants of red dye anywhere in the bathroom.'

During the month of October, I also did a little more like very indulgent shopping trip. Which resulted in me feeling rather guilty of the amount of money I spent purely on assessorising myself. It's tough work being a girl. sigh

4 out of the 5 stuff displayed are from Sephora. Like, the eyelash curler -cause my old one was simply crap. Then I re-stocked my liquid eyeliner from Kat Von D. (I fell in love with liquid eyeliner after trying them out for the first time in Japan) and a new fancy looking waterproof mascara from Eyeko. I actually bought these two things in September but I thought, hey, why not just include it into this picture? A Julep matte nail lacquer I have yet to touch (also from Sephora) and an Eiffel tower necklace from Forever21. All in all, expensive stuff haha

This post is brought to you by my new hobby: Sudoku. It's always been something I'd do in my spare time but lately, it's all but consumed me. Have I improved? Not quite but at least I don't fail as much as I did when I first started this Sudoku thingy back in 2005.

 

Song title: Hurricane by Panic! at the Disco (remember them?)